Taught by God or Taught by Men? draws a clear distinction between spiritual knowledge acquired through human institutions and revelation received through the Holy Spirit. While learning from men has value, true transformation only comes when a believer is personally taught by God. This message exposes how much of modern Christianity relies on borrowed knowledge, organizational doctrines, and human mentorship rather than intimate encounters with Christ. Using Scripture and biblical examples, it emphasizes that only those taught by the Father truly come to Jesus, understand the way of the Cross, and grow into the likeness of Christ. Without divine tutelage, ministry becomes shallow, self-centered, and disconnected from God’s purpose.

John 6:45 ( It is written in the prophets, and they shall be all taught of God, every man therefore that hath heard and hath learned of the Father, comes unto me)

There is a clarity in this Bible passage, a distinction between those who are taught by God and those who are being taught by men.

All who belong to God shall be taught by him, even though they learned from men; there is a possibility that they will come under the tutelage of the holy Spirit.

Whoever is taught by men but yet to learn from God won’t be able to come to Jesus at Calvary for cleansing and purification.

I attended the best Bible college in this country because I truly wanted to know more about God. My soul was yearning for Him. I wanted to experience the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His suffering, just as the Apostle Paul did.

There is little to be learned there, for a perfect and complete teaching is under the teachings of the holy Spirit divine.

Most Bible teachers don’t teach the mind of God, nor do they teach the will of God, but the doctrine of their organization and the story of their founder.

This is the cause of the degeneration in Christianity today, as we are searching for college trainees to head the congregation, but never having the knowledge of God, they will impact others.

They only know the terminology of demonology but don’t know how to resist the devil, they know little about theology but don’t really know the way of God.

They saw his acts in the story passed on by the elders, but yet to witness it themselves, nor did they know his way.

Theology is good for its way of knowing about God, but we need not only to know more of him but to know him intimately. This can happen if we surrender to learn at his feet.

Most pastors who are running organizations only learn about God from other people’s knowledge, but they have yet to have personal encounters with HIMSELF.

Their knowledge is limited to what they learned in school, which is why they teach what is contrary to the word of God, as they learn from their earthly leaders so they pass it to the next generation, and the teaching goes on and on till they produce proselytes with their own image, not after the likeness of God.

The signs are visible that most of us are yet to encounter Jesus Christ himself, which is why our nature is not different from unbelievers; we do what they do, but only different in our language.

They curse with the name of their gods, and we curse with the name of Jesus, even on the pulpit, we are trying to curse our enemy in the name of prayer.

Different men with different disciples, the apostles of John are different from the apostles of the Pharisees, and those of the Pharisees are different from the apostles of the Sadducees, but only in Christ that we come together and become one.

Apostle Paul first learned at the feet of Gamaliel, and it was when he learned from Jesus himself that his nature changed from that of an incorrigible Pharisee to that of Jesus Christ.

Apostles will always grow to be like their teachers; each Bible college is indoctrinating students after their leaders’ likeness. After graduating, they’ll work to be like their mentors. They don’t have the capabilities to bring souls into the development of the stature of Christ.

How do we move from carnality to the level of spirituality? It’s when we surrender totally to the tutelage of the Bible through the power of the holy Spirit.

Ask yourself if you have been taught by Christ himself, because Jesus says, it’s only those who have learned and been taught by God that will come to him.

If you’re yet to be taught by God, how do you know the way of the Cross and how do you learn submission that comes through the way of Calvary?

The heresies some ministers are teaching indicate that they have yet to visit the Cross. It’s what you have, you can give; human beings don’t give what they don’t have.

Disciples learned from Jesus Christ, and they turned the whole world upside down for God. The fire that was set on them in the upper room ignited the world for Jesus Christ entirely.

You might claim that you turn the world upside down for your name to be glorified among the people, but is it your name or the name of Christ that needs to be glorified?

It’s the glory of Christ that radiates in his followers; without him, we are nothing.

Many are taught by colleges but have yet to pass through the tutorial of the holy Spirit. These are the leaders who fill our pulpit; no wonder they want to be what heaven hasn’t ordained for them, fighting for posts in the church and fighting for titles, to be respected by men.

Had they been taught by God, they would have known that the way to the palace is through the servant quarters.

They teach pulpit ethics but not moral ethics that’ll be beneficial to human souls.

God only sent whom he taught, the holy Spirit training learn from everyday life, he learns from neighbor also from friends and enemies, he learn in every situation and in all challenges that might come through his ways, he learn from individuals that constitutes human society and learn from the Bible the best teacher of all, through the power of holy Spirit and with meditation.

Many will be rejected on that day, for they haven’t learn from him, he doesn’t know them, even if they work for him and perform miracles in his name, they shall be condemned as the workers of Iniquity.

Prayer: Father Lord, I surrender myself under your tutelage, take me to the Cross in Jesus name amen.