How to Be Led By the Spirit of God and Guided By the Word of God: Volume 1 What Did We Do?

How to be Led by the

SPIRIT OF

GOD

and Guided by the

WORD OF

GOD

VOLUME 1

What Did We Do?

WALTER K. LAIDLER JR.

Copyright © 2015 Walter K. Laidler JR.

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CONTENTS

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1   Lead me, Guide me

Chapter 2   The Blessing: Sixteen Spiritual Manifestations

Chapter 3   Eight Things That Led to Adam’s Downfall

Chapter 4   God’s Dilemmas: His Word or His Son

Chapter 5   Five Remedies of God for Adam’s Offspring

Chapter 6   Five Sins of Religion and Tradition

Conclusion

About The Author

DEDICATED TO

Carrie Ada Lewis Laidler, my wife of 33 years, who by love of God and obedience to the Lord Jesus desires, chooses to be guided by the Word of God.

Alex and Nancy Rocha examples of How to be led by the Spirit of God…

While not fully knowing the deeper reward of How to be guided by the Word," their children, Anielly, Moses, and Emelly agreed to leave Australia for America, August 18, 2014.

Some of the members of my congregation who walked with Carrie and me…

They used their faith in God and by obedience to the Word joined in with us to become small real estate investors guided by the Word. We followed Rich Dad’s advice to purchase property and lease it, not flip it but produce residual passive income (Mark 12:1)

Anthony Merrill and Terry Lynn Keys Broadnax, Samuel L and Carolyn M. Bryant, Phillip Earl and Cappie D. Cooke Walker, and Cheryl Simmons Bullock who followed me as investors in passive assets; later Joel Keith and Cassandra Robinson; and most recent, Alex and Nancy Rocha who came aboard after arriving in the United States.

My very gracious readers and editors: astute, scholarly, resolute, but always gracious, Carrie Laidler and Cheryl Denise Baldwin Boddie…

Together they spent many hours using their meticulous melancholy brain-power to tweak my manuscript. Though not flawless, I am indebted to both of them for my first attempt to publish a book. I am totally responsible for any errors of grammar and syntax because of my self-imposed time restraints to get to my publisher before the summer.

Thank you for your prayers and support. As a slow-read, the subject of the book is my first attempt to tell a part of the Greatest Story Ever Told; the story of the first man Adam…and the Last Adam, Jesus Christ.

PREFACE

After the new birth, the "Realization" of being born from above by the Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ, is the most important thing for a believer to be taught. The second most important realization is, How to be led by the Spirit of God. There are unseen forces at work whose sole purpose is to steal, kill, and destroy the faith of every believer. These forces seek to destroy everything believers need for a normal and productive life in the dimension of the spirit while living in their flesh bodies. Hence, How to be led by The Spirit of God becomes paramount. Without precisely being taught how to be led, believers waste half their lives a hoping and a praying that they are not missing the mark in being led by the Spirit of God.

According to the absolute universal law of balance, everything has its two sides. This means, everything has an opposite that is equal and we cannot have one without the other.

In order to prosper and achieve in this present age, we must know, appreciate and apply the absolute universal law of balance. If this is true, and it is, what is the other side of How to be led by the Spirit of God? God has to disclose Himself to man for man to know God exists. The self-disclosure of God enables the believer to live a balanced prosperous life.

Furthermore, the Bible clearly establishes an abiding principle that I call the two-fold witness principle. Our Father, the God of the Bible, the Great Creator, spoke by this Two-fold Witnesses Principle.

Four examples are:

(1) By the prophet Moses to settle capital murder cases. No one could be put to death without two or three witnesses (Deuteronomy 17:6). Other charges for lawlessness in general required two or three witnesses (Deuteronomy 19:15)

(2) By the prophet Jesus who validated the two-fold witness principle in Law of Moses. He began with Moses and all the Prophets who are comprised of many powerful witnesses testifying about Him. (Luke 24:27).

(3) Jesus requires us to use the Law of Moses to settle disputes in the church using at least two or three witnesses. (Matthew 18:16)

(4) By the Apostle Paul who wrote to the Corinthian congregation. After he continued his missionary journey, they wanted him to prove his apostolic authority over the congregation. Paul applied the letter of the law, the two-fold witness principle, when he wrote three letters to the Corinthian church. He upheld the spirit of the law by writing three letters. (2 Corinthians 13:1)

If Moses, Jesus, and Paul operated within the guidelines of this two-fold witness principle of establishment, the believers must do likewise.

Today, many believers act as if they are above doing what their leader does. But Jesus taught us that we should never be above doing what our teachers have taught us; because when we become fully trained, we will be like our teachers.

Matthew 10:24 ²⁴ "A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master. ²⁵ IT IS ENOUGH FOR A DISCIPLE that he be like his teacher, and A SERVANT like his master.

Our lives will demonstrate this two-fold witness principle when we honor our teacher. The new birth initiates us into "THE REALIZATION OF LIFE" lived in the Spirit of God. We can have absolute divine confidence and know How to be led By the Spirit of God. It is possible to know beyond the shadow of doubt when and how to be led by the Spirit of God. Stop hoping and a praying that you are led by the Spirit of God. Start knowing for certain you are led by the