Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
I Jn. 4:5-6 ... 5They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. 6We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
The people of the world speak and the world hears them ... and desires to hear what they have to say.
I don't want to hear what they have to say. Why would I want to hear what a person of the world has to say? God has the wisdom. Certainly I would want to hear what a person of God has to say.
Often I deliberately stop a person of the world from speaking when I see they are about to "share" what is going on. If I wanted to hear the world, then I would turn on TV and listen to them or read newspapers. I don't want to hear and even "refuse" to hear what they are saying. I am basically in charge, not them. I am in charge of what I choose to hear.
Most of the time when I choose to watch a football game, I mute the sound. I am not interested in hearing the judgment of the fleshly announcers tell me that some football player is "really a good person." I know humans are not good people unless they are recreated by God, born again. I know fleshly announcers would not know good from evil and all they are doing it trying to exalt the flesh of man. I know this is opposite from way of God. I "refuse" to hear them. But people of the world love to hear them praise people. And so it is with TV newscasts and talk type shows which many fleshly people love.
I rarely say, "I want to hear what they have to say ..." because I know they do not carry the judgment of God and therefore they will try to exalt flesh of man and will speak opposite to God.
I have the Holy Spirit in me to teach me. I have the judgment of God by the Holy Spirit. Why would I want to hear those without the judgment of God. Usually when I do hear them I burn inside because of the perverted judgments which come from their mouths and I usually cry out in anguish when I hear what they speak and God has to restore me. So I usually choose not to hear worldly people speak.
Isaiah 2 ... And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. 3And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. 4And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people:
... come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.
... 10Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty. 11The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
12For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:
... 17And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
... 19And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. 20In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats; 21To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
22Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?