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Originally Posted by UntoHim
When God's people follow a man and man-made "flows" it is usually a matter of impatience and the results are often disastrous. This is why it is so very important for us to follow the Word of God and not the teachings of man.
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I have mixed feelings. On the one hand, it was good for me, a reprobate and wild sinner, to have some structure when I came out of the world. On the other hand, the structure eventually became a cage.
So maybe God has allowed human efforts, for a temporary prop, as the believers gradually mature and sink into the reality of the teachings of Jesus, and now He is calling us out of them and into the Spirit's leading. It is a matter of maturity. Flowdalism keeps the believers in a perpetual state of infancy, forever waiting for the latest edict to arrive from headquarters.
That this "one trumpet" thing is error is clearly revealed to me by the teachings of Jesus. He said, "Don't let your left hand know what your right hand is doing." Instead, whenever the Flowdalists do something, they have to sound a trumpet from the pulpit at Headquarters. In so doing, they play right into Satan's hands, and their various "flows" dry up into nothing.
Jesus recognized Satan as "the ruler of this world" (John 12), and He conducted a marvelous, and ultimately successful, spiritual guerilla warfare. The established "church" has lost this path. They instead try to conduct warfare on the open battlefield, and they lose every time. But maybe the Flowdalists don't care: as long as they have a captive audience for the HWMR, they are content.