One ridiculous idea about authority is that you must love the one in authority or you cannot obey him. “I cannot accept his authority because I do not respect him” is the error of thinking involved in this. You are not ever commanded to respect the individual but only the OFFICE which he represents for the authority. Thus the personality of the one in authority or any other aspect of his function is never the issue but it is what does his office represent, what is in his message and what is being communicated by him. When you accept the authority of a Pastor Teacher you accept what he communicates. The content of the message is what is emphasized, not the personality or any other aspect of the person. The emphasis with regard to the teacher of Bible Doctrine IS THE AUTHORITY which is based on the content of his message. In the congregation there must be submission to that authority so that there can be concentration on the message. YOU WILL NEVER CONCENTRATE ON ANY MESSAGE UNTIL YOU SEPARATE THE AUTHORITY OF THE PASTOR TEACHER FROM ANY PERSONAL FACTOR OF THE PASTOR TEACHER. In order to assimilate Bible Doctrine you must concentrate on the teaching of Bible Doctrine not the individual characteristics of the one teaching Bible Doctrine. If you say you cannot listen to him because you don’t respect, love or care for him as a person then you are out of line and have hangups, problems and will never advance in the Spiritual Life. You cannot ever say the pastor is too rough, obnoxious, dogmatic, demanding, to wimpy, soft or fragile but must ONLY focus on the message. You must respect the authority of the Pastor Teacher and what he is teaching. The content of what is taught is transmitted to you through the ministry of God the Holy Spirit into the Left Lobe of your soul and then processed into your Right Lobe of the Stream of Consciousness of your Soul. There it becomes the basis, as a result of your faith and the efficacious grace ministry of God the Holy Spirit, for epignosis Bible Doctrine and then is available to apply to situations in life. THIS RESULTS IN SPIRITUAL GROWTH AND momentum WHICH GLORIFIES GOD IN Super-Grace A & B AND pleases God IN Ultra Super- Grace.
When listening to a Pastor teaching Bible Doctrine you must concentrate on the message and not the messenger else you have not “circumcised” your Soul. Any subjectivity in listening to Bible Doctrine and any failure to get the message by getting your eyes on the communicator is uncircumcision of the Soul. The whole purpose of our life is to advance to Maturity Adjustment to the Justice of God with maximum Metabolized Bible Doctrine in the Stream of Consciousness of the Soul. We are circumcised in the Right Lobe of the Stream of Consciousness of the Soul when we consistently take in Bible Doctrine and do not try to follow the “Letter” of the “Law”, which is by example the Mosaic Law. This ultimately will please God NOT MEN. Metabolized Bible Doctrine in the Stream of Consciousness of the Soul gives the dynamic attitude of the Spiritual Life. Bible Doctrine not circumcision is the issue in the Church Age even as it was when circumcision was a ritual of spiritual significance in the times of the Old Testament Scripture. Making Adjustment to the Justice of God not ritual is the issue for our dispensation of history (Gal 5:2-4) and physical circumcision is of no spiritual value to believers in the Church Age.
There is a principle which has and is continuing to destroy our constitutional government and it is the EVIL principle that everyone must be equal. THERE IS A COMPARABLE EVIL IN CHRISTIANITY TODAY SAYING THAT IF A PERSON IS SWEET THEY MUST BE RIGHT AND SPIRITUAL. This says that if someone sweet maligns and gossips they are always right but this in fact is EVIL. The myth of Equality does not now nor has it ever meant happiness in life. Neither does success or any other blessing unless you have capacity for these things and this is where Maturity Adjustment to the Justice of God comes in. Considering a sweet person or an ascetic person vs the experience or working person we must understand that none of these are necessarily spiritual. The sweet person, the ascetic person, the experience person (holy roller) and the working person (legalist) are not spiritual because of these overt characteristics. Spirituality is absolute and is in fact having or losing the Filling of God the Holy Spirit. Most often these types of people are not at all spiritual but bait for the Mutual Admiration Society and used as reversionistic ambushers for believers in Maturity Adjustment to the Justice of God. None of these types of people are the ones receiving blessing from God because he is JUSTICE. None of these people have made Adjustment to the Justice of God in fact they all blaspheme against the Justice of God by acting as judges forming conspiracies and judging and maligning others. The true reason these people receive no blessing from God is based on their failure to make Adjustment to the Justice of God in any category after Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God. Many times when an obnoxious person comes up from no where and is promoted and successful and moves along in life it drives these people crazy. These people cannot understand why this obnoxious type of person is blessed by God and advances while they are left behind. They do not understand this because they do not understand the Justice of God nor have they made Adjustment to the Justice of God nor do they understand their own sinfulness. The sweet person does not ever orient to the doctrine of total depravity though they are the best illustration being totally depraved by hypocrisy. The ascetic person suffering for Jesus and giving up everything actually blasphemes the Justice of God and never makes Adjustment to the Justice of God. The experience person (holy roller) and the person doing things for salvation or spirituality are both working in their own way and will never