Our blog will share 30 different Bible Contrasts that show distinctions that matter when studying God’s Word. It is important to understand this perspective or we may get confused.
We see a number of dissimilar wordings within God’s Word. Some have seen them as contradictions in the Bible. We prefer the term “contrasts.” The main reason for these differences is that God is setting forth two separate programs (intimated even in Genesis 1:1). The first deals with the earth and Israel. The other concerns the heavens and Christ’s Body Church. It was given to the Apostle Paul to lay out these differences. He is God’s “apostle of the Gentiles” (Rom. 11:13).
So then we must recognize such Bible divisions if we’d truly understand God’s Word and be approved by Him (II Tim. 2:15). Then we must follow the last directives given by God through Paul as “the commandments of the Lord” for this present time (I Cor. 14:37).
Today is Part #20:
NO TEACHER IS NEEDED: This is one aspect of God’s program under the New Covenant and in the Hebrew-Christian epistles (Jer. 31:34; Heb. 8:11). Such believers have a special “anointing [which] teacheth you of all things” so that “ye need not that any man teach you” (1 John 2:27).
A TEACHER IS NEEDED: This is often seen in the letters of the Apostle Paul. “Pastors and teachers” is the final gift the risen Lord gave “for the perfecting of the saints,” etc. (Eph. 4:10-12). Paul wrote “I teach every where in every church” (I Cor. 4:17). Church leaders should be “apt to teach” (I Tim. 3:2). Other believers are said to have the gift of “teaching” and are told to use it (Rom. 12:7; II Tim. 2:2; etc.).
For more information and understanding, we recommend doing the PMA “Understanding your Bible” our 8 part lesson series available for free download at Free Bible Correspondence – Prison Mission Association
(These points come from Pastor David Adams, booklet, Bible Contrasts used by permission)