The end of their conversation

“Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.”  Hebrews 13:7-9 

I respect those whom I've learned so much from but God has shown me that there is a time when I must clear my mind of discussions with them about whether they are correct in this or that doctrine which, because I've been overly influenced by the interpretations of other men, I've not spent enough time in the desert of just my personal relationship with God in His Word; 

“Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.” Isaiah 43:19 

It seems this is the only way I might "consider the end of their conversation", that is, return directly to the Holy Spirit who used these men to point me in a direction which only God alone, through His Word, could finish. 

This is one necessary aspect of believers coming out of the churches as well as why scripture refers to the phenomenon of no man needing to teach a believer "know the Lord" during this time.  

“But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.” Jeremiah 31:33 

The “putting my law in their inward parts” is the faith of Jesus Christ giving new birth to one who has been chosen as the elect to salvation.  

Because the church age has ended and the elect of God have left the churches, there is no longer an evangelistic mission going on. The sharing of the Gospel has changed from “getting people saved” to the feeding of the sheep.  

“..... Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.” John 21:17 

The feeding of the sheep is simply the mutual sharing of what each believer is given in their personal relationship with God through His Word, to those other believers who resonated with the true Gospel; God’s Word.  God gives as many kinds of variations of the way these sharing's are received as there are believers. It needs to be noted that all true believers are only identified by God in each believer’s personal, private, intimate relationship with Him.  In the end it is the Holy Spirit that harmonizes the witness, not the carefulness or strict adherence to a  particular interpretation of the scripture  comparing spiritual things with spiritual  or any other methodology systematized by the spirit of the flesh of men, though there has been much benefit in many of these methods. 

Man, throughout history, has repeatedly tried to control what believers and unbelievers can learn about God and His Word by claiming special rights of interpretation based on their experience, wisdom, hard work or special techniques, always trying to convince others that their interpretations agree with what the Bible actually says to the point, sometimes, of frightening disagreeing listeners with God's Wrath as if they were intermediaries between God and His elect;    

“For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.”  Matthew 23:4   

“Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.” 1 Cor. 3:18,19 

The "correct" interpretation, though it would be agreed upon by all believers on some level, is not only given by the Holy Spirit but is also given in an experience language that is tailored by God in His unique and intimate relationship with each believer.  

It seems during the church age much doctrine was communicated through the collective and spiritually impoverished format of what had become American Christian culture, in its various forms and assumptions.   One holdover of this culture since the beginning of the day of judgment has been this continued adherence, by some, to collectively agree upon this or that doctrine to the point of using disagreements as a proof text to judge someone else's salvation. 

“I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.”    1 Corinthians 3:2, 18-21 

The "meat" of the Word being the spiritually discerned knowledge of God's salvation wasn't able to be borne by the disciples, so it seems, before the Holy Spirit came upon them at Pentecost. Those who are not “born again” have a natural and moral understanding of scripture, which the world uses to frame its communities and governments, that is before corruption naturally sets in. Those who are born again have been given spiritual “eyes” and “ears” to understand scripture according to God’s will for each of His children.  

“Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.” Romans 14:15, 20 

“Meats”, in this verse, refers to the knowledge gained by the logic of the natural, or unsaved man. It requires work to figure it out. “Grace” refers to the spiritual knowledge that is given to spiritually resurrected believers and does not depend on the logical works of men.