Hearing From God Series

Hearing From God

Established - Week 2:

Scripture: John 10

We are in the second week of our series, Established. During these next several weeks, we will be learning how to be rooted and established in the love of God.

Today we are going to learn an important lesson in being rooted in God.

If you and I are going to be rooted and established in the love of God, we’re going to have to learn how to listen to God.

We’re going to have to learn how to hear His voice.

In our day and time, if you pray, you’re considered to be spiritual.

But, if you hear from God, people might think you’re...what?

You’re crazy.

But Here’s the thing.

God is still speaking and God wants you to hear Him to know His voice.

This concept is not just something that is an optional luxury for you to have. Those days are gone. Part time Christianity is becoming more and more impossible the closer we get to the coming of Jesus

This will be a critical necessity for those who wish to continue to live for Jesus in these coming days.

Prayer

In the Bible, we always read that God spoke a lot.

God is the same yesterday, today, and forever, so in our modern times, is He still speaking?

Think about this for a second.

Think about all the conversations happening right now.

People are having all types of conversations around us. Text messages flying back and forth. Video chats from all over the world.

We can’t see them, but they are happening.

If you have a television, it picks up a broadcast. So, just because we can’t visualize or sense what is on WEAU out of Eau Claire right now in church, it doesn’t mean it’s not any less real.

But in order to receive what is bring broadcast, you have to be tuned in.

That point- being tuned in is critical to our understanding of how important to be hearing from God.

God is still speaking.

We can still hear from Him.

But we have to learn how to tune in and hear the voice of God.

So, how do we hear the voice of God. How do we tune in? And how do we learn to be guided by Him?

Let’s look at the scriptures to find out-

Turn in your Bible to John Chapter 10.

Here, Jesus is speaking, and he tells us that he wants us to know his voice. In that, we’re learning and knowing the voice of God.

However, the voice of God is not the only voice we can tune into.

John Chapter 10, verse 10. Here’s Jesus talking. He says, “The thief comes only to steal, and kill, and destroy.”

The thief is satan. You and I have an enemy that wants to destroy our lives.

satan is known as the father of lies. His voice is in competition with God’s voice.

That’s really the battlefield of this spiritual war- whose voice are we listening to?

That’s the main focus of today’s message-

So, how do we discern those different voices? How do we discern the voice of God? How do we discern the truth?

Jesus says this, “I have come that they might have life and have it to the full.”

Have it to the full.

Let’s stop right there. Jesus says you have an enemy. That enemy wants to destroy your life. He’s the father of lies. He wants to steal, kill, and destroy.

But Jesus has come that we might have life and have it to the full.

That original Greek word used for life is “zoe” (zo-A), and the Greek Language connects it to the word “full or Abundantly” That word in the Greek is “Perussos” (Perry- Sauce) the idea that there is life to the maximum.

It isn’t just life. It’s meant to convey to us the idea of Abundant life. Passionate life.

A life full of God’s presence and blessing no matter what problem you may face in this life, you can face it with joy and faith because of who is standing with you.

Jesus wants us to have this. As he continues to teach, he says if we’re going to have an abundant and passionate life with God, we need to learn to hear his voice.

Look at John Chapter 10, verse 27. “My sheep listen to my voice. I know them and they follow me.”

Verse 28. “I give them eternal life and they shall never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand.”

Verse 29. “My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than them all. No one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand.” Then, in verse 29, Jesus says, “I and the Father are one.”