Hearing the Shepherd: Knowing God's Voice Through Scripture

I've also heard people say I don't like reading the Old Testament because it's boring. It's just a list of names or, you know, that ain't even the worst part to me. It's when you go through the details of how to build the temple. Alright. Well, this is supposed to be this long and this tall and this wide and then this pieces. Do I really need all the blueprints? God says we do because God cares about the details. If he's gonna tell you how thick a curtain has to be in the temple of God in the old testament, then that should tell you he cares about the details. [00:11:05] (38 seconds)  #GodCaresAboutDetails

Tim, you need to forgive him. I know. I didn't like it either when he said it. Tim, you need to apologize. Well, but I ain't wrong. You're wrong enough. Doesn't matter. What matters is family, relationship, and staying in unity, not who's right. I'm sure anybody who's been married long enough has learned that you can either be right or you can be married. But there were times in your life where you don't get the choice to do both. Alright? [00:06:37] (35 seconds)  #ChooseUnityNotBeingRight

You're gonna have to be a Christian. You're gonna have to accept Christ in your life and have the holy spirit so that this voice is going on within you and you can be guaranteed of that voice. But then you're gonna have to learn what's God's voice and what's mine and what's Satan's. And there's a way that you can do that because God has promised to speak to you and there is no place in this world that he will speak to you more than in his word. [00:03:25] (26 seconds)  #BeChristianHearHisVoice

We've got to get to where we know the differences in those three voices. That we know the difference between God's voice and our voice and Satan's voice in our minds. And there's a way that we do this. There is a specific way that you have to go about this in order to verify that when you think God is speaking to you that you know that he really is. There's a few things that you need to know. One, God has promised to speak to you. [00:02:48] (34 seconds)  #DiscernGodVsSelfVsSatan

You need to learn your father's voice so well that you'll know it because here's what's gonna happen. I'm the good shepherd, and I'm going to call my sheep by name, and you need to be able to hear my voice and respond to that so that you can come out. And and I've got other sheep pens all around here, and I've got sheep in them, and they're gonna know my voice too. And he he paints us this picture of dependency upon the voice of God. [00:00:37] (29 seconds)  #HearTheGoodShepherd

If he cares about the details of a curtain, does he care about the details of your life? Yeah. You're infinitely more valuable than a curtain than a curtain rod, than carving over here, or carving over there. We need to learn God's word. Some parts of it, we will read and it will explode in our minds god is speaking to us through that. We're seeing so much wonderful truth of god as we read through these scriptures and some parts of it will be like dirt on your tongue. [00:11:43] (38 seconds)  #GodValuesYouMoreThanRituals

We have to be feeding our our nutrients, our very energy for survival has to come from the word. In the New Testament, there are two words for word. There is the logos and there is the rhema. The logos is the written word, the preserved word. When you find your bible, that is the logos. It's also the rhema. The rhema word is the individually important word. It's the word that God gives directly to you. [00:22:16] (30 seconds)  #LogosAndRhemaExplained

What does it create in you? That's the ultimate test, isn't it? What does it do within you? When you hear god saying these words, normally, what I find the to if it's God's voice, what it produces in me is more humility. I don't think I've ever heard God say something to my heart that I was to then live upon and act in my attitude or my personality or or in my actions that would then exalt me. You ever had that act? Every time it's something that brings me a little low, that humbles me and helps me to see that he's in control and that I'm not. That all he's asking for me is to love his people. [00:18:55] (52 seconds)  #GodsVoiceProducesHumility