As if the very air used in order to breath and speak your response is NOT thick with the same zeal you might have if you were talking about something else you truly "Enjoy" doing?
And to truly consider the insight of one soul when others are hearing as if reading the meaning of words you claim God has written upon your mind and heart?
Why would Jesus suggest "MY sheep hear my voice"? Is it only with the heart One hears his voice? What voice do all men hear when they claim their heart is speaking to them?
Is it the heart that hears or is the "heart" the place of reason within a man where he goes and seeks what he deeply desires to "Understand"?
And why would Holy writ make mention of not only a hardened heart but ears that may or may NOT hear?
When it pertains to most all other applications of ones own rationale in life, you'll hear people say about others who are acting out of that place many like to refer to as "Denial", "You only hear what you want to hear".
If that IS "True" why do so many people abandon that same operating principle in their own failure to truthfully analyze their own approach to what God has to ""Say"?
Talk about compartmentalizing the potential influence of principals?
Acts 28:27
For this people's heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears , and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears , understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.' NIV
Words are increasingly loosing their "Effectual" and "Relational" value in many social circles with the exception to the opportunistic nature of monetary profit and/or gain of power.
Laws and monetary related contracts are loaded with very specific words and for a reason. Yet what good are either when only the one who drafts them understands their full potential and intent?
Do people truly change or do the words people elect in order to put those words to use?
The very prefix "Anti" when used often gets misinterpreted because its socially acceptable meaning seems to get locked or frozen away in a specific format or context.
You can see fluidity and broader essence of this word when expressed through words such as "Anti-quity" which suggest loss of equity or the passing of something. The word Anti-quated would suggest something which no longer equates because of its age.
Another word "Antichrist" the way most people choose to see and in turn "Use" it's value, expresses the damned. That to include those opposed to or who hold to the rejected opinion about the spiritual Christ, He who is as the Son of God as a spiritual being who has come in the flesh in the form of mankind.
Exactly how old is Christ? In terms of being "Outdated" how applicable are His teachings today in the minds of most who only take the time to understand the world we live in by way of "Digital" concepts, virtual reality shows and graphed opinions which more than often prevail and and as a result reflect socially acceptable norms?
When the Bible tries to implement the use of words such 'Aliens" or when songs are sang as if strangers that are just passing through, how deep do those words penetrate?
1 Peter 2:11-12
Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul. Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us. NIV
Exactly why do some stars Shine brighter than others? Does there brilliance only have to do with their distance from your perspective or does the closer light wash over the brilliance of others?
Exactly how does one quench a spirit? Even greater how does one grieve the Holy spirit and to what extent does the effects of that bleed over into a realized state of mind?
Not that the Holy Bible is not the best place to start and red ink has no value but what If Christ has more to say to you in terms of YOUR becoming obedient in the contemporary moments of life unto the "sound" of His voice?
Enough to where you do begin to realize that every man has been given the opportunity to come to know the sound and tone of his voice? Is it enough that the voice of Christ only be heard?
If evidence is what were being discussed, what evidence would there be in your life enough to prove that you've heard the voice of the Lord? What good is evidence unless it's compared to it's counterpart in order to determine its true value?
This was said to the prophet Daniel about a certain evil that was and is to come
Dan 11:32
With flattery he will corrupt those who have violated the covenant, but the people who know their God will firmly resist him. NIV
This was also said to those who rejected The son of God when He came to His own, yet His own did NOT receive Him. Do the words below interpret as anything less because the person of Jesus did NOT directly speak these words or in fact did the Holy spirit of Christ spiritually speak those words by way of Stephen?
I real time would Stephen, You or I have spoken such words IF we knew beyond doubt the cost of speaking in such a fashion would result in the taking of our life? Is there a difference between the intentional martyr and the "Unintentional" Martyr who stumbles into unseen resulting circumstances for the sake of what is Righteous?
Who today wants or enjoys being beaten with their past when speaking what they trust they're being compelled to speak?
Acts 7:51-52
You stiff-necked people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are just like your fathers: You always resist the Holy Spirit! Was there ever a prophet your fathers did not persecute? They even killed those who predicted the coming of the Righteous One. NIV
Think about it, if you are biased towards an ever present and interactive Holy Spirit as one who believes God still speaks through people by way of the inspiration of One and the same Holy Spirit, it still leaves YOU as the judge of what gets said? Don't you still have to judge what is spoken to you as to whether it is True or NOT?
Or if you only find it fitting to try and hear and distinguish the voice of the Lord from what is written and believed to be Holy Script, it still somehow places you and your set of ears charged with hearing what is True or NOT doesn't it?
If what I suggest is true, how eternally important does it then become that you Know beyond doubt what establishes a person in the righteousness God accepts? Enough that your worship of God and His goodness truly is done in the spirit that has been founded ONLY upon what is said to be True about Him?
If there is trouble to be found in what gets said and "Claimed" to be true about God how does one stay as far away from said trouble? What if trouble comes looking for you and finds you in the condition you're in because you still have need of knowing and/or further coming to know the person of God?
Is it truly only all about WWJD (What Would Jesus Do) in every given set of circumstances where the names, faces and emotional attachment of others are constantly changing? What good would it do YOU to know these things about Jesus, yet find yourself without the personal influence of His nature which is spirit?
Such a nature where there is Power and power because of Gods Gifting's Christ also had by way of the same Holy spirit God has promised will dwell in those who've believed in Him? Isn't that same spirit the spirit of counsel and the spirit of Truth? Is there power in Truth and is truth also the counsel only God can provide in a world that is nearly full of lies and liars when it's convenient?
Luke 8:10
10 He said, "The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to others I speak in parables, so that,
"'though seeing, they may not see; though hearing, they may not understand.'
NIV
Is it true there are secrets in God or is a more accurate assessment because God has stated it as so that men refused to LOVE the truth and so be saved?
2 Thess 2:9-12
The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the work of Satan displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders, 10 and in every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie 12 and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.
NIV
Gal 3:6-9
Consider Abraham: "He believed God , and it was credited to him as righteousness." Understand, then, that those who believe are children of Abraham. The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: "All nations will be blessed through you." So those who have faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith. NIV
Abraham not only confessed what He believed to be true about God, but even greater Abraham acted in the fashion he did because of what He believed to be True about God and Gods merciful heart of compassion.
As a man nothing I can say can save you, BUT if what I say is true because it agree's with God what have you also denied?
Why would a corrupt world and those who love it so NOT want you or anyone for that matter to be able to trust a personalized voice to most certain degree?
Why would a person who belongs to God also want to rearrange what God wants you to learn how to trust in? Is it any wonder why so many defend their actions when called out for who they are NOT?
If the state of absolute perfection were the only license where one can speak what is true, what hope is there when such a mindset also believes that all have sinned and fallen short of the GLORY of God?
Who does that leave that can speak what is True? And to think that you and I get to make the determination for ourselves about what gets said that is TRUE about God and what is a Lie about ourselves.
What if the names of others you encounter are not Matthew, Mark, Luke or John or Paul and THEIR truthful and trust worthy relational testimony about Jesus the Christ? How important then does spiritual discernment become in their physical absence while in this world?
What about a momentary word of knowledge or revelation you really want to believe is from God? How would you confirm it and ultimately know it was trust worthy knowledge in the moment if you only trust the sound of your own voice or the fact yours and the past of others is cluttered with sinful mistakes made?
Hopefully leading to higher spiritual ground, why is it important to Know that without faith is impossible to please God? And to say you know God without knowing what pleases Him?
Is it true that God is spirit? It is if your relational hope as a believer is in Him. Yet is it also true there is a part of you that is NOT spirit and a part that is?
Is it also true there is a part of you that has NOT allowed said "Self" to be governed by what God says is true?
John 4:24
God is spirit , and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth ."
NIV
