Do we hear God's Word?
Christ
said to the religious Jews in His day, “He
that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not,
because ye are not of God”
(John
8:47).
That men will hear men there can be no doubt. They will receive the
witness of men. But no man apart from the grace of God will hear GOD.
Unless we are chosen of God, redeemed of God and quickened by the
Spirit we cannot and will not hear God. To hear God we must “hear
God’s words..” The truth is, a man may speak the truth but we
only believe what we know to be true from God’s words. We only
believe God when we have seen it for ourselves in His word! That’s
why so many people are deceived, they receive the witness of men, of
preachers often times who do not speak according to God’s words.
God’s preacher wants people to see if they telling the
truth by checking them in God’s word. The Bereans were said to be
“noble” because they searched the scriptures to see if the things
Paul said was true. Paul was an apostle of God but the test of this
was to see if he was preaching God’s words. In spiritual matters of
the soul we are not to take the word of any man without checking the
word of God. “To
the law and the testimony, if they speak not according to this word
it is because there is no light in them"
(Isaiah
8:20).
“Beloved,
believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of
God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world”
(1
John 4:1). How
do we do try or test what we hear? The holy scriptures! Only then do
we really “hear God.”
Satan seeks to blind men and
women by making them lazy, not studying the word for themselves but
leaving all in the hands of a fallible preacher. We preach the truth
as it is in Christ Jesus but it falls on deaf ears. The Lord Jesus
said that some will hear! “My
sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me"
(John
10:27),
and, "They
know not the voice of strangers”
(John
10:5b).
Those born of God will hear God’s words, hear them so as to believe
them and act on them. They will hear the written Word of God as
coming from the mouth of God Himself. Let man say what he will, they
hear God. “The
hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of
them”
(Proverbs
20:12).
If we do not hear God, we are not the children of God!
-preacher
Gary
Shepard
https://www.sermonaudio.com/source_detail.asp?sourceid=allsovgrace
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