1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:03,400 Welcome to the Cross Power Church podcast. 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:06,800 You're listening to a service from our church in Campbell, TX. 3 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:10,480 We pray this message strengthens your faith and points you to the 4 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:12,840 cross. Now let's join the service. 5 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:18,200 Sitting there thinking about all the the background music in that 6 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:20,920 and the way they do it, you know, and that the guy that's 7 00:00:20,920 --> 00:00:25,040 playing all the all and all of her songs is he wasn't at the 8 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:26,480 studio. His name is Milo. 9 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:29,160 During, during, I think is how you say it during. 10 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:33,680 And he did all the Eagles stuff. I mean, listen to the Eagles. 11 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:37,520 He did all the Eagles stuff. A lot of your mainstream he 12 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:39,840 played with, I'm pretty sure he played with the Eagles, but I 13 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:42,840 know he did all their backup stuff, but they send that stuff 14 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:44,440 to him. He's maybe in a motel room at 15 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:47,200 his house and he puts all the stuff together and they send it 16 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:49,280 back. But I had this thought that 17 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:52,160 there's a scripture that talks about that, what the enemy meant 18 00:00:52,160 --> 00:00:54,960 for evil. And I begin to think of all the 19 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:59,120 songs he probably played backup on that wasn't godly. 20 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:02,800 And you know, now he now he's playing for a lot of these Main 21 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:04,840 Street and gospel groups and stuff. 22 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:07,200 And you know what the we we're going to see that one of these 23 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:09,640 days. What they what, what the enemy 24 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:12,560 meant for evil. God turns it into good. 25 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:14,800 I thought about it. We're hearing about our circuit 26 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:16,680 rider brother, what he give his life to the Lord. 27 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:20,760 How just a month ago when Ben came to a meeting, they was at 28 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:25,360 Thursday night and they got got hit on his bike and and lost his 29 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:28,200 life, but he gained life. You know what the enemy meant 30 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:30,400 for Eva? God saved him just in time. 31 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:33,840 Isn't that isn't that awesome to know he lost come to know the 32 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:36,920 Lord a month ago and then the Lord took him home and that's 33 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:40,280 wow what the enemy means for Eva. 34 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:42,480 I might just preach on that. Amen. 35 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:45,960 Now I'm not going to preach on. I got something else here, but 36 00:01:45,960 --> 00:01:49,800 good to be in the House of the Lord tonight, Wednesday night. 37 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:51,480 It's a little different atmosphere in here. 38 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:54,760 I don't use a Sunday morning. People bringing it with them. 39 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:56,240 Or are we losing it on Wednesday? 40 00:01:56,280 --> 00:02:01,960 I don't know, huh. Spirit tear. 41 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:06,880 I'm going to preach to you some things tonight that I just been 42 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:10,360 on my heart. And I think it's very important 43 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:15,040 and I think it's lacking in the body of Christ and there's some 44 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:18,200 things it's kind of kind of confusing to me as well, but 45 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:19,880 we're going to share it tonight. Amen. 46 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:22,080 Let's stand one more time. Go to the Lord in prayer. 47 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:28,160 I I titled this tonight here say with me here and recognize very 48 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:32,400 important in your Christian walk very important because I dare 49 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:36,000 say there's a lot of Christians. The majority do not hear from 50 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:38,000 God. They say they don't. 51 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:39,400 I hear people say it all the time. 52 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:42,560 God doesn't speak to me. People that are his children. 53 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:45,320 The truth is God speaks. They don't hear, right? 54 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:48,840 And when we hear, we don't recognize the voice of God. 55 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:50,920 And I want to explain some of this tonight. 56 00:02:50,920 --> 00:02:52,280 The Father, we come to you tonight. 57 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:54,640 We pray that we would hear your voice in our life. 58 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:57,600 We pray that we would recognize your voice in our life. 59 00:02:57,600 --> 00:03:01,320 And then we would act upon the uptions of the Holy Spirit that 60 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:04,560 comes upon us in our life that leads us toward the cross of 61 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:06,800 Calvary. Father, we pray tonight that you 62 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:10,480 give us ears that hear a heart to receive that would fall upon 63 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:12,120 good ground. That's in your son's name. 64 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:18,520 We ask and pray Amen. Being John chapter 10 verse 10 65 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:20,440 is talking about the Good Shepherd. 66 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:24,720 It's very familiar verses of Scripture, but out you can be 67 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:26,080 seated. I'm going to read a little bit 68 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:30,920 here, but in John chapter 10 and verse one Jesus talking, he 69 00:03:30,920 --> 00:03:37,280 said, verily I say unto you, he who enters not by the door into 70 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:44,240 the sheepfold way, the same is a thief and a robber. 71 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:46,080 I'm reading out of the King James tonight. 72 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:47,480 If y'all want to change, it doesn't matter. 73 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:50,080 It's close enough. But there's a few things in here 74 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:52,440 that I that I do like out of the King James. 75 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:55,840 But see this proclaims to us that there is a door. 76 00:03:56,520 --> 00:04:01,280 There is an entrance into everlasting life and despite 77 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:04,200 what is being taught today, there's only one door. 78 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:05,920 Say that with me there's only one door. 79 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:09,120 There's only one way that leads to eternal life. 80 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:12,000 This is probably one of the greatest teachings and most 81 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:16,120 simple teachings that Jesus taught on and yet they still 82 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:19,320 didn't understand it because they he was explaining who he 83 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:23,400 was and what he came to do. In verse 2, it says, but he who 84 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:28,360 enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 85 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:31,280 See Jesus is alone. The shepherd he had to enter 86 00:04:31,280 --> 00:04:34,240 into the door of the blood covenant before we could even 87 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:36,000 think about getting near the door, right? 88 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:40,440 And it says to him, the Porter opens, it opens, it means that 89 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:44,840 the law of the doorkeeper. This was immediately it admitted 90 00:04:44,840 --> 00:04:45,720 Jesus. Why? 91 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:49,200 Because he was, He had made, He had perfected the law, something 92 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:52,920 that man could never do. God had realized man cannot keep 93 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:54,920 the laws that I put up on this earth. 94 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:56,920 There's no way. There's no how. 95 00:04:57,080 --> 00:05:00,760 But Jesus had came in the form of a man, and he had kept every 96 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:03,800 law, and he was perfect in the eyes of God. 97 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:06,520 So he says I am the perfect shepherd. 98 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:10,200 And it says the sheep to him. I'm going to back up and read 99 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:13,800 that again to him. The Porter opens, the door opens 100 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:18,360 and the sheep hear his voice. The sheep hear his voice. 101 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:22,240 And he calls his own sheep by name. 102 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:26,520 Isn't that awesome? And he leads them out. 103 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:31,400 If we follow Him, He will lead us out to to great pastures and, 104 00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:33,960 and and make our way right and in verse. 105 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:37,960 Four, it says that when he puts forth his own sheep, he goes 106 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:40,000 before them. How can he lead us? 107 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:43,600 Because he's going before. Us right he has planned 108 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:51,040 everything and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice and 109 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:52,920 a. Stranger they will not follow, 110 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:56,960 but they will flee from him, referring to the thieves and 111 00:05:56,960 --> 00:06:02,200 robbers and the false prophets, for they know not the voice of 112 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:04,280 strangers. The Parable. 113 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:09,360 Spoke Jesus unto them, but they understood not that the things 114 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:14,120 that were which He spoke unto Him, they couldn't understand 115 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:15,520 that. I fear today there's a lot of 116 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:17,680 people that still don't understand it. 117 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:20,560 And I want to look at some things he said here, you know, 118 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:23,280 as Jesus is the one true shepherd. 119 00:06:23,280 --> 00:06:26,760 You know, pastors, I often heard them referred to as shepherds. 120 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:29,400 And you know, we we. Seem like most of the time 121 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:31,080 we're. Pulling and trying to pull 122 00:06:31,080 --> 00:06:34,040 people in the right direction. But I like what it says here. 123 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:37,480 They know his voice, and his sheep follow him, and to a 124 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:39,960 stranger's voice they will not. Follow. 125 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:43,800 But as a shepherd or as a pastor, you know, I'm not the 126 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:45,920 Good Shepherd. There's only one that's Jesus 127 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:47,240 Christ. We know that. 128 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:52,160 But my job as a pastor is, is I feel like more to keep sheep on 129 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:55,520 their feet, to keep people standing up, because this world 130 00:06:55,520 --> 00:06:57,480 will knock you down, right? It would walk. 131 00:06:57,520 --> 00:07:00,800 Knock you down and walk over you, but I'm tired of sheep that 132 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:03,880 lay down and don't get up. We have to learn to stay on our 133 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:06,360 feet. Hey, man, we have to learn to do 134 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:08,040 this. And the number one way that 135 00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:12,000 we're seeing sheep get knocked down, we're seeing sheep and 136 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:15,440 God's children, that's who He's referring to here, not following 137 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:18,880 the Good Shepherd because they are following another voice. 138 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:21,680 Let's go to Matthew Chapter 7 and verse 15. 139 00:07:22,640 --> 00:07:26,040 Jesus warned of this, and right there we just read it that he 140 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:28,400 said it. And he puts forth his own sheep. 141 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:31,640 He goes before them. The sheep follow him, for they 142 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:35,600 know his voice. And a stranger will they not 143 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:37,760 follow, but they will flee from him. 144 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:40,680 You know, when we look at the body of Christ today, it seems 145 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:45,440 that almost every Christian I know seems to be looking for 146 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:48,720 another way. If we could just grasp that when 147 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:51,280 we come into this life, did anybody bring anything with 148 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:52,640 them? You look back, say, man, the day 149 00:07:52,640 --> 00:07:55,680 I was born, I had that thing. It was mine and I brought it 150 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:59,400 into this world. Anybody, maybe somebody give you 151 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:03,120 something, but you did not arrive with anything but a mess, 152 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:07,080 right? Many people leave with a mess, 153 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:09,560 but we brought nothing into this world. 154 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:13,040 Scripture says that we will take nothing out of this world, but 155 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:17,960 yet we spend our life while up on this earth trying to acquire 156 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:23,440 and be busy and accumulate things that will not be going 157 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:27,080 with us right. And many times I said that to 158 00:08:27,080 --> 00:08:29,840 say this, I believe that's why we don't hear. 159 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:33,640 That's why we don't recognize because we're focused too much 160 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:37,760 on the here and now and not the Yonder Amen to where we're going 161 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:40,679 to spend eternity. But yet I see Christians every 162 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:43,799 day, every month, every year, the same old thing. 163 00:08:43,799 --> 00:08:47,120 They they come to church and yet they're looking for another way. 164 00:08:47,680 --> 00:08:49,160 I'm going to give you a heavy Revi tonight. 165 00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:51,960 There's no other way. There's one way the way the 166 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:55,080 truth and the life. And the problem is, is we're so 167 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:58,880 caught up in this life that for many Christians that are not 168 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:01,520 hearing the voice of God that are not following. 169 00:09:01,520 --> 00:09:04,560 If you don't hear how you're going to follow right, if you 170 00:09:04,560 --> 00:09:06,200 can't hear him, you can't follow him. 171 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:08,280 But that's what Jesus was telling him here. 172 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:09,960 I'm the way, the truth and the life. 173 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:12,080 I'm the Good Shepherd. I'm going to put you in a good 174 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:13,720 pasture. I'm going to give you good 175 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:16,880 things and the good you know, I I'm the I'm the lion of the 176 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:19,200 tribe of Judah, but I'm going to become the lamb. 177 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:22,040 I'm a shepherd right now for this three and I had this 33 178 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:25,000 years that I'm here, but I'm soon going to become a lamb that 179 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:26,520 will be led to slaughter. Amen. 180 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:29,800 And then I'm going to return another roaring lion. 181 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:33,800 That's what he was telling them. But yet people are always 182 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:36,840 looking and it seems that they hear these, they all this is a 183 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:39,240 new way to serve God. Run from that. 184 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:42,800 There's no new way to serve God. They meant read your Bible, pray 185 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:45,240 and see God and hear the voice of God. 186 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:46,600 There's a lot of people that read. 187 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:49,280 There's a lot of people that pray, but there's not a lot of 188 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:54,600 people that here right here. There's not a lot of people that 189 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:58,360 here, but in Matthew 7 of 15, Jesus explained this. 190 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:01,160 He said beware of false prophets. 191 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:04,280 The church is full of false prophets today. 192 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:08,000 Can I say that again? It is full of false prophets 193 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:11,920 today which come to you. They don't come as a false 194 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:16,000 prophet. They come just as Jesus did and 195 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:18,880 they they came, they come as a shepherd, but they're in sheep's 196 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:21,240 clothing. But he said inwardly they're 197 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:24,560 raving wolves. Beware of false prophets, he 198 00:10:24,560 --> 00:10:27,800 said. And in verse 16 he says, How 199 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:28,840 will you know? Them. 200 00:10:29,560 --> 00:10:32,160 He says you shall know that it's never changed. 201 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:34,040 Amen. Why were the people following 202 00:10:34,160 --> 00:10:36,320 Jesus? Why was why was the multitude 203 00:10:36,320 --> 00:10:39,680 seeking after Jesus? Why were they following Him? 204 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:42,880 There was one reason he he proclaimed to be the Messiah, 205 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:45,080 but they didn't believe his words. 206 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:47,480 They didn't believe he was who he said he was. 207 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:51,280 But yet they could not deny the fruit that he was dropping that 208 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:54,360 was falling off of him, right, Because people are being saved, 209 00:10:54,360 --> 00:10:56,640 they're being healed. They were being changed. 210 00:10:56,640 --> 00:11:00,080 And as he come, as they come to him one way, they left another, 211 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:02,480 right, So they could not deny the fruits. 212 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:05,840 And whether you spend the rest of your life in this church or 213 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:10,040 another church, I challenge you. You shall know them by their. 214 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:13,840 Fruits. But yet we have we have all 215 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:16,160 these people. You know, I, I really got a lot 216 00:11:16,160 --> 00:11:21,720 of this back when, when when Olsteen put put Oprah Winfrey on 217 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:26,200 his stage on his platform, the biggest platform to preach the 218 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:29,080 gospel. And you put a woman up there or 219 00:11:29,080 --> 00:11:32,200 man, it doesn't matter. He's put both that claims that 220 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:35,760 there's many ways to God. There's many ways to God. 221 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:39,640 I've heard her say it. But yet why would he need that? 222 00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:43,880 But see, you will know them by their fruits. 223 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:47,880 He goes on to say, does men gather grapes or thorns or figs 224 00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:50,440 from thistles? Pretty simple, isn't it? 225 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:53,560 You can go out there to that locust tree as it begins to 226 00:11:53,560 --> 00:11:55,520 bloom here in a few weeks, as they will. 227 00:11:55,680 --> 00:11:58,080 And you reach up there to pick some fruit off of that locust 228 00:11:58,080 --> 00:11:59,480 tree. And I got news for you. 229 00:11:59,480 --> 00:12:00,760 You're probably going to grab a thorn. 230 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:04,680 A locust tree ain't never bared an apple and it never will 231 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:07,400 because it's it's not in his DNA to do so. 232 00:12:08,560 --> 00:12:12,160 See it's possible for false doctrines and things that and 233 00:12:12,160 --> 00:12:15,640 false prophets, they can bring forth some good fruit, but is it 234 00:12:15,640 --> 00:12:19,080 godly fruit? You know most things today, most 235 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:21,760 of so many preachers and messages you hear it's about 236 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:25,480 prospering in this world and this world is not going to last. 237 00:12:25,480 --> 00:12:27,840 So that is a false doctrine. Amen. 238 00:12:29,720 --> 00:12:32,880 So as we read on here. Says, You shall know them by 239 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:34,680 your fruits. The men gather grapes from 240 00:12:34,680 --> 00:12:40,080 thorns, and figs from thistles. Verse 17 Even so, every good 241 00:12:40,080 --> 00:12:44,200 tree, he turns it around right here brings forth good fruit, 242 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:49,320 but a corrupt tree brings forth. Evil fruit. 243 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:54,000 Pretty simple. A good tree cannot bring forth. 244 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:57,840 I like that right there. A good tree cannot bring forth. 245 00:12:58,320 --> 00:12:59,440 Evil fruit. Why? 246 00:12:59,840 --> 00:13:02,200 Why can a good tree not bring forth evil fruit? 247 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:05,160 We see, we see people that are good, that have been in the 248 00:13:05,160 --> 00:13:08,360 church, maybe taught a class, even preachers today that 249 00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:11,200 they're they, they were a good tree, but yet they begin to 250 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:13,840 bring forth some bad things in their life, right? 251 00:13:14,280 --> 00:13:15,640 They were. Up here and could preach 252 00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:19,240 eloquent and and say the right words, but yet their private 253 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:20,920 life was much different. Right. 254 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:23,040 We're in it and it is being exposed. 255 00:13:23,040 --> 00:13:24,720 They they're pulling these people out. 256 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:27,960 These pastors and these false prophets, they're being pulled 257 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:31,880 out day by day almost. You can hear of it every time 258 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:34,320 you turn the news on, it seems. Why? 259 00:13:34,560 --> 00:13:35,960 So what? Why did Jesus say? 260 00:13:36,160 --> 00:13:39,720 Even so, every good tree. Let's read that again. 261 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:42,800 Even so, every good tree brings forth good. 262 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:46,880 Fruit. But a corrupt tree brings forth 263 00:13:46,880 --> 00:13:50,360 evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth 264 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:53,480 evil fruit. Why? 265 00:13:53,480 --> 00:13:56,600 It wasn't a good tree right because it but you know, 266 00:13:56,600 --> 00:13:59,600 sometimes I think that it what maybe was a good tree, but it 267 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:04,720 quit hearing it quit recognizing right you can be a good 268 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:07,560 Christian, but do you and and go to church all the time and still 269 00:14:07,560 --> 00:14:10,840 never hear from God right and things in your life can become 270 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:12,880 bad. We know that he said neither can 271 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:17,640 a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit and in verse 19 he brings 272 00:14:17,640 --> 00:14:21,240 it all all home. He says every tree that brings 273 00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:24,920 not forth good fruit is home down and cast into fire. 274 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:27,320 Talking about the judgment that will ultimately come. 275 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:30,840 You can go read about it and in Romans 1 and 18, but he said 276 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:35,720 wherefore by their fruits you shall know them. 277 00:14:36,640 --> 00:14:39,640 Hello. I think when people go to church 278 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:43,840 they really don't look for the fruit, not of the pastor even. 279 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:47,480 They look for a good message. A good message don't mean I bear 280 00:14:47,480 --> 00:14:51,640 good fruit though I know all the big words, it doesn't mean that 281 00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:53,840 I'm bearing good fruit in my everyday life. 282 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:58,160 Hey man, check it out. Know the scriptures, Know who 283 00:14:58,160 --> 00:15:01,800 you're hearing. From but he he he says that that 284 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:04,480 the Kingdom of heaven and salvation. 285 00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:07,560 There's only one entrance. You can't enter by any other 286 00:15:07,560 --> 00:15:10,400 way. And the sheep recognize his 287 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:14,560 voice. So we read in John 16 and 13, he 288 00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:15,480 says. How be it? 289 00:15:16,440 --> 00:15:20,680 When he, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into 290 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:23,560 all truth and all knowledge. How are you going to be guided 291 00:15:23,560 --> 00:15:25,400 if you don't hear? Because it's a spirit, you're 292 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:28,200 not going to see it, right? He says. 293 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:31,520 It's going to come and it's going to guide you, but yet 294 00:15:31,520 --> 00:15:34,160 we're still looking with the eyes to be guided, right? 295 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:36,680 Doesn't work that way. We got to start hearing right. 296 00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:40,600 We got to start hearing how be it when the spirit of truth 297 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:44,080 comes and then the King James says is come. 298 00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:46,120 He will guide you into all truth. 299 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:50,480 That means he's here to guide us not some truth, but all truth 300 00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:54,120 see there's only one shepherd, but today there there's 301 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:56,400 estimate. You know that I read this today 302 00:15:56,400 --> 00:16:00,280 and just got in my in my spirit, the way that that Jesus said 303 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:06,120 this, because when we look today and I look this up by the study 304 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:11,360 of global Christianity, there is 45 to 47,000. 305 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:19,760 Can I say that again, 45,000 to 47,000 Christian denominations 306 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:23,360 in the world. But Jesus said there's one way. 307 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:27,000 What does that tell me a bunch of folks wrong, right? 308 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:30,400 If there were five, there's still 4 wrong. 309 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:33,440 If there were two, there's still one wrong. 310 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:36,240 Right, Because we're so divided and we preach. 311 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:38,840 There's so many different things going on in the boat. 312 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:46,120 We're messed up 47,000 ways to to to be a Christian and Jesus 313 00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:48,920 said there's only one follow the shepherd. 314 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:51,480 Pretty astounding, isn't it? But when you. 315 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:55,000 Look that up and you'll find that that there's 40 can't name 316 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:56,480 them. You know, you're pretty well. 317 00:16:56,480 --> 00:16:58,040 I know about all. There's no way to know what 318 00:16:58,040 --> 00:17:01,160 they're making up because people are inventing ways. 319 00:17:01,160 --> 00:17:04,400 Wolves and sheep's clothing have come in and you know the enemy. 320 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:06,920 When I was young, I always thought the Antichrist when he 321 00:17:06,920 --> 00:17:09,480 come on the scene would be very recognizable. 322 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:11,000 And there's some things about him that. 323 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:13,359 Will, but we're. Already being prepped for it in 324 00:17:13,359 --> 00:17:14,359 the church. Amen. 325 00:17:14,480 --> 00:17:17,440 Because we've let so much junk in, when the Antichrist comes on 326 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:19,200 the scene, the stage is already set. 327 00:17:19,280 --> 00:17:22,440 He takes over a people that's willing to believe anything. 328 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:25,560 I never thought it would be the church. 329 00:17:26,599 --> 00:17:29,040 I never thought it would be the body of Christ. 330 00:17:29,440 --> 00:17:34,000 But I'm seeing it more and more. One voice, 1 shepherd. 331 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:37,440 So this tells me that the majority is wrong. 332 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:42,080 You can back up a few scriptures in Matthew 713 and 14 Jesus said 333 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:46,480 straight is the way, narrow is the gate and few say that with 334 00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:49,400 me. Few be there that entered in in 335 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:53,200 Matthew 721 and 20 he three he says not everyone that. 336 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:55,440 Cries Lord Lord, just because you're one of these 337 00:17:55,560 --> 00:17:59,280 denominations that man made and God did not make, just because 338 00:17:59,280 --> 00:18:01,920 you cry Lord Lord, don't mean you're going to enter into the 339 00:18:01,920 --> 00:18:03,840 Kingdom of God. Right? 340 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:06,800 So that tells me I better be hearing a man. 341 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:09,960 I better be hearing from something more than elder, 342 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:13,680 bored, or Deacon. Bored or or even just the things 343 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:16,000 that come into my head. I need to know that it's God. 344 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:19,000 How about you? So I want to break this down to 345 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:21,160 some ways that we have to know. Two ways. 346 00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:25,760 Write this down. The sheep hear the Good 347 00:18:25,760 --> 00:18:28,480 Shepherd's voice. We just read that John 10, three 348 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:32,320 and four, the sheep hear the good Shepherd's voice. 349 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:34,840 If you're a Christian that says don't hear the hear God, you 350 00:18:34,840 --> 00:18:37,800 better start hearing God, Amen, because you will be LED astray 351 00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:41,600 if you're not hearing from God. The second thing is not only do 352 00:18:41,600 --> 00:18:48,160 they hear, but they recognize that that voice belonging to the 353 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:50,840 Good Shepherd because you're going to hear a lot of voices. 354 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:53,000 Hello. You're going to hear a lot of 355 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:56,480 things that come in and creep into your mind and you have to 356 00:18:56,480 --> 00:18:59,480 discern. So the keys here are hearing 357 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:05,000 from God and recognizing God and it takes a long time. 358 00:19:05,080 --> 00:19:07,960 It don't just come overnight. Amen, Because you will. 359 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:09,360 Fail. You will mess up. 360 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:11,920 You will have good ideas that aren't God ideas. 361 00:19:11,920 --> 00:19:14,520 I have learned that. But what does the voice of the 362 00:19:14,520 --> 00:19:17,440 Holy Spirit sound like? I got to grab some water. 363 00:19:18,440 --> 00:19:21,360 What does the voice? If you've ever heard the voice 364 00:19:21,360 --> 00:19:25,760 of God, what does the voice of the Holy Spirit sound like? 365 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:30,800 It's a good question. He just said that when the 366 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:33,120 spirit of truth comes. He not just going to tell you a 367 00:19:33,120 --> 00:19:35,840 little bit of things, He going to tell you all things, bring 368 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:39,200 you into all truth and all knowledge, right? 369 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:42,520 He's going to bring that to us. So let's look at this. 370 00:19:42,520 --> 00:19:47,720 What does the voice of the Holy Spirit sound like and how do I 371 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:50,080 listen to him? It would be interesting to 372 00:19:50,080 --> 00:19:52,600 record some Christians responding to that, wouldn't it? 373 00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:58,000 I dare say some young Christians, new, new people in 374 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:00,800 Christ can hear better than old people sometimes, right? 375 00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:03,400 Than those that have lived for God a long time. 376 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:05,760 Because we tend to quit listening. 377 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:09,280 Sometimes we tend to get at peace in Zion. 378 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:13,440 But see, we read A good illustration of this is in first 379 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:17,520 Kings chapter 19 verses 11 through 13. 380 00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:21,480 Elijah. How many know who Elijah was? 381 00:20:22,040 --> 00:20:23,760 He had called fire down from heaven. 382 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:26,680 He'd done all kinds of things. But Elijah. 383 00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:31,360 Had recently just killed 400 prophets of baal, a false God, a 384 00:20:31,360 --> 00:20:35,440 false God of a Pagan God, a God that the. 385 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:37,360 World is still worshipping today. 386 00:20:37,360 --> 00:20:40,200 If you turn your TV on, it doesn't matter what it. 387 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:43,480 Is you're going to find, you're going to find things in it. 388 00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:46,520 That is what the God of Baal worshipped. 389 00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:50,360 It was infidelity. It was sexual sins, it was 390 00:20:50,360 --> 00:20:53,240 things of that you can't. You can't turn on the radio or 391 00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:56,760 television or you would just have to refrain totally from the 392 00:20:56,760 --> 00:21:00,360 world reading any billboards, doing anything if you were going 393 00:21:00,360 --> 00:21:04,520 to take the God of the bow that they worshipped here and do away 394 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:07,800 with it. And Elijah had just killed 400 395 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:12,560 prophets of Bow, and he had Queen Jezebel chasing him. 396 00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:15,760 There's a Jezebel spirit I preached on that that's still 397 00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:17,000 here today. Amen. 398 00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:19,600 It's here today. And it's the same thing that 399 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:22,640 caused the Roman Empire to fall. It's the same thing that's 400 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:26,240 caused Babylonian to fall. It's the same thing that forced 401 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:28,360 the children of Israel and scattered them abroad. 402 00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:31,800 And it's the same thing that will destroy America if we 403 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:35,320 continue. But Queen Jezebel, she had 404 00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:37,200 threatened to kill him. Think about it. 405 00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:41,120 Elijah had called fire down from heaven and burned their galters 406 00:21:41,120 --> 00:21:43,000 down. He'd done all kinds of things. 407 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:44,600 He had. He had prophesied that it shall 408 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:47,440 not rain for X amount of days. And it did not rain. 409 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:51,360 But yet this mean woman. Husbands, feel your wife. 410 00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:52,880 Amen. Fear your wife. 411 00:21:54,120 --> 00:21:58,120 He fled to Mount Sinai, and he was hiding in a cave. 412 00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:00,040 He wasn't just fearing Queen Jezebel. 413 00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:02,520 She had lots of people working for her right? 414 00:22:03,360 --> 00:22:07,600 But he was scared for his life. And the Lord said, He said. 415 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:10,480 Go forth, can you? Imagine Elijah, the great things 416 00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:14,760 that he had done, yet he's hiding in a cave scared, and he 417 00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:19,560 was needing to say it with me, hear from God, they're after me, 418 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:23,600 they're going to kill me. And the Lord said this, He said, 419 00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:26,960 Go forth, and stand on the mountain before the Lord. 420 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:31,360 And behold, the Lord was passing by, and a great strong wind was 421 00:22:31,360 --> 00:22:34,720 rending the mountains and breaking them into pieces, and 422 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:38,800 the rocks before the Lord. But the Lord was not in the 423 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:42,240 wind. He was not in the wind after the 424 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:46,920 wind and earthquake, but He was not in the earthquake and after 425 00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:50,000 the earthquake of fire. But the Lord was not in the fire 426 00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:52,960 after the fire, a second gentle blowing wind. 427 00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:54,640 Oh, this must be God, he thought. 428 00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:59,600 And when Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle, 429 00:23:00,120 --> 00:23:03,360 and he went and stood at the entrance of The Cave, and behold 430 00:23:03,360 --> 00:23:06,320 a voice. Came to him and it said in the 431 00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:08,840 steel. Smallness, after all the smoke 432 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:12,760 and all the fire and all the rocks crumbling, he asked him 433 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:15,120 this question. I preached a great message on 434 00:23:15,120 --> 00:23:17,360 this one time. What are you doing here? 435 00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:20,840 You're a child of God. You called the fire down from 436 00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:22,440 heaven. Elijah, you've done great 437 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:24,120 things. Now you're an old Christian 438 00:23:24,120 --> 00:23:26,000 that's lost faith. Get up. 439 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:28,960 You're a prophet of God. What are you doing here? 440 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:35,320 God did not speak to Elijah in a powerful, dramatic way. 441 00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:38,640 But yet we haven't called fire down from heaven. 442 00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:42,480 We haven't killed 400 prophets of Obama. 443 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:46,760 Now let me take that back. We haven't killed 400 whatevers. 444 00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:53,400 False doctrines, right? We haven't done that, but he had 445 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:56,920 killed the other side of his enemy. 446 00:23:57,520 --> 00:23:59,920 But see, we think that those things are enemies, and they're 447 00:23:59,920 --> 00:24:02,000 not our enemy at all. It's Satan working through 448 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:05,480 people, right? It's Satan working through the 449 00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:07,840 right or the left. He's in both sides, right? 450 00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:10,440 He actually is right in the middle and they don't even 451 00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:16,200 realize it. But he had killed. 400 prophets 452 00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:18,880 and yet God says, what are you doing here? 453 00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:22,400 Why are you hiding? God didn't speak in a powerful, 454 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:27,080 dramatic way, but yet the Christian today is still waiting 455 00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:30,280 for God to speak that way. I hear it all the time. 456 00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:31,640 If God would just show me, I would do it. 457 00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:33,960 No you wouldn't because you wouldn't be able to hear him. 458 00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:36,280 You're looking in all the wrong places. 459 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:39,600 He used a strong wind. He used the earthquake in a fire 460 00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:42,600 to demonstrate that he was still God Almighty. 461 00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:47,520 But see, yet he spoke in a still gentle breeze and said, Elijah, 462 00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:51,800 what are you doing here? See, in the same way that he got 463 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:55,520 Elijah's attention, the Lord may use a powerful dramatic thing in 464 00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:57,000 our life. Can I get a witness? 465 00:24:57,320 --> 00:25:00,280 He's used it many times to get our attention right, but 466 00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:02,320 sometimes we still don't hear the voice of God. 467 00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:05,320 We're in the middle of it. It's after everything settled 468 00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:08,120 and we look back and we say, man, he, he was trying to tell 469 00:25:08,120 --> 00:25:11,160 me that. Then I just didn't listen. 470 00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:17,400 When He actually speaks to us, it will be with a tender, loving 471 00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:22,320 inner voice. And to hear Him and to recognize 472 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:27,240 that sometimes we have to get rid of the distractions, get 473 00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:32,160 alone in a quiet place, that we can feel His gracious words. 474 00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:36,160 When the Holy Spirit speaks to us, most of the time it's an 475 00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:40,160 inner thought. Almost like our own thoughts. 476 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:43,360 But then there's something that checks in your spirit said, 477 00:25:43,360 --> 00:25:44,640 whoa, I didn't come up with that. 478 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:48,160 That has to be God. Your heart will recognize it. 479 00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:52,760 It's the Holy Spirit speaking to you, and we must understand it. 480 00:25:53,360 --> 00:25:55,280 So how do we do that? I think back, you know I. 481 00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:59,400 When I was little, my mom would always call my middle name to 482 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:01,720 try to get my When Lance wouldn't work, she'd say Lance 483 00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:05,880 Neil and I knew something. Was up a little bit, but I 484 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:07,360 still, I wouldn't really scare the mom. 485 00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:12,280 She didn't whoop that hard, but I knew that she could tell 486 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:15,160 somebody. But I could be in a room full 487 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:19,240 acting like a Heather and it didn't matter what age didn't 488 00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:20,560 matter. I was kind of like Swayze. 489 00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:23,480 I stayed with my grandparents when my when my mom and my 490 00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:26,000 biological dad had divorced, I was four years old. 491 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,600 I stayed with my grandparents and you couldn't get a spanking 492 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:30,960 there. One set you could, but I didn't 493 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:33,560 stay with that set. I like staying with the other 494 00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:36,080 one. Kind of like Swayze. 495 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:37,440 She knows I ain't going to do nothing. 496 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:42,400 I mean, I can threaten, I can pick it up, I can put it in my 497 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:45,520 hand, I can stomp my face. She knows I ain't going to do 498 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:48,120 nothing. And that's sad. 499 00:26:48,120 --> 00:26:49,760 It ain't right, but I can't help it. 500 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:53,040 I'm trying. But I think about my dad. 501 00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:57,000 He didn't have to say my name. I could be in a building, 502 00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:00,400 running wide open, doing whatever, and I could feel it. 503 00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:04,400 I could see his face. I could see one eyebrow. 504 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:08,720 Got a little uneven. It got cocked a certain way and 505 00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:13,200 he didn't have to say nothing. My night was ruined because I 506 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:15,840 knew when I got home. He liked to make you wait. 507 00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:18,520 He thought the good things come to those who wait. 508 00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:21,680 I heard from him it wasn't good when he was waiting on Dad. 509 00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:25,720 But he didn't play. He didn't play with it, and I 510 00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:28,640 knew it. But see, I would recognize my 511 00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:29,320 dad. Why? 512 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:33,400 Because He didn't play when it come to doing what He said. 513 00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:36,160 I got news for you today, God does not play. 514 00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:39,800 I don't know where we got this mindset that God plays, but when 515 00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:42,960 God is trying to get our attention, can I tell you God 516 00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:46,120 does not play when it comes to getting you and out of heaven, 517 00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:47,800 Amen. He does not play. 518 00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:52,600 He will cause the earthquake, he will cause the fire, even if it 519 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:57,040 takes scars to prove that he gave his only begotten son so 520 00:27:57,040 --> 00:27:59,520 that you and I come out and preach with me tonight could 521 00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:02,240 have everlasting life. He does not play. 522 00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:06,400 Salvation is is is free, but it's not cheap. 523 00:28:08,360 --> 00:28:10,880 But why was it like this? Because I knew my dad wasn't 524 00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:14,120 playing, you know, But I'll never forget if they, if they 525 00:28:14,120 --> 00:28:16,760 and my dad at the end of his life, he, you know, he, he 526 00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:20,000 would, he always was on me about working. 527 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,920 And doing these things and he he instilled some things in me that 528 00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:26,400 I would have never gotten. He come to me when I was 13 and 529 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:28,120 he said, you're probably not going to like me till you're 530 00:28:28,120 --> 00:28:31,480 about 20. He said, but I just made some 531 00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:34,880 mistakes on my other kid and I'm not making it on you. 532 00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:38,120 And that voice is echoed many times. 533 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:41,000 And I'll never forget right. Not too long before he went to 534 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:44,040 be with the Lord, he he hugged me right back here and he said, 535 00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:45,760 he said all the things I've done. 536 00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:47,120 Wrong. I did this right. 537 00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:50,440 Why? Because he knew and he had 538 00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:53,680 learned. But yet we play in life. 539 00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:58,480 We play with our salvation. We play with the things that God 540 00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:01,400 holds dear. Hey, man, we play with it many 541 00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:05,480 times simply because we don't take the time to hear. 542 00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:09,400 Simply when we do hear, we don't recognize. 543 00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:12,040 How many read books here? I'm not a big book reader at 544 00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:16,760 all, but I understand that people that are they, they can 545 00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:19,400 read a book and not that it's a bit, I guess it's a big deal to 546 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,560 people that read a lot of books, but they read the literature on 547 00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:27,080 these authors and they, they're familiar with the writing 548 00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:29,000 styles. And if you read enough of these 549 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:31,880 books that you know, you can, somebody can hand them a book 550 00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:34,440 and they'll read this book and they're like, you know, I know 551 00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:38,000 who the author is without even reading who wrote it because 552 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:42,280 they understand the style and the familiarities that this 553 00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:43,960 author writes. You understand what I'm saying 554 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:48,480 there, Because they recognize that's the way we should be with 555 00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:50,440 God. That should we should understand 556 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:54,560 as we go to hearing it because there's some things write this 557 00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:56,560 down. If you're trying to hear from 558 00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:59,800 God and you're trying to recognize his voice, you got to 559 00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:03,520 go to first John. You have to go to first John 560 00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:06,760 Chapter 1. I like to call it John's test 561 00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:08,840 because it's a test that we can take. 562 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:13,480 I'm going to sum it all up so I can close, but recognizing. 563 00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:16,160 We hear the voice, but do we recognize it? 564 00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:19,240 But do we? Recognize His voice is speaking 565 00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:22,000 within us and go a step beyond that. 566 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:26,680 After listening to what we believe the Holy Spirit has said 567 00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:33,560 before acting upon it, we should submit these things to a testing 568 00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:39,400 process in first John he describes tests that can help us 569 00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:45,240 hear the voice of God and know that what we have heard is of 570 00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:48,600 God. See the Holy Spirit in inspired 571 00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:53,320 John to write them and John one and five it says write these 572 00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:57,840 things down If you want to summarize the voice of God will 573 00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:02,880 always lead us toward the light you like that. 574 00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:06,040 Not darkness. Light and darkness can't stay 575 00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:07,960 together. One has to flee. 576 00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:11,800 But yet, when we come to Christ, most Christians spend the first 577 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:15,240 six years of their Christian walk whining about the friends 578 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:18,240 they lost that are partying and doing all the things of the 579 00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:19,520 world. Oh, I just lost. 580 00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:20,560 I just. It's Waller. 581 00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:23,400 You know what I'm talking about. Why? 582 00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:25,000 Because you're being LED toward the light. 583 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:27,040 Now. Light and darkness cannot flee. 584 00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:28,440 They just don't talk to me no more. 585 00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:29,880 They act different when I come around. 586 00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:31,800 Big deal. You're being LED toward the 587 00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:37,280 light. The second thing, does it lead 588 00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:41,920 us away from sin? I was laying in a in a camper 589 00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:44,680 one night and this young man that had just came to the Lord 590 00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:48,040 not too long before he he was still struggling with things 591 00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:50,320 when he left the rodeo. He went out to the bars that 592 00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:53,200 night and I was staying with another guy that was a cowboy 593 00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:55,120 minister and we've been sharing the Lord there. 594 00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:58,240 Will he come in we hours of the morning and the other guy asked 595 00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:00,320 him, I'd done been picking on him that day. 596 00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:03,640 So the other guy asked him, he says he said, where you been? 597 00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:05,280 He said rodeo been over a long time. 598 00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:08,520 He said, oh, I just went out and hung out at the club a little 599 00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:11,360 while with him bar. He said, I feel like there's 600 00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:13,280 somebody in there. I'm not going to lead to Jesus. 601 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:16,400 He said, well, if you're that interested in him, he said, why 602 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:18,440 don't you sit on the curb and catch him before they go in 603 00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:20,640 there. I said, that's pretty good. 604 00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:24,200 That's pretty good. Two ways to look at it. 605 00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:27,240 But when you when you hear the voice of God, I will always lead 606 00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:30,560 you toward light. John chapter 1 first John 607 00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:33,240 chapter one. It will lead us away from say it 608 00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:37,080 with me sin. I hear some preachers today 609 00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:40,520 preaching in such a way that it's almost like they're okaying 610 00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:43,720 sin. Can y'all say Amen right there. 611 00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:49,720 The third thing is it leads us to seek forgiveness and 612 00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:55,480 cleansing of sins we have committed doesn't lead us away 613 00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:57,280 from it. You know, that's a, that's a, 614 00:32:57,280 --> 00:33:00,480 that's the enemy's greatest trick is to get somebody. 615 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:04,240 To pray the sinner's prayer, get baptized and then get in the 616 00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:06,240 church. And then all of a sudden they go 617 00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:08,800 out here and do something stupid and then he pours some 618 00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:12,200 condemnation upon them because they don't know the word enough 619 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,680 to know that it's already been forgiven. 620 00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:16,560 A man I just got to line back up. 621 00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:20,360 Keep walking and pretty soon I'm going to be LED. 622 00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:23,240 Away from those things and they're going to be replaced 623 00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:26,680 with better things. What are we on four or five? 624 00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:33,760 The voice of God will always this is in chapter 2, verse 625 00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:36,760 three and five. It will always align you with 626 00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:41,120 God's commandments. I get so tired of hearing 627 00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:45,200 Christians say well, I've read that it's in there, but God 628 00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:49,400 don't play. There's no, but it's your butt 629 00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:53,440 that's in the way. Align with God's commandments. 630 00:33:54,120 --> 00:34:00,240 The next thing it will encourage us to respond as Jesus would. 631 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:03,520 Well, that's hard. That's really hard. 632 00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:06,680 It will. Lead. 633 00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:13,120 Us the next thing away from hating toward loving other 634 00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:15,719 people. I've had several people in my 635 00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:18,639 life the last few weeks that I even quoted this to my wife 636 00:34:18,639 --> 00:34:20,719 today. I said we got to overcome evil 637 00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:23,760 with good. That's the hardest thing to do. 638 00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:28,040 Is it not hard for you? It's hard to do when especially 639 00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:31,880 when you've helped somebody out and you went far beyond anything 640 00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:35,880 could ever imagine and give and give and give and, and, and they 641 00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:37,880 do, they still respond to you with evil. 642 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:40,159 It's hard to overcome evil with good. 643 00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:42,880 But you know, there's a verse in the Bible that says when you do 644 00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:44,120 that, you really want to get them. 645 00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:48,320 It says you reap burning coals over their head when you return, 646 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:52,679 when you return good for evil. God help us with that. 647 00:34:52,679 --> 00:34:58,480 Amen lead us from hating toward loving other people right. 648 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:02,160 We were talking about that the other day one of our brothers. 649 00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:05,600 It was stirring thing at a circuit router and you know, I I 650 00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:07,120 just stood up pressing God. What do you want me to do? 651 00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:09,360 So I want you to love him what you do in a way to love him but 652 00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:12,560 correct him and you know, I've had a couple come to me and say, 653 00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:14,320 man, that was a good way to do it. 654 00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:16,800 God did it. Hey, man, I just loved him and 655 00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:19,560 it made him like what I was telling him and love that he was 656 00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:23,120 wrong, right. And God did it. 657 00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:26,640 And then I hear God's taking care of it now, right? 658 00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:31,040 He'll lead us away from hating. But it's easy to, you know, to 659 00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:33,400 it's easy. We see this today, especially 660 00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:36,240 the election times, man, I heard an old preacher the other day 661 00:35:36,240 --> 00:35:37,880 preaching. He said, I'm tired of the whole 662 00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:40,560 why he was on Sunday morning live and he was old guy. 663 00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:42,160 He didn't care. No more getting like me. 664 00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:43,640 He said. I'm so tired. 665 00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:46,200 Of hearing our president and all of them up there, he said. 666 00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:49,600 I ain't heard nobody up there but two people not curse. 667 00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:54,480 And he said they're all dropping F bombs but they all Christian, 668 00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:59,200 they all love Jesus, but they don't control their ways. 669 00:35:59,880 --> 00:36:04,640 Well, he was getting on them. It will encourage us to know God 670 00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:09,080 better. Encourage us to know God better. 671 00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:12,320 There's no other way. See, went back to the story of 672 00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:14,160 my dad. Why did I know when the eyebrow 673 00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:16,280 went up? Why did I know that? 674 00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:20,040 I knew a weapon was coming, but I also knew that it was going to 675 00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:22,920 Even after the weapons, I knew it was going to affect my 676 00:36:23,240 --> 00:36:25,240 everyday life. Right. 677 00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:28,560 How many I'd take the weapon. It was the you're not going 678 00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:30,280 anywhere. That was the bad deal, wasn't 679 00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:31,280 it? You're grounded. 680 00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:33,040 He didn't drown much. That's what I like about that. 681 00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:35,160 He just beat you half death and send you on your way. 682 00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:40,240 There was no grounding. There wasn't no grounding, but 683 00:36:40,240 --> 00:36:43,240 now we ground them for go over there for 10. 684 00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:45,720 They, I mean, I said getting time out and it lasts for about 685 00:36:45,720 --> 00:36:49,200 two seconds and then they're running all over doing the same 686 00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:52,520 thing. But I knew it affected my 687 00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:55,040 everyday life. But I also see I had a 688 00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:58,080 relationship with my dad. I knew that he required. 689 00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:01,200 Something and I knew if I didn't do what he required that there 690 00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:02,960 was discipline going to happen, right. 691 00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:06,120 But we live in a world you know. Do you think God gave his only 692 00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:09,000 begotten Son so that he wouldn't discipline those that broke his 693 00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:11,360 commandments and his? Rules a lot of the church 694 00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:15,600 believes that but the Bible says those whom he. 695 00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:20,400 Loves he chastens. He says that if we aren't 696 00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:24,000 corrected then we are bastard Childs is what the Bible says. 697 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:26,600 That means we don't know our Father, right? 698 00:37:27,240 --> 00:37:31,000 So He corrects those whom he loves, but it will encourage us 699 00:37:31,240 --> 00:37:35,320 to know Him better. And it will always be the truth. 700 00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:41,320 Never deny or diminish who Jesus is or what he's done. 701 00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:46,240 But I challenge you and summarizing this whole message 702 00:37:46,240 --> 00:37:50,560 tonight, he says that these things say that with me. 703 00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:54,800 Let's go to first John two, First John chapter 2 and 26. 704 00:37:55,320 --> 00:38:02,920 He says that these things I have said, I have written concerning 705 00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:08,640 those who are trying to deceive you, those who might deceive us, 706 00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:13,120 whether intentionally or unintentionally, include what 707 00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:18,000 other people, their own desires, evil spirits, these things I 708 00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:24,240 have written to you concerning those who try to turn you away. 709 00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:29,120 See, the Holy Spirit will never conflict with any of John's 710 00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:32,760 test. They will always lead us toward 711 00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:34,760 the light. They will always. 712 00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:38,440 God's voice will always lead us from sin. 713 00:38:39,240 --> 00:38:42,160 They will always lead us to seek forgiveness and cleansing when 714 00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:45,680 we have committed sin. They will align with God's 715 00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:48,880 commandments. They will encourage us to 716 00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:53,040 respond as Jesus would. They will lead us away from 717 00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:55,680 hating toward loving other people. 718 00:38:56,960 --> 00:38:59,600 They will encourage us to know God better. 719 00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:02,080 We need these things. If you want to hear the voice of 720 00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:04,360 God, these things have to be in your life. 721 00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:08,000 If you want to hear from God, these things have to be present 722 00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:11,040 in your life. They will never deny or diminish 723 00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:17,160 who Jesus is or what he's done. And as much as I love the United 724 00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:19,560 States of America and I believe it's the greatest country that 725 00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:23,200 has ever been placed upon planet earth, I will always believe 726 00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:25,360 that. But when I look at our Nation 727 00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:32,120 Today, for the most part, we try to diminish who Jesus is as a 728 00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:36,720 nation and what he's done. We get excited when people 729 00:39:36,720 --> 00:39:40,280 mention Jesus because we know that at the mention of his name, 730 00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:43,760 demons have to bow. We know that demons can flee and 731 00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:46,880 people that can be healed. But, you know, if they don't 732 00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:50,440 recognize and they don't hear the voice of God, they can't 733 00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:54,160 lead us in the right direction. But I challenge you, in the 734 00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:58,640 world you live in today, we must know how to hear the inner voice 735 00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:01,000 of the Holy Spirit speaking to us. 736 00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:04,640 We must know that. But you know, there's a lot of 737 00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:08,160 people still saying, well, if God would just speak. 738 00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:13,320 God cannot look upon us until we have a glorified body and just 739 00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:15,840 speak. He didn't look up on. 740 00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:18,320 Why did Jesus feel forsaken at the cross? 741 00:40:18,720 --> 00:40:22,680 He felt forsaken because for a slight moment God had to turn 742 00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:26,520 away because He's a holy God and He had to watch His Son become 743 00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:29,520 sin for all mankind and He had to turn away. 744 00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:33,160 He couldn't look upon it because He's a holy God, right? 745 00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:35,840 And then he took Jesus. You know, people said, well, I'm 746 00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:38,920 just waiting on God to speak. And they get real confused right 747 00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:41,720 here because he's a triune God. He's God the Father, God the 748 00:40:41,720 --> 00:40:46,400 Son, God the Holy Spirit. But Jesus said the Father has 749 00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:50,520 already came. He's already died upon a cross, 750 00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:54,360 and now he's already rose again. And because I'm going to sit at 751 00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:57,680 the right hand of the Father, quit listening for the voice of 752 00:40:57,680 --> 00:40:59,400 God. Listen for the voice of the Holy 753 00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:03,080 Spirit, right? That's his job is to speak to 754 00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:05,640 us. I understand he's a triune God 755 00:41:05,640 --> 00:41:06,960 that, you know, a lot of people get confused. 756 00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:08,520 I don't. I can't explain the Triune 757 00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:11,240 Godhead. I can't explain how a mother, 758 00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:14,520 how a mother loves us, cooks. For us and yet wipes our rear 759 00:41:14,520 --> 00:41:16,920 end. But she's still mother, right? 760 00:41:17,240 --> 00:41:20,080 But does all three. That's the easiest way I've ever 761 00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:22,760 known how to explain it. He's God the Father, He's God 762 00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:24,760 the Son, He's God the Holy Spirit. 763 00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:28,040 You always know He's there, you always know He loves you, know 764 00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:30,960 He died on the cross to forgive you of your sins, but yet you 765 00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:33,680 feel His holy. Spirit upon this earth every day 766 00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:40,080 yearning Learn to recognize his voice as we stand and go to 767 00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:44,200 we'll close in prayer. How many want to hear? 768 00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:49,680 How many want to hear 2? It's only three. 769 00:41:50,240 --> 00:41:55,440 How many want to hear? Hey man, how many want to 770 00:41:55,440 --> 00:42:00,240 recognize There's a whole nother part of this message you want me 771 00:42:00,240 --> 00:42:02,160 to preach the rest of it? No, you don't. 772 00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:04,600 You got to work in the morning. You know what? 773 00:42:04,600 --> 00:42:09,000 The third party is here. Recognize. 774 00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:14,960 React. React, React. 775 00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:18,680 That means act like I'm saved. Sometimes I don't feel saved. 776 00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:20,800 Do you? I feel like I'm in a mess. 777 00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:24,280 I feel like I'm going through part of the tribulation here on 778 00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:31,280 Earth sometimes, don't you? But yet I gotta act like I'm OK 779 00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:34,320 because I am. Your feelings will catch up 780 00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:37,360 later. They say, well, I can't act. 781 00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:41,000 You're going to learn to what is What is being happy when you're 782 00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:45,160 really sad? Is that acting or is it inner 783 00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:46,720 peace? Some people can act that way. 784 00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:50,560 I had a aunt she used to could cry when she wanted to cry and 785 00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:54,600 laugh when she wanted to laugh. People recognize that about her. 786 00:42:54,960 --> 00:42:57,200 She just start crying when she's talking to you if she's wanting 787 00:42:57,200 --> 00:42:59,840 something. Anybody ever seen anybody like 788 00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:03,520 that? Y'all just pin all this 789 00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:05,840 Wednesday night stuff. Does anybody know anybody like 790 00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:07,880 that in your life? They could just turn it on. 791 00:43:09,240 --> 00:43:11,720 Tony Ray. I bet I know who it is. 792 00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:15,760 I know more about y'all. Before she found the Lord, she 793 00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:19,160 could turn it on, couldn't she? We ain't talking about her or 794 00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:24,520 your wife. No, I'm going to get in trouble. 795 00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:30,160 But you know, sometimes I've found that when I'm sad and I 796 00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:33,640 begin to act happy, it's because of what I'm thinking. 797 00:43:34,240 --> 00:43:35,680 It's because of what I'm hearing. 798 00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:39,280 I'm hearing the voice of God saying it's going to be OK, 799 00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:44,400 we're going to make it through. But see, the thing about it is 800 00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:48,680 your head's bowed. If you hear and you recognize 801 00:43:49,240 --> 00:43:51,600 and you react. I didn't get to preach on that. 802 00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:55,320 You know what happens next. You develop relationship. 803 00:43:57,280 --> 00:44:02,360 You develop relationship. My beautiful wife, I can tell if 804 00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:06,480 she's happy or sad without her saying a word because I've lived 805 00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:12,240 with her 35 years, right? God's the same way. 806 00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:16,680 Thanks for listening to the Cross Powered Church podcast. 807 00:44:17,160 --> 00:44:20,640 May you know that true hope, peace, and salvation can only be 808 00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:24,080 found in Jesus. If you're near Campbell, TX, we 809 00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:26,200 would love for you to join us in person. 810 00:44:26,640 --> 00:44:29,800 You can find service times at crosspowerchurch.com.