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My sheep hear My voice,
and I know them,
and they follow Me.
The Word of God
is living and active,
it penetrates even to the dividing of soul and spirit..,
it judges the thoughts and intents of the heart.
From the Voice of the Lord
"Welcome to my site
Are you ready to see your sins?
The cross is offered to all.
Are you ready to suffer the shame,
the pain, and the blood of the cross -
or do you cry out with indifference?
Yes, it is your birthday -
as many as are at their savior's feet.
There are six things I will put in order in front of your eyes:
1-how evil proceeds out of the heart,
2-and goes forth out of the mouth.
3-how your heart longs for evil.
4-how your feet are swift to run to evil.
5-how your heart builds a strong tower as a bulwark of defense.
6-how your heart is a mirror of the world.
As many as I love, I chastise.
This is the Word of the Lord to you all:
He who is not on the cross
is repulsive to me.
There has never been a time like now; all men will twist in the earth.
If those who hear, will obey, their progress will be swift.
Who have become Quakers are an anathema. They blot my efforts. They cumber the ground.
The early Quaker writings are a rich heritage which we all must strive to fully understand.
Proverbs: we must all believe the hidden comforts in those proven words.
Be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect.
Make no provision for the flesh.
I am against the shepherds, who have prophesied a false salvation.
You are my disciple, if you do what I say.
Hear the word of the Lord from within." |
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There is a huge pitfall in Christianity: thinking the Bible is the Word of God, and thinking all the commands in the Bible referencing the Word of God, refer to the Bible; when the references really mean going to God directly and listening to the Word of God speaking to you. If you don't listen to the Voice of God, you will never grow; you will never know from what to repent; you will never receive his changing, purifying grace; you will not find God; and you will not have any reward in the Kingdom of God or Christ. You can memorize the entire Bible, quoting chapter and verse, and it will gain you nothing with God. It is easy to read the Bible. It often feels good to read the Bible, as long as you discount all the requirements such as holiness, perfection, and purity while ignoring the disqualifications of anger, lust, immorality, impurity, greed, etc. The Bible wasn't even printed until 1516, but the early church thrived for 300 plus years without it. Like many in the early church, even if you can't read, you can be changed and purified to enter the Kingdom of Heaven as a son of God forever - by listening to God's voice and obeying it. For he calls us all to repentance, Christhood, and the Kingdom of Heaven.
Hear this! Understand, the Bible is not the Word of God, for the many scriptures that refer to the Word of God are not referring to the Bible, but rather to the voice of God or the Lord - his words from him, the living spirit Word - otherwise you are looking to the wrong source of growth - a book, instead of God's spirit, who desires to speak and teach you outside of the Bible. The Holy Spirit will teach you all things. . He desires to teach you individual, personal things about yourself, and how he wants you to live, how he wants you to improve, what he wants you to deny - as well as encourage you, tell you of his love for you, and open up the scriptures to you, including the mysteries. If you limit yourself to reading the Bible, you will only get crumbs beneath the table.
The Bible is the recorded words of the saints as they were moved by the Holy Spirit of God to write. Christ is the Word of God, not the Bible. The Bible has His recorded words in them, but they are words without spirit.
There is no conflict with what the Spirit of God has written and what the Spirit of God will speak to you; but recorded words are the letter; not the spirit, which gives life. When Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Peter and Paul spoke of the scriptures, they used the word 'scriptures,' not the Word of God. The Bible refers to the Word of God as spoken or spirit, which is living and active, .
Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is living and active.
The Bible is not living and active, but words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life. John 6:63
So the Word of God is the Living Word, Christ, the Holy Spirit, the Voice of the Lord.
Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow;
A book, or words read from a book cannot divide soul and spirit, but Christ, the Living Word of God does.
it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.
The Bible cannot judge your heart; but Christ, the Word of God, can and does!
The Bible is not the Word of God. It is not living or active. It cannot judge your heart, penetrate you, or change you.
And out of his mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations:
This is Jesus. He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God
Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
So, the sword of the spirit is not the Bible, it is the spoken words from the mouth by the Spirit of Christ, the Word of God.
Look at how the Amplified Bible describes and clarifies the Word of God: For the Word that God speaks is alive and full of power; it is sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating to the dividing line of the breath of life (soul) and spirit, and of joints and marrow, exposing and sifting and analyzing and judging the very thoughts and purposes of the heart. Heb 4:12
And the Spirit, which gave forth the words, is greater than the words; therefore, we cannot but prize Him himself, and set Him higher in our heart and thoughts, than the words which testify of Him, though they also are very sweet and precious to our taste. - Isaac Penington, 1670
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
It is ignorance for you to say that the letter (Bible) is the word; when the letter (Bible) says, God is the word.
And worse, to believe the Bible is the Word, is to mistake references in the Bible to the Word as the Bible instead of His voice -
a critical difference in understanding of what God expects from you and how to please God.
Let me illustrate the problem, with just three of many verses that will be totally misapplied, if you think the Word is the Bible:
Jesus said: Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it!
Jesus said: My mother and brothers are those who hear the word of God and put it into practice.
If you think this means hearing someone read the Bible, you have missed the possibility of seeking to hear from God yourself. You will have missed the blessing. You will have missed salvation. You must seek, listen, and obey to find any blessing from God. Paul is not talking about Christ sanctifying his Church with the Bible, when he says: That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word. You must hear and obey continually, to be cleansed or ever be sanctified. There are many other examples of the problem detailed below.
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. (This is clearly not the Bible, it is Christ, the Word of God.)
Just as John the Baptist was not the Light, only bore witness of the Light to come; so the Bible is not the word, but bears witness of the Word of God, Jesus Christ.
The Holy Spirit can reveal understandings in any language; but Bible Colleges teach from Hebrew, Greek, and Latin Biblical texts, desperately trying to discover the true meaning of the scriptures. If the Holy Spirit were helping in Bible study, Greek, Hebrew, and Latin would not be needed, proving Jesus and the Holy Spirit do not teach you while reading the Bible.
In 1515, before the Bible was published, there were far less than 100 sects in Christendom. Five hundred years of Bible study later, there are 30,000 sects. It is man's fleshly mind, rather than the Holy Spirit, that controls learning from Bible study; for the Holy Spirit's purpose is to have oneness of faith; yet there are 30,000 sects in Christendom, each with a different set of beliefs in how to please God, how to worship God, how to seek God - 30,000 different gospels, 30,000 different Jesus. This is massive evidence that studying the Bible creates the opposite of what the Holy Spirit desires, (one faith) and does not result in truth. Instead of Bible study, we need to be taught directly by the Holy Spirit [by listening] who desires to teach us all things.
Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.
(There is no life without hearing words from the mouth of God.)
But we have to listen for the voice of the Holy Spirit, the Word of God, to hear.
He [Jesus] became the Author and Source of eternal salvation to all those who give heed and obey Him.
(And how do you obey Him to attain salvation?)
Listen to and obey My voice,
and I will be your God and you will be My people.
The Bible, my favorite book, is wonderful, and has many truths within, and it is great for understanding what is sin, what God requires from us, identifying His promises that result from seeking Him, and good for building our hope to attain His promises; but it does not teach us, convict us, tell us what to repent from, encourage us, convince us of righteousness, purify us, tell us how to live, speak to us in exact language we understand, speak to our specific conditions, show us the secrets of our hearts, give us personalized commands, judge us, tell us it loves us, or take us to paradise - which the Spirit of God, Jesus, who is the Word of God, does.
The Bible is the letter. The letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. To think the Bible framed the worlds is ridiculous.
From George Fox's Journal, Concerning the 'Word'
In the beginning was the word, and none know this word, but those who have come to the beginning. Now all you people and all you ministers, who of you can witness this? Who of you has come to this position? Who of you has come to the beginning? We declare unto you what our hands have handled and what our eyes have seen, what was from the beginning, the word of life. We who know this word are pure, are made clean by the word, are sanctified by the word, are cut to pieces by the word, and are divided asunder by the word. This word is a hammer, beating down everything that the seed of God may raise up [discover], and we have come to the beginning. All who know this word have come into the beginning. It is as a fire, burning up all corruptions; and this is the word that is near you, in your heart.
This is the word by which all the prophets spoke, and this is the word that became flesh and dwelt among us, (said the saints). This is the word of life, which the apostles preached, the substance of all figures, types and shadows. This is the word, which makes all the saints one, that reconciles all their hearts together to the Lord. This is the word by which all things stand and remain and are upheld by his word and power. This is the word which endures forever. All, who are born again of the immortal seed, witness this word along with me. Now the word is made manifest [shown] the same as it ever was, which gathers together the hearts of people, which divides asunder the precious and the vile, and of the two, [destroying the vile] has made one. This is the word that lets you see that all flesh is grass.
This is the word that was before any Letter [scripture] was written. All who do not have this word, put the Letter [Bible] for the word, and are in Cain's nature, envying and murdering, running on swiftly to evil. God does not accept Cain's sacrifice. All your preaching, all your praying, all your reading, all your singing and expounding, all your churches, all your worships, all your teachers, and all your baptisms - these are inventions from the Letter [Bible] as invented and imagined by your carnal minds - these are all for the fire. Your profession must be gathered together in bundles and cast into the fire for they are all works of the flesh, proceeding from the first nature.
Those of you who live in the first nature, not knowing the word of God, but only the Letter [only have knowledge from the Bible]; you crucify the just, and you get up into the just's place, quenching the light within you, with the deceit transforming into the just's place, as Cain did when he slew his brother Abel. He got up into his brother's place and said, 'Am I my brother's keeper?' So all of you, who crucify the just, you are like Cain, for it is the righteous that God accepts, the second birth. As you read, Cain's sacrifice was not accepted by God, but Able (the second birth) God did accept, for he was righteous. Cain murdered Able because Abel's works were righteous, and Cain's were evil. Now all of you, who are in the first birth, are Cain, in envy; manslayers, and God does not accept your sacrifice. Now all that come to the word, come to before Cain was.
All the prophets of the Lord spoke from this word, and then the false prophets got the true prophets' form of word, but did not have the word. Then the Lord sent his prophets, who had his word, to cry against the prophets that "speak a divination from their own brain and steal my word from their neighbor." They use their tongues and said, "the Lord said," when the Lord had not spoken to them. As it was then, so it is now. All the [religious] teachers of the world speak a divination of their own brain, and not from the mouth of the Lord. The Lord is against them. Now I witness this by the same word as it ever was. So they draw people to the Letter [Bible], and tell people the Letter [Bible] is the word, and to listen to them, who speak from their vain imaginations what it means. So they bear rule by their means over the poor people, which the Lord was always against.
For God is free and will have his people to be free, and his gospel is free, and his mercies are free, and his grace is free. His gospel is free to every creature, and his grace is free to every creature. His grace is not the Letter [Bible]; the gospel is not the Letter [Bible]; his glad tidings are not the Letter. For many poor troubled souls may be under death and condemnation, while they have the Letter; and there lie wounded with no peace, until Jesus brings the glad tidings of the free gospel. Then you will witness with me that the gospel is a free gospel, and not to be bought and sold for money, and that the grace of God is free. Listen, everyone that thirsts, come to the water of life; he that has no money, come buy wine and milk without money and without price; and listen diligently so that your souls may live, and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David. So all people consider, and see if you can witness your souls raised out of death, and your being brought into this everlasting covenant.
So who can witness their souls brought out of death? Have you come into the beginning? But you have nothing but the Letter, [Bible] and you are spending your money and labor without being satisfied; spending your money for that which is not bread. You are following greedy, dumb dogs, who can never get enough. They are Baal's priests, who have forsaken the right way, going after the error of Baalam, running after the way of Cain, who loved the wages of unrighteousness, who always murder the just, despising the birthright in the particular. Like Cain, slaying the righteous, who slays it in the particular; the same nature slays in the general, where the righteous seed guides, rules, and is the head. So the generation of Cain is but one, which is the first birth. Now loving the Light, it will guide you from all men, so that you will never have to look to man again for guidance or teaching.
George Fox
Written in 1652
(to read more of Fox's basic message click here.)
So Jesus, and his Spirit, is the Word of God, not the Bible! Thinking the Bible to be the Word of God is a dangerous invention of man. The danger of misinterpretation is clarified below on this page.
Come unto me.. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; ...
Mark! He did not say: come to Bible Study or come to church.
He said Come to Me and Learn of Me.
Jesus himself distinguished between the scriptures (the Bible) and the Word, when addressing the Bible scholars and Bible students of his day, the Pharisees, in John as below:
not willing to come to me Come to Him.
But you are not willing to come to me that you may have life.
Reading the Bible is like studying the Law. Listen and live.
whoever continues to feed on Me shall live through and because of Me.
Give us this day our daily bread - the words that Jesus speaks to us.
Stop toiling and doing and producing for the food that perishes and decomposes,
but strive and work and produce rather for the food which endures unto life eternal. John 6:27
You need no teacher other than the anointing within you, which teaches you all things. 1
That which may be known of God is manifest [revealed] within them
(Paul is saying, whatever is to be learned about God is to be revealed within a man.)
Do you not yourselves know that Jesus Christ is in you, unless you are disqualified?
The voice of the Lord told me, "The world hides in the Bible." The world hides from God in the Bible.
Reading the Bible is a substitute for having God teach you, examine your heart, convict you, and cleanse you.
The world hides from Christ, the Living Word who judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.
It hides from Christ the Light, who brings to light what is hidden in darkness and exposes the motives of men's hearts. 1 Cor 4:5
How sad that we think we are seeking God by reading the Bible, but He sees us as hiding from Him.
We are covering our nakedness with the Bible and hiding in the tree of knowledge. Gen 3:8-10
"I say this to your shame.
Though you have great knowledge of the scriptures
and profess them,
you don't possess of whom they speak." (voice of the Lord)
You search the scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life, and these are they which testify of Me. John 5:39
But you are not willing to come to me that you may have life.
The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life. John 6:63
The words we hear are words of eternal life.
But you do not have His word abiding in you, because whom He sent, Him you do not believe. John 5:38
When we hear his voice and keep his words, then his word abides in us. It lives in us, and controls us.
As his words live in us and control us, we are set free from sin, and we obtain eternal life. We possess Jesus.
He who feeds on My flesh and drinks My blood dwells continually in Me, and I in him.
God is Word and Spirit. He is word made flesh. We must feed on his words: to listen, and obey.
We must drink his Spirit of gentleness, kindness, peace, and love
by which the words are spoken.
Just as the living Father sent Me and I live by (through, because of) the Father,
even so whoever continues to feed on Me shall live through and because of Me.
He who takes this Bread for his food shall live forever.
This is how to possess of whom the scriptures speak, to possess Jesus.
Some say that since the words in the Bible are Christ's, to read them is the same as to have heard him speak them.
“The words
I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they
are life;” he does not say the words as written,
much less the scriptures or writings, are
spirit and life. When Christ himself speaks
to a soul, his words are spirit and life to that
soul, for spirit and life are in his words, when
he speaks them. But when another reads or
speaks them without his spirit, they minister
neither spirit nor life. For instance, Christ's
calling to Lazarus when dead and buried,
“Lazarus come forth;" his words were spirit
and life to Lazarus. But let another read or
speak the same words to a man dead and
buried, and cry to him to come forth, they
will not raise him to life. (From A Christian Progress).
If you abide in My word, you are truly My disciples.
You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
So if the Son liberates you, then you are really and unquestionably free.
To be set free, is to be released from captivity. To be released from slavery. To be freed from sin.
And sin includes rage, lust, sexual immorality, greed, envy, lying, passions, pleasures, etc., ,
Jesus came so he could destroy the devil and his works [sin] in us - if we go to him.
For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, [in us] that he might destroy the works of the devil.
As Paul confirms: But now since you have been set free from sin and have become the slaves of God,
you have your present reward in holiness and its end is eternal life.
As John confirms: Whoever abides in Him does not sin.
Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him.
Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him;
and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.
And His seed are the words he has planted in your heart, words that you have heard, the Word of God.
Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.
Those reluctant to look at their slavery say, 'church me.'
Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine,
neither can you, unless you abide in Me. John 15:4 love
But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light:
for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.
To abide in Him and be taught by Him, you must listen.
To listen you must be quiet, not forming thoughts, not talking, not reading the Bible.
Pray the Lord's prayer, and then be quiet to listen and abide and learn. Do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. . Think on the name of Jesus Christ, but not as a repeated mantra, and then stop thought as best you can. When you find you mind wandering, return to thinking on the name of Jesus Christ.
Be not rash with your mouth, and let not your heart be hasty to utter a word before God.
For God is in heaven, and you are on earth; therefore let your words be few.
For a dream comes with much business and painful effort, and a fool's voice with many words.
Listen and Watch and Wait.
No ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who acts on behalf of those who wait for him.
Let your mercy and loving-kindness, O Lord, be upon us, in proportion to our waiting and hoping for you.
Some of you may think silence is in conflict with: Pray always, with all prayer and supplication, in the spirit.
Notice Paul said - pray in the spirit. You cannot pray in the spirit, if the words are made up in your carnal mind. Paul was speaking to Christians who had crucified their flesh and their carnal minds had been replaced with the mind of Christ.
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.
How could prayers from a mind that is enmity with God be pleasing to God? He wants to be worshiped in Spirit and Truth.
So Paul was speaking to mature Christians, who had sufficient Spirit to control their words, deeds, and prayers.
Until your heart has been purified, be silent to
wait for, hope for, and listen for God's teachings and words to you.
Yes, wait for and hope for and expect the Lord.
But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles;
For more understanding on the necessity of learning in silence,
see the George Fox'soutstanding writing on Why Silence?, also on the side bar.
And for guidance in the process of silence, see Miguel de Milinos' The Spiritual Guide, also on the side bar.
Paul further reminds us that he was not taught by man, but through direct revelation by Jesus Christ. Do not seek Jesus and truth through the Bible; rather listen to the Teacher within you, the only teacher you need, who will guide you into all truth by abiding in Him, to become free of sin. Do not make it your ambition to be a Bible expert; rather make it your ambition to be taught by the living Word of God who opens the scriptures with understandings to all truth, makes manifest all of the secrets of your heart, and destroys the sin that lurks in your members, thereby truly enthroning Christ as Lord and King in your heart to rule you in word and deed.
The Holy Spirit can reveal understandings in any language; but for centuries Bible Colleges have taught from Hebrew, Greek, and Latin Biblical texts, desperately trying to understand the true meaning of the scriptures. If the Holy Spirit were helping in Bible study, Greek, Hebrew, and Latin would not be needed, proving Jesus does not teach you while reading the Bible. Jesus didn't criticize the Pharisees for the way they were searching the scriptures; he criticized them for spending time searching the scriptures instead of coming to him. You have to go to your closet, get quiet, and listen.
Be still, and know that I am God.
Be silent, oh all flesh before the Lord.
There are many men and women, having heard and believed the true gospel of Christ on the web site, who are hearing Christ speak to and teach them personally, while benefiting from his changing grace.
But to hear his voice, you must go to him without pride of being righteous or just.
You must go to him as a humble sinner, even if you are 'saved.'
But the tax collector, standing at a distance, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but kept striking his breast,
saying, O God, be favorable (be gracious, be merciful) to me, the especially wicked sinner that I am!
I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God.
For everyone who exalts himself, will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.
What else does Jesus say about hearing his voice? Below:
Jesus said, For everyone who comes to Me and listens to My words and does them, I will show you what he is like: He is like a man building a house, who dug and went down deep and laid a foundation upon the rock; and when a flood arose, the torrent broke against that house and could not shake or move it, because it had been securely built or founded on a rock.
There is that Comes to Me again: not Bible study, not your sect's services, not prayer meetings, Come to Him.
Listens to my words does not mean listen to someone reading the Bible; it is listening to his live, spirit words.
It is very simple. Go someplace private and quiet. Stop reading, talking, and praying.
Try to quiet your mind. Be still, and know that I am God.
Think on the name of Jesus Christ, but not over and over like a mantra. His name is the power to become a son of God.
Listen and watch.
When you find you mind wandering, come back to think on the name of Jesus Christ.
When he commands you, obey. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Christ the Light, shows you the conditions of your heart; loving the Light, you repent and it purifies you.
Do this for twice a day, 30 minutes each. As he draws you closer, increase your time.
From this sure foundation he builds true faith and hope which purifies you.
Keep doing this and you will eventually be purified, for him to appear, and you to be in his arms, in the Kingdom.
See How to Benefit from the Changing Power of God for more listening for God's Teaching and Changing Grace.
Jesus said, He that has my commandments, and keeps them, he it is that loves me:
and he that loves me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him and show myself to him.
He is not talking about the Ten Commandments; he is talking about what you hear him command you to repent from.
If you keep repenting and obeying them, he will appear to you, you will see God.
Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God.
He told us this, because it is possible to become pure. See Purity and Sinless State for more.
When he appears, we shall be like him,
for we shall see him as he is.
Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself,
just as he is pure.
Unto them that look for him, shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
He didn't say, them of a special generation sometime; he said them. See the Return of Jesus for more.
Judas said to him, (not Iscariot), Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us, and not unto the world?
Jesus answered Jesus replied, "If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching.
My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
If you obey his teachings, what you hear, not words from the Bible; it wasn't even printed until 1516.
If you repent and obey his teachings to you that you hear, Christ and the Father return to you to establish their home.
And their home is a Kingdom, the Kingdom of Heaven, the Kingdom of God and Christ, established in your heart.
The kingdom of God does not come with signs to be observed or with visible display, Nor will people say,
Look! Here! or, See, there! For behold, the kingdom of God is within you and among you.
God is nearby and in him we live and move and have our being.
The Kingdom is a spiritual dimension, where we walk by the Light of God. We see the world no more.
See the Return of Jesus for more.
Jesus said, As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
How could he possibly rebuke you, unless you hear him speak to you.
He can't rebuke you from the Bible.
Studying the Bible increases your knowledge and therefore increases your pride,
Getting quiet, to listen and obey, will eventually result in the Holy Spirit destroying your pride and your carnal mind.
So studying the Bible is a work of the flesh.
Jesus said, It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing.
The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life. John 6:63
Paul said: This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk,
in the futility of their mind, having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God,
because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart;
who, being past feeling, have given
themselves over to lewdness,
to work all uncleanness with greediness.
But you have not so learned Christ,
if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus:
that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,
and be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
and that you put on the new man,
which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.
Are you beginning to see that it is critical to hear, and be taught the truth, by Jesus himself?
Jesus said, When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice.
But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will run away from him because they do not recognize a stranger's voice.
Jesus said, And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring,
and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock and one shepherd.
While on earth, he only preached to the Jews. But the Gentiles after his death heard him, and hear him today, his voice.
We can hear him because Christ is the Light that enlightens all men and women in the world.
Do you not yourselves realize and know that Jesus Christ is in you.
But the anointing which you have received of him abides in you,
and you do not need not any man to teach you:
but as the same anointing teaches you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie,
and even as it has taught you,
you shall abide in him.
Believe in the light, that you may be the children of light.
Jesus said, Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door,
I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
Jesus said, Most assuredly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God;
and those who hear will live. We are the dead of whom he is speaking. But when we hear, we will live.
At judgment, Jesus said he would reject many who called him Lord and had even performed miracles in his name
by telling them plainly: 'I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers [they still sin]!
Until we hear his voice, obey his voice, abide in his Him, and are purified by him; we still sin and he doesn't know us.
The foolish virgins without oil in their lamps, said: Lord, Lord, open to us.
(without abiding in Him, his Light and Word)
Replying, Jesus said: Verily I say unto you, I know you not. Without abiding in Him, he doesn't know us.
Jesus knows listeners: My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.
1 John 2:3 says: we are coming to know Him: if we keep (observe, practice) His teachings (precepts, commandments).
The only way you can keep his commands is to listen to his voice, hear, and obey - until you have crucified the sinful
nature within you. For you cannot love God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength, until you have been given a new heart and mind by the love of God, received from Him over time, as you abide in his Word and Light, with obedience.
If you abide in My word, you are truly My disciples.
You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.
You cannot continue to be a slave to sin and serve God, or even expect his approval.
See the Missing Cross for more. If you think Grace is your license to sin until death, see True Grace vs. False Grace.
Pilate therefore said to Him, “Are You a king then?”
Jesus answered, “You say rightly that I am a king. For this cause I was born,
and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth.
Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.”
And people of the truth, who were born after he died, can still hear his voice. He still speaks to us, if we will listen.
Jesus said, Consider carefully what you hear. With the measure you use, it will be measured to you—and even more.
Jesus replied, "My mother and brothers are those who hear God's word and put it into practice."
Jesus said, Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.
Jesus said, Therefore consider carefully how you listen. Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken from him. So call to mind theheard; continually lay them to heart and obey them, and repent.
Paul said, So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Jesus said, Then will the righteous (those who are upright and in right standing with God) shine forth like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Let him who has ears [to hear] be listening, and let him consider and perceive and understand by hearing.
Notice how the above scriptures have entirely different meanings, depending on what you believe the Word to be.
Can you see how it is possible to completely misinterpret the critical instructions he has given us, all based on what is the Word of God?
More scriptures supporting listening to the voice of Christ or God:
Choose life, that both you and your descendants may live; that you may love the LORD your God,
that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days.
Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
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