WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.760 Real life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim 2 00:00:05.760 --> 00:00:10.380 truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. Everybody we're going to be 3 00:00:10.380 --> 00:00:15.900 looking at the voice of God how to hear it. How he speaks, how we hear it and 4 00:00:15.900 --> 00:00:20.200 then after we hear him speak and we're listening to him what do we do with it 5 00:00:20.200 --> 00:00:25.440 once it gets into our hearts and our minds. Listening to the voice of God, hearing 6 00:00:25.440 --> 00:00:29.760 God speak being able to discern that and then telling the world what it is that 7 00:00:29.760 --> 00:00:37.160 God is telling you. Let's come in up next you can get the outlines of this 8 00:00:37.160 --> 00:00:44.280 podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcasts today if this podcast lifts 9 00:00:44.280 --> 00:00:48.480 you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ then make 10 00:00:48.480 --> 00:00:53.720 sure you leave us one of those five star ratings to us that's like saying amen 11 00:00:53.720 --> 00:00:59.240 or yes then that rating will encourage others to listen now open your hearts to 12 00:00:59.240 --> 00:01:06.440 what God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs. Everybody listen if you 13 00:01:06.440 --> 00:01:11.760 were to get into looking around and seeing what is some of the most asked 14 00:01:11.760 --> 00:01:17.240 questions in Christianity it it's certainly right near the top is how do you 15 00:01:17.240 --> 00:01:20.600 hear the voice of God. So here's what we're going to do for the next three 16 00:01:20.600 --> 00:01:24.720 podcast. We're going to unpack that we're going to be looking at we're going to 17 00:01:24.720 --> 00:01:30.480 be considering the voice of God having the ears to hear the voice of God and 18 00:01:30.480 --> 00:01:34.920 then after God speaks what do we do with that with our mouths. In other words 19 00:01:34.920 --> 00:01:40.760 why would God speak to us if we don't intend to say anything and that what 20 00:01:40.760 --> 00:01:46.400 he's given us he's going to speak so we need to listen with the intent to 21 00:01:46.400 --> 00:01:52.480 announce what it is that God is saying. So listen as always we love this 22 00:01:52.480 --> 00:01:57.520 challenge that it's time for you to live out what you believe in it's time 23 00:01:57.520 --> 00:02:03.320 for real life. So let's dive into this right now the voice of God how do I hear 24 00:02:03.320 --> 00:02:07.800 the voice of God how do you hear the voice of God. Now first of all let's just 25 00:02:07.800 --> 00:02:15.400 take a flyby of how God spoke in the Old Testament. The Bible tells us that when 26 00:02:15.400 --> 00:02:20.560 God spoke in the Old Testament he just flat out spoke he just audibly spoke 27 00:02:20.560 --> 00:02:26.320 and you say well why would God do that then and not do it now. Well we'll answer 28 00:02:26.320 --> 00:02:30.600 that soon but I'll just give you a little hint it's called the Bible. For 29 00:02:30.600 --> 00:02:36.120 example the book of Hebrews tells us that in the early days when God spoke to 30 00:02:36.120 --> 00:02:42.280 the fathers he did so by the prophets but when we back up we kind of go to the 31 00:02:42.280 --> 00:02:49.440 original prophet in the sense of Abraham could be argued as a prophet. God spoke 32 00:02:49.440 --> 00:02:56.080 to Abraham and God spoke to Abraham audibly so mark that down. We know that God 33 00:02:56.080 --> 00:03:01.840 spoke to Adam and Eve audibly and that's an amazing situation to where God 34 00:03:01.840 --> 00:03:06.440 even walked with them in the cool of the garden and the perfection of the 35 00:03:06.440 --> 00:03:11.760 garden God walked with them and spoke with them. I personally believe that it 36 00:03:11.760 --> 00:03:16.080 was none other than a Theophonies or a Christophonies in the garden I believe 37 00:03:16.080 --> 00:03:21.800 Jesus Christ walked with Adam and Eve in the garden but when you look at the 38 00:03:21.800 --> 00:03:27.200 Old Testament you're talking about God's speaking and as we graduate for 39 00:03:27.200 --> 00:03:34.120 example to the life of Moses God said regarding Moses I'm gonna speak to 40 00:03:34.120 --> 00:03:40.180 Moses face to face like a man speaks to his friend so God revealed himself to 41 00:03:40.180 --> 00:03:47.100 Moses in amazing ways he spoke God shook the mountain of Mount Sinai the 42 00:03:47.100 --> 00:03:51.140 children of Israel tremble at the shaking of the mountain and at the voice of 43 00:03:51.140 --> 00:03:57.580 God then we move forward and we hear that that God spoke to Elijah in a very 44 00:03:57.580 --> 00:04:05.780 very still small voice. The point is this God speaks how do we hear fast forward 45 00:04:05.780 --> 00:04:13.260 to our age 21st century how do we hear God speak now this is going to require 46 00:04:13.260 --> 00:04:19.760 you and I discipline it's not because God's not speaking you and I live at a 47 00:04:19.760 --> 00:04:26.700 time where we are so bombarded with external noises it's hard for us to hear so 48 00:04:26.700 --> 00:04:32.500 listen to this God gave us the Bible there's a reason why this book is still 49 00:04:32.500 --> 00:04:38.080 preserved to this hour in fact technically we have this book the world has 50 00:04:38.080 --> 00:04:45.520 this book either in hand or on a device and even for people in remote parts of 51 00:04:45.520 --> 00:04:49.980 the world they have been given crank up 52 00:04:49.980 --> 00:04:56.240 Bibles you can crank it and it's and it energizes the little device and the 53 00:04:56.240 --> 00:05:00.360 Bible is read to them and their language it's a remarkable why is that so 54 00:05:00.360 --> 00:05:04.920 important because in our day and age how do you hear the voice of God it's by 55 00:05:04.920 --> 00:05:09.160 reading the word of God you say well Jack what if there's a place in the world 56 00:05:09.160 --> 00:05:14.160 where there is no Bible that's pretty cool great question great concern we need 57 00:05:14.160 --> 00:05:18.560 to get them the Bible but don't worry God's got that covered in Romans chapter 58 00:05:18.560 --> 00:05:24.840 one God says he's speaking to all those in the world he's revealing himself 59 00:05:24.840 --> 00:05:31.600 even his eternal Godhead and power to them so that they are without an excuse so 60 00:05:31.600 --> 00:05:34.520 we don't need to worry about the people running around the Amazon jungle that 61 00:05:34.520 --> 00:05:38.080 we haven't reached yet thank God there's groups of people trying to reach 62 00:05:38.080 --> 00:05:44.040 them but God has always already spoken enough to them so that they know so how 63 00:05:44.040 --> 00:05:49.440 do we hear this voice Jesus said my sheep my people hear my voice and they 64 00:05:49.440 --> 00:05:56.400 follow me so when we go to the Bible and we read it we we need to expect God 65 00:05:56.400 --> 00:06:02.340 to be speaking to us see well Jack how does God speak to you always in my life 66 00:06:02.340 --> 00:06:08.000 God will use the word of God to speak so can you tell us how that happens it 67 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:11.160 goes this way and this is where I mentioned a moment ago it takes 68 00:06:11.160 --> 00:06:17.160 discipline we need to take in the Bible now look I'm an old guy but back in the 69 00:06:17.160 --> 00:06:22.560 day when computers were being invented there was this this little jingle I 70 00:06:22.560 --> 00:06:32.720 think it was called a guy go garbage in GI garbage in geo garbage in garbage out 71 00:06:32.720 --> 00:06:37.480 another word you put into the computer garbage and the computer is going to 72 00:06:37.480 --> 00:06:42.400 spit out garbage well we know this in our dietary life you eat junk and you're 73 00:06:42.400 --> 00:06:46.880 gonna have a junk of a life your deliver is gonna fail you're gonna get 74 00:06:46.880 --> 00:06:51.280 sick white garbage in garbage out here's the cool thing when you start ingesting 75 00:06:51.280 --> 00:06:58.400 the Bible Bible in Bible out when you have Bible when you pick up and read the 76 00:06:58.400 --> 00:07:02.800 Bible why should I read the Bible you want God to speak I sure do well guess 77 00:07:02.800 --> 00:07:08.800 what you need to eat Bible you need to eat it by reading it as you read the 78 00:07:08.800 --> 00:07:14.520 Bible God's word gets inside of you it's a supernatural hey can I put it to you 79 00:07:14.520 --> 00:07:19.080 this way just saw commercial this morning I got to break down them by this 80 00:07:19.080 --> 00:07:27.600 stuff I'm convinced it's this nature's nature's friend or nature's fruit or 81 00:07:27.600 --> 00:07:32.120 nature's vegetable nature something on what it is it's but everybody's taking it 82 00:07:32.120 --> 00:07:36.400 and if you listen to everybody talking about it I'm 90 years old and I took 83 00:07:36.400 --> 00:07:41.480 nature's whatever it's called and now I feel like I'm 13 wow I don't know 84 00:07:41.480 --> 00:07:46.320 about that but everybody's talking about how great it is and so what's 85 00:07:46.320 --> 00:07:51.120 happening supposedly if you take this this stuff it's all natural it's in a pill 86 00:07:51.120 --> 00:07:59.080 and you get like you know 17 carrots and and so in celery and tomatoes and you 87 00:07:59.080 --> 00:08:03.720 get all these things and then this bottle's got all the fruits if that's true or 88 00:08:03.720 --> 00:08:08.800 not I don't know I need to buy it and check it out take that principle regarding 89 00:08:08.800 --> 00:08:14.880 the scripture the Bible is that way when you open up the word of God and you've 90 00:08:14.880 --> 00:08:18.280 never done this before you should start in John's gospel because you will be 91 00:08:18.280 --> 00:08:24.360 given the revelation of the deity of Jesus Christ as you read that you become 92 00:08:24.360 --> 00:08:33.120 familiar with who Jesus Christ is how he spoke to those to which he came in 93 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:38.080 contact with how did he deal with certain situations it's contained in the 94 00:08:38.080 --> 00:08:43.960 scriptures here for us to read if we ingest the Bible it gets into us like that 95 00:08:43.960 --> 00:08:51.760 pill you take the pill the Bible and it becomes part of you so that when I know 96 00:08:51.760 --> 00:08:56.840 this is gonna sound corny but it's true God speaks to me most when I'm in my 97 00:08:56.840 --> 00:09:05.840 yard or I'm unplugged from demands even ministry can kill you I've got to 98 00:09:05.840 --> 00:09:11.600 unplug from ministry life if God's going to speak to be speak to me about my 99 00:09:11.600 --> 00:09:19.000 own life secondly I cannot receive a sermon from God in Bible study without 100 00:09:19.000 --> 00:09:25.200 getting alone I've often said that being a pastor teacher is a very lonely 101 00:09:25.200 --> 00:09:29.680 life to live you see Jack are you crazy you're on all kinds of media all the time 102 00:09:29.680 --> 00:09:34.680 all the time listen the only way that that's possible is that I shut down and 103 00:09:34.680 --> 00:09:41.240 get away from humanity on Wednesdays and Fridays and Saturdays and you hear 104 00:09:41.240 --> 00:09:46.400 I'm saying you got to get alone to get fed for something to come out you've got 105 00:09:46.400 --> 00:09:52.840 to get alone with the word to have that experience of hearing what God is saying 106 00:09:52.840 --> 00:09:57.320 so friends listen God is speaking his voice is crystal clear it's the Bible 107 00:09:57.320 --> 00:10:02.200 that he uses he's gonna use scripture and believe it or not what's fun about 108 00:10:02.200 --> 00:10:07.440 that is I could be at the beach I could be gardening I could be taking a walk I 109 00:10:07.440 --> 00:10:13.000 could be doing something that is allowing my mind to relax I'm not on the phone 110 00:10:13.000 --> 00:10:22.040 I'm not texting I'm not distracted and when that moment begins to happen the 111 00:10:22.040 --> 00:10:29.840 realization of his voice is so present where what he is saying lines up 100 112 00:10:29.840 --> 00:10:35.560 percent with the revealed will of God which is the Bible the Bible is God's will 113 00:10:35.560 --> 00:10:44.400 when he voices his will you know it somebody might ask what do you hear do you 114 00:10:44.400 --> 00:10:53.480 hear a Bible verse I could sometimes yes but most often I hear this is this is 115 00:10:53.480 --> 00:11:04.960 fun I hear in my mind I hear God's word and it's paraphrased in a manner that 116 00:11:04.960 --> 00:11:09.960 it gets my attention it's it's unique enough not that God's word isn't unique of 117 00:11:09.960 --> 00:11:15.440 course it's unique but it might come to me like this God might speak to me and 118 00:11:15.440 --> 00:11:24.580 say don't trust in yourself Jack don't listen to your own counsel listen to my 119 00:11:24.580 --> 00:11:32.040 counsel if I am speaking to you you don't have to make a mistake just wait on my 120 00:11:32.040 --> 00:11:38.720 word listen to what it says but don't lean on your own imagination here are your 121 00:11:38.720 --> 00:11:44.420 own ideas Jack that thought will enter my mind while I'm on the lawn I know it's 122 00:11:44.420 --> 00:11:49.940 from God because number one I wouldn't have said that to me and it's unique 123 00:11:49.940 --> 00:11:55.900 enough to where it's got the identification of God's authenticity on it it's 124 00:11:55.900 --> 00:12:04.940 truth it's divine or from this prospect of another world how about that it's 125 00:12:04.940 --> 00:12:10.700 not the wisdom of this age it's from above and so when he speaks it's in absolute 126 00:12:10.700 --> 00:12:14.020 correlation perfectly with scripture now this is an important thing to point out 127 00:12:14.020 --> 00:12:18.460 because people today will say and I'm really tired of it aren't you it's quite 128 00:12:18.460 --> 00:12:23.820 dangerous you know what Pastor Jack or your friend will tell you God spoke to me 129 00:12:23.820 --> 00:12:29.380 you do you do understand right when you say that God spoke to me you better be 130 00:12:29.380 --> 00:12:33.660 careful what you're saying because you know what you are actually saying in the 131 00:12:33.660 --> 00:12:38.980 21st century thus say at the Lord you know you could get yourself killed in the 132 00:12:38.980 --> 00:12:47.220 Old Testament for saying that if you said let's say at the Lord God told me to do 133 00:12:47.220 --> 00:12:52.540 this or to do that or to whatever boy you better be right or if you're not right 134 00:12:52.540 --> 00:12:57.940 you're dead because you're invoking the name of God and you are actually 135 00:12:57.940 --> 00:13:04.300 incriminating God by saying he told me to do this so watch this a lot of people 136 00:13:04.300 --> 00:13:09.500 who don't know their Bibles but their spiritual will say things like this oh God 137 00:13:09.500 --> 00:13:18.300 told me God told me that I should divorce my wife because he wants me happy guess 138 00:13:18.300 --> 00:13:25.500 what God just told me that he didn't tell you that why because God's Bible makes it 139 00:13:25.500 --> 00:13:31.260 very very clear that's not how he speaks he's not going to say that to you oh God told 140 00:13:31.260 --> 00:13:38.580 me that he wants me rich no God didn't tell you that I'm telling you right now God didn't 141 00:13:38.580 --> 00:13:43.300 tell you that but see when people are in the vicinity or the neighborhood of what they 142 00:13:43.300 --> 00:13:53.220 want they will be so bent on achieving their own desire that they'll cloak their decision-making 143 00:13:53.220 --> 00:14:01.780 process with with Bible with with Christian ease they'll wrap it with a Christian bow and 144 00:14:01.780 --> 00:14:06.660 they'll say oh God told me don't ever say that you're going to get in huge trouble with 145 00:14:06.660 --> 00:14:13.860 God I'm you should be very careful in fact even in my own life when I know God spoke to 146 00:14:13.860 --> 00:14:21.900 me if I'm going to say something publicly about that I have got to say I believe God spoke 147 00:14:21.900 --> 00:14:28.300 to me about what I'm going to share with you you be the judge according to God's word if what 148 00:14:28.300 --> 00:14:38.140 I'm saying is true okay it's very important so be careful no God's voice and you can know his 149 00:14:38.140 --> 00:14:45.580 voice by judging what the thought process what the thought conclusion is in your mind by judging 150 00:14:45.660 --> 00:14:54.220 it against the word of God when Paul the Apostle spoke to the Bereans right they tested 151 00:14:55.100 --> 00:15:02.300 everything that was spoken against the Bible so imagine that Paul is preaching new testament 152 00:15:02.300 --> 00:15:07.660 truth right to the Bereans what did they do they went through their Old Testament 153 00:15:09.580 --> 00:15:14.140 to see what Paul was saying was true that's amazing imagine which in love to have heard his 154 00:15:14.140 --> 00:15:20.300 sermon Paul would have preached a new testament sermon with Old Testament doctrine 155 00:15:21.900 --> 00:15:28.140 epic and they could have they could have qualified everything Paul said against the Bible so what 156 00:15:28.140 --> 00:15:34.460 what are they discerning hey God speaking through this guy that's exactly what Isaiah said 157 00:15:35.660 --> 00:15:41.660 it's exactly what Micah was talking about in Joel oh my goodness what Peter just said 158 00:15:41.740 --> 00:15:51.180 that's right out of the book of Joel wow that's discerning the voice of God and let me wrap it up by 159 00:15:51.180 --> 00:16:02.060 saying this don't have your life be led by people who come up to you and say God told me to tell you 160 00:16:03.580 --> 00:16:10.460 oh boy well pastor don't you believe in the gifts of the spirit every single one of them I do 161 00:16:10.540 --> 00:16:16.380 as long as they're operated in accordance with the scripture you say well what's the problem 162 00:16:16.380 --> 00:16:20.780 with what you just said a moment ago a friend of mine had a word for me well why didn't why couldn't 163 00:16:20.780 --> 00:16:27.740 God tell you the word himself well because God was using the the voice of a prophet in my life 164 00:16:28.380 --> 00:16:34.860 watch out the new testament verbiage given to us and the gifts of the spirit regarding a 165 00:16:34.860 --> 00:16:43.260 prophet is one who heralds forth the word of God one who puts forth the word of God if your friend 166 00:16:43.260 --> 00:16:50.620 tells you hey the Lord told me to tell you that you need to give me your brand new car okay your 167 00:16:50.620 --> 00:16:58.540 friends are lunatic he's he's manipulating you and that's not God speaking okay now if God 168 00:16:58.540 --> 00:17:06.700 says to you hey I want you to give your new car to your friend let God confirm that to you in the 169 00:17:06.700 --> 00:17:16.140 word in the Bible apply that to dreams gosh the things I've heard listen people who say I know 170 00:17:16.140 --> 00:17:22.540 this is going to happen in my life why what was said I had a dream years ago and then a friend of 171 00:17:22.540 --> 00:17:29.420 mine said he had the same dream this is going to happen maybe let's see how are we going to know 172 00:17:29.420 --> 00:17:35.980 if God was speaking judge it against the Bible against the word see listen today can you imagine 173 00:17:35.980 --> 00:17:41.980 if every Christian around the world took this book God's word and let it be the authority of their 174 00:17:41.980 --> 00:17:49.420 lives the church would get cleaned up overnight and Christians would go to church on Sunday morning 175 00:17:50.380 --> 00:17:57.580 and listen I love this I operate under this this authority that God has given his people 176 00:18:00.060 --> 00:18:06.460 I better be teaching the Bible on Sunday morning rightly because the church that I pastor these 177 00:18:06.460 --> 00:18:12.620 people eat up the Bible they read it every day their animals you just can't parade somebody 178 00:18:12.620 --> 00:18:17.660 out in front of these people they're going to bust them the church is going to call them out wait a 179 00:18:17.660 --> 00:18:24.220 minute okay that's great because number one it means actually that I'm doing the job I'm supposed to 180 00:18:24.220 --> 00:18:28.780 do by feeding them the word of God and staying out of the way and the second thing is they know 181 00:18:28.780 --> 00:18:35.420 enough to hold me accountable to what is being said is an alignment 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