Keith Moore My Sheep Hear My Voice Pt.2 Ears To Hear

turn please in the scriptures john uh 14 and then eventually i believe we'll make our way to romans the eighth chapter john 14 and then romans 8 but before we do that if they put up psalm 23 on the screen don't turn there you got two places you know when you got you're holding you got your fingers in two or three places so you're getting in the word the scripture here says the lord is my shepherd i shall not want keep keep going next few verses he makes me to lie down in green pastures he leads me beside the still waters everybody say he leads me he restores my soul he leads me in paths of righteousness for his name say it again he leads yea though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death i'll fear no evil for you're with me your rod and your staff they comfort me he's leading us right he's with us you prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies uh how'd you find that table he led you there you anoint my head with oil my cup runs over how'd you get in a situation where your cup was running over you had a table full about him the your good shepherd led you there and you are smart little sheep yes is that right and you followed you followed your good shepherd surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and i'll dwell in the house of the lord forever does that sound like the path of the righteous growing brighter and brighter hallelujah to the full day's son and yet how did you get on the path following him i said you're following him right and how would you continue down the path and how would you get to go through all these good places following him and if he's not leading you there wouldn't be anything to follow but he is the good shepherd and he is leading look in john 14. john 14 let's remind ourself jesus said numerous things about the holy spirit and what he would do for us when he came and when he's saying this he was saying when he comes he's going to do this well he came on the day of pentecost and he's been here ever since is that right the holy spirit came on the day of pentecost and so he is doing for the believers what jesus said he would do if they yield to him and follow him in john 14 and 16 jesus said i will pray the father and he shall give you another comforter that he may abide with you forever notice he he not it he even the spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive because it sees him not neither knows him but you know him for he dwells with you and that was before the new birth which is why he said and he shall be in you and then not too many days after that he was hallelujah now i want you to notice something here the world this is the unsaved those not born again those who are not believers they didn't say it was difficult it said they cannot receive him they don't see him and they don't know him now it'll be important for us to remember that later the the world doesn't see him they don't know him they don't get it that should be obvious to us but it's important it'll answer a lot of questions if we'll keep this in mind in go go to the 16th chapter please well i'm moving too fast i'm moving too fast stop by the 26th verse 14 26 the comforter which is the holy ghost ghost is an old english word for spirit whom the father will send in my name he shall teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance whatever i have said to you say it out loud he teaches me all things the holy spirit brings all things to my remembrance whatever the lord has said to me now skip down to the 16th chapter and the 13th verse 16 13 he said howbeit when he the spirit of truth is come he will guide you into all truth say it out loud he guides me into all truth who guides you the holy spirit he does but whatsoever he'll not speak of himself but whatever he shall hear that shall he speak and he will show you things to come so he hears and he speaks to us he speaks to us and we here is that right and said out loud he shows me things to come thank you lord thank you lord thank you lord verse 14. he said it again he said he'll glorify me for he shall receive a mind and will show it to you he says it again say it out loud the holy spirit is continually guiding me teaching me reminding me and showing me things is that scripture these are the words of the master do we believe them now the reason i say this is because millions of church-going people don't believe this like it's written they've changed it like we were talking last time many christians believe god leads through circumstances they they look to the outside and when something happens they believe that everything that happens is somehow god and that everything that's happening is god telling them something through the situation and through the circumstances and so that is believing that god leads externally which is not what this says and it's not what the scripture teaches hmm now if you weren't with us last time we we covered this in some detail so if you think well i if you so that's how i've always believed it go back and get that uh go go online download it or go back in the back get a cd won't cost you anything it's free to you and go through every scripture with us you know so well i don't know if i agree with you or not forget about me what about these scriptures amen right go through these scriptures and and see what the scripture is saying because the enemy has deceived millions through causing them to think you ever heard people say something happened could have been a catastrophe and somebody turned around and say i think somebody up there is trying to tell you something you ever heard that millions of church-going people believe some form of that well why we called it last week instead of being led by the spirit it's led by the stick led by hard knocks led by wax why we we we read where the scripture said don't be like a mule that has to be lead and have to have a bridle in their mouth amen why why wouldn't god just talk to us tell us what he wants us to do is it because we're incapable of understanding or he just chooses to keep us in the dark and keep us guessing and jumping people say well god god's in everything no he is not that's just not true there's all kind of stuff going on in this world that's not god we went we didn't went into many scriptures last time talking about this we saw where elijah was on the mount and the bible said there was a great earthquake god wasn't in it and yet most insurance companies will call any earthquake an act of god and yet the bible said he wasn't in it that's right right now he was in an earthquake in that philippian jail but let me show you a god earthquake nobody got hurt the only thing that happened was everybody's handcuffs fell off now that's a god quake [Laughter] but it said there was this great wind and god wasn't in the wind how many people are trying to tell you god was in that tornado god was in that hurricane no he wasn't i know a lot of people believe that but it's just not true god is not the destroyer he's not the killer he's not the thief he's not amen he's good we've been talking about that on sunday haven't we no we don't have to have everything just vague and wondering and guessing and assuming god's trying to tell me something through this set of circumstances that's why he gave us the holy spirit to live inside of us and communicate directly and specifically to us look with me in ephesians please the fifth chapter ephesians chapter five can you tell when we run up against some tradition once in a while some of those old sacred cows you can hear them move when we poke them they go moo but how many know some things need to be knocked in the head huh because they are lies that have confused people for generations they were wrong when somebody started it 10 centuries ago and they're still wrong today and how are you going to know what's right and what's wrong hmm get away from opinion and theory and somebody's experience how many believe this word is that knowing it and doing it is building your house on the solid rock hallelujah and then when the winds blow you'll stand because you're not built on somebody's idea or opinion but on the word that cannot fail ephesians 5 did you did you find that ephesians 5 and verse 15 see then that you walk circumspectly not as fools but as wise keep going redeeming the time because the days are evil wherefore be ye not unwise he says it again but what understanding what the will of the lord is does the lord expect us to find and know and understand his will yes he said not to do so is to be foolish and millions of people believing they can't know the will of god trying to be led through all kind of external circumstances are acting like fools and paying the price of being foolish doing things that the lord never told them to do assuming things that the lord never told them but good news saints good news you can hear him for yourself we we ended up last week in john 10. remember and we saw jesus say repeatedly my sheep hear my voice my sheep know me amen a stranger's voice they won't follow amen is that right do you hear his voice let's see a whole lot of people right there they'll go well i don't know about do you believe what jesus said or not see that's where you run into problems people start trying to figure out what they think they heard or know or understand this is how you fix this quit trying to figure it out and believe what he said amen and if you begin to agree with him it's going to open up a whole new world to you amen because the truth is if you've been born again you are his sheep and you do know his voice whether you're acting like it or not whether you're responding or not you do and as soon as you're able to identify it you're going to be one happy camper amen which is what we're doing that's where we're headed hallelujah i'm believing the lord that all of us you and me we are going to be better spirit-led than we have ever been in our life the lord's teaching us showing us we're going to be clearer we're going to be sharper we're going to quit missing it on all this stuff all the time and we're going to get it right we're going to begin to get it right again and again and again and again right right right not because we're so smart because we learn how to follow we learn how to listen and we'll learn how to follow thank you lord anybody can miss it you me anybody can miss it but you never missed it following him you never missed it following him you have to either ignore what he said or just not pay attention or come up with a better idea but you never missed it following him let me read this to you from the young's literal translation verse 15. ephesians 5 15 it says see then how exactly you walk in in that interesting he's talking about precision guidance precision guidance that's something pilots are familiar with because i mean you know some of the weather especially like in the wintertime when the fog is in the ceilings are low you've got less than a mile visibility half a mile ceiling is 200 feet some cases 50 feet well when you are descending and can't see a thing you don't need to be close because half a mile off can be the difference between landing and crashing that's right and i know half a mile sounds like a lot but when you're moving hundreds of miles an hour that's nothing or a lot of precision on a precision approach an ils instrument landing system a precision approach a lot of them go down to 200 feet is minimums uh airliners will go down further and some operators that are qualified go down further but 200 feet is low enough for me and uh you know we when i was in the siem training here recently we were you know shooting an approach and engine was on fire and this was wrong and it was wrong but you still got to fly the plane precisely and so i was dialing in an altitude and i thought well why is that it was 680 feet and later on we got on the ground we flipped by the help of the lord we flew it correctly and got on the ground and i was asking him why was that 1680. he said you want to see i said yeah and he cleared it up in the sim and it's because this great big tower was sticking up right there just a few feet but that's why it was 1860 instead of 18. somebody say precise well d did god lead us to fumbling around in the dark and kind of hit and miss and guess on everything in the light in our life but could god lead us with precision huh precision because again and again it makes a difference whether you're just kind of close to it or whether you're right on it i know uh when uh we got this property here in um sarasota a similar thing happened in branson every time the lords led us but uh there were other properties that were bigger more building more square feet for less money and if you're just led by price we'd be in a different county maybe if it worked but we we didn't even know at that point that this area is a prime area and a lot of things of course at that time the mall didn't exist huh over there and a whole lot of things that have happened since then but we didn't know that we were not from here and i didn't do a bunch of uh studying uh oh what do you call it demographics i said i didn't do a lot of i didn't do any of it because i don't want to be influenced i don't want to be influenced by that and you got to watch sometimes once you get something in your head then you got to you got to time getting it out the only reason i've had people ask why did y'all go there one reason we believed the lord directed us here that's it that's it and so uh we found out later that we would have had problems at those other places we didn't know that then but the lord knew how many understand you and phyllis and i talked about it some of the things we could see it could have taken us years longer to get up and running how many of that always cost more the longer it takes and other things i mean this thing came together quick amen as did branson very quick and uh you could have been struggling with problem after problem after problem and and the thought would have crossed your mind well did the lord really tell us to come here yeah he did just 15 miles further that way somebody say precision how many stand i'm back to my airplane uh again i don't just need to land in the right state where are you going well anywhere in florida it'd be fine well no it ain't right well what are we going to do oh this what i think you know anything to be fine with the lord listen have you seen what he created your body the planets the synapses in your brain come on are you listening the orbits of the worlds is he just did he just throw some stuff out there and say whatever that'd be good enough just i don't think so it tears up apart it's too much going on it's got to be precise they call our world the goldilocks world if it's any closer it'd be too hot if it's any further away from the sun it'd be too cold it didn't amazing it just happened to be in the right spot no precision somebody say precision god is a god of precision and his plan is not for you and i to be guessing wildly and bumping along in the night with our eyes closed and guessing at what might be his plan and will he is intelligent much more than us he can speak can we hear then why can't he just tell us why can't he just talk to us well we saw example after example in the scriptures in the new testament in the book of acts where the holy spirit said do this don't do that go here forbid them from doing that is that right well what has changed from then until now do we not have the same spirit are we not born again like them are we not part of the same church why shouldn't why shouldn't we be hearing from him we should be thank god we can be and by faith we say we are and we will be right he said redeeming the time because the days are evil because of this become not fools but understanding what the will of the lord is from this verse alone you know he intends for us to be aware of and to understand what the will of the lord is he said he said don't be a fool understand what the will of the lord is that'll keep you from being foolish and doing foolish things now we camped on that we can hear from him individually personally directly specifically but i want us to notice something here when we say we can hear from him how does that work and what does that mean don't turn anywhere but just listen to this revelation 2 7. you don't have to turn anywhere i'm going to read several things to you so just listen it begins by saying this he that has an ear let him hear what the spirit says to the churches and he gives he talks about that but i just want to touch on this in verse 11. you know what he said say it out read it out loud with me that top sentence he that has an ear let him hear what the spirit says unto the churches verse 17. read it again he that has an ear let him hear what the spirit says to the churches verse 29 what does it say he that has an ear let him hear what the spirit says to the church was the spirit saying something to the churches who was going to hear it not everyone that's right amen not everyone he mentions a specific group who's going to hear it what did we just get through reading in john when jesus talked about the comforter the holy spirit that he was going to send from the father the one who would teach us lead and guide us into all the truth he said the world cannot receive him because it does not see him and it does not know him so they don't have ears to hear and they're not hearing him keep going in the third chapter verse 6. you might say well i got the point maybe you don't are you sure hang in with me it's not just a matter of logging information in your head it's a matter of light dawning in your spirit and the re the way you can know that's happening is you won't go yeah i got it i got it that means you don't got it because when you do you'll go glory to god yes yes yes i see that i hear that it's not mentally discerned i don't care how smart you think you are and that's the problem a lot of people that think they're so smart don't hear him at all they think they got so much brain they don't have ears to hear i'm getting ahead of myself but pride actually prevents you from hearing i think we'll come back to that but he that has an ear let him hear what the spirit says to the churches verse 13. what'd it say say it out loud he that has an ear let him hear what the spirit says to the churches verse 22. looked like we didn't even change the verse but the number changed said out loud he that has an ear let him hear what the spirit says to the church so is the spirit saying something something that could be heard by everybody no no not everybody's going to hear it those who have ears to hear it will hear it 13th chapter and the 9th verse 13 9 if any man have an ear let him hear what kind of ear an ear he that has an ear let him hear ears to hear hearing ears i might say like this this is scripture open ears as opposed to closed ears and guess who's in charge of the opening and closing you are it's your ears it's your ears this this is revelation and we saw what half a dozen seven of these and uh this is a quote from all through the scriptures i mean you will find some form of this many times old testament new to prophets new testament epistles this thing about eyes that see and ears that hear and hearts that understand anybody read the scripture enough to know what i'm talking about does that sound familiar to you have you seen that more than four or five times yeah you do one of the main places you begin to see it's in isaiah the 6th chapter isaiah 6 and 8 just listen he said i heard the voice of the lord saying whom shall i send and who will go for us then said i here am i send me and he said go tell his people hear ye indeed but understand not see ye indeed but perceive not make the heart of this people fat and make their ears heavy and shut their eyes lest they see with their eyes and hear with the ears and understand with their heart and convert and be healed in acts new testament acts the 28th chapter and the 23rd verse very similar thing very similar thing he said verse 26 go to this people and say hearing you shall hear and shall not understand and seeing you shall see and not perceive for the heart of this people is waxed gross now that means dull insensitive unfeeling somebody unaware their eyes are dull of hearing i'm going to stop right here the problem is not getting god to talk the problem is in ears that don't hear if you're working on god trying to get him to talk to you you're barking up the wrong tree you are you know how i know as a 19 year old i began to get serious about the lord my grandmother and my my folks had become believers mom and dad recently but my grandmother had been a pillar in the church i always had us boys in sunday school so i grew up around church and knew some things and pentecostal people as well as baptist people and church of god people i had a good sampling of several groups and wonderful people all of them good people and i began to sense that the lord was dealing with me and i didn't know what that meant and i didn't know how to respond and i had no idea that i had a call on my life to preach and teach that was nowhere in my i mean nowhere in my thinking i had other plans what i was going to do i'm so thankful i didn't do that god's plan far better far far better i mean his plan is always better than anything you can come up with whether you know it or not but it began my be being dissatisfied just and i couldn't put my finger on it looking back now it's the mercy of god because if i was satisfied enough i'd still be where i was but he's letting me know by the witness inside me that i need to find out something something he has something more for me to do he says something he has a plan for me that i'm not aware of and i hadn't been picking up on well all i knew is i'm dissatisfied what that's supposed to do is put you to seeking god seeking god doing some praying diligently seeking god about it now a lot of people they don't do that they will they're just unhappy they're just discouraged and so they they turn to drink they turn to drugs they overspend and they say it just seems like there's more well there is but it's you're not going to find it in sin amen you're not going to find it in the world and so people are not taught to seek god and hear from him get the answers get the direction and of course me being green and a young man with no spiritual experience to speak of i tried to pray i didn't pray in tongues so you know you just pray what you know out of your head and after you've done that for a few minutes and you said it over and over again several times you know and you think and so but but i mean it was so stirring in me that i'd get up out of bed at midnight and and go out in the woods one or two in the morning we lived out in the country and i remember looking up in the night sky going god of course you know nobody around i can get loud if i want to i didn't want to wake up anybody and bother anybody but out there just me and the coons and and whatever else is roaming around the god i said what do you want what i i don't know help me talk to me would you talk to me and i must have said that 500 times over those months talk to me tell me what you want tell me what you want but i'm telling you now i was barking up the wrong tree i was beating on the wrong pipe i was working on the wrong end how many understand when it comes to transmitting and receiving just because your car radio doesn't pick up the station doesn't mean you should immediately assume something's wrong with the broadcast station is that the first thing you should assume and yet millions of christians that's their immediate conclusion can't get god to transmit god's not broadcasting we don't know why he's so silent he won't say anything i've pled i've fasted i've begged and god won't say a word to me are you sure are you sure he's not saying anything because the truth is his sheep hear his voice and know his voice is that right and he said his spirit would guide you in all the truth didn't he say it he said he would lead you he'd bring things to your remembrance he would show you things to come so is he not doing what he said he would do are we really waiting on him to talk to us or do we need some tuning huh some tuning of our receiver and go ah there it is well it's been there all the time i said it's been there all the time the signal's been there all the time you just hadn't been picking it up and this is the case because how many would believe god is faithful he loves you he cares about you but why won't he talk to me how you know he's not are you sure he's not what do we see again and again eyes that don't see ears that are dull and don't hear does that mean nothing's being said no it means you're not hearing what's being said which is why he keeps on saying to him that has ears he's not just talking about people that's got these things on the side of their head he's talking about an ear that hears and we're going to get into what makes a hearing ear and if you hadn't been hearing what to do he hadn't hid it from us it's here in the scriptures anybody excited about this beside me it's one of the greatest things you could ever learn in your life how to hear from god one of the greatest things you could ever learn in your life the answer to a thousand and one questions every day of your life is be led led by what not by your feelings not by your circumstances not by your friend's opinion led by the spirit of god on the inside of you whom jesus said will speak to you and lead you and guide you and teach you did jesus say he would do that said out loud the problem has been on the receiving end he said the heart of this people's waxed gross their ears are dull of hearing their eyes they have closed lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and should be converted and i should heal them i mean i won't take the time to read it right now but i got i got pages here of the same thing in matthew mark luke john acts where he said him that has ears to hear let him hear have you read enough to know what i'm talking about is it not there just a few places it's there all through the word go with me to matthew 11 please matthew 11. now we've touched on this in recent times when we went over to romans in another series i'm not putting them together right now but uh and we talked about people saying there is no proof of god there is no proof that god exists that shows gross ignorance because according to romans first chapter 3 chapter 1 and 2 he gets into talking about that everything about god including his divine power the godhead the mysteries of all these things are already revealed in his creation it's in front of us for who those that have eyes to see it oh we're making progress sayings so why don't people see it why would people look at the sun the stars the moon the oceans the mountains life the precision the amazing complexity look at all that and go there's no proof of god at all why would they do that because they don't want to see their eyes they have closed and how many know when you got your eyes closed what are you going to see how much are you going to see with your eyes closed nothing and yet you can affirm with your five degrees and this one and that one's book how that there's nothing to see there's nothing to see there's nothing to see but if you would just open your eyes honey proof of god is everywhere it's all the air we breathe your heart beat it's everywhere around there's everything that exists hallelujah well the same thing is true to say god's not speaking is the same thing as saying there's no proof of god he is speaking i said he is the question is do you have ears to hear what he's saying him that has ears to hear let him hear that reveals to you that's not everybody did i ask you to turn somewhere yeah matthew 11 verse 15. did he say who said it he that has ears to hear let him hear now skip on down to verse 25 or so here for time's sake all of this is rich and good but we're focused on this at that time jesus answered and he said i thank you o father lord of heaven and earth because you have hid these things from the wise and prudent and you have revealed them unto babes keep reading even so father for it seemed good in your sight this is jesus at prayer talking to the father and we're listening in he said all things are delivered to me of my father and no man knows the father the son but the father neither knows any man the father saved the son and who else is going to know him and he to whomsoever the son will reveal him verse 28 come to me all ye that labor and are heavy-laden and i will give you rest keep that in the context of what we just read you know one of the things that will make you the most unstable and without rest is not knowing huh not knowing not knowing what's god not knowing what's not god not knowing do i go do i stay do i do this do i not do that that's torment but if you won't rest it's achievable come unto me all you that labor and are heavy-laden and i'll give you rest take my yoke upon you you know what he's going to do with that yoke he's going to steer you huh i said he's going to steer you with that yoke learn of me now this joke's not a bad thing when you hear yoke don't think here's notice that my yoke it's know what the devil will try to put on you this is his yoke learn of me and what's of all the things he could have said learn about me what did he say i am meek and lowly in heart and this is how you'll find rest unto your souls when you quit being stubborn and submit to his yoke when you do this and you humble your heart you just tuned your receiver to him and you're going to start picking some things up just like that you'll begin to pick things up but if you harden your heart and you stiffen your neck you shut off your hearing you won't hear you won't see you won't understand and you can imagine it's because god won't talk to you and it's just not true he is saying something to you you're just not hearing it he is endeavoring to show you things you're just not seeing it because it's not physically discerned it's not mentally discerned it's spiritually discerned he is spirit and you are spirit and he doesn't lead you by the holy mind amen he leads you by the holy spirit right who is in your spirit that's how he leads us so the more spiritual we become don't let your mind race off on a tangent of what that means the more spiritual you become the more you hear the more you see the more you understand and you realize well that was there all the time that's been there for 20 years because he doesn't change i said he doesn't change and he is faithful he's if he told you he would lead you in his word how many believe there's no way he's not going to do that trying to get him to lead you is knocking on the wrong door now i left me out in the woods begging do you remember that let's don't leave me there let's don't leave me that's not a good place to be begging god talk to me 19 years old please god what do you want just tell me what you want and i'm trying to hear him with these i'd look up in the night sky maybe he'd write something in the sky maybe you're laughing but you never do anything like that maybe maybe some stars will do some stuff i mean god i'm trying to be led externally i'm trying to be led from out here which is where millions of believers are right now so when i talk about that i'm not making fun that was me and i mean for months and months and months i did this couldn't get settled couldn't get any direction and i did the same thing in our little pentecostal church trying to get filled with the holy spirit have you heard me talk about it you've heard me talk about it phyllis catholic girl she's never seen all this pentecostal stuff and they're having a meeting and i mean i did this i don't know several times over the course of a couple of years a period we're talking about that have a meeting and when they give altar cough people to come down and get filled with the spirit and they didn't teach about receiving they just taught tarrying so we just come to the altar and tarry and sometimes i start tarrying at 8 30 or nine and still be terry and one in the morning phyllis told me later she's sitting back in the back this is always new to her you know she's thinking and she's praying god whatever it is he wants would you please give it to it so we can go home and eventually she thought well maybe it's me i don't know anything about this this is new to me maybe i'm holding him up some way so she got up and came to the altar the women would go on one side and the men go on the other to tear him and man she hadn't got up to the altar good she fell out under the power and they told her the pastor said you need to be baptized they told my water baptized right now in the pond it was winter time she said well okay that's what we need to do so we all got in the car went to the pond pitch dark out in the country cold not as cold as it is right now up north but but cold for wintertime and they kept telling her just believe when you when you go under the water just believe when you start coming up that you'll be fair with the holy ghost you'll be filled with the cause just believe it well she never heard anything about it yeah or no she thought that's how you do it so just believe that well sometimes it helps not to have heard a bunch of tradition and junk well sure enough they trumped out in the mud in this little pond and it was cold sitting on the bank she said she it felt like warm bath water to her she was in the spirit and they took her on out in the water and they baptized her and and she's she said from the time she started coming up that's what she's believing she starts speaking in tongues under the water and did you speaking in tongues oh man that pentecostal bunch came apart man they shouted they just because a lot of people would seek seek territory and not get filled so man this was something she had a great experience in the lord i mean for three days and nights she didn't eat she didn't sleep she didn't need to she was in the glory of god hallelujah and then after all that i'm still not filled and i'm pentecostal i mean my granddad gave the land for the pentecostal church to be built on my grandma is the secretary treasurer 50 60 years whatever it was a little catholic girl shows up and just like that receives i'm thinking god and i'm still out in the woods going god talk to me please talk to me now you laughing like you never did any of this and one reason i brought that up is because during that time i came back to tarry some more and i remember one night the spirit of god came and of course i didn't know it was him i didn't know anything about it but you just sense this this wonderful power and this presence and this peace and this joy and i i couldn't even i couldn't even stay straight up i was i was bent over like a wet noodle over the altar and i began to her hear ka-plunk k-plunk all the men up there with me fell out under the pile and i can i can barely even raise my head you know what i'm hollering oh god give me the holy ghost oh god please please give me the holy ghost you know what he's saying hey it's me hello and i'm so dense i did not yield to him i did not respond to him now thank god eventually i did obviously i got a hold of some teachings by brother kenneth hagin and how to you know seven steps i believe it was how to receive the holy ghost oh hallelujah help me out but the big thing i needed to learn was how to yield to him how to respond to him my problem wasn't getting him to give me the holy ghost the holy spirit came on the day of pentecost he's been here ever since and anybody that'll receive it and yield to him are going to experience infilling and utterance i didn't get any utterance it's because you didn't yield far enough well it's not for everybody it is for everybody for everybody that will yield being filled speaking in tongues is for every believer it's just a matter of learning how to yield and but it's the reason i bring it up is because it's exactly the same thing that people say there's no proof of god people say god won't talk to me these things are not true amen amen it's a matter of discerning him identifying him and responding to him amen it's a matter of opening your eyes and realizing what you're seeing perfect example is jesus himself jesus was talking right before he went to the cross to the disciples telling them he was going to leave and he kept talking to him about the father the father the father and you remember one of them said well show us the father show us the father remember that and what'd he say he said have i been with you all this time and and they were thinking what does he mean because he said if you've seen me you've seen the father he's been right in front of them this whole time and they're thinking they're still looking for him now i've said this several different ways but do you see the principle you will see this over and over and over and over again in god's dealing with human beings people think they're waiting on him i did millions like me think they're still waiting on him and it's not the case he has been speaking he has been revealing hallelujah he's faithful he's constant he doesn't go away didn't the bible say he'll never leave you he'll never forsake you he said i'm with you always even to the end of the age into the world he's there he's there the spirit of god always has something to show us to tell us to remind us to say us say to us show us about things to come what is the question what is the issue do we have eyes to see do we have ears to hear what verse are you on here matthew verse 28 29-30 come unto me all you that labor and are heavy-laden i'll give you rest take my yoke upon you learn of me i'm meek and lowly in heart and you'll find what how are you going to find rest learning about him and taking his yoke on you and what was the one thing he mentioned about himself humility meekness do not underestimate this saints this is how you tune your heart and get your ears open to hear from him you submit to him and you humble yourself before him and you get genuinely willing are you listening and when you do just like a signal that you had the dial on the wrong place you will adjust that and it'll begin coming clear to you hallelujah you'll begin to go glory to god yes yes yes why didn't i see this already why didn't i know this already but it wasn't because we were waiting on him to talk to us i know what happened to me how the lord got me from out in the woods to here is i did that for months and months oh god talk to me please why won't you talk to me just tell me what you want me to do i'm trying to hear outwardly i'm trying to discern god's will externally he's spirit i don't need to look out here he's in here i know that's simple but it's life-changing quit looking out here looking here not externally led internally led i remember one night i was at it again i didn't go in the woods that night but i got up i went to the living room i knelt down on our reg red shag carpet kneeling against our genuine imitation leather sofa that means plastic and i was saying the same thing i'm still not speaking in tongues i'm saying oh god what what just talk to me and thank god i finally quit making so much noise and i think i'm about half asleep half dozing off i finally got i finally got my head quiet and inside me oh hallelujah very distinctly i don't mean to heard a voice not not an outward voice but inside me very distinctly came up from inside me up to my mind he said to me son keith he loves us he said find out what i've already said to you in the book the word and if i want to say something else to you i will that was my great breakthrough but my bible had just been sitting there on the nightstand for all these months hmm do you want god to talk to you how many would like to god to talk to you right now tonight immediately news flash he is that's what's happening right now and if you want that to happen at home anytime anywhere pull out this bible are y'all are y'all with me pull out this bible turn to any page any page and say lord speak to me and start reading in faith i said start reading in faith with respect with humility with willingness to do what he shows you and i assure you how many how many have done this some he will immediately start showing you things won't he i mean things that apply to you personally directly specifically and what i didn't realize is that he wanted to train me to hear his voice and that's how he does it how do you know someone's voice somebody calls you on the telephone and they don't they don't tell you what their name is they they say three words and you know who it is huh that means you know their voice why do you know their voice because you have heard that voice many many hours is that right you've heard that voice happy sad mad glad right you have heard that voice and you would know that voice anywhere amen that's right that's the same way you get to know the lord his voice and even though they're different human authors involved they're just vehicles that he spoke through how many believe the same spirit speaking through moses is the spirit speaking through elijah is that right same spirit speaking through david in the psalms is the very same spirit speaking through peter and paul is that right same holy spirit same holy spirit covers huge amounts of time spans of centuries and millennia but it's the same holy spirit and the same holy spirit who lives inside you right now i don't know if you heard that one or not the spirit of god that spoke through elijah is the very same spirit who's living inside you the spirit of god that spoke through paul spoke through peter spoke through all of these the very same holy spirit the author of the book lives inside you to teach you and explain to you what he said in the book [Music] hallelujah [Applause] put up first john 2 20 on the screen for us please first john 2 20. he said you have an auction from the holy one this is talking about an anointing which is a manifestation of the person of the holy spirit and by this unction by this anointing you know all things doesn't make you omniscient you know all things you need to know come on say it out loud i have an unction from the holy one and i know all things i need to know by this unction now see that's not figuring it out in your noggin that's it being revealed to you by the anointing look in verse 27 man the lord's helping us here tonight i'm telling you he's in this he wants us to get what he's saying he wants us to quit playing games and being dull he'd like to have some intelligent conversations with us sometime instead of bumping along in the dark doing god won't you talk to me rookie ever gets tired of hearing that verse 27 but the anointing which you have received of him abides in you does not go and come it lives it stays it dwells the anointing the manifestation of the person of the holy spirit him and you need not that any man teach you now that doesn't mean we don't need preachers why would he give gifts unto men right why would he say how can they hear without a preacher et cetera et cetera what this is saying you are not externally dependent on a man to tell you what god's saying amen hallelujah even when god would speak to you through a man or woman you are not just relying on them for what god said because if they said something by the spirit that same spirit is in you and if it really is the holy spirit you'll know it you're not relying on somebody see huge portions of religion teach reliance on men instead of god you can't pray for yourself you have to get them to pray for you you can't go directly to god you have to go through this one or through that you can't understand that somebody that's been to 20 years of school has to explain to you you can't you'll not be able to get any of that i was talking to a fellow a few months ago and he was saying i said something about the word being your standard you live by and he said well who can understand it everybody's got their own opinion of what it means which he thought he's not even going to try it's a lie can you see why the enemy has fed people that because they just quit trying they think well i'm not i'm no spiritual i'm no sane i mean uh i don't know i just have to bump along best i can no no no amen come on somebody said out loud i can be i will be personally directly specifically led by the holy spirit you can hear from him for yourself you're not relying on any man or woman that you have to be externally dependent they have to tell me if this was god or not but the same anointing teaches you oh the anointing is teaching us the anointing teaches me and is truth and there's no lie and even as it actually you'll see in just a moment what he's talking about it's not talking about it has taught you you shall abide in him he winds up calling the anointing him glory to god somebody say glory to god glory to god glory to god glory to god glory to god go to luke 8 i think you can take a little bit more uh i tell you what go to mark 8 then we'll go to luke do it like this mark 8. man there's so much here so much here but the main thing is that you get the spirit of it and what's one of the great truths that the spirit of god's ministered to us tonight if you had to just pick out a thing or two what would you say he is speaking would you say would you agree with that he is speaking he is revealing question is who's listening who's looking not everybody is in fact many many across the planet are blind and deaf and dumb and a closed off heart as far as he's concerned that's why to them it's like there is no god they don't see him they don't hear him they don't discern him but it's not because he's not everywhere it's just because they don't see mark 8 15. now what would fix that i'm going to jump ahead just a little bit what would fix that what did jesus say how are you going to find rest how are you going to get rid of these heavy burdens find rest to your soul he said learn about me take my yoke on you and learn about me i am meek and lowly of heart how would they get their eyes open and their ears open in their heart they have to come and bow their knee and admit they don't know everything and there's obviously a lot more to this than what they see and know and if they would acknowledge him in humility what would happen scales would fall from the eyes come on are you listening ears would begin to open up amen and what's been there all the time would begin to be discernible to them but as long as you think i don't need that your pride and hard heart keeps you from hearing he said here to his own disciples he charged them and said hey keed beware of the leaven of the pharisees and of the leaven of herod and they reasoned among themselves and said it's because we didn't take enough bread we didn't take no bread he's talking spiritually they're thinking naturally he's telling them something important they're not getting it at all right it's like he's on the fm band and they're on the am band is that right could you say he's not showing him anything no he is showing them something what's the problem the problem's not with the transmission problems with the receiver verse 17. when jesus knew it he said why are you reasoning because you don't have any bread perceive ye not neither understand and here he reveals why have you your heart yet hardened hard heart means no hearing dull of hearing hard heart means blind eyes which is why meek and lowly of heart and submission brings brings the change keep reading having eyes see ye not and having ears hear you not who's he talking to his staff is that right they've been with him they've heard him they're saying what is he asking them why aren't you getting this isn't he you got eyes but you're not seeing you got ears but you're not hearing don't you remember i'm paraphrasing what just happened keep reading when i broke the five loaves among five thousand how many baskets of fragments did you take up 12. he said and seven among four thousand this happened more than once how many baskets full of fragments took you up and they said seven and he said how is it that you don't understand why it didn't register on them now we're throwing no stones at the disciples right because we've done this but what should they have gotten he they've seen repeatedly that if there wasn't enough natural provision god can do it with a little boy's lunch he can do it on the hillside is that right why would he be so seriously looking at them and going you didn't bring enough bread why would they assume that's what he's saying what he's talking about they're not on the right channel huh [Laughter] go back to luke luke 8. luke 8 8. he said other fellow on the good ground sprang up bear fruit 100 fold and when he said these things he cried that means he lifted his voice he got loud he said he that has ears to hear let him hear why does he keep saying this his disciples asked him what might this parable be huh what we've been there we've been there and he said unto you it's given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of god but to others in parables that seeing they might not see and hearing they might not understand god is both hiding and revealing at the same time throughout the earth people whose heart is not right they're not going to see it i don't care how smart they think they are how much they study it's not just intelligence that gets you an understanding of this word or of truth light heart has to be right can you see this friends and to those i don't care you could have been the dumbest kid in your class and just you know been a little slow but if your heart's really right before him and you love him and you'll submit to him and you're willing to do whatever he tells you to do you will see things that so-called geniuses will never touch come on are y'all with me and it's not because you figured it out it's because he just revealed it to you he showed it to you and he would show it to people all over the planet but you're not going to have eyes that can see it or ears that can hear it until your heart is right before him can you see this friends in verse notice what he said take heed therefore how you hear for whoever has to him will be given and whoever has not from him shall be taken even that which he seems to have does it make any difference how you hear something when the lord told me find out what i've already said in the book and if i want to say something else to you i will i didn't realize but he he wanted to train me and when i'm reading the scriptures in in genesis i'm hearing his voice when i'm reading the scriptures in the psalms and proverbs i'm hearing his voice elsewise how am i going to recognize who it is come on can you see this this is why so many are easily led astray well you don't know the word and you're just led by some spiritual impression you'll be easily misled how do you know who it is that's leading you how do you know who's making these impressions on you or trying to lead you because we're going to get to this eventually you have an enemy who will try to lead you wrong and you know his favorite thing to pretend that he's god his favorite thing is try to convince you he's god telling you to do this or that so how can i know if it's him or not just like you know for the first three words they said on the phone that's why everybody in faith life church read their chapter every day monday through friday and every every how much other the lord leads you to but what are you doing you're learning you're getting familiar and more and more and more so then if he wants to say something else to you by his spirit you go that's the same one's been talking to me in genesis and psalms and and matthew and mark that's the same one same one you recognize him and there's your safety there's your protection i didn't know that when he told me that but i see now that's what he was doing he wanted to train me so that when he said not that building that building because you're not going to find that in the scriptures i don't guess you can find branson missouri or sarasota florida in any book right so we're going to have to hear from him directly personally how would i know it's him it's the same one's been speaking to me all these years through the scriptures same one 3 15. today if you will hear his voice do you want to hear his voice if you'll hear his voice what do you got to do don't harden your heart your heart why what will harden in your heart do just like turning the the power switch off it's just like putting a blindfold on you it's like putting something in your ears you get an attitude with god come on are you listening you get some attitude you get huffy you get stubborn you get rebellious you get blind deaf and dumb and you can scream all you want to it god it's not his problem the problem is not on descending in look at it again he stated it again that's hebrews 3 15. in in chapter 4 and verse 7 4 7 again he limits a certain time a certain day saying in david today after so long a time it is said today when when today if you will hear his voice do what don't harden your heart don't harden your heart look at your neighbor say don't harden your heart do you reckon you ever have uh yep you can tell when you do immediately you lose your peace and your joy you harden your heart you lose your joy you get sour bitter and you want to reign on everybody's parade judge them the problem's not with them millions on the planet have hard hearts toward god they don't want to see him they don't want to hear him don't believe him in at all so to them it's like there is no god and if they don't change it'll be like that until they die and get a rude awakening they'll realize all at once when they get out of this body thank god we don't have to be blind and deaf all our life you believe that we don't have to be without understanding friend this is exciting today am i quoting scriptures today do you want to hear his voice today if you if you will hear his voice if you want to hear his voice what do you do don't harden your heart what's the opposite of hardening your heart humbling you're humbling yourself what does it mean taking on the yoke that's submission that's submission you want to hear from god better than you ever have in your life go home put your nose in the carpet come on are y'all with me i know what i'm talking about put your nose in the carpet open your heart real wide before the lord and tell him lord you are god i don't know anything i don't have anything except in you i am completely dependent on you and forgive me for any stubbornness or any ignorance i choose to be willing whatever you tell me i choose to be i will to do your will friend if you do that your heart even though it might have been a little bit crusty it'll break loose and it'll dial in come on are you listening it'll dial in and you'll begin to hear precision communication like you've not heard yet till this time it was always there i said it was always there stand on your feet everybody

Channel: Jason Wigood

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Keywords: RKN, regional kingdom network, faith channel, healing, Holy Spirit, faith, prayer, word of faith, Keith moore, my sheep hear my voice

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Length: 86min 26sec (5186 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 11 2021