Robert Morris: Why Does God Talk to Us? | TBN

god wants to be your friend think about this the  bible starts and ends with god speaking to people   and everywhere in the middle every book  of the bible he's speaking to people   every book of the bible he starts speaking  adam and eve he ends up speaking to john on   the island of patmos in the book of revelation and  you think all of a sudden he just stopped speaking i think it might surprise you that  god's reason for talking to us   might be a little different than  our reason from wanting to hear god   and so i want to just unpack this a little bit  this comes from chapter 2 in the book frequency   why hear from god now our number one reason  to hear from god probably is direction   god what do i do what school do we put our  children in where do we move do i take this   job which church do we go to  they're all great questions and i know god wants to give us direction   but that's not his number one reason  for communicating with us you know   what i think it is i'm going to say it a little  differently than what we might think but it's friendship relationship god wants  to have a relationship with you   you know um think about marriage uh  debbie's okay with me giving her directions   sometimes well that's not really  why she wants to talk with me   she just wants to be my friend she  don't have a relationship with me   i want to have a relationship with her i  don't want her just to give me directions   i want to talk all right so i want to give  you illustration about friendship okay um   let's say that you and i have been friends for  a long time maybe like 30 years and you're in   the hospital okay i don't i don't want to be the  one in the hospital in this illustration okay so   i just say that you had to be hospitalized for  some reason and um and so i come by the hospital   and i dropped some books off that i've written  you know we're talking about the book frequency   this is i've written like 14 books now so let's  say i dropped some books off that that i've   written at the front desk and i say hey sonja's  in the hospital would you give him these books   to read and then you're there maybe a week i never  text you i never call you i never come and see you   personally i just dropped off some books that i  wrote for you to read okay or what if you're in   the hospital and i come by on my way to work and  i stop and talk with you for a while and then i   text you a few times during the day and then on  my way home i stopping by and visit with you for   30 minutes or so again and i do that every day  and then one day i like sneak in some fast food okay let's just take a little poll here in the  studio how many of you ever have ever snuck   food into a hospital can i look at all the rules  breakers all right so you're sitting there like   no i'll never do that okay so so i and i i visit  with you okay so which type of friend would you   want you'd want the second one right the guy's  going to talk to you spend time with you right   listen to me carefully a lot of people think that god just dropped some books off that he wrote but he doesn't speak to us personally  now i i don't mean by this illustration   to minimize this book obviously this is this  is infallible inherent inspired word of god   it's life to those who find it health to their  whole body sweeter than honey pure than gold   sharpening two edges sword okay i can go with all  things about the word we need to read it every day   i'm just telling you that god's also a  personal god okay so his reason i think is   friendship uh john 15 15 so it's really easy  verse to remember because it's 15 15. john 15   15 jesus said no longer do i call you servants for  a servant does not know what his master is doing   but i've called you friends for all things that  i heard from my father i have made known to   you or told you so what's the difference  a friend tells you what's going on tells   you what he's doing talks to you see so let me  tell you three things about why hear from god   and about being a friend of god okay here's  number one god does not speak to robots now i know you're thinking okay what is it  what does that mean well he speaks to people   uh he did not create us as  robots he created us as people   he created us with emotions he created us in his  image right there you probably you maybe never   thought about this you know like i have but we  actually communicate two ways we communicate   personally and we communicate mechanically now  listen to me we communicate with people personally   but we communicate to machines mechanically  now you're thinking i don't communicate to   machines yes you do if you want your machine your  computer to type the letter g you hit the letter g   if you want your computer to print something  right you hit print i remember the very first time   years ago my son helped me you know got the  computer all set up and all and i hit print and   you know it said cannot find the printer i took  the monitor and turned it i said it's right there so we communicate when you're you communicate to  your car mechanically right now you might speak   to it but you can if you want it to go you push  the gas if you want to stop you push the brakes   is that right all right so i want you to know  god doesn't communicate here's the reason i'm   telling you this god does not communicate  to us mechanically we're not machines   we're people god communicates personally god  does not sit in heaven and push buttons he speaks   so i want to show you a conversation and it's  a little long the scripture but it's amazing   a conversation god had with someone he called his  friend abraham and it actually says he was called   a friend of god so genesis 18 it starts in verse  17 and the lord said shall i hide from abraham   what i'm doing since abraham shall surely become  a great mighty nation and all the nations of the   earth shall be blessed in him for i have known  him in other words i have a relationship with him   i have a friendship with him in order that he may  command his children and his household after him   that they may keep the way of the lord to do  righteousness and justice that the lord may   bring abraham what he has spoken to him what he  has spoken to him and the lord said because the   outcry against sodom and gomorrh is great because  their sin is very grave i will go down now and   see whether they have done all together according  to the outcry against it and that has come to me   and if not i will know it says then the men turned  away from there and went toward sodom but abraham   still stood before the lord and abraham came near  and said would you also destroy the righteous   with the wicked okay here's the important when  god first spoke there were other people around   they left but abraham didn't leave  he stayed and then he drew near   real simple if you want to hear god stop what  you're doing and draw near i mean look how   simple that was stop what you're doing and draw  near all right so abraham stops what he's doing   and he draws near to god now let's watch  the rest of the conversation verse 24   suppose that this this is abraham talking suppose  that there were 50 righteous within the city   would you also destroy the place and not  spare it for 50 righteous that were in it far   be it from you i like this language abraham's  far be it from you god to do such a thing   as this to slay the righteous with the wicked  so that the righteous should be as the wicked   far be it from you should not the judge of all  the earth do right so the lord said if i find   in sodom 50 righteous within the city then  i will spare all the place for their sakes   then abraham answered and said indeed now  i who am but dust and ashes have taken it   upon myself to speak to the lord i mean i just  they're funny things in the bible we just don't   think they're that funny you know many times but  it's funny he says suppose there were five less   than 50. uh would you destroy all the city  for a lack of five so he said if i find 45   i will not destroy and he spoke to him yet again  and said suppose there should be 40 found there   and he said i will not do it for the sake of 40.  then he said let not the lord be angry and i will   speak suppose 30 should be found there so he said  i'll not do it if i find 30 there and he said   indeed now i've taken upon myself to speak to the  lord suppose 20 should be found there so he said   i will not destroy it for the sake of 20. then he  said let not the lord be angry and i'll speak but   once more suppose 10 should be found there and he  said i will not destroy it for the sake of ten so   the lord went his way as soon as he had finished  speaking with abraham and abraham returned to his   place okay here's what i think when god walked  away i think he walked over to jesus and the   holy spirit and and uh maybe you know michael and  gabriel there some and i think he said something   like this i like that guy did y'all hear that  did you hear him say far be it from you lord   don't hear that i mean that guy i like it  i think we're going to be great friends   god wants to be your friend think about this the  bible starts and ends with god speaking to people   and everywhere in the middle every book  of the bible he's speaking to people   every book of the bible he starts speaking  adam and eve he ends up speaking to john on   the island of patmos in the book of revelation and  you think all of a sudden he just stopped speaking   2 000 years and he hasn't spoken a word now since  the scripturation of the of the bible you think   all of a sudden now god doesn't speak anymore i  mean he's got to be about to burst up there right   it's crazy that god to even think that  friend with the support of heroes like   you tbn is beaming the hope and grace of  jesus around the world in multiple languages   this month for your gift of support in any  amount we're 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Length: 11min 40sec (700 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 30 2021