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Good morning and welcome.
Today i want to continue this mini series on prayer.
Does God Speak today
Jesus teach us how to prayer
Hearing God for yourself.
I planed to move on to another series.
But God kept after me about hearing His voice
I knew I just preached this a few weeks ago
But God would not let me move on
I asked him what he wanted me to share on and I replied didn’t I just do that?
I felt like I either missed something, which is completely possible
or God just wants this emphasized for His believers today!
or both.
Jesus stated in John 10:27
Hearing God is not to raise you up on some spiritual scale saying your better than another person because you hear from God and they can’t
Hearing God does not make you special
Every beleiver hears God’s voice
Your special because of who God created you to be!
Unique....one of a Kind
with almost 8 billion people on the earth no one is identical.
Even identical twins are unique from each other in specific ways
Hearing God does not make you special
You already are!
Jesus tells us the primary reason to hear his Voice...
Its so we can follow Him!
The Bible is the most amazing book ever put together.
It tells us more about God than any other books reveals about any other person
The Bible is the standard by which we are able to confirm and judge what we hear from God
But where the difficulty comes in.
Is the Bible cannot tell you
Where you should go
or who you should marry
or when you should have kids.
what career you should have.
etc
If we soley rely on the Bible one would begin to think God does not care about these aspects of our lives.
But that so far from the truth.
You see there are 2 types of words that God speaks.
Logos vs Rhema Word
Rhema is the right now word, word from HIM that gives you a sense of direction and joy and excitement of knowledge.
Rhema word is the word for your current situation telling you what to do.
Logos is the uttering of Christ himself; it is the spoken word communicated through Bible.
A Logos word is applicable for everyone
A Rhema word can be specific to you.
God speaks to us in both these manners
The problem with only enbracing the logos is it makes it very easy to fall into the trap of religiosity.
Their is no personalization in logos as its a generaliztion for all.
as a result it can enable a non personal interaction with God
I taught a lesson for desert streams a couple of weeks back on the topic of Religiocity
Religiocity
Religiosity is a way of thinking and living that people can be in, or can fall into, yet it is ungodly and can bring much harm to those who are in it, and those who are influenced by it.
Its one of the most dangerous and effective weapons used by the enemy to thrawt the work of a individual and the church at large.
Its been used disimpower every generation.
It’s focused more on doing right than loving people
It occurs when doing what you think is right is more important to you than the opportunity to get to know the One who is right
Did you ever think that doing good things could be sin?
You can sin even when doing good things
If your motivation for doing it is not correct
a. being associated with religious people.......Pharisees
b. doing good works to help people (i.e.
acts of kindness, gifts to the poor, etc.)
c. engaging in religious activities (i.e.
going to church, observing special religious events, etc.)
d. keeping church rules and expectations(i.e.
regarding dress code, religious language, etc.)
e. serving in the church (i.e. as a choir member, teacher, pastor, elder, etc.)
f. witnessing to others about Jesus
g. reading the Bible
h.
trying to obey/follow what is written in the Bible
i. reading or studying Christian books
j. praying
k. tithing
This is why Religiocity is so dangerous.
Its not determined by what you do, but rather why you are doing it!
Whatever is not from faith is Sin!
So you can be doing good things and it is sinning
God hates religion
Jesus confronts religious leaders
Jesus dealt harshly with the religious leaders of His day
what makes us think He won’t do the same today who preach a religion that goes against His heart?
A religious mindset causes a believer to sin by making them do what appears to be good.
but its actually sin because it is driven by a wrong motivation
Most people controlled by a religious mindset don’t even realize they are being religious because they are focusing on the perceived good thy are doing.
I beleive a large portion of modern beleivers are caught in a religious mindset
but it is very difficult to determine,
you could have 2 people sitting beside each other in church.
One is there because of right motivation and the other is there out of religious obligation
From seeing them both in Church you cannot tell by looks alone
but eventually the fruit will be evident
Let’s flush out this example.
If there is a person who comes to church every Sunday because “ thats what God wants me to do” they sit there and fill their seat quoting
But the other person who comes to church comes with the motivation to encourage one another.
Which one do you think might be controlled by a religious mindset?
You a religious person focuses on the act
But a true believer focuses on the Spirit behind the act
We gather together not out of religious obligation.
but rather we gather together to encourage one another.
We read the Bible not to get our 3 chapters a day
but rather to develop our intimacy with our creator
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