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You got a friend in me!
Start the sermon with the song “You got a friend in me.”
John 15:15 I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves.
Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me.
INTRODUCTION
What I want to talk to you about this morning is just one question: How can we hear from God?
But there is another question that goes right along with this: And this question will uncover your heart before God.
It is the question of motivation, a question that will dig into the possibility for real relationship.
And It is this: Why hear from God?
What is our motivation in wanting to hear God’s voice?
Why do we even care?
Well the answer is very simple: Friendship, God wants our friendship.
Now I know people who talk about how God is their buddy and that God and them just all and all.
And then I know people who want you think that because God is so holy we do not have the right to talk to Him like we do with our friends.
Now this is what I want you to know there’s no way a mere mortal can fully relate to the limitless God of the Universe.
The friendship which God has called us to is never a friendship where we are buddies in a casual or irreverent sort of way.
God is always God and we are always human.
And God always needs to be seen in our hearts as the Great King.
We call this concept of God’s loftiness the doctrine of transcendence.
this mean that God is superior and unequal and we always need to keep this in mind when we approach Him.
Psa 97:9 For you, O LORD, are supreme over all the earth; you are exalted far above all gods.
But on the other hand, there’s a doctrine of immanence.
this means that God is close to us.
He is near.
He is relational.
Matt 1:23 “Look!
The virgin will conceive a child!
She will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel, which means ‘God is with us.’”
When you think about this it can get confusing because they seem opposite of each other.
But they actually are not.
Because God is transcendent and Immanent.
He is the great King and God with us.
We must never forget his greatness, but we must never forget about the blood of Jesus which is why we are never to keep our distance.
(show the picture of JF Kennedy playing in the president office.}
This is a classic picture of John F. Kennedy jr.
playing in his father office.
His father is the president of United States.
His father is working in the oval office and leaders around the world are waiting in line to meet the president of the United States John F. Kennedy.
John F. Kennedy jr. is around 3 or 4 year old and he is playing in his father’s office.
He is under his father’s desk just playing away.
He is very happy to be near his father and His father is very happy that his child is in his office.
This is a perfect example of those to doctrines, John F. Kennedy is the most powerful man on the earth and here his child is very comfortable there with his father.
There is power in father’s position and character but there is still that closeness with his child.
So it is from those two characteristics that the Father invites us into a relationship with Him.
We understand that
Rev_1:8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega—the beginning and the end,” says the Lord God.
“I am the one who is, who always was, and who is still to come—the Almighty One.”
But yet He is also that Great Shepherd
Psa 23:1 A psalm of David.
The LORD is my shepherd; I have all that I need.
Psa 23:2 He lets me rest in green meadows; he leads me beside peaceful streams.
Psa 23:3 He renews my strength.
He guides me along right paths, bringing honor to his name.
Psa 23:4 Even when I walk through the darkest valley, I will not be afraid, for you are close beside me.
Your rod and your staff protect and comfort me.
Psa 23:5 You prepare a feast for me in the presence of my enemies.
You honor me by anointing my head with oil.
My cup overflows with blessings.
Psa 23:6 Surely your goodness and unfailing love will pursue me all the days of my life, and I will live in the house of the LORD forever.
We should always keep it in our mind the greatness of God but yet that He is friend that is closer than a brother.
So God is inviting us into friendship.
And that friendship is the different in our prayer life.
So let’s look at those questions one more time.
How can we hear from God?
And
What is our motivation in wanting to hear God’s voice?
In our Text this morning
John 15:15 I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves.
Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me.
This is such a wonderful truth for us.
Look at it: God the great God of the universal calls us His friend.
Jesus has opens the door to establish a deep level of friendship with us.
Jesus came so we might have a right relationship with the Father.
And a big part of that relationship involves communication.
So Why hear from God? Look at John 15:15 again Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me.
Communication, Prayer.
There are three hard cold truths that will answer the question also about our motivation for want to hear from God.
1. GOD DOES NOT SPEAK TO ROBOT.
This is what I mean: God didn’t create us to just be mindlessly obey His commands.
We have a soul, mind, heart and a will.
We are free will people.
That is the way God created us.
Think about his a car.
we push on the gas petal to speed up, the brake to stop.
We give the machine a order and it obey us.
some of us today have cars that talk back to us.
I am talking about the GPS.
I have a love-hate relationship with my GPS.
The woman’s voice in my get me sometimes.
Her voice is kinda up tee.
Kinda think she know everything and I know nothing.
I am very directional challege and I use the GPS all the time.
And then I still get lost.
And the other day and thought I heard her sigh with disgust at me.
I am recalculating.
God didn’t create us to be like a robots instead He created us to be His children.
There is no line we must walk or maze we must go thru to get to talk with God.
He invites us to come and talk to Him anything and all the time.
We can play like it was in His office under His desk.
James 2:23 And so it happened just as the Scriptures say: “Abraham believed God, and God counted him as righteous because of his faith.”
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