In this series: Hearing the voice of the Lord is probably the single most important element in having a victorious Christian life after being born-again. The Lord knows all things and will show us things to come. There is no problem that His wisdom can’t solve. If we can tap into His heart by hearing Him speak to us, all would be different.
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welcome to gospel truth celebrating the
good news of Jesus Christ the coming of
the savior of the world
Emmanuel God with us and now here’s
gospel truth Bible teacher Andrew
Wommack
welcome to our Tuesday’s broadcast of
the gospel truth today I am continuing a
series that I started yesterday talking
about how to hear God’s voice and I tell
you this is just powerful I probably
should teach on this a lot more but I
tell you my life would be a total wreck
it would be completely different if I
couldn’t hear the voice of God God has
spoken things to me he has shown me
things that I mean my whole life the
direction of our ministry the miracles
that I’ve seen the blessings that I’ve
experienced everything it’s really just
contingent on being able to hear God’s
voice and yet my experience with other
people is that most people just have a
hard time hearing the voice of God and
yet it’s really not hard the scripture
teaches us how to hear God’s voice and
the point that I was making on our
program yesterday as I get into this I
just want to go back and read some
verses where Jesus was speaking he’s the
author and the finisher of our faith and
in John chapter 10 Jesus said in verse 1
verily verily I say unto you when he
says verily verily that means truly
truly everything that Jesus said was
true but when he had to start out what
he was saying by saying verily verily it
was because what he was going to say was
so astounding that most people would
reject it and say oh that can’t be what
he means so he had to start it by saying
I’m telling you the truth
I’m telling you the truth and he says
verily verily I say unto you he that
entereth not by the door into the
sheepfold but climbeth up some other way
the same as a thief and a robber that he
that entereth in by the door is the
Shepherd of the Sheep he was talking
about himself he says that later in this
chapter to him the porter openeth and
the sheep hear his voice and he calleth
his own sheep by name and leadeth them
out and when he put it forth his own
sheep he goeth before them and the Sheep
follow him for they know his voice and
so this is Jesus talking about himself
being our chief Shepherd we have under
shepherds pastors people that are
anointed by God to represent him and to
speak forth his truth but he is the
chief Shepherd
and we are his sheep and he said twice
here that his sheep hear his voice his
sheep know his voice and yet the average
person’s experience they say I don’t
hear the voice of God the truth is God
is speaking to us constantly 24 hours a
day it’s not God’s speaking that’s the
problem
it’s our hearing over in Matthew 13 he
says our hearts have wax gross and our
ears are dull of hearing our ears become
hardened towards God and towards his
voice but God is speaking and we hear
his voice more than we realize you know
let me just say some things this is kind
of just introductory as laying a
foundation and you would have to go
study this out to get the full impact of
it but I believe even prior to a person
being born again God speaks to them and
one of the ways he does that is through
a conscience over in Romans chapter 2 it
talks about their conscience either
bearing witness and X key and convicting
them or excusing them but one of the
ways that God speaks to a person even a
lost man is through a conscience and
like I said this would take a lot more
explanation I’m not going to go into it
right now but I’ve got a series out
entitled who told you you were naked and
that’s talking about that God
anticipated the fall of man and when we
ate of the tree of knowledge I don’t
believe he created us originally with
the conscience this intuitive knowledge
of right and wrong he didn’t create men
that way but he anticipated us rejecting
him and when we ate of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil that is
descriptive of the conscience and that’s
when a conscience came into people and
every single person who has ever lived
on this planet has this intuitive
knowledge of right and wrong a
conscience that condemns them or gives
them confidence and that is a god-given
thing that’s how God speaks to us so
even prior to salvation people have a
conscience they will show them that
things are wrong in Romans chapter 1 it
talks about that the wrath of God is
ille from heaven against all ungodliness
and all unrighteousness of men if you
look that up in the Greek it means that
it’s already been revealed the King
James says the wrath of God is revealed
from heaven but if you look it up it
means it’s already been revealed it’s a
done deal and inside of every person is
its intuitive knowledge and in verse 20
it goes on to say that even his eternal
power have been revealed unto people so
that they are without excuse every
person who’s ever lived on this planet
has a conscience that’s one of the ways
that God speaks to us now that is not a
perfect way of speaking to us and as
believers we have a lot better way of
hearing the voice of God than just our
conscience because the scripture talks
about that you can sear your conscience
with a hot iron over in first Timothy
chapter 4 it talks about that you can
deaden your conscience to come to the
conviction of the Holy Spirit that’s
described in Romans chapter 1 about you
can take progressive steps away nobody
ever just comes from having been
innocent and pure into being just
totally evil all in one step you just
violate your conscience step by step a
step you make yourself a little bit more
dull of hearing and oh it’s a process
but every person even unbelievers have
this intuitive knowledge of right and
wrong on the inside and you will hear
some people say that no they have no
conviction they are living a totally
ungodly life against everything that the
Bible teaches and they have no
conviction there’s one of two things
happening right there either first of
all they’re totally lying which is
usually the case the truth is in their
heart they know difference there they’re
just in a mind game and they are voicing
something they’re actually being
hypocritical but at a heart level they
know they’re wrong and I know this to be
true because when I was in Vietnam I
talked to so many people who were living
like animals they were doing dope they
were having all these sexual encounters
they were doing things that they would
have never done back in the States but
they thought who’s going to know who’s
going to
you know who’s going to find out this is
what everybody else was doing and they
just voided violated their conscience
but on a heart level they knew they were
wrong I had people tell me that they
were an atheist and that they had no
conviction from the Holy Spirit they did
not believe that there was a God but
when the bullets got the flying when the
bombs got to drop in all of these
atheists were crying out to God at the
top of their lungs when we were facing
death many people who just were living
in sin like there was no God there was
no accountability boy they started
crying out and confessing their sins so
my point is some people say that they
have no conviction but it’s an absolute
lie there are people watching this
program right now that you’re probably
on that other side of the fence and
you’ve been professing to people that oh
there’s nothing wrong with the way
you’re living but it’s your heart you
know that’s not true you know it and you
are watching this program and right now
you are feeling a conviction in your
heart and you know what that is that’s
God speaking to you that’s God speaking
to you through your conscience this can
happen whether you’re born again or not
even a lost man has a conscience and
knows intuitively right from wrong now
there are some people that like I was
saying just are saying that they have no
conscience that they have no conviction
but the truth is they really do they’re
just trying to deny it they’re
overruling it but if a person can
truthfully say that there is zero
conviction that they have no conscience
and if that isn’t a hypocritical
statement then according to Romans
chapter one you’ve already passed the
point of no return
you’ve been given over to a reprobate
mind in God’s quick convicting you
because it says in John chapter six
verse 44 that no man can come under the
Father except the spirit drawing you
have to be drawn by God to him and if
you could truthfully say there is no
conviction I don’t love God I don’t
believe that there’s a God I don’t think
there’s any accountability
I have zero conviction about my
ungodliness and the way that I’m living
and if you could say that without any
hypocrisy it means your
already reprobate is what the scripture
says in Romans chapter 1 that means God
has taken all conviction away from you
and he’s not speaking to you at all
that’s a terrible state to be in and man
if you you know that’s the last stop on
a train to total damnation
if you’ve truthfully were seeing
something like that boy you need to get
off that train right here this is the
last stop it’s your last opportunity
man that’s a those are some strong
statements right there so going back to
John chapter 10 his sheep hear his voice
so let me say this everybody has this
intuitive knowledge of right and wrong
that we call a conscience but when you
get born again man
it is totally different because now you
become his sheep and God speaks to you
and like these verses are saying his
sheep hear his voice God is speaking and
if you are truly born again God will
speak to you so let me say this that if
you are watching this program and you
don’t know for certain that you have
been born again that your nature has
been changed if you haven’t experienced
God on a heart level to where he came in
and like it says in 2nd Corinthians
chapter 5 verse 17 if any man is in
Christ he’s a new creature old things
that passed away all things have become
new if you haven’t become new in your
heart this isn’t talking about you being
perfect because that’s a process that
won’t be finalized until we go to be
with the Lord and we are constantly
growing in overcoming things but I’m
saying if you haven’t had an encounter
to where God just literally changed you
on the inside and stuff then you aren’t
his sheep and that’s one of the reasons
that you don’t hear his voice so in this
process of learning how to hear the
voice of God the very first thing you
need to do is to respond to the leading
in the conviction of the Holy Spirit
about how you need to make Jesus Christ
your personal Savior in the Lord
there’s many scriptures I’m not going to
take
time to turn over and focus on this a
lot but there’s many scriptures about
people saying Lord Lord and they call
out to him and they claim to be servants
of the Lord but he’s going to say depart
from me I never knew you there’s people
that acknowledge God exist but that is
not salvation it says over in James
chapter 2 it says you believe that
there’s one God you do well the devil’s
also believe in trimble but once you
know o vain man that faith without works
is dead just believing that God exists
doesn’t mean that you’ve done anything
that the devil hasn’t done the devil
believes that God exists but the devil
has never submitted himself yielded
humbled himself and repented and
received Jesus as his Lord see there are
people who believe that God exists and
they think that that’s sufficient no
it’s not you have to approach God
through Jesus Jesus said in John chapter
14 verse 6 he says I am the way the
truth and the life no man no man this
means there are no exceptions no man
cometh unto the father but by me Jesus
came down from heaven to the earth he
was God manifest in the flesh and Jesus
became a man and God Almighty God the
Father placed our sin into Jesus second
Corinthians 5:21 says for he God the
Father hath made him Jesus to be made
sin for us who knew no sin that we might
be made the righteousness of God in him
and so God placed our sin into Jesus and
then he punished that sin in the
physical body of Jesus Jesus died for
our sins and the only way you can have
relationship with God the Father and be
born again to be changed is to humble
yourself and admit your Center receive
that forgiveness by putting faith and
saying father thank you for what you’ve
done through Jesus and I receive that
and I put my faith in Him and you
to humble yourself or here’s a way that
the Bible states it over in Romans
chapter 10 verse 9 it says if you will
confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus
that’s more than just mouthing the words
and saying the Lord Jesus it means from
your heart you are making him your Lord
you’re making him your master now it
doesn’t mean that you’ll never sin but
it means that you are saying god I’m
sorry and I received Jesus as my Lord I
commit my life unto Him I follow you I
am making a decision that you are Lord
you’re getting off the throne and you’re
letting Jesus become a lord again you
will make mistakes and there is
forgiveness and mercy from God but I’m
saying you have to be willing to turn
your life over see the devil he
acknowledges that God exists but he has
never yielded his life to God he’s never
submitted his life to God he lives in
opposition to it and there’s a lot of
people today who say oh yeah I believe
that there’s a god there’s even people
that’ll say I believe that Jesus is the
Son of God but have you submitted your
life to Him have you humbled yourself
have you repented of doing things your
own way and are you submitting yourself
to God if you haven’t done that you need
to make Jesus Lord so Romans 10:9 says
if you will confess with your mouth the
Lord Jesus and believe in your heart
that God raised him from the dead you
shall be safer with the heart man
believes and with the mouth confession
is made unto salvation down in verse 13
whosoever will call upon the name of the
Lord shall be saved but you have to call
you have to it doesn’t just happen
automatically just acknowledging that
God exists
is not salvation and we have multitudes
millions of people today who believe
that God exists they acknowledge him but
they think basically it’s based on a
performance deal and if they live better
than the average person then they will
be accepted with God that’s not true God
doesn’t grade on a curve it’s not if you
were better than somebody else the Bible
says in Romans 3:23 that all have sinned
short of the glory of God all of us
there is nobody that can approach God
based on their own goodness and stand
before God and say God I did the best I
could is that good enough
no all of us have sinned and come short
of God’s perfect standard the only way
that you can have relationship with God
is to just receive it through Jesus
Jesus paid for our sins and he took our
sin upon himself and gave our his
righteousness which was perfect and pure
unto us if we would just make him our
Lord if we would submit to him so it all
depends on your relationship to Jesus
just acknowledging that he exists even
believing that he paid for sins doesn’t
get you safe
unless you submit to that unless you
confess him as your Lord unless you call
out to him and I know that there’s
people watching this program right now
that you know what you may you may
totally believe that God exists you may
totally believe that Jesus was the son
of God and that he came and paid for our
sins but that doesn’t grant you
salvation unless you believe on him
unless you submit to him unless you
committing him and make him the Lord of
your life you know if you’ve never done
that you need to do that and the reason
I’m saying all of these things I’m
talking about how to hear the voice of
God and it says his sheep hear his voice
if you aren’t one of his sheep if you
have never come into the fold if you
haven’t been born again if you do not
have a personal relationship with Jesus
then you are going to be left to
basically hearing the voice of your
conscience and you’ll have this
intuitive knowledge of right and wrong
but man there is so much more to hearing
the voice of God than just letting your
conscience guide you your conscience
it will show you right from wrong but it
will you’ll never hear God speak to you
and tell you specifically how much he
loves you and things like that just
listening to the voice of your
conscience once you get born again and
become
a sheep a child of the Lord I guarantee
you it opens up a brand-new door of
having God speak to you and things
happening in your life and so if you’ve
never made Jesus your personal Lord
that’s the first step in hearing the
voice of God and that is just crucial
and it’s really simple Jesus has paid at
all you know so many people teach that
well you got to pray and you got to seek
God and you got to ask him to forgive
you the truth is he has already died for
your sins it’s not like you cry out and
say Oh God would you please save me and
then God does something to save you no
before you and I were ever born two
thousand years ago Jesus came to this
earth and Jesus paid for the sins of the
entire world first John chapter 2 verse
2 says he is the propitiation that means
the atoning sacrifice for our sins and
not for ours only but also for the sins
of the whole world Jesus died for the
sins of the whole world before you and I
were ever born our sins have already
been paid for through the sacrifice of
Jesus it’s not a question of will he
forgive you he has forgiven you will you
receive that forgiveness how do I
receive it by making Jesus your Lord and
by humbling yourself and committing
yourself not just acknowledging that he
did it but thanking him for it and
saying father I receive it I put faith I
believe that I am now forgiven through
what Jesus did he paid my debt this is
the reason the Bible calls it good news
it would be bad news that God could
forgive your sins if you will do
everything just right and if you will do
that that puts the burden upon you and
you and I would blow it again if it was
dependent upon us but the truth is Jesus
has paid for your sins sins have been
forgiven it’s not a question of will God
do it it’s just a question of will you
receive it will you make Jesus your Lord
will you believe on him and I’ll tell
you if you’ll do that that ushers you
into being
his sheep and you begin to hear God
speaking to you because you are now
changed on the inside God will speak to
you in ways that you have never
experienced before
you know I’m drawn to the close of this
program and what I want to do is just
pray a simple prayer with you this
prayer isn’t magic it’s not like if you
will just say these words with me that
boom you’re automatically cleansed and
forgiven and everything’s right know the
Bible says you have to believe it with
your heart you have to say it but you
also have to believe it but if you will
pray with me
and if you will believe what I’m leading
you to pray in this prayer you could be
born again right now so you don’t have
to pray these exact words but this is
based on Romans 10:9 and I just want to
lead you in a simple prayer and if you
have acknowledged that God exists even
that Jesus is the Son of God but if
you’ve never committed your life to him
and receive that salvation just pray
with me right now say something like
this say father I’m sorry for my sin
that’s acknowledging that your Center
you say I’m sorry for my sin but I
believe that Jesus paid for my sin and
now I receive that salvation Jesus I
make you the Lord of my life I believe
that you rose from the dead I believe
that you’re alive now and that you come
and live on the inside of me that my
heart is changed I am born again right
now through faith in Jesus Christ and I
received my new nature in Jesus name you
know if you prayed that and if you
believed it then the salvation that was
already provided for you just became a
reality and you became a brand new
person on the inside man that’s awesome
you know I’ve got some material I’ve got
this teaching on how to hear God’s voice
and I’d like to encourage you to contact
us and get that but also I have a book
entitled the new you and Holy Spirit and
I’m going to na as I
go through this teaching I’m going to be
talking about how important the baptism
of the Holy Spirit is to hearing the
voice of God and this book will cover
what true salvation is and it will cover
the baptism of the Holy Spirit which
includes speaking in tongues and being
able to hear God’s voice and if you will
contact us we will be glad to send that
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today and became a brand-new creature
it’s our gift to you and so we have the
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to you because it’s not your body that
got saved it’s not your mind that’s
instantly different but in your heart
you’re a brand-new person and the rest
of the Christian life is learning what
happened to you at salvation so I’ve got
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