For many of us, as followers of Jesus, hearing the voice of the Holy Spirit doesn’t come naturally. We tend to make it weird and complicated. Pastor Josh gives us a few practical ways to grow in intimacy with and listen to the voice of the Holy Spirit so that we hear Him with more clarity.
Left On Read, Part 5
LEFT ON READ
Better Responses Come From Better Listening
January 30, 2022 | By Josh Via
SETLIST
Rest on Us
Maverick City Music
Jesus Over Everything
The Belonging Co.
Make Room
Community Music
Nothing Else
Cody Carnes
MESSAGE NOTES
John 14:15-26
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
“I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. In that day you will know that I am in my see Father, and you in me, and I in you. Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.” Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?” Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.24 Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father’s who sent me.
“These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
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Intimacy → Learning → Obedience = CLARITY
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John 14:17
Jesus says, “You know him, for he dwells with you and will be IN you.”
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John 14:18
“I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.”
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John 14:26
“But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name will TEACH you all things and bring to remembrance all that I have said to you.”
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John 14:15
“If you love me you will KEEP my commandments.”
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John 14:21
“Whoever has my commandments and KEEPS them, he it is who loves me.”
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John 14:23
“If anyone loves me, he will KEEP my word…”
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John Calvin
“To HAVE his commandments means to be properly instructed in them; and to KEEP his commandments is to conform ourselves and our life to their rule.”
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The deeper the intimacy, the deeper the clarity.
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John 10:27
“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.”
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Closer Proximity = Better Clarity
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Five Reliable Sources for Listening
- Scripture
- The Worshiping Community
- Our Spiritual Gifts
- Our Spirit
- Our Circumstances
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2 Timothy 3:16-17
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
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Acts 13:2-3
While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” Then after fasting and praying they laid their hands on them and sent them off.
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Nehemiah 2:12
“Then I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. And I told no one what my God had PUT INTO MY HEART to do for Jerusalem. There was no animal with me but the one on which I rode.”
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1 Corinthians 16:8-9
But I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost, for a wide door for effective work has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.
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The deeper the intimacy, the deeper the clarity.
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Clarity Comes Through Intimacy
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John 15:4
ABIDE in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it ABIDES in the vine, neither can you, unless you ABIDE in me.