В Джоне 10, Иисус сказал, that He is the good Shepherd and that His sheep that belong to His flock will listen to His voice. Jesus knows His sheep and the sheep know Him and believe Him and therefore the sheep do what He says. Однако, Jesus not only spoke about His voice, but also about the voice of a stranger that His sheep would not follow. However there are many people today, которые называют Иисуса своим Господом, but don’t listen to the voice of Jesus and don’t do what the Word says, but they go their own way and listen to the voice of strangers, who don’t preach the words of Jesus but their own words and therefore preach a false gospel that promotes the works of darkness and makes the people prideful and rebellious against God and cause them to walk in disobedience to His Word in the bondage of sin. Какой голос ты слушаешь?
Каждый, who belongs to God listens to Him
Since they were raised in Egypt, the children of Israel considered Egyptian culture and idolatry normal. But it wasn’t normal to God and was not according to His will.
God made this known to the people of Israel in the wilderness after God redeemed His people by His power from the power of Pharaoh.
Through signs and wonders, God revealed His greatness and omnipotent power, and highest authority. Then God made His nature and His will known by His words and commandments
The people had to renew their old way of thinking with the words and the commandments of God, so that their way of thinking would line up with the will of God and they would walk after His will in His ways.
As long as the people of Israël obeyed the words and commandments of God and lived according to His will, the people of God distinguished themselves from pagan nations and were a witness of God on earth (Ой. Исайя 43:10-12; 44:8).
God’s people distinguished themselves from pagan nations
Through the circumcision in the flesh on the eighth day and by keeping the law of Moses, which belonged to the circumcision and the covenant and revealed God and His will, God’s people distinguished themselves from pagan nations both in the flesh as in the natural realm through their walk (Читайте также: Что означает обрезание Иисуса Христа? и Восьмой день, de day of the new creation).
Because by keeping God’s commandments, God’s people didn’t walk like the other people in idolatry, колдовство, блуд, прелюбодеяние, (сексуальный) нечистота, враньё, обман, жадность, и т. д.. But God’s people walked holy (separated from the world and devoted to God) in obedience to God after His will.
By listening to the voice of God and by keeping the law, which means obeying the words of God, the people showed, that they loved God above all, above themselves and the will, вожделения, и желания плоти.
But even in the Old Covenant, it happened often that God’s people compromised and adopted the religion, ритуалы, привычки, and customs of the pagan nations and committed idolatry, прелюбодеяние, и (сексуальный) нечистота, и из-за этого, they didn’t stay faithful to the voice of God but left the voice and the words of God.
Много раз, Israel stopped following the voice of God and instead followed the voice of people, the voice of strangers; the voice of false prophets, false shepherds, и лжеучителей, and expected it from them instead of God. Because of their apostasy, God’s people ended up in bondage, рабство, and miserable circumstances.
The majority of God’s people didn’t consider the commandments of God as good and a blessing for their lives, but as evil and a heavy burden. This was mainly because they were unspiritual and didn’t want to do the will of God but the will and desires of the flesh, in which the sinful nature reigns (Читайте также: Легко ли иго Иисуса и легко ли Его бремя??)
Jesus belonged to God and listened to the voice of God
Jesus didn’t annul the commandments of God, which represent the nature of God and the will of God. He established the law by walking in obedience to God’s commandments in His will.
Jesus belonged to God and listened to the voice of God and did nothing outside the will of God.
Jesus was not led by His flesh and was not influenced by His surroundings, nor by what the people, в том числе (религиозный) лидеры народа, сказал. But Jesus stayed obedient and faithful to the voice of His Father and walked according to His will in His commandments and fulfilled the law.
Jesus was the reflection of God. The words of God were the highest authority in His life (Ой. евреи 1:3; 5:8).
Through His total submission to God and obedience to His words, Иисус, Сын Божий, separated Himself from the world (мировая система) and distinguished Himself from the sons of the devil.
Through His obedience to the voice of God and by keeping His commandments, Jesus showed that He loved God and belonged to Him and nobody else.
И так же, как Иисус, who showed through His walk that He belonged to God and was His Son, каждый, who is born of God and belongs to Jesus Christ, shall love Him and shall listen to His voice and keep His commandments and be His witness.
Каждый, who belongs to Jesus shall listen to His voice
Воистину, воистину, Я говорю тебе, Кто не входит дверью в овчарню, но взбирается по какой-то другой дороге, То же вор и грабитель. А входящий через дверь есть пастырь овец. Ему привратник отворяет; и овцы слышат голос Его: и Он называет Своих овец по имени, и выводит их наружу. И когда Он выгонит овец Своих,, Он идет впереди них, и овцы следуют за ним: ибо они знают голос Его. И за чужим они не пойдут, но убежит от него: ибо они не знают голоса чужих (Джон 10:1-5)
Then came the Jews round about Him, и сказал Ему, Как долго ты заставляешь нас сомневаться? If Thou be the Christ, скажи нам прямо. Иисус ответил им, я говорил тебе, и вы не верили: дела, которые Я творю во имя Отца Моего, они свидетельствуют обо Мне. But ye believe not, because ye are not of My sheep, как я сказал тебе. Мои овцы слышат Мой голос, и я их знаю, и они следуют за Мной: И Я даю им жизнь вечную; и они никогда не погибнут, и никто не вырвет их из руки Моей. Мой отец, который дал им Меня, больше всех; и никто не может вырвать их из руки Отца Моего. Я и Отец Мой – одно (Джон 10:24-30)
Иисус сказал, that His sheep shall hear His voice and follow Him and therefore they shall do what Jesus has told them to do. Иисус также сказал, that His sheep shall not hear the voice of a stranger and follow the stranger, but shall flee from him, because they don’t know the voice of strangers.
Однако, today there are many people, которые называют себя христианами, but don’t know the voice of Jesus. They don’t listen to the voice of Jesus and don’t do what the Word says. Вместо, they listen to the voice of strangers, людей, who speak from their carnal mind, and follow them and obey their words.
Many Christians don’t read and study the Bible themselves and therefore they don’t know the words and the will of God and have no knowledge about good and evil.
Instead of spending time with God and knowing His voice and listening to Him and feeding themselves with the words of God, they listen to the world and all kinds of preachers and feed themselves with their words and consider their words as the truth.
They don’t look at their lives and the fruit they bear and don’t compare their words with the words in the Bible, but they blindly trust their words and follow them.
Because they don’t know the truth of God themselves, since they don’t study the Bible, but rely on the words of preachers, who are many times carnal and wordlikeand preach their own truth, they become lukewarm and apostate to God and His Word and don’t live according to His will but outside His will Because of that, the ‘sons of God’ don’t distinguish themselves from the sons of the devil.
Christians are supposed to be a reflection of Jesus
Christians are supposed to be a reflection of Jesus (the true Jesus Christ and not the Иисус нью эйдж) and walk in obedience to His words and because of that distinguish themselves from the world.
But instead of Jesus Christ being the Lord of their lives and hearing His voice and obeying His commandments, they are the lord of their lives and live after the will, вожделения, and desires of their flesh and speak words and do things, which are an abomination to God and go against His will and many times they bring fellow Christians down with them and defile the church through their sinful behavior and consider the blood of Jesus as unclean.
God’s people distinguished themselves from the pagan nations by keeping the law. Jesus Christ distinguished Himself from the carnal man, старое творение, к keeping the commandments of God and fulfilling the law, и христиане, которые стали новым творением во Христе, distinguish themselves from the old creation, who belong to the world and walk in darkness, by walking by faith after the law of Spirit of life.
Однако, due to the fact that many Christians listen to the voice of the world and the voice of preachers, who are carnally minded and belong to the world, and consider the voice of the world as the highest authority in their lives, they live like the world and therefore there is hardly any difference between believers and unbelievers.
Есть много христиан, who are sincere and want to walk right, but because of carnal preachers and carnal fellow Christians, they are misled by their lies and keep doing the works of the flesh and persevere in sin and keep living after the will of the devil in the bondage of death.
Что говорит Слово?
In all three dispensations in the Bible, the will of God has always remained the same. Это был народ, who changed and twisted the words of God and preached their own message.
Конечно, we should distinguish the Old Covenant, which was sealed with the blood of animals and was meant for the carnal old man, and the New Covenant, which is sealed with the blood of Jesus and is meant for the spiritual new man. Однако, the will of God did not change with the New Covenant and shall never change! (Читайте также: What is the difference between the sacrifice of animals and the sacrifice of Jesus?).
Дела плоти, Как и врать, идолопоклонство, (сексуальный) нечистота (блуд, prostitution, Просмотр порно, мастурбация, nonmarital sexual relationships, having sex with plural people or people of their own gender or children or animals, и т. д.) прелюбодеяние, злость, кража, drunkenness and so on, are works of the old man and should be put off.
These works of the flesh don’t belong in the lives of the sons of God.
And nobody can ever say, that this is impossible, потому что Слово говорит, that by the power of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, the new man is able, to put off the works of the flesh.
Фактически, the Word commands to put off the works of the flesh and to put off the old man and to put on the new man, who is created in the image of God (Ой. Ефесянам 4:20-32, Колоссянам 3:1-14 (Читайте также: Как избавиться от старика? и Как облачиться в нового мужчину?)).
The love for God and the will of man
But it all depends upon the love for God and the will of man. Does the person love God with all his heart, душа, разум, и сила? Has the person submitted his will to the will of God? Does the person wants to lay down the works of the flesh or does the person loves the works of the flesh more than God and wants to keep doing the works of the flesh to please himself and fulfill the desires of the flesh and therefore search for preachers and fellow Christians, who are carnal just like them and say what they want to hear and affirm and approve their works of the flesh?
Те, who are born of God and really belong to Him shall listen to His voice, even if His voice doesn’t correspond with their will.
Jesus speaks the words of His Father and the Holy Spirit speaks the words of Jesus. Therefore the Holy Spirit shall always speak according to what the Word says. The Word is the reflection of God and His nature and reveals His will.
Поэтому, if people say, например, that a little white lie, marrying an unbeliever, жить вместе, не состоя в браке, блуд, nonmarital sexual relationships, (сексуальный) нечистота, прелюбодеяние (развод), аборт, эвтаназия, идолопоклонство, and witchcraft aren’t bad, and that engaging in Eastern religions, and philosophies and practices, like yoga, медитация, внимательность, Рейки, иглоукалывание, боевые искусства, и т. д.. isn’t evil and harmful and is allowed for Christians, then they put themselves above God and speak lies because their words contradict the words and the will of God (Читайте также: Можете ли вы отделить духовное от восточной философии и практики?? и Можете ли вы продолжать грешить под благодатью??).
Their words prove they are unspiritual and don’t discern the spirits and are not familiar with the will of God and don’t live according to the Word and the Spirit. Поэтому, you should reject their words and run away from them, instead of believing and obeying their words in your life and following them.
Christians should live within the framework of the Bible. The Word of God must be the highest authority in the lives of Christians, so that their lives align with the Word. This will only happen if the fear of God and Jesus Christ returns in the lives of the believers and they put God and His Word above the people and the world.
Какой голос ты слушаешь?
If you are born of God and belong to Jesus Christ and are part of His flock, you shall hear His voice and follow Him. You shall do what Jesus said and keep His commandments, whereby you shall distinguish yourself from the world and show that you are a son of God instead of a son of the devil.
«Будь солью земли’
