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Sermon Text: John 10:3 The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep recognize his voice and come to him. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. 4 After he has gathered his own flock, he walks ahead of them, and they follow him because they know his voice. 5 They won't follow a stranger; they will run from him because they don't know his voice." 10 The thief's purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life. 27 My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.
All day every day we hear as many as four voices daily. God's voice, the voice of the world and its ways, the devil's voice and/or demons, and lastly our voice. Our voice comes last because ultimately it will be our voice that makes the choice between which voice we will in the end listen to. So the question is are we hearing His voice or his voice? And how can we know the difference? That's easy Kinda. Jesus comes to save and to make well the devil comes to kill, steal, & destroy. Take an observation of your life and then ask yourself this question, is what's happening in your life based on your choices of the voice you listened to resulting in the full and overflowing enough to bless you, your family, and friends? If so you are listening to Jesus's voice and following His word in all your ways? Kudos to you.
Now on the other hand If everything around you is either dead and dying and always in flux then you are listening to him the devil who comes to kill, steal, and destroy. It's really that simple. Even if you are like Paul & Silas in a dungeon of life you should still be able to sing praises to God even in the midnights of your life. They followed His voice and it was His voice that they preached about that ended them up in that jail. It was not for any crime they had committed. They cast that care on Him who cared for them and they sang His praises and did not cry their woes and He honored their praise tore up the jail and saved everybody there.
Church be sure you are hearing Jesus's voice and not the devils. Remember he made it seem appealing to Adam and Eve to leave God and life at the same time for death. They knew God's voice and they knew the devil's voice wasn't God's voice and they listened and died. If the word of God does not support what you are saying God said or Jesus said or the Holy Spirit said, then you are not hearing from Jesus.
Lastly, Jesus could have healed Moses and the children of Israel in the wilderness when they had sinned and were suffering for it. But you know what Jesus told Moses to do? He said erect a pole and put a bronze serpent on it and all who look to it will be healed. If the people looked they were protected from death if not they failed to hear and heed the voice of God and His warning and they died. Today I 100% believe that the Lord Jesus is saying look to the vaccine and get protected from COVID-19 sickness and/or Death! Will you hear His voice today and live? Or will you like some in the past choose not to listen to His voice and get sick or even die? Or today when you hear the voice of the Lord will you hear, heed, and turn and be healed? The choice of the voice you listen to still is yours.
With All the love of the Father, The Lord Jesus, And the Holy Spirit
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