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1 | Knowing God's will under short notice | Bible general Archive 1 | tj57h@cs.com | 88287 | ||
Tough question! Most believers today are on milk and are very ignorant of Christ and his leading by the Spirit. Only a mature believer would be able to discern God will in a situation as you have described. Not by the letter of the scripture but by his living insight, we live and move and have our being in Christ. God is not deaf or mute, he talks to us every day, AER WE LISTENING? The only way we know his voice is through intimate submission to Him, His spirit, and his living (Rahma) word. He is not like a computer, put info in get info out, with the data of the printed word. HE IS ALIVE, one would have to know him, be intimate with him to know his answer. YOU WOULD JUST KNOW, because he would tell you. Searching the written word for specifics of this job would basically be futile! Unless the job was as a hit man and you were being asked to kill people then you know the answer to that! Love, Tim |
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2 | Knowing God's will under short notice | Bible general Archive 1 | Radioman2 | 88288 | ||
How does God speak to us? 'I have to make clear what my point of view is so that it's not misunderstood. Let me capsulize it for you very quickly. My point of view is basically four quick points: 'First of all, learning to hear the voice of God is not taught as a Christian discipline that we must learn in order to live the optimal Christian life. This is the "hotline to God" view in which we get specialized and tailor-made instructions for our personal lives. That is not taught in Scripture. 'Secondly, God sometimes does give specialized instructions, so I'm not saying that God can't do that and I'm not putting God in a box. He does sometimes give specialized instructions. He did in Biblical times and He does in the present. But when we read in the Bible especially in the New Testament, which is what our discussion is about today when He has done it, such specialized instructions are clear first of all. They are not mumbled. They are not whispered. They are not nudged. And they are, almost without exception in the New Testament, a sovereign intrusion by God into the circumstances rather than something that is first sought by a Christian. 'Thirdly, God's intrusion in these cases is sometimes through special gifts in the body that I believe are in full operation today, but are by very nature individual. In other words, every person has his own gift and each person does not have every gift. So this working through gifts can't be a means of every Christian hearing from God. In other words, sometimes God intervenes with a prophetic word, but since prophetic words only come through those people who have the gift of prophecy, it's not the kind of thing we all have to cultivate, to learn to do. 'Finally, there are clearly workings of the Spirit in the area of teaching, conviction of sin and comforting of individual Christians. I admit that those workings are private, individual and tailored to individual people. Those kinds of things are not in question here. ____________________ Acts and the Voice of God by Gregory Koukl To read more go to: (www.str.org/free/commentaries/theology/actsvoic.htm) |
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3 | Knowing God's will under short notice | Bible general Archive 1 | tj57h@cs.com | 88292 | ||
If we don't hear what the Spirit is saying, How do we walk in the Spirit. I was tempted today twice on the same item, and the Spirit led me not to give in and empowered me to walk in that freedom. If that is not hearing from God I do not know what is. I did not crack a bible to find out what God wrote about it. It was revealed to me and I was empowered to obey. You are right generally learning to "Walk in the Spirit" is not taught in the orginized Church. Have you ever recieved a quickened Rehma word from God? Don't go there or talk to her. I hear the Spirit speak to me alot. Or do you consider this delusional? He leads me into paths of righiousness, he gives me divine wisdom and I make decisions. I get this wisdom from him directly in a flash of inspiration, I am not dependenant on outward forms of wisdom and communication from God, but it is available in the church and taught in the bible. I am interested in your thoughts on these matters. Tim |
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