Trong John 10, Chúa Giêsu đã nói, rằng Ngài là Mục Tử nhân lành và đàn chiên của Ngài thuộc về đàn chiên của Ngài hãy lắng nghe tiếng Ngài. Jesus knows His sheep and the sheep know Him and believe Him and therefore they do what He says. But Jesus not only spoke about His voice, but also about the voice of a stranger that His sheep wouldn’t follow. However there are many people today, who call themselves Christians and call Jesus their Lord, but don’t listen to the voice of Jesus. They don’t do what the Bible says, nhưng đi theo con đường riêng của họ. They listen to the voice of strangers, who don’t preach the words of Jesus but their own words and preach a false gospel. This false gospel promotes the works of darkness and makes the people prideful and rebellious towards God and cause them to walk in disobedience to His Word in the bondage of sin. Bạn nghe giọng nói nào?
If you belong to God you listen to Him
The children of Israel lived in Egypt for 430 năm. The generation that was delivered from the power of Pharaoh by the hand of God were raised in Egypt. They considered the Egyptian culture and idolatry normal. Tuy nhiên, the Egyptian culture and idolatry were not 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, mà Ngài đã ban cho Môi-se.
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 according to 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. (đến. Ê-sai 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 (Đọc thêm: Cắt bao quy đầu trong Chúa Giêsu Kitô có nghĩa là gì?).
As long as God’s people obeyed the law and kept God’s commandments, they didn’t walk as the Gentiles in idolatry, phép thuật phù thủy, sự gian dâm, ngoại tình, (tình dục) ô uế, dối trá, lừa dối, tham lam, vân vân. God’s people walked holy (separated from the world and devoted to God) vâng phục Chúa theo ý Ngài.
By listening to the voice of God and keeping the law, which means obeying the words of God, the people showed, that they feared and loved their God above all, above themselves and the will, ham muốn, và mong muốn của xác thịt.
But even in the Old Covenant, it happened regularly that God’s people compromised and adopted the religion, lễ nghi, thói quen, and customs of the pagan nations and committed idolatry, ngoại tình, Và (tình dục) ô uế.
They didn’t stay faithful to the voice of God but left the voice and the words of God.
The children of Israel stopped following the voice of God
Nhiều lần, Israel stopped following the voice of God and followed the voice of people, the voice of strangers; the voice of false prophets, những người chăn cừu giả, và những giáo sư giả, and expected it from them instead of God. Because of their apostasy, God’s people ended up in bondage, chế độ nô lệ, and miserable circumstances.
The majority of God’s people didn’t consider the commandments of God as good and a blessing for their lives. Thay vì, they considered the commandments of God as evil và một gánh nặng. This was mainly because they were unspiritual and didn’t want to do the will of God. They wanted to do the will and desire of the flesh in which the sinful nature reigns.
Jesus belonged to God and listened to the voice of God
Jesus didn’t annul the commandments of God that represent the nature and 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. He wasn’t influenced by His surroundings, nor by what the people, bao gồm cả (tôn giáo) lãnh đạo nhân dân, nói. But Jesus stayed obedient and faithful to the voice of His Father. He walked according to His will in His commandments and fulfilled the law.
Chúa Giêsu là sự phản chiếu của Thiên Chúa. Lời của Đức Chúa Trời là thẩm quyền cao nhất trong cuộc đời Ngài (đến. tiếng Do Thái 1:3; 5:8).
Through His total submission to God and obedience to His words, Chúa Giêsu, con trai của Chúa, separated Himself from the world (Hệ thống thế giới) and distinguished Himself from the sons of the devil (cả nam và nữ).
Through His obedience to God’s voice and keeping His commandments, Jesus showed that He feared and loved God. Jesus showed that He belonged to Him and nobody else.
Và giống như Chúa Giêsu, who showed through His walk that He belonged to God and was His Son, mọi người, who is born of God and belongs to Jesus Christ, shall fear and love Him and listen to His voice and keep His commandments and be His witness.
The people who belong to Jesus listen to His voice
Chúa Giêsu đã nói, His sheep hear His voice and follow Him. This means that they listen to Jesus and do what Jesus told them to do. Chúa Giêsu cũng đã nói, His sheep shall not hear the voice of a stranger and follow the stranger but flee from him, because they don’t know the voice of strangers.
Thật vậy, Thật vậy,, Tôi nói với bạn, Kẻ không qua cửa mà vào chuồng chiên, nhưng leo lên bằng cách khác, giống nhau là kẻ trộm và kẻ cướp. Nhưng kẻ bởi cửa vào là người chăn chiên. Đối với anh ta người khuân vác mở; và đàn cừu nghe thấy giọng nói của anh ấy: và anh ta gọi tên con cừu của mình, và dẫn họ ra ngoài. Và khi anh ta đưa con cừu của mình ra ngoài, anh ấy đi trước họ, và đàn cừu đi theo anh ta: vì họ biết giọng nói của anh ấy. Và một người lạ họ sẽ không đi theo, nhưng sẽ chạy trốn khỏi anh ta: vì họ không biết tiếng nói của người lạ (John 10:1-5)
Then came the Jews round about Him, và nói với anh ấy, Ngài làm chúng tôi nghi ngờ bao lâu? If Thou be the Christ, nói rõ ràng với chúng tôi. Chúa Giêsu đã trả lời họ, Tôi đã nói với bạn, và bạn tin là không: những việc tôi làm nhân danh Cha tôi, họ làm chứng cho Ta. Nhưng bạn không tin, because ye are not of My sheep, như tôi đã nói với bạn. Chiên của tôi nghe tiếng tôi, và tôi biết họ, và họ theo tôi: Và tôi ban cho họ sự sống đời đời; và họ sẽ không bao giờ bị diệt vong, không ai có thể cướp chúng khỏi tay Ta. Cha, đã ban cho họ Ta, lớn hơn tất cả; và không ai có thể nhổ chúng ra khỏi tay Cha Ta. Tôi và Cha tôi là một (John 10:24-30)
Many Christians don’t know the voice of Jesus
Today there are many people, những người tự gọi mình là Kitô hữu, but don’t know the voice of Jesus Christ. They don’t listen to the voice of Jesus and don’t do what the Bible says. Thay vì, they listen to the voice of strangers.
They listen to the devil and people, who speak from their carnal mind, and follow them and obey their words.
Nhiều Cơ đốc nhân không tự đọc và nghiên cứu Kinh thánh. Therefore they don’t know the words and the will of God and have no knowledge of 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, Christians listen to the world and all kinds of preachers. They feed themselves with their words and consider their words as the truth.
They don’t look at their lives and trái cây họ mang. Nor do they compare their words with the words in the Bible. But they blindly trust their words and follow them. All 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 worldlike and preach their own truth, they become lukewarm and apostate to God and His Word. They don’t live according to God’s will but live outside His will. Do đó, the ‘sons of God’ (cả nam và nữ) don’t distinguish themselves from the sons of the devil.
Are Christians a reflection of Jesus?
Christians are supposed to be a reflection of Jesus (the true Jesus Christ and not the Chúa Giêsu thời đại mới) and walk in obedience to His words and 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, ham muốn, và mong muốn xác thịt của họ. They speak words and do things, which are an abomination to God and go against His will.
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, Sự sáng tạo cũ, bằng cách keeping the commandments of God and fulfilling the law, và Kitô hữu, những người đã trở thành tạo vật mới trong Chúa Kitô, 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.
Tuy nhiên, 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.
Có rất nhiều người theo đạo Thiên Chúa, 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.
Kinh Thánh nói gì?
In all three dispensations in the Bible, the will of God has always remained the same. Not God, but the people changed. The people changed and twisted the words of God and came up with new things and preached their own message.
Tất nhiên rồi, we should distinguish the Old Covenant, which was sealed with the blood of animals and was meant for the carnal old man, và Giao Ước Mới, đó là sealed with the blood of Jesus and is meant for the spiritual new man. Tuy nhiên, the will of God did not change with the New Covenant and shall never change!
Công việc của xác thịt (tức là. nằm, sự thờ hình tượng, (tình dục) ô uế (sự gian dâm, prostitution, xem phim khiêu dâm, thủ dâm, non-marital sexual relationships, having sex with plural people or people of their own gender or children or animals, vân vân.) ngoại tình, giận dữ, trộm cắp, 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. Because the Bible says that by the power of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, the new man is able to put off the works of the flesh.
Trong thực tế, the Word commands to put off the works of the flesh and to Đưa ông già và để Đưa người đàn ông mới, người được tạo dựng theo hình ảnh Thiên Chúa. (đến. Ê-phê-sô 4:20-32, Cô-lô-se 3:1-14).
The fear and love for God and the will of man
But it all depends upon the fear and love for God and the will of man. Does the person fear and love God with all his heart, linh hồn, tâm trí, and strength and submitted his will to the will of God?
Is the person willing 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? Nếu trường hợp sau xảy ra, people shall 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.
The fruits of people’s lives prove to whom they belong and what voice they listen to
Dân tộc, who are born of God and really belong to Him shall listen to His voice. Even when God’s voice doesn’t correspond with their will or feelings.
Jesus speaks the words of His Father and the Holy Spirit speaks the words of Jesus. Therefore the Holy Spirit always speaks according to what the Word says.
The Word is the reflection of God and His nature and reveals His will.
Vì thế, if people say, Ví dụ, that a little white lie, marrying an unbeliever, sống chung chưa kết hôn, sự gian dâm, nonmarital sexual relationships, (tình dục) ô uế, ngoại tình (ly hôn), phá thai, An tử, sự thờ hình tượng, and witchcraft aren’t bad, and that engaging in Eastern religions, and philosophies and practices, like yoga, thiền, Mindfulness, Reiki, châm cứu, võ thuật, vân vân. 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 (Đọc thêm: Bạn có thể tách biệt tâm linh khỏi triết lý và thực hành phương Đông không? Và Bạn có thể tiếp tục phạm tội dưới ân điển không?).
Their words prove they are unspiritual and don’t discern the spirits and don’t know the will of God and don’t live according to the Word and the Spirit. Vì thế, you should reject their words and run away from them, instead of believing and obeying their words and following them.
Christians should live within the framework of the Bible. God’s Word must be the highest authority in the lives of Christians. Để có thể, Kitô hữu’ lives align with the Word.
This only happens if the fear of God and Jesus Christ returns in the lives of Christians and they put God and His Word above the people and the world.
Bạn nghe giọng nói nào?
If you’re born of God and belong to Jesus Christ and are part of His flock, you’ll 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.
‘Hãy là muối của trái đất’
