New Teaching Series: The Voice of a Father

Voice of a Father Today’s Focus: Introduction Scripture: John 10:24-27; John 14:15 Greetings Sons of God: John 10:24-27: Then came the Jews round about Him and said unto Him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly. Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: because ye are not of my sheep as I said unto you. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: In this passage we see the Jews asking Jesus to tell them plainly whether He is the Christ. Of course discerning their hearts and intentions, he knew that they were not in a place to receive such a direct answer. Jesus starts by telling them that He told them. So the first thing that God does is informs us by His voice and His words. Now the Jews did not believe His words and then Jesus pointed to the works and how they spoke of who He is and yet they still did not believe. Now Jesus lays out this declaration that their problem is that they ARE NOT OF HIS SHEEP. Now Jesus is talking about the Jews, is He not? Now Jesus draws a contrast between them and His sheep. The contrast is His sheep HEAR HIS VOICE, HE KNOWS THEM (RELATIONSHIP) AND THEY FOLLOW HIM. Now notice that the Lord makes the first point that they are His sheep. The use of the pronoun “his” denotes ownership or Lordship. Because Jesus Christ is Lord and we are His sheep, He owns us. Now the next vital concept He points to is the fact that they HEAR HIS VOICE. There is so much time spent on preaching and not enough time spent on training the ears of the sons to hear the Father. This entire series will be focused on showing and teaching us about the importance of the voice of the Father. The importance of this is the fact that this is the way the sheep or the sons of God will walk and follow Christ, by His voice. Let me show you the importance of why we need to have an intimate relationship with the Father. John 14:15: If you love me, keep my commandments. The only way you can show love to the Father is through your obedience to the voice of the Father by which He gives His commandments. This is why we need to study this concept and understand that from the very beginning it was all about the Father having a relationship with His sons and He would do this by His voice ushering in His presence. In the next message we will go back to the beginning and show this concept and then build our series to show that we need to be training our ears more than our eyes. Peace, Love and Grace from the Father, Calvin Calhoun, Jr.