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.
