So-you don't do a thing without the Lord telling you, in an audible voice what is your next move?
Sorry not to get back to you sooner.
If you understand what it expected for perfection, and since ALL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS IS SIN then also what is required to not "sin", then you would understand who and what Jesus Christ actually does. Of course God is spirit, and to say "audible" we are talking about sound waves and not God talking to you - but it you get rid of the "audible" to the statement Johann makes above, then you have Jesus Christ, and what He does - and why He alone is perfect!! Not even the angels in heaven who serve Him are perfect.
So where does that leave everyone else except the Christ?
It leaves us in a position of trying to listen to Him and doing what He says!
God judges the heart!!!!!
So are we making an effort to try and listen to Him by faith (the belief that He is there with us) and do what He says, or are we saying in our heart that He is not their with us to be heard from, so that we really don't believe in Him???
What is amazing to me is who little understanding we have - and that includes me - but not just me!
Understanding comes from Jesus Christ our Lord and that from His words spoken to us via His Holy Spirit. If we don't listen to Him by faith we don't begin to get an understanding of what is going on around us!!!
And if you do listen to Him by faith, you begin to get an understanding of who far off you are from being God, and the more you listen to Him the more you understand who far off you are from being God. And because I have being spending some time ever day listening to Him for over 20 years now I have some small bit of understanding of how silly even the question "
So-you don't do a thing without the Lord telling you, in an audible voice what is your next move?
Is - I mean if anyone was spending even a little time listening to Him on those days called "Today" they would understand enough to not write audible voice"! One of the first things you figure out is the God is spirit, so He doesn't talk to you in an audible voice, but there are times when He decides to make His voice clear enough to you that it might sound audible - but not often. That starts to take away the "faith" part, and it is important to us to have to listen by faith!!!
You see, that we people have a hard time wanting to hear from Him, because of our pride. And having to use "faith" to hear from Him is the key to getting us to want to listen to Him! To help you understand let me give you a little saying He once told me:
He told me" "Karl, to listen to a Rock you have to listen very close."
Num 20:8 “Take the rod; and you and your brother Aaron assemble the congregation and speak to the rock before their eyes, that it may yield its water. You shall thus bring forth water for them out of the rock and let the congregation and their beasts drink.”
The Lord speaks to us in parable and dark sayings, to teach us and help us understand:
Ps 78:2 I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old,
And king Solomon wrote about knowing the sayings:
Prov 1:5,6 A wise man will hear and increase in learning,
And a man of understanding will acquire wise counsel,
To understand a proverb and a figure,
The words of the wise and their riddles.
Wise counsel comes from God (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) and His kingdom (the angels) who He sometimes sends to minister to us.
Heb 1:14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent out to render service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?
Therefore, if any person does not hear with their spiritual ears then they are not a wise man at all, and are not increasing in learning, despite what they think! In fact they don't even believe in Jesus Christ, who is Understanding, and so do not have Understanding in their life!! You have to hear from Him, Understanding who is the Word of God and the Rock, via the Holy Spirit speaking to your spirit to even begin to understand that God is spirit!!
So how can a person that does not hear from our Lord Jesus Christ by faith, begin to even understand what is meant by God is spirit, much less that the Lord our God, Jesus Christ, is Understanding, and is heard by Him sending His Holy Spirit with his words (the Words of God) to speak to our spirit.
So I could tell you that the "rod" which Moses took with Him was representative of the Holy Spirit who indeed helped assemble the congregation and made it possible to speak to the Rock which is representative of Jesus Christ the Lord our God, and which causes the flow of water, which is representative of the words from God the Father which flow to us thru the Rock (Jesus Christ), because we have the rod (the Holy Spirit). I can tell you all that but you can't really understand it until you actually seek to hear from the Lord by faith!!!
But I have been telling you this over and over and over and over and over, using scripture, after scripture, after scripture, after scripture, and you still don't have understanding, even the extremely basic first understanding that God is spirit!! So have you not proved that you don't believe that God is there with us all the time!!
Still I tell you, you can find enough faith in yourself to try and hear from the Rock, even though you think it impossible to hear from a rock!!
Therefore again I say " speak to the rock before their eyes".
And if you are not sure how to begin, try asking Him a question!! Indeed, I might be rude, looking at how you want to test me, for saying I hear from the Lord. So just be careful you don't test the Lord like you have tried to do with me. So I give you some advice - ask Him a different question, because even He might give you an answer that makes mine look soft by comparison.
He told the Jews though Malichi:
Mal 2:1-3
“And now this commandment is for you, O priests.
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If you do not listen, and
if you do not take it to heart to give honor to My name,” says the LORD of hosts,
“then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings; and indeed, I have cursed them already, because you are not taking it to heart.
“Behold, I am going to rebuke your offspring, and I will spread refuse on your faces, the refuse of your feasts; and you will be taken away with it.
The thing is; He does what He says!! So don't ask Him a "sarcastic question like:
So-you don't do a thing without the Lord telling you, in an audible voice what is your next move?
You will want to change it to something like: 'Lord, is it true that you do and say only what the Father tells you?' - or you might try "Lord, how to you feel about me?" That is a question I normally have those honestly seeking the Lord to start with?
Even thru Malichi the Lord told those same Jews which He was upset with for not taking it to heart to listen with the heart to listen to His voice with has always been near - even found in their heart:
Mal 1:2 “I have loved you,” says the LORD. But you say, “How have You loved us?” “
Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the LORD. “Yet I have loved Jacob;
I tell you to this very day, the Lord loves the off-spring of Jacob, the Jews, and Christians are grafted in, so that if anyone hears His voice and honestly opens up to Him, He will come into them via His Holy Spirit and speak with them and them with Him!! Of course that mean having to hear from the Rock, and can you believe for that?