Phoneman777
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The short, correct answer is this: "To the Law and to the Testimony; if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them." Isaiah 8:20 KJVbbyrd009 said:Well, are you seeking God? You know the commandments (edit--lol; just read post 217). And even though we are trapped, completely, in Law now, you can see the end, already, of claiming to somehow be supreme, be better than others, because you can justify that God is on your side, and somehow not on some other side, that you have separated yourself from. We live in an Empire in Decadence, stage 5, so the examples that we can apply to our personal walk are written on the world stage, which of course you are free to misinterpret according to your personal bias, if you are invested in the world in some way; if you trust a military to protect you ("so we don't have to sacrifice," i mean there it is, right in your songs), or even a doctor to keep you healthy, or an economy to keep you housed and fed, then this trust is going to be abused, just count on it, and you are going to be dependent upon a fear/scarcity model, just like the rest of the sea around you, and you are most likely willing to defend it to the death, too, convinced that God wants you to defend a border, or maintain a lifestyle, or drone bomb people you have never met and have nothing against, on the other side of the planet. This voice is from God; "I will harden their hearts." And the end of this is plainly written, too; "Your worst fears will come upon you."
So, having life and death set before us, and choosing death, is also hearing the voice of God, Who plainly tells us that the choice is ours to make. The hearing you ask about comes by the Word, and It is of course very near to you, and one would think that the choice would be a no-brainer, but hating your life is not the intuitive choice that we make, is it? It is a very hard choice, to even hear God. We build enormous edifices, Insurance, Social Security, Mutually Assured Destruction, all so that we don't have to sacrifice, right? So that we don't have to listen to God, or even try to hear Him. And we do this enthusiastically, because it seems like God would approve, so we use our knowledge to construct edifices and become righteous and know things, forgetting that Christ came for the sinners, not the righteous. If you have insurance, see, you bought it out of fear, and not trusting God, as weird as that may seem to you or someone else right now, and so you now you have insurance, and you do not need God anymore; and God is going to respect this choice.
I pick on insurance, because i used to sell it, but like 90% of the planet is not insured, and they do fine; they're actually outliving us now, in many of those places.
So anyway, i don't guess i answered your Q very well; i know what you are asking, and i guess my answer is that i don't know, lol, because the answer is different depending upon who you talk to. "There is a way that seems right to a man, that ends in death." How does one avoid this, and come to hear and obey God, rather than abuse God to justify themselves and their way of life? Unfortunately all of the answers i might give end up being kind of condemning, at least to most people.
I mean, if you are a Christian, say you are a Christian, i might ask you about your experience walking out Christ's first instructions to those He "sent," the Twelve--if you say you are an Apostle of Christ. How did that go for you? Did you physically do it, or did you accomplish this more as a spiritual exercise, wherein you can at least confidently employ and identify all of the relevant symbology...or did you even do it at all? Have you even attempted it as a thought exercise? Because i already know you have never heard a sermon on it, of course, not in a Christian church, in america. For reasons that are now kind of apparent, i guess; the models are mutually exclusive.
So, i don't mean to be condemning people who are doing their best to seek God, and going to some congregation somewhere because that is the socially accepted thing to do; but nonetheless i can read, right in Matt or Luke, about Christ sending out the 12, or even the 70, which we shy away from, i guess because we do not see what we are reading having application to us, we don't see any demons coming out of people, a la miraculously, like the picture our mind gives us when we read that, and so we don't take that first step. So i guess that is how you know--by getting hearing.
You could, alternately, ask some little kid what to do about a given situation, and do what they tell you, no matter what. Lol. Brings up interesting reflections of "hate your life" and "We don't want to hear Him again; let Him talk to you, and you tell us." Huh? Lol. Have a good day.
If a voice comes to you and tells you anything that contradicts the Word of God, that voice is not of God - THAT is how you know, friend. We've got to "try the spirits" to make sure they are not lying spirits.
