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How often do we mistake the voice of our own imagination for the witness or voice of the Spirit of God or of Satan. We think we are doing well, because we heard the voice, a voice. We validate what we are doing to others by saying God said this or God said that.
How often have we make serious mistakes because we have acted based upon hearing a voice. We do or say what the voice we heard tells us to do or say and if anyone tells us we are mistaken, that what we are doing or saying is not right we get offended because rather than listening to what is being spoken to us, often by the Spirit of God, we feel that our faith and relationship with God is being questioned. And then we come back with, I know what God told me”, with such a vehemence, that others must step back and leave us to our God and our voices.
Then there are those who see and hear the effects of the person we just spoke of and they do not want to come anywhere near “that voice”, and thus leans toward the other extreme. They will quickly say “God does not talk to you:. They won’t receive prophecy, words of wisdom, or words of knowledge. They strongly believe all of that “died with Paul and the other Apostles”.
There is a middle of the road in all of this. A place where you know there is a difference in the voices you hear and are secure enough to not shut out all voices completely but to “try the spirit by the spirit”.
Romans 8:16 speaks of the witness of our spirit. What is that? What is the testimony of God’s spirit and how does that testimony bear witness with our spirit that we are the children of God?
How do we distinguish between the voices we hear to know the difference between that of the demonic realm and soulish delusion? This is what I call “Spiritual Sense”. A common sense for our spirit. Being able to discern, distinguish, know the voices we hear. For you will hear them, we all hear them. Our consciousness, when it is in communion with the Spirit of God keeps us in check. Sinners have no conscience. The can do and say what ever they want because they can hear only what their soul says and what Satan tells them. They are dead to the things of God.
Romans 8:15 says you received the spirit of adoption by whom we cry out “abba father”. There is in every believer, the testimony of God’s spirit that we are children of God. Scripture describes in great detail what characterizes a person as a child of God. The foundation has been laid for us to follow.
I Corthinians 14:20 tells us to “be mature in our understanding”.
So we know the Spirit of God leads us into holiness and righteousness. We can thus say, “If I am led by the spirit of God, I am a child of God”. The witness of our spirit from the Spirit of God, our reason or understanding which comes from the word of God gives us the evidence that we are children of God.
How do we know that we know that we know? You know if you “keep His commandments”.
Your godly conscience informs you not to speak the name of God unless it is with seriousness, devotion, reverence, godly fear. Your godly conscience tells you to honor your father and mother; possess your body in sanctification and honor, maintain temperance or moderation in your eating and drinking.
This is the testimony of our spirit and our conscience. Our conversation is holy. We have a loving heart towards God and those around us. We have an awareness or consciousness that we are inwardly conformed, by the Spirit of God to the image of His Son. That we walk before him in justice, mercy and truth, doing the things which are pleasing in his sight.
The testimony of the Spirit of God is an inward impression on the soul where the Spirit of God directly witnesses to your spirit, that you are a child of God, that Jesus loves you and gave Himself for you and because of this all of your sins are blotted out, and you are reconciled to God.
For us to be conscious that we are holy — we must be holy. We must have the testimony or inner witness in our spirit. We must love God—this is the root of holiness. We must also receive testimony or witness from the operation of the Spirit of God. This is freely given. We are able to discern to a greater extent and set ourselves to do things that are pleasing in God’s sight.
We love God because He first loved us, and because we love, delight and rejoice in God, we can each say, “I am a child of God”. The same assurance we have that the scriptures are the divine word of God is what we have in knowing we are children of God.
This testimony of Holy Spirit gives us such a testimony of adoption that is is ever present in our souls, to the extent that we cannot doubt the reality of our sonship. We know that we know that we know. And if we carefully weigh, study, pray and attend ourselves to the word we will not mistake the voice that we here. We will be able to discern darkness from light, the real voice of God from the soulish or the demonic. There will be no danger or possibility of mistaking God’s voice because as Jesus says, “My sheep know (recognize, are familiar with, can hear above all others) my voice”.
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