Hearing God [Part 4] – Pastor Austin Hix

Message Date: April 28, 2024
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Hearing God: Part 4

28 And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?” 29 Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 31 The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” – Mark 12:28-31 ESV

29 Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 31 The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” – Mark 12:29-31 ESV

“Learning to hear God’s voice – his word and his whisper – is the single most important thing you will ever learn to do.” — Pete Greig

We’ve Learned…

      • Hearing God is for every believer
      • God keeps speaking
      • God speaks subtlety
        • “God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains.” — CS Lewis
      • The ways God speaks

Honorable mentions:

      • Our Conscience
        • Romans 2:14-15, 1 Timothy 1:19, 1 Timothy 4:2
      • Desires of the Spirit
        • Galatians 5:16-22

His Peace

      • 15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. – Colossians 3:15 ESV
      • Rule: Act as judge or umpire

Our lives aren’t shaped by what we know, but what we do with what we know.

Shema

46 “Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you? 47 Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like: 48 he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built. – Luke 6:46-48 ESV