Does Jesus Know Your Voice?

Hello Guys and Gals,

If any of you have been following my recent posts, they have been building up to something and I believe they will conclude with this post. As I am in a lot of pain tonight, I think it is an ideal time for me to write about this one in particular and at the end of this one, I hope you will agree with me.

How many of you have ever heard of Calvin vs Arminian? Well it started out with Calvin and his 5 points. What those 5 points are have been talked about in previous blogs so I will only talk about the specific point I am addressing here tonight. The main point of John Calvin that James Arminian had the biggest trouble with is that Calvinists claim that salvation, once attained, can never be lost. Now I do not believe that John Calvin believed in Eternal Security and I do believe that most in the Calvin camp do not fully understand John Calvin's arguments regarding this. But that is also another discussion for another time.

James Arminian did not like Calvin's 5 points and so put out 5 opposing points of his own, chief of which was salvation is only secure if you persevere in it.

Now I do not like either 'camp' in their beliefs of once saved, always saved; or that you can lose your salvation. I believe that with both those camps, the decision is being placed too heavily into man's hands.

Jesus stated quite clearly about salvation and who His followers truly are:

27 My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them away from me, 29 for my Father has given them to me, and he is more powerful than anyone else. No one can snatch them from the Father’s hand. ~ John 10:27-29 NLT

Jesus clearly states two things in this: first, He states that His sheep listen to His voice and follow Him; second, the eternal life that Jesus gives to His followers are placed there by the Father and no man (translated as no one in this translation) can snatch them from His hand.

As to the first, Jesus says that His sheep listen to His voice and follow Him. This means that they must know what His voice sounds like! Do you know what Jesus' voice sounds like? I do not mean reading scripture and being able to pick out the red ink on the page. I mean, do you truly hear His voice within you speaking to you in those quite, still times when it is truly Him speaking to you? If you do not, I would start asking yourself why you do not!

As to the second, the decision of whether or not someone's eternal security is able to be taken away once Jesus Christ has given it is not up to any man to have the power to do. However it does not say that God the Father does not have the power to take it away if He does not like what it is you are doing in your life!

Look closely at Ezekiel 18:

24 However, if righteous people turn from their righteous behavior and start doing sinful things and act like other sinners, should they be allowed to live? No, of course not! All their righteous acts will be forgotten, and they will die for their sins. 25 “Yet you say, ‘The Lord isn’t doing what’s right!’ Listen to me, O people of Israel. Am I the one not doing what’s right, or is it you? 26 When righteous people turn from their righteous behavior and start doing sinful things, they will die for it. Yes, they will die because of their sinful deeds. ~ Ezekiel 18:24-26 NLT

Read it closely! Yes, that's right, it states very clearly that when a righteous person turns from their righteous behavior and starts acting like other sinners, all their righteous acts will be forgotten and they will die for their sins! Don't get mad at God for not giving you a license to sin. He never did give one!

So often I hear the saying, "I may just barely make it into Heaven by the skin of my teeth, but I will be there!"

Are you sure about that? Do you know the Word of God? Do you read your bible?

Let me give you another passage of scripture to drive the point I am making in this whole post home:

21 “Not everyone who calls out to me, ‘Lord! Lord!’ will enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Only those who actually do the will of my Father in heaven will enter. 22 On judgment day many will say to me, ‘Lord! Lord! We prophesied in your name and cast out demons in your name and performed many miracles in your name.’ 23 But I will reply, ‘I never knew you. Get away from me, you who break God’s laws.’ ~ Matthew 7:21-23 NLT

Just because you think you are saved, does not make it so! What does Jesus Himself state about whether or not you will get into Heaven? He says that there are many who will do this or do that in His name, but He never even knew who they were!

So many pastors today ask the question of whether you know Jesus Christ. I think the more pertinent question should be of whether Jesus Christ knows you!

In other words, do you have such an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ through the reading of His Word and Prayer that He knows your voice as well as you know His voice? Are you sure about whether He knows your voice?

I know for a fact that Jesus knows my voice and I know His voice for I am in nearly constant prayer to Him! My very life depends on it! I know many of you do not have the pain that I do. But I also know that there are some of you out there who have been hurt as deeply as I have in many other ways. I also know that Jesus Christ yearns to know you at such an intimate level that there will be no doubt in your life, not only that you know His voice, but that He also knows your voice and will declare before the Father that you are His!

That is the type of intimate relationship you need to have with Jesus Christ that I have been speaking about for so long now. I pray that each and every one of you who reads this post takes the time to reflect on whether or not Jesus Christ will know you when you stand before the Father as Satan is accusing you of all your sins! Will Jesus know you? Or will you be rightly judged to eternal damnation in Gehenna, the Lake of Fire? I am not afraid to speak it for I also faced the reality of it in order to come face to face with my Lord, Jesus Christ!

God bless you all this night!