The Rock San Diego – 3/22/09 – The Invisible Man Speaks

What does God’s voice sound like?

• He talks to you every day
• The Holy Spirit is all God – as much as the Son, as much as the Father
• He has all of the attributes of the triune God

1 – The Invisible Man sounds like a small still voice

• No matter what, if God is on your side, you have the advantage
• The fact that it’s a small and still voice forces you to be intent on listening or you just won’t get it
• Listen to your radio, your friends, or be intent on listening to Him, slow down and listen
• He sounds like your conscience
• He will come across as profound
• Pieces of wisdom
• He may not repeat things for you
• If your life is goin goin goin goin goin, you may be drowning out God
• You need time during the day to listen very carefully – He’s not going to shout
• God’s voice will not be loud

2 – The Invisible Man sounds like a groan in your heart (Romans 8:26)

• We don’t know what to pray for nor how to pray for it.  The Holy Spirit guides us
• Many times you just can’t put into words what you feel God is telling you
• You can’t put into words but you just know
• When you get this feeling, you don’t need to know why, you just need to obey
• "I don’t know why or how, I just know"
• The Holy Spirit is praying on your behalf
• Ask for the will of God

3 – The Invisible Man sounds like a child crying "Daddy" to God (Galatians 4:4)

• Always humility toward God
• You are not born a child of God, you are born a child of wrath who can then become a child of God when you accept Jesus Christ as your savior
• You cry "daddy" with dependence – can never be with attitude
• He nurtures within us a spirit of humility to cry out to "Daddy"
• God is not your peer, not your servant, not even your boss – He is almighty
• You are nothing but His child

4 – The Invisible Man sounds like biblical truth

• If anything contradicts the Bible, it is not God
• John 14-16
• Don’t ever let the devil get in the way of obeying God
• Don’t ever let the devil waste your time
• The Holy Spirit will testify of Jesus
• His job is to clarify who Jesus was and what Jesus did and does
• He will guide you into truth
• The truth will always be the Word
• Obeying God has nothing to do with what other people think and nothing to do with what you feel
• Your faith is most validated when you obey him when you don’t want to
• There will be times when God is prompting you to do something, and you have no idea why, but you know that it’s the right thing to do

5 – The Invisible Man wants us to speak like Him (Mark 13:11)

• Imagine your lips as God’s lips – say what He would say
• When you talk to people, are you saying words that Jesus would say?
• The Spirit wants to speak through you