The Inward Voice

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The Inward Voice

• The Voice of the Human Spirit
• The natural man, The carnal man. The spiritual
  man.
• Two Experiences
• There is a difference. The analogy of water. The
  living person.
• God Abiding Within
• Go where He goes. The inner voice will direct.
  You to stay in the light.
• Confidence in your Spirit
• What the Spirit knows. The Spirit leads to
  faith.
• Tenderhearted
• Your Spirit, not the Holy Spirit. Calloused
  again? Learn to keepa tender conscience. ,
• The Voice of the Body
• Feeling is the voice of the body. Reason is the
  voice of the mind. Conscience is the voice of the
  Spirit.
• Help from Within
• The Spirit guides, speaks, reveals, teaches,
  reminds

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The Inward Voice

• As we have seen, the inward witness is God's
  primary way of guiding us. This inward witness
  could also be said to be intuition. It is more
  passive than the inward voice of your spirit.
  Your spirit has a voice. This is the conscience
  or the small still voice of the inner man. It is
  more assertive and insistent than theinward
  witness.

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The Inward Voice

• Disobeying the inward Witness
• The Holy Spirit will direct the believer either
  by an inner conviction or agreement. The inward
  voice of the conscience will be heard when we
  either disobey or ignore this inward witness.
• The Voice of (the Human Spirit)
• Keeping the conscience is the act of obeying the
  inward voice. Paul always followed what his
  conscience said. But the question is "Can you
  trust your conscience?".

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The Inward Voice

• The Natural Man
• The natural man is not born again - he is still
  in the natural state. These people are
  spiritually dead in their trespasses and sins
  that is, they are dead to God and cannot hear or
  perceive the Holy Spirit. As such, they have an
  insensitive, dull and calloused conscience, which
  allows and permits anything.
• The only guide here is
• The course of this world
• The prince of the power of the air
• The lusts of our flesh

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The Inward Voice

• Often, if it is to the benefit of the flesh, the
  person will disobey the conscience for the sake
  of self-gratification. How can a conscience be
  trusted if it has not been made active through
  the new birth? It will either be under the
  influence of the flesh or logical intellect,
  otherwise known as the course of the world.
• The Carnal Man
• This is the Christian who is born of the Spirit
  and has received new life, but is still immature
  in spiritual things.

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The Inward Voice

• Discerning both Good and Evil
• The carnal man cannot discern between what is
  good or evil - there is some confusion and they
  get their lines crossed.
• The Weak Conscience
• A weak conscience and lack of knowledge of the
  Word of God go together.

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The Inward Voice

• Bear the Scruples of the Weak
• A weak conscience will not allow the immature
  believer to enjoy the liberty which the Word
  allows. Those who have a strong conscience should
  bear the weak.
• The Spiritual Man
• This is the born-again believer who has come to
  maturity and is able to responsibly and honestly
  discern between good and evil. He is one walking
  freely in the boundaries that the perfect law of
  liberty provides. He knows what goes against the
  Word and he knows what lines up with the Word,
  and his inward voice bears witness accurately and
  correctly.

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The Inward Voice

• One thing the new birth produces is a sensitive,
  alive and active conscience. That inward voice
  lets you know when you are right or wrong. The
  old life is seen in its true light.
• Full of the Life of Light
• When you have the life of the light you are no
  longer in darkness. Your conscience will not just
  permit anything! You have the life of God. You
  are alive to God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
  You are quickened! Allow God's
• Life to rule!
• Light to rule!
• Love to rule!

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The Inward Voice

• Two Experiences
• There is a Difference at the new birth, the
  believer receives a measure of the Spirit, but at
  the infilling there is an overflow of the Holy
  Spirit which is seen in the utterance of
  different kinds of tongues.
• The Analogy of Wafer At the New Birth
• John 414 ... But whoever drinks of the water
  that I shall give him WILL NEVER THIRST. But the
  water that I shall give him will become in him a
  fountain of water springing up into everlasting
  life.

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The Inward Voice

• At the infilling of the Spirit
• John 737-39 out of his heart will flow rivers
  of living water. But this He spoke concerning the
  Spirit.
• The two experiences are different. There is one
  well of water which has to be drawn out the
  other is a well spring of water from which gushes
  effervescent, living water!

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The Inward Voice

• The Living Person
• The only thing is that the Holy Spirit is not a
  river, but a living Person Who flows "like a
  river". His purpose is to provide sustenance and
  life to the world around.
• God Abiding Within
• This thought is so mind boggling and difficult
  to understand that it is called a mystery. That
  is that our Body is God's home, God's vehicle and
  God's possession.

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The Inward Voice

• Go where He goes
• Where will He go?
• What is the law of liberty?
• We are talking about knowing which way to go and
  not being in the dark - about being led by the
  Holy Spirit from the position of God abiding
  within in our spirit man of the heart.

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The Inward Voice

• Follow after Love
• The still small voice of the spirit (the
  conscience) will assert itself every time we
  break the law of love. Every time we live to
  gratify self at the expense of others, be sure
  that the inward voice will be heard! Why? Because
  the conscience is filled with the Light of life
  and not the darkness of death.

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The Inward Voice

• Confidence in Your Spirit
• There is something deep down that speaks to man,
  demanding that he have faith in God. When all
  around us crumbles, when there is nothing to
  stand on in the physical, when the mind has no
  more arguments and when the heart finally takes
  over, the cry is God-ward! Deep calls to deep!
• What the Spirit knows
• The spirit knows things that the head has not
  perceived it sees things the mind has no
  knowledge of. Therefore depend on your spirit.
  When there is

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The Inward Voice

• Sickness
• Poverty
• Calamity
• That is when your spirit will automatically lead
  you to health, wealth and victory, do not listen
  to your head! Let God speak to your heart and
  listen to the inner voice. It is here that you
  will be led to the answers.
• The Spirit Leads to Faith
• When Kenneth Hagin was lying paralyzed for
  sixteen months in bed waiting to die, he finally
  believed the Scripture, and the inward voice said

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The Inward Voice

• Now you believe that you are well - get up then.
  Well people ought to be up at 10.30 in the
  morning". So he made the effort, he struggled,
  he pushed himself with unfeeling legs to stand.
  Then he felt something - the healing power of god
  began to flow until strength filled his entire
  body and he stood up. He listened to his spirit -
  the inward voice of God speaking to the
  conscience! He chose to believe God!

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The Inward Voice

• Tenderhearted
• Whatever we cannot do with confidence, and
  without condemnation is sin.
• Your Spirit nor the Holy Spirit
• Your spirit convicts - it wants to school you
  back into the light. When you use profanity,
  criticism or negative talk, the new man says,
  "No!". Follow your conscience.

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The Inward Voice

• Calloused Again?
• If the Christian continually disobeys and
  disregards this inward voice, he is cauterizing
  his heart. He renders that new born, sensitive
  heart senseless, unfeeling and calloused. He
  deadens the nerve ends. Learn to keep a tender
  consciences, especially if you want to-be led by
  the Holy Spirit break up the fallow ground rend
  your heart until it is sensitive again wait and
  listen before you act be a full time worshipper
  keep a thankful
  heart before the Lord.

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The Inward Voice

• The Voice of the Body
• Feeling is the voice of the body
• Reason is the voice of the mind
• Conscience is the voice of the spirit
• Help from Within
• John 1613 However, when He, the Spirit of
  truth, has come, He will GUIDE YOU INTO ALL
  TRUTH for He will not speak on His own
  authority, but whatever He hears, He will speak
  and He will tell you things to come.

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The Inward Voice

• The Spirit Guides
• It is in the nature of the Holy Spirit to lead
  and guide God's children. He takes us into
  unknown and unexplored territory.
• The Spirit Speaks
• He will communicate to your spirit the things He
  hears from God the Father in heaven by the inward
  witness or the inward voice.

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The Inward Voice

• The Spirit Reveals
• He will show you personally and individually
  what direction you must take and where your life
  will lead you to.
• The Spirit Teaches
• He is a natural teacher living inside every
  believer. He takes hidden things and not only
  reveals them, but He also explains. Flow with the
  rivers of Living Water coming from within them.
  He adds wisdom to the knowledge.

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The Inward Voice

• The Spirit Reminds
• He pushes the recall button inside your heart
  and mind so that the truth of the Lord Jesus is
  burnt into you!