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Re: The Lord's Living Voice
 
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Re: The Lord's Living Voice


Ed: Do you believe everybody has a conscience? If not an aspect of God's living voice, what do you believe this conscience is?

me: I believe everybody has a general sense of right and wrong, and that God put that sense in us. This scripture comes to mind too:

Romans 1:
32Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

Of course people having a conscience of right and wrong doesn't mean they have spiritual life.

John 6:63
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

Ed: Also, what do you believe makes someone the Lord's sheep and/or demonstrates that they are the Lord's sheep? Do you believe for example it is the saying of a sinners prayer or do you believe it is something else such as perhaps evidence of a transformed life?

me: I definitely don't believe someone saying the sinner's prayer makes someone a sheep. But someone that says the sinner's prayer may be a sheep. :)

So what makes someone the Lord's sheep?

The Lord raising the dead to life. The sheep are all those that are alive in Christ, or will be made alive in Christ in time.

Ephesians 2:4
4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ.

John5:21
For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will.

I believe just as John 10 says, Jesus calls out his sheep by name, he brings every sheep into the fold, and if one gets lost, he goes and finds it.

I believe anyone that comes to Jesus in true repentance and faith is a sheep. Jesus never turns anyone away that comes to him (All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out. John 6:37)

And yes, I believe the evidence of a true sheep will demonstrate in a transformed life.
 

 
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