DOES THAT MEAN THAT I AM NOT ONE OF HIS SHEEP? I FIND THIS CONFUSING. I THOUGHT JESUS WAS BORN LATER, AND I ALWAYS ASSUMED IT WAS THE HOLY SPIRIT IN SOME FORM THAT JOINED THEM IN THE FIRE. PLEASE EXPLAIN THIS TO ME.
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We've got a few
questions for Bring It On.
OK.
Let's Bring It On.
This is Karen, who
says, "Jesus said,
'My sheep will know my voice,'
but there are times when I
really don't know if I'm
hearing the Holy Spirit,
or my own mind, or even
sometimes if it's Satan talking
to me.
Does that mean I'm
not one of his sheep?"
Of course not.
Do you-- you know, I was
in Israel a few years ago,
and I was walking
out in the field.
We were doing a TV
shoot, as I recall,
and there were sheep
all over the field.
Sheep.
So they looked at us,
and then, you know, OK.
We were out there,
but they said,
OK, these guys aren't going to
eat us, so they left us alone.
And then, all of a sudden,
there was this shepherd,
and he went--
[IMITATES WHISTLE]
I mean he just whistled.
Yeah.
And suddenly those
sheep looked up,
and they started running.
I couldn't believe it,
all over that field.
They came running at--
and leaping over rocks,
and all together.
And they all assemble, and
he walked across the road
with them all.
I said, my sheep hear my voice.
They were.
But, hey listen, "We see
through a glass darkly,"
is what the Bible says.
You don't know if you're
hearing from God all the time.
We're humans, and we live in a--
you know, see through a glass
darkly.
So, we are his sheep.
We hear his voice.
We're submissive to him,
but at the same time,
you can't always, you know,
it's not a clear channel
that all of us have a word
from the Lord every minute.
I wish it were the
case but we don't.
So how do you most
protect yourself
from maybe hearing incorrectly?
Knowing the Bible,
and the Bible says,
"By reason of use that
they have their senses
exercised to discern
good from evil."
There's no substitute for
just walking and practicing
the presence of God, OK.
That's it.
All right.
Important.
Important.
This is a viewer who
says, "In the Bible,
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego
were placed into the fire
and a fourth figure
came and joined them.
Preachers often say
that it was Jesus.
I find this confusing.
I thought Jesus was
born later, and I always
assumed it was the Holy Spirit
in some form that joined them
in the fire.
Please explain this to me."
Well, we don't know
who the other person was.
I think Oral Roberts had a
great sermon on the fourth man,
you know, but, Jesus, as such,
was not born until later, yes.
But the second
person of the Trinity
came into being at the
creation of the universe.
So He has been around for
ever, from everlasting unto
everlasting, there I have been.
In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God,
so it was, you use
the term theophany,
an appearance of God.
But, who knows.
But it was an appearance of God.
It was, it was the angel of God.
It could have been the
second person of the Trinity,
but it was some theophany, OK.
OK, this is Amber,
Pat, who says,
"My husband was saved
and baptized in 2010,
but has fallen back into his
old ways for a few years now.
I've been praying and
sticking by him through this,
but this past Saturday,
I caught him cheating.
He says he doesn't think
he can stop this behavior,
that the devil has too
much of a hold on him,
and he wants a divorce.
This is not the first
time in our marriage
that he has cheated.
Do I just pray for
him and my family,
and do all I can to
still save my marriage,
even though he wants a divorce?
Or should I just comply with
his request and let him go?
We have three children,
16, 11, and eight,
who are affected by this, and
say they are OK either way.
Also, is it normal
that I still want
to be with him after
knowing all this?"
First of all, the answer
is, you still love him.
You loved him to begin with.
You've shared a life
together, and you've
brought forth three
children together,
so that's a tremendous tie.
But he's cheating on you.
Do you want to
live in a situation
where you have a husband
committing adultery
all the time?
If that tears you up,
and he wants a divorce,
well let him have it.
You know, it's not even
safe physically nowadays.
Oh, thank you, Terry,
for that modernism.
Just saying.
He may bring some disease
home that you don't want to--
actually could kill you,
so the advice would be,
let him have his divorce.
But this is not unusual.
that you still love him
because, even though he cheats,
I mean, that's all right,
you love him because
you have three children,
you've lived a life together.