Presumptive Blasphemy

And they said, Hath the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us? And the LORD heard it. (Numbers 12:2)

I feel compelled to share this warning because I have over the years encountered or even been rebuked for saying that God has led me or told me something, a thing I know has been consistent with believers who have fellowshipped with God over the years.

Why must God only speak to you? Why does He not also speak to us?

God cannot speak to you. God cannot tell you what you are claiming.

These are some of the responses when someone shares something God has shared with them.

That does not mean that there are no imposters and pretenders, even experts who can create a hearing experience out of the world.

But like I always say, fake means that there is something real that is being counterfeited.

The fact that you have had an encounter with a false prophet does not trash prophecy. It in fact confirms it.

The fact that someone gave you a word presumably from God that did not materialise does not mean that God does not give such words. It just means he gave a word out of himself and not from God.

What am I saying?

Your experience, however loud it shouts, is not the standard when it comes to God’s communication with His people. Only God’s word is.

Another statement I have said over the years is that God does not have prefects.

What I mean is that God does not use intermediaries or supervisors to speak to His people.

But I think it is in order for me to lay some groundwork for this message.

God just does not speak.

How many have you read in the scriptures this statement, ‘let him who has ears hear ...’?

God speaks to ears of those who are attentive, not to just any ears.

And in hearing, the Bible simply means someone who is ready to do what they have heard God say.

but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word. (Isaiah 66:2b)

I have said elsewhere that that trembling has nothing to do with fear. It is an anticipation to do what one hears. It is a rearing to launch head on to what that word says as a horse is known to jump into battle. It is the anticipation of an athlete before the starting gun goes off.

Why are you not able to hear from God?

The most basic reason could be a simple logical rebellion. You want to have all the blocks aligned so that you are sure of the victory when you obey. You want a certainty that God’s order does not give, meaning that you will wait forever before all the chips can be arranged to your satisfaction. You want what God tells you to be logical so that you do not embarrass yourself when explaining it to your circles, family or friends.

The ‘fools’ who hear from God (pretend is the word you use) are stupid enough to take God at His word even when they receive the smallest hint of a command.

Or what do you think Noah looked like building the ark when it had never rained?

What do you thing of David when he chose to confront Goliath with a stick and pebbles?

What about Isaiah when he walked naked for three years?

They didn’t hear because they had better ears. They simply heard because they were willing and ready to do what His word wanted.

It is not that you do not have ears to hear God speak. It is not that those others have more sensitive ears.

The obedience quotient is the determinant of who hears and who doesn’t.

But let me get us to the message.

Only God determines who He will speak to according to His standards.

This means that for you to question who to or why God speaks, you are actually questioning God and not the person He speaks to. And this because He will never consult you before speaking to anybody and anything He has created.

Otherwise explain the logic of an ass speaking to Balaam since we know asses do not speak?

Standing in judgment over people because they have claimed to hear from God is questioning the validity of God speaking.

Like 1 Corinthians 15 argues, doubting our future resurrection is actually pouring scorn on our faith.

Doubting that God speaks to people is not much different.

It goes farther to argue that God not only does not speak, He has never had any capacity to speak. Because, if He cannot speak today, He really could not have spoken in the past since He never changes.

No wonder the same people have issues with God’s revelation through His word because they are doubting the fundamentals of the faith – that God does speak. No wonder they have problems interpreting the scriptures, only taking the logical route as the valid one.

And that limits God to some sort of idol created after our likeness, a god we can easily explain and completely understand.

But that is not the truth, as even they know.

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. (Isaiah 55: 8, 9)

The truth is that just as God spoke to Moses, He can speak to you; but only if you are aligned to His will.

He does not speak because you feel He must speak. He does not speak because you crave His voice.

The truth is that Moses was not even looking to hear that voice when he first heard it. Samuel did not even know about God speaking when God sought him out.

But their hearts were tuned to that voice. And that is why they heard when nobody else could.

That is the problem Miriam had with Moses, their baby, a baby she literally saved from pharaoh’s sword.

How does God speak to our baby and leave us out of the loop? How did He bypass us to speak to the baby?

That reasoning is what is guiding these rebels.

I need to also state that for the most part, they do not oppose God speaking from a point of ignorance since most of them have had a prior experience with that voice.

They walked in the revelation, swam in the abundance obedience provided and even thrived in the release their obedience availed.

They are like king Saul.

Remember people wondered whether he was from a prophetic family when he responded to his call?

But he rebelled. And God trashed him.

David’s presence was therefore the loudest rebuke to him because it showed him, not only how far he had fallen, but especially how far he could have gone had he not rebelled.

He did not seek to kill David because he posed any threat to him. He did not seek to kill him because of his disloyalty or even ambition.

He sought to get rid of David because he was the clearest evidence that he was fallen and rejected.

Incidentally it was the same reason he at one time sought to kill his heir, Jonathan. Because this young man knew where God was taking Israel.

For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. (Hebrews 6: 4 – 6)

That is what is guiding this movement trashing God’s voice.

Theirs is a doctrine built on rebellion being theologically entrenched on the mainstream to prevent the pursuit of obedience.

Think about it like this.

Why should someone be so aggressive against someone else hearing God’s voice and guidance.

If I have not heard God’s voice, I am simply ignorant about it and cannot take any sides concerning it.

Let me give an illustration.

Someone comes to a group and describes the exhilarating taste of mushrooms.

Anybody who has never tasted mushrooms will only be an observer in the discussion since they have no experience about the same.

Someone who has never tasted mushrooms bringing opinions on the topic would be treated as a fool, and rightly so.

That is why it is so sad to hear people argue so vehemently against God speaking yet confessing that they have never heard Him.

Incidentally, the same people argue against the miraculous in the Christian life.

How do you argue against a miracle with someone who has encountered it? On what basis do you even attempt to do so?

If God does not speak to you, it is safest for you to keep quiet and allow the ones who can hear, however deluded you may think they are, share their experiences with God’s voice and guidance.

Otherwise, you are opening yourself to judgment from God who speaks to His people.

And the Bible plainly says that God will speak to His people, and that since the Old Testament.

And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left. (Isaiah 30:21)

And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. (Jeremiah 31:34)

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: (John 10:27)

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. (Romans 8:14)

And these are a few among very many verses pointing to the fact that God seeks to speak to and guide his people to His will at all times.

God does not expect us to gamble with His guidance. He expects us to walk in it.

To argue against it is arguing against the revelation that is His word.

The Sadducees exemplify that.

They argued and fought against the supernatural because they could not wrap their minds around it.

They simply had no place for a God beyond their understanding.

No wonder there is no single record of even one of them getting saved in the scriptures.

Isn’t this what this rebellious gang is like?

I am therefore writing this to let them know that God is not happy with their dramatics and well-oiled doctrines of rebellion.

I will repeat. If God does not speak to you, please allow Him to speak to whoever He wills.

But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves. (Matthew 23: 13, 15)

God will not consult you when He chooses to speak to anybody He has created.

It is therefore blasphemy for you to decide that only you have the standard the He uses to speak by deciding that simply because He does not speak to you, He cannot speak to anybody else.

You will be judged.