Summary: <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/westside-christian-fellowship/id386117063">If you want to stay up on the latest audio messages from Westside Christian Fellowship, don’t forget to subscribe to this podcast on iTunes.</a><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="%22http://westsidechristianfellowship.org/WP/wp-content/uploads/Audio/2_5_2017_Don't_Reject_Voice_of_God.mp3%20</a"><br><br> </a><a class="twitter-share-button" href="http://twitter.com/share">Tweet</a><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="%22http://westsidechristianfellowship.org/WP/wp-content/uploads/Audio/2_5_2017_Don't_Reject_Voice_of_God.mp3%20</a"></a><br><br> Complete Sermon Notes<br> Don’t Reject the Voice of God<br> INTRO: “There will be no peace in any soul until it’s ready to obey the voice of the Lord.” ~ D.L Moody<br> <br> There are turning points – Abraham, Moses, the Children of Israel, this Council in the book of Acts – and there will be turning points in our lives as well.<br> <br> <br> <br> DO WE LISTEN OR IGNORE?<br> <br> <br> <br> Stephen addressing the council – ACTS 7:17 – “But when the time of the promise drew near which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt 18 till another king arose who did not know Joseph. 19 This man dealt treacherously with our people, and oppressed our forefathers, making them expose their babies, so that they might not live.<br> <br> <br> Pharaoh rejected Joseph’s family, and the favor dried up.<br> <br> <br> <br> He wanted to – “to extinguish what threatens.”<br> <br> The devil doesn’t want you to hear God – 1. What threatens my pride – 2. What inconveniences my flesh?<br> <br> 20 At this time Moses was born, and was well pleasing to God; and he was brought up in his father’s house for three months. 21 But when he was set out, Pharaoh’s daughter took him away and brought him up as her own son. 22 And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and deeds.<br> <br> <br> Don’t reject your past: God will use it!<br> <br> <br> <br> 23 “Now when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel. 24 And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended and avenged him who was oppressed, and struck down the Egyptian. 25 For he supposed that his brethren would have understood that God would deliver them by his hand, but they did not understand. 26 And the next day he appeared to two of them as they were fighting, and tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Men, you are brethren; why do you wrong one another?’ 27 But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? 28 Do you want to kill me as you did the Egyptian yesterday?’ 29 Then, at this saying, Moses fled and became a dweller in the land of Midian, where he had two sons.<br> <br> <br> He should have rejected his feelings, BUT if we cf. vs. 35 they rejected Moses as well.<br> <br> <br> <br> “It came into his heart” vs. God placed it in his heart (Kings, Jeremiah, Rev.).<br> <br> <br> <br> I feel like eating that. I feel like doing that. I feel like saying that. I feel like dating them. I feel like leaving that. I feel like giving up on that.<br> <br> <br> <br> ~ Feelings take the course of least resistance –<br> <br> To truly hear God’s voice, you will need to stop listening to the flesh.<br> Perfect example: “I want to hear from God!” – BUT later today I’m going to flop down on a couch for 4 hrs, eat 3000 calories, drink a 6-pack of IPA, and really enjoy Lady Gaga’s…<br> <br> <br> <br> DOES THIS BUILD ME UP SPIRITUALLY?<br> <br> <br> <br> 30 “And when forty years had passed, an Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire in a bush,
