WHOSE VOICE DO YOU HEAR?|| BENNY HINN! JANUARY 2024. NOW
Overview
Whose voice do you hear?
Over and over again in Revelation we are advised, “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says. . . ”
(Rev. 2:7,11,17). Whose voice should we hear? The voice of the Spirit.
Even Christ himself does not speak without the Holy Ghost. In Acts we read that He was taken up into heaven, “.. . after He through the Holy Spirit has given commandments to the apostles whom He had chosen” (Acts 1:2).
And in Hebrews we find that Christ offered Himself to God “through the Eternal Spirit” (Heb. 9:14).
Is it becoming clear? The Holy Spirit is the one who communicates heaven into your heart. He is the voice of God to you.
You say, “Well, I know it was God speaking to me.” Of course it was God. It was God the Holy Spirit. To put it another way, it is the Father, through the Son, speaking by the Spirit.
From what you have already learned, you can imagine what would happen if God the Father ever spoke to you audibly.
You could not bear it. I doubt that you are even prepared to hear the voice of Jesus, described as “the sound of many waters” (Rev. 1:15). When John heard it, he fell at His feet, “as dead” (v. 17).
The Holy Spirit, however, takes the voice of the Father and the Son and makes it quiet, lovely, and perfectly clear.
The moment that I realized that the Holy Spirit was God —and began to worship Him and treat Him as God— my life began to change. No longer did I see the Holy Ghost as some lesser, weaker, mist-shrouded being standing in a corner.
No longer were God the Father and God the Son receiving all of my worship.
Let me say it again. The Holy Spirit is God—equal in majesty, power, glory, and eternity. He’s God.
What did Jesus say about the Spirit? He said that when He comes, “He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak” (John 16:13).
What does He hear? The precious Holy Spirit hears the Father and speaks directly to you. But when He speaks, He doesn’t say, “The Father says.” He says, “I say.” Why? Because Father, Son, and Holy Spirit always act in harmony.
Like the Sun in the Sky
It is so easy to limit the Godhead or to divide the Godhead unscripturally. Young Christians often ask, “How can God be one and three at the same time?” God is one.
But God is three: Father, Son and Holy Ghost. And while this book dwells on the Holy Spirit, I am distinguishing them on purpose to show you the triune being.
God is like the sun in the sky. If you look at its brightness you see one sun.
In reality, however, it is a triune sun that keeps our planet alive. There are three distinct elements: the sun, light, and heat.
And so it is with the Trinity. The Father is like the whole sun, Jesus is the light, and the Holy Ghost is the heat you feel. When you stand in the presence of the Father, what do you feel? The warmth, the energy, and power of the Holy Spirit.
If you look into the face of the Father, whom do you see? “He who has seen Me has seen the Father,” Jesus said to Philip (John 14:9).
I get excited when I think about the time I enter heaven.
The Godhead will be there. When I stand before the Father I will see all three—the Spirit, the Son, and God Himself.
– Pastor Benny Hinn ( Good Morning, Holy Spirit )
