This is the greatest hour to follow Jesus. Hallelujah. Well, we're going to continue with the teaching on the voice of the shepherd.

Take your Bibles, if you would, to Proverbs.

Chapter 13, I think this is where we ended last week.

And I'm just going to go through verses 16 versus 18.

And I'm actually going to begin with Proverbs 13, 13 through 15. And then I'm going to take a minute to expound on that and then we'll go through verses 16 and 18.

All right.

People who despise advice, this is Proverbs 13, 13 through 15, are asking for trouble.

And those who respect the command will succeed.

The instruction of the wise, listen to this,

is like a life-giving fountain.

And those who accept it, avoid the snares of death.

A person with good sense is respected.

A treacherous person is headed for destruction.

So again, something I would love to see, our church, certainly, and certainly our camp at large, I want them to begin, I want all of us to begin

learning how to hear the Lord, how to determine his voice, how to follow him, following his voice, which is a huge portion of being a disciple of Jesus, and understand how to put, this is a weak word,

how to put this recipe together to consistently hear the Lord's voice.

And I think what we're really good at in charismatic,

in the charismatic community is getting a word from somebody else,

maybe a dream, a sense in our heart.

And I'm not discounting any of those, to be honest with you, because my life has been radically impacted by having dreams that I know from the Lord or God speaking to people to give me a message that he had for me or a deep sense in my heart.

I'm not discounting all that.

All I'm trying to teach you is how to put all of that together to walk in the assurance that you've heard from the Lord.

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