This, to me, is just more evidence of the biblically illiterate church system in which we are living. We quote verses like John 10:10 saying, “the devil comes to steal, kill and destroy,” but that is not what the Bible says. It says, “the thief,” not the devil. If you read verses 1-10, you know that the thief is a false teacher, not the devil. So, our shepherds have taught us the devil comes to steal, kill and destroy, but the devil is not even mentioned in this passage. This is just one of the many Scriptures that we quote because we have been taught them by our shepherd’s voice and so when the Shepherd and Overseer of our soul speaks, we resist it, reject it and won’t believe it, because it is contrary to what our shepherd has taught us.
Could This Be Clogging Your Spiritual Ears?
It is imperative that we have a biblical reformation. We are being defeated not by the devil, but by of our ignorance. Biblically illiterate people have no infrastructure to even know what voice is God’s and what voice is man’s. We have spent so long letting man’s voice tell us what is truth, we are not even able to hear God’s voice when it is speaking to us, for it sounds foreign to us. But thanks be to God, He is releasing Word warriors who rightly divide the word of truth, who are not looking for Twitter followers, YouTube subscribers or Facebook friends. Rather, they want to train, equip and deploy a generation to know the voice of the Shepherd and Overseer of their souls. They are not seeking personal fame, fortune or glory. They are living a laid down life, for they are the friends of God (John 15).
