Sensitivity (Sync'd #5)
Channel: The Gathering Christian Church
Date: 2014-07-07

Speaker: Don Vanzant
Title: Sensitivity
Series Name: Sync'd
Series #: 5
Subject: Being sensitive to God's voice is how we prevent ourselves from growing callused to his leading.
Date: June 29, 2014
Sermon Notes:
*  Sensitivity: awareness of internal and external stimuli.
* Do we have a functioning spiritual sensory system through which we can receive from God the stimuli that we need for abundant life?   Do we hear, see, feel, taste, and smell the things of God?
* Some people have a more advanced sensory system. 
* What I have learned is that as we age this ability to hear God, either increases or decreases, but seldom does it stay the same. 
* There are instances in both testaments of people who saw the miracles and the glory of God and then gradually lost their ability to hear his voice and to be sensitive to his heart because they developed a heart that was hard toward God. 
* The rebellion of the people of Israel in the wilderness is used as an example of people with hard hearts.
* They were apathetic because they couldn't feel, smell, taste, hear, or see the things of God any more. 
* The reason they developed a hardness toward God and became insensitive and apathetic to his voice was because they did not do what he told them to do. 
* Another word for apathy and the hard heart syndrome is callused. 
* In the world system calluses are desirable.   People want to develop thick skin so they no longer care or feel so much. 
* How do we keep our sensitivity to God and prevent developing a hard heart or thick skin?  We obey.
* Obedience, involves the physical hearing that inspires the hearer, and a belief or trust that in turn motivates the hearer to act in accordance with the speaker's desires.
* No matter what people might tell you about your gifts, everyone has the capability of hearing God of being sensitive to his Spirit. 
 
Ephesians 4:11-12 
Hebrews 3:8, 15; 4:7 
Psalm 95:8 
Exodus 17
Numbers 20 
John 10:27
Deuteronomy 4:29 
Jeremiah 29:13 
Isaiah 55:6  

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