This episode of Red in 30 takes aim at one of the most common church phrases—“God told me.” The discussion points out that while this phrase dominates Christian culture, Jesus Himself never used it in the Gospels. Instead of saying, “God told me to tell you,” He simply spoke truth directly, fully aligned with the Father. Even when a voice came from heaven, Jesus clarified that it wasn’t for His sake but for the people listening. The point is simple: if you are the Word, you don’t need to keep chasing words—you live aligned with them.
The episode unpacks how modern Christianity often overcomplicates “hearing from God” with lists of steps: pray more, get quiet, meditate, wait for a voice. While none of these are necessarily wrong, they can distract from the deeper truth. In the Gospels, Jesus never handed out a formula for hearing God. Instead, He modeled perfect alignment—showing that sin, defined as “missing the mark,” is less about bad actions and more about being out of place. If we were walking in alignment, we wouldn’t need extra signs or voices to redirect us.
The conversation digs into key scriptures, especially the transfiguration, where the voice from heaven declared: “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear ye Him.” That command shifts the focus away from chasing mystical confirmations and onto listening to Jesus directly. To hear Him is to see ourselves rightly, because He is both the way and the picture of what humanity was designed to be. The failure isn’t that God has stopped speaking—it’s that many skip over Jesus’ red words in search of something “fresh,” missing the very alignment that makes everything clear.
The episode closes with a challenge: stop chasing principles, remedies, and the next spiritual formula. If you’re not hearing Jesus, you’re not truly hearing God. His words are already alive, already flesh, already present. To embrace them is to become the Word in action rather than a seeker of endless words. The bottom line: hearing God doesn’t begin with mystical experiences; it begins with hearing and embodying Jesus.
