But you do not believe, because you are not my sheep.
My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
When he has brought out his own sheep –all of them– he walks at the head of them; and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice.
Every one whom the Father gives me will come to me, and him who comes to me I will never on any account drive away.
So He added, »That is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it be granted him by the Father.«
He who is a child of God listens to God's words. You do not listen to them: and why? It is because you are not God's children.«
The man who is beginning to know God listens to us, but he who is not a child of God does not listen to us. By this test we can distinguish the Spirit of truth from the spirit of error.
