God’s Standard for Hearing = DOING

1 – hearing

2 – understanding

3 – doing

1 – HEARING God’s Word

HOW you Hear

Mark 4:24–25 (NLT)

Mark 4:24–25 NLT

24 Then he added, “Pay close attention to what you hear. The closer you listen, the more understanding you will be given—and you will receive even more. 25 To those who listen to my teaching, more understanding will be given. But for those who are not listening, even what little understanding they have will be taken away from them.”

2 – UNDERSTANDING God’s Word

Reason for church = teaching

Ephesians 4:11–15 (NLT)

Ephesians 4:11–15 NLT

11 Now these are the gifts Christ gave to the church: the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, and the pastors and teachers. 12 Their responsibility is to equip God’s people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ. 13 This will continue until we all come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of God’s Son that we will be mature in the Lord, measuring up to the full and complete standard of Christ. 14 Then we will no longer be immature like children. We won’t be tossed and blown about by every wind of new teaching. We will not be influenced when people try to trick us with lies so clever they sound like the truth. 15 Instead, we will speak the truth in love, growing in every way more and more like Christ, who is the head of his body, the church.

3 – DOING God’s Word

You are held responsible once you hear

1 – hearing

2 – understanding

3 – doing