Let's Get Active - Hearing
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A) On 3 Occasions in the Gospels Christ commanded us to Hear
A) On 3 Occasions in the Gospels Christ commanded us to Hear
These words also appear in the letters to the seven churches in the Revelation. We will focus on the Gospels.
It is recorded in 6 verses:
15 He who has ears to hear, let him hear!
9 He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”
43 Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!
Mark 4:9 (NKJV)
9 And He said to them, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”
8 But others fell on good ground, sprang up, and yielded a crop a hundredfold.” When He had said these things He cried, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”
35 It is neither fit for the land nor for the dunghill, but men throw it out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”
Hear (Greek: akouo’) = to heed, listen, hear or pay close attention to, and usually respond in conformity.
Hear (Greek: akouo’) = to heed, listen, hear or pay close attention to, and usually respond in conformity.
B) Hearing (Listening) can be Passive or Active
B) Hearing (Listening) can be Passive or Active
Passive Listening
So what is Passive listening? Passive listening is hearing without giving one’s full attention, usually one direction communication with no feedback.
Our minds become preoccupied and drift in and out of what we are supposedly listening to. We don’t pay consistent attention to it.
When do I listen passively? When I am doing two things at once or “multi-tasking”. Even when I think I’m listening, I’m letting things go in one ear and out the other.
Examples of this include: talking on the phone to your mom while checking Instagram, texting your boyfriend during a lecture in school, or listening to our spouse talk about their day at work while getting ready for bed.
We may “want” to pay attention and we may even defensively defend ourselves when called out on our passive listening saying “yes! I was totally listening!” If you’re lucky you may be able to parrot back some of the words that last went into your brain.
We have all been guilty of it on occasion and we have all been annoyed by it in others on other occasions.
Not fully paying attention to your wife while she is chatting with you about the kid’s school, or tuning in and out while your boss is talking during a business meeting can land you in the dog house. And this can be a minor trip up or a disastrous pitfall depending on who you were passively listening to.
But passive listening isn’t always a bad thing. Consider these times in which passive listen works well:
Examples when passive listening works well:
Watching a TV show and tuning in and out while you type a letter or do homework
Listening to the radio on your way to work
Listening to music at the gym
Foreign language immersion
When kids are playing in the next room and you are cleaning the house.
Passive listening has its place-just make sure that you are doing it when the time is appropriate!
Active Listening
What is active listening? Active listening is focusing your attention to fully comprehend and understand to give feedback on what is being heard or complete a certain task.
This is the type of listening that people think of when they want someone to listen and not just hear them. Active listening includes turning your full attention toward the speaker and trying to make meaning of what they are saying.
Active listening requires two-way communication and connection between the speaker and the listener. The listener isn’t just going to sit and remain silent, the active listener has a job to do in offering a response to the speaker.
When is it a good time to turn on your active listening?
When your husband is telling you about his hard day at work
When your boss is talking about a promotion opportunity
When your kids are having trouble in school and need your help
When you need to know what to study for a test
When you are watching a Youtube video to learn how to change the headlight in your car
The reality is we need active listening a lot throughout our day. When those who are important to us need us, we need to tune in and give them our complete attention.
Communication: A mutual and simultaneous interaction between two or more persons in which meaning is creating.
Communication: A mutual and simultaneous interaction between two or more persons in which meaning is creating.
70% of communication is non-verbal.
gestures, tone, body language, inflection, eye contact (or lack thereof), etc. all add to or totally change the meaning of what is said
Example: “I love you too!”
C) Christ Wanted Us HEAR these things:
C) Christ Wanted Us HEAR these things:
1) Repentance is measured by what it produces
1) Repentance is measured by what it produces
2 And when John had heard in prison about the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples
3 and said to Him, “Are You the Coming One, or do we look for another?”
4 Jesus answered and said to them, “Go and tell John the things which you hear and see:
5 The blind see and the lame walk; the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear; the dead are raised up and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
6 And blessed is he who is not offended because of Me.”
7 As they departed, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?
8 But what did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft garments? Indeed, those who wear soft clothing are in kings’ houses.
9 But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I say to you, and more than a prophet.
10 For this is he of whom it is written: ‘Behold, I send My messenger before Your face, Who will prepare Your way before You.’
11 “Assuredly, I say to you, among those born of women there has not risen one greater than John the Baptist; but he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.
13 For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.
14 And if you are willing to receive it, he is Elijah who is to come.
15 He who has ears to hear, let him hear!
16 “But to what shall I liken this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to their companions,
17 and saying: ‘We played the flute for you, And you did not dance; We mourned to you, And you did not lament.’
18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’
19 The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look, a glutton and a winebibber, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
2) Only the Received Word Produces a Spiritual Harvest
2) Only the Received Word Produces a Spiritual Harvest
1 On the same day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the sea.
2 And great multitudes were gathered together to Him, so that He got into a boat and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore.
3 Then He spoke many things to them in parables, saying: “Behold, a sower went out to sow.
4 And as he sowed, some seed fell by the wayside; and the birds came and devoured them.
5 Some fell on stony places, where they did not have much earth; and they immediately sprang up because they had no depth of earth.
6 But when the sun was up they were scorched, and because they had no root they withered away.
7 And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked them.
8 But others fell on good ground and yielded a crop: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
9 He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”
13 And He said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables?
14 The sower sows the word.
15 And these are the ones by the wayside where the word is sown. When they hear, Satan comes immediately and takes away the word that was sown in their hearts.
16 These likewise are the ones sown on stony ground who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with gladness;
17 and they have no root in themselves, and so endure only for a time. Afterward, when tribulation or persecution arises for the word’s sake, immediately they stumble.
18 Now these are the ones sown among thorns; they are the ones who hear the word,
19 and the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
20 But these are the ones sown on good ground, those who hear the word, accept it, and bear fruit: some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred.”
3) There Will Be a Time of Separation
3) There Will Be a Time of Separation
36 Then Jesus sent the multitude away and went into the house. And His disciples came to Him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field.”
37 He answered and said to them: “He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man.
38 The field is the world, the good seeds are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of the wicked one.
39 The enemy who sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are the angels.
40 Therefore as the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of this age.
41 The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness,
42 and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
43 Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!
4) Make Sure You Are In the Right Kingdom
4) Make Sure You Are In the Right Kingdom
Matthew 24:3–14 (NKJV)
3 Now as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?”
4 And Jesus answered and said to them: “Take heed that no one deceives you.
5 For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many.
6 And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
9 “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake.
10 And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another.
11 Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many.
12 And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold.
13 But he who endures to the end shall be saved.
14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.
Nation vs. Nation (Greek word ethnos)
Kingdom vs Kingdom (Greek word means “Nation” or “Sovereignty”
Sovereignty = Supreme power or authority, the authority to self-govern
Note: The Spirit of the Age is Sowing False Kingdoms in the Earth
Note: The Spirit of the Age is Sowing False Kingdoms in the Earth
If we are not careful to HEAR, believers will become entangled in false kingdom building:
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Matthew 24:22 (NKJV)
22 And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened.
If we are not careful, we can get sucked into the Kingdoms of the Age:
Conservative
Liberal
Republican
Democrat
Biden
Trump
Mask
No-mask
Vax
No-Vax
But it really all boils down to:
My Kingdom
Your Kingdom
Note: You Won’t Find Christ in ANY of the Kingdoms of this World
Note: You Won’t Find Christ in ANY of the Kingdoms of this World
How to Tell When You Are Building Your Own Kingdom: 1) You Have a Hard Time Submitting to The Word of God
How to Tell When You Are Building Your Own Kingdom: 1) You Have a Hard Time Submitting to The Word of God
23 Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.
How to Tell When You Are Building Your Own Kingdom: 2) You’ve Got it All Figured Out
How to Tell When You Are Building Your Own Kingdom: 2) You’ve Got it All Figured Out
2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, But the Lord weighs the hearts.
12 There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.
How to Tell When You Are Building Your Own Kingdom: 3) Love is in Short Supply (You only like those who share your opinion; disdain those who don’t; and hold on to perceived wrongs.)
How to Tell When You Are Building Your Own Kingdom: 3) Love is in Short Supply (You only like those who share your opinion; disdain those who don’t; and hold on to perceived wrongs.)
1 Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members?
2 You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask.
3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.
4 Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
James says we are cheating on God! We focus on building relationships with worldy kingdoms rather than building our relationship with God
4 Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.
5 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,
6 who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God,
7 but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men.
8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.
The Remedy: Pray for His Kingdom to Replace Yours
The Remedy: Pray for His Kingdom to Replace Yours
6 But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
7 And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words.
8 “Therefore do not be like them. For your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him.
9 In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name.
10 Your kingdom come. Your will be done On earth as it is in heaven.
11 Give us this day our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts, As we forgive our debtors.
13 And do not lead us into temptation, But deliver us from the evil one. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
14 “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.