Ears to Hear

Ears to Hear

God has been so good to ALC over the years and we have yet to even see all the great things He will accomplish, as we remain faithful to Him.

My love for people and their Godly purpose is what drives me. I don’t always know an individual’s purpose. What I do know is that we all have one. I can also say with some level of authority that your purpose evolves as you walk in it. The Apostle Paul said it best. Philippians 3:13, (Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead,)

Our Christian life evolves as we leave our past and move forward in Christ. Many people fear this next reality. (Always truthful)The more we know, the more accountable we are to God, to walk in our purpose.

Matthew 5:16

Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

“Let people see, what you have seen.” Revelation

In Matthew 13 the disciples asked Jesus why He taught in parables.

Matthew 13:13-16

13 Therefore I speak to them in parables; because while seeing they do not see, and while hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.

14 In their case the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled, which says, ‘You will keep on hearing, but will not understand; You will keep on seeing, but will not perceive;

15 For the heart of this people has become dull,
With their ears they scarcely hear, And they have closed their eyes, Otherwise they would see with their eyes, Hear with their ears, And understand with their heart and return, And I would heal them .’

16 But blessed are your eyes, because they see; and your ears, because they hear.

Ears come from a Greek word used metaphorically, “The faculty of perceiving with the mind, the faculty of understanding and knowing.” The word hear means, “to give ear to teaching, or a teacher. To comprehend or understand.” It’s not hearing the sound, it is hearing the revelation. There are two kinds of people who can’t hear. Hear meaning comprehending and understanding. “1^St, those who are not ready to comprehend and understand. 2^Nd, those who already think they know everything.”

1 Corinthians 2:6-9

6 Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are mature; a wisdom, however, not of this age nor of the rulers of this age, who are passing away;

7 but we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God predestined before the ages to our glory;

8 the wisdom which none of the rulers of this age has understood; for if they had understood it they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;

9 but just as it is written, “Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, And which have not entered the heart of man, All that God has prepared for those who love Him.”

Amplified

but just as it is written [in Scripture], “Things which the eye has not seen and the ear has not heard, And which have not entered the heart of man, All that God has prepared for those who love Him [who hold Him in affectionate reverence, who obey Him, and who gratefully recognize the benefits that He has bestowed].”

I don’t believe that Peter and John fully understood The mission of Jesus until they were filled with the Spirit in the upper room. Peter addressed a great crowd with the story of Jesus and 3000 souls were saved. You know the story of the lame beggar and Peter’s second sermon which brought 5000 to Christ. After his arrest and release by the Jews, and their threats, Peter said this.

Acts 4:19-20

19 But Peter and John answered and said to them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to give heed to you rather than to God, you be the judge;

(20 for we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”)

Your revelation, and it’s purpose.

John 5:24

“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.”

Amplified

“I assure you and most solemnly say to you, the person who hears My word [the one who heeds My message], and believes and trusts in Him who sent Me, has (possesses now) eternal life [that is, eternal life actually begins—the believer is transformed], and does not come into judgment and condemnation, but has passed [over] from death into life.”

Do you hear these awesome promises?

Colossians 2:8-15

8 See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ.

9 For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form,

10 and in Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over all rule and authority;

11 and in Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ;

12 having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.

13 When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions,

14 having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.

15 When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities, He made a public display of them, having triumphed over them through Him.

Colossians 2:14-15 Amplified

14 having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of legal demands [which were in force] against us and which were hostile to us. And this certificate He has set aside and completely removed by nailing it to the cross.

15 When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities [those supernatural forces of evil operating against us], He made a public example of them [exhibiting them as captives in His triumphal procession], having triumphed over them through the cross.

Jesus was nailed to the cross so you would not have to see what the enemy showed you, and you would not have to hear what the enemy told you.

The cross and the resurrection changed the narrative. If you can see Jesus, and hear His words of life. You can do and be anything you can believe.