Sermon Tone Analysis

Wage War — Church

Ears to Hear

Hearing

Review

Mike:

15 “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!

Hearing from God

God is Speaking — from the beginning of time — “Light, Be!’

I want to talk about words this morning

In the Bible - hearing appears before seeing

God's words and our words

There is a connection between hearing and speaking

Hear first - from God — — speak second - for God

words are very critical to what God has done and is doing

it was why with the Word He created everything

Generally choosing the way of natural sight over spiritual hearing is not very good

We need to train our spiritual ears to hear like Jesus did

the Word is full of His power

Jesus

the first thing we learn about God in Genesis is that He speaks

And God said, “ light, be”

then the Holy Spirit acted upon that Word

16 Jesus answered them and said, “My doctrine is not Mine, but His who sent Me.

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and light was

God is Speaking — from the beginning of time —

26 “I have many things to say and to judge concerning you, but He who sent Me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I heard from Him.”

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47 “He who is of God hears God's words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God.”

In the beginning was the Word….

and the Word was with God…

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and the Word was God.

49 “For I have not spoken on My own authority; but the Father who sent Me gave Me a command, what I should say and what I should speak.

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LOGOS is the unchanging printed Word of God.

50 “And I know that His command is everlasting life.

Therefore, whatever I speak, just as the Father has told Me, so I speak.”

RHEMA is a faith-infused utterance from God that is a specific, relevant revelation delivered via the Holy Spirit to a person for salvation, direction, illumination, clarity, insight, or guidance.

people are desperate to hear

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10 “Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me?

The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works.

they— we — were created to listen

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if you don't speak with God's voice

15 “No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you.

Then another voice will take the place

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the voice of our culture

they are listening— are we speaking?

8 “For I have given to them the words which You have given Me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came forth from You; and they have believed that You sent Me.

Holy Spirit

Paul said it this way…

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14 How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed?

And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard?

And how shall they hear without a preacher?

15 And how shall they preach unless they are sent?

As it is written:

12 “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.

13 “However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come.

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“How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace,

Who bring glad tidings of good things!”

10 But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit.

For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

11 For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him?

Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God. 13 These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

15 But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one.

16 For “who has known the mind of the LORD that he may instruct Him?”

But we have the mind of Christ.

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The parable of the Sower

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“He who has ears to hear, let him hear!

3 Then He spoke many things to them in parables, saying: “Behold, a sower went out to sow.

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first thing we need to learn about words is the importance of hearing

In the Bible - hearing appears before seeing

3 “Listen!

Behold, a sower went out to sow.

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There is a connection between hearing and speaking

13 And He said to them, “Do you not understand this parable?

How then will you understand all the parables?

Hear first - from God — — speak second - for God

I cannot speak for God — unless I first hear from God

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11 “Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

Generally choosing the way of natural sight over spiritual hearing is not very good

it really doesn’t work for us

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24 Another parable He put forth to them, saying: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field;

We need to train our spiritual ears to hear like Jesus did

Jesus and hearing

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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!”

Let’s look at what Jesus said about hearing and Himself—

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10 And He said, “To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest it is given in parables, that

“I have many things to say and to judge concerning you, but He who sent Me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I heard from Him.”

‘Seeing they may not see,

Jesus answered them and said, “My doctrine is not Mine, but His who sent Me.

And hearing they may not understand.’

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“He who is of God hears God's words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God.”

18 “Therefore take heed how you hear.

For whoever has, to him more will be given; and whoever does not have, even what he seems to have will be taken from him.”

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33 And with many such parables He spoke the word to them as they were able to hear it.

“For I have not spoken on My own authority; but the Father who sent Me gave Me a command, what I should say and what I should speak.

“And I know that His command is everlasting life.

Therefore, whatever I speak, just as the Father has told Me, so I speak.”

But the angel of the LORD said to Balaam, “Go with the men, but you shall speak only the word which I tell you.”

Relax, because God wants you to truly hear Him more than you want to hear from God.

“Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me?