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| "He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches." |
The
sevenfold exhortation:
"He
that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches"
from Revelation 2 and 3.
There
must be good reasons for such solemn repetition.
"Dull
of hearing" is a dreadful disease that should be feared more than COVID-19.
Matthew
13:15 KJV — For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of
hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with
their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart,
and should be converted, and I should heal them.
1. Hearing and understanding are prerequisites
for conversion to the truth and healing of spiritual diseases!
Acts
28:27 KJV — For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are
dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with
their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and
should be converted, and I should heal them.
2.
Hearing and understanding are necessary for fruitfulness
Matthew
13:23 KJV - "But he that received seed into the good ground is he that
heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth
forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty."
3.
Hearing and understanding are essential to spiritual progress...
Hebrews
5:11b-12 KJV
¶...
seeing ye are dull of hearing. For when for the time ye ought to be teachers,
ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the
oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong
meat.
4.
It is the Holy Spirit speaking to each one of us in the churches. Failing to hear and
understand is grieving, and quenching Him.
Ephesians
4:30 KJV — And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto
the day of redemption.
1 Thessalonians 5:19 KJV — Quench not the Spirit.