Title: He who has ears, let him hear
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He who has ears, let him hear.
Matthew 13:1-9
Therefore, as God's blessings come to us through the Word, we sow the seeds of blessing to spread God's blessings, the Word of God.
Therefore, we must diligently sow the word of God, the seed of blessing.
The same words are recorded in Mark 4:1-9 and Luke 8:4-8.
Matthew concludes these words, emphasizing, “He who has an ear, let him hear” (Matthew 13:9).
The Gospel of Mark begins, “Listen. He begins this parable by saying
In the Gospel of Luke, as in the Gospel of Matthew, it is written, “Let those who have ears to hear, let them hear.”
Through these words, the Lord is telling us to become those who have ears to hear.
Therefore, a blessed person is a person who hears and obeys God's Word.
Now we must deliver the word of God, the channel of God's blessing.
This means that we must sow the seeds of God's Word.
The seed is - the word of heaven, the word of God,
Jesus came to this earth to tell people the word of God.
However, people did not want to listen to the word of the kingdom of God that the Lord spoke to them.
Rather, the Pharisees and scribes who knew the word of God well approached Jesus, who was preaching the word of God, and prevented him from preaching the word.
As much as this, we can see that people not only do not listen to the words of God, the words of the kingdom of God, and the words of the kingdom of heaven, but rather prevent them from being preached.
When Jesus preached the word of God, the reactions of those who received it were different.
The first reaction was people like the roadside.
Hearing the words of the kingdom of heaven, they did not understand them. These people took the words from their hearts so that they could not be saved by hearing the words of Jesus and believing them.
So, no matter how much they preach the word of God, these people do not understand it and are more aggressive and rebellious toward those who preach it.
I often see people like this, especially among believers.
A month ago, while I was evangelizing, someone approached me and said, "Stop doing this useless thing, go back to the church and educate the members so that they don't fall into Shincheonji.
I asked what church he went to, and he said that it is a famous church that I know. He is a church elder who teaches the Bible study well and trains missionaries well on the way to Bongdam.
There is nowhere in the Bible that we should not preach to teach the Bible study in order to defeat heresy.
At first glance, this may seem right, but it is incorrect.
The second reaction is people like stone fields,
When they hear the word of the kingdom of heaven, they immediately receive it with joy, but because they have no root in them, they receive it with joy for a while. What people are saying is that I know everything, that I have tried it too, but it doesn't matter. Such a person does not have faith based on the Word, but is a fleshly person who lives only according to reality.
Not long ago, young people in India came to believe in Jesus and the two fell in love. Each asked permission to marry in their own home. However, both families were against it. The reason was that they believed in Jesus.
So, they left the house, got married, and ran away to live. A year later, each of us started writing letters to our homes, and we were even invited to stop by.
So the two went to the groom's house and stayed for a few days.
One day, the bride's house called her daughter to come home for a meal for the whole family. So she went to her house. The whole family welcomed us and had a great dinner. And I fell asleep in that house, but I couldn't get up forever and I died. It was eaten with poison mixed with rice.
The early church members had to prepare themselves for death to believe in Jesus. Even now, in Muslim or Hindu Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, or Buddhism, and in China or North Korea, believing in Jesus was to be prepared for death.
We pray that we will become saints who stand firm in their faith no matter what persecution or trials come.
The third reaction is the one sown among the thorns.
A person who hears the words of the kingdom of heaven, but the worries of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word and produce no fruit
These are people who, while living a life of faith, are intoxicated with realistic worries, worries about material things, and pleasures. So, they cannot take root of their faith and follow this person to this church, to that church, to a temple, to a shaman or a shaman, and these are people who live according to their feelings and tastes.
It's not enough to go alone, so I'll take this deacon and the saints.
These people are people who live a life of faith and will all perish.
The fourth response is the one sown on good soil,
There is a person who hears the word of the kingdom, understands it, hears the word with an honest and good heart, keeps it, and bears fruit with perseverance;
There is one who bears fruit in sixty.
Some people bear the fruit of thirty.
Therefore, we have people from the first to the third, but
Remembering that there is also a fourth, thinking of those who will bear fruit a hundred, sixty, thirty,
We must diligently sow the word of blessing,
Today this word
Hear the sowers.
Those who have ears should hear it.
Those who have ears to hear are the words to hear.
Dear saints,
What are the words of blessing that we should sow in the field of each person's heart?
Gospel.
There is no word more blessed than the gospel.
It is because those who believe in the Gospel, that is, Jesus Christ, are blessed not only in this world but also into the eternal kingdom.
There is no more blessed word than to preach Jesus Christ, who came into the world for us and died for our sins on the cross.
Jesus! be our salvation
Jesus! He is our eternal hope.
Jesus is our eternal life,
Jesus! It is the only way to heaven.
Because if you believe in the Lord Jesus, you and my household will be saved.
I pray that you will become those who plant the seeds of the word of the gospel and share the blessings of eternal life.