Title: Let's Be Blessed with Eyes and Ears
2010.6.13 Sunday morning service sermon
Bible: Matthew 13:15-16
Title: Let's Be Blessed with Eyes and Ears
Matthew 13:15-16 ‘15. 16 But your eyes are seeing, and your ears are lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn and I may heal them, because the heart of this people has hardened their ears to hear. Blessed is the hearing' - Amen.
How frustrating would it be to have eyes but not see and ears but cannot hear?
As a human being, if your eyes and ears do not function properly, you cannot function as a human being. However, there is the spiritual inner man, and we also have the eyes and ears of our hearts. If the eyes are dark in the heart, the whole mind is darkened,
Matthew 6:22 says, “The eye is the lamp of the body; therefore, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light.” And because the heart has ears,
Matthew 11:15 “He who has an ear, let him hear”
Revelation 2:29 “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”
Although Jesus testified the gospel to the people of Israel for more than three years, some believed, and almost all of the people disbelieved. Later, the Roman army came and the temple collapsed and Israel was punished and destroyed as prophesied.
Why? Why were people so destroyed even in the days of Noah's Flood long ago?
Matthew 24:39 “They did not understand until the flood came and destroyed them all; so will the coming of the Son of Man be.”
So, when God gives the word about blessing in the Bible, it is a blessing that we can understand the Lord well and see it with the eyes of our hearts. I hope you can enjoy the blessing of realizing the Lord rather than material and health. It is a superstition to believe and know, and to believe without knowing (Ephesians 4:13).
I would like to share this sermon with the title <Let's Be Blessed with Eyes and Ears>.
1. Hear God's Word with a tender heart
Even if the eyes of the heart are too dark for money because of greed, it is impossible to make money. If your eyes are too dark for honor, you will get angry because of it.
In the same way, the ears have to listen to a lot of good sounds, and if you listen to all kinds of useless sounds from the world, you will eventually become that kind of person.
In the text Matthew 13:15, 'These people have hardened their hearts, and their ears are dull to hear, and their eyes are closed...' It means stupid.
Watching the rising sun every day is considered a sunny day by those who live with a bright heart, but those who steal all night hate the day. When we look at things together, we feel so differently depending on our hearts.
In the same way, listening also tells you to be blessed, but it may sound unpleasant, but this is because my listening mind is wrong, right?
In this chapter, speaking of the parable of sowing the kingdom of heaven, the seed is the word of God and the field is the heart of man.
Luke 8:15 “These are those that are on the good soil, those who hear the word with an honest and good heart, keep it, and bear fruit with patience.”
Even if you go to church, if your heart is twisted, listening to sermons and reading the Bible together will not work. When listening to and reading the Word of God, we must have a kind heart. Don't compare yourself to others, but only open your heart to God and have the humility to receive salvation and grace.
Proverbs 29:1 “He who is often reproved, yet stiffens his neck, will suddenly be destroyed and will not escape.”
2. You will become a blessed person only if you want to understand the Word.
God is the living One who created the world and still speaks today. The God who spoke those words created all things in the world in six days and then created the beasts and man on the sixth day.
Because God exists as the Word, He wants His children to understand the words differently from animals.
The Lord is teaching, but the disciples do not understand,
Mark 8:21 ‘…do you still not understand…’
In the 6th chapter of John's Gospel, five loaves and two fish ate 5,000 men, and there were 12 baskets of leftover pieces.
The people who had eaten this miracle bread came to make Jesus their king. But the Lord said, “The bread of the world is not important, but eat the bread that will never leave you hungry.” He said, “Your body is the bread of life.” The people said, “John 6:60” When some of the disciples heard it, they said, “These words are difficult. Can you hear me?”
It must be differentiated from knowledge that we do not know because we have not learned it, and what we do not understand because our heart is darkened. The Word of God is to be understood only when a repentant heart is in it. If we can understand with worldly knowledge, we will be saved, but we never realize salvation through worldly knowledge.
1 Corinthians 1:21 “As for the wisdom of God, since the world did not know God by its own wisdom, God was pleased with the foolishness of evangelism to save those who believed.”
1 Corinthians 3:19 “The wisdom of this world is foolishness to God”
The early church and the ancestors of the faith in the past eagerly longed for the will of the Lord day and night to understand the will of God. So, the revival meeting is also called the revival sakyunghoe, so there were a lot of meetings to study the Bible.
If you earnestly seek God's will so that your heart's eyes are opened and your heart's ears open, you will be truly blessed. However, since people only value what they can see, today's church members are becoming more and more secularly corrupt.
Revelation 3:17 “You say, ‘I am rich, and I have prospered, and I need nothing, but I do not know that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.
The average person has a slight physical disability. However, if you have problems with your eyes and ears, it is not uncomfortable at all. They cannot see and hear, so it is difficult to pretend to be a human being. Likewise, if your ears are dark and your eyes are dark, you cannot function as a child of God spiritually. You cannot enjoy the grace that God gives you. Therefore, I pray in the name of the Lord that when you receive the Word, you will soften your heart and that you will be able to understand the Word of the Lord so that your spiritual eyes and ears will be opened and you will become all blessed ones.