Take Heed How You Hear

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"Take Heed How You Hear"
Luke 818
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Luke 811-13

• "Now the parable is this The seed is the word of
  God. Those by the wayside are the ones who hear
  then the devil comes and takes away the word out
  of their hearts, lest they should believe and be
  saved. But the ones on the rock are those who,
  when they hear, receive the word with joy and
  these have no root, who believe for a while and
  in time of temptation fall away.

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Luke 814-15

• "Now the ones that fell among thorns are those
  who, when they have heard, go out and are choked
  with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and
  bring no fruit to maturity. But the ones that
  fell on the good ground are those who, having
  heard the word with a noble and good heart, keep
  it and bear fruit with patience."

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Luke 818

• "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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"Take Heed How You Hear"

• In the parable of the sower there are four kinds
  of hearers represented by the different soils.
• Those by the wayside allow Satan to snatch the
  word out of their hearts.
• The ones on the rock are hindered by others.
• The ones that fell among thorns are hindered by
  things.
• The ones that fell on the good ground bear fruit.

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Take Heed Not to Be A

• Forgetful hearer.

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James 122-25

• But be doers of the word, and not hearers only,
  deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer
  of the word and not a doer, he is like a man
  observing his natural face in a mirror for he
  observes himself, goes away, and immediately
  forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks
  into the perfect law of liberty and continues in
  it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of
  the work, this one will be blessed in what he
  does.

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Take Heed Not to Be A

• Forgetful hearer.
• Dull-hearted hearer.

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Matthew 1310-13

• And the disciples came and said to Him, "Why do
  You speak to them in parables?" He answered and
  said to them, "Because it has been given to you
  to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven,
  but to them it has not been given. For whoever
  has, to him more will be given, and he will have
  abundance but whoever does not have, even what
  he has will be taken away from him. Therefore I
  speak to them in parables, because seeing they do
  not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do
  they understand.

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Matthew 1314-15

• And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled,
  which says 'Hearing you will hear and shall not
  understand, And seeing you will see and not
  perceive For the hearts of this people have
  grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, And
  their eyes they have closed, Lest they should see
  with their eyes and hear with their ears, Lest
  they should understand with their hearts and
  turn, So that I should heal them.'

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Take Heed Not to Be A

• Forgetful hearer.
• Dull-hearted hearer.
• Itching-ear hearer.

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2 Timothy 41-4

• I charge you therefore before God and the Lord
  Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the
  dead at His appearing and His kingdom Preach the
  word! Be ready in season and out of season.
  Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering
  and teaching. For the time will come when they
  will not endure sound doctrine, but according to
  their own desires, because they have itching
  ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers
  and they will turn their ears away from the
  truth, and be turned aside to fables.

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Take Heed Not to Be A

• Forgetful hearer.
• Dull-hearted hearer.
• Itching-ear hearer.
• Stopped-ear hearer.

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Acts 751-54

• "You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and
  ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit as your
  fathers did, so do you. Which of the prophets did
  your fathers not persecute? And they killed those
  who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom
  you now have become the betrayers and murderers,
  who have received the law by the direction of
  angels and have not kept it." When they heard
  these things they were cut to the heart, and they
  gnashed at him with their teeth.

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Acts 755-58

• But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into
  heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus
  standing at the right hand of God, and said,
  "Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of
  Man standing at the right hand of God!" Then they
  cried out with a loud voice, stopped their ears,
  and ran at him with one accord and they cast him
  out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses
  laid down their clothes at the feet of a young
  man named Saul.

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Take Heed to Be An

• Obedient hearer.

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Proverbs 2512

• Like an earring of gold and an ornament of fine
  gold Is a wise rebuker to an obedient ear.

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James 121-22

• Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow
  of wickedness, and receive with meekness the
  implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
  But be doers of the word, and not hearers only,
  deceiving yourselves.

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Take Heed to Be An

• Obedient hearer.
• Inclined-ear hearer.

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Jeremiah 721-23

• Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel
• "Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and
  eat meat. For I did not speak to your fathers, or
  command them in the day that I brought them out
  of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings
  or sacrifices. But this is what I commanded them,
  saying, 'Obey My voice, and I will be your God,
  and you shall be My people. And walk in all the
  ways that I have commanded you, that it may be
  well with you.'

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Jeremiah 724-26

• "Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but
  followed the counsels and the dictates of their
  evil hearts, and went backward and not forward.
  Since the day that your fathers came out of the
  land of Egypt until this day, I have even sent to
  you all My servants the prophets, daily rising up
  early and sending them. Yet they did not obey Me
  or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck.
  They did worse than their fathers.

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Jeremiah 727-29

• "Therefore you shall speak all these words to
  them, but they will not obey you. You shall also
  call to them, but they will not answer you. So
  you shall say to them, 'This is a nation that
  does not obey the voice of the Lord their God nor
  receive correction. Truth has perished and has
  been cut off from their mouth. Cut off your hair
  and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on
  the desolate heights for the Lord has rejected
  and forsaken the generation of His wrath.' "

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Take Heed to Be An

• Obedient hearer.
• Inclined-ear hearer.
• Swift hearer.

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James 119-20

• So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be
  swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath for
  the wrath of man does not produce the
  righteousness of God.

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Some Good-Ground Hearers

• Those in Acts chapter two
• Those in Acts chapter eight
• Those in Acts chapter ten
• Those in Acts chapter sixteen
• Those in Acts chapter nineteen