EARS TO HEAR

This was a frequent saying of the Lord Jesus. He said it seven times in Rev. chapters 2-3 alone. For example, Rev.2:7. It must be important.

It cannot mean only physical ears, because physical ears do not hear what the Spirit says. Also, because most people He talked to had physical ears, or they couldn't have heard Him tell them to hear.

In the spiritual sense, our "ears" have to do with things that we are interested in. We pursue and adjust ourselves for what interests us. We study things that are interesting, to gain understanding and knowledge about them. When we do, we can "hear" them, and respond accordingly. We pay little attention to things that we don't care about. We pay no attention to things we don't know.

Jesus expected those who had been taught His ways to pay attention, and obey. He pricked their interest with warnings and promises. If they obeyed, it means that they had ears to hear. God give US ears to hear!

People who want to live in their sins, don't want to hear what the Spirit says, because He demands that they change their lifestyle.

Believers who are eagerly interested in the things of God, seek to hear what the Spirit says. THEY will have ears to hear what the Spirit says. Jesus said: "My sheep hear My voice (John 10:27)." His sheep are they who follow Him. He also said the Holy Spirit will guide us into all truth.

The Laodacean Church was so interested in their wealth that they lost much of their interest in what pleases God. Such distraction dulled their spiritual hearing, and they became lukewarm. They fell into the trap of Luke 21:34! Lukewarmness COULD cause believers to miss the RAPTURE! They just won't HEAR the Lord when He comes! But that's not all, Jesus warned that He would spue them out of His mouth, if they didn't mend their ways. They wouldn't be His ANYMORE!

Coming to Christ, getting born again, and then living without due regard for doing what Jesus and the Apostles taught, is nearly as dangerous as never being born again at all.

Such people seem so UN-INTERESTED in more than a bare knowledge of God, and of His ways. They have no ears to hear what it means to be filled with the Holy Spirit and to grow in grace and in the knowledge of God (2Pet.3:18.)

They have no ears (of interest) to hear the need to win lost souls to Christ, or to live a holy, Godly life. They don't seem to care about the Body of Christ, or the RAPTURE of the Church, 1 Thes.4:15-17, or anything that interests true disciples of Christ.

They have ears to hear dirty jokes, cursing and slander, and to indulge in the lusts of sinners, and partake of the ungodly pleasures of this world.

Others separate themselves from the sins of the world, but live according to their own ideas about the Gospel. They ignore and oppose those who walk in deep, fruitful fellowship with the Lord Jesus. The glory and value of the Church (the Body of Christ) is of little interest to them. They don't hear what the Spirit is saying IN and TO the Churches.

If we have no interest in the things of God, our "ears" don't hear them. Consider: the world knows of the same end time signs that believers do, but the world isn't warned by them as believers are.

Jesus said that end-time signs will show that our redemption is near, Lu.21: 28. The signs that are seen in today's world ought to cause more in us than an uneasiness about the future. They ought to cause corrective responses in our lifestyle, per 1 John 3:1-3.

Psalms 119:25: "...quicken thou me according to thy word." That is an excellent prayer to pray for ourselves, so that we may hear what the Spirit says.

Again, Psalms 119:18:  "Open thou mine eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law."

In Eph.1:17-23, Apostle Paul prayed that God would grant the Spirit of revelation in the knowledge of Him, to en- lighten our eyes so that we may know what is the hope of His calling.

We can pray these prayers for ourselves. God wants us to hear what He is saying today, and to hear what He WILL say when Jesus shouts in the rapture, 1 Thes.4:16.

Do you have ears to hear? Stir up your interest. Go to Church regularly, STUDY your Bible, PRAY daily, obey the Lord Jesus, EVERYDAY. Your interest in spiritual things will increase, and you can gain acuity to hear what the Spirit says. May God grant it. Amen.

I love you.