THE HEARING OF THE WORD TRANSFORMS: DON’T BE DULL OF HEARING!
“Blessed [joyful, nourished by God’s goodness] are those who HUNGER and THIRST FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS [those who ACTIVELY SEEK RIGHT STANDING with God], for they will be [COMPLETELY] SATISFIED” Matthew 5:6/Amplified.
If there’s any time for one to CRAVE [THIRST and HUNGER] after the RIGHTEOUSNESS of God’s WORD, it’s today and even now. We are living a time wherein there’s a famine of the unadulterated and undiluted HEARING OF THE WORD of God in the grace, in spirit and in truth. It’s your time to be intentional and resolved to own your LIBRARY OF FAITH to savage you from being in the place of the FAMINE of THE WORD of God. It will deliver you from the DULLNESS to HEARING THE WORD of God in the grace. It’s only the HEARING of THE WORD of God that informs and transforms from the adulteration and falsehoods about us today. Therein is the only way to have your spirit-being renewed in your mind daily, and from glory to glory in the grace in Christ Jesus stead. Amen.
“. . . 2 And do not be CONFORMED to this world, but be TRANSFORMED by the RENEWING of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God” Romans 8:1-2
“If indeed you have HEARD Him and have been TAUGHT by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: 22 that you put off, concerning your FORMER CONDUCT, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, 23 and be RENEWED IN THE SPIRIT OF YOUR MIND, 24 and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness” Ephesians 4:21-24/NKJV
“Behold, the DAYS ARE COMING,” says the Lord God, “That I will send a FAMINE on the land, NOT A FAMINE of bread, Nor a thirst for water, But of HEARING THE WORDS of the Lord. 12 They shall wander from sea to sea, And from north to east; They shall run to and fro, seeking THE WORD of the Lord, But shall not find it. 13 “In that day the fair virgins And strong young men shall FAINT FROM THIRST” Amos 8:11-14/NKJV.
And there’s nothing as dangerously dangerous than to be out of instructions especially when you are in a place of unwillingness to HEAR THE WORD of God being spoken to you directly and indirectly to help you become in life and grace. To be in a place of being broken and beyond repairs it’s not only frightening and worrisome but grievous to such an individual.
“He who HARDENS his neck and REFUSES INSTRUCTION after being often REPROVED (CORRECTED, CRITICIZED), will suddenly be broken beyond repair” Proverbs 29:1/Amplified.
Only a fool, meaning unwise, lives in the atmosphere of not hearing and listening to wisdom to better their lives for the good and goodness of our common society and community: Family, Church, Business, Government and such like. To being hard of hearing, in listening to instructions, robs one of helps and creates a bad taste in making an informed decision. Informed leaders are readers and learners, and most importantly, listeners. Timothy was instructed by Apostle Paul to know the benefits of active and swift listening to know God’s Word, to enable him in becoming a polished and thoroughly furnished man of God in the grace.
“But you must CONTINUE in the things which you have LEARNED and been ASSURED of, knowing from whom you have learned them, 15 and that from childhood you have KNOWN the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you WISE for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. 16 All Scripture is given by INSPIRATION of God, and is PROFITABLE for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, 17 that the MAN OF GOD MAY BE COMPLETE, THOROUGHLY EQUIPPED for every good work” 2 Timothy 3:14-17/NKJV
The writer of the Holy writ book of Hebrews didactic illustration of Hebrews 5:11-14, gives a warning signal to all who wants to be Teacher [instructor, mentor and such like] to know that being dull to hearing is the limiting factor. Being dull could be described as something boring, uninteresting, or lacking brilliance, lifeless, not bright, faded, not sharp, slow, sluggish and unsharpened. And in the context of being DULL to THE HEARING OF THE WORD, it’s an indication of the lack of growth to maturity, wholeness, completeness and totality.
For when such an individual ought to be a TEACHER, meaning the state of giving others instructions of the FAITH in the grace, such an individual is still taking the MILK of the WORD. Indicating being toothless, lack of growth, not fully informed to make informed decisions in the path of righteousness in the grace. It’s a state of being vulnerable, unsecure and unsteady in the faith. And not being able to sensitise the senses [the hearing, the seeing, the smelling, tasting and touching/feeling] by THE WORD which is only possible by actively, swiftly and lively HEARING THE WORD of God in the grace.
“Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking, 2 as NEWBORN BABES, DESIRE THE PURE MILK OF THE WORD, that you may grow thereby, 3 if indeed you have TASTED that the Lord is gracious” 1 Peter 2:1-2
“Concerning this we have much to say, and it is HARD TO EXPLAIN, since you have BECOME DULL AND SLUGGISH IN [your spiritual] HEARING and DISINCLINED TO LISTEN. 12 For though by this time you ought to be TEACHERS [because of the time you have had to learn these truths], you actually need someone to teach you again the ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES of God’s word [from the beginning], and you have come to be continually in NEED OF MILK, NOT SOLID FOOD. 13 For everyone who lives on milk is [DOCTRINALLY INEXPERIENCED and] UNSKILLED IN THE WORD OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, since he is a SPIRITUAL INFANT. 14 But solid food is for the [spiritually] MATURE, whose SENSES are TRAINED BY PRACTICE to distinguish between what is morally GOOD and what is EVIL” Hebrews 5:11-14/Amplified.
The Believing child of God must resolve to overcome the spirit of being dull of hearing to become swift [quick] to hearing the word of God. Being quick to hear gives the enabling to perceive, to understand, be smart, and be clever as a mark of necessity to enhance one to being a TEACHER of completeness, wholeness, totality, and maturity. Being a teacher makes one to be sensitive, alert, vigilant, alive, actively engaged and engaging because of the hearing of the word. This experience of becoming a TEACHER that’s HEARING THE WORD of God, as described earlier, makes the difference from the person who is DULL of HEARING OF THE WORD of God.
It’s time to incline your spiritual hearing ears, which is the heart, the spirit man being, to THE HEARING OF THE WORD, and put an end to the to the DULLNESS IN THE HEARING that will emancipate you from the grips of ignorance and self-made and self-created bandage due to the hardness of your hearing and listening hearts to God’s Word in the grace.
It’s time to wake up from being a DULL HEARER OF THE WORD to becoming the ACTIVE [SMART] HEARER OF THE WORD to make you become the TEACHER that’s complete, whole, total and mature in the grace.
I pray you become a TEACHER, being able to sensitise your senses [seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling and touching/feeling], to a wholesome place of grace in Christ Jesus. Amen.
SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT:
“Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord God, “When I will send HUNGER over the land, Not hunger for bread or a thirst for water, But rather [a HUNGER] for HEARING THE WORDS of the Lord. 12 “People shall STAGGER from sea to sea [to the very ends of the earth] And from the north even to the east; They will ROAM here and there to SEEK THE WORD of the Lord [longing for it as essential for life], But they WILL NOT FIND IT. 13 “In that day the beautiful virgins And [even the vigorous] young men shall FAINT FROM THIRST . . .” Amos 8:11-14/Amplified.
“But the PATH OF THE JUST is as the SHINING LIGHT, that SHINETH MORE and MORE unto the PERFECT (DAWN) DAY. 19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble. 20 My son, ATTEND to my words; INCLINE thine EAR unto my SAYINGS. 21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the MIDST of thine HEART. 22 For they are LIFE unto those that find them, and HEALTH to all their flesh. 23 Keep thy HEART with all DILIGENCE; for out of it are the ISSUES OF LIFE” Proverbs 4:18-23/Emphasis Mine.
“But as it is WRITTEN, EYE hath not SEEN, nor EAR HEARD, neither have ENTERED into the HEART of man, the things which God hath PREPARED for them that love him. 10 But God hath REVEALED them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit SEARCHETH all things, yea, the deep things of God” 1 Corinthians 2:9-10.
“For THE WORD of God is QUICK, and POWERFUL, and SHARPER than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the DIVIDING asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do” Hebrews 4:12-13.
“We having the SAME spirit of FAITH, according as it is WRITTEN, I BELIEVED, and therefore have I SPOKEN; we also BELIEVE, and therefore SPEAK” 2 Corinthians 4:13.
REV. CHUKIE MORSI