Chaos Vs. Listening

CHAOS VS. LISTENING

By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com (YouTube: Wade Hughes)

Proverbs 20:12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.

Proverbs 20:12 (MSG) Ears that hear and eyes that see— we get our basic equipment from GOD!

Is there a difference between listening and hearing? HEARING is with the ears. Listening is with the ears and with the heart. We find complete chaos where there are frozen communication lines. SEEMS MANY TALK FEW LISTEN… chaos comes from darkness… real listening brings light. WHERE JESUS IS THERE WILL BE PLENTY OF LIGHT. COMMUNICATION, LISTENING BRIGHTS BRIGHT LIGHT. CHAOS comes with darkness of listening, communication skills. HOW CAN I IMPROVE MY LISTENING SKILLS?

John 8:12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

*CHAOS: complete disorder, confusion, no reason, no order. Chaos becomes the NORM WHEN PEOPLE REFUSE TO LISTEN TO GOD OR LISTEN TO OTHERS.

*LISTEN: to give ear, to pay attention to sound, purpose of hearing, heed, obey, to consider, tune in,

*REPETITION: repeats

LET US COME TO THIS ANCIENT PRAYER --- WHERE WE LISTEN WITH OUR EARS… MOSES STARTS THIS PRAYER WITH SHEMA. SHEMA IS LISTENING WITH ORE THAN YOUR EARS. SHEMA IS ACTION, LISTENNING WITH YOUR EARS AND HEART.

Hear the ancient prayer, it starts with: HEAR O ISRAEL THE LORD IS OUR GOD.

Deuteronomy 6:4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: 5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. 6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: 7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. 9 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

MOSES DEMANDS THAT GOD’S PEOPLE LISTEN OR PAY ATTENTION BY USING THE WORD “SHEMA.” MOSES’ WORD SHEMA MEANS MORE THAN HEARING. SHEMA IS TO HEAR AND THEN OBEY WHAT WAS SAID.

Shema is more than listen with your ears… Sure “shema” means listen but it is much deeper than hear. SHEMA MEANS HEAR ME AND DO WHAT I SAY… OBEY. Shema means more than the 3 bones in the inter-ear shaking… THE HAMMER, ANVIL AND STIR-UP the 3 smallest bones of the body… A SNAIL SHAPE FLUID FILLED WITH NERVE ENDINGS THAT SEND MESSAGES TO THE BRAIN.

I HEAR AND UNDERSTAND: WITH MY EYES… I AM STANDING ON HOLY GROUND. MOSES, MOSES … MOSES ANSWERS: HERE I AM. MOSES LEARNED TO LISTEN WITH OUR EYES… HEAR THE GREAT “I AM.” WITH THE EYES,,,

Exodus 3:1 Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb. 2 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. 3 And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. 4 And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.

5 And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

GOD REVEALS HIMSELF TO MOSES BY LISTENING WITH THE EYES… “I AM WHO I AM.”

*I HEAR AND UNDERSTAND VIA NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS… WE CALL THIS: BODY LANGUAGE.

* Often body language communicates more than words vibrating across the ear drums. Facical expressions reveal emotions, tone, voice --- volume ( not just what you say but how you say it, , movement and gestures, snort---sigh , space--- touch, in your face, body movement, I DON’T CARE.

PHARAOH might have heard with his ears, but Pharaoh’s body language refused to acknowledge Moses, Aaron or God.

Exodus 5:1 And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness. 2 And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go.