DON’T YOU GET IT? CATCHING AND APPREHENDING THE HIGHER MEANING?
By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com
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Proverbs 5:15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
Proverbs 5:15 (MSG) Do you know the saying, "Drink from your own rain barrel, draw water from your own spring-fed well"?
Any teacher can teach smart kids. It requires a great challenge and greater patience to reach down and change PERCEPTIONS that are invalid and totally wrong. It is hard to UN-LEARN and RE-TEACH.
Mark 8:18 (MSG) Don’t you see the point of all this? Don’t you get it all all?
Mark 8:21 (MSG) Jesus said: DO YOU STILL NOT GET IT…
SLOWNESS OF PERSCEPTION? TEAMED WITH A TENDANCY TO FORGET? CAN LEAD TO GREAT DANGER…
WHY CAN’T WE HEAR? WHY DON’T WE GET IT?
FROZEN COMMUNICATION, NO CONFLICT RESOLUTION, ANGER, IMPATIENCE
Mark 8:18 Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?
Mark 8:18 (NIV) Do you have eyes but fail to see, and ears but fail to hear? And don't you remember?
Mark 8:17 (NLT) Jesus knew what they were saying, so he said, “Why are you arguing about having no bread? Don’t you know or understand even yet? Are your hearts too hard to take it in? 18 ‘You have eyes—can’t you see? You have ears—can’t you hear?’ Don’t you remember anything at all? 19 When I fed the 5,000 with five loaves of bread, how many baskets of leftovers did you pick up afterward?” “Twelve,” they said.
Mark 8:18 (MOFF) You have eyes, do you not see? you have ears, do you not hear?
Our first TV set was one that my uncle gave our family. It rolled all the time. Now you have to be old to understand a TV rolling. At my uncle’s house, they had a TV. The TV started rolling, you would turn a button and the TV would roll the other way. Keep fine turning the button and you would stop the picture from rolling. One day the TV was rolling real bad and my uncle could not stop it. With his fist, he hit the top of the TV and wood made a hole the size of his fist. He then was ashamed of the hole. They bought a new TV and gave us the old set. Might I add it never rolled again. It was afraid
To be hit.
In early childhood I thought I thought I one of my purposes in life was TO BE A REMOTE CONTROL FOR THE TV.
We had rabbit ears on the back of the TV set. Our rabbit ears had tin foil on them. We would have to move the ears when we changed channels. One of us children had to stand in a certain place for the reception to improve. When we advanced in technology we had an outdoor antenna with a wire to the TV set. Our reception of the TV signal was much improved. The picture was clearer. But when you changed channels someone had to run outside, grab the antenna pole and turn it. Dad would yell: KEEP TURNING or NO YOU HAVE GONE TO FAR AS WE CLEARED UP the TV signal.
We had some rich neighbors that later added a motor to their antenna pole and they could program the pole to match the right station and when they changed channels the outside antenna would move to the right direction and the channel would come in clear. Wow, they never had to run outside and listen to the commander inside giving the orders. Three channels, it went off air at midnight and played the national anthem and ran a stupid picture all night until sign on time in the morning. Three channels and we were almost uptown.
There were thousands of channels, their signals filled the air waves. There were radio channels (AM, FM), 19 CB channels, short wave channels, TV channels BUT YOU HAVE TO HAVE A TRANSMITTER AND A RECEIVER. The channels are worthless with a the message. Sure the waves are there, BUT MY FRIEND, YOU HAVE TO HAVE A RECEIVER. All the channels are there all the time.
Years later cable came out. A man came and ran a wire into the house and we could receive many more channels. YOU HAD TO HOOK UP. Our first cable had a big white box and a 30 ft. cord to a smaller box in your hand. You could press buttons and the channels would change without getting up. It was so neat, just follow the cord and you could find your remote control.
NOW, WE FLIP ON THE TV, AND WE HAVE A GUIDE BUTTON AND YOU PRESS ON IT AND WE HAVE HUNDREDS OF RADIO, MUSIC, TV, SPORTS, NEWS, ADULT PROGRAMS. We have a TV in every room, each family member watching their own thing?
Rabbit ears? Antennas? Cable? And now Satellite? Now we can do wifi and watch TV on the phone system. My point is simple. There has been all these channels for many years, but it is all worthless without a system to relay the message to a receiver.
GOD HAS A MESSAGE YOU CAN USE IF YOU CHOOSE? THE MESSAGE OF ETERNITY IS LOUD AND CLEAR?
CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?
I had a 1973 VW Beetle. I had a 10 ft whip and a CB. We were driving down the road and a friend came on the air.
I WAS NOT PAYING ATTENTION., MY SON WAS STANDING BETWEEN THE SEATS AND HE GRABBED MY EAR AND HELD IT.
I said: SON, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? He answered me: DAD, THAT MAN SAID: BASSPICKER, DO YOU HAVE YOUR EARS ON? I was just checking?
Matthew 13:15 (KJV) For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
Blockheads? Can we see with our eyes, what about or perception and understanding.
Is it possible to see the work of God and not fully understand?
How is your honest interpretation of people and God?
Do we see darkly?
Matthew 13:15 (MSG) The people are blockheads! They stick their fingers in their ears so they won't have to listen; They screw their eyes shut so they won't have to look, so they won't have to deal with me face-to-face and let me heal them.
OBSTACLES ARE WHAT WE SEE WHEN WE LOSE SIGHT OF OUR GOAL.
WE MUST LEARN ONE OF OUR GOALS MUST BE TO ENCOURAGE AND EDIFY?
SHARP TONGUES AND DULLS MINDS CAN BE DANGEROUS AND DEADLY.
HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF A FOOTBALL PLAYER RUNNING WITH THE BALL AND GETTING HIT REAL HARD?
He is still standing but he loses sight of the goal?
WHY ARE WE SLOW TO SEE THE BIGGER PICTURE WHILE WE ARE WALKING WITH JESUS?
NEVER FORGET ETERNITY IS AHEAD…
I HAVE HEARD: that the fallen rose petals have the sweetest fragrance. The best perfume is distilled from fallen rose petals?
DO WE RECOGNIZE THE WORDS OF THE LORD? RELLATIONSHIP NOT RELIGION!
MY SHEEP, IT IS A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP, GOD HAS MANY CHILDREN, BUT THERE ARE NO GRAND CHILDREN IN THIS ARMY… HIS SHEEP…
John 10:27 (KJV) My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
John 10:27 (MSG) My sheep recognize my voice. I know them, and they follow me.
THE RESULTS OF KNOWING GODS VOICE IS A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP…
GOD WANTS US TO EDIFY AND ENCOURAGE OUR FAMILIES, FRIENDS AND CHURCH.
ZIGLAG WAS A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE FOR DAVID, HE LOST EVERYTHING…
BUT HE LEARNED YOU CAN NOT ALWAYS DEPEND ON OTHERS TO EDIFY AND ENCOURAGE YOU.
YOU MUST DIG YOUR OWN WELL.
1 Samuel 30:6 And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.
REACH OUT, REACH IN, REACH DOWN, REACH UP. WE ARE ALL DIFFERENT.
Isaiah 41:7 So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.
Romans 14:19 Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.
Ephesians 4:29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
1 Corinthians 14:12 Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church.
1 Timothy 1:4 Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.
CONCLUSION: DO WE GET IT? DO WE UNDERSTAND WE MUST EDIFY AND ENCOURAGE OTHERS.
DON’T YOU GET IT? ARE WE CATCHING AND APPREHENDING THE HIGHER MEANING? It has been reported 500 preachers lay down their Bible each month and never preach again? Spouses are hurting? Who will encourage them? Sunday School teacher and the lack of attendance? God help us to understand we need the gift and ministry of encouragement and edification thriving within the camp.
By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com
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