LEND ME YOUR EAR
REV.22 He that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
THIS VERSE IS FOUNT IN THE BOOK OF RELEVATION SEVEN TIMES AND OUT OF THE SEVEN TIMES SIX OF THEM ARE IN CHAPTER TWO AND THREE.
JESUS IS TALKING TO THE SEVEN CHURCHES
HE TELLS THEM THAT HE HAS SOME WHAT
AGAINST THEM EXCEPT THE CHURCH OF
PHILADELPHAI.
THESE SEVEN CHURCHES REPRESENT
SEVEN TIME PERIODS, THE CHURCH THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO LOOK AT IS THE LAST TIME PERIOD, IT IS THE CHURCH THAT IS CALLED THE LUKE WARM CHURCH JESUS SAID IN REV.3-15 I KNOW THY WORKS,THAT THOU ART NEITHER COLD OR HOT.REV.3-16 SO THEN BECAUSE THOU ART LUKE WARM AND NEITHER COLD OR HOT, I WILL SPUE THEE OUT OF MY MOUTH.
ONCE AGAIN I AM PREACHING LEND ME YOUR EAR. JESUS IS TALKING TO THE CHURCHES YOU MUST KEEP THIS IN MIND OR YOU WILL LOSE MY POINT FOR THE MESSAGE TODAY.
WE NEED TO LOOK AT THE DIFFRENTS BETWEEN HAERING AND LISTENING.
MY WIFE TELLS ME THAT I HAVE SELECTIVE
HEARING. SHE MAY TELL ME THAT WE ARE GOING TO HAVE CHICKEN FOR DINNER TOMORROW, SHE WELL SAY SOMETHING LIKE
I THINK WE SHOULD BE REDY TO EAT AT ABOUT FOUR O’CLOCK. ALL I HEARD HER SAY WAS CHICKEN TOMORROW, SO ABOUT LUNCH TIME I ASK WHERE IS THE CHICKEN. SHE THEN TRYS TO LET ME DOWN EASY AND INFORMS ME THAT THE CHICKEN WILL BE READY IN ABOUT FOUR HOURS DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT, COME ON MEN ARE YOU WITH ME.
THIS IS JESUS SPEAKING HE SAYS ONE WAY OR ANOTHER HAER WHAT THE SPIRIT SAITH UNTO THE CHURCHES. WE NEED TO HEAR AND TO LISTEN TO WHAT THE SPIRIT IS SAYING TO THE CHURCH. WE SPEND TOO MUCH OF OUR TIME TRYING TO DO THINGS OUR OWN WAY OR, GOING OUR OWN WAY. WE NEAD TO LISTEN HE IS TALKING TO THE LAST CHURCH AGE, GUESS WHO THAT IS YOU AND ME.
1.HE SAID HE KNOWS OUR WORKS.
2.WE ARE NEITHER COLD NOR HOT.
3.SO WE ARE LUKEWORM SO I WILL SPUE
THE OUT OF MY MOUTH.
4.BECAUSE THOU SAYEST I AM RICH AND INCREASTED WITH GOODS AND HAVE NEED OF NOTHING.
5.WHAT DID JESUS SAY THOU ART WRETCHED, AND MISERABLE, AND POOR AND, BLIND AND NAKED.
LOOK AT REV.3:18-19
6.BE ZEALOUS THEREFORE, AND REPENT.
7.TO HIM THAT OVER COMETH WILL I GRANT TO SIT WITH ME IN MY THROWN, EVEN AS I ALSO OVERCAME, AND AM SIT DOWN WITH MY FATHER IN HIS THROWN.
8.JESUS ALSO SAID BEHOLD I STAND AT THE DOOR AND, KNOCK IF ANY MAN HEAR MY VOICE, AND OPEN THE DOOR I WILL COME IN TO HIM, AND WILL SUP WITH HIM, AND HE WITH ME.
WE CAN LOOK AT THIS LAST VERSE THAT WE READ THAT WE KNOW THAT JESUS IS TALKING TO THE CHURCH SO IS HE SAYING THAT HE IS ON THE OUT SIDE LOOKING IN AND THAT THE CHURCH AGE OR, THE LAST CHURCH AGE WILL NOT LET HIM IN SO HE IS KNOCKING ON THE CHURCH DOOR SO YOU AND I WILL LET HIM IN. HE SAID HE WOULD SUP WITH US, AND US WITH HIM.
I ALSO BELIEVE THAT IF YOU ARE HERE AND ARE LOST, BACKSLIDEN ON GOD OR MAYBE YOU ARE NOT WHER YOU SHOULD BE WITH THE LORD IF YOU WILL OPEN YOU HAERT’S
DOOR THAT THE KING OF GLORY WILL COME IN WHICH IS CHRIST THE LORD IF YOU ARE LOST ONLY YOU CAN OPEN THE DOOR.
LEND ME YOUR EAR. PEOPLE IT’S TIME WE LISTEN TO THE SPIRIT OF GOD WHEN HE SPEAKS TO US LET’S BE LIKE NOAH LET’S FIND GRACE IN THE EYE’S OF THE LORD AND WHEN THE LORD TELLS US TO DO SOMETHING LET’S DO IT. PRAISE GOD, GOD TOLD NOAH TO WORK ON AN ARK TOLD HIM HOW TO BUILD IT AND NOAH GOT STARTED ON IT. WE NEED TO BE WILLING TO LISTEN AND TO HEAR WHAT THE SPIRIT SAYS TO THE CHURCHES.
LEND ME YOUR EAR. JONAH
NOW THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO JONAH THE SON OF AMITTAI, SAYING
ARISE, GO TO NIEVEH, THAT GREAT CITY, AND CRY AGAINST IT; FOR THEIR WICKEDNESS IS COME UP BEFORE ME.
BUT JONAH ROSE UP TO FLEE UNTO TARSHISH FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD AND WENT DOWN TO JOPPA AND HE FOUND A SHIP GOING TO TARSHISH: SO HE PAID THE FARE TTHEROF, AND WENT DOWN INTO IT, TO GO WITH THEM UNTO TARSHISH FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD.
WRONG WAY JONAH HE HEARD THE LORD SPEAK UNTO HIM BUT LIKE A LOT OF US WE DON’T ALWAYS LISTEN TO HIM. HE WENT THE OPPOSIT DIRECTION FROM WHAT THE LORD TOLD HIM TO GO. WE ALL KNOW THE STORY THAT THE STORM CAME AND THE MEN WENT DOWN INTO THE SIDES OF THE SHIP AND JANAH WAS ASLEEP SO THE SHIPMASTER CAME TO JONAH AND WOKE HIM UP AND, TOLD HIM TO CRY UNTO HIS GOD SO THAT THAY WOULD NOT PERISH. SO THE MEN OF THE SHIP CAST LOT’S AND THAY FELL ON JONAH SO HE TOLD THEM THAT HE HAD RAN FROM THE PRESENTANCE OF THE LORD SO THAY CAST HIM OVERBOARD THEN WE ALL KNOW THE STORY ABOUT JONAH IN THE BELLY OF THE WHALE THE BIBLE ALSO SAYS A GREAT FISH.
WHEN JONAH HAD CRYED UNTO THE LORD FROM THE FISHES BELLY THE LORD SPOKE UNTO JANAH AGAIN THEN AND TOLD HIM TO GO TO NIEVEH, THAT GREAT CITY AND PREACH UNTO THE PREACHING THAT I BID THE. NIEVEH WAS A THREE DAYS JOURNEY BUT JONAH ENTER THE CITY IN ONE DAY, HE WAS PICKING THEM UP AND LAYING THEM DOWN HE GOT ON THE BALL SO TO SPEEK.
SO OFTEN WE ARE LIKE JONAH LET’S DO WHAT GOD WANTS US TO DO THE FIRST TIME I HAVE WORKED WITH PEOPLE THAT WORKED HARDER TRYING TO GET OUT OF DOING SOMETHING THAN IF THAT WOULD HAVE WENT A HEAD AND DONE WHAT THAY WERE TOLD TO DO, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN SO MUCH EASYER.
PROVERBS 8-34 BLESSED IS THE MAN THAT HEARS ME.
FOUR TYPES OF HEARING
1.CARE-LESS HEARERS LUKE 8-12
THOSE BY THE WAY SIDE ARE THEY THAT HEAR; THEN COMETH THE DEVIL, AND TAKETH AWAY THE WORD OUT OF THEIR HEARTS, LEST THAY SHOULD BELIVE AND BE SAVED.THE MESSAGE GOES IN ONE EAR OUT THE OTHER. THAY COULD CARE LESS WHAT THAY HEAR.
2.SUPERFICIAL HEARS, THAY ON THE ROCK ARE THEY, WHICH , WHEN THEY HEAR, RECEIVE THE WORD WITH JOY; AND THESE HAVE NOT ROOT, WHICH FOR A WHILE BELIVE, AND IN TIME OF TEMPTATION FALL AWAY. HE NEVER TRYS TO GAIN A DIPPER KNOWLEDGE OF GOD OR TO GET ROOT OR GROUND IN THE WORD OF GOD.
3.CARNEL HEARERS LUKE 8-14
AND THAY WHICH FELL AMONG THORNS ARE THEY, WHICH, WHEN THEY HAVE HEARED, GO FOURTH, AND ARE CHOCKED OUT WITH THE CARES AND RICHES AND PLEASURES OF THIS LIFE, AND BRING NO FRUIT TP PERFECTION.
THISPERSON RECIVES THE WORD AND TRYS TO LIVE IT HE OR SHE JOINS THE CHURCH AND THEY TRY FOR AWHILE THEN THE PLEASURE OF THIS LIFE TAKE THEM OVER THEN THEY BEGAIN TO LIVE A DOUBLE LIFE. THEN, SOON THAY ARE GONE BACK OUT IN THE WORLD. THE BIBLE DOES SAY THAT THERE IS PLEASURE IN SIN FOR A SEASON.
1.JOHN 2:15 LOVE NOT THE WORLD, NEITHER THE THINGS THAT ARE IN THE WORLD. IF ANY MAN LOVE THE WORLD, THE LOVE OF THE FATHER IS NOT IN HIM.
4. SINCERE HEARERS- LUKE 8:15 BUT THAT ON THE GOOD GROUND ARE THEY, IN AN HONEST AND GOOD HEART, HAVING HEARD THE WORD, KEEP IT, AND BRING FORTH FRUIT WITH PATIENCE.KING SOLOMON AT THE BEGINNIG OF HIS RAIN PRAYED FOR ONE GIFT OF GOD NOT WITH NOT LONG LIFE, BUT SOMETHING FARE MORE VALUABLE HE ASK FOR A UNDERSTANDING HEART. WHICH BEING TRANSLATED A HEARING HEART? 1 KINGS 3:9
GIVE THERE FORE THY SERVANT AN UNDERSTANDING HEART TO JUDGE THY PEOPLE, THAT I MAY DISCERN BETWEEN GOOD AND BAD: FOR WHO IS ABLE TO JUDGE THIS THY SO GREAT A PEOPLE? HE ASKED, WE SAY, FOR WISDOM. THE GUNIUS OF WISDOM IS THE ABILITY TO OPEN A ROOM IN ONES HEART FOR THE TALK AND SO FOR THE PRESENCE OF ANOTHER.
JOHN 10-27 MY SHEEP HEAR MY VOICE, AND I KNOW THEM, AND THEY FOLLOW ME.
JOHN 8:31-32 THEN SAID JESUS TO THOSE JEWS WHICH BELIEVED ON HIM, IF YE CONTINUE IN MY WORD, THEN ARE YE MY DISCIPLES INDEED; 32. AND YE SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH, AND THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE.
THOSE CLOSEST TO CHRIST IS THOSE WHO HEAR AND OBEY
THEY HEAR AND DO
IT IS NOT THE HEARER THAT IS JUSTIFIED BUT THE DOER OF THE WORD.
LEND ME YOUR EAR.
LISTEN WITH YOUR HEART THIS MORNING LET THE LORD IN. IF YOU ARE LOST WITH OUT GOD DO YOU HEAR THAT STILL SMALL VOICE THAT IS BIDDING YOU TO COME THE SPIRIT IS CALLING YOU TO COME. LEND ME YOU EAR.
