The
Bible is the inspired,infallible and authoritative written word of God.
There
is one God, eternally existent in three persons: God the Father~God the
Son~God the Holy Spirit
In
the diety of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless
life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death, in His
bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father and
in Hispersonal future return to this earth in power and glory to rule a
thousand years.
In
the blessed hope- the rapture of the church at Christ's coming.
That
the only means of being cleansed from sin through repentance and faith in
the precious blood of Christ.
That
regeneration of the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential for personal
salvation.
In
Water baptism by immersion
The
redemptive work of Christ on the cross provides healing of the human body
in answer to believing prayer.
In
the santifying power of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian
is enabled to live a holy life.
In the ressurrection of both the saved and the lost, the one to
everlasting life and the other to everlasting damnation.
Read: Matthew 13:1-9
He who has ears, let him hear. (v. 9)
Every letter in Revelation 2–3 concludes with this: “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.” Jesus added something similar to his parable of the sower. It’s not enough simply to hear the Word of God; the Word must take root in our lives and produce lasting fruit.
But doesn’t everyone with ears hear? I’ve noticed something as I have aged and my hearing has degraded. When you don’t quite catch a comment, you get tired of saying, “Huh? What did you say?” or, “Could you repeat that?” So you just ignore what was said and hope it wasn’t too important.
Jesus is not warning people who are hard of hearing; he’s warning people who are good at ignoring. Don’t do that with God’s Word. Don’t let it go in one ear and out the other. Rather, respond to it: do what it’s asking you to do. Believe what the Word promises and do what it commands. If we do that, we will live.
These devotions opened with John’s beatitude: “Blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written” (Rev. 1:3). We conclude with Miles Smith’s beatitude for the readers of the King James Bible: “A blessed thing it is, and will bring us to everlasting blessedness in the end, when God speaks to us, to listen; when he sets his Word before us, to read it; when he stretches out his hand and calls, to answer, ‘Here am I; here we are to do your will, O God.’ ” —David Bast
As you pray, offer yourself to do God’s will.
