• Hear, continued:
    • We must take care how we hear.
      • How we make application in our lives – Ezekiel 33:30-32
      • Hear, recognizing what His Word is – I Corinthians 2:9-3:3
        • Where His Word comes from
        • How we are to receive it
        • How it should affect us
      • We must make it durable in our lives – Luke 8:18
        • Parable of the sower
          • Things can interfere with our hearing.
          • We must guard against them and produce fruit.
          • Our ability to produce fruit will expand.
        • Hearing often requires help
          • Moses to Israel – Deuteronomy 6:1-3
          • Lack of help – II Chronicles 15:3
          • Josiah’s reforms – II Chronicles 35:2-3
          • After captivity – Ezra 7:10
          • Ethiopian eunuch – Acts 8:29-35
          • Apollos – Acts 18:24-28
        • Path to effective hearing – James 1:19-25; I Peter 2:1-2
          • Lay aside sin
          • Long for the Word
          • Put the word into practice to shape our lives
        • Hearing God’s Word is no small thing
          • It must be with fear and respect
          • It must be active
          • It must be exclusive
          • It must be effectual
          • It must be forward looking
        • Lead and follow
          • Some Hebrew words
            • נָחָה nachah
              • To transport (into exile or as colonists), bring, govern, guide, lead forth, put, straighten
              • Usually to describe God leading
                • Directly leading – Exodus 13:21
                • By inference – Psalm 108:10
                • Desire for God’s leadership – Psalms 61:2
                • By proxy (only instance) – Exodus 32:34
            • נָהַל nahal
              • To run flow, to conduct, to protect, sustain, carry, feed, guide, lead gently, lead on
              • Not always translated “lead”
                • Genesis 33:14
                • Isaiah 40:11