Hear, Accept, and Obey

Job 20; Mark 3-4 

“’Others, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop – thirty, sixty or even a hundred times what was sown.’…’Consider carefully what you hear.’ he continued. ‘With the measure you use it will be measured to you – and even more.’”

Mark 4:20, 24

Hearing God’s Word is not enough to bear good fruit and an abundance of fruit. We must hear, accept, and obey God’s Word. This requires faith that God’s Word is both truth, and worth the investment of our time and effort. In the oral culture of Christ’s day and the fourteen hundred years of church history afterward when virtually all Christ-followers could not read, listening to the written Word and the inner words of Christ were the only ways to receive it. Active listening includes repeating what we have heard and then acting on it.

Are we “using” what we have heard, or are we just passive listeners?

Jesus called us to multiply through a multitude of spiritual fruit. We multiply through hearing, accepting, and obeying God’s Word with faith.

“Lord Jesus, you are the living Word. I choose to obey you, for your glory.”