Seven times in the Greek Scriptures, and only from the lips of the Lord Jesus, there occurs the expression "If any man have ears to hear, let him hear!".
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- “Ears to Hear”: What’s THAT About?
- Ears to Hear
- Mark Then Jesus said, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
Aramaic Bible in Plain English Whoever has an ear to hear, let him hear. Jubilee Bible He that has ears to hear, let him hear. King James Bible He that has ears to hear, let him hear. American King James Version He that has ears to hear, let him hear.
“Ears to Hear”: What’s THAT About?
American Standard Version He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. Douay-Rheims Bible He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. Darby Bible Translation He that has ears to hear, let him hear. English Revised Version He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Webster's Bible Translation He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. Weymouth New Testament Listen, every one who has ears! World English Bible He who has ears to hear, let him hear. Young's Literal Translation he who is having ears to hear -- let him hear. They are like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling out to others: He who has ears, let him hear. He who has ears to hear, let him hear. To the one who is victorious, I will grant the right to eat from the tree of life in the paradise of God.
The one who is victorious will not be harmed by the second death. The average farmer would regard this as a poor crop, indeed, so far as the proclamation of the Kingdom of Heaven is concerned, it had failed to produce the effect necessary to its realisation. Israel had rejected its Messiah, and the great harvest of God has yet to await His time--but the Great Sower shall yet reap where He has sown and gather where He has strawed!
But since men reject Him, the bulk of the Seed in all the earth is "wasted" as we say--much more is wasted than ever comes to fruition. The sowing, and the effect of the sowing, is very closely connected with the phrase "If any man hath an ear to hear, let him hear! The formula is very significant, for though openly and apparently He speaks to all, He speaks in such language that only those who have spiritual perception will apprehend what He is saying. The rest hear the words, but do not grasp the meaning; the multitude have no ears to hear, all will be wasted upon them.
Like so many of the teachings of our Lord, this saying of His illustrates a general truth, equally valid today; only those who have ears to hear will understand what He says through His word, the world in general is deaf to the appeals of the crucified One, it does not want to hear. And let it be whispered quite a few of those who have heard His appeal fail to listen to His further revelations intelligently, often being too busy bickering amongst themselves over some fragmentary portion which they have heard, and misconstrued!
Those to whom God has granted a degree of spiritual perception will hear Him as He speaks through His Word, and it is them He addresses Himself. If you have got an ear, listen! We have a saying," A word is enough for a wise man," and if he is a wise man one word is enough, but if he is not wise a whole volume will be wasted on him.
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There is another Scripture which says "Take heed what ye hear! In Psalm 94 we have a verse which speaks of the human ear. We read "He that planted the ear, shall He not hear? It consists of the ear-trumpet, the drum of the ear, and underneath that, secreted among the bones, the inner ear which does the hearing, transmitting outside sounds to the brain.
The inner ear is made of what is called a hammer-and-anvil and a stirrup. When sound comes to the ear through the trumpet, the hammer starts tapping the anvil, and at once the nerves set to work and send the sounds down to the true ear, which is immersed in fluid. As soon as the ear-trumpet brings the sound to the drum, and the drum transmits it to the fluid, thousands of telephones are at work--in fact, in a rightly constructed ear there are as many telephones as there are sounds in the universe.
When these come into action, then the mind hears. All this happens before we become aware of a sound. No wonder the Psalmist wrote "He that planted the ear It is not only a delicate instrument, but you must be very careful about getting anything into it, both physically and otherwise.
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What enters into the ear enters into the mind, the brain, and proceeds to the heart and the spirit. Modem research is discovering some remarkable things regarding sight, and the fact emerges that all of us have to learn to see, since it is not a natural function to see and interpret.
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Perception is a function of the mind, and it can be demonstrated that the mind plays peculiar tricks with the images that the eye conveys to it. It is only through hearing and learning that we can understand what we are seeing, and a limit is set upon our understanding of the visual message by the training and quality of the mind. In the Ephesian Epistle Paul prays that the eyes of their hearts may be enlightened, the quickening of the inner vision through the agency of the things which have been heard and stored in the mind.
Man by nature is deaf--the Spirit by means of the Word gives him light and life and bearing, so that those who have been brought to a consciousness of sin and the saving grace in Christ Jesus have the understanding enlightened. We should be careful of what we allow to come into our ears, because although it is a marvelous organ, capable of great good, it can be used to cause us great harm.
We should be on guard against this--to repeat the words of our Lord, "take heed what ye hear!
In the first book of the Scriptures we find the classic illustration of this truth. Eve was poisoned and the whole race has been paralysed and poisoned ever since, because she listened to a voice which destroyed her faith, and ever since that day-- and especially today--the same voice sounds in the ears of men, saying the same things, adopting the same course, and with the same result.
In the beautiful surroundings in which they had been set Adam and Eve had been granted all its treasures to enjoy, subject to one prohibition ; they were not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. God said so, plainly--" you shall not eat.
Mark Then Jesus said, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
Faith takes God at His Word. Unbelief takes Gods Word and messes it up to suit itself, and this the Adversary proceeds to do with Eve. He questions Gods Word--is it really true that God has not given you an entirely free hand? Have I heard correctly? I cannot believe it, surely there is nothing here which you dare not taste? Oh, Eve take heed what you hear! But the seed of doubt has been planted, and Eve claims the equivalent of the modem "right to doubt" and in the few words she spoke she did all the damage to Gods word that any of her children ever did, although it might be said to her credit that she did it in less space than most of her offspring.
She did not need to be as smart as the Adversary and neither do we all she needed to do was to rely on what God had said, but all that reliance she bad given up in favour of the "advanced thought" of the" more progressive minds," God had provided lavishly, and they were to eat freely, but she had an ear to hear this brilliant and dapper stranger, and to her the voice of God had lost its sweetness and His love had lost its charm. Will the reader be saying--but this is back in the kindergarten, we are advanced students and well know these things?