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INTRO
Luke 8:15 – As for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with patience.
Hearing the Word not with just our ears, but also with our heart.
HEARING AND DOING THE WORD
OBEY/ DO = new nature produces a new person
Not a list of Dos and DONTs. To obey is to follow, live differently…follow after Jesus.
Hear and Make Known – vv. 16-18
Receive and Respond to the Word
Hear and Believe
Receive John 1:12
Display the Word
You do not cover a lamp.
We do not cover the Word
What is on the inside will/should come out
The truth of the Word on display
Hidden and manifest. Secret and made known
The truth of the Gospel (the called)
Our life (the real coming out)
Continue to hear
Our sanctification.
Time in the Word (Personal)
Time under the Word (Corporate)
So goes you… so goes you and the Word
Less or More
Hear and Live – vv. 19-21
Obviously, Jesus had great concern for and loved His family. But the most important was devotion to HIS FATHER Luke 2:49
His greatest concern is for the spiritual family
The Spiritual Family
Those that hear, receive, and LIVE OUT (OBEY, DO, FOLLOW AFTER)
An inward change. Supernaturally from God
Walk in a manner worthy of the Lord – Colossians 1:9-12
Ambassadors for Christ – 2 Corinthians 5:17-21
His workmanship…good works – Ephesians 2:8-10
An outward focus and direction. Our responsibility to live it out
James 1:22-25 – Doers of the Word
Matthew 7:24 – Hears and acts
John 8:31 – Continue
Because there has been such an radical inward change
From death to life
There should be a radical change in how we live our life
Bearing Fruit Luke 8:15
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