Quick to Hear

If we are quick to hear God and the teachings from the Scriptures, what does that look like in real life? Well, quick is the opposite of slow, so it means we are not slow to hearing the Lord and the Word of God in the Scriptures. So it would indicate that we have a desire to hear from the Lord and from his word, and so we are students of the Scriptures who are diligent to pursue truth, righteousness, and godliness, to apply them to our lives.

However, not everyone who is swift in studying the Scriptures and in knowing what they teach is also all who are quick to listen in the sense of heeding God’s words, applying their teachings to our everyday lives, and obeying our Lord and his New Covenant commandments. There are many who have head knowledge only who do not apply the biblical lessons in all practicality to how they live, in practice and in conduct, on a daily basis.

Now, not everything written down in the Scriptures applies to our lives today, such as we are not those who are under the Old Covenant liturgical, ceremonial, sacrificial, purification, dietary, circumcision, and Sabbath laws that the Jews had to follow prior to Jesus’ sacrifice for our sins on that cross. So, we have to look at context, and to whom the words are spoken, and the time period and circumstances, but all under the direction of the Holy Spirit.

But we must be very careful not to disregard Scriptures obviously intended for the church, which teach biblical doctrine and holy living and death to sin, just because they do not fit in with our chosen lifestyles. For our chosen lifestyles should agree with the Scriptures because they are chosen for us by God, and by faith in the Lord we submit to the will of God for our lives. And always study the Scriptures in their appropriate context, not out of context.

And what would cause anger in this context? There are people who get angry with God because he does not perform for them in the way that they think he ought. They get angry with God when life does not turn out for them the way that they had hoped. And they get angry with God when they get angry with those who are teaching the truth of the Scriptures which they do not want to hear or accept, because they want to live however they want.

But Jesus Christ did not give his life up for us on that cross so that we could continue to live however we want in sinful lifestyles and practices, and so we could ignore what he taught, and what his New Testament apostles taught, if what they taught doesn’t agree with our chosen lifestyles. He put our sins to death with him so that, by faith in him, we will deny self, die to sin daily, and follow him in walks of obedience to his commands, as empowered by God.

Therefore, as those who are of genuine faith in the Lord Jesus, we are to put out of our lives all that is morally filthy, and all that remains of wickedness, so that we can now, in humility, receive the word of God into our lives and into our thinking, believing, actions, attitudes, words, and behaviors. Sin must no longer be our practice, for if it is, and if obedience to God is not our practice, we will not have salvation from sin nor eternal life with God.

For Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:6-8; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:5-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]

Quick to Hear
An Original Work / May 25, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love