Do You Have a Teachable Heart? More Understanding Will Be Given to You
This video reveals 3 Reasons it’s important to have A Teachable Heart:
1st every spiritual truth must be revealed to us by God.
2nd not everyone is given the same ability to understand God’s Word.
3rd the measure of your desire for God, pursuit of God, and obedience to God will determine how much God reveals Spiritual Truth to you.
00:00 Philip’s Story
1:49 3 Reasons It’s Important for you to Have a Teachable Heart
2:12 Why Jesus Taught in Parables
3:10 The Human Mind Cannot Understand Spiritual Things.
3:54 God Gives Us The Ability To Understand When We Are Willing To Do What He Says.
4:49 The Measure Of Your Desire For God, Pursuit Of God, And Obedience To God Will Determine How Much God Reveals Spiritual Truth To You.
6:26 Use it or Lose It
7:51 Activation
Why Jesus Taught in Parables
Luke 8:10 NKJV
10 And He said, “To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest it is given in parables, that ‘Seeing they may not see, And hearing they may not understand.’
What? Jesus didn’t want them to understand?
The Human Mind Cannot Understand Spiritual Things. See 1 Corinthians 2:14 NASB
No one understand the Bible with his mind. Holy Sprit is given to us and lives in us to lead and guide us into spiritual truth. That is the only way a man can understand God or the Bible – when Holy Spirit reveals it to us. See John 16:13.
God Gives Us The Ability To Understand When We Are Willing To Do What He Says.
Bill Johnson explains Jesus’ reason for using parables (Luke 8:10 above):
[Jesus] hides truth in parables so those who are not ready to obey will understand. Because if He increases the knowledge of those who are not ready to obey he just increased their accountability. It’s the mercy of God for Him to conceal truth and then make it to where only the hungry can find it.
Jesus revealed the parables to his disciples because they were ready to understand and obey. They were teachable. Those in the crowds who were seeking truth and ready to obey would understand.
That’s true for us. Holy Spirit reveals things to us only when we are ready to change or to do them. Otherwise, we would be in sin – not doing what we knew we should – James 4:17.
The Measure Of Your Desire For , Pursuit Of , And Obedience To God Will Determine How Much Spiritual Truth God Reveals To You. See Mark 4:24 AMP
Use it or Lose It
Have you ever been in church and heard a teaching that literally rocked your world? You thought, that is life changing. Wow! So good. You left church uplifted and believed you were changed.
Two weeks later, a friend asks you what the sermon was because she was out of town and couldn’t attend church. You think for a while, but can’t remember.
What happened? You were given a spiritual truth God meant to change your life, you felt that when you heard it. But you did nothing with it. You didn’t take notes. You didn’t pursue more understanding through scripture and prayer. And you didn’t take an action step to apply that life-changing truth to your life. The result: you lost it. See Mark 4:25AMP
Having a teachable heart means you desire, you yearn for more of God – more relationship, more truth – just more. And you open your Bible to meet God and to learn and be transformed into a new person. And what you learn, you treasure. You journal it. And you take action to make it part of your life.
If you do that, God will give you a greater ability to hear Him, to know Him, and to understand and live out spiritual truths that will transform your life and your nation.