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 “If Anyone Has Ears to Hear, let Them hear.”
3:10 Jesus was teaching them two things: 1st The Human Mind Cannot Understand Spiritual Things
3:54 2nd 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.
5:37 Does God Really Reveal More Truth to Some People Than Others?
6:26 Use it or Lose It
7:51 Activation
“If Anyone Has Ears to Hear, let Them hear.”
Jesus privately explained to his disciples why He used parables.
Luke 8:10 NKJV
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?
Jesus was teaching them two things: 1st The Human Mind Cannot Understand Spiritual Things.
Paul explains in 1 Corinthians 2:14 NASB:
But a natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
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.
John 16:13. [Jesus]
But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth.
and 2nd 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 God, Pursuit Of God, And Obedience To God Will Determine How Much God Reveals Spiritual Truth To You
Mark 4:24, NIV, Jesus was talking about revealing spiritual truths.
“Consider carefully what you hear,” he continued. “With the measure you use, it will be measured to you—and even more. Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.”
See the Amplified translation of Mark 4:24 to help unpack what Jesus meant.
Does God Really Reveal More Truth to Some People Than Others?
Mark 4:24 is talking about Bible study, but it is more. This is heart pursuit of God.
God wants our hearts. As we pursue Him, He reveals more of Himself to us.
Jesus told everything to his disciples as they became his friends. God tells more to his friends that to those who simply serve Him. See John 15:15 NIV
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.
Mark 4:25 AMP
25 For whoever has [a teachable heart], to him more [understanding] will be given; and whoever does not have [a yearning for truth], even what he has will be taken away from him.”
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.