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*/Plugged Ears Sermon idea on the O.T. Prophets/* Idea: Frank Page
*/(look for word “ignore” or “reject” God’s word.)/*
Recently, I had a cold and accompanying that cold was a great deal of fluid
buildup in my eardrums.
This became very obvious when I was traveling by air a great
deal.
The constant going up and down in altitude combined with the dry air of the
airplane made my travel extremely painful.
My ears hurt like I have never felt them hurt
before.
I simply could not get relief from the pressure that led to great pain.
The downside of that was not only the pain, but the inability to hear when people
spoke to me.
It made communication very difficult.
There are times in every life when we fail to listen.
While there may be a
physical reason that inhibits some from hearing, one of the great maladies that afflicts
all of us is an intentional effort to block out true communication.
Several times in Scripture, Jesus used these words, "He who has ears, let him
hear."
Would you not say that this makes an assumption, that some listen while some
do not?
Jesus knew reality, and He knew that there were some times we chose not to
hear or listen to His voice, to reality, and to truth.
After a high school basketball game, the coach spotted a cell phone lying on the
floor.
"here," he said to the ref, "I think this is yours."
"What makes you think it's my phone?"
asked the ref.
"Easy," the coach said.
"It says you have ten missed calls."
Could that have been you?
Are we missing calls because of selective inattention
or purposeful obtuseness?
Of all the characteristics of foolishness, the most prominent and troubling one is
/plugged ears /- when you're not really listening.
All other descriptions of foolishness
eventually find themselves under this one.
If you come across a fool - at work, at church, in your neighborhood, in your
extended family - don't try to tell him he's headed in the wrong direction with his life
unless you're fully prepared to get your head bitten off.
*A fool is always deeply*
*persuaded that what he's doing is right.
*He's not going to listen to anybody else
about it.
This concept is actually wrapped around the most common Hebrew word for
"fool," which appears forty-nine times in the book of Proverbs - /keciyl/.
These kinds of
people are literally "blockheads" - they have a dull and closed mind, and they're too
thick-headed to realize it.
They are utterly convinced that they know what they're doing,
and anyone who disagrees with them is just dead wrong.
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Know anybody like that?
I'll bet you do.
Ever been like that yourself?
Some of
us have been, for sure.
*What makes this so terribly dangerous is that this plugged-ear foolishness*
*is the first thing God must get rid of if he's going to give you a heart of wisdom.*
Foolishness is so hard to destroy because it's so hard to detect.
You can't detect it in
your own life, in fact, if your ears are plugged up.
So before you can become someone
known for godly character and trustworthy advice, your plugged ears need to be
scrubbed out.
As children, when someone was trying to say something to us that we didn't want
to hear, remember what we did to shut them out?
We'd clap our hands over our ears
and talk (or hum or sing) or make nonsense noises like "La-la-la-la-la loudly enough to
drown out their voices.
As adults, we've developed our own more sophisticated ways of
not listening.
Suppose someone says he'd like to meet for breakfast, and they share with us
some things we need to hear about ourselves.
We listen carefully.
We say "Thank you,
I appreciate your input very much."
As we get back in our car, we make a mental note
never to say /yes /again if he asks to get together.
Then we just go on living as we were.
Perhaps someone jots us a note that says, "You know, I love you in the Lord and
feel the need to challenge you in this area."
We say, "yes, thank you, I appreciate that
so much."
But we say to our spouse or another friend, "Can you believe what she said
to me?" /Plugged ears.
/We're foolish when we don't listen to other people.
Most often when I have heard the voice of God, it has been through someone
who cared about me and loved me enough to sit down with me and say, "It goes like
this." May God keep our ears from being plugged up when others are talking truth.
*Proverbs 18:15 says, " The heart of the discerning acquires knowledge;*
*the ears of the wise seek it out."
Proverbs 12:15 says, " The way of a fool seems*
*right to him, but a wise man listens to advice."*
To find the true antidote to plugged ears, turn with to *Luke 14:25-35.*
When Jesus left the Pharisee's house, great crowds followed Him, but He was
not impressed by their enthusiasm.
He knew that most of those in the crowd were not
the least bit interested in spiritual things.
Some wanted only to see miracles, others
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