Luke 8:4–8 | Take Care How You Hear

Preacher: Jeremiah Fyffe
Luke 8:4–8

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1. SOWER: The Preacher is Always Sowing the Word
2. SEED: The Word is the Same
3. SOIL: Take Care How You Hear

2 Timothy 4:3 (ESV)
For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,

1 Peter 1:23 (ESV)
since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;

Westminster Confession, Q160
Q: What is required of those that hear the word preached?
A: It is required of those that hear the word preached, that they attend upon it with diligence, preparation, and prayer; examine what they hear by the scriptures; receive the truth with faith, love, meekness, and readiness of mind, as the word of God; meditate, and confer of it; hide it in their hearts, and bring forth the fruit of it in their lives.

1 Thessalonians 2:13 (ESV)
And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.

Proverbs 8:33–34 (ESV)
Hear instruction and be wise,
and do not neglect it.
Blessed is the one who listens to me,
watching daily at my gates,
waiting beside my doors.

Charles Spurgeon
We are told men ought not to preach without preparation. Granted. But we add, men ought not to hear without preparation. Which do you think, needs the most preparation, the sower or the ground? I would have the sower come with clean hands, but I would have the ground well-plowed and harrowed, well turned over, and the clods broken before the seed comes in. It seems to me that there is more preparation needed by the ground than by the sower, more by the hearer than the preacher.

Psalm 119:18 (ESV)
Open my eyes, that I may behold
wondrous things out of your law.

James 1:22–25 (ESV)
… he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.

Hebrews 4:2 (ESV)
For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened.

Psalm 119:11 (ESV)
I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

James 1:22 (ESV)
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.