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"Happy are your eyes because they see and your ears because they hear" Matthew 13:16






"Whoever has ears to listen, let him listen.” He further said to them:
“Pay attention to what you are hearing" Mark 4:23, 24 2

Mat 13:36; Mark 4:34



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“But pay attention to yourselves that your hearts never become weighed down with overeating and heavy drinking and anxieties of life , and suddenly that day be instantly upon you - Luke 21:34

“Therefore, pay attention to how you listen, for whoever has will be given more,+ but whoever does not have, even what he imagines he has will be taken away from him.” "- Luke 8:18

M. Stephen Lett: Listen With Understanding (Matt. 13:16 ; Isaiah 26:20)
www.jw.org/en/library/videos/#en/mediaitems/VODPgmEvtMorningWorship/pub-jwb_201706_10_VIDEO

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<< jy chap 41 p. 102 [Blind Mute Demon] >>

Jesus often taught in a way that needed further explanation and is recorded as quoting Daniels "footnote" "let the reader use decernment". Often after Jesus' discourses, his disciples had to seek a private audience with him because they didn't understand the truths he had spoken. And sometimes even after the explanation they STILL didn't understand because they were not spiritually mature enough to grasp them.

Jesus explained himself his extensive use of illustration (metaphor, similie, symbolism, etc) in Matthew 13, speaking of the general population, he stated ...

This is why I speak to them by the use of illustrations, because, looking, they look in vain, and hearing, they hear in vain, neither do they get the sense of it; and toward them the prophecy of Isaiah is having fulfillment, which says, ‘By hearing, YOU will hear but by no means get the sense of it; and, looking, YOU will look but by no means see. For the heart of this people has grown unreceptive, and with their ears they have heard without response, and they have shut their eyes; that they might never see with their eyes and hear with their ears and get the sense of it with their hearts and turn back, and I heal them.’

So Jesus often taught using methods that made the deeper truths hard to see without effort. He did this because he wanted only those with humble and sincere hearts, to see those truths. Jehovah's Witnesses believe that understanding scripture is not an intellectual right its a spiritual gift.

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