Hearing God in Scripture

Mark 5:35

35 While he was still speaking, there came from the ruler’s house some who said, “Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the Teacher any further?”

What limits do we put on Jesus? Jairus’ people put limits on Jesus. They thought that death was the limit to Jesus’ ability to heal. Jesus demonstrated to Jairus that he goes WAY beyond those limits, or any limits we place on him.

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Exodus 32:32

 32 But now, if you will forgive their sin—but if not, please blot me out of your book that you have written.

 Moses demonstrates his character and closeness with God. He begs God to be merciful to the Israelites. Moses gets angry and disciplines the people (viciously). And Moses goes back to God and stands up for those people again (blot me out). Moses loves the people of Israel. He learned the lesson from God himself.

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Mark 4:24

24 And he said to them, “Pay attention to what you hear: with the measure you use, it will be measured to you, and still more will be added to you.

Jesus is teaching the crowd in parables. However, the parables are all around one theme, the word of God. How you hear the word of God is the whole issue. Therefore, Jesus says, Pay attention to what you hear, or See how you Hear. What measurement are you using for hearing? Are you trying to fill your measuring cup with hearing, that is, are you trying to really hear and really do what God tells you? Or are you just sort of hearing and sort of obeying?

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Mark 4:10-12

10 And when he was alone, those around him with the twelve asked him about the parables. 11 And he said to them, “To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables, 12 so that 

      “ ‘they may indeed see but not perceive, 

      and may indeed hear but not understand, 

      lest they should turn and be forgiven.’ ” 

 These people came to Jesus because they didn’t understand what Jesus was teaching. Jesus was teaching through parables, confusing stories. We often come across things in the Bible that we don’t understand. We need to do what these people did. They came to Jesus and asked.

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Mark 15:5

 5 But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate was amazed. 

 Jesus, the obedient Son of God, the servant who humbles himself, demonstrates some of his most amazing characteristics. Jesus gives, carefully, information to Pilate to get himself crucified. H also doesn’t defend himself. And Pilate was amazed. We should be amazed, too.

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John 7:38

38 Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’

We explore the great promise of Jesus for those who believe in him. Rivers of Living Water is the great gift. These rivers of living water are the Holy Spirit. What does that mean and what should it look like to us?

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Mark 2:25

And he said to them, “Have you never read what David did, when he was in need and was hungry, he and those who were with him:"

We have in this passage one of the examples of Jesus reading the Old Testament. He shows how he handled the Old Testament text, and how these Pharisees should have read the passage. We get to see how Jesus reads the text. Is there a better person to teach us how to handle God’s Word?

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Mark 2:4

4 And when they could not get near him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him, and when they had made an opening, they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay.

The action of faith brings about the actions of Jesus. The most important result of the action of faith is the forgiveness of sin. Also, the actions of faith can be the actions of the body on behalf of their friend, as was the case here with the paralytic. God calls us to act in faith.

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Exodus 28:36-38
36 “You shall make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it, like the engraving of a signet, ‘Holy to the Lord.’ 37 And you shall fasten it on the turban by a cord of blue. It shall be on the front of the turban. 38 It shall be on Aaron’s forehead, and Aaron shall bear any guilt from the holy things that the people of Israel consecrate as their holy gifts. It shall regularly be on his forehead, that they may be accepted before the Lord.

What does this plate on Aaron’s forehead have to do with us? It is like theater. God gives this piece to point to the true holy One, Jesus, who bears our guilt before the throne of God and enables us to be accepted before the Lord.

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John  5:46
“For if you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote of me”

Jesus makes two important points in this short verse, using something the Jews cherished - the Old Testament. Jesus highlights the teachings of Moses, who spoke about Jesus as the coming Messiah, and uses this to question the Jewish leaders’ true belief in the scripture.  Jesus is affirming how important the text is! God speaks to us through the text.  It also causes us to wrestle with what we truly believe.  Are we practicing what we believe?

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