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Speaker 1 (00:16):
Yo, what's going on everybody? How y'all doing out there?
This is your boy Jared Lewis aka King J. Lou
aka King J. Lewis, and I want to welcome you
to another power session right here on the King League
Discussions podcast where Kingdom meets Culture and faith. Ain't just
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talked about its live out now. For today's episode, it
is entitled keep Hearing It? All right? Keep hearing It?
Why because too many of us treat faith like it's
built in a single moment, rather than in rather than
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a lifestyle. All right, So today's subject, today's title, today's
power session, it's called keep Hearing It and the scripture
will be coming from is Romans ten and seventeen. Romans
ten is seventeen and it reads, so faith comes by
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hearing and hearing by the Word of Christ. But here's
what we most miss often times. It's that word hearing.
Hearing is not just a one time act. It's hearing.
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It's hearing and hearing and hearing and hearing and hearing
over and over and over and over again. Today we're
going to break down what hearing really means and why
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it's different just from listening, and how you can make
faith the loudest sound inside of your very own spirit.
So y'all know how we do? You know? I like
to break down the points. So the first point is
hearing versus listening. Oxford's English Dictionary defines listen as to
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give one's attention to a sound, and here see as
to perceive with the ear the sound made by someone
or something At a surface level. Hearing and listening both
sound familiar, but bibically there is a deeper layer. The
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Greek word for hearing here in Romans tennis seventeen means
the act of hearing. Okay, The Greek word for hearing
Romans ten in right here in Romans ten in seventeen
means the act of hearing the ear or the message
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that is heard. It just doesn't mean sound enters into
your ears. It implies receiving and internalizing what you have heard.
Listening can be casual and temporary. You can listen without
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understanding or applying. Hearing in the kingdom sense means perceiving.
Hearing in the kingdom sense means processing. Hearing in the
kingdom sense means allowing what is perceived from the Bible
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and allowing it to transform you from the inside. This
is why Jesus often said, he who has ears let
him hear, not listen, but he who has ears to hear,
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let him hear, because he was calling people to a
spiritual perception and not just audio reception. Think of it
this way. Active listening. Active listening means that I'm just
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hearing you. It's okay, I'm just hearing you out, and
I'm not down and we're not downplaying listening. But hearing
is not to be downplayed either, right, he who has
ears to hear, let him hear consistently, persistently, and let
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him perceive the message from what is being said and
written in the Bible. Hearing versus listening. All right, that's
the first point. Second point is why God wants us
to hear and not just listen, all right? Why God
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wants us to hear and not just listen. Listening, like
I said before, can be temporary and it can be momentary,
but hearing the word plants it deep within your spirit.
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Listening this this and this is good stuff. Watch this.
Listening can be selective. Listening can be selective. This is
why sometimes it's important to choose how you are listening
to an individual or how you are listening to something
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that's being played for your ears to receive it. Because
listening can be one or two ways. I could be
active listening. I could be attentive to what's going on,
or I could be listening. I could be momentarily just
taking in what you're saying. And it don't have to
process within my internet, and it doesn't have the process
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within my heart, it doesn't have the process within my soul,
it doesn't have the process within my mind. But I'm
listening to you. Hearing forces you to confront the full
truth of God's words. Because as you're hearing and hearing
and hearing and hearing every day, hearing every hour, hearing
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every second, hearing every minute, hearing every day, the Word
of God increases your faith listening in watch This listening
ends when the sound stops. Active listening has a stopping point.
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Hearing continues because it's been planet and keeps echoing in
your mind, body, and soul. True hearing moves towards a
form of obedience and faith in Christ. James one to
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twenty two says, be doors of the Word, and not
just and not just hearers.
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Only see you see how that you see how that
hearing worked. It didn't say listen. True hearing moves. True
hearing is an action. True hearing is operating on what
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you have.
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Heard with your ears. That's why in James one and
twenty two it says be doors of the Word and
not just hearers only, meaning that the real hearing, not
the listening. The real hearing changes the behavior, all right.
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Point three. So the first point that we talked about
was hearing versus listening. Second point we talked about was
why God wants us to hear and not just listen.
And the third point is hearing is not a one
and done thing. Okay, now where did this message coming from?
This message came from a real that I seen on
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Instagram and it was an old school pastor. I can't
think of his name, but it was. It was. It's
a gray headed pastor, silver hair and it is very
profound pastor. He did a real good job with his rendition.
But he was proven to his congregation exactly. The difference
between hearing the word of God and actively listening to
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someone there is a distinct difference. We have to be
careful as to what is what are we tapped into? Okay,
because salvation. Whenever you do become saved, you know, a
confess with confess with Ma of all that is believing
your heart Jesus Christism, and you shall be saying, okay,
all that. That's a part of salvation. That's whenever you
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confess your sins, you you know, you confess with your
mouth and all that. So believing your heart Jesuit christis
save from raised from dead, and you shall be safe.
That was a one time fix for a lifetime commitment. Correct,
So that means that I would have to be in
confession of my salvation. Notice that t io n on
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the end means the process. It's continual. So faith is
not just a one time fix. Faith is not just
a one time download. Faith is a continual news feed.
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Faith is a continual Twitter feed. Faith is a continual algorithm.
It doesn't stop. The present continuous meaning in the Greek
words shows that hearing is in fact a lifestyle. Let's
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let's let's let's let's go back to that Romans Romans
ten and seventeen. So faith comes from what hearing and
hearing see, it didn't stop. So faith comes from hearing.
Faith comes from hearing hearing what hearing and hearing by
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the Word of God. Faith comes by hearing and hearing
by the Word of God. What are you hearing? That's
the question, what are you hearing? Hearing? Is not just
the one thing that Okay, I'm gonna read, you know,
my daily Bible verse for today, and that's it. No,
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get something else in the afternoon, get something else in
the evening, get something else when you get home, and
get something else before you go to bed. Faith comes
by hearing and hearing, and hearing and hearing. You can't
expect to be strong in faith if the only time
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that you receive the Word is on Bible study. You
can't expect to be strong in faith if you only
engage in the Word on Sunday. So, yes, life is
gonna be hard. You're gonna feel powerless. You're gonna feel
like you can't do certain things because your faith hasn't
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been charged in the Word. You've been tapped too to
something else. You've been tapped in something else. You've been
hearing something else, your thought processes have been processing something
else other than your words. So your faith becomes stricken.
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It's almost like a phone battery. Your spirit needs a
consistent and constant charge from the Word of God. Faith
comes by hearing and hearing, and hearing and hearing, all right.
So that's point three. Hearing is not a one and
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done all right. So the first point was hearing versus listening.
Second point was while God wants us to hear, not
just listen. Third point was hearing is not a one
and done thing, all right. So now we're on the
point for point four, says competing voices. Now, this is
a very special part in this power session. That's very intimate.
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I want to speak to everyone who's struggling with faith, right.
I want to speak to that person that feels like
they're weak in faith. I want to speak to that
individual that feels powerless in their day to day walk
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with Christ. Whatever you hear the most will grow strongest
in you. Write that down. Whatever you hear the most
will grow strongest in you. Whatever you hear the most
will go strongest in you. So if all you're hearing
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is negativity, then that's what will go strongest in you.
If all you're hearing is jealousy, that's what will grow
strongest in you. If all you're hearing is is negative,
negative things and and things that put you down. That's
what will grow up from the inside of you. Whatever
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you hear the most will grow strongest in you. If
you're hearing fear, if you're hearing gossip, and if you're
hearing things that that that that stop your progress, then
that's what will take root and grow. Faith and fear
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both grow from repeating repeated hearing. Faith and fear both
grow from repeated hearing. One produces courage and the other
produces paralysis. And understand what this paralysis is. It's not
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just physicality, right, because you know, in fear, you become
in fear versus faith. Whereas fear, whereas faith you become confident.
Fear stagnates you and it ceases your movements, right, whereas
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faith produces courage. And you have the Word that's on
the inside of you, that's built that allows you to
do certain things. I want to help that person and
I'm gonna help myself. Filter your hearing so that the
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word of God is loudest in your life. Filter you're
hearing so the word of God will strengthen your faith.
Filter what you're hearing so the word of God can
make you confident about the things that God has promised you.
Filter what you're hearing so the Word of God can
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take you in places that you never ever thought that
would exist. Filter what you're hearing so the word of
God can make the crooked places great. Filter what you're
healtering what you're hearing so the Word of God can
take root and you can grow in the purpose that
God has purpose for you. Competing voices, be careful of
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what you're tapped into. Be careful of the podcast that
you hear. Be careful of the radio shows that you hear.
Be careful of the TV shows that you're watching, the
movies that you watch. Be careful of the music that
you listen to. Be careful of the negative. Be careful
of the negativity that people give you. Be careful filter
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that stuff because you need some positivity. You need the
word of God to strengthen that faith. All right, that's
point four. Competing voice TiO point five. Create a faith
filled atmosphere. Okay, create a faith filled atmosphere. Guys, it's
okay to play the U version Bible app quite frankly.
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I used to do that all the time, but I
stopped because I started listening to podcasts. See how, see
how see how see how easy that is? Well where
where whether you would much rather be entertained than rather
than feeding your faith and fitting feeding yourself with the
Word of God. See how easy that is? That listening
is something that's entertaining as opposed to something that can
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really shift the atmosphere and change your life. Go to
the U version Bible app and just play it. I'm
a New Testament guy. I love the New Testament. So
I'll probably start with John because John is one of
the John is my favorite gospel. It's my favorite book
in the Bible. In the beginning of the world was
God and the Word is God. I mean literally, that's
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that's prominent. That's soul. That works for me. So yeah,
I'm gonna take my own advice. That's what I'm gonna do.
Listen to Kingdom sermons, listen to Kingdom podcasts and and
and you don't need the Praise and Worship Team for
you to worship. Turn on turn on some gospel man,
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start your day off right, you know. I'm I'm you know,
I'll be thugging a little bit. I'll be thugging a
little bit. I like my DMX, Notorious b I G
and Cardi B and Nicki minaj I Love I Love
my you know, hip hop and R and B. But
I also have a gospel playlist and I have to
let that marinate so I can start my day in
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the right way. Filter your conversations with promises, not promise whatnot.
Filter your conversations with promises not problems. Healthy conversations with
promises problems. Keep hearing and hearing until the Word of
God becomes the echo in your spirit. And that's how
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you create a faith filled atmosphere. So today, you know,
just for a quick review, today we talked about keep
hearing it, keep hearing it, keep hearing it. We keep
hearing it and hearing it. And we talked about Romans
ten seventeen, and our points were hearing versus listening. Why
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point number two while God wants us to hear and
not just listen, And point number three hearing it's not
one it's not a one and done thing. And point
four was the competing voices. And the last point that
we talked about was point five create creating a faith
filled atmosphere our family. I really hope that this podcast,
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this power session, really touched your hearts. I really do.
But as we close. I want to present your challenge,
all right, for the next seven days. I want you
to be intentional about what you're hearing for the next
seven days. I want you to be purposeful about what
you're hearing. I want to be I want you to
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filter and and and really be mindful as to what
you're tuned in to. Don't just listen for noise, here
for transformation. Replace one thing that feeds, that feeds fear,
with something that feeds your faith. Remember that faith comes
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by hearing and hearing, and hearing and hearing and hearing
and hearing, So don't stop at the first time that
you're hearing, all right, Always remember all right to be
the best kingdom citizen that you can be. Exercise your
right as a kingdom citizen. God bless I love you.
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Catch it the next one pace