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I. HEARING GOD'S WORDS. What is implied?

1. Attention of the body.

2. Intention of the mind.

3. Retention of the memory.

II. NOT HEARING GOD'S WORDS.

1. Some defiantly refuse to come where they may hear.

2. Others intend to disregard, loving the present world (2 Timothy 4:10).

3. Others hear for a while, but continue not in well doing.

(1)  Truth is rejected, but it does not keep silence.

(2)  Truth is reviled, but it wearies not.

(3)  Truth is persecuted, but it does not yield.

III. THE TEST. "Not of God." "Of God."

1. He loves God, and so loves His Word.

2. He is in sympathy with the Word, and so delights to hear it.

3. He wants to obey the Word, and so listens to it. But the carnal mind cannot receive the things of God. The Word rebukes him, threatens him; he hates it.

(Family Churchman.)

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KJV: I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.

WEB: I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father."