Unstopping Blocked Ears Zech. 7:8-12. 8 Then the word of the LORD came to Zechariah, saying, 9 "Thus says the LORD of hosts: 'Execute true justice, Show.

Unstopping Blocked Ears

Zech. 7:8-12

8 Then the word of the LORD came to Zechariah, saying, 9 "Thus says the LORD of hosts: 'Execute true justice, Show mercy and compassion Everyone to his brother. 10 Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, The alien or the poor. Let none of you plan evil in his heart Against his brother.' 11 "But they refused to heed, shrugged their shoulders, and stopped their ears so that they could not hear. 12 "Yes, they made their hearts like flint, refusing to hear the law and the words which the LORD of hosts had sent by His Spirit through the former prophets. Thus great wrath came from the LORD of hosts."

Zech. 7:8-12

8 Then the word of the LORD came to Zechariah, saying, 9 "Thus says the LORD of hosts: 'Execute true justice, Show mercy and compassion Everyone to his brother. 10 Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, The alien or the poor. Let none of you plan evil in his heart Against his brother.'

8 Then the word of the LORD came to Zechariah, saying, 9 "Thus says the LORD of hosts: 'Execute true justice, Show mercy and compassion Everyone to his brother. 10 Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, The alien or the poor. Let none of you plan evil in his heart Against his brother.' 11 "But they refused to heed, shrugged their shoulders, and stopped their ears so that they could not hear.

8 Then the word of the LORD came to Zechariah, saying, 9 "Thus says the LORD of hosts: 'Execute true justice, Show mercy and compassion Everyone to his brother. 10 Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, The alien or the poor. Let none of you plan evil in his heart Against his brother.' 11 "But they refused to heed, shrugged their shoulders, and stopped their ears so that they could not hear. 12 "Yes, they made their hearts like flint, refusing to hear the law and the words which the LORD of hosts had sent by His Spirit through the former prophets. Thus great wrath came from the LORD of hosts."

Zech. 7:8-12

Unstopping Blocked Ears

Unstopping Blocked Ears

Hungeringfor truth

Hungeringfor truth

6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, For they shall be filled.

Matt. 5:6

Hungeringfor truth

Unstopping Blocked Ears

Hungeringfor truth

Wanting todo His will

Wanting to do His will

17 If anyone wants to do His will, he shall know concerning the doctrine, whether it is from God or whether I speak on My own authority.

John 7:17

Wanting to do His will

Unstopping Blocked Ears

Hungeringfor truth

Fair-mindedsearching

Wanting todo His will

Fair-mindedSearching

11 These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so.

Acts 17:11

Fair-mindedSearching

Unstopping Blocked Ears

Hungeringfor truth

Fair-mindedsearching

Tremblingat His word

Wanting todo His will

TremblingAt His word

2 For all those things My hand has made, And all those things exist," Says the LORD. "But on this one will I look: On him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, And who trembles at My word.

Isaiah 66:2

TremblingAt His word

Unstopping Blocked Ears

Hungeringfor truth

Fair-mindedsearching

Open facehonesty

Tremblingat His word

Wanting todo His will

Open facehonesty

18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.

2 Cor. 3:18

Open facedhonesty

Unstopping Blocked Ears

Hungeringfor truth

Fair-mindedsearching

Open facehonesty

Changed bythe Spirit

Tremblingat His word

Wanting todo His will

Changed bythe Spirit

18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.

2 Cor. 3:18

Changed bythe Spirit

Unstopping Blocked Ears

Hungeringfor truth

Fair-mindedsearching

Open facehonesty

Changed bythe Spirit

Tremblingat His word

Wanting todo His will

Responsively

Responsively

12 Those by the wayside are the ones who hear; then the devil comes and takes away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.

Luke 8:12

Responsively

Hungeringfor truth

Love forthe truth

Fair-mindedsearching

Open facehonesty

Changed bythe Spirit

Tremblingat His word

Wanting todo His will

Responsively

Unstopping Blocked Ears

Love forthe truth

10 and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

11 And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, 2 Thess. 2:10,11

Love forthe truth

Open Your Ears to These Truths

Open Your Ears to These Truths

• Believe in Him John 8:24

Open Your Ears to These Truths

• Believe in Him John 8:24

• Turn (repent) from sin Luke 13:3

Open Your Ears to These Truths

• Believe in Him John 8:24

• Turn (repent) from sin Luke 13:3

• Confess Christ Matt. 10:32

Open Your Ears to These Truths

• Believe in Him John 8:24

• Turn (repent) from sin Luke 13:3

• Confess Christ Matt. 10:32

• Baptized into Christ Acts 2:38

Open Your Ears to These Truths

• Believe in Him John 8:24

• Turn (repent) from sin Luke 13:3

• Confess Christ Matt. 10:32

• Baptized into Christ Acts 2:38

Added to His Kingdom, His Church

Open Your Ears to These Truths

• Believe in Him John 8:24

• Turn (repent) from sin Luke 13:3

• Confess Christ Matt. 10:32

• Baptized into Christ Acts 2:38

Added to His Kingdom, His Church

• Live Faithfully unto death Rev. 2:10