Luke 9:44-45 “Let these words sink down into your ears, for the Son of Man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men." (45) But they did not understand this saying, and it was hidden from them so that they did not perceive it; and they were afraid to ask Him about this saying.”
In the passage of scripture quoted above, our Lord Jesus was trying to get the disciples to understand what was about to happen to Him in Jerusalem. In other words, they needed spiritual understanding. But as the scripture reveals to us, because it was hidden from them, they did not understand Him. So, what did our Lord mean when He said to the disciples, “Let these words sink down into your ears”. In the natural, the disciples could hear perfectly what Jesus was saying, but Jesus was talking about the ears of their inner man. When our Lord walked on the earth, many times He would make the following statement, “he who has ears to hear, let him hear” (Matthew 11:15). When Jesus made this statement, He was not referring to their physical ears, because all could hear Him with their physical ears, but rather Jesus was referring to their spiritual ears, i.e. the ears of their inner man. So how do we hear with our spiritual ears? Our Lord Jesus said, we are to let His words sink down into our ears.
Proverbs 18:8 and Proverbs 26:22 “The words of a talebearer are like tasty trifles, and they go down into the inmost body.”
As quoted above, twice in the book of proverbs, the Holy Spirit reveals to us just how words enter the spirits of unbelievers. The inmost body referred to in this passage of scripture, is the spirit of man. In this world, unbelievers’ dwell on the words of a talebearer. In other words, they meditate on those words. They like to think about what was said. As they continue to think about those words, those words sink down into their spiritual ears, and their spirits absorb those words. In the same manner, we who are born again, can allow the word of God to go down into our spirits. Although the words are different, the principle remains the same. In other words, it is through our constantly thinking about the word of God, or the meditation of God’s word, that we allow His words to go down into our inmost bodies. We have already seen that our minds are the gateway to our spirits, and that nothing enters our spirits from the outside, except through our minds. And so, it is with our minds, that we meditate on the word of God. As an aside, it is only the word of God that can enter the spirit of the born-again believer, because their spirits are covered by the blood of the Lamb and nothing unclean or impure can enter through the blood of Jesus. So even if a believer were to dwell on the thoughts of a talebearer for example, those thoughts would remain in their minds only and not drop down into their spirits.
Michael E.B. Maher
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