For June 25, 2026
To Hear is To Obey by Greg Holmes, D.MIN – Director of Missions serving 17 churches
WHO IS IT THAT HEARS , if not the one who does what he has heard? “Consider carefully what you hear.” (Mark 4:24a) Upon cautioning his disciples, Jesus immediately tells them that what they have been told imparts a burden of use. He speaks out of the Hebrew understanding of man’s required response to a word spoken by God. In the O.T., when God speaks sovereignly, he does so in one of two voices. He does so either creatively or authoritatively, using two very different Hebrew words. The first, “bara,” is used extensively in Genesis recounting the days of creation, and is a word that only God can speak. The second, “dabar,” has the connotation meaning “to listen and do,” and is used more widespread in those scriptures where either God or a man of authority is commanding and directing men’s activities.