What Jesus Taught About Manifesting Abundance by John Avanzini

Author:John Avanzini
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: prosperity, Bible, Wealth, Jesus, Religion, Biblical Studies, The Gospels & Acts
ISBN: 9780892749416
Publisher: Harrison House
Published: 1996-01-31T22:00:00+00:00

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Understanding and Receiving

And ye shall know [understand] the truth, and the truth [you understand] shall make you free.

John 8:32

The longer I am saved, the more I realize the need to understand the exact meanings of words. Nowhere is this understanding more important than in studying the Word of God.

The English language, as spoken by Americans, tends to change even more quickly than fashions in clothing do. It goes through an unending evolution that takes from, adds to, and even gives new meanings to its words.

Ears to Understand

The breakthrough truth I want to bring to you in this chapter deals with a word we find in Mark 4:9,23. The King James Version interprets it as hear. The Greek dictionary proves that translation of the word to be incomplete. Let's see how these two verses use it.

... he said unto them, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

Mark 4:9

If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.

Mark 4:23

The original word is #191 in the Greek dictionary of Strong's concordance. It is the word akouo. The English word that accurately describes the intended meaning of this word in these verses is understand, meaning "to understand the thing you are hearing." In Matthew's account of the parable of the sower, the translators did translate it as understand.

When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart....

Matthew 13:19

Verse 23 says that the saint who understands what he hears will receive in harvest proportions.

But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

Matthew 13:23

When you apply this interpretation to the word in Mark 4:23, you see that our Lord is going on with His instructions about receiving the thirty, sixty, and hundredfold increase. See how clear it becomes when you use the word understand where the translators used the weaker hear.

If any man have ears to [understand], let him [understand].

Understanding Regulates Receiving

Now we can understand the intended meaning of verses 24 and 25. Our Lord warns us to be very careful with what we understand.

. . . Take heed what ye hear [understand]: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you....

Mark 4:24

The traditional interpretation of this verse has clouded the reason Jesus gave this warning. We have always compared the measure in verse 24 to the measure in Luke 6:38.

... For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.

Luke 6:38

Jesus is not speaking of the measure of Luke 6:38 in Mark 4:24. Keep in mind that He has been talking about understanding, so when the Lord says, ". . . with what measure ye mete [or give],..." He is not referring to the amount a person gives. The subject Jesus has been discussing establishes the measure of Mark 4:24. See a true revelation of verse 24 as I now show you the proper context.

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