Discerning

There is a real difference between listening, hearing, and understanding. While these Jews struggled, people with the indwelling Holy Spirit, find hearing and understanding and easier task. We should learn from history: when the Paul proclaimed news of the Kingdom to people in Rome, unbelieving Jews started arguing with each other, Paul interrupted: "Being in disagreement with one another, they were dismissed after Paul had said one word: “The Holy Spirit accurately spoke to our fathers through Isaiah the prophet, 26 ‘Go to this people and say: You shall certainly hear, but never understand; and you shall certainly see, but never perceive; 27 for the heart of this people has grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, and they have closed their eyes, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.[a]" Acts 28:25-27 (Modern English Version)