Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Ears That Hear What God Hears - #5278

Wednesday, April 4, 2007

For me, it started with the comic books, then the old black-and-white TV series. Now he's graduated to the big screen as the subject of several blockbuster movies. "Look, up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!" The most recent Hollywood story of the Man of Steel is called "Superman Returns." His return is from a five-year absence from earth, and during that time, reporter Lois Lane writes a major article called, "Why the World Doesn't Need Superman." She makes this statement: "The world doesn't need a savior, and neither do I." Upon his return to earth, Superman visits Lois Lane and tells her, "There's something I want to show you." He picks her up and takes her on a flying trip over a long stretch of the planet. He says, "Listen. Do you hear it?" She hears nothing. Superman then makes this dramatic statement to the skeptical reporter: "I hear everything. I know you wrote that the world doesn't need a Savior, but every day I hear people crying for one."

I'm Ron Hutchcraft and I want to have A Word With You today about "Ears That Hear What God Hears."

There really is a Savior. Not a fictional one like Superman, but a flesh-and-blood Savior whom a dying world needs desperately. His name is Jesus. He hears every cry of the human heart, and He cries. He wants to give you ears to hear what He hears.

In fact, you may be at a point where God is summoning you to something higher, much the way He summoned Moses centuries ago. That story, and maybe in a sense your story, is told in our word for today from the Word of God. Exodus 3 , beginning with verse 1, tells us that Moses was just tending his flock of sheep in the desert one day when God showed up in a burning bush. That morning, Moses woke up a desert shepherd. That night, he went to sleep a rescuer for his people. God often shows up in the middle of the routine of our life and He changes the course of our life. He asks, in the words of the Christmas carol, "Do you hear what I hear?"

God says to Moses: "I have seen the misery of My people ... I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. So I have come down to rescue them." God may be saying to you today, "I have seen the misery of the people you know. I have heard them crying out." He hears the sounds of their quiet desperation, their aching loneliness, their bondages, their bleeding family, their search for meaning. He hears their pain and grief; the past that always haunts them. And He has seen their awful eternity unless there's a rescue. And Jesus is coming down to rescue people you work with or play with, people you go to school with or who live around you.

But here's the "rocker." "I have come down to rescue them" He says, "So now, go. I am sending you." Jesus is inviting you to join Him in the eternal rescue mission for which

He gave His life; to see your relationships and your situation as a divine assignment. You've been positioned by the Savior to help the people there be in heaven with you. How are you doing on the reason you're there?

He wants to give you ears to hear the lostness behind their laughter and the misery behind their mask. He wants to give you eyes to see what He sees when He looks at the people you're with everyday - future inhabitants of hell unless someone introduces them to the Rescuer who took their hell for them, unless someone gives them Jesus. Listen to Him. He's talking to you, "So now, go. I am sending you."