IN SEEING AND HERAING
Matthew 27:38-44

Functioning with a dull heart leads to nowhere but death in the physical and/or in the spiritual. Pharaoh, King of Egypt, did not operate from a wise heart. He saw all the moves of God’s hand yet he could not see through all for his people not to suffer untimely deaths. When you see your deliverance, will you not make a move in the direction for restoration? Matthew 13:15, “For the heart of the people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, so that I should heal them.” Most times what a man sees will determine what is received. What hearing brings forth also will determine its being received. The grace to become is in the ability to see, hear and to receive. Today, take a position to see or hear then receive the Word of God and believe it to become what the Lord wants for you. To reject the Word is to take a position of death. Jesus died for kingdom criminals (sinners) so that we all could become kingdom-bound. Many today continue to take the position of kingdom criminals because they cannot see or hear what Jesus came to say. Matthew 27:38, “Then two robbers were crucified with Him, one on the right and another on the left.” At the time He went to the cross, Jesus was positioned in the center of two criminals (sinners). The criminal on each side saw and heard what Jesus was representing in different ways and that determined what became of them. One of the criminals saw Him as a criminal like himself while the other heard and saw Him as one who could deliver Him and set Him free at the end of his race. The two criminals represent those who are seeing and hearing the Gospel and yet not receiving Him while the other criminal represents those who are seeing, hearing and receiving to become saved. All who have chosen not to accept Christ have taken a step in agreement with the criminal who refused to see and hear in order to receive Jesus and become heaven-bound. Which step have you been taken as a believer? To have heard and seen what the Gospel is about and yet walking in the way that seems right but is not the right way is a way to self-destruction. As there was no way for any of the two criminal to take a middle ground while they were on the cross with Him, then so there is no way for middle ground today. What is your decision? Jesus will come back and what you have seen and heard is what you have received and it will determine your belief. There is no faking or middle ground. Today, see, hear, receive, believe and become a Kingdom of God candidate.