“He That Hath Ears To Hear, Let Him Hear” Implies Universal Application

Recently I heard my friend Rodney Hampton teach a great point I had never heard before – that the command in Matt 13:9 “Who hath ears to hear, let him hear” (its equivalent is found at least 13 times) helps us to see the universal application of the New Testament writings. If you have ears, then you should be listening to what is being taught in the New Testament. That’s gets everybody then and now as we all have two ears.

Rodney went on to point out that the seven times the similar phrase is used in Revelation 2-3 (“He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches”) the word churches is plural – his point being the letter to the church at Thyatira (for example) was not instruction for them only, but all churches were to hear it (make application of it). So we need to be extremely wary of preachers who say some section of scripture was just cultural and only applied to a particular church at that time. Consider this article that makes Rodney’s same point (but from different verses) about the “women preachers” issue – how that the I Cor 14:34-35 prohibition of such applies even today – https://bibledebates.wordpress.com/2014/10/06/did-i-corinthians-1434-35-only-apply-to-that-time-that-place-and-those-persons/

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