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Sermon preview for SUNDAY March 15, 2006

THE MORE YOU LISTEN
March 12, 2006
Genesis 22:1-2,9,10-13,15-18; Psalms 116:10,15-19; Romans 8:31-34; Mark 9:2-10

" This is My Son, the Beloved, listen to Him" (Mark 9:8).

The story is told of a young girl, sitting next to her mother in church and listening to a sermon being preached on the subject of the end of the world ...

In dramatic doom-and-gloom style, the preacher cried out, "Floods will cover the earth! Earth quakes will shake the land!" Then, as loud as he could manage it, he roared, "Darkness will fall over the whole world and flames will shoot down from Heaven."

Hearing these dire "fire and brimstone" predictions, the little girl nudged her mother and whispered into her ear, "Will they let school out?"

Then there is the story of another preacher who was about five minutes into his Sunday sermon when a voice from the very last pew called out, "Louder!"

The preacher raised his voice a bit but, again, the voice cried out, "Louder!" Whereupon the preacher bent down in order to talk as close as possible into the microphone, but the voice from the rear of the church persisted, "Louder!"

Then a man sitting in a front pew spoke up: "Can't you hear back there?" The voice from the rear replied, "No, I can't."

" Then move over," said the voice from the front. "I'm coming back where you are."

In the little girl's case, the preacher's message just wasn't coming through. She was missing the point.

In the case of the man in the front pew, he didn't even want to hear the message.

And, in our case, are there not times when we seem to miss the point or, worse yet, times when we don't even want to hear the message?

There is an episode in Matthew's Gospel in which Jesus is speaking to a crowd that has gathered to hear Him preach. He tells them many things in parables. Then He says, "Listen, anyone who has ears!" (Mt. 13:9).

Jesus lived in a Society that placed a high value on the sense of hearing. Few people could read. Moreover, reading . . .

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