怎樣「聽」道？
上帝的旨意是這樣的：我教導，你聆聽，你相信。如果你作道的學生，而不是老師，不抵擋我，聖靈就啓發你，教導你明白。
按照馬太福音17:5，在他泊高山上，我們聽到父的聲音是說：
我們應當聽基督這個人說了什麼。我們應當聽他的話。這是父的旨意。
什麼是「聽」？
這是上帝的旨意：保持沈默，判斷（基督）一切的教導，你就可以聽到這個事實——耶穌是上帝所差來的。「上帝的旨意是這樣的：我教導，你聆聽，你相信。如果你這樣作，不抵擋我，聖靈就啓發你，教導你明白：你在基督里可以找到上帝的旨意。上帝的旨意是：他差遣兒子來，讓我們可以聽他。」
聽就是聽。之後，聖靈會來，預備你們的心，使你可以真心相信這神聖之道，甚至為它獻上自己的生命。你會說：「這是上帝的話語，純淨的真理。」
什麼不是「聽」？
你不能挑剔他的話，想要從中尋找錯誤，並引發爭論。
如果你堅持讓人聽從你自己的道理，用你的理性解釋基督之道，
如果你擅自扮演聖經之道的老師，提出其他教義，
如果你監測基督之道、測度它，扭曲它以適應你的需要，
如果你琢磨基督之道，按照你的理性去猶豫、懷疑、審判它，
你就不是「聽」道，沒有作道的學生。你在扮演道的老師。你不會發現基督之道的真義，或他天父的旨意。
所以，自以為是師尊的人（太23:10）不可能明白上帝之道。這正是教皇和分裂之靈作的事。他們引用聖經經文，卻說廢話。他們把經文切割開來，玩弄經文，直到他們逐漸變得完全盲目。舉例來說，他們把聖餐禮貶低為象徵。他們又鄙視洗禮。這樣，人就永遠不明白上帝之道，並承認說：「這是上帝之道！」……
經上說的是：「聽他！」聽就是聽。這是一個命令。只有「聽」他，我們才真正地遵從上帝的旨意。天父已經承諾賜聖靈於所有聽兒子話語的人，啓發他，激動他明白這是上帝之道。上帝將使他成為合上帝心意的人。他一定會如此成就。——馬丁路德（《約翰福音》講道）（AE 23:229–230 from CPH.org)
According to Matt. 17:5, the Father’s voice was heard to say on lofty Mt. Tabor: “
Now this is the will of the Father, that we be intent on hearing what the Man Christ has to say, that we listen to His Word. You must not cavil at His Word, find fault with it, and dispute it. Just hear it. Then the Holy Spirit will come and prepare your heart, that you may sincerely believe the preaching of the divine Word, even give up your life for it, and say: “This is God’s Word and the pure truth.” But if you insist that you be heard, that your reason interpret Christ’s Word; if you presume to play the master of the Word, to propound other doctrines; if you probe it, measure it, and twist the words to read as you want them to, brood over them, hesitate, doubt, and then judge them according to your reason—that is not hearing the Word or being its pupil. Then you are setting yourself up as its schoolmaster. In that way you will never discover the meaning of Christ’s Word or of His heavenly Father’s will.
Therefore it is impossible for him who presumes to play the schoolmaster to understand God’s Word. That is what the pope and the schismatic spirits do. They take any passage from Holy Writ, drivel over it, carve it up, toy with it, and work at it until they grow entirely blind over it. For instance, they reduce the Sacrament of the Altar to a mere token, and they also despise Baptism. In that way one will never learn to understand God’s Word and to say: “This is God’s Word!” ……
Simply hear what the Son of God says; hear His Word, and adhere to it. It is written: “Hear Him!” To hear, to hear—that is the command, and thus we truly conform to God’s will. He has promised to give the Holy Spirit to him who hears the Son, to enlighten and inflame him to understand that it is God’s Word. God will make a man out of him after His own heart. This He will surely do. （Sermons on the Gospel of St. John）（AE 23:229–230 from CPH.org)
