“While He yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them; and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye Him.” Matt. 17:5. “Hear ye Him;” this is the Father’s command to us all. Have you heard Christ? We do not ask, Have you heard about Him? but, Have you heard Him? There is a vast difference between hearing the real Christ Himself, and merely hearing about a Christ. Have you learned this difference? Have you learned how to come so close to the Word of God, and to drink it in so fully and so deeply, that it is in very deed the living voice of the Son of God speaking to your soul, and touching every well-spring of your being? O, that you may actually hear Him! It is so different to hear and know the real Saviour from merely hearing of and knowing about Him. He is saying to you even now: “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock; if any man hear My voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me.” Rev. 3:20.