My God and My Country

Word of God

Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God

Matthew 4:4

The Gospel According to Luke 11:28

28 But he said, Yea, rather blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.

Brethren:

Intimating, that though his mother was happy in bearing and suckling such a son, yet it was a far greater happiness to hear the word of God; meaning either himself, the eternal "Logos", so as to embrace him, believe on him, and have him formed in the heart; or the Gospel preached by him, so as to understand it, receive it as the ingrafted word, and bring forth fruit, and act in obedience to it, observe it, and abide by it, and never relinquish it. This is a greater happiness than to be related to Christ in the flesh, though ever so nearly. The Ethiopic version reads, "that hear the word of God, and believe, and keep it": for faith comes by hearing, and shows itself in doing. Barely to hear the word, and even give an assent to it, will be of little avail, unless what is heard and believed is put in practice. 

Therefore it behooves us to be as James had written to be doers of the word. To keep it in our hearts, and to nourish it was one would a seedling that would grow it into a tree that brings forth much good fruits.  Likewise as Paul wrote in both his epistles to the Galatians and Ephesians, that good fruit is of the the Holy Spirit that operates in righteousness, love and truth. As such it compels us to operate in like manner and to be fruitful in all good works that would further bring forth the Word of God, and announce the Gospel of Christ to all the world.