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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 16:31 

31 Then he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rise from the dead again.

Brethren:

That is, Abraham said unto him, as the Syriac, Persic, and Ethiopic versions express it: if they hear not Moses and the prophets; as they did not, nor regarded what they said of Christ, but disbelieved both him and them, then neither will they be persuaded: or brought to repent and believe, even though one rose from the dead; as  Christ did; whose resurrection, the truth of it they endeavoured to baffle, stifle, and suppress. this was the sign Christ gave them, of the truth of his Messiahship; and yet they repented not of what they had done to him, that they might believe in him; but remained still in their impenitence and infidelity, and so died. This shows the regard that ought to be had to the written word, as read, or preached; and that it is a sad sign of a desperate condition, when men reject divine revelation. Beza's ancient copy adds, "and should go unto them".

Foolish men are apt to think any method of conviction better than that which God has chosen and appointed. That is to say the acceptance of Christ as Saviour, the admittance and repentance of sins, and the grace that God would then grant them in order to free them from the curse of sin and thereby forgiving them of their sins. 

It is amazing to this writer how so simple an action can be taken that would lead to spending eternity in God's kingdom, and yet so many stiff-necked people in the world refuse it. They are convinced of their own righteousness, and likewise blinded and lost in their sin, that they cannot simply conceive that they are wrong. Such is the way of those whose self inflated egos are, and will in the end result and some very unpleasant shocks in the life to come afterward.