Luke 11:28  Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.

Jesus was not about to be distracted in His ministry even if the distraction was someone who said something nice about His mother. After hearing Him speak, a woman in the crowd said, "Blessed is the mother who gave You birth and nursed You." Jesus responded with our text. In essence He said, "There are a lot of nice things in life, but when it comes down to it, nothing is nicer than the hearing, and then doing, of what God wants.

That's the sequence. First comes hearing. Then, hopefully, the doing. Doing never precedes hearing. Godly hearing gathers the data on which godly doing is based. Hearing God is essential to the Christian life.

That means that the hearing that takes place in the Bible study, in worship, and in Christian conversation is important - fundamental. It is the point of beginning, but it's not the end of it. The end of each listening session is on the other side of doing.
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