It is not about us but about the word of God. We must listen to his word and follow his instructions. He loves us and he do not want any of us to be perished. Read the following.
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
11:7-15
What Christ said concerning John, was not only for his praise, but for
the people's profit. Those who attend on the word will be called to give
an account of their improvements. Do we think when the sermon is done,
the care is over? No, then the greatest of the care begins. John was a
self-denying man, dead to all the pomps of the world and the pleasures
of sense. It becomes people, in all their appearances, to be consistent
with their character and their situation. John was a great and good man,
yet not perfect; therefore he came short of glorified saints. The least
in heaven knows more, loves more, and does more in praising God, and
receives more from him, than the greatest in this world. But by the
kingdom of heaven here, is rather to be understood the kingdom of grace,
the gospel dispensation in its power and purity. What reason we have to
be thankful that our lot is cast in the days of the kingdom of heaven,
under such advantages of light and love! Multitudes were wrought upon by
the ministry of John, and became his disciples. And those strove for a
place in this kingdom, that one would think had no right nor title to
it, and so seemed to be intruders. It shows us what fervency and zeal
are required of all. Self must be denied; the bent, the frame and temper
of the mind must be altered. Those who will have an interest in the
great salvation, will have it upon any terms, and not think them hard,
nor quit their hold without a blessing. The things of God are of great
and common concern. God requires no more from us than the right use of
the faculties he has given us. People are ignorant, because they will
not learn.
Pulpit Commentary
Verse 15. - He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. A solemn exhortation, often spoken by our Lord at the close of an utterance. See Matthew 13:9 (equivalent to Mark 4:9), 43; Mark 4:23; Luke 14:35 (comp. Mark 8:18; Luke 9:44; Revelation 2.
and 3; 13:9). It means - You are all formed by nature to learn God's
commands; answer, therefore, to your powers, and obey him. See Psalm 40:6 (cf. Hebrews 10:5).
Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible
He
that hath ears to hear, let him hear. A way of speaking used by Christ,
when anything serious, and of great importance, was delivered; and
which required attention, and was not easily understood: and such were
the several things he had mentioned in this context; as that John was
more than a prophet, more excellent than all the prophets; that the law
and prophets were now at an end, and that John was Elias; which things,
if rightly understood, would serve greatly to settle their judgment,
with respect to himself as the Messiah: but his words imply, that
everyone had not spiritual ears and understandings, to hear and take in
things of such an high nature, and excellent use; none but those to whom
they were given; and such ought to attend to them, and, seriously weigh
and consider the importance of them. The phrase is to be met with in
Jewish writings, where it is thus expressed (h);
""He that hears let him hear, and he that understandeth let him understand";''
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