Mix this word with faith. That is our part. And believing this spoken word will bring you into a rest with God. Those who heard it but passed it off and did not mix it with their heart s faith, were said to have missed the entire purpose of God for their very lives. It shakes me to think of how so many people pass off the preaching of the word in our day as an insignificant thing that they can take or leave at their behest.
Necessity restricts many due to work and unexpected situations.
However, with many it is simply a care-less attitude towards the importance of the preached word of God. Believing the word is associated with baptism towards salvation. Baptism puts you into Jesus death. His death becomes our single experience of death that we are all appointed to meet. Hebrews 9 says that He took the death we were appointed to experience and thereby bore the sins of many people.