Receiving the Word with humility means not having a hostile spirit that resists when they teach it to us. It does not mean that we have to be naive and that we do not have to be angry about what some people teach. Verse 19 says that you have to be "LATE for anger" and not that you should never experience it. Jesus said in Matthew 11:29, "I am gentle and humble of heart." However, Mark 3: 5 says that he was angry and saddened by the hardness of the Pharisees' hearts; and in Matthew 21:12 a cont. He drove the merchants from the temple overturning their tables.