BE DOERS OF THE WORD
James 1:19-27
WISDOM – SEEING LIFE THE WAY GOD SEES IT AND CHOOSING OBEDIENCE
James 1:19-27 CSB
19 My dear brothers and sisters, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger,
20 for human anger does not accomplish God’s righteousness.
21 Therefore, ridding yourselves of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent, humbly receive the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
Quick to
Proverbs 1:5 CSB
5 let a wise person listen and increase learning, and let a discerning person obtain guidance—
Proverbs 4:1 CSB
1 Listen, sons, to a father’s discipline, and pay attention so that you may gain understanding
Mark 7:14 CSB
14 Summoning the crowd again, he told them, “Listen to me, all of you, and understand:
Reluctance to listen will block the reception of
Slow to be
James 1:20 CSB
20 for human anger does not accomplish God’s righteousness.
Matthew 5:9 CSB
9 Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.
“Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.”
― Aristotle
James 1:22-25
22 But be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
23 Because if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like someone looking at his own face in a mirror.
24 For he looks at himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of person he was.
25 But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer who works—this person will be blessed in what he does.
Hearing + Doing =
James 1:26-27
26 If anyone thinks he is religious without controlling his tongue, his religion is useless and he deceives himself.
27 Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
The Bible as
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1 Corinthians 8:1 CSB
1 We know that “we all have knowledge.” Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
The Bible as a
Deuteronomy 29:29 CSB
29 The hidden things belong to the Lord our God, but the revealed things belong to us and our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.
Isaiah 55:8-9 CSB
8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways.” This is the Lord’s declaration.
9 “For as heaven is higher than earth, so my ways are higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts
3 Areas to Focus On
1. Speech
2. Listening
3. Actions