Quit Fooling Yourself!

Luke Davis
June 18, 2023

James 1:19-25 (NIV) ¹⁹My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, ²⁰because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires. ²¹Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you. ²²Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. ²³Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror ²⁴and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. ²⁵But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do.

1. Recieve the

The Right Way To Recieve The Word
A. Swift to hear!
-James 1:19 (NIV) My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry,

B. Slow to speak!
-Proverbs 15:1-2 (NIV) A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. ²The tongue of the wise adorns knowledge, but the mouth of the fool gushes folly.

C. Slow to wrath!
-James 1:19c-20 slow to become angry, ²⁰ because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.

Temper is such a valuable thing, it is a shame to lose it!

D. A Prepared heat!

James comparing the Word to a mirror
A. Examination
B. Restoration
C. Transformation

1 Corinthians 3:18 (NIV) Do not deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise by the standards of this age, you should become “fools” so that you may become wise.

Psalms 139:23-24 (NIV) ²³Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. ²⁴See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

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