3.19.23 - Exhortations to Obey for Your Spiritual Progress
Seymour Helligar
Part of Sermon Notes
March 18, 2023

JAMES 1:19-25

Exhortations to Obey for Your Spiritual Progress

Focus: Spiritual progress in general, and spiritual progress in trials specifically

It answers the question, ‘How can one grow in relation to the new birth?’ James 1:18

Goal: Three Exhortations from James 1:19-25 to obey and receive God’s Blessing

I.

Reveal Answer
(vv.19-20)

II.

Reveal Answer
(v.21)

III.

Reveal Answer
(vv.22-25)

Who has ears to hear? 1 Corinthians 2:14-16

James exhorts based on the fulfillment of a heart of flesh: Ezekiel 11:19-20; 36:26-27; Jeremiah 31:33-34

Practical Steps for Spiritual Progress:

  1. Study beyond your daily Bible reading schedule (2 Timothy 2:15)

  2. Seek God’s grace in payer and depend on His Holy Spirit (Proverbs 2:1-9; Psalm 119:34; Ezra 7:6-10)

  3. Labor to know and grow in Christ (1 Timothy 4:1-16; Philippians 3:1-14)