James 1:22-27
22 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.
23 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror
24 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.
25 But 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.
26 Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on their tongues deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless.
27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
Christians
certain things (vv. 26-27).
Christians control what they
(v. 26).
Christians help people in
(v. 27a-b).
Christians resist
(v. 27c).
One thing Christians do is resist
(v. 27c).
Resisting worldliness is an intentional
.
We resist worldliness because we want to be
.
Before we resist worldliness, we have to know what it is.
Worldliness is the operating
that godless people live by.
Worldliness is an alternative to God’s will and ways.
Big Idea:
worldliness as an Intentional Act of Faith.
“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind….” —Romans 12:2
“But 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.” —James 1:25