Letting God’s Word Work In You
James 1:19–25
1. How We Receive The Word
James 1:19 (NLT)
Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters: You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry.
James 1:18 (NIV)
He chose to give us birth through the word of truth,
James 1:19 (NLT)
Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters: You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry.
James 1:20 (NIV)
for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.
James 1:21a (NIV)
Therefore, 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.
2. How We Respond To The Word
James 1:22a (NIV)
Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves.
James 1:22a (NIV)
Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves Do what it says.
James 1:23–24 (NIV)
23 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror
24 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.
James 1:25a (NIV)
But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom,
James 1:25a (NIV)
But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it — he will be blessed in what he does.
