JAMES – WEEK 2

Series: James
Date: 1/31/2021
Speaker: Pastor Tim
Title: James 1:16-27

(James 1:16-27 NIV) Don’t be deceived, my dear brothers and sisters. ¹⁷ Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. ¹⁸ He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of first fruits of all he created. 

¹⁹ My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, ²⁰ because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires. ²¹ Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept planted in you, which can save you.

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.

(Genesis 3:1; Proverbs 16:25)

What is going to be the basis for how I live my life? The or the ?

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• (Psalm 119:81; Matthew 7:24-25)

1. receive the that . (James 1:16-18; Romans 10:17)

2. accept the that (James 1:19-21; 1 Thessalonians 2:13)

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• The mark of a – heart is that I God telling me how to live. (Psalm 119:41-46)

3. embrace the that . (James 1:22-25)

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(James 1:27 NIV) 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.