BUILT DIFFERENT – BUILT TO OBEY

BUILT DIFFERENT – BUILT TO OBEY

LET ME STATE THE OBVIOUS: WE HAVE…

More than ever.
More than ever.
More Bible than any generation in history.

Yet we often live a life that the .

UNCOMFORTABLE QUESTION: Are we becoming more —or just more ?

IT’S POSSIBLE TO:

• and still not be .
• and still not be .
• and still not be .

GUIDING TRUTH: Pressure reveals what you’re built on—but reveals whether anything is actually being .

Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters: You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry. ²⁰ Human anger does not produce the righteousness God desires. ²¹ So get rid of all the filth and evil in your lives, and humbly accept the word God has planted in your hearts, for it has the power to save your souls. ²² But don’t just listen to God’s word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves.

James 1:19-22

BIG IDEA: Hearing God’s word without obeying creates a false sense of .

Or in built different language: You don’t build a life by the .

I WANT TO LIVE OUT MY FAITH

1. Information without is .

Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves.

James 1:22 (NIV)

Self-deception often feels like but it never moves us.

Information can make you feel without making you

         2. God’s word must be with .

Humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.

James 1:21 (NIV)

Obedience requires which means you can’t obey God while insisting on being in .

We often struggle with:

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LIFE MOTTO: God you’re —even when it’s .

         3. God’s plan for .

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.

James 1:23-24

THE WORD OF GOD IS A MIRROR: Mirrors don’t fix anything they something.

• Attitudes that need .
• that need change.
• Relationships that need .
• Areas where obedience is .

         4. belongs to those who .

… 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

God’s don’t limit life they it.

Strong faith isn’t just faith it’s faith.

         5. Real faith in real life.

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.

James 1:27

CLOSING CHALLENGE: What has God already told you to do… that you haven’t done yet?

Strong faith isn’t just heard—it’s .