Hear, Receive, Do: Responding to God's Word

We're not being doers of the word. James tells us not to falsify our counts. Be serious about sin. Do not see what needs to change in your life to be made right eous like god and then do nothing about it. Do not walk out of the door with messy hair and in your pajamas. Make a change in your life. So, the first option we can do is we can deceive ourselves but the second option is verse number 25. He tells us, but who so looks in the perfect law of liberty and continues therein, he being not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. [00:59:55] (36 seconds)  #DoerNotJustHearer

See, the word of god is not something that bounds us. So many people look at the word of god like like I have to do this. Oh, now if I if I obey god's word, I'm not going to be able to enjoy life anymore. I'm not going be able to do the fun things that I've always enjoyed doing. I'm not going be able to go out to the parties and and have and celebrate and do all this joyful stuff that makes me happy. I can't do that anymore and they they look at the law of god as something that's oppressive but the reality of it is is the word of god is liberating. The word of god sets us free. [01:03:14] (31 seconds)  #WordSetsYouFree

It sets us free from the consequences of sin. It sets us free from the power of sin. It sets us free from the the the chains of sin that hold us down. You know what the bible says to the person who walks with God? That they have love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness. Against such, there's no law. Isn't that the type of life that we want? Don't we want a life filled with those things? If that's what we want, that's what god offers. But we have to obey his word if we want it. So often we want the promises of God and the blessings of God, but we want to do it our own way. And all we find are the consequences of sin. [01:03:45] (40 seconds)  #FreedomFromSinFruit

See, this refers to our first initial salvation in which the word of truth brought the gospel to our unsaved hearts, showing us the way of salvation, showing us the penalty of sin. We see that we've all broken god's law, that we don't live up to his standards, and the word of god is able to transform us but it's also able to save us constantly by changing us and protecting us from the power and dominion of sin while we live as Christians. And finally, it is able to lead us to the final and complete salvation when we're glorified with Jesus in heaven forever separated from the presence of sin. [00:55:32] (35 seconds)  #SavedAndBeingTransformed

Since our sins and our and our lust, they since they disregard god's word and they lead us to sin and since god not only gives good things including her salvation, he also gives us the word of truth. Therefore, because of this, we are to respond to god and to his word in this way. We are to be swift to hear it. We are to be swift to hear god's word. That means we're to be a careful listener of god's word and in the context that we're to respond to god's word, we're to pay attention to what god is saying through his word to ensure that we're understanding it correctly. [00:39:58] (37 seconds)  #SwiftToHearCarefulListen

And James tells us that those who hear the word of God and then don't apply it to their life is just like this type of person. They see their hair as a mess. They see all the sin in their life, and they they knew nothing about it. Then after a while, they forget that they're a mess. They forget what they look like. They forget about that sin in their life, and they're like, it's not that big of a deal, and so they just continue on. And James tells us that those who hear the word of God and don't do it are mess and they don't even realize it. After a while, they forget about it and I'm sure many of us have experienced this in our spiritual lives. [00:58:55] (38 seconds)  #ForgetfulHearerWarning

To do it, be a doer of the word of god, to hear it, to receive it, and then to obey it And then you will find liberty. Then you will find true happiness. May we hear God's word this morning. May we respond to God's word this morning. Let us pray. [01:08:18] (17 seconds)  #BeDoerBePray

God is speaking to us. God is challenging us. God is trying to make us more like him, and we're making excuses. We're saying, we can't do this. We can't do that. Or, God, I don't like that. And we make all these excuses, and we're rationalizing, and we're we're quick to speak instead of being slow to speak and quick to hear. We need to ensure that we're quick to hear god's word. We need to make sure that we're not making excuses, quickly justifying why we should or should not do something. [00:44:04] (30 seconds)  #SlowToWrathMeansResentment