How to Be Blessed by the Bible | James Week 3 | Pastor Andrew Cromwell

James 1:19-27 NLT: Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters: You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry. Human anger does not produce the righteousness God desires. 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.

But don’t just listen to God’s word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves. For if you listen to the word and don’t obey, it is like glancing at your face in a mirror. You see yourself, walk away, and forget what you look like. But if you look carefully into the perfect law that sets you free, and if you do what it says and don’t forget what you heard, then God will bless you for doing it.

If you claim to be religious but don’t control your tongue, you are fooling yourself, and your religion is worthless. Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you.

 

 

James 1:21 NASB: …in humility receive the word implanted, which is able to save your souls.

 

Four Essential Attitudes for Good Reception

 

1. Be .

James 1:19: You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak…

2. Be .

James 1:19: …and slow to get angry.

3. Be .

James 1:21: …get rid of all the filth and evil in your lives…

4. Be .

James 1:21: …humbly accept the word God has planted in your hearts…

 

 

Three Ways to Reflect

 

1. it.

James 1:25: …look carefully into the perfect law that sets you free…

2. it.

James 1:25 BSB: …and continues to do so…

3. it.

James 1:25: …don’t forget what you heard…

 

 

James 1:22: But don’t just listen to God’s word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves.

 

Three Biblical practices:

 

1. A controlled .

James 1:26: If you claim to be religious but don’t control your tongue, you are fooling yourself, and your religion is worthless.

2. A caring .

James 1:27: Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress

3. A clean .

James 1:27: …and refusing to let the world corrupt you.

 

Outline adapted from Rick Warren.