Sunday Notes: James 1:19-27
- (Jas 1:19 ESV) Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;
- James here is speaking to the church
- To Christians
- He calls them both beloved and brothers
- Beloved: ____________
- Brothers: ____________
- Hearing vs Listening
- ____________ is recognizing some instruction or information is being presenting
- ____________ is attending to that information or instruction.
- Slow to speak
- Slow to anger
- Anger is the the idea of losing one’s ____________
- Proverbs 17:27-28, Proverbs 21:23, Proverbs 10:19
- (Jas 1:20 ESV) for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.
- Our losing our ____________
- Our speaking out of a feeling of anger
- Our impulsiveness is not a good thing
- (Jas 1:21 ESV) Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
- Ephesians 4:17-24
- Put away
- This same wording shows it in a manner that is ____________ putting things away…
- Matthew 14:1-4, Romans 13:12, Hebrews 12:1
- All ____________
- This is a moral defilement
- And rampant wickedness
- The idea of rampant wickedness is that which remains following ____________
- And receive with meekness the implanted ____________
- Replace the old habits before Christ
- With new habits in Christ
- Galatians 5:22-23
- (Jas 1:22 ESV) But be ____________ of the word, and not hearers only, ____________ yourselves.
- Doers
- a maker, a producer, author; a doer, performer
- Also, ____________
- And not ____________ only
- Not one who simply takes in the information
- Romans 2:12-16
- (Jas 1:23 ESV) For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a ____________ who looks intently at his natural ____________ in a mirror.
- (Jas 1:24 ESV) For he looks at ____________ and goes away and at once forgets what he was like.
- Matthew 7:26-27
- A fool indeed is what who tastes the good ____________ of God and walks out another way
- (Jas 1:25 ESV) But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.
- he law of liberty
- This ____________ God writes on our hearts that frees us from ____________
- Luke 11:27-28, Matthew 5:6
- (Jas 1:26 ESV) If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person’s religion is ____________.
- (Jas 1:27 ESV) Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit ____________ and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the ____________.
- Ephesians 4:29-32, 1 John 3:17-20, Matthew 5:38-48
