Hearing and Doing

Post this at all the intersections, dear friends: Lead with your ears, follow up with your tongue, and let anger straggle along in the rear. God’s righteousness doesn’t grow from human anger. So throw all spoiled virtue and cancerous evil in the garbage. In simple humility, let our gardener, God, landscape you with the Word, making a salvation-garden of your life. Don’t fool yourself into thinking that you are a listener when you are anything but, letting the Word go in one ear and out the other. Act on what you hear! Those who hear and don’t act are like those who glance in the mirror, walk away, and two minutes later have no idea who they are, what they look like. But whoever catches a glimpse of the revealed counsel of God—the free life!—even out of the corner of his eye, and sticks with it, is no distracted scatterbrain but a man or woman of action. That person will find delight and affirmation in the action. Anyone who sets himself up as “religious” by talking a good game is self-deceived. This kind of religion is hot air and only hot air. Real religion, the kind that passes muster before God the Father, is this: Reach out to the homeless and loveless in their plight, and guard against corruption from the godless world.

James 1:19‭-‬27

Why is Hearing Without doing so Dangerous?

1. You’re only fooling yourself
2. Your religion is worthless

Two myths about faith and works

1. It doesn’t matter what you do as long as you believe.
2. It doesn’t matter what you believe as long as you do.

The Truth about faith and works

Good works don’t create faith, Good works reveal faith.

We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saved us is never alone.

Martin Luther

If our religion doesn’t transform our image, our religion is worthless

The Bible was not given for our information, but for our Transformation

D. L. Moody

Memory Verse

But don’t just listen to the word, you must Do what it says. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourself.

James 1 :22