09/06/2026
James 1:19-27 Be doers not just hearers.
2 Timothy 4:3-4
3 For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 4 They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.
Revelation 3:15-17 NIV
"I know your works; you are neither cold nor hot! So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth. 17 "For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind and naked"
How much authority does God's Word actually have over my life?
James 1:19-27 ESV
19- Know this, my beloved brothers; let every person be quick to hear and slow to speak, slow to anger. 20-For the anger of man does not produce the righteousness
21-Therefore, put away all filthiness and wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
22-But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
23-For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror.
24-For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like.
25-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.
26-If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is WORTHLESS!!
27-Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
James 1:19-20 ESV
Let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.
Oh, to have our ears unstopped, that we may hear every syllable of truth gladly, cheerfully, retentively! God grant us that swiftness of hearing tonight!
~Spurgeon
Proverbs 10:17 ESV
17 Whoever heeds instruction is on the path to life,
but he who rejects reproof leads others astray.
List these 3 all in one slide please
Quick to listen — actually hear the person.
Slow to speak — don't spend their entire sentence preparing your response.
Slow to anger — don't immediately erect the defensive perimeter.
Roman 12:2
Do not conform to the pattern of this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
Perhaps you have seen a man grafting a tree. What a gash he makes in the tree before he puts in the graft! How he wounds it to make the sap flow into the new wood! If the Lord has made any of your hearts bleed tonight by the sharp cutting of His Spirit, we are not sorry, it shall better prepare you for receiving the grafts of His own nature, and His own Word.
~Spurgeon
Jeremiah 17:9-10 NKJV
9 "The heart is deceitful above all things, And [a]desperately wicked; Who can know it?
10 I, the Lord, search the heart, I test the [b]mind, Even to give every man according to his ways,
According to the fruit of his doings.
Matthew 7:24-25 ESV
24 "Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock.
1 John 1:6-7 NIV
6 If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all[a] sin.
Psalm 15:1-3
1 Lord, who may dwell in your sacred tent? Who may live on your holy mountain?
2 The one whose walk is blameless, who does what is righteous, who speaks the truth from their heart;
3 whose tongue utters no slander, who does no wrong to a neighbor, and casts no slur on others;
James 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.
1Corinthians 6:20
For you were bought at a price; therefore, glorify God in your body, and in your spirit which are God's
Genesis 3:4-5
The serpent said to the women, you surely will not die! For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.
Philippians 3:7-8 NIV
7 But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. 8 What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ
Luke 9:23 NIV
23 Then he said to them all: "Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.
Matthew 7:21
Not everyone who says to me Lord Lord will enter the kingdom of Heaven.
It's getting your hands dirty without getting your heart dirty!
Deuteronomy 10:18 NIV
18 He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing.
Psalm 68:5 NIV
5 A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows,
is God in his holy dwelling.
Isaiah 53:5:
But he was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on Him, and by his wounds we are healed.
How much authority does God's Word actually have over my life?
