The Word Of God Blesses Us

The Word Of God Blesses UsJames 1:19—27 LISTEN ON MIXLR @ https://gbcsl.mixlr.com WATCH US ON YOU TUBE LIVE @ http://www.youtube.com/gracechurch-slus/live Don’t be an auditor. 1:22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. Auditors confuse knowing and believing, Auditors are easy to deceive Auditors gear but do not understand 1. What to do before a sermon Before a sermon, cleansing 21 Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant 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 Filthiness: sinful issues of unconquered sin 19 Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; 20 for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. 2. What to do during a sermon During a sermon, humility! James 1:21b Receive with meekness the engrafted Word that is able to save your souls. God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble James 4:6 3. What to do after a sermon After a sermon, obedience! 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. Are you willing to listen to God’s Word, to really hear what He has to say to you today? 2 Corinthians 3:18 And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord,[a] are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another.[b] For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit. GRACE BAPTIST PODCAST HTTPS://PODPOINT.COM/GRACE-BAPTIST-CHURCH-OF-SECOND-LIFE-PODCAST WEBSITE https://gracebaptistofsecondlife.godaddysites.com