In this sermon we will explain James exhortation in James 1:19-25 to be not only hearers of the Word, but doers also. There is a form of spiritual obesity where we are so focused on learning more and more, but fail to exercise our faith. True spiritual growth occurs when we both hear and heed God's Word.

1. 1:19-27

2. Will
Rogers
“Congress is so
strange. A man gets
up to speak and says
nothing, nobody
listens and then
everybody disagrees.”

3. First Point
When we hear God’s
Word we learn from
Him.

4. Amos 8:11
“Behold, the days are coming,”
declares the Lord GOD, “when I will
send a famine on the land— not a
famine of bread, nor a thirst for
water, but of hearing the words of
the LORD.

5. James 1
19 Know this, my beloved
brothers: let every person be
quick to hear, slow to speak, slow
to anger;

6. James 1
20 for the anger of man does not
produce the righteousness of
God.

7. James 1
21 Therefore put away all filthiness
and rampant wickedness and
receive with meekness the
implanted word, which is able to
save your souls.

8. Hearing breaks down
when…
•We’re in a rush to speak.

9. Hearing breaks down
when…
•We’re in a rush to speak.
•We’re all worked up.

10. Hearing breaks down
when…
•We’re in a rush to speak.
•We’re all worked up.
•We’re nurturing sin.

11. Second Point
When we heed God’s
Word we receive His
blessing.

12. James 1
22 But be doers of the word, and
not hearers only, deceiving
yourselves.

13. Jeremiah 11
6And the LORD said to me,
“Proclaim all these words in the
cities of Judah and in the streets
of Jerusalem: Hear the words of
this covenant and do them.

14. Jeremiah 11
7For I solemnly warned your
fathers when I brought them up
out of the land of Egypt, warning
them persistently, even to this
day, saying, Obey my voice.

15. 8Yet they did not obey or incline
their ear, but everyone walked in
the stubbornness of his evil heart.
Therefore I brought upon them all
the words of this covenant, which
I commanded them to do, but
they did not.”

16. James 1
22 But be doers of the word, and
not hearers only, deceiving
yourselves.

17. James 1
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.

18. James 1
24 For he looks at himself and
goes away and at once forgets
what he was like.

19. James 1
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.

20. 1:19-27