Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Doers of the Word

James 1:19 My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry,

  • What makes a person quick to listen?
  • What makes a person slow to anger?
20 for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.
  • Does anger have any benefit? Why doesn’t it bring about righteousness?
21 Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.
  • What do you have to do to get rid of moral filth?
  • What does it mean to humbly accept the word? When you read the Word of God, do you humbly accept it?
22 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.
  • How does a person deceive themselves? What must you do not to fall into self deception?
23 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror 24 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.
  • In what way is God’s Word like a mirror?
25 But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it—he will be blessed in what he does.
  • What do you have to do to look intently into God’s Word?
  • What will happen if you obey God’s Word?
26 If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight rein on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless.
  • A rein is used to keep an animal from going wherever it wants. What are the consequences of letting your tongue loose to say whatever comes to mind?
  • How do you put a rein on your tongue?
27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
  • Why does God care about widows and orphans? Who has God put on your heart that needs assistance? What are you doing about it?

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