Equipped 2023 - Study of James: ”How to Respond to Gods Word” - Doug Burleson

April 21, 2023 - Equipped Day 2

11:00AM Auditorium Speaker

Doug Burleson looks at how we are to approach the WORD of GOD. Doug shows from the book of James that we are all to act on the WORD of GOD.

 

Slides:

• How to RESPOND to GOD'S WORD - (James 1:19-27)
• Sadly, some may have conditioned themselves to think about "RESPONDING" to GOD'S WORD as what happens when someone walks down the aisle. We need to RESPOND to the WORD every time we encounter it. - (James 1:19-27)
• Human struggles evident in James - (James 1:1-15)
  • Trails
  • Faith being tested 
  • Lacking wisdom and struggling with doubt
  • Poverty
  • Materialism
  • Temptation
• You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility towards GOD? Therefore, whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of GOD. - (James 4:4)
• The WORD of truth - (James 1:18)
  • Recieve the WORD
  • Be doers of the WORD
  • If anyone is a hearer of the WORD and not a doer
  • *The perfect Law of Liberty
• In the exercise of his will he brought forth by THE WORD of TRUTH, so that we would be a kind of first fruits among his creatures. - (James 1:18)
• With Humility - (James 1:19-21)
  • with meekness accept the WORD
  • This you know, my beloved brethren. But Everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger; For the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of GOD. Therefore, putting aside all filthiness and all that remains of wickedness, in Humility Receive the Word Implanted, which is able to save your souls. - (James 1:19-27)
  • It is possible to be too busy speaking to hear the WORD of GOD.
  • It is possible to be too eager to speak the word to take the necessary time to hear the WORD.
  • It is possible to get angry because of the need to submit oneself to GOD's WORD.
• With Integrity - (James 1:22-25) 
  • Become Doers of the WORD.
  • But prove yourselves doers of the WORD, and not merely hearers who delude themselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the WORD and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror; For once has looked at himself and gone away.... - (James 1:22-25)
  • He has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was. But one who looks intently at the Perfect Law; The Law of Liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man will be blessed in what he does. - (James 1:22-25)
  • What am I looking at?
    • Am I glancing or gazing?
  • What Results from my looking?
• With Charity - (James 1:26-27) 
  • As a Doer, GOD's WORD changes everything
  • If anyone thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is worthless. Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our GOD and Father is this: To visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unspotted by the world. - (James 1:26-27)
  • My Response to GOD's WORD not only leads to a confession, but also a change in character and conduct.
• Let us RESPOND to GOD's WORD with HUMILITY, INTEGRITY, and CHARITY. - (James 1:19-27)

 

Duration 37:12