Community Baptist Church Hastings

How to Be a Godly Word Processor 10/11/26

James 1:19-27

A. Context
1. James: short exhortations, called Proverbs of the New Testament
2. Two paths: one ends in life the other in death, so …
B. Receive the Word t vv19-21. Be…
1. Quick to Listen Pro 18:13
2. Slow to Speak Pro 17:27-28
3. Slow to Become Angry Pro 14:29,19:11
4. Word is Implanted Heb 4:12, Gal 5:22-23
a. Lose the bad – lay aside, like dirty clothes, highlight and delete
b. accept the good, i.e. the Word, copy and paste
c. implanted: alive, growing, fruit is the evidence gives life
C. Grow in the Word vv22-25 Eze 33:30-32
1. Examination – seeing the sin

 Three errors: only glance, forget what is seen, don’t fix it

2. Restoration: confessing, correcting the sin 1Joh 1:9
3. Transformation: changing our heart 2Cor 3:18; Psa 51:10,12; Joh 8:31
a. Out with the old, in with the new
b. Worldly law – protects, but felt also to restrict and punish
c. Biblical law – freedom from sin/death, protect, fulfillment, contentment
D. Live the Word vv26-27 Mat 12:34, 15:8; Psa 68:5 Joh 17:14-16
1. Personal behavior: speech

 Worship is worthless if you don’t control your speech…

2. Social interaction: helping the needy

 Widows, orphans could literally starve to death

3. Inner values: maintain a pure heart

 Be in the world, not of the world, e.g. Lot vs. Abraham