LISTEN
This sermon was preached by Andy Armstrong at the CCM:Gorton site of Christ Church Manchester on Sunday 16th June 2013.
SERIES
This message was part of the ‘When the Rubber Hits the Road’ series on James, preached at Christ Church Manchester’s church in Gorton in Summer 2013. The full series included the following sermons:
BIBLE VERSES
This sermon was based on James 1:19-27.
Hearing and Doing the Word
19Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; 20for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. 21Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
22But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23For 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. 24For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. 25But 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.
26If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person’s religion is worthless. 27Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
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