Sunday 01/15/17
Series: Doers of the Word
Message – Deep and Honest Reverence I
Not Hearers Only
Our take away last week was…
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Being a DOER is Christ IN you.
a) As you obey through faith, Christ’s image is brought to greater maturity in you.
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Grace (God’ influence) takes many forms –
a) a voice (revelation)
b) an inner direction or knowing (It seemed good to us)
c) a bias upon the emotions (Love shed abroad)
d) a power upon or acting through our flesh…etc. (Strength)
BUT ALL grace is God’s Word TO US and THAT is what we are to be doers of!
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When we read the word or Hear God’s voice it reveals the glory of Christ in us (which is huios) – 2 Cor. 3; James 1:23-25.
a) Luke 6:35-36 “(35) But love your enemies, do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. For He is kind to the unthankful and evil. (36) Therefore be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful.”
Huios – Those whom God loves and cherishes as a father. His devout worshipers who are like Him in their disposition, kindness and love.
Chris Rice – Big Enough
Lying on pillows we’re haunted and half-awake
Does anyone hear us pray, “If I die before I wake”
Then the morning comes and the mirror’s the other place
Where we wrestle face to face with the image of Deity
When I imagine the size of the universe
And I wonder what’s out past the edges
Then I discover inside me a space as big
And believe that I’m meant to be
Filled up with more than just questions
God if You’re there I wish You’d show me
And God if You care then I need You to know me
I hope You don’t mind me askin’ the questions
But I figure You’re big enough
I figure You’re big enough
Deep and honest reverence!
19-27 – LISTEN, BELIEVE, Renouce, Recieve, LIVE
James 1:21-27,
“(21) Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness (gentle strength) the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
(22) But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. (23) For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; (24) for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.
(25) But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.”
Continues = abide (If you abide in Me and My words in you…)
Not forgetful = Fears the Lord, counts His word precious. Meditate “Day and night” (bears fruit in season) Ps. 1
We spent the remainder of our time discussing the fear of the Lord.
…Blessings!
Yes I know I misspelled ‘Reverence’…but what is done is done lol!
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