Our Invisible Clothes

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Our Invisible Clothes
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James 1

• 19 This you know, my beloved brethren. But
  everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and
  slow to anger 20 for the anger of man does not
  achieve the righteousness of God. 21 Therefore,
  putting aside all filthiness and all that
  remains of wickedness, in humility receive the
  word implanted, which is able to save your souls.
  22 But prove yourselves doers of the word, and
  not merely hearers who delude themselves.

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The Pattern Of Self-Deception

• This you know! 119
• First, we see it.
• Immediately look away.
• Before any of it sinks in.
• Does not bridle his tongue.
• Making a case against the truth.
• No humility, 121.

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The Solution To Self-Deception

• Be quick to hear!
• Listen and understand whats wrong.
• Be slow to speak!
• Close our mental and physical lips, and listen
  some more.
• Be slow to wrath!
• Tell our emotions to wait, and listen some more
• Swallow our pride!

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The Deadly Deception Security

• Rev 315-18 I know your deeds, that you are
  neither cold nor hot I wish that you were cold
  or hot. 16'So because you are lukewarm, and
  neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My
  mouth. 17'Because you say, " I am rich, and have
  become wealthy, and have need of nothing," and
  you do not know that you are wretched and
  miserable and poor and blind and naked, 18 I
  advise you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so
  that you may become rich, and white garments so
  that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame
  of your nakedness will not be revealed and eye
  salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.

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The Deadly Deception Security

• 1 Cor 316-18, 44-5 Do you not know that you are
  a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells
  in you? 17 If any man destroys the temple of God,
  God will destroy him, for the temple of God is
  holy, and that is what you are. 18 Let no man
  deceive himself. If any man among you thinks that
  he is wise in this age, he must become foolish,
  so that he may become wise. 4 For I am conscious
  of nothing against myself, yet I am not by this
  acquitted but the one who examines me is the
  Lord. 5 Therefore do not go on passing judgment
  before the time, but wait until the Lord comes
  who will both bring to light the things hidden in
  the darkness and disclose the motives of men's
  hearts and then each man's praise will come to
  him from God.

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The Deadly Deception Security

• Gal 54, 64-5 You have been severed from Christ,
  you who are seeking to be justified by law you
  have fallen from grace. 3 For if anyone thinks he
  is something when he is nothing, he deceives
  himself. 4 But each one must examine his own
  work, and then he will have reason for boasting
  in regard to himself alone, and not in regard to
  another. 5 For each one will bear his own load.