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Be MatureDont Kidding YourselfChapter 4James
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• Emphasis deceiving your own selves James 122
• Spiritual reality results from the proper
  relationship to God through Gods Word
• Three Responsibilities
• Receive the Word (119-21)
• Gods Words as engrafted word (21), or implanted
  word
• Comparison of Gods Word to seed and human heart
• (Matt 131-9)
• The hard heart does not understand or receive
  Gods Word
• The shallow heart very emotional, but no depth
  and fruit
• The crowded heart no repentance sin to crowd
  out Gods Word
• The fruitful heart receive the Word, permit to
  take root, produce a bountiful harvest of fruit

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• The final test of salvation fruit
• Changed life, Christian character conduct,
  ministry to others
• Fruit
• Winning souls to Christ (Romans 116)
• Growing in holy living (Romans 622)
• Sharing material possessions (Romans 15 28)
• Spiritual character (Gal 522-23)
• Good works (Col 110)
• Praising the Lord (Hebrews 1315)
• Take heed what you hear (Mark 424)
• Take heed how you hear (Luke 818)
• Swift to hear
• Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word
  of God (Rom. 1017)

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• Slow to speak
• Two ears and one mouth listening more than
  speaking
• He that hath knowledge spareth his words (Prov.
  1727)
• Slow to wrath (119)
• Prov. 1429 He that is slow to wrath is of
  great understanding but he that is hasty of
  spirit exalted folly.
• Peter with sword
• Church fights short temper hasty words
• Godly anger (Eph 4 26)
• Anger is the opposite of patience
• Prepared heart
• Superfluity of naughtiness overgrown weeds
• Confessing our sins (I John 19)

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• Meditating on Gods love grace and asking to
  plow up any hardness
• Jeremiah 43 Break up the fallow ground, and
  sow not among the thorns.
• Attitude of meekness (humbleness) (121)
• Practice the Word (122-25)
• The doing brings blessing, not hearing.
• Mirror
• Examination (23-25)
• See ourselves as we really are in Gods Word
• Mistakes
• They merely (only) glance (look) at themselves
• Photograph vs. X-ray
• They forgot what they see
• Isaiah 65 Woe is me! For I am undone

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• Peter - Depart from me for I am a sinful man
• (Luke 58)
• Job (Job 426)
• They fail to obey what the Word of God tell them
  to do
• Reading vs. Doing
• Require time, attention, and sincere devotion
• Great Physician (Matt 912)
• Perfect law of liberty (25)
• John 831-32 Then said Jesus to those Jews which
  believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then
  are ye my disciples indeed And ye shall know the
  truth, and the truth shall make you free.
• Restoration (Exodus 388)
• Laver between the brazen altar the holy place

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• Water for washing Word of God in its cleansing
  power
• John 153 Now ye are clean through the word which
  I have spoken unto you.
• John 13 1-11 Hands feet are defiled as
  believers
• Blood cleansed our guilt while water of Word
  cleanses away defilement
• II Samuel 12-13 David adultery and murder
• Revelation of sin leads to results of confession
  and repentance
• Repentance leads to assurance of forgiveness and
  cleansing
• Transformation (II Cor. 318)
• Changed metamorphosis
• Change on outside comes from inside

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• Rom. 122 be ye transformed by renewing of the
  mind.
• Process, not overnight
• Share the Word (126-27)
• Religion outward practice, the service of a god
• Pure religion practicing and sharing Gods Word
  with others through speech, service, separation
  from the world
• Speech (126)
• Tongue, a serious problem
• Tongue reveals the heart (Matt. 12 34-35)
• If heart is right, speech is right
• Service (127a)
• After seeing ourselves in Gods Word, we see
  others their needs
• Isaiah saw the Lord, then himself, then the
  people to whom he would minister (Isa. 6 1-8)

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• Separation from the world (127b)
• The world society without God
• Friendship of the world (James 44) leads to love
  for the world (I John 2 15-17)