“The Man In The Mirror: Becoming What The WORD Reveals”

{James 1:1:22-27}...(06/21/25)

JAMES 1:22-27 But prove yourselves doers of the word [actively and continually obeying God’s precepts], and not merely listeners [who hear the word but fail to internalize its meaning] deluding yourselves [by unsound reasoning contrary to the truth]. 23 For if anyone only listens to the word [a]without obeying it, he is like a man who looks very carefully at his natural face in a mirror; 24 for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he immediately forgets [b]what he looked like. 25 But he who looks carefully into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and faithfully abides by it, not having become a [careless] listener who forgets but [c]an active doer [who obeys], he will be blessed and favored by God in what he does [in his life of obedience].

26 If anyone thinks himself to be religious [scrupulously observant of the rituals of his faith], and does not control his tongue but deludes his own heart, this person’s religion is worthless (futile, barren). 27 Pure and unblemished religion [as it is expressed in outward acts] in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit and look after the fatherless and the widows in their distress, and to keep oneself uncontaminated by the [secular] world.(AMP)

VS. 22) PROVE yourselves DOERS of The WORD, not merely hearers

DOER- Maker, Producer, AUTHOR, Performer,Poet..bottom line you FULFILL The Law

Romans 2:13 For not the Hearers of the Law are just before God but the doers are justified

Become a PRODUCER of the LOGOS ..this vs. connects back to vs. 21 abou receiving the IMPLANTED WORD…to have the Word planted in us will produce FRUIT in our lives

NASB…AMP…”But PROVE Yourselves Doers…”...Hebrews 2:1 Pay close attention to what we have heard lest we forget it

Vs. 23) Looks Very Carefully, Considers INTENTLY, Discovers…BEHOLD

Vs. 24) Immediately Forgets…NEGLECTS ..out of sight out of mind

Word-Picture of forgetting what kind of Person we are & meant to become…

Matthew 7:26,27 To not heed/do God’s WORD = to Build your house on sand

JAMES 2:14-18 What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good[a] is that? 17 So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

VS. 25) But he who looks carefully into the perfect law, the law of liberty,

LOOKS = To STOOP down & look carefully & observe, inspect...