Faith Works - 'Faith Obeys.' Brian Leifeste

Faith Obeys.

Obedient defined: willing to do what someone tells you to do or to follow a law, rule, etc.: willing to obey;  submissive to the restraint or command of authority:  willing to obey

James 1:19-27

19 My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, 20 for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. 21 Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you(soul). 22 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. 23 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror 24 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. 25 But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it--he will be blessed in what he does. 26 If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight rein on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless. 27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

Faith _________________. Faith takes action.

Question: What does real religion look like?

1.    Real religion _____________________________________.

2.    Real Religion is revealed in…..How I treat those on the __________________. 

3.    Real religion _____________ my life. Keep oneself unpolluted from the world. 

Big Idea: All of these are directly influenced, shaped and kept alive by what I do with _________________________.

When we look into the mirror of God’s word, what do we see?

We see who ___________________ is.

We see who ___________________ are.

We see who He created us to be.

We see what we ___________________.