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There are two parts to this passage for us to consider.
Ist. .
Avoiding deception
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Quickness v Slowness
We can follow up this with a further teaching from James
from verse 21 onwards
The Teachable Spirit
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The words get rid of is the same as stripping oneself.
the undressing of dirty clothes before getting into a clean bath.
Hearing and doing
There is a clear call for us to be under control The anger of man does not work the righteousness of God
Like the young boy who is seen to get passionately angry with his mother and then tried to excuse it later on and justify it at the time as somrthing that needed to happen.
When asked if he ever got angry with his teacher, he said no because he did not want her to dislike me.
Anger towards the mother was deemed OK because as a mother she would always love him.
alongside this goes .
It does not matter how many songs of praise we sing and reverent our prayers are it will mean nothing if we are hanging on to aspects of life that are divergent to God’s way of thinking.
Salvation has been planted in our hearts quietly and profoundly by Jesus. .
James is reminding us that what is heard in the holy place needs t be lived in the market place
The true law
This concept of the law that James raises is known as the
1stly as the perfect law .
there are three reasons why the law is called perfect.
[1]It is Gods law, given and revealed by God.
The way of life laid down by Jesus is in accordance with the will of God
[2]It is perfect in that it cannot be bettered.
the Christian law is the law of love and the demand for love can never be satisfied except from the throne of God.
[3]The Greek word for perfect is
Teleios
This word describes perfection towards some given end.
if a person obeys the law of Christ he will realize the purpose of his own person hood, and fulfill the purpose for which God sent them into the world
Secondly James calls this the law of liberty.
It is the law in the keeping of which a person finds their true liberty.
The Roman stoic philosopher Seneca said this
To Obey God is Liberty - Seneca
other stoics “the wise man alone is free”
For it is in accepting the will of God that we become free.
True worship
see .
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We are as humans a little disjointed when we come to describe what starts on Sunday morning at 10.00 am as worship.
We seem to use the word worship in a loose way and we mean to use it to describe and reflect our intended responses to God.
However we tend to err on a misuse of the word.
We are here in community to exercise Praise and thanksgiving to God and Jesus True worship happens in the context of other people.It is an action that we undertake for others, and we need to note again the two aspects in .
Worship happens in helping people rather than in the singing of How great thou art
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