Jersey Baptist 05052019
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My dearly loved brothers, understand this: Everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger, for man’s anger does not accomplish God’s righteousness. Therefore, ridding yourselves of all moral filth and evil, humbly receive the implanted word, which is able to save you.
But be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. Because if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his own face in a mirror. For he looks at himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but one who does good works—this person will be blessed in what he does.
If anyone thinks he is religious without controlling his tongue, then his religion is useless and he deceives himself. Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
Then the disciples came up and asked Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?”
He answered them, “Because the secrets of the kingdom of heaven have been given for you to know, but it has not been given to them. For whoever has, more will be given to him, and he will have more than enough. But whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him. For this reason I speak to them in parables, because looking they do not see, and hearing they do not listen or understand. Isaiah’s prophecy is fulfilled in them, which says:
You will listen and listen,
yet never understand;
and you will look and look,
yet never perceive.
For this people’s heart has grown callous;
their ears are hard of hearing,
and they have shut their eyes;
otherwise they might see with their eyes
and hear with their ears,
understand with their hearts
and turn back—
and I would cure them.
“But your eyes are blessed because they do see, and your ears because they do hear! For I assure you: Many prophets and righteous people longed to see the things you see yet didn’t see them; to hear the things you hear yet didn’t hear them.
And don’t grieve God’s Holy Spirit. You were sealed by Him for the day of redemption. All bitterness, anger and wrath, shouting and slander must be removed from you, along with all malice. And be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving one another, just as God also forgave you in Christ.
An angry man stirs up conflict,
and a hot-tempered man increases rebellion.
John’s speaking tools:
1) Offers improvement to the audience not “for them” but as if it was for him. He lists his issues, knowing that they are the issues many, if not all, of us have. He does not point it out as the audience’s issue, but takes ownership of it as if it were only his problem.
1) Offers improvement to the audience not “for them” but as if it was for him. He lists his issues, knowing that they are the issues many, if not all, of us have. He does not point it out as the audience’s issue, but takes ownership of it as if it were only his problem.
2) Everything is tied in with a story that can be easily remembered or understood by the “common man”. He makes it personal. If we recall, this is what Christ did with parables.
2) Everything is tied in with a story that can be easily remembered or understood by the “common man”. He makes it personal. If we recall, this is what Christ did with parables.
Three Components to the Passage:
1) Slow to speak.
1) Slow to speak.
2) Quick to listen.
2) Quick to listen.
3) Slow to anger.
3) Slow to anger.
- Remove all “anger and wrath”....translation could look more like: remove all “intense desire (strongs 2372) to punish (strongs 3709)”.
Pastor John said “filth” in root translation meant “an abundance of earwax”. However, I cannot see that within a quick look in my interlinear.
-Good communication leads people to action.
-Great sermons are made with parables/analogies/stories. Without them, no sermon is great. #christsparables
-Forgetfulness can also be neglect. v. 24
Pastor John’s Nine Suggestions for Being a Better Communicator:
1) Make time for meaningful communication.
1) Make time for meaningful communication.
2) Make eye contact when you are speaking.
2) Make eye contact when you are speaking.
3) Listen like an animal being stalked.
3) Listen like an animal being stalked.
4) Know the one with whom you are communicating.
4) Know the one with whom you are communicating.
5) Ask clarifying questions.
5) Ask clarifying questions.
6) Avoid problem solving unless directly requested.
6) Avoid problem solving unless directly requested.
7) Avoid using universal statements.
7) Avoid using universal statements.
8) Avoid destructive criticism, but instead be a part of the positive solution.
8) Avoid destructive criticism, but instead be a part of the positive solution.
9) If you find yourself getting angry, hit the pause button. ()
9) If you find yourself getting angry, hit the pause button. ()