"But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing."
Notice – if you hear but don’t do the Word, it’s like not knowing yourself. You deceive yourself. We think if we’ve heard it, we’ve done it. How often does mom tell the kids to clean their room, and they nod their heads with resolution. And 2 hours later, it’s done in their minds, b/c they heard it. But the room is still a pit. Hearing isn’t doing. Going to church and sitting through a sermon isn’t the full sum of obedience, and now you can go back to life as usual.
No. Let us do the Word, and confess where we have neglected to do it.
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