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February 24, 1985
It is impossible to become physically fit by merely reading a book about exercise or listening to excellent advice from a fitness expert. Instead, we must apply our knowledge and actually do the necessary work. Similarly, we cannot become spiritually fit by simply reading the Bible or sitting under excellent preaching. In this mesage from James, Alistair Begg teaches us how to live a transformed life that actively builds faith and avoids spiritual atrophy and ineffectiveness.
19gKnow this, my beloved brothers: let every person hbe quick to hear, islow to speak, jslow to anger; 20for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. 21Therefore kput away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with lmeekness the implanted word, mwhich is able to save your souls.
22But be ndoers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23For 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. 24For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. 25But the one who looks into the perfect law, othe law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, phe will be blessed in his doing.
26If anyone thinks he is religious qand does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's rreligion is worthless. 27Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: sto visit torphans and widows in their affliction, and uto keep oneself vunstained from the world.
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