Introduction: The vast majority of Christianity feels as though it fulfills its obligation to the Lord by going to the meeting house on Sunday morning and listening to a message. They quickly rush out the doors to try to get a place at the beginning of the meal line at their favorite restaurant. It doesn’t take long before any memory of the word heard begins to fade, and their lives remained unchanged.

1. THE CALL TO SALVATION (James 1:21Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
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1. A Call to Repent
1. Lay apart all filthiness
2. Lay apart superfluity of naughtiness
2. A Call to Receive
1. The manner of reception – “with meekness”
2. The object of reception – “the engrafted word”
3. The outcome of reception – “which is able to save your souls”
2. THE CALL TO OBEDIENCE (James 1:22-25 [22] But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. [23] For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: [24] For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. [25] But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
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1. A Warning of Deception (James 1:22But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
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1. Hearing the words while refusing to obey them will lead to personal deception.
2. Hearing is merely the beginning of a Christian’s duty.
3. A believer who hears the truth, but does not follow through is deceived.
1. Either by thinking the truth heard is not truth at all
2. Or by losing the feeling of conviction felt when hearing the truth, hereby thinking everything is okay
2. A Forgetful Hearer (James 1:23-24 [23] For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: [24] For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
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1. Hearing the word of God is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass (James 1:23For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
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2. When a man is a hearer only, he beholds himself on goeth on his way forgetting what manner of man he is (James 1:24For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
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3. A Blessed Life (James 1:25But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
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1. By looking into the perfect law of liberty
2. By continuing therein

Conclusion: Have you received the engrafted word? If so, are you fulfilling the dual obligation to both hear and do the words of God?