May 14, 2025 • 36 mins
In this message from James 1:19–25, David Platt challenges us to not merely listen to God’s Word but to obey it—immediately.
While obedience doesn’t earn God’s favor, it is a mark of those who truly belong to Jesus. This is where true freedom is found—in hearing and obeying the Word of God. This message was given at a breakout session of CrossCon 2025.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are listening to Radical with David Platt, a
weekly podcast with sermons andmessages from pastor, author and
teacher David Platt.
If you have a Bible and I hopethat you or somebody around you
does you can look on with.
Let me invite you to open withme to James, chapter 1.
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1.
James, chapter 1, is wherewe're going to be primarily in
our time in the Word thismorning.
I want to start by doing asimple relaxing exercise
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together.
So, on the count of three, I amgoing to invite you just to
take a deep breath, like a nicerelaxing, calming breath.
In and out Sound good.
So just a very intentional.
What does it look like?
To just stop?
Who doesn't want just to stopand take a moment and just
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breathe in and breathe out?
So let's do it together.
So three, two, one, breathe inand out.
It's pretty simple and prettyawesome at the same time.
So let me explain to you whatjust happened.
In that breath, you just tookinto your body about 25
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sextillion molecules of air.
Sextillion that's 25 with 21zeros behind it.
That's more molecules that justpass through your nose than all
the grains of sand on all theworld's beaches.
Those air molecules were madeup of many different elements,
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one of which is oxygen.
It's about 20% of the moleculesyou just breathed in.
Side note thankfully youbreathed in clean air.
If it had been filled withsmoke, for example, your body
would have immediately rejectedit, but thankfully it wasn't and
the oxygen you needed came intoyour body.
And here's how it got in you.
So your brain sent a message toyour diaphragm and ribs telling
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them to contract, increasingthe size of your rib cage,
enabling your lungs to expand,which then allowed air to rush
in.
That air went down your tracheainto your lungs, where it came
into contact with hundreds ofmillions of miniature
balloon-like projections calledalveoli.
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They have alveolar walls.
That then brought those oxygenmolecules in touch with red
blood cells inside you, whichcomprise the transportation
system for oxygen in your body.
You have about 20 trillion ofthose red blood cells.
Your body is churning out about2.5 million of them a second.
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Each of those red blood cellscontains about 270 million
oxygen-binding molecules ofhemoglobin, and these red blood
cells picked up the oxygenmolecules that came in, carried
them through your cardiovascularnetwork, this massive
collection of blood vessels thatreaches every single cell in
your body.
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If you laid out those bloodvessels in a straight line, end
to end.
They would wrap around theentire world multiple times.
And where did those blood cellsget the energy to get that
oxygen throughout your body?
From your heart, which pumps anaverage of about 100,000 times
a day.
In that one breath you took,your heart was the powerhouse
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that took the oxygen you inhaledand got it to every part of
your body that needs it.
All of that happened in a breath, so let's take one more
together, now that you knowwhat's going on Breathe in and
out.
It's pretty awesome, and allthe more so when you realize
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that happens about 20,000 timesa day without you even thinking
about it.
And just to point out theobvious, it doesn't happen.
If it doesn't happen, even forjust a few minutes, you won't
make it throughout the day.
The reason I share all of thisis because, as important as
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oxygen is to your body and Itrust you know how important it
is I want to propose to you inthe next few minutes that the
book I'm holding in my hand isinfinitely more important to
your life, and I'm concernedthat you don't realize how
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important this is.
I'm going to propose to youthat this book has power to
bring life to every part of youin ways that oxygen could never
do.
And this book has power tosustain you amidst everything
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you will face in life, more thanoxygen could ever do, and
ultimately, one day when yourbody loses the ability to take
in one more breath and it willhappen unless Jesus returns
before that, for any one of us,at any moment, it could happen
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this book has power to keep yourlife going beyond that breath.
So I want to show you this,starting in James 1, verse 16.
And I want to encourage you tocircle with me and I'll do it up
here on the screen every timeyou see the Word of God
mentioned.
So here we go, james 1, 16.
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Do not be deceived, my belovedbrothers.
Every good and perfect gift isfrom above, coming down from the
Father of lights, with whomthere is no variation or shadow
due to change Of his own will.
He brought us forth by the wordof truth that we should be a
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kind of first fruits of hiscreatures.
Know this, my beloved brothers.
Let every person be quick tohear, slow to speak, slow to
anger, for the anger of man doesnot produce the righteousness
of God.
Therefore, put away allfilthiness and rampant
wickedness and receive withmeekness the implanted word
which is able to save your souls.
With meekness, the implantedWord which is able to save your
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souls.
But be doers of the Word andnot hearers only deceiving
yourselves.
For if anyone is a hearer ofthe Word and not a doer, he's
like a man who looks at hisnatural face in a mirror.
He looks at himself and goesaway and at once forgets what he
was like.
But the one who looks into theperfect law, the law of liberty,
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and perseveres being no hearerwho forgets, but a doer who acts
, he will be blessed in hisdoing so.
You count them up One, two,three, four, five, six times
times.
These verses talk about God'sWord or God's law.
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And do you see what God's Worddoes More than oxygen?
Look back at verse 18.
God's Word brings us forth.
The language here is literally.
It brings us to life.
And then, in verse 21, thisword is able to save your soul.
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Like, are you getting this?
The same God who created yourbody and your heart and your
lungs and your blood cells andyour blood vessels, and the same
God who provides the oxygen foryou to breathe.
This God has spoken through.
Make the connection with lastnight, his Spirit, this Word to
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you and me, and it has power togive you life at every moment,
forever, which makes this Wordinfinitely more important to you
than oxygen is to your body.
And I mentioned I'm concernedthat many of us, maybe most of
us, are not getting the life weneed from it and, as a result,
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we are weak and frail in everyfacet of our lives, not just
spiritually, but mentally andemotionally and relationally,
and emotionally and relationally, even physically in some ways.
Did you know that just a coupleof centuries ago, it would have
been common for an ordinaryChristian not a pastor or a
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church leader, just an everydayChristian to rise before dawn
for extended time in privateprayer and meditation on God's
Word.
That would then be followed byfamily prayer and meditation on
God in the morning, to befollowed by time set aside in
the middle of the day forpersonal or corporate, with the
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church prayer and Scripturemeditation, to be followed by
evening family prayer andmeditation on God's Word before
personal prayer and meditationon God's Word before going to
sleep.
This used to be normal for aChristian collective hours
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throughout a day in prayer andmeditation on God's Word, but
not for us.
We almost can't fathom thisAmidst everything going on in
our lives, right?
I mean, how is this possible,from the moment we rise to the
moment we go to bed, to momentsthroughout the day, to always be
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looking at God's Word?
We can't imagine.
Well, wait a minute.
Can we imagine having somethingwe look at in the morning and
right before we go to bed andcollective hours of our day in
between?
Apparently we can.
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It's been, and you can finddifferent statistics that's been
said even in different ways atthis conference.
Did you know?
Average American spends fivehours and 24 minutes a day on
their mobile device, from themoment we wake up to the moment
we go to bed and everywhere inbetween we check our phones an
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average of 96 times a day, oronce every 10 minutes.
So the problem is apparentlynot that we're not able to
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breathe this word in.
The problem is we're breathingin the air of the world instead
all day long, and we'redisciplining ourselves to do so,
to always be looking, scrolling, typing, reading, sending,
listening, watching.
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To use the illustration fromearlier, we're breathing in
smoke all day long and you cansee it in the quality of our
lives Spiritually, mentally,emotionally, relationally, some
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ways physically.
In these few minutes in thisbreakout session.
My hope and my prayer is thatyou might hear God calling you
right where you're sitting rightnow to make a radical change in
your life, to reorient yourentire life, instead of it being
around the smoke of this world,it being around the life you
can find in this world, and myaim in that is so that you might
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live.
So the title of this breakoutis Hearing, without Doing, the
Danger of Our Information Age.
Let's just be honest.
We're not lacking forinformation.
We have information from theworld available to us at our
fingertips and we're breathingit in all day long.
The purpose of this breakout isnot to dive into all the
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negative effects of that in ourlives.
I trust you know thosestatistics or those realities
about increases in anxiety,depression, distractions,
decreases in productivity,feelings of constant comparison
with others, lack of sleep, lackof overall health and,
statistically, a majority of youin this room actually believe
you should spend less time onthat device, but you can't seem
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to do so, and the purpose ofthis breakout is to help you see
there is a better way, there isa way for you to live, to
experience a totally differentlife, and I just want to give
you three practicalencouragements to revolve your
life around this book.
So we're going to hit themquick, even though we have a lot
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to cover, even though it's not50 points, but these three are
heavy.
So one receive God's Word humblyand wholeheartedly.
Receive God's Word humbly andwholeheartedly.
So, verse 19,.
Let every person be quick tohear.
The language is let everyperson hurry up and listen and
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slow to speak and slow to anger.
All these are pictures,postures of humility, and
there's actually some discussionabout whether James is talking
generally about all of life.
Be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger, or,
specifically, when we approachGod's Word and based on the
whole Bible, we know it'sultimately both.
God instructs us to live likethis all the time in our
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relationships with others bequick to listen, slow to speak,
slow to anger.
If that's the case with others,how much more so should that be
in our relationship with God,our communication with God?
Quick to hear what God has tosay.
God, I want to listen to youall day long.
I want to listen to what youhave to say.
This is why James says receivewith meekness the implanted Word
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which is able to save yoursouls.
That word implanted is so goodbecause for all those who've
been brought to life by thisword, who've been born again by
the power of this word, god'sword is now planted inside of us
.
Let me show you two quick placesin the Old Testament.
If you want to turn in yourBible, you can.
It'll be up here on the screen.
First is Jeremiah 31.
If you have a Bible, I wouldencourage you to underline it.
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This is a very importantpassage in the Old Testament.
Jeremiah is speaking to God'speople about their struggles to
obey God's law, and God givesthem a promise of what's going
to happen in the New Testamentthe new covenant through Jesus,
jeremiah 31, verse 31,.
The days are coming, declaresthe Lord, when I'll make a new
covenant with the house ofIsrael, the house of Judah, not
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like the covenant I made withtheir fathers on the day when I
took them out by the hand tobring them out of the land of
Egypt, my covenant that theybroke, though I was their
husband, declares the Lord.
For this is the covenant I willmake with the house of Israel.
After those days, declares theLord, I will put my law within
them, I will write it on theirhearts and I will be their God
and they shall be my people.
God says I'm going to put mylaw on their hearts.
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It won't just be outside ofthem, it will be written on
their hearts, living inside ofthem.
And then one more place welooked at actually last night
Ezekiel 36, another passage thatwould be good to underline in
your Bible Verse 24,.
God says I will take you fromthe nations, gather you from all
the countries, bring you intothe land.
I will sprinkle clean water onyou.
You should be clean from allyour uncleannesses, from all
your idols.
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I will cleanse you and I willgive you a new heart, a new
spirit.
We talked about this last night.
I will put within you.
I will remove the heart ofstone from you and give you a
heart of flesh.
I will put my spirit within youand cause you to walk in these
statutes that are in you, to becareful to obey these rules that
are in you, and you'll dwell inthe land that I gave your
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fathers.
You'll be my people.
I'll be your God.
You see the language here.
God's promising that in the newcovenant.
This is talking about us inJesus.
God's given us a new heart,with His Holy Spirit living
inside of us and His Spirit inus enables us to live according
to the Word that he's put in ourhearts.
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And all of this so that wewould experience the joy and the
beauty of relationship with God.
Walking with God, knowing God,loving God, experiencing the
love of God, living in God.
Walking with God, knowing God,loving God, experiencing the
love of God, living in God, inrelationship with Him.
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I've used the illustrationbefore about when my wife and I
started dating.
This was before texting or,yeah, a number of different ways
we used to communicate throughthese things called letters, and
it was like on a piece ofsomething called paper and we
would take a pen or a pencil andshe'd start writing me letters.
And I'd never received a letterfrom a girl before until she
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sent me one.
And I remember the first one.
It was like dear David.
And I just look at it and I'mlike David, dear, that's a good
start, I think she likes me.
And then I'd be like she'd startsaying this or that I'm praying
for you, and I'd be like, huh,I wonder what she means by that.
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Like I'm praying for you, likeI pray for anybody, or like when
I pray for my future husband, Ipray for you.
Like what does she mean?
Then she put a smiley face.
I'd be like, why the smileyface right there, like she's
smiling at me right now?
Does it go with the sentencebefore, with after?
And you'd be like, well, youwere obsessed.
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And yes, that's the point.
I was totally obsessed, I wasin love how much more so with
the Word of God to us.
Like, what is this saying?
Like, receive it wholeheartedly.
Like this is God speaking to me.
I'm in relationship with Him.
This is what God's made you forto walk with God and experience
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life and love, relationshipwith Him as he speaks to you and
you read His Word.
Do not settle for breathing insmoke all day long and starving
your heart from what you mostneed and what your heart is made
to most want the Word of Godand the Spirit of God pumping
through your entire being.
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Receive God's Word humbly,wholeheartedly.
Second, remember God's Wordintentionally and continually.
So we're going to talk in justa moment about this clear
command to do the Word.
But look with me at theillustration James uses in this
passage about a guy who looks athimself in a mirror and walks
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away and totally forgets what helooks like, like who gets up in
the morning, stands in front ofa mirror, then walks away and
thinks I wonder what I look like.
That's absurd.
Keep in mind, in that day theydidn't have mirrors made of
glass like we do.
They would have been made ofmetal, which means you spend all
this time polishing it and thenyou look at yourself and
totally forget what you looklike.
He's saying don't do that withGod's Word.
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But it's possible, right Forany one of us to open God's Word
to read it and a few hourslater totally forget what you've
read.
Honestly, we can forget withina couple minutes.
But look at the contrast here.
But the one who looks into theperfect law the language is so
good that language is basicallyintentionally look into, like
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stoop down and look at itclosely, just like when I'm
talking about a love letter frommy wife or when I want it to be
a love letter from my futurewife.
I'm just looking at everysingle word.
James is saying do that withGod's word, don't just read
through it to check off a box.
Like what are you doing?
This is the Word of God.
Like stop, gaze on it fromevery angle.
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One translation of this wordlook is to look with penetrating
absorption.
I love that picture andpersevere in that Like.
Keep doing that.
Don't be content with a littledevotional word from God for the
day.
No, like.
Look at it and keep looking atit, like all day long, so you
don't forget it, so you rememberit.
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Let it lodge in your mind andyour heart so that it's always
before you.
You know what that's like withyour phone.
It's always near you, you'realways looking at it.
Do that.
Well, what would it look liketo spend your life doing that
with the Word of God and justthink about this practically.
So this clear call from God notto forget to remember His Word.
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What's the best way to rememberGod's Word?
It's not a hard question.
Memorize it, like.
Hide it in your heart, memorize, say it over and over again
until it's a part of you.
That's the best way to rememberGod's Word.
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And I've mentioned before.
I know people say I just don'tmemorize very well, and I know
different people have different,we memorize differently and
people have different capacitiesto memorize.
At the same time, if I told youthat between now and tomorrow,
at this time, I'd give you athousand dollars for every verse
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you can memorize, I think you'dfigure it out I mean, with
maybe a rare exception in thisroom like Jesus wept boom $1,000
.
Like, just kind of start, do asearch shortest verses.
You'd figure out how tomemorize a good bit between now
and tomorrow.
So I guess the question iswhat's more valuable to you,
money or the Word of God?
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What do you want more?
That's really the question.
So I just, I want to encourageyou memorize.
Do you have an intentional planfor memorizing verses,
paragraphs, chapters, books ofthe Bible?
That this would be common amongfollowers of Jesus?
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Of course it is.
This is the Word of God.
It's what we want to rememberintentionally and continue.
We want to persevere in this.
If we're not intentional in thisway, we're used to.
That's part of the whole point.
We're used to taking ininformation and then forgetting
it.
We must be intentional withGod's Word, to not just hear it.
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I mean, any one of us couldeven just go to a sermon.
Hear a sermon on a Sunday, goto a Bible study, read our Bible
in the morning and by the timewe get to bed that night, we've
forgotten most of it.
It's the way our minds workunless we keep looking at God's
Word.
I use this.
We use these two acrostics inour church family all the time.
They're a part of my personaltime with the Lord.
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I'm just going to mention them.
I did mention this at abreakout last year, so I'm just
going to hit them real quick.
But for I don't assumeeverybody was a part of that
breakout last year, so I'm justgoing to put them on the screen
here and if they serve you well,then it will have been worth it
.
So maps is the first one.
This is what to do when you sitdown with God's Word.
M stands for meditate andmemorize.
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That's the word we see in theBible.
Not just read the Bible, butmeditate on this Word, really
soak it in, look at it,everything we're talking about
and memorize it.
What can you memorize from whatyou've just read today?
And then A apply.
So meditate, memorize.
You're asking all kinds ofquestions what is this here?
What does this mean?
What is God saying in this text?
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And then, okay, now and we'regoing to talk about this more in
a minute how do I act on this?
So how does what I just readaffect my thought, my thoughts,
my desires, my actions, my words, my relationships, my
interactions?
How does this word apply to mylife, and then to pray through
it.
To pray through God's word, andthis is where the next acrostic
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comes in P-R-A-Y.
So just to pause there in maps,pray.
So how does this, what you justread, lead you to praise God?
So just, yeah, get on yourknees, get on your face and just
praise God for his word, forhis truth, for what you've just
read.
To repent how has the HolySpirit convicted you of sin and
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what you've just read?
And so to spend time inrepentance.
Is there anything in what I'vejust read that is exposing sin
in my heart that I need toconfess before God and turn from
?
And then to ask, to ask God forhelp to put God's Word into
practice.
So to ask God for strength, forwisdom, for peace, for whatever
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you've read in that passage, topray according to it.
Ask for it in your own life,ask for it in others' lives.
And then why To yield?
To say, god, help me to walk inyour Word.
I want to do your Word, whichwe're about to talk about more
in a second.
So that's praise, repent, askand yield.
Come back to meditate, memorize, apply, pray through the Word.
And then the S is to share, tointentionally think through how
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you can encourage someone elsewith what you've heard from
God's Word during the day,because, guaranteed, this will
lodge more in your mind and yourheart when you speak it to
others.
When you keep it to yourself,then one, you're missing out on
the blessing of encouragingGod's Word with others, but
you're also missing out on theblessing of that Word soaking
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into you.
Sometimes people will say well,I mean, I can't encourage
somebody else for the Word, Idon't feel like I know the Word
well enough.
Well, the person who'sencouraging someone else is the
person who spent the timeknowing the Word, like who knows
this passage and this talkbetter than anybody in this room
.
Well, right now I do, becauseI've spent the time diving into
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this text and this talk.
So if you're going to encourageothers with the word, it
actually forces you to thinkthrough how can I encourage them
with the word.
So, to think intentionally inthe beginning of your day who
can I encourage with this wordtoday?
Who can I send a text to?
Who can I steward this devicefor?
To spread this word?
To encourage another brother orsister in Christ, or to
encourage somebody who maybedoesn't know Christ?
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So, meditate, memorize, apply,pray, share Just ways to
remember God's Wordintentionally and continually.
All right, receive God's Wordhumbly, wholeheartedly, remember
God's Word intentionally andcontinually and then obey God's
word immediately and gladly.
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So we're used to receiving,receiving, receiving information
and not doing anything with it,just kind of moving on.
I mean it is the breakout title.
I was given the danger of ourinformation age and I just
thought, yeah, how dangerous itis Even just to look at news
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headlines on your phone and seenews of war or just evil tragedy
and then just flip to somethingelse on our phone.
We aren't even affected by it.
So James says you are deceivingyourself if all you do is hear
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the Word.
Just let that soak in for aminute.
It's possible to read yourBible every day and to go to
church and hear a good biblicalteaching every Sunday and be
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completely deceived.
It's possible, it's dangerouslypossible, to come in here,
listen to the Word of God, maybeeven think, man, I needed that,
and then walk away totallyunchanged.
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It's possible to do that everysingle day with this book, every
single gathering like this withthis book, which is why James 1
, 22 says what it does.
Maybe the entire theme book ofthe verse of James Be doers of
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this word, not hearers only.
Then he gets to verse 25, andhe says the one who looks at
God's Word intently, rememberinto the perfect law the law.
A doer who acts, he will bewhat.
Blessed in his doing, he'll behappy as he does it.
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Jesus says the exact same thing.
Listen to his language Matthew7, 21.
Not everyone who says to me,lord, lord, will enter the
kingdom of heaven, but the onewho does the will of my Father,
who is in heaven.
On that day, many will say tome, lord, lord, do we not
prophesy in your name?
Cast out demons in your name?
Do many mighty works in yourname?
I will declare to them I neverknew you.
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Depart from me, you, workers oflawlessness.
You're catching what he'ssaying here.
Many people, many, not some,not a couple, like many, will
stand before Jesus and hear himsay one day I never even knew
you, away from me, people whocalled Jesus Lord but did not
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obey the will of God.
And this is not Jesus or Jamessaying we need to work to earn
our salvation, but this is Jesusand James saying those who
truly know Jesus obey Jesus.
And then listen to what Jesussays right after this Everyone
who hears these words of mineand does them will be like a
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wise man who built his house ona rock and the rain fell and the
floods came and the winds blewand beat on that house, but it
did not fall because it had beenfounded on the rock.
And everyone who hears thesewords of mine and does not do
them will be like a foolish manwho built his house on the sand
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and the rain fell and the floodscame and the winds blew and
beat against that house and itfell and great was the fall of
it.
What's the difference betweenthose who withstand the storms
of life and those who cave whenthe storms of life come?
The difference is whether youhear and do the Word of God.
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So how are you doing?
Because I actually believethere's a sense in which Satan
would delight in you hearingthis talk, all kinds of teaching
at a conference like this, andreading the Bible and going to
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church, maybe even deciding,okay, yes, okay, this book, I
hear it's important, and justreceiving all of this and then
not doing anything with it.
Because what happens is yourheart gets used to hearing and
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not doing and he knows you'reset up to fail to fall in a
great way you don't want.
Well, just pause, before I sayit, make the connection.
We live in a culture that istraining us to hear and just
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move on.
And God is saying right now inHis Word don't do that with my
Word.
I hear it.
Soak it in humbly,wholeheartedly.
Remember it intentionally,continually, and then do it
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immediately and gladly, gladly.
Why?
Because remember, this is thelaw of liberty, it's the word
that brings you to life, thatbrings pulsating life to every
part of your body.
You'll be blessed and you'redoing.
It's the same word that's usedin psalm, chapter one.
Blessed is the man, the woman,who walks not in the council of
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wicked, nor stands in the way ofsinners, nor sits in the seat
of scoffers, but his delight isin the law of the Lord and on
his law he meditates day andnight.
Listen to verse 3.
Do you want this to be true ofyour life?
Like a tree planted by streamsof water that yields fruit in
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season and its leaf does notwither, and all that that he or
she does, he or she prospers.
Do you want that to be yourlife?
Do you want blessing, happiness?
My assumption is every one.
So meditate day and night, soakit in, receive it humbly,
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wholeheartedly, remember itintentionally, purposefully, all
day long.
Figure out a way, whateverworks for you to remember it,
memorize it and then obey it.
Do it immediately and gladly,and you will find your spiritual
, emotional, your relational,your mental, your physical state
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affected by this word.
Not saying life will now be easy, but that's kind of the point.
The storms of life will stillbe coming, but you will be able
to stand, and not just stand butto live blessed.
So here's what I want to do.
I know we're going to have someQ&A in just a second, but the
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last thing I want to do is justkind of okay, let's move on to
the next thing.
I missed the whole point, so Iwant to give you, before we do
Q&A, I'm just going to give youlike two or three minutes and I
want you to identify two, one,two, threeical steps God's
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calling you to take to reorientyour life around receiving,
remembering and obeying His Word.
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If you have a Bible and I hopethat you or somebody around you
does you can look on with.
Let me invite you to open withme to James, chapter 1.
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1.
James, chapter 1, is wherewe're going to be primarily in
our time in the Word thismorning.
I want to start by doing asimple relaxing exercise
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together.
So, on the count of three, I amgoing to invite you just to
take a deep breath, like a nicerelaxing, calming breath.
In and out Sound good.
So just a very intentional.
What does it look like?
To just stop?
Who doesn't want just to stopand take a moment and just
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breathe in and breathe out?
So let's do it together.
So three, two, one, breathe inand out.
It's pretty simple and prettyawesome at the same time.
So let me explain to you whatjust happened.
In that breath, you just tookinto your body about 25
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sextillion molecules of air.
Sextillion that's 25 with 21zeros behind it.
That's more molecules that justpass through your nose than all
the grains of sand on all theworld's beaches.
Those air molecules were madeup of many different elements,
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one of which is oxygen.
It's about 20% of the moleculesyou just breathed in.
Side note thankfully youbreathed in clean air.
If it had been filled withsmoke, for example, your body
would have immediately rejectedit, but thankfully it wasn't and
the oxygen you needed came intoyour body.
And here's how it got in you.
So your brain sent a message toyour diaphragm and ribs telling
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them to contract, increasingthe size of your rib cage,
enabling your lungs to expand,which then allowed air to rush
in.
That air went down your tracheainto your lungs, where it came
into contact with hundreds ofmillions of miniature
balloon-like projections calledalveoli.
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They have alveolar walls.
That then brought those oxygenmolecules in touch with red
blood cells inside you, whichcomprise the transportation
system for oxygen in your body.
You have about 20 trillion ofthose red blood cells.
Your body is churning out about2.5 million of them a second.
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Each of those red blood cellscontains about 270 million
oxygen-binding molecules ofhemoglobin, and these red blood
cells picked up the oxygenmolecules that came in, carried
them through your cardiovascularnetwork, this massive
collection of blood vessels thatreaches every single cell in
your body.
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If you laid out those bloodvessels in a straight line, end
to end.
They would wrap around theentire world multiple times.
And where did those blood cellsget the energy to get that
oxygen throughout your body?
From your heart, which pumps anaverage of about 100,000 times
a day.
In that one breath you took,your heart was the powerhouse
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that took the oxygen you inhaledand got it to every part of
your body that needs it.
All of that happened in a breath, so let's take one more
together, now that you knowwhat's going on Breathe in and
out.
It's pretty awesome, and allthe more so when you realize
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that happens about 20,000 timesa day without you even thinking
about it.
And just to point out theobvious, it doesn't happen.
If it doesn't happen, even forjust a few minutes, you won't
make it throughout the day.
The reason I share all of thisis because, as important as
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oxygen is to your body and Itrust you know how important it
is I want to propose to you inthe next few minutes that the
book I'm holding in my hand isinfinitely more important to
your life, and I'm concernedthat you don't realize how
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important this is.
I'm going to propose to youthat this book has power to
bring life to every part of youin ways that oxygen could never
do.
And this book has power tosustain you amidst everything
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you will face in life, more thanoxygen could ever do, and
ultimately, one day when yourbody loses the ability to take
in one more breath and it willhappen unless Jesus returns
before that, for any one of us,at any moment, it could happen
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this book has power to keep yourlife going beyond that breath.
So I want to show you this,starting in James 1, verse 16.
And I want to encourage you tocircle with me and I'll do it up
here on the screen every timeyou see the Word of God
mentioned.
So here we go, james 1, 16.
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Do not be deceived, my belovedbrothers.
Every good and perfect gift isfrom above, coming down from the
Father of lights, with whomthere is no variation or shadow
due to change Of his own will.
He brought us forth by the wordof truth that we should be a
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kind of first fruits of hiscreatures.
Know this, my beloved brothers.
Let every person be quick tohear, slow to speak, slow to
anger, for the anger of man doesnot produce the righteousness
of God.
Therefore, put away allfilthiness and rampant
wickedness and receive withmeekness the implanted word
which is able to save your souls.
With meekness, the implantedWord which is able to save your
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souls.
But be doers of the Word andnot hearers only deceiving
yourselves.
For if anyone is a hearer ofthe Word and not a doer, he's
like a man who looks at hisnatural face in a mirror.
He looks at himself and goesaway and at once forgets what he
was like.
But the one who looks into theperfect law, the law of liberty,
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and perseveres being no hearerwho forgets, but a doer who acts
, he will be blessed in hisdoing so.
You count them up One, two,three, four, five, six times
times.
These verses talk about God'sWord or God's law.
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And do you see what God's Worddoes More than oxygen?
Look back at verse 18.
God's Word brings us forth.
The language here is literally.
It brings us to life.
And then, in verse 21, thisword is able to save your soul.
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Like, are you getting this?
The same God who created yourbody and your heart and your
lungs and your blood cells andyour blood vessels, and the same
God who provides the oxygen foryou to breathe.
This God has spoken through.
Make the connection with lastnight, his Spirit, this Word to
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you and me, and it has power togive you life at every moment,
forever, which makes this Wordinfinitely more important to you
than oxygen is to your body.
And I mentioned I'm concernedthat many of us, maybe most of
us, are not getting the life weneed from it and, as a result,
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we are weak and frail in everyfacet of our lives, not just
spiritually, but mentally andemotionally and relationally,
and emotionally and relationally, even physically in some ways.
Did you know that just a coupleof centuries ago, it would have
been common for an ordinaryChristian not a pastor or a
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church leader, just an everydayChristian to rise before dawn
for extended time in privateprayer and meditation on God's
Word.
That would then be followed byfamily prayer and meditation on
God in the morning, to befollowed by time set aside in
the middle of the day forpersonal or corporate, with the
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church prayer and Scripturemeditation, to be followed by
evening family prayer andmeditation on God's Word before
personal prayer and meditationon God's Word before going to
sleep.
This used to be normal for aChristian collective hours
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throughout a day in prayer andmeditation on God's Word, but
not for us.
We almost can't fathom thisAmidst everything going on in
our lives, right?
I mean, how is this possible,from the moment we rise to the
moment we go to bed, to momentsthroughout the day, to always be
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looking at God's Word?
We can't imagine.
Well, wait a minute.
Can we imagine having somethingwe look at in the morning and
right before we go to bed andcollective hours of our day in
between?
Apparently we can.
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It's been, and you can finddifferent statistics that's been
said even in different ways atthis conference.
Did you know?
Average American spends fivehours and 24 minutes a day on
their mobile device, from themoment we wake up to the moment
we go to bed and everywhere inbetween we check our phones an
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average of 96 times a day, oronce every 10 minutes.
So the problem is apparentlynot that we're not able to
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breathe this word in.
The problem is we're breathingin the air of the world instead
all day long, and we'redisciplining ourselves to do so,
to always be looking, scrolling, typing, reading, sending,
listening, watching.
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To use the illustration fromearlier, we're breathing in
smoke all day long and you cansee it in the quality of our
lives Spiritually, mentally,emotionally, relationally, some
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ways physically.
In these few minutes in thisbreakout session.
My hope and my prayer is thatyou might hear God calling you
right where you're sitting rightnow to make a radical change in
your life, to reorient yourentire life, instead of it being
around the smoke of this world,it being around the life you
can find in this world, and myaim in that is so that you might
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live.
So the title of this breakoutis Hearing, without Doing, the
Danger of Our Information Age.
Let's just be honest.
We're not lacking forinformation.
We have information from theworld available to us at our
fingertips and we're breathingit in all day long.
The purpose of this breakout isnot to dive into all the
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negative effects of that in ourlives.
I trust you know thosestatistics or those realities
about increases in anxiety,depression, distractions,
decreases in productivity,feelings of constant comparison
with others, lack of sleep, lackof overall health and,
statistically, a majority of youin this room actually believe
you should spend less time onthat device, but you can't seem
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to do so, and the purpose ofthis breakout is to help you see
there is a better way, there isa way for you to live, to
experience a totally differentlife, and I just want to give
you three practicalencouragements to revolve your
life around this book.
So we're going to hit themquick, even though we have a lot
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to cover, even though it's not50 points, but these three are
heavy.
So one receive God's Word humblyand wholeheartedly.
Receive God's Word humbly andwholeheartedly.
So, verse 19,.
Let every person be quick tohear.
The language is let everyperson hurry up and listen and
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slow to speak and slow to anger.
All these are pictures,postures of humility, and
there's actually some discussionabout whether James is talking
generally about all of life.
Be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger, or,
specifically, when we approachGod's Word and based on the
whole Bible, we know it'sultimately both.
God instructs us to live likethis all the time in our
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relationships with others bequick to listen, slow to speak,
slow to anger.
If that's the case with others,how much more so should that be
in our relationship with God,our communication with God?
Quick to hear what God has tosay.
God, I want to listen to youall day long.
I want to listen to what youhave to say.
This is why James says receivewith meekness the implanted Word
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which is able to save yoursouls.
That word implanted is so goodbecause for all those who've
been brought to life by thisword, who've been born again by
the power of this word, god'sword is now planted inside of us
.
Let me show you two quick placesin the Old Testament.
If you want to turn in yourBible, you can.
It'll be up here on the screen.
First is Jeremiah 31.
If you have a Bible, I wouldencourage you to underline it.
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This is a very importantpassage in the Old Testament.
Jeremiah is speaking to God'speople about their struggles to
obey God's law, and God givesthem a promise of what's going
to happen in the New Testamentthe new covenant through Jesus,
jeremiah 31, verse 31,.
The days are coming, declaresthe Lord, when I'll make a new
covenant with the house ofIsrael, the house of Judah, not
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like the covenant I made withtheir fathers on the day when I
took them out by the hand tobring them out of the land of
Egypt, my covenant that theybroke, though I was their
husband, declares the Lord.
For this is the covenant I willmake with the house of Israel.
After those days, declares theLord, I will put my law within
them, I will write it on theirhearts and I will be their God
and they shall be my people.
God says I'm going to put mylaw on their hearts.
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It won't just be outside ofthem, it will be written on
their hearts, living inside ofthem.
And then one more place welooked at actually last night
Ezekiel 36, another passage thatwould be good to underline in
your Bible Verse 24,.
God says I will take you fromthe nations, gather you from all
the countries, bring you intothe land.
I will sprinkle clean water onyou.
You should be clean from allyour uncleannesses, from all
your idols.
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I will cleanse you and I willgive you a new heart, a new
spirit.
We talked about this last night.
I will put within you.
I will remove the heart ofstone from you and give you a
heart of flesh.
I will put my spirit within youand cause you to walk in these
statutes that are in you, to becareful to obey these rules that
are in you, and you'll dwell inthe land that I gave your
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fathers.
You'll be my people.
I'll be your God.
You see the language here.
God's promising that in the newcovenant.
This is talking about us inJesus.
God's given us a new heart,with His Holy Spirit living
inside of us and His Spirit inus enables us to live according
to the Word that he's put in ourhearts.
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And all of this so that wewould experience the joy and the
beauty of relationship with God.
Walking with God, knowing God,loving God, experiencing the
love of God, living in God.
Walking with God, knowing God,loving God, experiencing the
love of God, living in God, inrelationship with Him.
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I've used the illustrationbefore about when my wife and I
started dating.
This was before texting or,yeah, a number of different ways
we used to communicate throughthese things called letters, and
it was like on a piece ofsomething called paper and we
would take a pen or a pencil andshe'd start writing me letters.
And I'd never received a letterfrom a girl before until she
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sent me one.
And I remember the first one.
It was like dear David.
And I just look at it and I'mlike David, dear, that's a good
start, I think she likes me.
And then I'd be like she'd startsaying this or that I'm praying
for you, and I'd be like, huh,I wonder what she means by that.
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Like I'm praying for you, likeI pray for anybody, or like when
I pray for my future husband, Ipray for you.
Like what does she mean?
Then she put a smiley face.
I'd be like, why the smileyface right there, like she's
smiling at me right now?
Does it go with the sentencebefore, with after?
And you'd be like, well, youwere obsessed.
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And yes, that's the point.
I was totally obsessed, I wasin love how much more so with
the Word of God to us.
Like, what is this saying?
Like, receive it wholeheartedly.
Like this is God speaking to me.
I'm in relationship with Him.
This is what God's made you forto walk with God and experience
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life and love, relationshipwith Him as he speaks to you and
you read His Word.
Do not settle for breathing insmoke all day long and starving
your heart from what you mostneed and what your heart is made
to most want the Word of Godand the Spirit of God pumping
through your entire being.
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Receive God's Word humbly,wholeheartedly.
Second, remember God's Wordintentionally and continually.
So we're going to talk in justa moment about this clear
command to do the Word.
But look with me at theillustration James uses in this
passage about a guy who looks athimself in a mirror and walks
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away and totally forgets what helooks like, like who gets up in
the morning, stands in front ofa mirror, then walks away and
thinks I wonder what I look like.
That's absurd.
Keep in mind, in that day theydidn't have mirrors made of
glass like we do.
They would have been made ofmetal, which means you spend all
this time polishing it and thenyou look at yourself and
totally forget what you looklike.
He's saying don't do that withGod's Word.
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But it's possible, right Forany one of us to open God's Word
to read it and a few hourslater totally forget what you've
read.
Honestly, we can forget withina couple minutes.
But look at the contrast here.
But the one who looks into theperfect law the language is so
good that language is basicallyintentionally look into, like
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stoop down and look at itclosely, just like when I'm
talking about a love letter frommy wife or when I want it to be
a love letter from my futurewife.
I'm just looking at everysingle word.
James is saying do that withGod's word, don't just read
through it to check off a box.
Like what are you doing?
This is the Word of God.
Like stop, gaze on it fromevery angle.
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One translation of this wordlook is to look with penetrating
absorption.
I love that picture andpersevere in that Like.
Keep doing that.
Don't be content with a littledevotional word from God for the
day.
No, like.
Look at it and keep looking atit, like all day long, so you
don't forget it, so you rememberit.
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Let it lodge in your mind andyour heart so that it's always
before you.
You know what that's like withyour phone.
It's always near you, you'realways looking at it.
Do that.
Well, what would it look liketo spend your life doing that
with the Word of God and justthink about this practically.
So this clear call from God notto forget to remember His Word.
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What's the best way to rememberGod's Word?
It's not a hard question.
Memorize it, like.
Hide it in your heart, memorize, say it over and over again
until it's a part of you.
That's the best way to rememberGod's Word.
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And I've mentioned before.
I know people say I just don'tmemorize very well, and I know
different people have different,we memorize differently and
people have different capacitiesto memorize.
At the same time, if I told youthat between now and tomorrow,
at this time, I'd give you athousand dollars for every verse
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you can memorize, I think you'dfigure it out I mean, with
maybe a rare exception in thisroom like Jesus wept boom $1,000
.
Like, just kind of start, do asearch shortest verses.
You'd figure out how tomemorize a good bit between now
and tomorrow.
So I guess the question iswhat's more valuable to you,
money or the Word of God?
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What do you want more?
That's really the question.
So I just, I want to encourageyou memorize.
Do you have an intentional planfor memorizing verses,
paragraphs, chapters, books ofthe Bible?
That this would be common amongfollowers of Jesus?
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Of course it is.
This is the Word of God.
It's what we want to rememberintentionally and continue.
We want to persevere in this.
If we're not intentional in thisway, we're used to.
That's part of the whole point.
We're used to taking ininformation and then forgetting
it.
We must be intentional withGod's Word, to not just hear it.
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I mean, any one of us couldeven just go to a sermon.
Hear a sermon on a Sunday, goto a Bible study, read our Bible
in the morning and by the timewe get to bed that night, we've
forgotten most of it.
It's the way our minds workunless we keep looking at God's
Word.
I use this.
We use these two acrostics inour church family all the time.
They're a part of my personaltime with the Lord.
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I'm just going to mention them.
I did mention this at abreakout last year, so I'm just
going to hit them real quick.
But for I don't assumeeverybody was a part of that
breakout last year, so I'm justgoing to put them on the screen
here and if they serve you well,then it will have been worth it
.
So maps is the first one.
This is what to do when you sitdown with God's Word.
M stands for meditate andmemorize.
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That's the word we see in theBible.
Not just read the Bible, butmeditate on this Word, really
soak it in, look at it,everything we're talking about
and memorize it.
What can you memorize from whatyou've just read today?
And then A apply.
So meditate, memorize.
You're asking all kinds ofquestions what is this here?
What does this mean?
What is God saying in this text?
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And then, okay, now and we'regoing to talk about this more in
a minute how do I act on this?
So how does what I just readaffect my thought, my thoughts,
my desires, my actions, my words, my relationships, my
interactions?
How does this word apply to mylife, and then to pray through
it.
To pray through God's word, andthis is where the next acrostic
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comes in P-R-A-Y.
So just to pause there in maps,pray.
So how does this, what you justread, lead you to praise God?
So just, yeah, get on yourknees, get on your face and just
praise God for his word, forhis truth, for what you've just
read.
To repent how has the HolySpirit convicted you of sin and
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what you've just read?
And so to spend time inrepentance.
Is there anything in what I'vejust read that is exposing sin
in my heart that I need toconfess before God and turn from
?
And then to ask, to ask God forhelp to put God's Word into
practice.
So to ask God for strength, forwisdom, for peace, for whatever
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you've read in that passage, topray according to it.
Ask for it in your own life,ask for it in others' lives.
And then why To yield?
To say, god, help me to walk inyour Word.
I want to do your Word, whichwe're about to talk about more
in a second.
So that's praise, repent, askand yield.
Come back to meditate, memorize, apply, pray through the Word.
And then the S is to share, tointentionally think through how
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you can encourage someone elsewith what you've heard from
God's Word during the day,because, guaranteed, this will
lodge more in your mind and yourheart when you speak it to
others.
When you keep it to yourself,then one, you're missing out on
the blessing of encouragingGod's Word with others, but
you're also missing out on theblessing of that Word soaking
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into you.
Sometimes people will say well,I mean, I can't encourage
somebody else for the Word, Idon't feel like I know the Word
well enough.
Well, the person who'sencouraging someone else is the
person who spent the timeknowing the Word, like who knows
this passage and this talkbetter than anybody in this room
.
Well, right now I do, becauseI've spent the time diving into
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this text and this talk.
So if you're going to encourageothers with the word, it
actually forces you to thinkthrough how can I encourage them
with the word.
So, to think intentionally inthe beginning of your day who
can I encourage with this wordtoday?
Who can I send a text to?
Who can I steward this devicefor?
To spread this word?
To encourage another brother orsister in Christ, or to
encourage somebody who maybedoesn't know Christ?
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So, meditate, memorize, apply,pray, share Just ways to
remember God's Wordintentionally and continually.
All right, receive God's Wordhumbly, wholeheartedly, remember
God's Word intentionally andcontinually and then obey God's
word immediately and gladly.
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So we're used to receiving,receiving, receiving information
and not doing anything with it,just kind of moving on.
I mean it is the breakout title.
I was given the danger of ourinformation age and I just
thought, yeah, how dangerous itis Even just to look at news
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headlines on your phone and seenews of war or just evil tragedy
and then just flip to somethingelse on our phone.
We aren't even affected by it.
So James says you are deceivingyourself if all you do is hear
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the Word.
Just let that soak in for aminute.
It's possible to read yourBible every day and to go to
church and hear a good biblicalteaching every Sunday and be
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completely deceived.
It's possible, it's dangerouslypossible, to come in here,
listen to the Word of God, maybeeven think, man, I needed that,
and then walk away totallyunchanged.
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It's possible to do that everysingle day with this book, every
single gathering like this withthis book, which is why James 1
, 22 says what it does.
Maybe the entire theme book ofthe verse of James Be doers of
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this word, not hearers only.
Then he gets to verse 25, andhe says the one who looks at
God's Word intently, rememberinto the perfect law the law.
A doer who acts, he will bewhat.
Blessed in his doing, he'll behappy as he does it.
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Jesus says the exact same thing.
Listen to his language Matthew7, 21.
Not everyone who says to me,lord, lord, will enter the
kingdom of heaven, but the onewho does the will of my Father,
who is in heaven.
On that day, many will say tome, lord, lord, do we not
prophesy in your name?
Cast out demons in your name?
Do many mighty works in yourname?
I will declare to them I neverknew you.
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Depart from me, you, workers oflawlessness.
You're catching what he'ssaying here.
Many people, many, not some,not a couple, like many, will
stand before Jesus and hear himsay one day I never even knew
you, away from me, people whocalled Jesus Lord but did not
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obey the will of God.
And this is not Jesus or Jamessaying we need to work to earn
our salvation, but this is Jesusand James saying those who
truly know Jesus obey Jesus.
And then listen to what Jesussays right after this Everyone
who hears these words of mineand does them will be like a
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wise man who built his house ona rock and the rain fell and the
floods came and the winds blewand beat on that house, but it
did not fall because it had beenfounded on the rock.
And everyone who hears thesewords of mine and does not do
them will be like a foolish manwho built his house on the sand
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and the rain fell and the floodscame and the winds blew and
beat against that house and itfell and great was the fall of
it.
What's the difference betweenthose who withstand the storms
of life and those who cave whenthe storms of life come?
The difference is whether youhear and do the Word of God.
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So how are you doing?
Because I actually believethere's a sense in which Satan
would delight in you hearingthis talk, all kinds of teaching
at a conference like this, andreading the Bible and going to
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church, maybe even deciding,okay, yes, okay, this book, I
hear it's important, and justreceiving all of this and then
not doing anything with it.
Because what happens is yourheart gets used to hearing and
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not doing and he knows you'reset up to fail to fall in a
great way you don't want.
Well, just pause, before I sayit, make the connection.
We live in a culture that istraining us to hear and just
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move on.
And God is saying right now inHis Word don't do that with my
Word.
I hear it.
Soak it in humbly,wholeheartedly.
Remember it intentionally,continually, and then do it
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immediately and gladly, gladly.
Why?
Because remember, this is thelaw of liberty, it's the word
that brings you to life, thatbrings pulsating life to every
part of your body.
You'll be blessed and you'redoing.
It's the same word that's usedin psalm, chapter one.
Blessed is the man, the woman,who walks not in the council of
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wicked, nor stands in the way ofsinners, nor sits in the seat
of scoffers, but his delight isin the law of the Lord and on
his law he meditates day andnight.
Listen to verse 3.
Do you want this to be true ofyour life?
Like a tree planted by streamsof water that yields fruit in
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season and its leaf does notwither, and all that that he or
she does, he or she prospers.
Do you want that to be yourlife?
Do you want blessing, happiness?
My assumption is every one.
So meditate day and night, soakit in, receive it humbly,
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wholeheartedly, remember itintentionally, purposefully, all
day long.
Figure out a way, whateverworks for you to remember it,
memorize it and then obey it.
Do it immediately and gladly,and you will find your spiritual
, emotional, your relational,your mental, your physical state
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affected by this word.
Not saying life will now be easy, but that's kind of the point.
The storms of life will stillbe coming, but you will be able
to stand, and not just stand butto live blessed.
So here's what I want to do.
I know we're going to have someQ&A in just a second, but the
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last thing I want to do is justkind of okay, let's move on to
the next thing.
I missed the whole point, so Iwant to give you, before we do
Q&A, I'm just going to give youlike two or three minutes and I
want you to identify two, one,two, threeical steps God's
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calling you to take to reorientyour life around receiving,
remembering and obeying His Word.
We hope you've enjoyed thisweek's episode of Radical with
David Platt.
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