James 1:19-26

Listening and Doing

19  Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters: You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry.  20  Human anger [a]  does not produce the righteousness [b]  God desires.  21  So get rid of all the filth and evil in your lives, and humbly accept the word God has planted in your hearts, for it has the power to save your souls. 22  But don’t just listen to God’s word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves.  23  For if you listen to the word and don’t obey, it is like glancing at your face in a mirror.  24  You see yourself, walk away, and forget what you look like.  25  But if you look carefully into the perfect law that sets you free, and if you do what it says and don’t forget what you heard, then God will bless you for doing it. 26  If you claim to be religious but don’t control your tongue, you are fooling yourself, and your religion is worthless.

How to Deal With Anger | Darrin Patrick Sermon

  •  When you are in a trial, the first thing you need is a word from God.

  • How would you like to be the half-brother to Jesus/God?

  • Trials come; when that happens to you, James says that you will experience anger.

  • Pay attention to what is going on inside you. Why are you so angry?

  • Trials come; be slow about your anger. Be quick to hear, but slow to anger.

  • Primary emotions: joy, anger, fear, sadness, disgust and surprise.

  • Unprocessed emotions are the soil that sins grows in.

  • Paul Tripp: you talk to yourself all the time, no one is more influential in your life than you are, you are constantly involved in an internal conversation with yourself. What do you say to yourself? What do you say about God? What do you say about your circumstances? Do your words that you speak to yourself encourage faith, hope, courage or doubt, discouragement, fear? Do you remind yourself that God is near? That God is a friend? Do you encourage yourself to run TO God, or run away FROM God? What we tell ourselves matters; it forms our character and predicts our future. Are you going to accept what’s in you? Are you going to reject what is in you? (The word of God – Let the word of God work in you.) Listen, speak, and then apply it to ourselves.

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Discussion Questions:

  • You talk to yourself all the time, no one is more influential in your life than you are, you are constantly involved in an internal conversation with yourself. Agree/Disagree?

  • What do you say to yourself? - What do you say about God/what do you say about your circumstances?

  • Do your words that you speak to yourself encourage faith, hope, courage or doubt, discouragement, fear?

  • Do you remind yourself that God is near? That God is a friend? Do you encourage yourself to run to God, or run from God?

  • What we tell ourselves matters; it forms our character and predicts our future. Agree/Disagree?

  • Is hearing God’s word enough? (or do I need to go beyond to just hearing the word?)

  • What can we do to go beyond just hearing the word?

  • Do you serve at FV?/Have you thought about where you can serve at FV?

  • If you suffer from anxiety, meditate on the fact that God knows you and is in control; there is purpose for everything – knowing this, we can have victory over anxiety. Agree/Disagree?

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Set a goal this month to get into the word and read:

When reading these passages, what jumps out at you?

  • If you don’t have one already, find at least one person who can mentor you, and also find at least one person to mentor.

  • If you have not been tithing, think about what has been holding you back and consider taking the step of faith and tithe.

Further Study:

Watch Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DCaReCZMMY&t=8s (Angry Like Jesus: Life Church)

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