Receive the Word.

Not many notes again, but i gave you the info for the podcast before my notes so go listen to it, my notes always suck anyways.


Receive the Word
James 1:18-27
Breakaway Ministries Video Podcast


- Before you go out and do work that is in this book (bible) you need to let it  work on you.
- You need to grab a new identity by the Word, understand a new relationship to the Word, then pursue an activity with the Word.
- When you decide to follow Christ, opening up and reading the bible shouldn’t be interesting, it should be like food and water for you, something that feeds and nourishes, something that keeps you alive. Let it affect you.
- When a believer is not near the Word of God they cry out like a baby cries for milk. Put it in you, its your food and drink.
- Don’t be someone who read the Word and walks away from it. In the scripture it says don’t be like a man who looks at himself in the mirror then walks away and forgets what he looks like. Come to the bible like a woman comes to the mirror. When a woman comes to the mirror she expects to change something. Let the bible change something.
-James gives you no technique.
- James says that for those of you who read the Bible and get nothing out of it, you have an angry and proud spirit.  Receive the word with meekness. Be slow to anger, be slow to speak, but be quick to hear.
- Anger can be a good thing. Anger is an energy that is release when you need to defend or preserve something. But there is a bad anger. You know you have a cancerous anger when your quick to get angry and when your anger leads to evil. This anger comes out when you are defending your own pride.
-At the end of the day, our opinions don’t matter and mean nothing, the Bible holds all the answers. Our opinions trumping the Word is pure arrogance.