Not Hearers Only

Here's an excerpt from Not Hearers Only, Harry Reeder's contribution to the October issue of Tabletalk:

"But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For 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. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing" (James 1:22–24).

Obviously, a pastor's heart desire for the flock is that none are "deceived" but all are "gospel-blessed" by not only receiving freely the saving grace of Christ but experiencing increasingly the transforming grace of Christ, out of love to Christ, from a desire to exalt Christ through the life-changing preaching of God's Word.

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