“Looking in the Mirror of God’s Word” sermon teaches us to look into the Bible as a spiritual mirror and follow God’s instruction to be a doer of His work.
Key verses:
James1:22-25
Take your Bible now, if you will, and turn with me to James chapter one again. Lord willing, next Wednesday night, we should finish chapter one. It’s been quite a while in this chapter, and there was quite a bit of material to cover. Tonight, we’re looking at verses 22 to 25. James 1:22-25, where it says:
James 1:22: “But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.”
James 1:23: “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:”
James 1:24: “For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.”
James 1:25: “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.”
Not long ago, we brought a message on Sunday about this same passage. This is not a repeat of that same message. “But how can you come to the same verses and have a different message?” You can do that all the time.
I wish I could remember the man’s name. I’ve forgotten. But back when D.L. Moody was in Chicago, he invited an English preacher to come over from England. He preached for at least a week, and it might have been more than a week. I don’t remember the whole story, but every night he preached on John 3:16. He gave a different sermon every time. So, you can do that. You can do that because there’s that much in the Bible. Tonight, we want to talk to you about looking into the mirror of God’s Word.
Viewing Ourselves
Every one of us has a self-image, the way we see ourselves. Maybe the way you see yourself in your own mind and how you think that you look to other people. So, how we view ourselves.
You hear your own voice when you speak or sing. One of our members told me recently, it must have been on Wednesday night, they came in and in the entryway there, they couldn’t hear you all singing. But they could hear my voice over the speaker. I said I’m sorry. But you hear your own voice when you speak or sing. Sometimes, when you hear a recording of your own voice, you think to yourself, “Is that what I really sound like?” Because in here, you don’t sound the way you actually sound.
Or maybe you see yourself in your own mind, and you see yourself in a mirror, and sometimes, even when you look at yourself in the mirror, you don’t get an accurate view. You say, “How is that possible?” Well, it’s possible because we’re a little bit prejudiced when we look. Sometimes, when you see a picture of yourself or a video of yourself, you think, “Wow, is that me? Is that what I really look like? I didn’t realize that I was … oh, okay.”
So, it can be discouraging sometimes to hear yourself or see yourself as other people see and hear you, but it can also be helpful. It can be helpful to hear ourselves as other people hear us because we may understand better how we sound or how we appear and how we look, and that may help us to understand some things we need to improve about how we sound or how we look.
So, these four verses that we just read, James 1:22 to 25, talk to us about looking into the mirror of God’s Word. I told you, not long ago, when I first became a Christian, when I was first saved, I don’t know if somebody told me to do this. They may have, I don’t recall. It’s been approximately 55 years ago. But I began to read the Book of Romans. I had never read the Book of Romans before. Maybe I read it because the pastor used Romans to lead me to the Lord. I’m not sure what prompted me to read that, but I read the book of Romans, and for me, reading the book of Romans was like looking into a spiritual mirror. I could see myself in the words of the book of Romans that Paul wrote under inspiration. We’re going to share a little bit of that with you before we finish tonight.
Be a Doer, Not Just a Hearer
But look at verse 22, he says:
James 1:22: “But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.”
Now, I want to show you a little bit of a contrast in verse 22. James says, “But be ye doers of the word.” If you look down at verse 25:
James 1:25: “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.”
So, in verse 22, he says to be a hearer and a doer of the Word, but in verse 25, he says, be a hearer of the Word and a doer of the work – and that’s not a mistake. That’s not some copyist error. That’s exactly what God wanted us to know, hear, and be told. So, we’re going to get to it, but when he says be doers and not hears only, verse 22, that is an exhortation.
I was talking to somebody recently, and they said I think I might have the call or the gift of evangelism. I said, “Well, you might.” We talked a little bit about that, how you would know if you had the gift of evangelism, and what an evangelist is exactly. An evangelist we shared this Sunday, I believe, is one who shares the Evangel or the Gospel with the goal of winning people to the Lord. So, this person told me about how they had been speaking to people, and I said, “You know you may have the gift of evangelism.” I’m certainly not saying they don’t, but I said, “You are an exhorter.” What is an exhorter? Well, to exhort somebody, basically, is to encourage them to do what’s right, to encourage them to do what’s right. So, verse 22 is an exhort, an exhortation to be obedient to the instruction of God’s Word, not only in our mind but in our actions. Be not only a hearer of the Word but a doer of the Word.
James 1:22: “But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.”
Sometimes, we do. We deceive our own selves. I told you the strange story quite a while ago of two men that I knew. One was in Tennessee and the other was here in Florida, not in Palm Beach County, but in Florida. I don’t know what caused these men to be the way they were, but here’s what they did. They stayed home and studied the Bible. Now, normally I would say that’s a good thing. The problem with these men, they didn’t know each other, two totally different situations. The problem with it was that’s all they ever did. They didn’t go to church. They didn’t go anywhere. They didn’t go and tell anybody about the Lord. “Well, were they blogging?” There was no Internet in those days. They weren’t getting the word out. They just stayed home and studied and studied and studied and studied.
Now, it gets worse. Both those men were married and had children. They had families. They didn’t go to work. They didn’t earn money to support their families. They just stayed home and studied the Bible. Now, I’m all for a man studying the Bible, and I’m all for it. Now, if I went by their house, which I did on occasion, they would want to discuss it with me and tell me all the things that they’re learning and so forth. That’s not what it’s about. Yes, it’s wonderful that you study the Word. It’s wonderful that you’re getting a good knowledge of the Word, but you’ve got to put it to work. You can’t just study, study, study, study, and never get that Word out. That’s what James is warning about here. Be doers of the Word, not hearers only. You hear, you know what the Word says. Do it. Be obedient to the Word; otherwise, you will be deceiving yourself.
Many people profess to know the Lord and to obey His will as it’s revealed in His Word. But their lives don’t show it. “Oh, I love the Lord.” Wonderful. What are you doing for Him? They get quiet when you say that. “Well, you know, I really enjoy the Word.” Well, wonderful, that’s great. You should show you’re living it out. Their lives do not back up their profession. Don’t be a hearer only. “Yeah, I know what the Bible says, but you know, you can’t really live like that, just isn’t practical in today’s world.”
I actually overheard, I wasn’t in the conversation, and you know, when you’re not part of the conversation, it’s usually not polite to butt in. Now, I have done that on occasion, but I try not to. I heard one lady talking to another lady, and they weren’t talking to me. They were talking about a third lady. You know, the strangest thing. These two ladies were talking about the third lady, and the third lady wasn’t there. I know, you’ve never known of a situation like that before. Nobody else does that, but it happened. As hard as it is to believe, it happened on this occasion. One lady says to the other lady, and about the third lady who wasn’t there, “She’s always God’s will this, and the Lord’s way that. You can’t live like that.”
I wanted to say, I didn’t, I wanted to say, “Well, you’d better.” But I didn’t. I didn’t say it. I thought it. I didn’t say it. “Well, why didn’t you say it?” They weren’t talking to me. It was a private conversation sort of, not so private that I didn’t hear it. The warning here is that when we deny the clear instruction of God’s Word, we may, in fact, be, as James says in verse 26, deceiving our own selves. “Yeah, I know the Lord. I know His will. I know what He’d have me to do.” Or are you doing it? Are you doing it?
Making an Impression on Others
Then look at verses 23 and 24:
James 1:23: “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:”
“Say, does that mean glass in this case?” It means a mirror. Now, you could see your reflection in a glass, but that’s not a mirror. You can certainly do that. I know you’ve all had that experience. You see your reflection in glass. That’s not a mirror. Did they have mirrors back in the New Testament days? They certainly did. And long before that, a lot of them in the older times, say for example, the Old Testament times, were not glass. They were metal. They would make very shiny metal and use that for a mirror. But yes, they had glass mirrors back in the New Testament times. But said, 23:
James 1:23: “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:”
He forgets what he saw in the mirror. Those who have at least some knowledge of what the Bible says and yet live a life that is unaffected by that knowledge are like this man who sees himself in the mirror. He sees his reflection, but he does not allow what he sees to affect his behavior. Looks in the mirror, okay, that’s me, goes on his way. Maybe he needs to comb his hair. Maybe he needs to shave. Maybe he needs to do something else. But he’s ignoring all that, and he just goes on his way, forgetting what he looked like and how other people are going to see him.
I know people say, “Well, I don’t. I don’t live to impress other people.” Well, whether you do or not, whether you do it purposely or not, I should say, you still do it. You impress other people. Other people see you, and they do watch you whether you like it or not. They form opinions about you and about your faith in Christ if you’ve expressed that at all.
Let me give you an example. We’ve talked about this many times I suppose. Back in the 70s and 80s there was a lot of popular teaching about lifestyle, evangelism lifestyle. Evangelism, I don’t hear that term used much these days. The lifestyle evangelism was a teaching that said you don’t have to always speak up and say a word about the Lord. You don’t have to approach people and really talk to them about the Lord or their faith in Him or their need of Him. You just live a good, godly Christian life. You let the way you live, a good godly Christian life, that’ll affect other people and they they’ll want to come to the Lord.
Now, I’m going to tell you that by itself it won’t work, it won’t. And I’m telling you why in just a minute. The other alternative to that is they used to say, and this is another term I don’t hear much anymore, but back in the 70s and 80s they used to talk about confrontational evangelism. What is confrontational evangelism? It’s where you go and face somebody and you talk to them about their soul, and you talk to them about the Lord. If people say no, you’ve got to live lifestyle evangelism. Confrontational evangelism will turn people off. They don’t like to be confronted about spiritual things.
Well, in that same time period, there used to be a commercial on television and it had nothing to do with evangelism at all. It had to do with a mint called Certs. Anybody remember that Certs breath mint? And the commercial would come on and there’d be two people on there. One of them would say Certs is a breath mint and the other one says Certs is a candy mint. They’d have an argument, Certs is a breath mint, Certs is a candy mint, and a third person says, “Stop, you’re both right. Certs is a breath mint, but it’s also a candy mint. What does that have to do with evangelism? Well, what it has to do with it is lifestyle evangelism without a word spoken.
Here’s what’s going to happen. Let’s suppose you’re on the job or you’re in your neighborhood or you’re somewhere else and you are living a good clean life, and you’re honest and you’re forthright in your dealings. And you’re a good citizen and you’re kind and you’re well-spoken. You know what that’s going to produce? It’s going to produce people who look at you and watch you, and they’ll think what a good person you are. How are they going to know that it’s Jesus who makes you that person if you never say a word? How are they going to know that? They won’t. They’ll just think what a good person you are, and they’ll go to their grave and beyond thinking, “Boy, I knew a really good person there.”
On the other hand, if you are talking to people about the Lord, and I’ve seen this happen, you talk about the Lord and you say, “Well, you know brother, you need to believe and you need to give up your nasty habits and you need to turn to the Lord.” And all that, but your life is a mess. People are going to look at you and say that person’s religious. They’re a hypocrite. “So, what are you saying?” I’m saying it’s like the Certs mint. You need both of them. You need to have the verbal message, but you also need to have a life that backs up that message. One or the other by itself most of the time is not going to be enough.
Too Shy to Share
By the way, you can spread the Gospel message in many different ways. “Well, preacher, I’m shy. I have a hard time talking to you.” You know who else is shy? Me. I’m shy, too. “Oh, you’re not. You talk to people all the time.” I do and I always have to ask God to help me. I’m shy.
You’ve heard me, many times, mention Dr. Lee Roberson. One time, I heard him say that he would go out on visitation. Somebody probably had visited the church and they had a visitation card. He’d go out to see them and he said, “I’ll drive around the block sometimes three, four, five, times before I work up the courage to go knock on their door.” When I heard him say that you know what I said? “You do that too? Because I do that.” I just didn’t think he would do that. That’s what he said. Do you understand what I’m saying?
We’re not all natural people magnets and we’re not all charismatic in our personality and we don’t all just walk up and automatically have that winning smile and winning approach. Now, it doesn’t hurt to work on those things. I’m not saying that you shouldn’t work on those things, but I’m saying we’re not all naturally that way without putting some effort in. We can all ask God to help us. We can all ask God to give us opportunity and sometimes it’s giving out a track that counts.
I’ve told this story here before, but it’s been a while. Let me tell it again. I was in a bookstore in downtown Chattanooga. I believe it was called the Southern Baptist Bookstore. I believe that was the name of it. I went in there and went shopping around. I saw a little black pin with white writing on it, and it said, “Jesus loves you.” It was about that long, about that high. It said, “Jesus Loves You.” I like that. So, I bought it. I bought it and I pinned it on my shirt.
Later that day, I got on a bus, a regular city bus. I was probably going home. I don’t remember where I was going, somewhere on the bus. There was a person sitting next to me, and I thought, “You know, I ought to talk to this person about the Lord.” So, I tried to do that, and I found out they were deaf, and I couldn’t talk to them. I don’t know if you know what it feels like when you want to talk to somebody, but you can’t because you don’t speak their language. By the way, sign language is a language, and I thought about it. I thought, what am I going to do? I want to talk to this person about the Lord, but I can’t. They can’t hear me. They don’t know what I’m saying.
I don’t say this is the best thing I could have done, but I felt like it was all I could do. I took that little pin off that said “Jesus Loves Me” off my shirt and pinned it on them. It was a fellow, by the way, and I pinned it on their shirt. Did that bring them to the Lord? I don’t know. I was praying about it. I was trying.
“What are you saying?” I’m saying I’m trying to reach that person the best I could in the situation, but when James is talking about not being a hearer only but a doer, and don’t be deceiving your own self-thinking what a great Christian I am because I’m filled with the knowledge of the Word, which we need to be, but are you putting it to use.
A Life Unaffected or Affected?
Verse 23, again:
James 1:23: “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:”
So, he has some knowledge of what the Bible says, but lives a life that’s unaffected by it. He sees his reflection. He does not allow that to affect his behavior. He may feel when he glances at himself in the mirror that he looks perfectly acceptable while he ignores flaws that other people observe, not really taking a look to see if there’s anything that needs direction because he looked in the mirror not paying attention to what he sees. Some people look into the Word, or they hear the Word and don’t really give it much thought. It’s easy to do that.
You go to church. “Well, I’m going to go to church. I’m going sit there until the service is over and go on my way.” If somebody asked you later, what was the message about? “I don’t know, I don’t remember.” Now, I forget things, folks. I’m very forgetful. I always have been. It’s nothing new, but I can tell you, I heard so many sermons in my life, I couldn’t possibly begin to tell you all of them, but I can tell you some sermons I heard decades ago. I can still tell you who the preacher was and what they preached about.
I mentioned Sunday, R.G. Lee. I heard him preach back in the 1970s. I can tell you what he preached about. I heard the famous J. Vernon McGee. I heard him in person. I can tell you exactly what Veron McGee preached about. One time, he preached about the prodigal son. Another message he preached on was foot washing. Say, when was that? That would have been about 1971. “You still remember that?” I do, I do. I could go on with that.
So, would I remember everything I ever heard? No, but I remember some things, and I tell you, if you’re paying attention, one of the things that will help you pay attention, at least helps me, is to take notes. Write things down, I have. I have a notebook. I have a lot of notebooks, but I have one particular notebook. It’s about that thick. Do you know what that notebook is? Notes I’ve taken over the years, things I wrote down that I heard from somebody else, yeah, I have a notebook about that thick of things that I heard other people say. “What do you do with it?” Well, once in a while, not all the time, once in a while, I’ll go back and look things up in it so that I can remember. I can’t remember all of it. That’s why I wrote it down.
James 1:24: “For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.”
He sees himself and launches out for the day’s activities. He forgets what he looked like. I already touched on this a little bit. Was his hair combed? Did he need a shave? How did he look? Did he have a spot on his collar? Did he need to change and put on a different shirt? Was he clean and well-kept, or was he looking as though he just got out of bed and didn’t do anything to improve his appearance? “I don’t ever do that. I don’t ever go out of the house without checking myself.” That’s good.
I remember when I was in college one day, I was in the room and I was getting ready to leave the room, and one of my roommates said to me, “Might want to check the mirror before you go out.” I was glad he told me that. There was something I needed to take care of. Okay, this is the kind of thing James is talking about.
The Law of Liberty
James 1:25: “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.”
“But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty,” – I want you to think about that because verse 25 is key to understanding this whole passage. Whoso, anyone, who “looketh into the perfect law of liberty,” – did you catch that? The law of liberty. Now, if, and I think it is true, if the theory is true that James was the first book written of the New Testament, and James says to look into the law, what law do you suppose he was talking about? Yeah, the Old Testament, talking about the Pentateuch, talking about the books of Moses. “Whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty.”
We usually think of the law as being restrictive, telling us all those things we can’t do – thou shalt not, thou shalt not, thou shalt not. Of course, it tells us a lot of things we should do, as well as, thou shalt not, thou shalt not, thou shalt not. “But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty” is looking to continue therein, not just looking to see what it says, but continuing there in two statements made here.
We need to consider carefully the first statement. Let’s look again, beginning in verse 25, “But whoso looketh into the” – there’s an adjective describing the noun “law.” What is that adjective? Perfect.
“But whoso looketh into the perfect law,” – Now, we need to remember that the law, and so many people today, so many Christians, don’t like the law because it’s so restrictive and you can’t pay attention to all that stuff. It’ll bog you down and it won’t help you in your Christian life. Well, God put it in the Bible, and He put it there for our edification. We need to remember that the law is an integral part of the Bible, and we cannot tear it out and still have a complete Bible. Neither can we ignore it and have a complete understanding of what the Bible teaches.
So, when James is referring to the law of the Pentateuch in this verse, he is saying the same thing David wrote in Psalm 19:7. Anybody know Psalm 19:7? You do, I promise you do. When I’m going to read it to you, “Oh yeah, I know that verse.” Here it is:
Psalm 19:7: “The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.”
Now, how many of you knew that already? See, you did. You just didn’t recognize this Psalm 19:7. The law of the Lord is what is perfect, and what does it do? It converts the soul. “Oh, wait a minute, preacher, we’re not saved by keeping the law.” That’s right. “Well, then, how does the law convert the soul?” Well, before we answer that, keep in mind the Bible says it does, it says:
Psalm 19:7: “The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.”
That’s the first statement we need to recognize here. The law of the Lord is perfect. The second statement we need to notice in verse 25, “Whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty.” That doesn’t sound right. The law is restrictive. It ties you down. How can it be the law of liberty? Well, again, the Bible says it.
“Well, I want to hear how you explain that one.” Good, I was going to. The second statement is to note that James not only states that the law is perfect but that the law is the law of liberty. The phrase “law of liberty” means exactly what you think it means. It means that the law brings you to freedom. There is a freedom that comes from knowing the law. “I don’t think so. We’re not saved by keeping the law.” By the way, nobody’s saying that we are. As a matter of fact, the Bible teaches very clearly that we are not saved by keeping the law.
The Law Is Our Schoolmaster
Listen to Paul in Galatians 3:17-23. By the way, the whole book of Galatians deals with this subject. In Galatians 3:17-23, there’s the answer to the question, and I’m not going to read that whole passage to you, but listen to verse 24.
Galatians 3:24: “Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.”
“Our schoolmaster” – that’s an old word for teacher. “The law was our schoolmaster.” One day, we were in class at a Christian college, and I was reading this passage. The teacher said, “What do you like about this passage?” And I said, “I like the fact that later on, it says once we come to Christ, we don’t need a schoolmaster anymore.” The teacher didn’t like that.
Galatians 3:24: “Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.”
What it’s saying is the law gives us liberty and that it was given to show us our need for the Savior and bring us to the point of placing our faith in Christ or the Messiah, the Lord Jesus, the Savior. If we didn’t have the law, we wouldn’t recognize our sinful condition. If we didn’t have the law, we wouldn’t know many things about the Lord. That whole giving of the law and all those bloody sacrifices all point us to the cross, and all point us to the Savior. So, it is the perfect law of liberty. So, we need to look into the Bible, the Word of God, as if we were looking into a mirror, a spiritual mirror, and pray.
“Well, what are we going to pray about?” Pray that we will see ourselves as God sees us. Let me give you a couple of examples of that.
1 Corinthians 1:25: “Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26: “For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:”
1 Corinthians 1:27: “But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;”
1 Corinthians 1:28: “And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:”
1 Corinthians 1:29: “That no flesh should glory in his presence.”
Do you know what God’s telling us there? Be humble, don’t be exalting yourself, but go on serving the Lord. “Well, I can’t serve the Lord. I’m too shy.” Yes, you can. “I’m not educated enough.” You can serve the Lord.
1 Corinthians 1:29: “That no flesh should glory in his presence.”
1 Corinthians 1:30: “But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:”
1 Corinthians 1:31: “That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.”
Whatever good that’s in you, whatever good that’s in me, is not me, and it’s not you. It’s Him and that’s how we can be testimonies to others. Let me give you another example. Romans 6:16-18, the same writer, Paul, writing to a different audience, but he says:
Romans 6:16: “Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?”
So, whichever one we choose to obey, sin or righteousness, we become the servant of one or the other. He goes on:
Romans 6:17: “But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.”
Romans 6:18: “Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.”
Can you see yourself in that you’re going to yield yourself to sin, or you’re going to yield yourself to righteousness? And from your heart, you’re going to believe that form of doctrine which saves your soul, and then being made free from sin, you become servants of righteousness.
Doers Will Be Blessed
So, again, we can get a sense of how we look to God when we look into the mirror of His Word. And once more, James is an exhorter. He’s exhorting us in this passage. He’s exhorting us to look into the perfect law of liberty and to continue therein.
“Whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein,” – don’t just take a look and go on your way like the fellow looks in the mirror and leaves, but continue in it, “being not a forgetful hearer,” – not remembering what you heard, “but a doer of the work.
Remember back in verse 22, “be doers of the word”? Here, he says to be doers of the work. “Well, what’s the difference? Well, there is a difference, but they’re very similar to each other because if you’re doing the Word, if you’re obeying the Word, you’re going to be doing the work. “What is the work?” Well, we hear the Word, and we see ourselves in it. We do the work that God has us to do. “What is that?” Well, we mentioned it a while ago, getting out the Evangel, the Gospel, being a testimony to others, being a witness to people around us, notice the last phrase of verse 25 and we’re finished. Well, let’s read the whole verse and you you’ll get the last phrase:
James 1:25: “But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein [day after day], he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work [the work of God], this man shall be blessed in his deed.”
The man who looks into the mirror of the perfect law of liberty, which is God’s Word, and which will show him his strengths and his weaknesses, and what he is doing well and what he needs to change or improve, that man will be blessed in his deed. The man who looks into the perfect law of liberty and does not forget what he sees in that mirror of God’s Word will follow the Lord’s instruction. He will see his duty before the Lord; that is to say, he is a doer of the work of the Lord, and that man will be blessed in his deed. What we need to do is look into the Word as a spiritual mirror, see ourselves, and then act accordingly.
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Father, thank you for the time we’ve had together this evening. God bless us as we go to a season of prayer. We ask this in Jesus’ name. Amen.
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