The path to practical Christianity is guided by the light of God’s Word. If you want to live as God desires for you to live, you don’t need to seek out a special revelation, hear a voice from heaven, or have a tv preacher tell you what God’s will is. Instead, you simply need to live in obedience to the truth of God’s Word. You will never live as a believer should live without God’s Word guiding your steps, controlling your tongue, filling your mind, and transforming your life by the power of the Holy Spirit.

We know that the life-transforming process of sanctification is God’s work in us. We, however, have an important responsibility in this. We must be doers of the Word and not hearers only.

In today’s episode, we come to one of the most familiar passages in the book of James. It is such because it is absolutely foundational in what James is teaching throughout this book. He didn’t want these believers to simply claim the right things, he wanted them to live in the right way. There is, however, a great danger in us believing that because we know what is right that we are right. It is not in merely hearing the Word that we glorify God, but in doing the Word.