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Welcome to Day 2122 of\xa0 Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me. This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom James \u2013 Wisdom is Faith in Action 4 \u2013 Listening and Doing \u2013 Daily Wisdom Putnam Church Message \u2013 09/26/2021 James: Wisdom is Faith In Action \u2013 Listening and Doing We are continuing our series today on the Proverbs of the New Testament, better known as the book of James. \xa0Last week we discovered why we should not be misled by sin because we are God\u2019s Prized Possessions. Today our focus is on Listening and Doing. \xa0Join me on page 1882 in the pew bibles as I read the Scripture for today. I would recommend keeping this passage open as we go throughout the message today: James 1:19-27 My dear brothers and sisters,\xa0take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry,\xa020\xa0because human anger\xa0does not produce the righteousness that God desires.\xa021\xa0Therefore, get rid of\xa0all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you,\xa0which can save you. 22\xa0Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.\xa023\xa0Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror\xa024\xa0and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.\xa025\xa0But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom,\xa0and continues in it\u2014not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it\u2014they will be blessed in what they do. 26\xa0Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on their tongues\xa0deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless.\xa027\xa0Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after\xa0orphans and widows\xa0in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. A debilitating disease is crippling the body of Christ\u2014a syndrome so common that it seems to affect every believer with either a mild or an acute case. This insidious condition neutralizes the church\u2019s impact and nullifies its testimony. It can diminish effectiveness and paralyze production. The problem? A divorce between confession and deed, theology and action, listening and doing. As a result, God\u2019s Word fails to make it from the head to the heart for too many Christians. God\u2019s Word gets lodged between the heart and the hands for many more. In developing his overarching lesson that real faith produces genuine works, James has already dealt with the Christian\u2019s perseverance through trials, which proves our faith (1:1-12), and the believer\u2019s victory over temptation, demonstrating our character (1:13-18). As our theme for this series states, Wisdom is Faith in Action. \xa0In this final section of chapter 1, James zooms in on the believer\u2019s appropriate response to God\u2019s Word. The break in the relationship between belief and behavior may be pandemic among Christians, but James reminds us that the two estranged partners of the Christian walk can be reconciled. \xa0 -1:19-20 \u2014 James begins with a reminder: \u201cMy dear brothers and sisters,\xa0take note of this\u201d Unquestionably, he\u2019s writing to believers, brothers, and sisters in Christ. And he begins by acknowledging that they should already know what he\u2019s about to say. \xa0In the NLT, James