Be Doers of the Word This Year

For the majority of Christians, it isn’t a matter of knowing what to do but doing it.

Our own will gets in the way.

For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.Romans 7:18-19

Our own feelings get in the way.

He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.Proverbs 28:26

What I know should change who I am.

I am no longer a rebel against God.

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.Romans 8:7-9

I am no longer a slave to sin.

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. Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.Romans 6:17-18

I am a new creation.

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.2 Corinthians 5:17

I am a child of God.

But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.Galatians 4:4-6

What I know must change the way I live.

I am a purchased possession living under God’s authority.

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.1 Corinthians 6:19-20

Jesus Christ is Lord.

And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?Luke 6:46

My Father would never ask anything from me that He cannot accomplish in me.

Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:Philippians 1:6

My Father would never ask anything from me that is not for my benefit.

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.Romans 8:28-29

There is a small measure of grace for ignorance.

And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry; Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.1 Timothy 1:12-14

If I know what to do, but don’t do it, I am in sin.

Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.James 4:17

I want to know the Word.

I want to obey the Word.

I want to teach others the Word.

I want to share the Word.

I want my life to reflect the Word.

You will never know and understand the entirety of the Bible. Focus on obeying what you do know.

When I say I believe the Bible, yet live in sin, I am a hypocrite.

When I say I believe the Bible, yet live in sin, I hurt the name of Jesus.