Teaching the Teachers - Mirror
"But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror — for once he looks at himself and goes away, he immediately forgets what sort of person he was." James 1:22-24 [This is the 2nd lesson of this series ] Michael Jackson has a popular song called Man in the Mirror and it goes like this: I'm starting with the man in the mirror I'm asking him to change his ways And no message could have been any clearer If you want to make the world a better place Take a look at yourself, and then make a change It is an appropriate seque from this excerpt from the Book of James as he was writing to the pioneering Jewish believers in the 1st century. Scriptures The Jews know about Scriptures, they have been studying their own for thousands of years before Christ. But their issue has always been that they were mostly reading their sacred books to ...