13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of HIS good pleasure.
14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
16 Holding forth the word of life;
James 1:22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
Many church people do deceive themselves. They think they are doing well when they are actually causing disruption in the church and troubling people needlessly.
We must be led by God in that which we say and in that which we do otherwise we can hurt other people rather than help them.
Many church goers are "dull of hearing."
Hebrews 5
12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
13 For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
If a person cannot hear from the Spirit of God that person can be deadly to the church, trying to follow God by the letter of the law rather than the Spirit of the law.
First, we must have the Holy Spirit to witness to the word of God. And we learn to hear what the Spirit tells us and that is what we speak and do.
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