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Chuck Smith :: Sermon Notes for James 1:22-27

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21 Brs. of 0.T. 15 references to Sermon on the Mount.
I. ONE OF THE PURPOSES OF THE BIBLE IS TO ACT AS A GLASS.
A. "Natural face." The face you were born with.
1. You can't help your face - or can you?
B. The mirrors were not made of glass.
1. Highly polished metal - usually brass.
2. Teachers recommended mirrors as aid to moral culture.
a. Socrates - carry mirror - if you are handsome, your deeds should become your looks; if plain actions.
3. Two ways to discover what we look like.
a. Photograph (not always true).
1. Photograph is like judging by what people say of us.
b. Mirror.
1. Mirror is what the Word of God shows us.
a. Jer. 17:9 "The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked."
b. 1 Cor. 13 "Love suffereth long and is kind."
Bible intended not to just show us up but to clean us up. Brazen laver-cleanse priest before further duties. Of what it made? Ex. 38:8, looking glass of the women. The mirror that revealed the need of cleansing leading to the laver that provided the cleansing.
Psalm 119:9 Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his ways, by taking heed thereto according to thy word.
II. "HE BEHOLDETH HIMSELF" (A casual glance).
A. He looks and it makes no impression.
1. Ever looked at your watch? Someone ask what time it is.
B. The word should speak to us.
III. "BUT WHOSO LOOKETH INTO THE PERFECT LAW OF LIBERTY."
A. "This man blessed in his deed."
B. What we are is more important than what we do. What we do declares what we are.
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