The Human Spirit by Kenneth E. Hagin

Author:Kenneth E. Hagin
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: miracles, Spiritual, Bible, Christ, Jesus, growth, signs, The Human Spirit, wonders
Published: 2011-09-30T10:53:07+00:00

In the last chapter we saw the importance of meditating in God's Word. Once we have God's Word firmly abiding in our hearts and minds, it is equally important that we put it to use.

James wrote, "But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only. ..." (James 1:22).

Earlier we referred to the passage in James which says, "...receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only...

For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was " (James 1:21-24).

James said that once we receive the Word, we should act on it; we should put it into practice. We can meditate on God's Word and come to know what it says, but until we put it into practice, it will do us no good.

When God told Joshua to meditate in the Word "day and night," He went on to say "that thou mayest observe to DO. ..." In other words, after reading and meditating on the Word, do it!

A doer of the Word is one who practices the Word. We have too many hearers and not enough practicers. People hear the Word and nod their heads in agreement, saying, "Amen, brother, that's the truth"—but they don't go out and practice it. Yet the Word can't affect our lives until we apply it in our lives.

How does one "practice the Word"? What did James mean when he said we were to be doers of the Word? Did he mean we were to keep the Ten Commandments?

No, that isn't what he was talking about. Actually, the Ten Commandments were given for spiritually dead people; they are not for spiritually alive people.

"Then we aren't supposed to keep the Ten Commandments?" someone will ask.

Under the New Covenant (or New Testament) we have a new commandment. Jesus said, "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another" (John 13:34).

When we obey this new commandment of love, it takes the place of all the other commandments. Because if we have the love of God in our hearts, we will not steal from our fellowman; we will not murder our brother; we will not hate. Love gives, it does not steal. God so loved us that He gave His Son to die for us that we might live.

James also said that a person who is a hearer of the Word but not a doer deceives or deludes himself. There are many self-deluded people in the world. The devil didn't deceive or delude them; they deceived or deluded themselves!

When James said we were to be a doer of the Word, he was telling us to practice this Word of God; to put it into action in our daily lives.

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