1. James Says, Be a Hearer and a Doer, Not Just a Hearer. John in 1 John Says, Be a Saying and a Doer, Not Just a Sayer All the References to “If We Say” or “The One Who Says” or “If Anyone Says”. A Test to What They are Saying 1 John 1:6, 8, 10 1 John 2:4, 6, 9 1 John 4:20 Final Thought – Believes John is dealing with the 1 st 3 of the Ten Commandments.

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4. James 1:23-24 “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 has looked at himself and gone away, he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was.”

5. Don’t Just Be a Sayer and Not a Doer. “If We Say”… “The One Who Says” It Is Easy to Say Things, Especially If You Are Not Required to Back Them Up. Matt 9:2 – The Paralytic and the Roof Jesus Based His Own Point on This One Fact. Matt 23:3 – The Pharisees

6. 1:6 – Someone Says He Has Fellowship With Jesus. I’m a Christian How Do We Know He is Telling the Truth? How Do We Test His Words? “yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.” One In Fellowship With Jesus Practices the Truth

7. 1:8-10 – Someone Says He Is Not a Sinner It’s Not My Fault I’m the Victim Denial of Our Own Sin “We are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” John Is Talking About Those Who are Living In Sin. Fornication – Of Kings and Prophets

8. 2:4-6 – Someone Says He Knows Jesus and Abides in Him. I Read the Bible Several Times, I Don’t Need to Look at What It Says. I Have Jesus in My Heart, I Don’t Need to Look at the Bible. “Does not keep His commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him.” Which Commandments Don’t Have to be Kept?

9. 2:9, 4:20 – Someone Says He Is In the Light and Love God. I Don’t Need to be Part of a Church, I Have a Personal Relationship With Jesus. “Yet hates his brother is in the darkness until now.” “Hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.”

10. Loving Others. Encouraging Others. Forgiving Others. Helping Others to Let Christ Change Them.