Shut up and Listen

James 1:19–21 (English Standard Version)

¹⁹ Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; ²⁰ for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. ²¹ Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which can save your souls.

Additional Scriptures used in this sermon (ESV unless otherwise noted):

Matthew 7:12
¹² “So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

Matthew 22:36-40
³⁶ “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” ³⁷ And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. ³⁸ This is the great and first commandment. ³⁹ And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. ⁴⁰ On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

John 15:13
¹³ Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

John 20:21
²¹ Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.”