Aim: To be faith-filled doers of the word (which we hear every Sunday).
Doctrine: True hearing remembers the gospel facts—which usher the church into God-honoring works. Those ''facts'' include the reality that we are slothful sinners (in the flesh), and that, hence, we need to apply what we hear (with faith and repentance).
Exegesis: The savory connection between gospel hearing and gospel doing protects us from fatal self-delusion (v. 22), keeps us from vain self-idolatry (vv. 23-24), and secures us in persevering Christ-sanctification (v. 25).
Further application: How the church unites faithful hearing and grateful doing: when we understand how awful we are (in our original sin), we act from faith-filled praise, marveling at what Christ has done (in atoning for our sins).
Key verse: v. 25 ''But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.''
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Rev. Mark Henninger received his Masters of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, and he has been Pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Peoria, Illinois for more than 30 years.
