Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and best-selling author Dr. Paul David Tripp

connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life. If you had to describe what it means to follow Jesus, what would you say?

In today's episode, we'll listen to the next sermon from Paul's series in James, street-level Christianity.

In it, Paul reveals the motivation that should distinguish the Christian life and gives four applications to everyday life.

Here's Paul.

Well, if you had to paint a verbal portrait of the Christian life, what would your verbal portrait look like?

If you had to say these are the essential elements of the Christian life, this is what

walking with God actually looks like, what would you write? How would you describe that? If you had to

describe what it means to be a Christian and to follow Jesus to somebody who had never heard

that before, had no conception of what that was, what kind of explanation

would you make?

That really is what James begins to describe as we look at this passage that we're going to

look at this evening.

Look with me, if you would, at verse 19 of James W. as we look at this passage that we're going to look at this evening.

Look with me, if you would, at verse 19 of James 1.

It's there in your bulletins.

This passage is often thought of as a passage about anger, and it does say something about anger. But if you look at where this passage

sits in the whole discussion of James, we really do have the introduction of something that

James follows throughout the rest of his letter.

It really is James' attempt under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit to paint the kind of

portrait that I've just described to you, this portrait of what it looks like to actually live

like a believer.

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