Bible Study, James 1, c

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But we're on my phone. So hopefully everything will be fine and we'll just see how it goes. All right. We're gonna pray we get right into James chapter one. We're gonna start at verse 19 and continue on to the rest of the chapter.

I want to tell you that when we get to James 2, it's really gonna get interesting. James 2 is a very important chapter in the Bible. Believe it or not a lot of cults use it. And so I've gone over it Countless times.

I'm looking forward to getting into James 2 and there's some other stuff around there. We'll be getting into as well so as you know, I've given you some notes and this is the compilation of James chapter 1 and Hopefully you guys can you know follow along and I hopefully also have Excuse me fixed all the typos.

All right, let's let's pray. Let's just jump right in turn that all that lights on already good. All right. Lord we thank you for today. We asked Lord that you would be with us and I asked Jesus that you would open up our hearts our minds the truth of your word and that it would go forth with power and That for all who would watch all who would listen all who would learn through it that you would bless them.

And we give you thanks Lord. We ask this your precious name. Amen. All right, so let's just jump into James 1 19 and 20. This you know, my beloved brethren. But everyone must be quick to hear slow to speak and slow to anger for the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God.

Now this is kind of a proverbial Statement this if this was in Proverbs, it would fit perfectly in there. Proverbs is very practical. Proverbs is is is full of wisdom ideas. Statements of just good truth.

This is good truth, of course. He says this you you know, my brethren. Everyone must be quick to hear slow to speak slow to anger. For the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God. So what he's doing here is offering an exhortation.

James is relating what you believe with what you do is called orthodoxy. Proper belief leads to orthopraxy proper actions. James is extremely practical and he he says to speak slowly not with anger because it does not accomplish the righteousness of God now We'll get into some stuff here.

So Orthodoxy is what you believe now people behave based on what they believe they believe in not what they don't believe in so if they believe in something they're going to behave accordingly and It's a very important principle a lot of times people don't understand that principle and they think that You can behave based on what you kind of believe in or lack belief in as atheists say, but it doesn't work.

So out of the bunch of the heart to mouth speaks we'll get into that. That's what Jesus says Matthew 11 or 12 34 but for now, let's take a look at a few things here. Anger is the word or gizzo and The the the verb form the noun is or gay the noun form.

Occurs 36 times in the New Testament now a lot of people don't know this but anger is not Automatically a sin some people think it is a sin. God gets angry. Jesus got angry if you go to mark 3 5 after looking around at them with anger grieved at their hardness of heart.

He said to the man stretch out your hand and he stretched it out and his hand was restored. So it actually uses this word or gay Anger, so he says Jesus was angry at them. Obviously, it wasn't sinful to do that.

I looked for other instances in the Gospels of similar things with Jesus couldn't find it. This is the only place that it occurred like that. I also did a phrase a search on the phrase Anger of the Lord and it occurs 35 times the New American Standard Bible and they are all I think is interesting in the Old Testament.

None in the New Testament just interesting. All right. And I gave some references there. I could have listed all 35 out, but I didn't think it was really necessary. But there's some that you can check out Excess 414 than the anger of the Lord burned against Moses when judges 10 7 the anger of the Lord burns burned against Israel.

So God is actually getting angry. So there's some doctrines dealing with the nature of God and the attributes of God. Does he have emotions? And it's called the impassibility of God. Can we do anything that will affect God?

Yeah. Now how can we affect him if from all eternity he's ordained whatsoever shall come to pass Ephesians 1 11 therein lies the paradox and We know that it says here that he got angry with Moses. He got angry with Israel.

So my conclusion is that yes, he gets angry with people because of what they do. I would just simply say that he ordained. That he would get angry with them at some point in history. And it works. All right.

Depends just say anger is an act of love. Generally, huh? Yeah. Yeah, it could be looked at that way. And here. Because in Exodus 414 the anger of the Lord burned against Moses and he said is there not your brother Aaron at the Levite.

I know that he speaks fluently and moreover behold. He is coming out to meet you when he sees you. He'll be glad in his heart. Moses was saying I can't go and talk to Pharaoh. And he made made the God mad you think.

You think that God might know? When he says I'm gonna send you to Pharaoh and then Moses said well, I'm not a good speaker. Oh, I Forgot about that. Okay. Yeah, it doesn't happen like that. Okay, so You know, it's like No, duh.

So it upset God it because it's an issue of not having enough faith in God. And God's right there before you doing all this stuff. And what do you do? You still doubt him huh? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I I wouldn't have doubted him at all ever.

Yeah, man, I'd have been and I've been humble about it too and no problems at all. Some Thunderthorns, yeah, I had to hide in the cave. Hopefully the Lord's people get me but. Yeah. All right. Now our anger is good when?

It's against unrighteousness hypocrisy sin. Hindering others from coming to Christ the promotion of ungodliness. Should be in society there. I'm a pen on me. Oh Thanks. I was gonna make a little note because it should be in.

I tried to you know, try to get that so thank you fix everything so Homosexuality is promotion in society. Should we be angry about that? Yes, we should be. What should we do about it? Stick our heads in the sand and hope it goes away.

Right, and then we hope that the unbelievers don't come and come after us later. Because we're gonna get raptured out. They're gonna come anyway, that's right so Homosexuality the woke socialism all these things that are against scripture.

Hypocrisy sin, I do get angry. I'm more geared toward angry towards hypocrisy and Heresy that brings people to a place of damnation that it makes me mad and Believe it or not a subtle. Righteous anger has been a substantial motivation for all my apologetics.

Some people might think it should be better if you just loved them maybe. But I'm just telling you what's in me. That it upsets me what they say it upsets me what they do and I'm gonna fix it. That's a righteous anger.

That righteous anger comes from God. I do not like false doctrines. I do not like those things that lead people to damnation and I want to stand up against it than I do. Our anger is bad when? It's there to satisfy our emotions or to injure another without a cause.

You know, we could lose some more stuff in there. So anger is not automatically bad. Now the next few scriptures I gotta tell you worked in my heart because I Wasn't very skilled at working with people and talking to people and And Because I was so quick-minded and had a lot of information I could just slay people with scripture with logic and just go out there and then carve a notch in my Bible say I show that guy and I did that I did that and Gradually the Lord, you know, he'd be rubbing his celestial forehead at me and allowing me to make a fool of myself.

Started to convict me years. Ago, and these are the verses that he used to do it with Colossians 4 5 6 conduct yourself with wisdom toward outsiders making the most of the opportunity let your speech always be with grace that means anger can't be there as Those seasoned with salt so that you will know how you should respond to each person.

I Literally printed this up and in Greek and had it next to my monitor. So that I could look at it and want people to go what you know. See that I just learned it between myself him and the Lord and I worked on it.

Okay, and I remember it and If that wasn't enough second Timothy 224 to 26 the Lord's bond servant must not be quarrelsome because anger can lead to quarrels. But be kind to all able to teach patient when wronged with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition if perhaps God may grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of his truth and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of The devil having been by him to do as well.

So today for example, I was on the net. It was interesting. I'll do this.

Go on the is be calm.

You know this I've taught myself, right? So I go into these rooms and I wait then they come and they talk and what will happen is sometimes as happen today. Just an example of something they'll give me a bunch of things that I've done wrong.

One guy said something. I'm writing it down. That's not true. It's not true. It's not true. You misheard me. I didn't say that. Call one guy. I said what I went to cemetery and it had bunch of made-up words.

I'm writing that down. Okay, cuz I'm gonna get on I'm gonna talk to him and so get on start to talk and they jump in and interrupt and I just wait and then I say could you please let me finish my sentences and.

They'll say well, you know see because I just wait you. Please. Let me finish my sentences and Sometimes I'll say can you confirm to me that you'll let me finish my sentences and if they don't I say well.

We're not talking then next. The goal is to remain as calm as possible and in the context of that room and rooms like that what happens is it causes others to be calm and. And then we can have real conversation and it's an unexpected side effect of what goes on and it took Years to do it and now Atheists will even say it's Matt.

You're very calm. People will call me up and say how do you possibly show that much patience to people? Takes a lot of practice. But I'm the point is you know what? We fall in our Strengths as well as the weaknesses and there are things that take a long time to work on and this is one of them at Least in my life.

Just use like that's an example of something if you go to the next page first Peter 3 15. But sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts always being ready to make a defense to everyone who would ask you.

To give an account for the hope that is in you yet with gentleness and reverence. But instead of being a bulldozer or you know gunslinger with the Bible. The idea is to go in and be as patient as possible.

And a lot of times it doesn't lead much anywhere. But this is what God spoken to me about and now I have to work in other areas of my life. You know, I wish it was just one thing I had to fix. But it's not like that.

Right. So God does not want us to be unrighteously angry. Because it can be a detriment it could be deleterious hidden harmful effects deleterious. You can have deleterious effects on relationships on witnessing on Other things on businesses on your health and the idea is to calm down.

Next I got to start working on dealing with traffic. That's Gonna take a miracle. Because I'll tell you they don't drive the way they ought to drive. They should get out at when the light turns green get out in the intersection instead of making me wait for five days.

And stuff like that and then instead of going up to a four-way stop going. What did I do? You on the right you go first. All of us who came from California we drive here in Idaho now. They all say the same thing what is wrong with that?

Not just California what is up with the Idahoans Virginia. I've driven in Virginia. I've driven in, New Jersey. All over the place LA. Oh, yeah. Rush hour 80 miles an hour around the curves airborne a couple of times coming around, you know.

The corner, you know, we got three feet in front of you. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The potato farmers, that's right. There's a green light up there. We're gonna stop eight miles ahead. Okay. I'm sorry I've been whining as you can tell.

There's some other areas. I got to work on. When I can handle it and go it's okay. Just merge merge everybody merge. Yeah. Yeah, like a green light or how about. How about when they come up to the red light and you could turn right they pull over to the right so they can go Fast and they block you.

Okay, I Could complain. But let it go. No, here's a there's a fun example of what anger can do to you and Boy, I'll tell you just Letting it go as hard. Letting it go as hard. So what's my profession of faith?

Trusting in the Lord. He's ordaining all this and yet when I'm in my car That's what happens. Except I will say this in Idaho for some reason there'd be two lanes up to a light and Everybody's in one lane.

Yeah, it happens all the time here and I'll go up the other Lane. I'm always when I first started doing it. I thought the lanes gonna explode. Yeah, it's just a boom and I'm. That's because I had to merge a mile up.

Okay. Calm down. Breathe deep rape so Drivers, okay. My wife says here they're oblivious. That's a good word for him oblivious. All right. I hope you guys enjoyed that so Therefore verse 21 putting us.

I don't like this. Oh, yeah putting aside all Filthiness and all that remains of wickedness in humility receive the word implanted which is able to save your souls. Now in my head, of course you put aside all filthiness and wickedness and with humility receive this.

I Can talk about it, you know, am I filthy? Of course not? My wicked no, I'm not if there was somehow a glass plate that could shine over my chest. You know and you can see my heart and in the blacker.

It is the more wicked and filthy it is. It'd be at least dark gray. Okay. Because I know what I am. And when I read stuff like this, you know, I Don't abide in those things. We don't abide in those things, but we know that we have issues.

We know that we're not pure in our hearts and our minds. We know that we have struggles there. We know that there are filthy things in us and wicked things in us, but you know, what's amazing is that Jesus loves us.

And he's still with us and he continues to love us. That's just it's it's amazing to me now. What he's talking about really is those other people who really live in wickedness maybe pornography and drug abuse and Theft and we're not doing that.

But we can't look down our noses at them and say I'm not like those guys, you know I'm not like that tax gatherer over there. We got to be careful because when we point, you know, yeah that adage you get fingers pointing back at you when you're pointing at somebody else.

And depends on how you hold your gun if you do with the car method, then it doesn't Put them all aside and receive the word implanted now, that's an interesting turn of phrase. So how many of you have ever read the word and it struck you?

It struck you and You have a hard time getting rid of it or not that you want to get rid of God's Word. But that's striking that getting to you know, it's like whoa. Yeah, I've got stuff like that. I read Colossians 3.

Colossians 3. At every point I fail when I look down deep at every point I fail, you know, I was reading editing my book the influence and The main character has a very profound spiritual experience of the presence of God and The result of it is he says nothing good about himself nothing he's been in the presence of the Lord Jesus in this fictional account and he has Has nothing good to say about himself period not a thing.

And all he has is just hoping the mercy of God. That's all the closer we get to the Lord the brighter his light is and the deeper it shines into our hearts and the more we See of ourselves and that's a problem.

That's what I'm talking about here when we say, okay the things we have to deal with. You know that that's what it is the word filthiness occurs only here in the New Testament and when a word Only occurs once in a body of text it caught it's called a hotbox.

Legomena, I pay for that word in seminary. I've got to use that every now and then that's two words actually and so look what the word Greek word for wickedness is. Guys, you'll see it in number two there.

Kakiya, we get kaka, right? So it occurs 11 times in the New Testament rendered as trouble in Matthew 634 evil in Romans 129. Malice in 1 Corinthians 5 8, etc. So it does occur a lot by contrast. James tells us to put aside filthiness and wickedness and replace them with humility the humility with which we receive the Word of God.

Now think about that. We read that Bible. We read what God's Word says and what we're choosing to do is to believe it in its authority and power. Over our own lives and by the automatic reading of it we are saying it's above me and it is superior to me.

Now that is a form of humility now. Humility is like pride. Both of them heart hide themselves in your heart and you can't see them but others can. So we joke about yeah, I'm proud of my humility and things like that.

So when someone argues with me and said Matt you're prideful I never say no, I'm not. You're you're you're arrogant, right, you know if they say you're humble I go well, I don't know about that. Okay, I had people say that I don't know about that.

You know, I just I don't want to contradict somebody rude, but I don't know about that, you know. And it's happened once or twice. Okay, it's like what is wrong with you? But humility, I like this one definition of humility.

I like Knowing your proper place before God. I Like that one. Because then we can retain some form of humility and know it. Not in a boastful. Hey, look how humble I am manner, but I am what I am by the grace of God.

It's only his grace has saved me and kept me and in that there's humility. So we can possess that in that sense. Yeah, let's go to verse 22 but prove yourselves doers of the word and not merely hearers who delude delude themselves.

So I can read through this and go very quickly that's true be doers not just talkers. Next I could do that. But what he's talking about here is is a deep. We need to obey the Word of God not talk about obeying the Word of God and it's easy for us To hear what the word says publicly affirm what the word says and Then not live it in our hearts.

Now we can publicly affirm it and publicly do it and Still in our hearts We're in rebellion. The doers of the word Should be the ones who do it from the heart. Now that's Very difficult my heart's desperately wicked deceitful.

I can't trust it. I don't know about you guys, but I know mine and When I hear the thing do prove yourself doers of the word. It's not just going door-to-door as a doer of the word. But a doer of the word in my heart before God and that Will lead to other things like going door-to-door or going on the net or whatever it might be.

Because what you believe is what you're going to what's going to lead you to do. The doers of the word do it because of what's in them. Hopefully they have a humility. They know their position before God and they want to act based on that relationship with God what they know.

To be true. I find the most difficult thing is dealing with my own heart. That's the absolute most difficult thing when I Take. I don't like taking communion. I tell people Because I have to deal with my own heart beforehand, and I don't like doing that.

What I mean is I gotta face my own sin before God and I do Confess my sins and it's unpleasant because I'm exposing myself in the seriousness of communion. When I go to preach I haven't preached in over a year.

I need to. I love preaching and I'll be sitting there Waiting for the music to end because usually there's songs and then you go and I get to preach. And I love to preach and I wish they would just not do any song so I can go up and preach.

Okay? Okay, be patient and I'm praying Lord. Please don't let me take my pride with me and my arrogance with me up into that pulpit. Please just use me in spite of my own sin. But Lord, I want to impress everybody so they think I'm great.

Oh By the way, Lord forget what I just said. Because I shouldn't be like that. But I do hope it happens and so oh darn Lord. And so I have this wrestle that I go with you know. The things I don't want to do.

I do the things I do want to do. I don't the wickedness that's in me and so what I do is is I put myself before God and say may you speak through this fool and. And then just quiet my heart and go and go to speak and hopefully by God's grace.

Then truth goes out. See the doers of the word is not just going up there and reciting a hundred verses and giving a doctrinal dissertation. Related to a particular verse the heart is necessary up there, too.

Just says the heart is necessary for you when you deal with your husband your your wife your children your business partners it's hard and That's something that I think is one of the very hardest things for any and all Christians and I'll tell you I've got so far to go.

You know, I'll use Nick as an example. She's got a lot of problems and I'm having to pick up the slack. And there'd been a few times and it's like crap. I don't want to do this. But not very often. Because The doer of the word will say I love you.

I'm gonna serve you and I've dealt with that in my own heart to say it's an opportunity to serve and I rejoice in that. Teaching it and living it as best I can not that I'm perfect at it and she'll tell you I'm not perfect at it.

But the attitude and everything we do even in our service Needs to be from the heart. Now sometimes we can say I want it to be from the heart. But it's not there then what I tell people to do is then do it anyway.

Just behave as though your heart believes it. Even though you know, you it doesn't you're not being a hypocrite you're being faithful a Hypocrite is a deceiver, but we're not deceiving people not intentionally, you know I mean we're trying to be good and stuff like that.

It's not our intention. But the issue of our own heart before God is really important and the way he tests our heart before him so him is to test it before people and With a wife or with a husband because you may not know this but I've got a few faults.

Yeah, see they didn't know that I just probably just crushed him, you know, you can't come here anymore. Mm-hmm. Yeah, it's it's true. You what. Crestfallen, that's right. So, you know, I'm sorry to really ruin it for people but you know, that's what it is and What's that.

Bubbles burst must be a small bubble so. Or as they say your bubble wasn't leveled or something. I don't know. It's a whole bit. So I kind of got lost last year the thing is that it works both ways, you know in relationships and sometimes we have to Act according to the profession and Hope the heart follows.

Because God does say pick up your cross daily and follow after me. He doesn't say Get your heart right and then come follow me. They get it up follow me. It's heavy. I'm whining. It's hard. I don't like it.

He follow me. He doesn't say stop the whining. He goes keep following but it's heavy. He likes that whining. I'm pretty good at whining. It's whining is bill biblical. Take a little wine for your stomach.

That was driving on the freeway five years ago. And I'm coming up and I see some guy in the side of the road for real and he's carrying a cross. He's got a wheel on it. I've seen two guys do that in my years and I went I passed look at that I went way up way back to be 20 minutes and I pull up behind him and we get talking and He goes, yeah I've been doing this for for months as a wheel on the back of the thing because otherwise it'll grind down from the dragging the wood four by four and He says people throw things at him the honk at him the whole bit and I gave him some water and hey, here's I think You know a little bit of cash here, you know, because he goes the Lord provides.

Now he's walking it and talking it and he was full of joy. Me I'd be like man. Don't haunt at me. Look at that. They're all in one way. What is up with them so the issue here trying to get into we're not getting too deep and hurtful is that we have to Live what we profess and it means down deep as well.

And sometimes living that means to confess it to admit things and It's not easy. So that's how that's what it means to put aside the filthiness. The filthiness of the crap that we hold on to in our own hearts self-righteousness self-justification and be Coveting whatever it might be that remains of that such wickedness instead with humility receive that word of truth and Then be doers of the word not just to hearers who delude themselves.

Because if it's going to be in us then it needs to manifest it from us. Why. Because we've been bought with a price acts 2028. You know, that's twenty two one one on the outline where it says in the last part of that verse the shepherd the Church of God, which he purchased with his own blood and You've died with Christ.

Romans 6 8 we've gone over this now if you've died with Christ. We believe that we also shall live with him. We're in dwelt by by the Lord. Excuse me, John 14 23 Jesus answered said to him if anyone loves me, he will keep my word.

And my father will love him and we will come to him and make our abode with him. And then there's Colossians 3 1 through 5. This is one of my favorite pericope ease in the Bible. Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ keep seeking the things above where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.

Set your mind on the things above. Not on the things that are on earth for you have died in your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is our life is revealed, then you also will be revealed with him in glory.

Therefore consider the members of your earthly body is dead to immorality. Impurity passion evil desire and greed which amounts to idolatry. That's a Fantastic pericope. There's a lot there a lot of theology in there.

I love theology. But it's theology. That is wonderful. That is pleasant. That is comforting. I love that pericope. Next page hypocrisy. We must be very wary of our own hypocrisy. We profess love in Christ Publicly and then we don't do it privately.

I'm very susceptible to that a public figure. So for me, it's very easy to put on the airs and make it sound good. But you know what if I ever do that for the purpose of appearing like I'm doing it so that I can be something else.

I know it. I know that if that disparity right away and I address it. Because it's happened. You know, I'm gonna go impress somebody and I'll tell you that's part of it and Lord what is what that is wrong?

I'm not here to impress anybody here to serve you. That's what I'm gonna do go serve, you know. We fall right there in our hearts. I don't mind using myself as an example of failure because I got so much to work with that way so many illustrations.

It just cuts my research time down a lot. I don't have to go for illustrations. Go find them Long as they just would just stop go to light and then just go fool. The first John 2 for the one who says I have come to know him and does not keep his commandments as a liar.

The truth is not in him. What's the commandments of God. Love God and love your neighbor? Right love God do it army six four which is No during six five which is quoted by Jesus in Matthew 22 you have any 22 37 and.

Then love your neighbors yourself. He quotes that from Leviticus 1918 in Matthew 22 39 he says and this is the fullness of the of the law. That's what he says. Then he says a new commandment. I give to you that you love one another.

John 10 34 I think is where that is 35. So it'll be loving this is it's a command of God. So if you say, you know him and don't love. You're a liar hypocrite. So what we do Often is hold on the grudges.

Hold on to resentment. Hold on to anger. Hold on the varying things now. Dealing with things like that isn't always so easy. Sometimes you got to process stuff. I get it because sometimes you can really be wronged and say you're you know, you're driving down the road and and You you know, you stop to go out help somebody somebody just beats the crud out of you steals your car and he hurts you.

You're in you're in the hospital. It happens to people. And you got to forgive that person. Says the says the retired officer. I Remember a story about a man whose son was murdered and I told you guys before this man was murdered someone's murdered and the bad guy was caught and sentenced to prison and I think he Wasn't he got he ended up getting out of prison.

But he'd spent a long time in prisons where those things were like parole after 20 years, whatever it was. The father was a Christian the father went and visited him in jail after a while and Forgave him and Continued to visit him.

Continued to be there for him. Discipled him led him to the Lord and when he got out He said you can come stay with me and he did. And that man is so grateful for the love and the humility of that father.

That man murdered his own son. Could you imagine if someone like that came in of two men came in and one of them says yeah, I killed his son. And I live with them. But if we really are living as Christians, you know that kind of love.

I don't know if I could do that but that kind of love that's what we need to to manifest. It's a high goal, but it's the goal of Christ. Yeah, then you work on forgiveness after they fell down the stairs a couple of times.

Then you just know you love them in an alley. Well, I said the whole other thing but. Yeah, yeah the Democrats to grow. Yeah. Yeah, and this is you know. What I'm talking about is the standard and where we are and there's different examples of it of good standards from different people.

And how do we deal with it? He's bringing it up. But what a story it's a true story and the man got out and lived with this man. The father the guy he killed. Wow. Jesus going to kill the Christians of Jesus going to kill the Christians.

Paul. There's some heresy for you. Paul going to kill the Christians and Jesus forgives him. He says you're persecuting me. You're killing my people my children and he look what he did. That's a one of the goals all right and Look what he says here Luke 9 23 and he was saying that then to to them all if anyone wishes to come after me must deny himself and take up his Cross daily and follow me.

The denying Myself is something I've been learning more and more about over the years. And what that means I'm not gonna say I got it down, of course, but I know more and more what it means and what's really interesting is.

More and more joy is coming with denying myself. Because to deny myself means I put my eyes there on that cross. It's easy to say not easy to do. But you inch your way forward as the compass changes and pretty soon.

It's more habitual than not. It takes a long time. But that's the goal. You want to come after Christ deny yourself? Don't hold on to things. Let things go best you can at the right time, you know. Someone kills your son.

It's not like five minutes later. Hey, it's all good. But you know. And Jesus says John in Matthew 10 38. He does not take up his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me. That bothers me. Because to what degree am I picking up that cross and following does I get man the freeway in a literal sense?

He's picking up the cross and following after Christ, but there's other ways to do that as well. We'll get to that verse 23. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer. He's like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror for once he has looked at himself and gone away.