nd. I have made no more important progress in my life than moving from listening to someone's words before I watch their deeds. To do otherwise....

is to encourage hypocrites, the group that Jesus most reviled, encouraging others to do the same.  I can't think of a message that Jesus lived and spoke of more centrally, urgently, than how deadly hypocrisy, lip service, is to an individual soul, and to the Holy Spirit in those around such people.  Your lips say Lord Lord, but your hearts are far from me.