Jesus was clear when he was talking with the disciples after he washed their feet and told them to do likewise:

If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you. (John 13.14 – 15, ESV)

But the kicker is what he said next: disciples put into practice what they know:

If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them. (John 13.17, LSB)

As always, the blessing is not in the knowing but in the doing. Here’s a line from a secular book on money management:

Writer and former Yahoo executive Tim Sanders has a saying that really resonates with me: “Education without application is just entertainment.” John W. Crane, The One Number Budget

Wow. “Education without application is just entertainment.” Ezekiel said it first:

As for you, son of man, the children of your people are talking about you beside the walls and in the doors of the houses; and they speak to one another, everyone saying to his brother, “Please come and hear what the word is that comes from the LORD.” So they come to you as people do, they sit before you as My people, and they hear your words, but they do not do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their hearts pursue their own gain. Indeed you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they do not do them. (Ezekiel 33.30 – 32, NKJV, emphasis mine)

James echoed it:

Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. (James 1.22, NIV)

What might it take to be doers of the Word? The answer may surprise you. Stay tuned.