2. JESUS’WISDOM,
YOURWISDOM

3. JAMES 3 : 13 - 18
13 If you are wise and understand
God’s ways, prove it by living an
honorable life, doing good works with
the humility that comes from wisdom.
14 But if you are bitterly jealous and
there is selfish ambition in your heart,
don’t cover up the truth with boasting
and lying.

4. JAMES 3 : 13 - 18
15 For jealousy and selfishness are not
God’s kind of wisdom. Such things are
earthly, unspiritual, and demonic.
16 For wherever there is jealousy and
selfish ambition, there you will find
disorder and evil of every kind.

5. JAMES 3 : 13 - 18
17 But the wisdom from above is first
of all pure. It is also peace loving,
gentle at all times, and willing to yield
to others. It is full of mercy and the
fruit of good deeds. It shows no
favoritism and is always sincere.
18 And those who are peacemakers
will plant seeds of peace and reap a
harvest of righteousness.

6. EARTHLY
WISDOM

7. According to the Scripture,
wisdom is the data that we have
in our heads, but it also is the
disposition of our hearts and the
deeds of our hands.

8. WISDOM IS BOTH
DATA AND
DISPOSITION

9. What does Jesus’ wisdom
look like?
How do we identify the
wisdom of Jesus?
How do we have more of
Jesus’ wisdom in our lives?

10. WISDOM IS
AS WISDOM DOES

11. JAMES 3 : 13 - 18
13 If you are wise and understand
God’s ways, prove it by living an
honorable life, doing good works with
the humility that comes from wisdom.
14 But if you are bitterly jealous and
there is selfish ambition in your heart,
don’t cover up the truth with boasting
and lying.

12. JAMES 3 : 13 - 18
15 For jealousy and selfishness are not
God’s kind of wisdom. Such things are
earthly, unspiritual, and demonic.
16 For wherever there is jealousy and
selfish ambition, there you will find
disorder and evil of every kind.

13. JAMES 3 : 13 - 18
17 But the wisdom from above is first
of all pure. It is also peace loving,
gentle at all times, and willing to yield
to others. It is full of mercy and the
fruit of good deeds. It shows no
favoritism and is always sincere.
18 And those who are peacemakers
will plant seeds of peace and reap a
harvest of righteousness.

14. There’s a biblical distinction we
need you to understand between
knowledge and wisdom. You can’t
have wisdom without knowledge,
but it is possible to have knowledge
without wisdom.

15. • Knowledge is knowing the truth;
wisdom is knowing what to do
with it.

16. • Knowledge is theoretical;
wisdom is practical.

17. • Knowledge is truthful;
wisdom is useful.

18. • Knowledge provides information;
wisdom provides transformation.

19. • Knowledge tells you what to
believe; wisdom tells you how to
behave.

20. Wisdom is as wisdom does. That’s
what it means to be wise. It
impacts the data that’s in our head.
We have knowledge, but it also
affects the disposition of our heart
and the deeds of our hands.

21. EARTHLY WISDOM
VS.
JESUS’ WISDOM

22. JAMES 3 : 14
14 But if you are bitterly jealous and
there is selfish ambition in your heart,
don’t cover up the truth with boasting
and lying.

23. EARTHLY
WISDOM

24. BITTER JEALOUSY &
SELFISH AMBITION
Now, two things are going on in the
heart of those with earthly wisdom,
two things that are not good things,
two affections. One is bitter
jealousy and the other is selfish
ambition, cohabiting in the heart of
those who don’t have Jesus’
wisdom.

25. Wisdom isn’t merely the data that
we have in our heads; it’s the
disposition of our heart. The best
place to go to really evaluate
whether or not you are acting in
wisdom is to take a look at your
heart, become a spiritual
cardiologist, take a look deep
within.

26. THREE ORIGINS OF
EARTHLY WISDOM.

27. 1. IT COMES FROM
THE EARTH

28. JAMES 3 : 15
15 For jealousy and selfishness are not
God’s kind of wisdom. Such things are
earthly, unspiritual, and demonic.

29. It’s of the earth; it doesn’t come
from heaven. And we’ll talk about
what that means in just a moment,
but this isn’t a wisdom from above,
this is an earthly type of wisdom.

30. 2. IT’S UNSPIRITUAL

31. It's unspiritual. Literally, it means
soulless. The Bible teaches that
those of us who are in Christ have
what we call “the flesh.”
That’s the essence of this type of
wisdom. It’s of the earth, it’s fleshly,
it’s unspiritual, it is supernatural,
but not in a good sense, in a very
evil sense. It’s demonic.

32. 3. IT DEVASTATES
THE CHURCH

33. JAMES 3 : 16
16 For wherever there is jealousy and
selfish ambition, there you will find
disorder and evil of every kind.

34. The church is at war. When
someone is teaching from this
perspective—from bitter jealousy
and selfish ambition, from an
earthly perspective, an unspiritual
way, demonically influenced—the
result in the church is devastating
because there are factions, and
infighting, and people are devouring
and competing against one another.

35. It’s not only devastating to you but
devastating and hurtful to those
around you.

36. ONLY YOUR SPIRIT
KNOWS WHAT YOUR
MIND IS THINKING

37. JAMES 3 : 17
17 But the wisdom from above is first
of all pure. It is also peace loving,
gentle at all times, and willing to yield
to others. It is full of mercy and the
fruit of good deeds. It shows no
favoritism and is always sincere.

38. We want you to understand what
James means when he talks about
a wisdom from above. He’s making
a very powerful, poignant point that
we don’t want to miss. What James
is saying is that none of us has,
intrinsically, inherently, the wisdom
that God has. For us to have
wisdom, we need an infusion from
above.

39. What the Bible teaches us in a very
compelling way is, the only way
that you will ever have the wisdom
that Jesus had is through the
person and work of the Holy Spirit.
And we desperately need the Holy
Spirit today so that we may, first
and foremost, have the same
wisdom that Jesus had.

40. The Holy Spirit enlightens us to
discern what the Bible means and he
empowers us to do what the Bible
says.

41. JESUS’
WISDOM

42. WHAT DOES JESUS’
WISDOM LOOK LIKE?

43. 1. IT’S PURE

44. Ultimate goal is to bring glory to God-
love of god and love for others
Jesus is always about two things and
two things only: he wants to worship
God and he wants to love and serve
others.

45. We want to be pure. We don’t want
tainted motives, because the wisdom
that comes from Jesus through the
work of the Holy Spirit and the truth
of the Bible is pure.

46. 2. IT’S PEACEABLE

47. Here’s the amazing thing Jesus does
for us: he brings to an end the
animosity and the enmity that exists
between God and us. He offers us
truce through the person and work of
Jesus..

48. Here’s the good news: he loves you
and offers you a peaceful alternative
through Jesus. And the wisdom that
comes from Jesus is peaceable.

49. Peaceable people are two things
paradoxically, simultaneously. They’re
slow and they’re quick. They’re slow
to take offense. They’re quick to go
and move toward reconciliation.
That’s what it means to be peaceable.

50. 3. IT’S GENTLE

51. The wisdom of Jesus not only ends
our animosity with God, but it brings
what the Scripture calls shalom into
our relationships.

52. Reconciliation means that when I sin
against you and you sin against me,
we can take that together to Jesus,
and we can walk forward in peace in
a way that our relationships are
characterized by well-being and good
intentions.

53. If you’re easily offended, if you’re
slow to work out the offense of
others in your life, you’re not living
out in the wisdom of Jesus, because
Jesus’ wisdom is pure, peaceable, and
gentle. It’s gentle.

54. 4. IT’S REASONABLE

55. Here’s this man claiming to be God,
and he’s not pushy. He doesn’t
impose himself on others. He invites
all to come follow him, but he doesn’t
force them to do so. He invites them,
he’s winsome, but he’s not pushy in
any way whatsoever.

56. The wisdom of Jesus isn’t pushy,
domineering, or imposing. Jesus’
wisdom is pure, it’s peaceable, it’s
gentle, it’s reasonable. It’s
reasonable.
Reasonable means you are prone to
listen before you speak. Before you
render judgment on a situation, you
want to take in all the facts.

57. The wisest people ever are those who
have the true wisdom of Jesus listen
more effectively and carefully than
anyone else, and probably speak the
fewest words.

58. 5. IT’S MERCIFUL

59. The idea of mercy is, it’s a heart
disposition, because wisdom isn’t just
the data in our heads, it’s the
disposition of our hearts and the
deeds of our hands. Mercy is a heart
motive toward, “I want to forgive
you.” And then good deeds are
actions that are consistent with that
heart..

60. Mercy goes beyond forgiveness.

61. 6. IT’S IMPARTIAL

62. Jesus’ wisdom is also impartial. Jesus
isn’t impressed by people, but he
loves people, and Jesus doesn’t play
favorites—he loves everyone the
same.

63. There should be no partiality. Love
everyone the same. We look at them
impartially, and we love them, and we
want them to know and meet our
Jesus who will love and care for them
as well.

64. 7. IT’S FRUITFUL

65. Jesus’ wisdom is fruitful. The wisdom
of Jesus, worked out in our life
through the Holy Sprit according to
the truth of Scripture, is fruitful. We
become righteous in everyday life. To
be righteous means you are in right
relationship with God, and because
you’re in right relationship with God,
you treat others rightly.

66. 8. IT’S SINCERE,
TAPAT
WITHOUT HYPOCRISY
HINDI MAPAGKUNWARI

67. Where do you need Jesus’ wisdom in
your life?
What’s your deal?
We need Jesus’ wisdom in our homes,
in our daily lives.

68. FAITHWORKS CHRISTIAN CHURCH GLOBAL
Presented By:
Ptr. Joven Soro
FCC Main, San Mateo Rizal, PH
6:30 PM Evening Service
May 15, 2016
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