James 3:13-17
Who [is] a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
This wisdom descendeth not from above, but [is] earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife [is], there [is] confusion and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, [and] easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
In this passage, we are being instructed on how to be wise; It would be foolishness to not take the words of it to heart. The first statement we are presented with emphasizes the benefit of a good conversation with some as opposed to meaningless boasting. The alternative is a group setting filled with people who are seeking to one-up everyone else. Meekness of wisdom, this is so challenging to me because for so long my goal in life was to let everyone know that I was smarter than everyone else. I may have had knowledge, but I certainly had no great amount of wisdom and I can promise you that I was not meek. I still struggle with this. I boast in the very things that God has blessed me with an inclination for, as if they were mine to take pride in.
anything that lies against the truth(God) is demonic by nature. Just like there are two sides of a coin, there are two sides of truth. The Devil is sly and uses deceit and lies to mask the truth. It is his oldest trick and it is still employed by him because it still works. Here is a good rule of thumb, if there is a Symbol or holiday with a Christian meaning, anything that takes attention from that Christian meaning is demonic. For example, Christmas has Santa and Easter has a bunny. Easter was actual demonic from its conception as it was a holiday dedicated to the goddess Estar, only recently was it given a Christian meaning, but that is a rabbit trail. The point is, if anyone professes anything as truth that is not from God, it is from Satan and can not be taken lightly. We are, at the very least not to partake in these lies or condone them. Ephesians 5:11 "have nothing to de with the deeds of darkness but rather expose them."
We are then given a criteria for what wisdom which comes from The Father will look like. The phrase which entices me the most is that which says wisdom is without partiality, and without hypocrisy. Wisdom is wisdom is truth. There is an underlying implication of an absolute. How can wisdom not show partiality if it is equally applicable to every man who has ever lived? It cannot. Furthermore we are hypocrites if we try to profess the previous question as truth. We cannot let ourselves fall into a state of believing the truth to be true but then not walking accordingly. If we were honest, I would imagine we all would admit to doing this every day. It's called sin. Anytime we sin, we are going against what we profess to believe; thus showing ourselves to be a fine display of hypocrisy. Oh how much we need God's grace.
I will apologize to the people I treat wrongly wether it be behind there back or to there face. Ian can do his best to keep me accountable but it is ultimately up to me.
Who [is] a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
This wisdom descendeth not from above, but [is] earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife [is], there [is] confusion and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, [and] easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
In this passage, we are being instructed on how to be wise; It would be foolishness to not take the words of it to heart. The first statement we are presented with emphasizes the benefit of a good conversation with some as opposed to meaningless boasting. The alternative is a group setting filled with people who are seeking to one-up everyone else. Meekness of wisdom, this is so challenging to me because for so long my goal in life was to let everyone know that I was smarter than everyone else. I may have had knowledge, but I certainly had no great amount of wisdom and I can promise you that I was not meek. I still struggle with this. I boast in the very things that God has blessed me with an inclination for, as if they were mine to take pride in.
anything that lies against the truth(God) is demonic by nature. Just like there are two sides of a coin, there are two sides of truth. The Devil is sly and uses deceit and lies to mask the truth. It is his oldest trick and it is still employed by him because it still works. Here is a good rule of thumb, if there is a Symbol or holiday with a Christian meaning, anything that takes attention from that Christian meaning is demonic. For example, Christmas has Santa and Easter has a bunny. Easter was actual demonic from its conception as it was a holiday dedicated to the goddess Estar, only recently was it given a Christian meaning, but that is a rabbit trail. The point is, if anyone professes anything as truth that is not from God, it is from Satan and can not be taken lightly. We are, at the very least not to partake in these lies or condone them. Ephesians 5:11 "have nothing to de with the deeds of darkness but rather expose them."
We are then given a criteria for what wisdom which comes from The Father will look like. The phrase which entices me the most is that which says wisdom is without partiality, and without hypocrisy. Wisdom is wisdom is truth. There is an underlying implication of an absolute. How can wisdom not show partiality if it is equally applicable to every man who has ever lived? It cannot. Furthermore we are hypocrites if we try to profess the previous question as truth. We cannot let ourselves fall into a state of believing the truth to be true but then not walking accordingly. If we were honest, I would imagine we all would admit to doing this every day. It's called sin. Anytime we sin, we are going against what we profess to believe; thus showing ourselves to be a fine display of hypocrisy. Oh how much we need God's grace.
I will apologize to the people I treat wrongly wether it be behind there back or to there face. Ian can do his best to keep me accountable but it is ultimately up to me.
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