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Recap
James concludes chapter three with this reality: there are two types of wisdom in the world: True wisdom and false wisdom.
False wisdom is from the world, and true wisdom is from God. True wisdom states that God is for God, and that every action that God does, is for his name’s sake.
Yes, God loves you, God cares for you, but God loves himself utmost, and that’s good for us!
Secondly, God designed the world to work in a certain way.
False wisdom denies this, and promotes human reasoning.
Often, not always, but often such reasoning flies in the face of God’s wisdom.
We must be careful to submit ourselves to God’s wisdom, to push back against the false wisdom the world trumpets, and not only accept God’s wisdom, but live according to it.
You can’t just say you’re God wise, you have to live it.
Just as faith without deeds is dead, Godly wisdom without Godly action is dead.
So what we’re up against is the worldly wisdom that says, “I’m right, I’m the focus of my life, I get to decide what is true.
I get to focus my life on maintaining my happiness.
But such a self centred life leads to bitterness.
Why?
Because with that attitude, everyone else must serve me.
If it is all about me, everyone has to be about me.
But when you’re the focus, you’re unhappy.
Because everyone else is serving themselves.
They let you down, they disappoint you.
So you have to go around telling everyone how good you are at everything, and how bad everyone else is at everything.
This bitterness develops into selfish ambition which morphs into jealousy.
As you perceive others having what you want, having more than what you have, you get jealous.
It attacks you, it hits against your identity.
It sows discontent.
This leads to disorder and vile practises.
The truth is, all of us, each one of us has a bitter, egotistical, self-centred nature, an evil nature that, if we could get away with it, we would do wicked and perverse things.
If we thought there would be no consequences, we would do the darkest things we can think of doing.
That’s false wisdom.
The focus is your own happiness, and it doesn’t matter who gets in the way, who else gets hurt, nothing matters but the self.
This is so serious, that the result is not simply a life of conflict and strife, but eventually eternal damnation.
That’s what the Bible says.
Such a life is an affront to God’s holiness that that’s the only justifiable punishment.
We have to have eternity in view.
That’s true wisdom.
We are eternal beings—any present suffering isn’t worth the effort it takes to talk about, in light of the eternal glory awaiting us.
We live for the world to come.
We live in humility, “I don’t know how things will go, but God does, and I submit to him.
I trust him.
Three things, remember, help us to walk in wisdom: God’s Word, the fellowship of God’s people, and people who are better at following God than you are.
If you hang out with people who are so so Christians, if you rarely read God’s Word, if you rarely attend fellowship with other Christians, you’ll stagnate, drift away and get out of touch with true wisdom.
The false wisdom of the world will seem more and more reasonable to you.
People say, “I don’t need to go to church, I can get more from God by being at the lake, or in nature.”
That’s false wisdom.
That’s contrary to God’s Word.
Remember this illustration?
A pastor visited a member of the church who had stopped attending frequently.
It was a cold day, and they were sitting in front of a real, wood burning fire.
The pastor didn’t say anything about church attendance, he just grabbed the tongs, lifted a coal out of the heart of the fire and set it on the hearth.
Before long, it was cold, black and grey.
Then he picked it up again and put it back in the heart of the fire.
In next to no time, it was glowing hot and red.
The church member turned to the pastor and said, thanks for the lesson, pastor.
He faithfully began attending church again.
Now, with all this in mind, look at
The quarrels James is talking about here are those which come from a wrong heart.
The conflict isn’t coming from outside, from someone else.
It is coming from inside from the passions at war within you.
Your fights are not because of your stubborn family member.
It isn’t because of your crazy father-in-law, it is something happening inside you.
The quarrels you’re in are because of you.
This isn’t from circumstances.
It’s a spiritual reality within.
There are two ways we grow; sometimes it’s a combination of both ways.
Usually though, growing in one of these two ways.
The first way people grow is by God’s grace, you are aware of God’s grace in your life.
People like this see God’s goodness all over the place in their lives.
They’re the kind of people who go, “Praise God! I’m healthy today!”
They are filled with gladness.
Did you know that gladness fuels gratitude, which produces gladness?
People who recognise God’s grace in their lives, realise that they don’t deserve anything.
They don’t deserve health, wealth, friends, and family.
And when they have such things, they’re just like, “Wow!
God is such a loving Father.
Wow!”
This produces gratitude in us.
More gratitude, more gladness.
The second way people grow is they see all those things as things they deserve.
They’re entitled to them.
If you have this feeling, this attitude, you don’t grow in gladness and thankfulness, but rather you grow in contempt.
When you think that you deserve a good family, a good marriage, good friends, good health, good wealth, you think God should give them to you.
And if you don’t have them, then you grow in contempt.
You begin with other people, and then you turn that contempt toward God.
You don’t rejoice when others are blessed, you resent it; it offends you because you deserve it!
There’s an old Newsboys song that has a chorus that goes, “When we get what we don’t deserve, it’s a real good thing.
When we don’t get what we deserve, it’s a real good thing.”
Do you understand what you really, truly deserve?
You deserve to receive what was placed on Jesus’ shoulders on the cross.
You deserve eternal punishment.
But God doesn’t give you that.
Even those people who mock and ignore God don’t even get that yet.
There are people who marry, have families, have great jobs, lots of health and wealth, but they hate God or, ignore him altogether.
That’s God’s grace to them.
That’s God’s simple, common grace poured out on people all over the place.
But if you don’t get that, you get entitled.
You wish you were blessed in the way others are blessed.
Then you get angry at God for not giving you what you deserve, why should those other people get all those good things, but not me?
How many people do you know who grew up in church, who really responded to it, tried to live a good, clean life, but then chucked it all away?
Why?
Because they didn’t get what they wanted.
Maybe it was a certain job, a relationship ended, their health turned poor.
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