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Series: "Being Real in an Automated World"
"Real Wisdom vs. Counterfeit Wisdom"
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.
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.
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.
INTRODUCTION:
Being real in an automated world begins with acquiring and operating in real wisdom.
There are two kinds of wisdom:
* Real wisdom and counterfeit wisdom.
How can we know the difference?
The Word of God has the answer.
I- COUNTERFEIT WIDSOM ().
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.
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.
A- Counterfeit Wisdom's Signature Traits:
14 εἰ δὲ ζῆλον πικρὸν ἔχετε καὶ ἐριθείαν ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ ὑμῶν, μὴ κατακαυχᾶσθε καὶ ψεύδεσθε κατὰ τῆς ἀληθείας.
1- Bitter Jealousy ( ζῆλον πικρὸν)
ζῆλον πικρὸν
2- Bitterness
Descriptions of Jealousy:
• Envy is rebellion against God’s leading in the lives of his children.
It’s saying that God has no right to bless someone else more than you.—Erwin
Lutzer
• Envy is rebellion against God’s leading in the lives of his children.
It’s saying that God has no right to bless someone else more than you.—Erwin
Lutzer
• [Envy is] one of the most cancerous and soul-destroying vices there is.…
It is terribly potent, for it feeds and is fed by pride, the taproot of our fallen nature.—J.
I. Packer*
• [Envy is] one of the most cancerous and soul-destroying vices there is.…
It is terribly potent, for it feeds and is fed by pride, the taproot of our fallen nature.—J.
I. Packer*
2- Selfish ambition (ἐριθείαν ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ ὑμῶν)
• Envy can ruin reputations, split churches, and cause murders.
Envy can shrink our circle of friends, ruin our business, and dwarf our souls.…
I have seen hundreds cursed by it.—Billy
Graham
• Criticism is often nothing more than low-grade envy.
• One of the major causes of stress is combative competition—more accurately, envy.
Rooted in a lack of self-esteem, it grows in the soul-soil of comparisons and blossoms in noxious thorns of desire for what others have or achieve.—Lloyd
John Ogilvie
• One of the major causes of stress is combative competition—more accurately, envy.
Rooted in a lack of self-esteem, it grows in the soul-soil of comparisons and blossoms in noxious thorns of desire for what others have or achieve.—Lloyd
John Ogilvie
ἐριθείαν ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ ὑμῶν
• The envious man feels other’s fortunes are his misfortunes; their profit, his loss; their blessing, his bane; their health, his illness; their promotion, his demotion; their success, his failure.—Leslie
Flynn
• The envious man feels other’s fortunes are his misfortunes; their profit, his loss; their blessing, his bane; their health, his illness; their promotion, his demotion; their success, his failure.—Leslie
Flynn
• Jealousy, the jaundice of the soul.—John
Dryden, quoted by Coach Pat Riley* 2- Selfish ambition (ἐριθείαν ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ ὑμῶν)
• Jealousy, the jaundice of the soul.—John
Dryden, quoted by Coach Pat Riley* 2- Selfish ambition (ἐριθείαν ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ ὑμῶν)
3- Boasting Arrogance ( μὴ κατακαυχᾶσθε )
μὴ κατακαυχᾶσθε καὶ ψεύδεσθε κατὰ τῆς ἀληθείας.
• Criticism is often nothing more than low-grade envy.
4- Deception (καὶ ψεύδεσθε κατὰ τῆς ἀληθείας.)
B- Counterfeit Wisdom's Source:
15 οὐκ ἔστιν αὕτη ἡ σοφία ἄνωθεν κατερχομένη, ἀλλὰ ἐπίγειος, ψυχική, δαιμονιώδης.
1- Earthly (ἐπιγειος= Old adjective, on earth)
ἐπιγειος)
Old adjective, on earth)
2- Unspiritual (ψυχικη= the sensuous or animal life)
ψυχικη
the sensuous or animal life
()
3- Demonic (δαιμονιωδης)= demoniacal or demon-like)
δαιμονιωδης
demoniacal or demon-like
()
C- Counterfeit Wisdom's Sinful End
16 ὅπου γὰρ ζῆλος καὶ ἐριθεία, ἐκεῖ ἀκαταστασία καὶ πᾶν φαῦλον πρᾶγμα.
1- Disorder (ἀκαταστασια= “instability,” (a, negative, kata, “down,” stasis, “a standing”), denotes “a state of disorder, disturbance, confusion, tumult,”)
ἀκαταστασια
a state of disorder
“instability,” (a, negative, kata, “down,” stasis, “a standing”), denotes “a state of disorder, disturbance, confusion, tumult,”)
2- Evil of every Kind (πᾶν φαῦλον πρᾶγμα= every kind of evil)
πᾶν φαῦλον πρᾶγμα
• Envy can ruin reputations, split churches, and cause murders.
Envy can shrink our circle of friends, ruin our business, and dwarf our souls.…
I have seen hundreds cursed by it.—Billy
Graham
3- A universal rule:
a- Where jealousy and selfishness are present, sin and
destruction will follow.
• [Envy is] one of the most cancerous and soul-destroying vices there is.…
It is terribly potent, for it feeds and is fed by pride, the taproot of our fallen nature.—J.
I. Packer*
II- REAL WISDOM (,,).
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.
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.
13 Τίς σοφὸς καὶ ἐπιστήμων ἐν ὑμῖν; δειξάτω ἐκ τῆς καλῆς ἀναστροφῆς τὰ ἔργα αὐτοῦ ἐν πραΰτητι σοφίας.
17 ἡ δὲ ἄνωθεν σοφία πρῶτον μὲν ἁγνή ἐστιν, ἔπειτα εἰρηνική, ἐπιεικής, εὐπειθής, μεστὴ ἐλέους καὶ καρπῶν ἀγαθῶν, ἀδιάκριτος, ἀνυπόκριτος.
18 καρπὸς δὲ δικαιοσύνης ἐν εἰρήνῃ σπείρεται τοῖς ποιοῦσιν εἰρήνην.
A- The Source of Real Wisdom:
1- It is from above (heaven).
(Vs.
17a).
(ἡ δὲ ἄνωθεν σοφία= but the wisdom from above)
2- It is from God (vs.
13a) (If you are wise and understand God’s ways)
B- The Signature Traits of Real Wisdom:
17 ἡ δὲ ἄνωθεν σοφία πρῶτον μὲν ἁγνή ἐστιν, ἔπειτα εἰρηνική, ἐπιεικής, εὐπειθής, μεστὴ ἐλέους καὶ καρπῶν ἀγαθῶν, ἀδιάκριτος, ἀνυπόκριτος.
18 καρπὸς δὲ δικαιοσύνης ἐν εἰρήνῃ σπείρεται τοῖς ποιοῦσιν εἰρήνην.
1- pure (ἁγνή= pure, without defect) (vs.
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