Part 7 | Finding Peace in Difficult Relationships

From James 3

📖 James 1:5 ESV If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.

I need heavenly in my earthly .

Two of wisdom:

1. wisdom makes .

📖 James 3:13 ESV Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom.

📖 James 3:14 ESV But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. 15 This is not the wisdom that comes down from above…

Three Facets of Worldly Wisdom:

1. Worldly wisdom around the .

📖 James 3:14 ESV if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts

📖 James 3:16 ESV For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.

2. Worldly wisdom the .

📖 James 3:14 ESV But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.

3. Worldly wisdom over this . 

📖 James 3:15 ESV This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.

📖 Isaiah 14:12–15 ESV “How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low! 13 You said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far reaches of the north; 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’ 15 But you are brought down to Sheol, to the far reaches of the pit.

Three Facets of Heavenly Wisdom:

1. Heavenly wisdom around .

📖 James 3:17 ESV But the wisdom from above is first pure

📖 Matthew 6:33 ESV But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

📖 Psalm 37:4–5 ESV Delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart. 5 Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him, and he will act.

2. Heavenly wisdom life to .

📖 James 3:17 ESV then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.

Peaceable: to conflict and the relationship. 

Gentle: and toward others.

Open to reason: to others out.

Full of mercy and good fruits: toward others.

Impartial and sincere: Playing without .

3. Heavenly wisdom in .

📖 James 3:18 ESV And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

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