Episode 147: James 3

Join The Journey

Watermark Community Church, Dallas, TX

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Christian, Bible, Devotional

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🗓️ 26 July 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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How do you define wisdom? Is your definition correct? In this episode, Emma Dotter highlights Abby Michael's devo as we talk the tongue, wisdom, and the heart that knows God rightly.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, you're listening to the Join the podcast with your host, Emma Daughter.
0:05.2	To learn more about today's reading or to read along with us, check out jointhejourney.com.
0:10.8	Thanks for joining. Today, we're in James 3. And James actually poses a question himself.
0:17.3	Who is wise and understanding among you? Who do you know that's marked by wisdom? Do you want to be marked by wisdom and understanding?
0:25.6	When I think about being marked by wisdom, I think about the smartest person in the room.
0:29.6	Like my mind immediately starts rattling through a list of people who are really diligent students of theology.
0:36.6	They know the word. They've studied church
0:39.0	history, and they know all the theological terms. And while the individuals on my list of
0:44.0	smart Christians, they might be wise, the knowledge they display isn't what necessarily makes them
0:51.0	wise. But if knowledge doesn't necessarily make someone wise, what does?
0:55.9	I think it's pretty safe to say that wisdom is something we'd all like more of, but how do we get it
1:01.6	and how do we know if we have it? James III makes it clear that without wisdom, we're jealous,
1:08.3	selfish, and arrogant. And I'm pretty certain none of us want to be marked by jealousy,
1:13.0	selfishness, or arrogance. So what makes somebody wise or said differently? How do we know if someone is
1:19.3	wise? Starting in verse 13, we read, Who among you is wise and understanding? Let him show by his good behavior, his deeds, and the
1:29.7	gentleness of wisdom. So how do we know if someone is wise? By his or her behavior? Do they behave
1:35.8	out of a place of gentleness? Do their deeds evidence wisdom, or do they evidence jealousy,
1:41.7	selfishness, or arrogance? Versus 14 through 18 read,
1:45.6	But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie
1:52.0	against the truth. This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, natural,
1:59.5	demonic. Verse 16, for where jealousy and selfish ambition exist,
2:04.6	there is disorder in every evil thing. But the wisdom from above is first pure than peaceable,
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