Wise Up!
Calvary Church with Skip Heitzig Audio Podcast
Skip Heitzig
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🗓️ 21 July 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
In the ancient world, few virtues were more revered than wisdom. In the biblical Hebrew culture, wisdom was considered the skill to live well, or more precisely, a wise person was an expert in godly living. According to James, wisdom has little to do with IQ, SAT scores, or education. Wisdom is different from knowledge. Rather, true wisdom is the right application of knowledge. In this passage, James showed the difference between true and false wisdom with four notable traits.
I. Wisdom Is Practical (v. 13a)
II. Wisdom Is Humble (v. 13b)
III. Wisdom Is Spiritual (vv. 14-16)
IV. Wisdom Is Fruitful (vv. 17-18)
Talk with God: Ask the Lord to fill your heart with “the wisdom that is from above” so your life will be “full of mercy and good fruits” (v. 17).
Talk with others: Ask a mentor to hold you accountable in not acting through “envy and self-seeking” (v. 14).
Talk with kids: How can Stephen’s faith encourage us in our own faith?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Calvary Church with Skip Heitzig. |
| 0:03.0 | We're so glad you've joined us today. |
| 0:05.0 | While many books, articles, and social media posts offer advice on adulting in our daily lives, |
| 0:10.0 | there's only one resource to help us become spiritually mature believers. |
| 0:15.0 | God's Word. |
| 0:16.0 | This study in the book of James with Pastor Skip, will encourage you to embrace discipline and difficulty |
| 0:21.0 | to glorify God and demonstrate your faith to others. |
| 0:25.1 | We are calling the series Adulting, |
| 0:28.4 | and that is Christian maturity growing up in the faith, |
| 0:32.4 | and we are in James Chapter 3. |
| 0:34.9 | Now, when it comes to animals, and you hear the term wisdom, I wonder what animal |
| 0:42.0 | comes to your mind. Maybe a snake. Now you say not a snake, but remember Jesus said be wise as |
| 0:52.8 | serpents and harmless as doves. |
| 0:57.0 | So there is something to be said for a snake as a symbol of wisdom. |
| 1:03.2 | Or perhaps an ant comes to mind. |
| 1:07.3 | And why would that be? |
| 1:08.5 | Well, Proverbs 6, Solomon says, go to the aunt, you sluggard, |
| 1:15.0 | consider her ways and be wise. But probably the animal that comes to mind for most of you is |
| 1:22.9 | this animal, the owl. The owl has been considered a symbol of wisdom for thousands of years. |
| 1:30.3 | In fact, in Greek mythology, the goddess Athena is pictured with an owl on her shoulder |
| 1:37.3 | to symbolize wisdom and knowledge that she possessed wisdom and knowledge. |
| 1:42.3 | In the ancient world, owls were considered wise |
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