1. True Wisdom, Part 2 James 4:4-10

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4. True Wisdom, Part 2 James 4:4-10

5. What is wisdom? ① Discernment ability to see what’s best ② Skill ability to master every area of life ③ Pattern of success consistent use of discernment & skill Review 3:13-4:3

6. Counterfeit wisdom jealousy, selfish ambition, pleasure- seeking fosters conflict & evil True wisdom pure, peaceful, merciful, loyal, true fosters peace & righteousness Review 3:13-4:3

7. Our Fundamental Problem 4:4-5

8. Idolatry = adultery Our fundamental problem Jeremiah 3:20 “Surely, as a treacherous wife leaves her husband, so have you been treacherous to me, O house of Israel, declares the Lord.”

9. Idolatry = adultery Our fundamental problem Ezekiel 16:32 Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!

10. Our fundamental problem Exodus 20:3–5 “You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God...”

11. Idolatry = adultery Friendship with the world = idolatry “double-minded” (v8) – love God AND the world Our fundamental problem Matthew 6:24 “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.”

12. Whenever we... embrace the world’s values live for the world’s pleasures & possessions...then we are friends with the world......and therefore idolaters......and therefore adulteresses!! Our fundamental problem

13. God’s Grand Solution 4:6-10

14. God gives “greater grace”... strength to be faithful to God God’s grand solution

15. God gives “greater grace”......to those who humble themselves God’s grand solution

16. Isaiah 66:1–2 Thus says the Lord, “Heaven is My throne and the earth is My footstool. Where then is a house you could build for Me? And where is a place that I may rest? For My hand made all these things, thus all these things came into being,” declares the Lord. “But to this one I will look, to him who is humble and contrite of spirit, and who trembles at My word.”

17. God gives “greater grace”......to those who humble themselves ① Submit attitude of respect towards authority that leads to willing obedience requires us to resist Satan God’s grand solution

18. God gives “greater grace”......to those who humble themselves ① Submit ② Repent Draw near – return to God Cleanse & purify – stop sinning Be miserable, mourn, weep – grieve God’s grand solution

19. God gives “greater grace”......to those who humble themselves ① Submit ② Repent God’s grand solution