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<div class="SSN_title">"Worldly Wisdom"</div>
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<div class="SSN_intro">Intro. The Bible declares that God has made foolish, the wisdom of this world. For the world by it's wisdom knew not God. That the wisdom of this world comes to nothing. That the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">A. The paper this week announced that researchers have found the fossil of the oldest flower ever discovered, it is 142 million years old. The previously oldest flower was 130 million years old.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">1. How do they know that it is 142 million years old?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">a. Maybe it is only 140 million years old.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">b. Maybe it is less that 10 thousand years old.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">2. I once asked a professor of Archeology how they determine these dates, and he told me that if it isn't the oldest ever discovered, it does not make news, so it has to be older than any ever discovered or no one is interested in your find. I asked, "You mean that is it?" he answered, "Precisely."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">3. This article went on to say that this plant was in the early evolutionary stage when plants were just developing the flowering system that later evolved into fruit, grain, brilliantly colored and fragrant flowers in order to attract insects and other pollinators so that it could develop into fruit or grains to feed the animals.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">B. There was another report in the paper this week where the researchers have caused major mutations in fruit flies that they believe is possibly proving the punctuated equilibrium theory. You see the evolutionists have a real problem with the fossil record because of the absence of transitional forms. If you ask them why we see no transitional forms today they will answer because they evolve so slowly you cannot observe them. If you ask them why we do not see them in the fossil record, they will tell you that they happen so rapidly that they do leave a record in the fossils. That a snake laid an egg and a bird flew out, thus no transitional forms between the reptile and the birds. If you ask me, their explanation is for the birds.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">1. The wisdom of this world says there is no God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">2. Everything exists as a result of millions of years of fortuitous occurrences of accidental circumstances.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">3. The bible says that the fool has said in his heart, "There is no God."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">C. Not only the world by it's wisdom knew not God, but by it's wisdom is seeking to eliminate God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">D. Paul described it well in <a onClick="return mV('Rom',1,1);">Romans 1</a>, "Who when they knew God they glorified Him not as God, neither were they thankful, they became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish hearts were darkened professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, for they worshipped and served the creation rather than the Creator."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">E. We have all heard the fairy tale of how by the kiss of the princess, the spell of the wicked witch was broken and the ugly frog became a handsome prince. Do you believe that story really happened? The wisdom of this world embraces the story as scientific fact. Only the change was gradual it took millions of years for the frog to become a man.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">1. In the study of the DNA of a frog, it is far more complex than the DNA in human beings. Perhaps we are going the other way, and man is becoming a frog.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">2. There are those who believe in your next life, you might become a frog or a fly.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. IN OUR TEXT JAMES SPEAKS OF THE WISDOM OF THE WORLD.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. He declares that it is earthly, sensual, and devilish.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. It is earthly.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. The Bible says that the world by its wisdom knew not God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. In the denial of God, you have the great problem of your existence. Where did you come from?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. The complex intricate design of the body would suggest a Master Creator of infinite wisdom.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. The alternative suggested by the wisdom of the world is that you spontaneously began when lightening struck the ooze of some primordial sea.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. It is sensual, that is it appeals to the sensual part of man's nature.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. It encourages man to seek immediate sensual gratification without any thought of consequences.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. The wisdom from above would say, find out where that path can lead before you take it.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. It is devilish.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Note that in the Garden of Eden when the devil came to Eve to tempt her to disobey the command of God he appealed to the lust of her flesh, the lust of her eye and her pride.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. The wisdom of the world said, God is not true, you will not die, if you eat, you will become as God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. There is a wisdom that comes from God, and a wisdom that comes from the devil.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. The wisdom that comes from the devil seeks to deny the existence of God, and appeals to the sensual part of man's nature.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. The wisdom that comes from God causes the prudent man to consider the consequences of foolish choices, and living completely for the present.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. The fruit of worldly wisdom.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Bitter envying and strife in your heart.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Your life is filled with unfulfilled desires, which leads to bitterness.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. You begin to envy what others have, and you lust to have them for yourself.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. This leads you to devise schemes by which you can take that which they have for yourself. If not by guise, then by force.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. Look at all of the crime that stems from this worldly wisdom.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. Look at all the wars that have been provoked by worldly wisdom.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Chapter 4:1 Where do all the wars and fights come from? Do they not come from your lusts that war in your bodies? You lust and have not: you kill, and desire to have more, but you cannot obtain. You fight and war, but still are not satisfied.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. This is where worldly wisdom leads you.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. Solomon by his earthly wisdom amassed a greater fortune than any of his predecessors, yet he ended up cynical, frustrated, and unfulfilled. "Vanity, vanity, all is vanity."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">6. Worldly wisdom leads to confusion.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. <a onClick="return mV('Isa',5,20);">Isaiah 5:20</a> "Woe unto them that call evil good and good evil."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. We are living in that day when it is good to accept deviant sexual behavior, and evil to condemn sin.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">7. Worldly wisdom leads to every evil work.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. IN CONTRAST, "THE WISDOM THAT IS FROM ABOVE." THE WISDOM THAT COMES FROM GOD.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. It is pure. Pure wisdom leads a man to pure living.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. It is not tainted by worldly philosophy.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. It is not governed by worldly maxims.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Get, while the getting is good.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. It is peaceable.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Whereas worldly wisdom leads to wars, the wisdom that is from above brings peace.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. First we have peace with God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. This results in inward peace.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. This will bring peace with my brother.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. It is gentle.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Listen to these wonderful qualities. Pure, peaceful, gentle.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. These are the qualities in the man that has the wisdom that comes from God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Gentle does not mean weak.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. It takes greater strength to hold one's temper than to let it fly.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Anybody who takes leave of their senses can scream in rage.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. It takes great strength to control your emotions.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. Easy to be entreated.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. That is, it is reasonable.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. It can see what is right and equitable and can bend when it is necessary.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">E. Full of mercy and good fruit.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Having obtained mercy it is important that we show mercy.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Jesus gave a powerful parable to illustrate this point.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. How merciful do you want God to be toward your mistakes and wrongs. That is how merciful you should be toward someone else's wrongs.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. Worldly wisdom would say, "It was his fault, he had it coming to him." But the wisdom that is from above would show mercy.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">F. Without partiality.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. In chapter two he had rebuked them because they were prone to show partiality.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. James pointed out to them the fact that when men stand before God, we all stand on the same level, for God is no respecter of persons, He treats all men alike.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. They had a tendency to curry the favor of the rich, while they had disdain for the poor.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">G. Without hypocrisy.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. The world is filled with hypocrisy.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. It is almost laughable how some say that they are not interested in christianity because their are too many hypocrites in the church.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. These same people are often avid wrestling fans.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Or they head for the theater instead of church to see their favorite actor.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. The Greek word hupocrites is the word for actor. It was one who hid behind a mask.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. The wisdom of the world says, "Put up a good front, hide your true feelings."</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">III. ALL OF OUR LIVES ARE BEING GOVERNED BY WORLDLY WISDOM, OR THE WISDOM THAT IS FROM ABOVE.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Is your life filled with turmoil, confusion, unfulfilled desires? That is a good sign that you are following worldly wisdom.</div>
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