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This morning we'd like to draw your attention

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to the third chapter of James beginning with

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verse 13 where James declares, who is a

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wise man in do with knowledge among you

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let him show out of a good manner

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of life his works with meekness of wisdom

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but if you have bitter envying and strife

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in your hearts glory not and lie not

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against the truth for this wisdom doesn't descend

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from above it is earthly it is sensual

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it is devilish for where envying and strife

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is there is confusion and every evil work

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but the wisdom that is from above is

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first pure then peaceable gentle easy to be

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entreated full of mercy and good fruits without

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partiality and without hypocrisy and the fruit of

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righteousness is sown in peace of them that

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make peace so James here is going to

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be contrasting between earthly wisdom and divine wisdom

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the wisdom that is of the world and

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the wisdom that is of God the characteristics

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of worldly wisdom is first of all that

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it is earthly it thinks only in the

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terms of the temporal advantage and it ignores

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eternal consequences it only is asking what will

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this do for me right now it doesn't

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look down the road and view the permanent

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damage that can come to my life if

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i continue in this particular practice it doesn't

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consider the long-term effects the dependency that

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it is creating and the permanent damage that

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it is doing it never asks if i

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continue on this road where is it leading

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me what will the end be it does

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not take the eternal omniscient god into consideration

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as the prophet isaiah wrote in 29 14

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therefore god said behold i will proceed to

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do a marvelous work among the people and

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a wonder for the wisdom of their wise

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men shall perish woe to them that seek

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to hide their counsel from the lord and

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do their works in the dark and they

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think who can see us and who knows

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us they are like the potter's clay for

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they deny that god made them for they

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say he has no understanding david wrote reason

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it out you fools when will you think

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it through and be wise he that created

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your ear do you think that god can't

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hear he that created your eye do you

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think that god can't see paul tells us

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in romans that because they knew god they

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did not glorify him as god but neither

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were they thankful they became vain in their

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imaginations and their foolish heart was darkened and

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professing themselves to be wise they actually became

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fools because they worshiped and served the creature

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rather than the creator who is blessed forevermore

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and they changed the glory of an incorruptible

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god and made it like unto an image

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made like corruptible man to birds four-footed

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beast and creeping things it's interesting to me

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today that so many men do not seek

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to relate themselves to god but they seek

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to relate themselves to the animal kingdom they

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don't realize that man has fallen from the

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image of god the bible tells us that

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when god created man he created man in

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his own image and he knows in his

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own likeness but rather than seeking to relate

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to god and to be restored to the

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image of god man seeks to relate himself

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to the animal kingdom and so he looks

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at the chimpanzee and he says looks a

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little bit like me and acts a lot

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like me maybe i have evolved from the

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chimp maybe i am in higher order of

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evolution but related to the animal kingdom and

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on down the line within the animal kingdom

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that i am the product of blind chance

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over billions of years and we seek to

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believe that we have become the product of

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fortuitous occurrences of accidental circumstances through billions of

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years that i am related more to the

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primates and professing themselves to be wise paul

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said they become fools do you know how

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they postulate your ability to see billions of

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years ago as the worm was emerging out

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of the primordial ooze and it was exposed

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to the light rays of the sun a

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freckle formed on the upper part of this

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little worm and through billions of years this

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freckle developed nerves and formed into an eye

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and of course at the same time there

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evolved a brain so that the brain could

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understand what the eye was seeing and as

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the little worm was wiggling on the rocks

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to try and propel itself it scratched itself

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it became a callus ultimately grew into legs

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over billions of years of time with little

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feet and that little worm became a salamander

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and you were on your way through the

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goo on through the zoo until it finally

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became you that you are the product of

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blind chance random chance through billions of years

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and then they try to pass it off

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as science evolution is a religion not a

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science believed only by fools who do not

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want to acknowledge the existence of god as

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david said the fool has said in his

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heart there is no god it takes more

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faith to believe it than to believe that

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in the beginning god created the heavens and

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the earth and god created man and place

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him on this planet earth so james says

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of the earthly wisdom that it is sensual

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it appeals to our senses have you ever

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heard enjoy yourself it's later than you think

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or eat drink and be married because tomorrow

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you'll die the prophet isaiah wrote you have

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trusted in your wickedness you have said no

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one sees me and your wisdom and your

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knowledge you have perverted as you say in

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your heart i am self-existent and there

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is no one else beside me therefore he

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said evil shall come upon you you will

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not know from whence it has come mischief

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will befall you and you'll not be able

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to escape it and you shall be destroyed

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suddenly the wisdom of the earth earthy sensual

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and it is also devilish paul wrote but

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i fear less by any means as the

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serpent beguiled eve through his subtlety so your

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minds will be corrupted from the simplicity that

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is in christ again writing to the corinthians

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11 13 he said false apostles have come

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to you but they are deceitful workers as

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they transform themselves to the apostles of christ

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and no marvel for satan transforms himself into

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an angel of light therefore it's no wonder

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if his ministers seek to transform themselves as

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ministers of righteousness whose end shall be according

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to their works the wisdom of the world

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will come to nothing as paul wrote to

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the corinthians albeit we speak wisdom among them

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that are perfect yet not the wisdom of

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this world nor of the princes of this

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world that comes to nothing the wisdom of

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this world is foolishness with god according to

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paul for it is written he takes the

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wise in their own craftiness not just foolishness

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to god but the wisdom of the world

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is just plain foolish if you look at

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it carefully and as paul said professing themselves

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to be wise they became fools now in

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contrast we have the wisdom that comes from

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god james here in verse 17 chapter 3

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but the wisdom that is from above is

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first of all pure then peaceable gentle easy

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to be entreated full of mercy and good

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fruits and without partiality and without hypocrisy the

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wisdom that is from above solomon wrote in

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proverbs 2 6 for the lord gives wisdom

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and out of his mouth comes knowledge and

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understanding and this wisdom that comes from the

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lord is first of all pure as david

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said in psalm 12 6 the words of

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the lord are pure words like silver that's

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been refined in the furnace in psalm 19

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david said the commandment of the lord is

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pure enlightening the eyes i've noticed a trend

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lately here in america that some of the

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young ministers across the country have started use

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vulgarity and filthy words in their sermons and

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i for the life of me cannot understand

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how a person professing to be a minister

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of god who is pure would use impure

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language from the pulpit i suppose they are

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looking for some kind of a shock value

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i dare say if i use some profanity

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you would all be shocked and you'd you

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know and it would have a shock value

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but i question as a servant of god

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as a representative of god who is absolutely

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pure i question the use of profanity not

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only from the pulpit just in my everyday

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life the wisdom that comes from god is

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pure secondly it is peaceable one of the

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names of jesus is he is the prince

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of peace as he was ready to leave

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his disciples he said peace i give unto

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you not as the world gives goodbye unto

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you let not your heart be troubled neither

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let it be afraid paul speaks of the

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peace of christ that passes human understanding the

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wisdom that comes from god it has a

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peaceful effect upon you it causes you to

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realize that god is in control and that

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all of your excitement or all of your

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energy that you might expend in trying to

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work out a situation is really not necessary

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god is going to take care of things

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and the peace of god which passes understanding

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just keeps your heart and your mind in

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the lord in hebrews 12 14 we're told

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follow peace with all men and holiness without

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which no man will see the lord and

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then the wisdom that comes from god is

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also gentle it's not harsh it's not abrasive

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in describing the fruit of the spirit paul

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is saying that it is love and joy

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and peace and and gentleness in galatians he

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describes that kind of peace that we have

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from god and then the peace that comes

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from god is easy to be in treated

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that means you're not obstinate stubborn and when

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you have taken a position you don't hold

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to it even though it may be proven

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to be wrong but you cannot be persuaded

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to change your position you're not ready to

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yield to the truth when it is presented

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to you you're prone to say please don't

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confuse me with the facts my mind is

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made up and and the truth or doesn't

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really mean that much to you because you

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cannot be easily entreated but then this peace

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that comes from god brings mercy and good

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fruit now mercy is pity for the man

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who is suffering even if his suffering is

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his own fault so many times when a

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person is going through a problem he said

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well he deserves it that nut did such

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crazy things you know he deserves what it's

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what's coming to him and and that isn't

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mercy mercy has sympathy it has pity for

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that man who is suffering even though his

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suffering may be caused by what he has

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done we're prone to say well he brought

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it on himself but jesus said blessed are

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the merciful for they shall obtain mercy it

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is said that when napoleon bonaparte was in

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a victory parade on his horse riding through

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the streets of paris that from the crowd

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that was watching a young girl bolted out

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of the crowd and came running up to

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his horse crying to napoleon mercy sire mercy

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mercy for my father and napoleon said and

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who is your father and as she named

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her father napoleon answered your father is a

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traitor to france he deserves to die she

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responded sir i didn't say justice i said

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mercy mercy is not getting what you deserve

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justice is getting what you deserve but this

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is mercy with good works it is not

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only just not getting what you deserve but

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it is being blessed even though you're not

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worthy or deserving of it good fruit mercy

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and good fruit when someone has done a

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wrong to me and they come and they

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ask forgiveness and i say oh of course

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i forgive you no problem that's mercy but

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then if i say come let me take

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you out to lunch i'd like to just

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spend some time with you that's good fruit

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and wisdom that is from god it isn't

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just merciful but it also is manifesting good

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fruit jesus told us in luke 6 36

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be ye therefore merciful even as your father

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is merciful and that is the kind of

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mercy that god has for us not just

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forgiving us but blessing us the wisdom that

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comes from god is also without partiality back

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in chapter 2 of james he said my

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brethren do not have respect of persons for

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if one comes into your church and he's

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wearing a gold ring he's dressed in expensive

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clothes and another one comes in wearing rags

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and you respect the one with the jewelry

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and the fancy clothes and you give him

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the best seat in the house but you

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say to the poor man stand over there

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in the corner he said you're guilty of

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showing partiality hasn't god chosen the poor of

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the world rich in faith as the heirs

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of the kingdom which he has promised to

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those that love him the wisdom that comes

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from god doesn't show partiality because often we

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only show partiality to gain something for ourselves

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we read that god is no respecter of

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persons when we stand before god we all

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stand on the same level the wisdom that

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comes from god is without hypocrisy now the

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word hypocrisy comes from the greek word hypocrite

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the greek word hypocrites is the word for

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actor it means you're just putting on an

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act it isn't genuine you're pretending to be

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something that you're not this is the wisdom

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that is from above now i can live

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and choose to live by the wisdom of

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the world the wisdom that is earthly that

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is sensual and that is devilish but as

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james tells us the effect of this will

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bring bitter envying and strife in your life

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or i can choose to live by the

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wisdom of god the wisdom that brings purity

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peace gentleness the wisdom that is easily entreated

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and full of mercy and good fruit without

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partiality and without hypocrisy the wisdom by which

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i choose to live will develop the character

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of my life and that is why it

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is so important that we choose to live

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by that wisdom which comes from god and

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i'd like you to just really think over

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in your mind today am i living by

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the worldly wisdom is that what is forming

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my character is that which marks my life

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or am i living by the wisdom of

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god and that wonderful character is being formed

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in me by the spirit of god because

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i am living by the wisdom that comes

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from god let's pray father we thank you

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for the wisdom that you give to us

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and we ask lord that we might live

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by that wisdom we choose lord not to

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follow the folly of this world the wisdom

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that comes to nothing the wisdom that would

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deny even your existence would exalt man above

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you but lord we want to live by

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that wisdom that will create the character and

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nature of god in us that we might

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be like you lord in all things in

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jesus name we pray amen shall we stand

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the pastors are down here at the front

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to minister to you and to pray for

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you as you take a honest evaluation of

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your life as honest as you can we

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deceive ourselves and but yet maybe ask the

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lord like david uh search me oh god

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know my heart try me know my thoughts

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see if there be some wicked way in

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me and then you lead me in your

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ways and as you ask god to just

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reveal the truth about you to yourself are

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you living by earthly wisdom or by godly

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wisdom are you conforming to the world and

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the things of the world or are you

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being conformed unto the things of god you're

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walking down a path continuing on that path

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where will it lead you what will be

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the end result where will you end up

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and it may be that you don't like

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the thought of where this path is leading

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you you'd like to change you can't make

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that change yourself it's not within our power

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to do so but he can make that

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change for us if we will just but

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consent to it if we will just but

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ask i can be changed i can be

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delivered i can be set free i can

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become a new person i i can be

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free from the bondage of corruption that yes

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i took that path and it is destroying

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me i am getting what i deserve but

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i can also get if i so desire

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the mercy of god a changed life and

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a freedom from those things that are binding

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me and destroying me and so i would

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encourage you to take that honest evaluation or

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even better ask the lord to search you

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and to reveal your heart and then turn

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your life over to him and say lord

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i want to follow after godly wisdom make

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me pure give me your peace cause me

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to be gentle lord and loving and kind

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and merciful make me like you lord make

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me like you the lord bless you and

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keep thee the lord make his face to

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shine upon thee and be gracious unto thee

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and be gracious unto thee the lord lift

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up his countenance upon thee and give

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thee peace