RTW 2022

If you are wise and understand God’s ways, prove it by living an honorable life, doing good works with the humility that comes from wisdom. But if you are bitterly jealous and there is selfish ambition in your heart, don’t cover up the truth with boasting and lying. For jealousy and selfishness are not God’s kind of wisdom. Such things are earthly, unspiritual, and demonic. For wherever there is jealousy and selfish ambition, there you will find disorder and evil of every kind. But the wisdom from above is first of all pure. It is also peace loving, gentle at all times, and willing to yield to others. It is full of mercy and the fruit of good deeds. It shows no favoritism and is always sincere.
James 3:13-17

But don’t just listen to God’s word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves.
James 1:22

• Wisdom: the quality of having experience, knowledge, and good judgment; the quality of being wise; learning acquired over time.
• Knowledge can exist without wisdom.
• Godly wisdom is from God and honors God.
• The beginning of wisdom is the fear of God.
• Proverbs 4:7
• The result of godly wisdom is a holy life.
• Godly wisdom helps us to prepare for eternity.
• 1 John 2:15-16
• Godly wisdom means seeing life from God’s perspective…and responding!
• Godly wisdom looks very different from the world.
• Matthew 5-7
• Godly wisdom often means we do what is opposite to our natural inclination.
• Galatians 2:20; Ephesians 5:16-25
• The primary way we gain godly wisdom is through learning the Word.
• Psalm 119:169
• Colossians 3:16
• Proverbs 2:3-4

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Learn the Word. Love the Word. Live the Word.