Sunday Notes: James 3:13-18

Sunday Notes: James 3:13-18

• (Jas 3:13 ESV) Who is wise and understanding among ____________? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of ____________.
  • Wisdom is deeper than just ____________
    • That we would ____________ these things
    • And then ____________ these things
  • Meekness is the opposite of ____________
    • The opposite of self-promotion
    • In the attitude of meekness
      • There is fruit a believer produces
      • The good works of our lives lived out for others
        • Not for ourselves.
          • But for others
        • Galatians 5:19-23
• (Jas 3:14 ESV) But if you have ____________ jealousy and selfish ambition in your ____________, do not boast and be false to the truth.
• (Jas 3:15 ESV) This is not the ____________ that comes down from ____________, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.
  • The idea of bitter here is ____________
  • Selfish ____________ is the kind of drive that will do anything to achieve its end
    • Anything to the point of harming others
    • Philippians 2:3
  • Three descriptors…
    • Earthly:
      •  ___________________________________
    • Unspiritual
      •  ___________________________________
    • Demonic
      •  ___________________________________
  • Matthew 5:8
    • Do you see the contract between these two – pure peace and evil corruption?
• (Jas 3:16 ESV) For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.
  • Were jealousy and selfish ambition exist
    • There is disorder
    • And every vile practice
      • In politics
        •  _____________________________
      • At work
        •  _____________________________
      • At School
        •  _____________________________
      • In your marriage
        •  _____________________________
      • In your family
        •  _____________________________
    • How much of our ____________ is the result of selfish ambition
      • I want this more than I want to ____________ you fulfill your dreams.
      • I want this more than I ____________ about you.
    • How does our family change when we instead take a giving attitude?
• (Jas 3:17 ESV) But the wisdom from above is first ____________, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, ____________ and sincere.
• (Jas 3:18 ESV) And a ____________ of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make ____________.
  • Pure
  • Peaceable
  • ____________
  • Open to Reason
  • Full of Mercy and Good Fruits
  • Impartial
  • ____________
  • Matthew 5:9, Galatians 5:19-26
    • May it be so with us this week
      • That we keep in step with the Spirit
      • That we not become conceited
      • That we not provoke others
      • That envy not be a part of our minds