Are you gaining wisdom from above?

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  While studying the Bible, many people have the idea of satisfying their curiosity, knowing new knowledge, and rejoicing or boasting about it.

Knowledge of the truth is not a word that immediately comes to the ears, so there are many times when it is very embarrassing for those who want to hear the word for the first time.

Even if you have the ability to memorize the entire Bible, if you cannot worship in the Spirit and in the truth, that knowledge of the Bible is of no use to you.

Indigestible food must be disposed of quickly, either by expelling it or vomiting it.

Likewise, words that are not embodied in oneself are very harmful.

You will only do ugly things that judge others and only boast about yourself.

Again, the book of James comes after Hebrews.

Sanctified through the grace of the redemption of Christ on the cross

and, according to His holding, apprehend Christ, the Apostle and High Priest, as we approach the throne of God's grace along the way, we must understand the secret of harmony between the words we hear and understand the process by which faith changes into action (Hebrews 2, 3, 4).

So, "Who among you has wisdom and understanding? Let him do good deeds in wisdom and meekness" (James 3:13).

It means a person with wisdom (Ephistemon) and understanding , a person with deep thoughts.

It means a person who is well versed in the truth or a person who has mastered it.

With wisdom you understand God's Word and with understanding you apply it to yourself.

Because of their sinful nature and wickedness, people do not want to come close to God.

We will not surrender to the Lord unless we suffer.

Worship to the Father in which one easily accepts the grace of Christ’s redemption through many sufferings, learns the meaning of baptism, and becomes one body and one spirit with the Lord Jesus Christ according to the truth in the anointing of the Holy Spirit due to the forgiveness of sins must be done, Only then do we become Christians in which worship and praise come true.

Teaching these procedures and processes and methods makes people feel bored and distressed.

They choose to receive the Gospel as quickly as jumping with a pole vault and talk like parrots.

If a person has wisdom and understanding and has mastered the process of becoming one with Christ according to the truth and boldly approaching Heavenly Father, he should set a model for doing good deeds, that is, behaving with a good lifestyle.

The way to do this is to do it with wisdom and gentleness, without bragging or exaggerating.

“But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth” (James 3:14).

There are so many people in Korean Christianity right now who are stumbled upon by this word.

Take a look at YouTube. Poisonous jealousy , quarrels are partial thoughts, bias .

If you have these things, you will resist the truth, deceive yourself, and deceive others.

If your heart and tongue are different, you are deceiving yourself.

You must be a person who has wisdom and understanding and manifests goodness, a person who is acceptable to God by uniting the words of his lips with the meditation of his heart (Ps. 19:1).

“This wisdom does not come down from above, but is of the earth, of lust and of demons” (James 3:15).

Harmful envy, strife is worldly, earthly, and human soulish.

Humanly, living with the earthly thing is demonic.

“For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you fine disorder and every evil work” (James 3:16).

Confusion is disorder, instability, and turmoil, from which all evil works.

But “the wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peaceable, gentle, obedient, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere” (James 3:17).

Wisdom from above is the first sanctity. Holy.

The second is peace. Always keep your composure.

Impatience and impulsiveness are the means of the devil, but peace is not at stake here.

The third is generosity, or tolerance, and the fourth is the character of obedient and accepting.

The fifth is full of mercy, and the sixth sees good fruit being produced.

And the seventh is impartial, that is, there is no discrimination or distinction between people.

The last eighth is sincere, no falsehood, no hypocrisy or embellishment.

“Peacemakers sow in peace and reap a harvest of righteousness” (James 3:18).

If you act as if you have become a person who cannot fulfill God's Word, this is a serious illness.

The event that Jesus rose again as the Christ

If he only sees the resurrection of Jesus and does not have his own resurrection, he is in a situation where he cannot acknowledge the fact that he has become a new creation after being born again. 

Can such a person have wisdom from above?

Only when we have peace can the fruits of righteousness be sown in that peace.

It is planted in your heart. Those who are justified by receiving Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who died for our sins and was raised up for our righteousness, as Lord, and who have made peace with God in Christ, make peace everywhere.

The fruits of righteousness are planted everywhere by these people.

For such Christians, righteousness from above continues to come down.

When righteousness comes, peace will naturally follow (Rom 5:1-2)

This principle means to believe in Christ as the Savior and obtain God's righteousness, and to be recognized as God's righteousness because that faith is revealed through works.

Written by Ptr. Yohan Kim.

Translated by  Nancy Chung

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