Wisdom Endures…Knowledge Falls Short
Face To Face
[{'start': '0.160', 'end': '6.400', 'text': "good evening my name is Javanni and welcome\xa0\nto Face to Face tonight we're talking about"}, {'start': '6.400', 'end': '12.000', 'text': 'wisdom the dictionary defines wisdom\xa0\nas the quality of having experience'}, {'start': '12.000', 'end': '18.400', 'text': 'knowledge and good judgment that is a\xa0\nvery limited view of wisdom is wisdom'}, {'start': '18.400', 'end': '23.760', 'text': 'just for making good decisions\xa0\nor does it imply something deeper'}, {'start': '24.320', 'end': '30.880', 'text': 'proverbs 9:10 tells us that the fear of the Lord\xa0\nis the beginning of wisdom and the knowledge of'}, {'start': '30.880', 'end': '38.240', 'text': 'the Holy One is insight today we explore the\xa0\ndifference between real wisdom or the wisdom'}, {'start': '38.240', 'end': '50.400', 'text': "of God versus counterfeit wisdom are you ready to\xa0\nlearn what it takes to be wise let's get into it"}, {'start': '53.680', 'end': '60.240', 'text': "when you look around does it seem there's very\xa0\nlittle wisdom in our culture rather we value"}, {'start': '60.240', 'end': '67.760', 'text': 'the acquisition of knowledge learning facts and\xa0\nscholarship so much so that when we meet someone'}, {'start': '67.760', 'end': '73.280', 'text': 'say for the first time one of the things we want\xa0\nto know is which college they attended this is'}, {'start': '73.280', 'end': '78.640', 'text': 'especially true if you live in the Northeast like\xa0\nI do if someone says they attended one of the Ivy'}, {'start': '78.640', 'end': '87.120', 'text': 'League schools we take notice our mind immediately\xa0\nputs them in a different category this is someone'}, {'start': '87.120', 'end': '95.120', 'text': 'who is smart knowledgeable we tell ourselves there\xa0\nare companies that will not hire unless you went'}, {'start': '95.120', 'end': '102.560', 'text': "to one of the Ivies now don't get me wrong i don't\xa0\nwant you to come away thinking that knowledge is"}, {'start': '102.560', 'end': '111.040', 'text': 'unimportant on the contrary I believe that as\xa0\nChristians we are called to pursue learning and'}, {'start': '111.040', 'end': '118.960', 'text': "knowledge and to do it with excellence where we\xa0\nmustn't go astray though is in thinking that our"}, {'start': '118.960', 'end': '127.600', 'text': 'degree of learning translates to wisdom the verse\xa0\nin Proverbs is very clear and it says that those'}, {'start': '127.600', 'end': '135.360', 'text': 'who fear God and seek to know him will gain wisdom\xa0\nand insight the fear of God and the knowledge of'}, {'start': '135.360', 'end': '142.560', 'text': 'God is how we will know how to behave in every\xa0\nsituation how to live rightly in the world and'}, {'start': '142.560', 'end': '151.200', 'text': 'how to relate to others i find myself many times\xa0\nasking God for wisdom perhaps you do too we ask'}, {'start': '151.200', 'end': '158.800', 'text': 'for his wisdom because we know how important it\xa0\nis in life in James 15 he says "If any of you'}, {'start': '158.800', 'end': '166.800', 'text': 'lacks wisdom let him ask God who gives generously\xa0\nto all and without reproach and it will be given'}, {'start': '166.800', 'end': '177.520', 'text': 'to him." God gives wisdom but he gives wisdom to\xa0\nthose who obey his word and seek to know him it is'}, {'start': '177.520', 'end': '184.560', 'text': 'also in James that we find a list of the qualities\xa0\nof godly wisdom and it is in that list that I want'}, {'start': '184.560', 'end': '195.040', 'text': 'to dig into for this podcast james 3:17 says\xa0\n"But the wisdom from above is first pure then'}, {'start': '195.040', 'end': '205.360', 'text': 'peaceable gentle open to reason full of mercy\xa0\nand good fruits impartial and sincere." Let\'s'}, {'start': '205.360', 'end': '215.040', 'text': 'start with the first one wisdom is pure scripture\xa0\ntells us that we are to pursue a pure mind a pure'}, {'start': '215.040', 'end': '222.720', 'text': 'heart and to keep our bodies pure philippians 4:8\xa0\naddresses our mind whatever is true whatever is'}, {'start': '222.720', 'end': '230.800', 'text': 'noble whatever is right whatever is pure whatever\xa0\nis lovely whatever is admirable think on these'}, {'start': '230.800', 'end': '236.960', 'text': 'things to have a clean heart is to be mindful of\xa0\nour motives meaning the reasons behind the things'}, {'start': '236.960', 'end': '244.960', 'text': 'that we do philippians 2:3 says "Do nothing from\xa0\nselfish ambition or conceit but in humility count'}, {'start': '244.960', 'end': '252.080', 'text': 'others more significant than yourselves." Keeping\xa0\nour bodies pure is about sexual desire and whether'}, {'start': '252.080', 'end': '258.000', 'text': "we're treating our bodies as the temple of the\xa0\nHoly Spirit or as an instrument of pleasure as"}, {'start': '258.000', 'end': '263.920', 'text': 'Paul says in 1 Corinthians 6:19 to20 "Do you\xa0\nnot know that your body is a temple of the Holy'}, {'start': '263.920', 'end': '271.440', 'text': 'Spirit within you whom you have from God you are\xa0\nnot your own for you were bought with a price so'}, {'start': '271.440', 'end': '279.440', 'text': 'glorify God in your body pursuing this kind of\xa0\npurity is countercultural and frequently seen by'}, {'start': '279.440', 'end': '287.680', 'text': 'the world as weird moralistic or holier than thou\xa0\nour culture says that if something feels good then'}, {'start': '287.680', 'end': '296.800', 'text': "do it as you're not hurting anyone else it doesn't\xa0\nmatter how depraved how base or how lonesome it is"}, {'start': '296.800', 'end': '305.600', 'text': "if it's not hurting anyone else it's okay wisdom\xa0\nis peaceable if you want to be wise show yourself"}, {'start': '305.600', 'end': '311.760', 'text': 'to be a person of peace jesus said "Blessed\xa0\nare the peacemakers for they shall be called'}, {'start': '311.760', 'end': '318.000', 'text': 'the children of God." Jesus himself showed an\xa0\ninordinate amount of peace when he was arrested'}, {'start': '318.000', 'end': '324.400', 'text': 'instead of fighting Jesus healed the man whose\xa0\near had been cut off by Peter and he told Peter'}, {'start': '324.400', 'end': '332.000', 'text': '"If you live by the sword you will die by the\xa0\nsword." There are literal swords as in this scene'}, {'start': '332.000', 'end': '340.400', 'text': 'with Jesus but there are also figurative swords\xa0\nthat kill like our words and our actions a wise'}, {'start': '340.400', 'end': '347.120', 'text': 'person refrains from stirring up arguments and\xa0\ndisagreements for the sake of it they maintain'}, {'start': '347.120', 'end': '355.840', 'text': "their cool even when others want to make trouble\xa0\non the flip side our world lacks peace they're"}, {'start': '355.840', 'end': '362.640', 'text': 'hungry for peace but are chasing their own tail\xa0\nwhen it comes to it they think weapons suppression'}, {'start': '362.640', 'end': '370.400', 'text': "taking away people's rights and crushing dissent\xa0\nmakes peace they lack peace because their peace"}, {'start': '370.400', 'end': '380.400', 'text': "is found in money power and position true peace\xa0\nis found in Jesus and much like purity Jesus's"}, {'start': '380.400', 'end': '389.120', 'text': 'idea of peace is countercultural isaiah 26:3 says\xa0\nthat God will keep in perfect peace those whose'}, {'start': '389.120', 'end': '400.320', 'text': 'minds are stayed on him because they trust him\xa0\nnext wisdom is gentle a person of wisdom is a'}, {'start': '400.320', 'end': '407.600', 'text': 'person who is gentle and gentleness is a fruit\xa0\nof the spirit wisdom shows itself in a person'}, {'start': '407.600', 'end': '413.120', 'text': 'who is measured in their reactions someone who\xa0\nremains calm in the face of difficult people'}, {'start': '413.120', 'end': '419.440', 'text': "or circumstances gentleness is how Joseph in the\xa0\nBible treated his brothers and didn't hold their"}, {'start': '419.440', 'end': '426.160', 'text': 'betrayal against them a more recent example is\xa0\nDr martin Luther King and his response to the'}, {'start': '426.160', 'end': '436.240', 'text': 'sin of racism he chose nonviolent peaceful means\xa0\nto demolish institutionalized racism in America'}, {'start': '436.240', 'end': '443.440', 'text': 'being gentle is a curse word in our culture we\xa0\nbelieve in hitting back if someone disrespects'}, {'start': '443.440', 'end': '450.880', 'text': "or disses us getting even is what we're more\xa0\nfamiliar with godly wisdom is open to reason"}, {'start': '450.880', 'end': '455.680', 'text': "when someone is open to reason it means that\xa0\nthey're willing to hear other viewpoints even"}, {'start': '455.680', 'end': '463.600', 'text': "when they don't necessarily agree with them it\xa0\nmeans being malleable and receptive not stubborn"}, {'start': '463.600', 'end': '472.080', 'text': "rigid or prideful so that if they are wrong\xa0\nthey're willing to reverse course god doesn't"}, {'start': '472.080', 'end': '479.120', 'text': "expect something from us that he himself doesn't\xa0\ndo i was able to find scriptural evidence that"}, {'start': '479.120', 'end': '486.800', 'text': 'God is open to reason if you recall when Abraham\xa0\nreasoned with God for Sodom and Gomorrah or when'}, {'start': '486.800', 'end': '495.920', 'text': 'King Hezekiah reasoned with God for additional\xa0\nyears of life in Isaiah 1:18 God says "Come now'}, {'start': '495.920', 'end': '504.080', 'text': 'let us reason together." It is God\'s invitation\xa0\nto us to reason with him today though what we'}, {'start': '504.080', 'end': '511.680', 'text': "see in the world is irrationality people dig in\xa0\ntheir heels on their opinions even if they're"}, {'start': '511.680', 'end': '520.640', 'text': "wrong it's led sadly to the spirit of division\xa0\nand partisanship so prevalent not just here in"}, {'start': '520.640', 'end': '529.040', 'text': 'the US but around the world hardness of heart is\xa0\na posture that is ungodly and not what Jesus calls'}, {'start': '529.040', 'end': '537.120', 'text': 'us to as his children ephesians 4:18 says "They\xa0\nare darkened in their understanding alienated from'}, {'start': '537.120', 'end': '546.240', 'text': 'the life of God because of the ignorance that is\xa0\nin them due to their hardness of heart." Wisdom is'}, {'start': '546.240', 'end': '555.200', 'text': 'full of mercy a wise person is merciful meaning\xa0\nthat they show compassion and forgiveness even'}, {'start': '555.200', 'end': '562.000', 'text': "when it's in their power to punish and harm those\xa0\nwho've wronged them it is what Jesus did for us on"}, {'start': '562.000', 'end': '570.160', 'text': 'the cross we have his example as a guide yet when\xa0\nwas the last time you forgave someone who hurt you'}, {'start': '570.160', 'end': '579.920', 'text': 'we fall short every day i know I do but Jesus\xa0\nchooses to lavish mercy and grace on you and me'}, {'start': '580.560', 'end': '588.640', 'text': 'on the contrary for some people the more that God\xa0\nforgives them the less tolerant less forgiving and'}, {'start': '588.640', 'end': '598.960', 'text': 'less compassionate they become next wisdom is\xa0\nfull of good fruit whenever fruit is mentioned'}, {'start': '598.960', 'end': '604.800', 'text': "in scripture particularly in the New Testament\xa0\nthere's no other fruit it can refer to but to"}, {'start': '604.800', 'end': '616.480', 'text': 'the fruit of the spirit wisdom encompasses love\xa0\njoy peace patience kindness goodness faithfulness'}, {'start': '616.480', 'end': '625.200', 'text': 'gentleness and self-control a person of wisdom\xa0\nwill also display all of those character traits'}, {'start': '625.200', 'end': '630.960', 'text': 'for a deep dive into the fruit of the spirit you\xa0\nshould watch my series on the fruit of the spirit'}, {'start': '630.960', 'end': '640.880', 'text': 'on the flip side the fruit of the world is hatred\xa0\nsadness anxiety impatience meanness corruption'}, {'start': '640.880', 'end': '649.840', 'text': 'unfaithfulness cruelty and self-indulgence i\xa0\ncould spend hours digging into each of these and'}, {'start': '649.840', 'end': '657.360', 'text': 'the damage that those worldly qualities cause but\xa0\nthat might have to wait for a different podcast'}, {'start': '658.320', 'end': '666.000', 'text': 'wisdom is impartial impartiality comes up a lot\xa0\nin the legal field and in scripture the meaning'}, {'start': '666.000', 'end': '675.040', 'text': 'is very similar it means not to favor one person\xa0\nor a group of people over others a wise person'}, {'start': '675.040', 'end': '682.480', 'text': "doesn't discriminate they do their utmost to\xa0\nevaluate everyone equally as created in the"}, {'start': '682.480', 'end': '690.640', 'text': "image of God and therefore owed honor respect\xa0\nand consideration we glean God's heart against"}, {'start': '690.640', 'end': '698.720', 'text': 'impartiality in James 2:1 my brothers and sisters\xa0\ndo not show favoritism as you hold to the faith in'}, {'start': '698.720', 'end': '707.840', 'text': 'the glorious Lord Jesus Christ to be impartial is\xa0\nthe way of Jesus who died for all irrespective of'}, {'start': '707.840', 'end': '716.400', 'text': 'color economic or social status ability age etc\xa0\nbut the reality is that we create differences'}, {'start': '716.400', 'end': '723.120', 'text': 'along all types of criteria for example people who\xa0\nare poor are treated differently than those who'}, {'start': '723.120', 'end': '729.440', 'text': 'are rich people with status and power get access\xa0\nstatistically those who are beautiful and tall get'}, {'start': '729.440', 'end': '738.240', 'text': "all kinds of advantages over the plain and short\xa0\nif you're uneducated you're looked down on as wise"}, {'start': '738.240', 'end': '747.120', 'text': 'people of God we have to distinguish our kingdom\xa0\nvalues from the values of the world wisdom is'}, {'start': '747.120', 'end': '755.680', 'text': "sincere this is the last one but not least a wise\xa0\nperson is genuine he or she doesn't pretend to be"}, {'start': '755.680', 'end': '762.720', 'text': "something they're not or pretend to like someone\xa0\nwhen they don't wisdom aims for authenticity in"}, {'start': '762.720', 'end': '769.840', 'text': "speech in action and thought in our media obsessed\xa0\nsociety where our digital lives often don't match"}, {'start': '769.840', 'end': '777.680', 'text': 'up with our real ones authenticity is a rare\xa0\nvirtue in 2 Corinthians 1:12 Paul says "For'}, {'start': '777.680', 'end': '784.960', 'text': 'our boast is this the testimony of our conscience\xa0\nthat we behaved in the world with simplicity and'}, {'start': '784.960', 'end': '793.440', 'text': 'godly sincerity not by earthly wisdom but by\xa0\nthe grace of God and supremely so toward you."'}, {'start': '793.440', 'end': '800.720', 'text': 'Sincerity is being honest in our expression\xa0\nof feeling not being two-faced or hypocritical'}, {'start': '801.520', 'end': '809.520', 'text': 'biblical wisdom is about loving God and having\xa0\na posture of humility submission and obedience'}, {'start': '809.520', 'end': '817.920', 'text': "to God's word it is about character ultimately\xa0\nbiblical wisdom isn't dependent on the number"}, {'start': '817.920', 'end': '823.520', 'text': "of books you've read how much history you know\xa0\nhow many diplomas you have on a wall or how high"}, {'start': '823.520', 'end': '831.920', 'text': 'your IQ is you can be smart and be abusive you\xa0\ncan have a PhD and lie and cheat you can have'}, {'start': '831.920', 'end': '838.160', 'text': 'studied at the most prestigious institutions in\xa0\nthe world and still be unfaithful to your wife'}, {'start': '838.160', 'end': '847.760', 'text': 'you can know and site and recite philosophy and at\xa0\nthe same time be cruel and unforgiving knowledge'}, {'start': '847.760', 'end': '855.680', 'text': 'apart from God is just that knowledge but if you\xa0\ninfuse knowledge with the fear of the Lord and a'}, {'start': '855.680', 'end': '864.240', 'text': 'love of God and for his word then you have the\xa0\nmakings of wisdom wisdom and insight given by'}, {'start': '864.240', 'end': '870.880', 'text': 'God are how uneducated men like Peter were able\xa0\nto speak and write as though they were learned'}, {'start': '870.880', 'end': '878.880', 'text': "god's wisdom is poured out generously to those\xa0\nwho seek him and he delights in using what the"}, {'start': '878.880', 'end': '888.160', 'text': 'world considers foolish to confound the wise\xa0\ndo you want wisdom then get to know God and you'}, {'start': '888.160', 'end': '895.120', 'text': 'will live out all of the beautiful qualities\xa0\nof it remember that wisdom is first pure then'}, {'start': '895.120', 'end': '906.320', 'text': 'peaceable gentle open to reason full of mercy and\xa0\ngood fruits impartial and sincere may the Lord'}, {'start': '906.320', 'end': '921.619', 'text': "pour out his wisdom over you thank you so much\xa0\nfor watching and I'll see you next time [Music]"}]