Translation: 13Is there someone
wise and learned among you? He had better show his actions from his good
lifestyle in the humility of wisdom. 14But if you have bitter
jealousy and selfishness in your heart, don’t boast and lie against the truth! 15This
isn’t the wisdom from above that has come down, but earthly, personal, and
demonic! Because wherever there is envy and selfishness, chaos and every
base/wicked thing are there. 17And the wisdom that comes from above
first of all is holy/pure, then peaceful, tolerant, obedient, filled with mercy
and good fruits, undiscriminating, unhypocritical. 18And the fruit
of righteousness is sown in peace to those who practice peace.
4.1Where to wars come from? And where do
battles come from among you? Isn’t it from this? From your pleasures that wage
war among your body parts? 2You desperately want, but you don’t
have, you kill and envy and you can’t get [it], you war and battle, you don’t
have because you don’t ask. 3You ask and you don’t receive because
you ask wickedly, so that you can blow your money on your pleasures! 4Adulteresses,
don’t you know that the friendship of the world is hostile/an enemy of God? So
whoever would want to be a friend of the world, is made [to be] an enemy of
God. 5Or do you think that for no reason the Scripture says the
Spirit Who lives in you desperately wants with jealousy, 6and gives
greater grace? Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to
the humble. 7So, subordinate/submit to God, stand against the devil,
and he will flee from you! 8Draw near to God and He will draw near
to you! Clean [your] hands, sinners, and make your hearts holy, doubters! 9Feel
miserable and mourn and cry! Your laughter had better turn into mourning and
your happiness into dejection/depression. 10Be humbled before the
Lord and He will raise you up. 11Don’t speak against one another,
brothers. The person who speaks against a brother or judges his brother speaks
against to the Law and judges the Law. But if you judge the Law, you’re not a
doer of the Law, but a judge. 12There is One Lawgiver and Judge, the
One Who can save and destroy, but who are you who judges the neighbor?
The Point I’m Stressing: What is
the source of all the evil in our tongue? The evil in our hearts! What is the
evil in our hearts? Pride, Selfishness, and bitter jealousy! What are those
things really, just manifestations of hostility towards God and unbelief in
God’s Word!
Interpretation
1.
Structure
a.
The Humility of Wisdom vs.
Selfishness and Pride
i.
Real Wisdom Comes with
Humble Actions
ii.
False Wisdom comes with
prideful selfish actions
iii.
Real Wisdom Looks Godly and
Peaceful
b.
The Source of the Problems:
Selfishness and Pride
i.
The Source of Conflict
among Believers Comes from Our Desires that Try to Rule Us
ii.
The Problem is when our
desires are so strong that we’ll do anything to get what we want
iii.
The problem is also that we
don’t ask God for what we need or want
iv.
The problem is when we do
ask it is often with selfish foolish desires or plans
c.
The Implication of the True
Problem: Being so Close to the World, means you’re against God, and God is
against You
i.
You can’t love the world
more than God and be God’s friend
ii.
We often forget that as
much as we jealous of others and others’ stuff, God is jealous for us, and
wants to give us grace, but that God is opposed to evil and supportive of the
humble
d.
The Appropriate Response to
the Revelation of our evil heart: Repentance
i.
BE HUMBLE!!! HUMBLE
OURSELVES!!! TO GOD
ii.
Resist the Devil
iii.
Draw near to God
iv.
Turn away from sin and
receive God’s cleansing
v.
Be sorry for what we’ve
done
vi.
Instead of trying to make
ourselves so important and exalted, we must let God do it and be humble
e.
The Manifestation of
Selfishness and Pride that is not Obvious: Self-Righteous Judgment, Putting
others down
i.
Don’t put others down to
make yourself seem higher, that is the opposite of humility
ii.
Don’t play God and tell
everyone who’s wrong and who’s right, Only God gets to judge others: He will
save and Destroy
iii.
When you judge your
neighbor, you’re taking God’s role, and that is just another form of insane
pride
2.
Themes
a.
Real Faith produces Godly
Actions
b.
Wisdom
c.
Humility
d.
Pride
e.
Speaking
f.
Jealousy
g.
Selfishness
h.
Judgment/Judicial Setting
i.
Repentance from the heart
j.
Sadness
k.
Scripture quotation
l.
Law
3.
Doctrines
a.
Real Faith produces Godly
actions
b.
Wisdom is part of the
Christian life, and real Christian wisdom results in a humble lifestyle, not
arrogance
c.
God doesn’t like proud
people, but will raise up the humble
d.
God as the Ultimate and
Final and Sole Judge
e.
Applications
1.
When we are having a
conflict, we should ask ourselves, why that conflict exist, the true is it
because of the evil in our hearts
2.
Behind every desire is the
subtle belief that if I have that or do that I will be happy, it will feel good
3.
What are the desires that
we will do anything to have?
4.
BE HUMBLED!!!
5.
REPENT!!!
6.
FEEL SORRY ABOUT YOUR
SIN!!!
7.
Trust God and His Word
8.
Don’t play God by judging
others
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