Savage Street Church of Christ

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Choosing God’s Wisdom Over Man’s Wisdom 

James 3.13–18

Don Ruhl • Savage Street, Grants Pass, Oregon • October 12, In the year of our Lord, 2014

Persuasion: 

1. Competing Sources of Wisdom
   1. Rom 1.18–32
   2. This comes from
      1. The soil of atheism
      2. The root of evolution
      3. The trunk of humanism
      4. The branches of psychology
      5. The fruit of selfism
   1. 1Co 1.18–31
   2. This comes from
      1. The soil of theism
      2. The root of creation
      3. The trunk of Scripture
      4. The branches of Christianity
      5. The fruit of glorifying God
   1. Man’s Wisdom
   2. God’s Wisdom

1. God’s Wisdom
   1. Jer 10.23
   2. Pro 16.25
   1. Pro 3.5–6
   2. 2Ti 3.16–17
   3. 2Pe 1.2–4
   1. Knowing that personal problems come from violating Scripture
   2. Use God’s solutions to the problems of life
   3. Ask for His wisdom – Jam 1.5
   4. Learn to see the difference between man’s wisdom and God’s – Jam 3.13–18

Exhortation: 

1. Give your life to Jesus.
   1. He created you.
   2. He knows how your life should run.
2. Do you believe Jesus is Lord?
   1. Do you know what that means?
   2. Do you know what it entails?