“This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.” (James 3:15)
Going back to James 1:5 we read that if we “lack wisdom we are to ask of God who gives to all men liberally.” This kind of wisdom we have been reading about in chapter three of James does not come down from God.
The wisdom of the world sees the clear teachings of the cross of Jesus as foolish. But the Bible says, “For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.” (I Corinthians 1:21) Paul further sees Christ as the personification of wisdom. (I Corinthians 1:30)
Insistence on one’s own rights above others, elbowing to the front of the line, so to speak, ignoring the feelings of others and thinking more highly of oneself than of others is not the wisdom from above but is earthly, sensual, devilish wisdom.
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