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I. James 3:12-15, “Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no

fountain both yield salt water and fresh. Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among

you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. But if ye

have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This

wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and

strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure,

then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without

partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that

make peace.”

A. If I am endued with something, it was imparted to me.

B. If you have bitter envying and strife, it is carnal, worldly, and devilish.

1.It is acting like the devil.

2.It didn’t come from God.

II. If there is a wisdom from above, there is a wisdom from beneath.

A. God wouldn’t have to describe wisdom as from above if that was the only kind there

is.

III. Wisdom’s root word speaks of

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A. Skill, cleverness in some art or craft.

B. Someone having a grasp of the common sense things about life.

C. An insight into the true nature of things.

IV. Wisdom from above is the true nature of things, while the wisdom from the world can be crafty

about some things.

A. When you have a grasp on things, you can manipulate them to your benefit.

V. Wisdom is the ability to see things through the eyes of God.

VI. Where to find wisdom

A. Word of God

B. Prayer

C. Godly friends

VII. God never has a distorted view of anything.

A. He also knows about the true nature of things.

B. Nothing ever occurs to God.

C. Nothing ever catches God by surprise.

D. God never misunderstands anything.

VIII. If I get the wisdom of God, I will be able to see things from God’s perspective.

A. I will see it like God sees it.

B. I will have a clear Biblical view.

C. Micah 6:9, “The LORD'S voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall

see…”

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1.I am blinded to the real nature of things.

2.If I don’t see it clearly, my nature will be as distorted as my view.

3.I will have a distorted nature because I see it wrong.

IX. Exodus 31:6, “And I, behold, I have given with him Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the

tribe of Dan: and in the hearts of all that are wise hearted I have put wisdom, that they may

make all that I have commanded thee;”

A. This wisdom from above is not conjured up.

B. It does not come from book-learning.

C. I must put myself in the position where God can make me wise.

X. 1 Corinthians 12:8, “For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word

of knowledge by the same Spirit;”

A. The spirit of God will give me wisdom.

B. I get the spirit of wisdom because I am in submission to the Spirit of God.

XI. Acts 6:10, “And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.”

A. They could not resist the spirit of God.

B. They could not resist his spirit since he had an excellent spirit.

C. When you see it like God sees it, you will have an excellent spirit too.

D. You are going to have the right character problems to deal with things properly.

XII. 1 Corinthians 1:20, “Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world?

hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?”

A. Wisdom of this world is made foolish by God.

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B. He is talking about the ability to manipulate things to their benefit.

C. He is talking about their craftiness and skillfulness.

XIII. 2 Corinthians 4:4, “In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which

believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should

shine unto them.”

A. The devil spends his time blinding people to the truth.

B. Wisdom of this world originates with the devil.

C. The devil offered Eve this wisdom in Genesis 3.

D. The wisdom of this world may be a disaster.

XIV. Romans 1:22, “Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,”

A. Scientist profess themselves to be wise, becoming fools.

B. They are wise in their own conceit.

XV. Worldly wisdom is to see it like the devil sees it.

A. The devil is a manipulator, crafty, skillful, selfish.

1.He knows how to get what he wants.

2.He observes and finds the weaknesses and exploits them.

3.The devil is unethical.

B. People who are selfish are unethical.

1.I should not only be concerned about what I want and my own gratification,

I must be concerned about others.

XVI. All wisdom has a spiritual source.

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XVII. James 3:13, “Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of

a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.”

A. They are endued with wisdom.

B. If you are successful, it will because you are either seeing the wisdom of God or

obtaining the wisdom of the world.

C. It will be because you obtain the wisdom of God.

D. You may be able to get physical result with worldly wisdom and manipulation.

E. I need to get wisdom from above if I am to get spiritual results from God that He honors.

F. Comparison between wisdom from above and wisdom from beneath

1.Wisdom from above is from God, wisdom from beneath is from the devil.

2.Wisdom from above leads to the benefit of the follower.

3.Wisdom from beneath manipulates to the benefit of the manipulator.

4.Be careful that you get the wisdom of God instead of the craftiness of the

world.

5.Be careful that you don’t become a user.

a. Where you use someone then dispose of them when they have been used

up.

6.Wisdom from above has the pure motive of honoring God.

7.Wisdom from beneath has the motive of honoring self.

a. To build an empire for self.

b. To build a name for self.

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XVIII. The character of this wisdom from above is described in verse 13.

A. James 3:13, “Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew

out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.”

1.Meekness of wisdom is strength under control.

2.Because he sees it like God sees it and gets his wisdom from Heavenly places,

he is able to not use all the force he has, he is able to wait on God.

XIX. Contrasts the wisdom of God with some elements of the world.

A. Bitter envying and strife in your hearts.

B. When you are a bitter person you figure out how to do something without the wisdom

of God.

C. When you are an envious person, you figure out how to do things so that you can get it

because you are envious.

1.You were crafty, but that wasn’t the wisdom of God.

2.Anything that is around the motive of envious, strife, or me being contentious,

being proud, manipulating things around myself, is a form of wisdom, a

wisdom of the world that comes from the God of this world that is destructive

and manipulative.

3.God never intended for us to manipulate one another.

D. Wisdom of the world causes confusion and every evil work.

1.Wisdom that has an evil work and an evil motive brings about evil works to

perform an evil task.

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XX. Lists several identifying traits of the wisdom from above.

A. These principles will help govern whether I am ethical or unethical.

1.The source of wisdom is going to determine my motive and how I carry it out.

B. Wisdom is pure.

1.First means at the top of the list.

a. First means the thing you begin with.

b. The foundation goes first.

c. You build on the foundation.

d. Everything else rests on this first.

e. I must have first things first.

2.The first thing I must be concerned about is purity.

3.Without purity, I will not get any farther.

a. It is first.

b. I can never get to number 2 unless I get number 1 fixed.

c. I don’t need number 2 if number 1 is in place.

4.Purity has to do primarily, but not exclusively with my motive.

a. Matthew 5:8, “Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.”

b. A pure heart is the motive, attitude, desire of my heart.

5.A corrupting goal will cause you to do wrong things to get there.

a. I will do wrong things to get there even if it looks like I am going where

I am supposed to go.

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b. If my motive is pure, I will be able to see as God sees.

c. If I have a dirty view, I will do all sorts of things that I should not do.

6.1 Corinthians 10:31, “Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye

do, do all to the glory of God.”

a. If my motive is to glorify God, then I will not disobey God and rob God

of His glory to build a church, win a soul, to accomplish some task.

b. The end does justify the means.

c. Just because it turned out okay does not mean that God approved of how

you got there.

d. Many people want to say, if the end results are livable, it doesn’t matter

how you got there.

i. If you can’t pay your bills, it doesn’t matter if you rob a bank or

a store to pay your bills.

ii. You do more wrong in paying the bills than you did in having

the bills unpaid.

e. An impure motive is like an impure motive, everything it touches it

soils.

7.Titus 1:15, “Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled

and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is

defiled.”

a. Everything they touch is unsure.

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b. My motive is the launching pad for activity.

i. If it is off an inch at the launching pad, it will be off miles out in

space.

ii. If it is off in the launch, the farther it goes, the farther off it will

be.

iii. As the object becomes farther away, pretty soon I will miss

something I should have hit.

c. If it is not pure, it is not a result of the wisdom of God.

C. Peaceable.

1.Romans 12:18, “If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with

all men.”

a. I can’t agree with everybody.

b. I cannot fellowship with everybody.

c. I can’t use everybody.

2.We do a lot more damage when we give credence and give out the names of

people who are doing wrong.

a. There is no such thing as bad publicity.

b. When people go around criticizing you, they are getting your name out

and your work out.

c. They will sympathize with you since you are being criticized.

d. They will look into you to see if you are what they say you are.

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e. The more time we talk about the wrong crowd rather than teaching

godly principles, the more we give credence, credibility, promote, make

people aware of them, the more we make people check them out.

3.Being peaceable doesn’t mean that we don’t be strong about disagreeing.

a. Doesn’t mean I don’t quit preaching what I believe.

b. There is a time to call names.

c. When you make a business of calling names and starting fights, what

you do is run the underdog because you are the one kicking in.

d. People’s natural tendency is to gravitate to the underdog.

e. It is human nature to feel sorry for the person getting kicked.

4.Peaceable is the opposite of being contentious.

a. We should agree that we are going to separate and not stay together and

fight all the time.

b. If I cannot get in agreement with a brother, I must separate from him.

5.Proverbs 18:6, “A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for

strokes.”

6.The wisdom that is from above is not contentious.

a. Its nature and desire is to be peaceable, and if it cannot fellowship, it

peaceably separates.

b. It must stand on principle that is evident to everybody.

c. It does not declare war on personalities, but on principle.

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7.The greatest weapons we as far as I say is principle.

a. The greatest weapon I have against the devil is truth.

b. The greatest weapon I have against evil is doing good.

8.YOU DON’T FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE!

9.You overcome evil with good.

a. Good is a more powerful force than evil.

b. We will use every weapon against everybody and we are as guilty as

they are.

10. The wisdom from God sees that the wisdom from above will satisfy.

11. Proverbs 22:10, “Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea,

strife and reproach shall cease.”

a. Don’t cause a ruckus or a fight.

b. Scorners are always picking a fight.

c. Let them stand with their own fight.

12. 1 Corinthians 1:10-11, “Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our

Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no

divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind

and in the same judgment. For it hath been declared unto me of you, my

brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions

among you.”

a. Not compromising.

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i. Nothing perfect, pure, scriptural about compromises.

ii. There is something perfect about truth.

D. No divisions

1.No schisms about it.

E. Of the same mind

1.If we would all get the mind of Christ, we would all get along with each other.

2.If we got the mind for someone else didn’t we would still act like we are

supposed to act even though they do not.

3.I can be the man I am supposed to be even though I don’t agree with them.

4.I may preach against what they believe because I am preaching the Bible.

5.I don’t have to pick a fight with them.

F. 1 Corinthians 1:11-13, “For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them

which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you. Now this I say,

that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of

Christ. Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name

of Paul?”

1.Cleaving to personalities instead of principles will cause unnecessary fights

and divisions.

2.Be loyal to your friends

3.If my preaching and my life is based upon the principles of Christ not on my

friends.

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4.What will you do when two of your friends don’t agree with each other?

a. Love both.

5.Preaching fallible men instead of an infallible Christ will cause contention.

6.Dogmatism concerning the style of preaching rather than the content of

preaching will cause contention.

G. Just because something good, it does not justify something unethical that was used to

get there.

H. It is unethical for us to be a contentious person.

1.If I cannot get along with someone, I should separate from them, not spend

all of my time fighting.

2.Once I have left, forget about it and go on my way rather than fight at a

distance.

3.The whole object of separation is so that we can have peace again.

I. Be careful that we are emphasizing the principle, not man.

J. Some people will make your style of preaching a bigger issue than what you say.

1.Types of preaching

a. Expository

b. Topical

c. Expository

2.Learn to do a little bit of all of it.

3.Don’t make a big issue of the style, but the content of the preaching.

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4.Use all of these means of communicating truth.

5.All three are helpful at different places

K. Some are just plain contentious.

1.Proverbs 26:21, “As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a

contentious man to kindle strife.”

2.A fellow that is a contentious man is bent on causing strife.

3.If there is a potential for a fight, he will cause one.

L. When Nehemiah built a wall, his object was not to fight, his object was to build.

1.When the enemy came into to try to stop him from building, he fought.

2.He kept his sword strapped to his side.

3.God wants us to spend our time building and when we have to fight we will

fight.

4.Kill the snakes on the path, but don’t go off the path going snake hunting.

5.Fight what I have to fight so that I have the ability to keep going.

6.I do not need to be on a crusade.

M. If you are contentious, you are walking around looking for a fight.

1.That is not ethical.

2.Nothing Christ-like or Biblical about that.

N. If you are Christ-like, you will not be having a contentious spirit, you will be fighting

for principle

1.Don’t fall into the category of those who have an attitude.

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2.Fight because you have a truth that you can’t let go.

3.Because you are taking a stand for what you know is right and are trying to

maintain that instead of killing everybody else.

O. Barnabas and Paul gracefully parted ways when they had contention.

1.They didn’t keep fighting one another.

2.Paul went on his missionary journeys and did what God called him to do.

3.Barnabas had a good impact on Mark because when Paul was in prison he

wrote in 2 Timothy “Send Mark, for he is profitable for me for the ministry.”

4.Paul may have been right in the conflict, but Barnabas took Mark under his

arm and did something with him in time.

5.There is time when we will have contention with good people.

6.The best thing to do is to quietly part ways and not continue the fight beyond

the point of separation.

P. Titus 3:9, “But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings

about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.”

1.Avoid contentions.

2.Don’t use the faith for an excuse to contend with everybody.

Q. Philippians 1:16, “The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add

affliction to my bonds:”

1.We are not to preach Christ of contention.

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2.He said that even though the motive was strife and contention, I am glad His

name is being heard.

3.He did not approve of that kind of preaching.

4.It is ethical to preach Christ of contention.

5.It is unethical for me to use Jesus and the Bible as an excuse to have a bad

spirit.

6.I would rather people preach Christ of contention rather than not at all.

7.I must spend my time trying to get someone else saved rather than attacking

those I don’t agree with.

a. The main object of Christians is to glorify God.

8.Worried about Civil Wars.

a. Killing our own wounded.

b. Creating wars within that are unnecessary.

9.If we don’t have enough ethics to be peaceable with one another, we will bite

and devour one another and make it easy for the devil.

10. We have plenty of battles to fight that are outside without nipping each

other.

XXI. Gentle

A. Spent time on the word gentle when speaking about the word moderation.

B. Gentleness has to do with my treatment of people.

C. Gentle, not harsh.

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D. A gentle horse is not a weak horse, it is a useful horse.

1.It has enough strength to serve.

2.It is safe even for a small child.

E. Some people say things that you don’t want your children to hear.

1.People say things in the pulpit.

F. Galatians 5:22-23, “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering,

gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.”

1.Being filled with the spirit means that I am under the influence of the spirit of

God.

2.Filled is the same word as drunk.

3.You are under the influence.

4.I must be under the influence of the Holy Spirit.

5.The Holy Spirit is not a seducing spirit.

a. He will control what I yield and no more.

b. You are as yielded to the Holy Spirit as you are obedient to the Bible.

6.If I am under His spirit, He is going to dictate gentleness.

G. God does not violate people

1.He could because he is God.

H. 1 Thessalonians 2:7, “But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her

children:”

1.The pastoral epistles are God giving instructions to those who are leaders.

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2.He deals much with gentleness and moderation.

I. 2 Samuel 22:36, “Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy

gentleness hath made me great.”

1.Charles Spurgeon, “He that preaches to a broken heart will not want for a

crowd.”

2.We need to learn to preach to the need.

3.People are hurting and they don’t need to be beat up.

4.Don’t come to the pulpit with the impression that the people are the enemy.

a. They desperately need to get right with God.

b. They need the truth.

c. They need truth with a gentle spirit.

d. They need someone helping them.

5.Any person who builds a great work for God is as strong as they can be, but

they are gentle.

a. They are ethical.

J. No one has to go to your church.

1.They can find somewhere else to go.

2.They are not required to go to your church.

3.If you are going to beat them, and be harsh with them, you won’t have them

very long.

K. People ought to operate at their maximum, their limit.

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1.I must get someone to decide to live at their limit, I can’t force anybody to

live at their limit.

2.I must challenge, encourage, motivate, and teach them.

3.I am not going to intimidate them to their limit.

XXII. Easy to be intreated

A. To intreat means to supplicate to or to intercede on someone’s behalf.

1.You have a receiver, not only a sending unit.

2.You are approachable.

3.Someone can supplicate to you on behalf someone else and you will give them

a hearing.

4.Someone can get to you.

5.Easy to tap and get the answers that they need.

B. The person who has the wisdom of God really wants to understand.

1.If I am unethical I will brush people off.

2.If I have the wisdom of God, I will really want to know what the problem is.

3.I want to give every man an answer for the reason of the hope that is in me.

4.Don’t rail on them for asking a question.

C. Every request that Abraham made for Sodom and Gomorrah, God listened to Him and

responded positively.

1.I may not be able to give everybody everything they ask for.

2.If I am going to be like Christ, I must be easy to be intreated.

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3.If I see it like God sees it, if I have the wisdom of God, then I will be ethical

enough to be interested in your viewpoint.

4.I will be ethical enough to give you a hearing.

5.I can’t give you a proper answer if I don’t at least give you a civil hearing.

6.I need to find out what your problem is.

D. Ministry would be great if it wasn’t for people.

1.The ministry is people.

2.If you have people, you have problems.

3.You don’t solve problems by going into a rage.

4.You never correct things with a bomb.

5.Explosions don’t create things, they mess them up.

XXIII. Full of mercy

A. Wisdom is withholding from people the bad that they deserve.

B. I give them good by principle instead of merit.

1.I don’t treat them good because they deserve to be treated good.

2.I treat them good by principle because that is what I ought to do.

C. I should act more like God.

1.I deserved Hell.

2.When I received Christ, God saved me.

3.God could have swatted me into Hell before I ever got saved.

4.He gave me time to get saved.

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5. In mercy, He withheld swift judgment.

D. God wants us to learn to have a little bit of restraint and withhold from people what

they deserve.

E. It is ethical to give people some room.

F. Be under the influence of mercy.

1.This will influence how you deal with things.

XXIV. Full of good fruits

A. Many are wise and crafty to get what they want while they damage everything they

touch.

B. Good is that which repairs, restores and does things in a positive factor instead of a

negative factor.

C. Jesus went about doing good.

1.He did not just be good.

2.He did what was positive, not damaging.

3.He did what was beneficial, not hurtful.

D. I am to be as wise as serpents and harmless as doves.

XXV. Without partiality

A. I should not have partiality with people.

B. James 2:1-9, “My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of

glory, with respect of persons. For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold

ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment; And ye have

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respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good

place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool: Are ye not

then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts? Hearken, my

beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of

the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him? But ye have despised the

poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats? Do not

they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called? If ye fulfil the royal law

according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: But if

ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as

transgressors.”

1.He is talking about me looking at someone who can probably do the church

some good because he has money.

2.Then shove the poor person back in the corner.

3.God will not honor that because we are not to be dependent on people who

have money, we are supposed to be dependent upon God.

C. Good Samaritan

1.Most unlikely person to help the Jew was a Samaritan.

2.Terrible prejudice between the Samaritans and the Jews.

3.Priest came by and didn’t have time to help his brother.

4.Levite didn’t have time to mess with him.

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5.Samaritan wound up his wounds, put oil on them, put him on his beast and

brought him to the inn, told the inn keeper to take care of him until he

returned.

6.Jesus told that story to rebuke a man who was asking who he HAD to help.

7.He did what he ought to do regardless of how he felt toward him.

D. That was justice

1.Justice is not perfection, it is an equal balance.

2.Justice symbol is a set of scales.

3.God wants there to be an equal balance.

4.Treat them equally, not according to what they can do for us.

E. Partiality is usually shown to get personal gain.

1.To win the favor or to get in the position with someone who can help you.

F. Give an evangelist twice as much as I would give a pastor.

1.Because that is their sole income for that week.

2.I do it because I am giving to meet a need.

XXVI. Without hypocrisy.

A. Deals with reality, not just perception.

B. Doesn’t try to make you think I am something I am not.

C. I ought to be a good Christian, but it should be a reality.

D. It is unethical for me to pretend I am something that I am not, trying to generate to you

a certain perception that I am not.

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E. The best thing you can do is to be who you are and be transparent.

1.You should be growing in the grace of God.

2.Don’t have anything to hide.

3.Don’t be a phony.

4.I would rather have a man who is real and has 40 flaws, rather than a man

who has 40 flaws and covers them up pretending like he doesn’t have any.

5.Integrity and honesty is ethical.

6.For me to be a phony is unethical.

F. God knows who I really am.

1.What am I gaining by pretending?

2.What am I gaining by living for your perception?

3.We should be becoming what we ought to be.

G. Paul rebuked Peter because of his dissimulation.

1.Speaking of his hypocrisy.

2.He rebuked Peter for being hypocrisy.

3.What they were doing what was acceptable at that time, but it wasn’t

acceptable at that time.

4.We have too many veneers and masks.

5.We live too much for perception and not for reality.

6.We know how we want to be perceived, so we live for people to perceive us

as we want to be perceived, not as we really are.

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H. We shouldn’t be concerned with what others think, we should be concerned with what

God knows.

1.It doesn’t bother me if God knows I am.

2.Don’t do it for others perception.

3.Whatever I am, I should not try to hide it.

I. It is ethical for me to treat you the way I am treated by God.

XXVII. Too many people are crafty to accomplish what they want to accomplish, their accomplishment

may be monumental.

A. God is not real impressed when we kill people in accomplishing something.

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