Is Your Heart Aligned with Scripture?

Pastor Gabe George continues week nine of our teaching series, Hearers & Doers: A Study in the Book of James. Real wisdom doesn’t come from ambition or comparison, it comes from alignment.

Earthly wisdom seeks self; Godly wisdom seeks submission. The difference isn’t intellectual, it’s directional. True wisdom is pure, peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy, impartial, and sincere. It doesn’t just make life smarter, it makes life whole. 

In this message, Pastor Gabe explores the following Scriptures: 

JAMES 3:13-18 ESV 13 Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom. 14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. 15 This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. 16 For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice. 17 But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. 18 And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. 

GENESIS 1:31A ESV 31 And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. 

PROVERBS 3:19 ESV 19 The Lord by wisdom founded the earth; by understanding he established the heavens; 

GENESIS 2:8-9, 16-17 ESV 8 And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9 And out of the ground the Lord God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” 

JAMES 3:13-18 ESV 13 Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom. 14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. 15 This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. 16 For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice. 17 But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. 18 And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. 

EXODUS 20:2 ESV 2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

2 SAMUEL 7:8-9 ESV 8 ... ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel. 9 And I have been with you wherever you went and have cut off all your enemies from before you...