Who Is a Wise Man? — Aaron Hurst

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Isn't that a blessing? The glory gates are open wide yet this morning to welcome the weary home. Thank you, Jesus. I greet you in Jesus' name this morning. Also, grateful for each one that is here. God bless you for coming today.

I trust your heart was glad when you realized it's the Lord's day. It's the day of the Lord. I get to go to the house of God today to meet with brothers and sisters, to pray, to sing and worship my God, my Creator, hear a message preached and have fellowship with believers.

You know, we get to. We don't have to. We get to. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. If you're in the have to stage this morning, I trust that you would come and taste and see the goodness of God and move over into the get to stage.

James 3 and the Nature of True Wisdom

Oh, Lord. This morning, I do feel clear to continue in the book of James. I wrestled with it a little, you know. Not the kind of messages that tend to, maybe, I don't know, be remembered as well or lifted up, talked about.

But I believe there's something very beautiful and feeding to the soul and nourishing to the Christian to just take the Word of God as it comes. Chapter by chapter, verse by verse. So, you pray for me.

I struggled with that a little. I thought, well, you know, Lord, what do you want to say to us this morning? And as I looked at where I've been at in the book of James, I thought, I think it will just go right in with the flow of what God is doing here and where we're going as a fellowship.

So, open your Bibles with me this morning to James 3. James chapter 3 and verse 13. We'll start there. James 3 .13. Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? Let him show 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 entreated, 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.

Can we pray? Let's bow our heads together. Father in Heaven, we come in Jesus Christ's name. Father, we ask that You would anoint Your Word. We pray, Father, that You would in mercy look down upon us today, Father, in the continuation of this service, Lord.

Father, we pray that You would speak, Father. You have spoken, Lord. But Father, we pray now, You would speak to us individually and corporately here together, Lord. Personally, Father, the visitors, those that are on the telephone, by way of tape, however they're hearing this word, O God, speak to us, Lord, and let us not go away empty, Father, or unchanged.

Father, answer our prayers. We want to grow. We want to become more like Christ. We want to walk in all the counsel of God. So, Father, I pray You'll help us today, Lord, to diligently seek after the living God, even as the Word of the Lord is preached this morning.

Father, have mercy upon me, Your servant. O God, and touch these lips. I ask it in Jesus Christ's name. Amen. Who is a wise man? Who is a wise man? Is it the one who has all the answers? Is it the one who has all knowledge?

Is it the one who's never at a loss for words? Is it the one we would refer to as the expert? Is it the one with the doctorate decree of theology? Is he the wise man? Is it the one who knows all the current state of world affairs and events?

Is it the philosopher? Is it the politician? Is it the preacher? Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge? We're going to find out if we open up our hearts as we go through the rest of these verses.

You know, as God's eyes are running to and fro this morning across the whole earth, where does His eyes stop? Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? Let Him show out of a good conversation His works with meekness of wisdom.

Now, it's not saying that cast all the knowledge aside and all the learning aside, but it is saying look for something else, look for something deeper of the character and nature of the person. This is a wise man, who out of his conversation of life shows His works, good works, good conversation with meekness of wisdom.

That word let Him show is, it's a demonstration. Let Him demonstrate by His life. Let Him demonstrate by His conversation. You'll know the wise man among you, not by the one who wins the argument. No.

Not by the one who has all the right answers. Maybe I dare even say not by the one who has the most learning. Can I say that? Maybe you'll recognize that wise man among you, though he be a babe in Christ, by his fervent love for Jesus and for the truth, who is so simple in his understanding, he hasn't yet learned to tear certain parts of the book out, or say they don't apply today anymore, or it doesn't mean that.

You know there is a temptation, that men face, to take and twist this wisdom, to adjust it to fit what is comfortable for me, or what I wanted to say, and to try to make it into something that fits my understanding presently, rather than to go to God, and to go to the Word of God with an open heart, and to say, Lord, what do you say?

Wisdom is. Wisdom. It's not understanding all prophecies and mysteries of end times, is it? It's not those who can create a great argument and debate, of exactly how it will be when Jesus returns, and where, and when.

I don't believe that's true wisdom. Should we study the scriptures, and have a desire to learn of God, and learn of those things? Yes. But have you seen many, who are so puffed up with their knowledge, that they miss true wisdom?

Wisdom is known by its behavior, its conduct, not only by facts, and scholarly advice, or oratations. Many times what may be passed for wisdom today, is nothing more than mere puffed up, speculations and theologies of men, and theories, and notions of the mind.

Wisdom is seen, true wisdom, heavenly wisdom, is seen out of the conversation of a man's life. Does his walk, talk, what his talk, talks. I like that statement, if I may borrow that. Does his walk, talk, what his talk, talks.

Let him show out of his conversation, meekness. Meekness is, gentleness, it's humbleness of mind, it's kindness. Meekness, is self-control. Who is a wise man? Any dude with knowledge among you? Let him show out of a good conversation, his works, with meekness of wisdom.

There are many wise men, full of wisdom, and full of meekness. I praise God for that. I'm not despising learning, I'm not saying do not study, but if all you have is puffed up knowledge, and you do not have the conversation of meekness of wisdom coming out of your life, you're a poor man.

Oh, but if you have the nature and the character of Christ, through the anointing of the Spirit of God coming out of your life, in that meekness and gentleness of Christ, that is of great value. Self-control.

Are you a wise man? Are you spiritual? Scriptures speak a lot of meekness. Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such and one in the spirit of meekness, considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, with all lowliness and meekness, and with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love, endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Ephesians 4. Who is a wise man? Examine the fruit of his life. And then you will know. And yes, if you have a crisis, you have a problem in life, is he endued with knowledge of the Word of God? Amen. And can point you in the right direction, can point you to the Lord Jesus Christ, can give you wisdom from the Word of God.

Earthly Wisdom, Envy, and Strife

Heavenly wisdom is contrasted with the earthly, sensual and devilish wisdom. Right here in this chapter. Looking now at verse 14 and 15. 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. Who is a wise man? What wisdom is coming from my life and from your life? There is a supposed wisdom, or a pretended wisdom, or a false wisdom you might call it.

And it is also recognized by its conversation of life. It is also recognized by the fruit that it produces. Though it may pass for wisdom at first, if this is the fruit of it, it's earthly and it's sensual and it's devilish.

The Bible says, if the wisdom that I or you have stirs envy in my heart toward others, and jealousy in my heart toward others, and if it arouses feelings of bitterness toward others, this is an earthly wisdom.

Maybe it's a sensual wisdom. Maybe it's even a devilish wisdom inspired of hell. Envious of others. Envious and jealousy of another person's ability, of another person's position or recognition. False wisdom.

Earthly wisdom is selfish. It arouses bitter envying and jealousies. It stirs up division in churches, in homes, in communities. It's marked by envy. Verse 14, if you have bitter envying, why doesn't anybody recognize my gifts?

Why doesn't anybody recognize and give me a position? Envious, jealous. Envying has its listing among the works of the flesh. Envying is right next to murderers, right next to drunkenness, and revelings and such like.

It tells us in Galatians 5 .21. And it says, I tell you, as I told you before, in time past, if they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. Pretty serious envyings. Oh, but charity.

Charity, love. It's kind. And charity envieth not. Because they are diametrically opposed. Charity, it wanteth not itself. It doesn't push itself forward. It doesn't need recognition. It doesn't need position.

Secure in Christ. If I can just be a doorkeeper at the house of God. If I just be faithful with the talents that God has given me. That's all my Lord requires. Whether it be one talent, whether it be ten, whether it be five.

Not envious. This earthly, sensual, devilish wisdom, if it may be so called, stirs up strife in one's heart. And the word strife in this meaning here, means to stir up a fashion, or more accurately, it's a selfish ambition.

Earthly wisdom, rooted in the heart of the human nature, stirs up strife. Because it's carnal. It's natural. Selfish ambitions, need to be seen as a leader, or the teacher, or as wise. Need to be seen as the builder, or the creator, or the one with the originator of the new ideas.

And position, and putting themselves forward. Often associated with that, earthly, sensual, devilish wisdom, is a restlessness of soul. Always pushing forward, here or there, bitter envying and strife in the heart.

He says, if you find this in your heart, glory not. Glory not and lie not against the truth. My dear brother, my sister, let nothing be done through strife or vain glory. But in lowliness of mind, let each esteem other better than themselves.

Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. If you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not. Glory not. Do not boast. Do not glory in your wisdom, so called.

That earthly, sensual, devilish wisdom, focuses upon himself. It's all wrapped up in myself, and wanting to be recognized. And what great things God will do in me. It arouses pride and self-glory. It glorious in what it can do.

My dear brothers and sisters, be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of lowest state. Be not wise in your own conceits. And if any man think he knoweth anything, he knoweth nothing as he ought to know.

For if a man think himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. You know, it seems like this prideful glorying in self, and what self can do, this carnal wisdom, it puffs the man up and he really thinks he is something.

But how sad if he is nothing. How sad if it's just all vain imagination. How sad if it's full of pride, and self-glorying, and focused on me and I. Even to say, what great things God is going to do with me, and through me.

It's, oh it's so, it's so deceptive. When a man think of himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. To where? The blinded heart lies against the truth. Though the truth be shown, that deceived heart, that puffed up heart, that sensual, natural wisdom, is deceived itself to believe, that it's God, and lies against the truth.

If you 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. You know, I believe the way in which there is a lying against the truth, can be a number of different ways, but one is, to lie against the truth, that this is actually the state I am in.

Though other, humble, gentle, spiritual, mature brethren come and show it to me, I lie against that truth. Say, but you don't understand. God is showing this to me, and it is such a deception. I believe another way that we lie against the truth, is that the walk, talk, and the talk, are not matching up.

The walk of life, is not matching the speech. What does it help you, if you have all this great wisdom? If in your daily walk, your life is, not self-controlled, not disciplined, by the spirit of God, and things are falling apart, things are falling apart in my own life, in the life of my home, what good, if I have all the wisdom, but in practical application, it's not working out.

It's just not happening. Who is a wise man? Let him show out of the good conversation of his life, in meekness of wisdom, that it can be seen. A life that is inconsistent with the word of God, inconsistent with what is being taught and done, this wisdom, the source of this wisdom, is not of God, but it is of the earth.

It is sensual or unspiritual, natural. It appeals to the senses, it appeals to the carnal mind, to the natural mind, and yea, even devilish. Pretty awesome strong words for us this morning, but they're not my words, it's the word of God.

The devilish wisdom is self-centered, it produces envying, it produces strife in the heart, and in your hearts, hearts, strife in the brotherhood, strife in the family. It is natural, it is unspiritual, it is of man himself, many times, and yes, devilish or demonic, full of pride, self-ambition, and envy, seeks to promote self, and does these things.

He who does these things, and is walking in these things, is acting just like the devil. You know, Jesus said some very awesome words to some of those Pharisees one day. He said, you're of your father.

Well, they said, we, our father is Abraham. No, he said, you're mistaken. You think your father is Abraham, but your father is the devil. Now, those are awful words. I can hardly say them, but would it be possible that we could be deceived to thinking all my wisdom, it's from God, but stop and examine the fruit of it.

What is it producing in my life? What is it producing in the life of those around me? What is it producing in the life of those I am teaching my wisdom? Is it producing a good fruit of righteousness, and holiness, and peace, and joy?

This wisdom, it's not from above. The terrible effects of this wisdom are confusion, and every evil work. Confusion. I just can't seem to get it together. A clear path, where I'm going. Bouncing off this wall, then this one.

Confusion. One day everything is up, the next day everything is down. Rollercoaster life, confusion, and every evil work. Put in there whatever you want. Put in there whatever you've seen. In the confused lives of those who profess a wisdom, but it's not a heavenly wisdom.

It's an earthly, it's essential, and it's a devilish wisdom. And it seeks recognition, it seeks position, it is centered on self, it flaunts its ideas, and its doctrines with others, and causes confusion.

Causes evil in the church. Causes division, maybe to form cliques. Causes confusion and evil within families. Raising questions and wonderings, and differing with others, and causing debates and arguments, and they cease to grow in the Lord.

You know, it's really sad to see where this wisdom, this devilish wisdom is at work, and the devastating fruit of it. It's really sad to see. While we have all the decree and the doctrines lined up perfectly, but the application is so lacking, that things are falling apart.

Lord, deliver us from that, where we have it all decided. We have it all worked out. Everything's agreed upon in the brother's meeting. But we're not living it. We're not walking in it. Lord, deliver us from such a thing.

Maybe this morning you see those effects of this sensual, devilish, earthly wisdom. You're laboring under it for years. You recognize it. That's me. I want to encourage you this morning. If you see that in your life, repent.

Repent from going your own way. Seeking your own places of honor and recognition. Let us just stop and examine our lives. Have I twisted this wisdom to fit me? Am I resting it to fit my theology? I don't want to shake my comfort zone or my beliefs.

Laboring under it this morning. Trying to prove that it's God. Have you ever known anyone trying to prove that it's God? The wisdom in which they're walking in for years, trying to prove that it's God, but God isn't bearing witness.

And they've gone for ten years practically by themselves. No fellowship of believers. Very little. A life that is just trying to prove and hold on to this thing that this is God. Who is a wise man? Let him show out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.

I want to encourage you today, including myself, let us examine our hearts and let us repent. Confess our failures and turn completely away from our own wisdom. This wisdom is not from above. It's not of heaven.

But it is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. And we could spend a long time naming those different evil works. Let's pray. Father in heaven, please look upon us in mercy, Lord.

Search my heart, O God. Search our hearts, O Lord.

And God, help me, help us all to be honest and to not lie against the truth. Father, it's the goodness of God that leads us to repentance. O God, if there is confusion, if there is envying, if there is strife, Father, please have mercy upon us.

If there is deception, Lord, if there is thinking high thoughts of myself, Lord, puffed up, thinking to be something when I am nothing in your sight, O God, would you reveal it and grant us repentance, Lord, humbleness of mind, meekness of wisdom, Lord.

Wisdom says, repent, come to the light, come to the truth. Father, we trust you for these things, Lord. Have your way in our hearts, Lord. In Jesus' name. Let us look now at verse 17. But the wisdom that is from above.

Purity and Peace in Heavenly Wisdom

And when I think of the wisdom from above, as I studied this, this wisdom from above would be a Jewish understood expression of wisdom come down from heaven. It's heavenly wisdom. This wisdom that is from above is first of all pure.

And let's take note of that. First, pure. First, it is pure. The wisdom that is from above is not having all your doctrines exactly straight and all your theologies figured out, but it's pure. It's pure.

It means to be free from fault and defilement. It means moral purity. It means to be completely separated from impurity and wrongdoing and set apart to God. That's the wisdom that's from above. Quite different than carnal earthly wisdom.

Quite easily recognized, isn't it? Very different. It's pure. The wisdom that is from above will result in purity of heart and life. Keeping the temple of God, our body, pure. Not overeating, not drinking, using drugs, smoking, all these different things that defile and destroy and damage the body.

But oh, much more than that. Keeping his relationships pure. That wisdom is pure. Keeping relationships pure with spouse and children and family and brothers and sisters in Christ. Pure relationships.

Open relationships. Most of all, pure before God. This heavenly wisdom is first of all pure. Pure before God. And this relationship with God is open. It's an open heaven. It's a pure relationship. No part dark, no part impure.

It's pure. But how can we attain to that? By yielding ourselves wholly to God and allowing Him to cleanse us. Can any man say, my hands are clean? Cleanse your hands, ye sinners. Purify your hearts, ye double-minded.

Come to Jesus and be cleansed and be pure and sanctified. And then walking that grace. Not going back to those weak and beggarly elements and drinking there again and defiling ourselves by drinking that impure water of the world and the lust and the flesh again.

But keeping ourselves pure before God in our relationship with God. Then we can have pure relationships with one another. Oh, blessed are the pure in heart. For they shall see God. This wisdom is peaceable.

First pure, then peaceable. And that peaceable, I love the meaning of that word. It has the meaning of to join and weave together. Peaceable. Binding together. You know, if there's enmity at heart or a separation or a wall, sometimes people call it, you know, in relationships and all that.

But this wisdom is peaceable. It seeks peace and it pursues it with God and with human relationships. Peaceable. To bind together, to join together. True wisdom works to reconcile people to God and to each other.

Amen? It does. But the earthly, sensual, devilish wisdom divides. Divides. The wisdom that is from above. It's first pure. Then it's peaceable. And then it's gentle. Gentleness meaning forbearance very closely linked there in the word definition.

Gentleness, forbearance. It's gracious. It's not harsh. It's not harsh. It's not hard. It's not critical. Heavenly wisdom doesn't make others feel small like nobody. I'm this man of great wisdom. No. But it's gentle.

It forbears. It's gracious. In dealing with other people, it forbears like the long-sufferingness of God. With all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love. Forbearing one another and forgiving one another.

If any man have a quarrel against any, even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. You know? It's that gracious, forbearing gentleness. And the next one is easy to be entreated. Oh! Now it's getting to where it's very personal and it touches my life.

This heavenly wisdom is easy to be entreated. Willing to listen. To appeal. To counsel. Being willing to change. Where I'm missing the mark. Where I'm wrong. Yes, that's heavenly wisdom. Earthly wisdom.

And what do you have to say to me? What about your life? Huh? What about so and so? They do it too. Defense. You know. Don't touch me. But heavenly wisdom. Oh! That... That wisdom that comes down from heaven.

It's easy. Easy to be entreated. If you see anything in my life, please come and talk to me. Come and share it with me. How many have said that right here? Sharing their testimonies as they committed to the fellowship.

But how many of us have done it? I think brother Denny touched on that the other evening. Some areas that we're weak in. In admonishing one another. Because it's not real easy to do. It means I need to die to my flesh.

It means I need to get on my face before God. And make sure it's not just some earthly thing here. But this is on the heart of God. And this person has a need in this area. And they're missing it a bit there.

Do I love them enough to go and entreat them? Am I willing to be misunderstood? Or to be reproved? Am I willing to take that risk? What if they don't like me anymore after that? What if they speak evil of me after that?

What if they avoid me in church after that? You know, I just want to encourage us not to upbraid, not to scold. But I would have to say I believe we're a bit weak in that. And many of us, you know, have even said it.

I believe with some longing. No one has ever come to me. I wish they would. How many wish someone would come to you if you really, if they really have a concern and see a need in your life? May I see your hands?

How many wish someone would come and tell you? Look at that. Now take courage. You may be that one that God will speak to. And you need to go and tell him. Maybe you're the only one who knows. You were the only one present when you saw that action, heard that word or that deed.

Now go and in Christian love admonish one another. Exhort one another. Lest any be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. This wisdom is easy to be entreated. I just want to encourage us in that this morning.

Let's examine our hearts. How do I respond when someone comes? Maybe I don't even say a wrong word. But how does my heart respond? What is my attitude? Is there something within that? You know, it just goes against my grain.

They have a beam in their eye. How come they come to me about my splendor? But see that height looks to me.

They say, brother, you've got a beam in your eye.

It's easily to be entreated. You know, when I think of something easy. You know, we like to do things the easy way, don't we? You know, it's easy. It's just so well received. It's like giving a compliment.

Well, thank you. You know. So, we need to examine our heart this morning. If there's a reaction when someone comes to entreat. What wisdom is in my heart? Is it earthly? Bad enough. Is it sensual? Carnal?

Natural? Man? Worse yet. But woe to me if it's devilish. And it's demonically opposed. You know, against God. And against the council. Against the light. This true wisdom is not stubborn. It's not hard.

But it's entreatable. Moldable. Oh yes, when the master potter puts me on his wheel. And wants to mold me. That's just fine. But don't let my brother touch me. But you know, the master potter uses many different tools on his wheel.

And he uses imperfect brothers and sisters. He does. He does. Oh, come let us reason together. Say of the Lord. True wisdom is full of mercy. Pity, compassion. Affection and kindness. It's merciful in its approach.

When you go speak to your brother, you recognize he might have a hard time with this. So, it's tempered with mercy. You don't go, let him have it. No. That's not in you. If you're walking in true wisdom.

It's full of mercy. Hallelujah. And it's without partiality. Isn't that right? Is that what he says? Yes. Full of mercy and good fruits. And without partiality. And you know, I think we just have to be honest with our own hearts this morning.

You know, carnal, earthly human that I am. I like some people better than others. In my natural person. And it's easier to talk to some people than others. And if this person comes and tells me a need in my life.

Much easier to take. But what if that person who tends to rub me a little bit. What if that person comes and tells me. Then what? Lord, grow us up. Without partiality. Okay, so that person is a little bit blunt and to the point.

But they have a good heart in what they're doing. They meant it well. And they really are concerned for my soul. Amen. I receive it. Without partiality. Thought of that a bit also in couple of different ways.

You know, it's without favoritism. My, how much damage has been done by favoritism. Favoritism in the church. Favoritism in the home, in families. Favoritism. This child gets more privileges than this one.

Favoritism. This requires discipline. If this child does it. But the other one, well. We'll let him slip. It's an awful. The fruit of that is bad. You don't want it. So Lord, deliver us from favoritism at home.

Favoritism in the church. Favoritism in the ministry. Favoritism among brethren or sisters. But let it be without partiality. Doing nothing by partiality. In fact, when Paul commanded Timothy, he said, I charge thee before God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

And the elect angels. Timothy, I'm trying to get your attention on a very important matter. I'm trying to get your attention, Timothy, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another.

And doing nothing by partiality. Nothing by favoritism. This man gets a lesser sentence. He gets a lesser discipline. This man gets a harsher discipline. How devastating that is in the church of Jesus Christ.

This wisdom is without hypocrisy. It's genuine. It's real. It's not a Sunday Christian. But it's real. Straight through. What you see here Sunday morning is what you get at home Monday evening. It's without hypocrisy.

It's free from insincerity. And play acting and wearing a mask. Put on your smiles. We're going to church. You know, it's sad to see those pasted on smiles. When inside, there's a hurting soul. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.

Oh, how beautiful. I love that. The fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace. That's the fruit we want, isn't it? That's what we want. And that's what heavenly wisdom will grow forth in our lives.

The meaning is that it produces results on the life like the effects of a seed sown in the ground. And that seed which is sown is going to produce a harvest. It's beautiful, isn't it? Whatsoever a man sows, he's going to reap it someday.

Oh, it's like scattering this fruit of righteousness. Being sown in peace. Not in contention and strife. Not in arguments. I'm going to win you to my point. No, it's sown in gentleness and peace. And of a life that speaks far louder than your words.

And then when they see your life talk, and they hear your mouth talk, they're ready to listen. I believe this brother has something to say to me. The picture of a farmer. You know, we're a little bit past those days.

But in the old days, they had these seed. Well, way back in Bible days, they had it in a sack of some sort. And they had a way of tossing it, that it would scatter it, you know. And it's just that beautiful picture of a farmer.

Very carefully calculating the size of his field. Measuring out the seed. And with very deliberate, purposeful steps, he's going through that field, sowing his seed. You don't want to put it all in one spot.

Spread it out. Oh, brothers and sisters. Let us be sowing the beautiful fruit of that seed. Or that seed, rather, and yielding a beautiful fruit. A peaceable fruit of righteousness. That's what we want.

Applying Wisdom Through Conduct and Fellowship

Who is the wise man? Who is this wise man? Oh. Yes, he's endued with knowledge. He's adding to knowledge, temperance, and faith, and meekness, and charity, and brotherly kindness. And all these things.

But he's a man, or a woman, of a good conversation. Their walk talks, and their talk talks, and they're going the same path. It's beautiful. It's lovely. They're full of meekness. They're approachable.

They're not high in their own estimation. Though they be miles ahead of me in their Bible understanding and learning. Though they have doctorates of degrees in theology. You'd never know it. Because they're filled with the heavenly wisdom.

Who is the wise man? Who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? A man's wisdom maketh his face to shine. Ecclesiastes 8 .1. May the Lord bless. So, who is the wise man among you? I think the answer is clear.

It's not what you know, but the proof of it is what flows out of your life. It's how you walk out what you know. Brother Aaron said, wisdom is known by its conduct. Wisdom is known by how you conduct yourself.

You can look at your life, and others can look at your life, and God can look at your life, and see the wisdom or the foolishness flowing out of your life. In Proverbs, the wise man says, he says, wisdom is the principal thing.

Therefore, get wisdom. And with all thy getting, get understanding. It's been described before that understanding is the practical application of wisdom. And you know, just yesterday morning at the prayer meeting, I saw some wisdom flow out of that prayer meeting.