Get Smarter (6 of 10)
Series: Real Faith
Ryan Heller
James 3:13-18?
I love that old TV show Get Smart. Do we have some Get Smart fans in the house this morning? Love that old show from the 1960s. I grew up as a kid watching reruns of Get Smart and then I got really excited because a couple years ago Steve Carell came out with an updated Get Smart movie, and it was kind of like Get Smart for a new generation.
The lead character Maxwell Smart (Steve Carrell) is so cool because he has all of these contraptions. In fact, my favorite gadget of Maxwell Smart is the shoe phone. He was always taking his shoe off and he would talk into the shoe as if it were a phone but upon dialing 117 and it would turn into a gun. In addition to the shoe gun Smart had secret phones everywhere, cigarette lighters, magazines, water hoses, neckties.
Now Maxwell and his beautiful sidekick, Agent 99, worked for a government agency called CONTROL. CONTROL was this government agency in Washington, DC and yet they had the arch nemesis which was known as KAOS. CONTROL was always trying to defeat the evil of KAOS. The whole show centered around the conflict between CONTROL and KAOS. ??Similar to the show Get Smart we live in the battle between control and chaos. The Book of James is a case study between the two. When we live under the authority and the direction of God and God's wisdom for our lives there is discipline because we're living under the control of God, but when we go our own way and kind of do our own thing, go our own direction, we have lives filled with chaos.
The Scripture we're looking at this morning from the third chapter of James speaks specifically to this issue. We're talking about the contrast between the two types of wisdom. The Bible tells us there is the wisdom that comes from heaven, the wisdom that comes from God, and then there is earthly wisdom which is where we live life by our own direction, our own ideas, our own intuitions or whatever. There's a ...
Series: Real Faith
Ryan Heller
James 3:13-18?
I love that old TV show Get Smart. Do we have some Get Smart fans in the house this morning? Love that old show from the 1960s. I grew up as a kid watching reruns of Get Smart and then I got really excited because a couple years ago Steve Carell came out with an updated Get Smart movie, and it was kind of like Get Smart for a new generation.
The lead character Maxwell Smart (Steve Carrell) is so cool because he has all of these contraptions. In fact, my favorite gadget of Maxwell Smart is the shoe phone. He was always taking his shoe off and he would talk into the shoe as if it were a phone but upon dialing 117 and it would turn into a gun. In addition to the shoe gun Smart had secret phones everywhere, cigarette lighters, magazines, water hoses, neckties.
Now Maxwell and his beautiful sidekick, Agent 99, worked for a government agency called CONTROL. CONTROL was this government agency in Washington, DC and yet they had the arch nemesis which was known as KAOS. CONTROL was always trying to defeat the evil of KAOS. The whole show centered around the conflict between CONTROL and KAOS. ??Similar to the show Get Smart we live in the battle between control and chaos. The Book of James is a case study between the two. When we live under the authority and the direction of God and God's wisdom for our lives there is discipline because we're living under the control of God, but when we go our own way and kind of do our own thing, go our own direction, we have lives filled with chaos.
The Scripture we're looking at this morning from the third chapter of James speaks specifically to this issue. We're talking about the contrast between the two types of wisdom. The Bible tells us there is the wisdom that comes from heaven, the wisdom that comes from God, and then there is earthly wisdom which is where we live life by our own direction, our own ideas, our own intuitions or whatever. There's a ...
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