318 - Redigging Wells
By Jonathan S. Rose
Title: Redigging WellsRedigging Wells
Topic: The Word
Summary: There are wells of ancient wisdom buried beneath the dusty surface of the Bible. That wisdom concerns the most effective, transformative ways to show love to one another. It is about time we redug those wells and get them working again.
References:
Genesis 21:22-32; 26:1-2, 6-7, 12-33
Psalms 34
Genesis 3:14, 17-19
Deuteronomy 30:11-14
Matthew 16:23
Luke 20:1-8
James 3:11-18
Luke 13:1-9
This video is a part of the Spirit and Life Bible Study series, whose purpose is to look at the Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible through a Swedenborgian lens.
Spirit and Life Bible Study broadcast from 10/4/2017. The complete series is available at: www.spiritandlifebiblestudy.com
James 3:11-18
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Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water?
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Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.
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Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.
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But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't boast and don't lie against the truth.
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This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.
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For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.
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But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
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Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
