Sunday Notes: James 5:1-8
- (Jas 5:1 ESV) Come now, you ____________, weep and howl for the ____________ that are coming upon you.
- (Jas 5:2 ESV) Your riches have ____________ and your garments are ____________-____________.
- (Jas 5:3 ESV) Your gold and silver have ____________, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your ____________ like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days.
- Remember James is writing to the ____________
- As all things of this ____________ will pass away
- Something will eat it
- Or it will rot
- Or it will rust
- Or it will be burned up
- The issue in this is not the having of ____________
- Material resources, money, wealth is a ____________ from God
- The issue is how we use it
- And also how we allow it to use us.
- Proverbs 11:4, Proverbs 11:28
- The issue is that ____________
- 1 Timothy 6:9-19
- It’s not the ____________ that is evil
- It is our ____________ of the money
- It is a ____________ matter
- 1 Timothy 6:9-19
- (Jas 5:4 ESV) Behold, the wages of the ____________ who mowed your fields, which you kept back by ____________, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the ____________ of hosts.
- (Jas 5:5 ESV) You have lived on the earth in ____________ and in self-indulgence. You have fattened your ____________ in a day of slaughter.
- (Jas 5:6 ESV) You have condemned and ____________ the righteous person. He does not resist you.
- This is the idea of not taking care of those who did work for them
- In the OT times this would have been a day laborer not being paid for their work
- In our time it might be less that we see that type of arrangement
- But as the people of God we are to be ____________ in how to treat others.
- There is a progression in the text here
- That we first ____________ wealth for ourselves
- Not being generous with it to others
- Then we ____________ that wealth to lavish ourselves with an indulgent life
- Not trying to share with others
- Then doing anything we can to ____________ and grow that life
- Even to the point of harming or killing others.
- Acts 4:32-5:11, James 4:3
- That we first ____________ wealth for ourselves
- This is the idea of not taking care of those who did work for them
- (Jas 5:7 ESV) Be patient, therefore, ____________, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer ____________ for the precious fruit of the earth, being ____________ about it, until it receives the early and the late rains.
- (Jas 5:8 ESV) You also, be ____________. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
- This is hard, isn’t it.
- It is hard to ____________.
- Hebrews 12:1-3
- How do we break a habit of selfishness and me-first-ness?
- It starts in ____________.
- We pray for a change or heart
- We pray for a change of motivation
- We pray for Christ to change us from the inside out
- Galatians 6:8-10
- Let us then be a people who…
- So in the Spirit and reap eternal life
- Let us not grow weary of doing good
- Let us look forward to the reward to come with Christ in His eternal kingdom.
- Let us then be a people who…
- This is hard, isn’t it.