The Book of James 13: The Humanist; Boasting of Self-Sufficiency
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13 Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:
14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
16 But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
I. Self-Sufficiency is planning without God.
I. Self-Sufficiency is planning without God.
1 Boast not thyself of to morrow; For thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
4 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:
5 By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:
19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
18 And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word,
19 And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.
2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
7 For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
II. Self-sufficiency is failure to recognize the uncertainty of life. v.14
II. Self-sufficiency is failure to recognize the uncertainty of life. v.14
12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
14 For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.
6 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, And are spent without hope.
25 Now my days are swifter than a post: They flee away, they see no good.
12 I, even I, am he that comforteth you: Who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, And of the son of man which shall be made as grass;
6 But we are all as an unclean thing, And all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; And we all do fade as a leaf; And our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
III. Self-sufficiency is failure to acknowledge God. v.15
III. Self-sufficiency is failure to acknowledge God. v.15
6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, And he shall direct thy paths.
2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
21 But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus.
19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power.
42 He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.
38 And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.
8 I delight to do thy will, O my God: Yea, thy law is within my heart.
IV. Self-sufficiency is boasting, bragging, and arrogance.v.16
IV. Self-sufficiency is boasting, bragging, and arrogance.v.16
34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
16 And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:
17 And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?
18 And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.
19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
20 But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
21 So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, And blesseth the covetous, whom the Lord abhorreth.
6 They that trust in their wealth, And boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;
7 None of them can by any means redeem his brother, Nor give to God a ransom for him:
14 Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift Is like clouds and wind without rain.
1 Boast not thyself of to morrow; For thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
V. Self-sufficiency is sin.
V. Self-sufficiency is sin.
26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
47 And that servant, which knew his lord’s will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.
14 What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
1 And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.
4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
16 The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding Shall remain in the congregation of the dead.
