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When we read a book it is most important to understand a few things:
Author - James
Date- 48A.D.
Occasion- A letter looking much like the O.T…. One may consider the twelve tribes—people of God and the connection to the “Children of God/Church”
Recipient — Dispersed believers
1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings.
Who was James? Who is he related to?
James the Brother of Jesus — if we understand James to be the half brother of Jesus, we must grasp that he did not always believe. John 7:5
For not even his brothers believed in him.
And when his family heard it, they went out to seize him, for they were saying, “He is out of his mind.”
James the Apostle
James the Just
2. Notice the word “servant”: the Greek here is
“doulos”. What do you think this word means?
Often translated slave, servant, bondservant.
Same verse used in Romans 6:16
16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?
3. So what does the Word “doulos” tell us about the
author who so describes himself?
Notables:
James reads the Bible or Biblical standards intertestmental(ly)—essentially he reads both testaments together as he teaches.
His desire is to convey truth and as he reads the law and understands the Gospel.
He compares all he does to the Shema Deut. 6:4-9
“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
