Community of Believers
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Community of Possessions
Community of Possessions
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire: ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
4 Behold, the hire of the labourers which have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
6 Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
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Perils of wealth
Perils of wealth
Wealth is temporal
Wealth is temporal
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
James 5:1-
Wealth corrodes itself and the owner
Wealth corrodes itself and the owner
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire: ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
This is not dealing with the power of wealth over an individual, but the individual’s pride in wealth corroding him.
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:
21 for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness?
24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Matthew 6:
1 And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods.
2 And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward.
3 Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed.
4 I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.
5 So he called every one of his lord’s debtors unto him, and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord?
6 And he said, An hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty.
7 Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write fourscore.
8 And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
9 And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.
10 He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.
11 If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
12 And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man’s, who shall give you that which is your own?
13 No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Luke 16:1-
The Lord gives, but we must be faithful stewards of what He gives. The point is to not focus on the amount, but to worship the Lord as a faithful steward of what He does give. We are not judged by God on the amount as much as our worship to Him as a faithful steward of His blessing.
Pressures of wealth
Pressures of wealth
Oppression of the poor
Oppression of the poor
4 Behold, the hire of the labourers which have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
James 5:
In order to continue in lavishness, the rich have swayed many things in their favor using wealth even to the extent of condemning innocent to judgment.
In order to continue in lavishness, the rich have swayed many things in their favor using wealth even to the extent of condemning innocent to judgment.
5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
6 Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
Community of Patient Understanding
Community of Patient Understanding
Be Ready for the Lord’s Return.
Be Ready for the Lord’s Return.
Wait as a farmer waits for rain and then gathers fruit after the rains come.
Wait as a farmer waits for rain and then gathers fruit after the rains come.
7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
8 Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
James 5:
The Christian must stabish (strengthen) his heart while he waits on the Lord. He should never be in a stagnant walk with God, after all the Lord is coming back soon.
The Christian must stabish (strengthen) his heart while he waits on the Lord. He should never be in a stagnant walk with God, after all the Lord is coming back soon.
9 Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.
Those with patience are established in joy.
Those with patience are established in joy.
10 Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
11 Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
The Christian should say what he means and mean what he says.
The Christian should say what he means and mean what he says.
12 But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
Community of Faithful Prayer
Community of Faithful Prayer
Singing is a blessed help in time of affliction. Worshipping in song brings the believer contentment as he constantly casts his care on the Lord through worship.
Singing is a blessed help in time of affliction. Worshipping in song brings the believer contentment as he constantly casts his care on the Lord through worship.
13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
Prayer for the sick:
Prayer for the sick:
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14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
15 and the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
Anoint with oil—not for the special healing power of oil, but for distinguishing and honoring a suffering one in their plight.
The prayer of faith—that of faith to salvation and that of complete trust in the Lord’s will.
The prayer of faith—that of faith to salvation and that of complete trust in the Lord’s will
Righteous people get answers to prayer, they are close to the Lord and His answers are not difficult to interpret.
Righteous people get answers to prayer, they are close to the Lord and His answers are not difficult to interpret.
16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
15 and the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
Keep a short account of sin with each other.
b. Pray for each other.Righteous people get answers to prayer.
Pray for each other.
Pray for each other.Righteous people get answers to prayer.
c. Righteous people get answers to prayer.
Righteous people get answers to prayer.
Reaching lost souls is the chief end of the righteous man.
Reaching lost souls is the chief end of the righteous man.
19 Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;
20 let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.