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Examples of suffering
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Examples of suffering -10
James returns to his though of patience in suffering.
the prophets
While James looks at the prophets for examples of suffering, the author of Hebrews references some of the horrific atrocities others have gone through because of their faith.
Heb 11:35
Heb 11.33-38
One take-away we get from James is that doing God’s will often leads to suffering.
We must be equipped with the willingness and endurance to maintain spiritual integrity as we wait for God to transform our situation.
Job was a man of great endurance.
endurance
Lord was kind
Full of tenderness and mercy
One take-away we get from James is that doing God’s will often leads to suffering.
We must be equipped with the willingness and endurance to maintain spiritual integrity as we wait for God to transform our situation.
The prophets suffered injustice, they also spoke out against it.
Jesus said
Not be happy as in NLT, happy speaks to the state of our emotions
Rejoice and be glad speaks to the state of our relationship with God.
Remember
James takes a shift in vocabulary in vs 11. 7-10 he used the word patience, now he’s using the word endurance.
Some believe that James used “patience” to speak mainly of the believer’s response to other people while using “endurance” to refer getting through trials.
Job
Job was a man of great endurance.
Although we don’t always look to Job as one who endured suffering faithfully.
He did complain a lot and demanded an answer to why he was suffering.
We do know that he never abandoned his faith.
Throughout his entire ordeal of questions why God would allow the things to happen to him, he clung to God and continued to hope in him.
Job
Job
Job was real.
He struggled and questioned.
He didn’t understand and wanted an explanation.
He wasn’t passively submitting to the the trials and testing.
But, his faith was never extinguished.
In the end, Job realizes how the Lord was kind to him.
The lord was kind to him at the end
Job realizes the Lord is full of tenderness and mercy.
As we see with Job, his integrity was rewarded in the end
endurance
Lord was kind
Full of tenderness and mercy
It seems as if James is now drawing his letter to a close, but in an odd way.
He doesnt use the typical closing format that other NT writers used in their letters such as Paul’s, greetings, travel plans, a benediction.
It almost seems as if this verse is out of place.
What we’ll see is that James is wrapping up his letter by touching on three “speech” issues critical to the community.
Don’t Swear
Here, James seems to go back to as he has throughout this letter.
Lev 19.
Taking an oath wasnt prohibited under the levitical law, but taking one and swearing by heaven/God was prohibited.
The OT law demanded that one be true to the oath he had taken.
There was often a curse added to the oath that was taken.
I will do this, if I dont, this bad thing will happen.
James also seems to reflect Jesus teaching about swearing in
This reminds me of when I was a teenager.
If you wanted to find out if someone was telling the truth, you’d say “put that on your momma.”
For instance, someone is telling a story about something that happened that might not be that believable, you would say, “put that on something.”
They reply, “man, I put that on my momma.”
This was the ultimate truth detector.
But just like most things, it gets out of hand.
People start to put that on everything, or I put that on God.
It’s funny how this still goes on some 2,000 plus years later.
No is no
Yes be yes
No be no
So now we have James referencing Jesus teaching not to take a vow, or an oath.
He’s suggesting that our word should be consistent and dependable, utterly trustworthy as if it were a legally signed document.
A simple yes or no should suffice.
We should be commited to integrity in speech in our friendships, relationships, partnerships so that we are never required to give an oath.
Our yes is yes, and our no is no.
Prayer offered in faith
So James moves to his second “speech” issue critical to the community.
Prayer.
He mentions three different circumstances in which prayer should be offered up.
Prayer
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Hardships - Pray
It’s interesting that when most of us read the first part of this verse, we immediately pray that God will remove the hardships that we’re suffering.
I’m not so sure that is James intention.
Taking this whole letter into account, I think James call to pray is circles around the idea of enduring the hardships with the right spirit, spiritual strength to endure the trial with a godly spirit.
Cheerful - Sing praises
Suffering hardships is based on current circumstances.
Cheerful is based on emotions, not outward circumstances.
Kind of like peace of mind.
It’s important to remember God when things are going well.
Suffering reminds us that we need God.
James is reminding his readers to sing praises to God continually, especially when things are going well.
Just as we tend to pray continually through trials, we should pray, sing praises, continually through cheerful season.
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Sickness - Call for the elders of the church -14
Sickness - Call for the elders of the church
Anointing with oil is a physical action with symbolic significance.
Think of communion or baptism.
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