James 5: 1-6 is not about people with alot of money. It is about those who are arrogant, and have alot of money. Those to whom God allowed, not blessed to have this money. They put their security in the $, not in God and it will work against them.
Who is patient? Not me. Vs 7 - 12 James tells us to be patient. He gives an illustration that is much like Isa 55:10-11. It is that of a crop growing. This is a slow process. The farmer knows it is slow, but that it will come. Be patient like the farmer who knows what must happen before the crops are ready for harvest. And a little tag at the end, don't make promises. Just say yes, or no, and keep to your word.
final instructions (v13+):
- Are you hurting?
- then pray
- Do you feel great?
- then sing
- Are you sick?
- then call the church leaders together to pray and anoint you with oil in the name of Jesus. Believing prayer will heal you. if you've sinned you'll be forgiven, healed from the inside out.
Do this regularly
- confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you can live together whole and healed.
- the prayer of a person living right with God is something powerful, to be reckoned with.
- elijah for example, was a man like us, he prayed hard that it wouldn't rain, and it didn't, not a drop for 3.5 yrs. then he prayed that it would rain. the showers came and everything growed again..
- if you know people who have wandered off from God's truth, don't write them off. go after them. get them back.
- and you will have rescued them from lives of destruction, prevented them from an epidemic of wandering away from God.
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