James 5

James 5

Final Instructions

Pastor Scott Campbell

Part of Wed Night

February 14, 2024

James 5 Final Instructions
Jas 5:1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
Jas 5:2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
Jas 5:3 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.
1. I believe that James is addressing the same rich people that he warned about in chapter

.
2. However this is also a

message pointing to the day of judgement.
3. There are three types of

mentioned; riches, garments and precious metals.
4. In chapter 2 we learned gold and garments were a

symbol.
5. Garments would become motheaten when

in a trunk or chest for long periods of time.
6. The same idea is presented here with the gold and silver although they don’t actually rust this word “cankered” can mean

.
7.

become tarnished when stored away for a long time.
8. In the middle of verse 3 James is telling these rich men that their wealth will be their

downfall.
Jas 5:4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who 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.
Jas 5:5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
Jas 5:6 Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
9. Verse 4 reveals to us that these rich have gained their wealth through

.
10. This has caused the workers to cry out to God and he will hear them and

as the Lord of saboath.
11. This is one of the titles given to Jesus which means Lord of

.
12. The greed of these rich lead them to pleasure because that is what they

.
13. Their whole life can be summed up as a great

.
14. However it was built on the

of those they oppressed.
Jas 5:7 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.
Jas 5:8 Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
15. The early and latter rain refers to the two rainy seasons need for their crops the first to water the seed and the second to

the crop.
16. James is saying to be patient because when the harvest is ripe the

will come.
Jas 5:9 Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.
Jas 5:10 Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
17. He reminds the believer that God is

and sees how we treat one another.
18. Just as the prophets have been an example to them so they should be examples to the

.
Jas 5:11 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.
Jas 5:12 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.
19. James uses Job as an

to the believer for encouragement to endure.
20. In verse 12 James is recalling what Jesus said about

and integrity from the sermon on the mount.
Jas 5:13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
Jas 5:14 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:
21. The afflicted praying, the merry singing and the sick calling for the elders are all significant to the importance of being part of a

.
Jas 5:15 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.
22. Often times God uses the prayer of faith to

the sick but James is not guaranteeing healing every time we pray.
23. This verse is also referring to a

healing the forgiveness of sin.
Jas 5:16 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.
24. When a person comes to us for prayers of healing it is

to ask if there is unconfessed sin in their life.
Jas 5:17 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.
Jas 5:18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
25. These verses are not simply saying if we are

we can pray and the rain will stop.
26. These verses are actually teaching us the importance of having our hearts

with God’s heart.
Jas 5:19 Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;
Jas 5:20 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.
27. James ends his letter with the importance of

.
28. He does not encourage them with

as some might but simple with the gratification of knowing they played a part in saving a soul from Hell.