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Welcome to today's program,
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and I wanna say thank you
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for letting me come right into your space.
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It means so much to me that
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with me every day.
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And today, you and I are going to go to James 5
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and begin a brand new series called, Getting
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the Basics Right.
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And the basics are biblical
guidelines for money,
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relationships, prayer
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and dealing with wayward believers, friends, or loved ones.
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It is just jam packed with insights from James 5,
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and it comes with a study guide.
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Get ready for a teaching
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and your mind: where the
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uncertain times
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and doctrine doesn't bend to culture.
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We keep it simple,
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but dive deep revealing a
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a love that emboldens
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and a mission that touches the world.
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Let's join Rick Renner.
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My friend, reach for your Bible
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because we always use the
Bible in this program.
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And by the way, we're believing for a revival of the Bible
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to come to the church.
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But today we're going to be going to James 5,
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and we're going to see right
and wrong dealings with money.
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And the reason James
addresses this subject is
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because the believers that he is writing
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to have been scattered abroad
all over the eastern lands
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of the Mediterranean Sea; due to persecution,
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they've been kicked out of their homes,
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they've lost their jobs,
they've lost their finances
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and their suffering on many, many levels,
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and many of them have been
reemployed, but whereas
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before they were prosperous,
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now they have very low
level jobs that pay very,
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very little, and they feel they're being treated unjustly.
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And James is now going to address - right
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and wrong dealings with money.
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But before we go to James 5, I want
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to quote the apostle Paul in 1 Timothy 6:
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10, where he says, The love
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of money is the root of all evil.
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He does not say money is the problem.
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He says, it is the love of money
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that is the root of all evil.
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And when you have a love of money, it causes you
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to do things that you should not do.
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And now when we come to James 5, we find
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that masters and employers
are not treating their
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employees correctly.
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And listen to what James says beginning in James
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5:1; Go to now you rich men, weep
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and howl for your miseries
that shall come upon you.
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That's pretty powerful.
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Then he says in verse 2; Your riches are corrupted
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and your garments are motheaten.
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Verse 3: Your gold and silver is cankered
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and the rest of them shall
be a witness against you
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and shall eat your flesh
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as it were fire, you've
heaped treasure together
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for the last days.
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Verse 4: Behold the hire of the laborers
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who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back
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by fraud, crieth and the cries of them which have reaped
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are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
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Verse 5: You've lived in pleasure on the earth,
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you've been wanton, you've nourished your hearts
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as in a day of slaughter.
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And then in verse 6 he adds, You've condemned
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and killed the just and
he doth not resist you.
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These are amazing verses
which many Bible teachers are
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afraid to touch
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because they're so filled
with so many questions.
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But we need to see what God
has to say on these issues.
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But let's go back to James 5:1,
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where James begins by saying, Go to now, ye rich men.
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The words, go to now, in Greek is - age nun.
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The word age is from the word aga,
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which means I lead. The word nun means right
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now: together as a phrase
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tt means, let me help lead you now on a very
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important subject.
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And he's addressing rich men.
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The word rich, that is used in this verse is the
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Greek word plousios.
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It describes vast wealth, extreme riches,
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incredible abundance.
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This very word, plousios, was used by Plato
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to describe the legendary
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So we're talking about
extremely wealthy people.
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That is who he is
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And he tells them they need to weep
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and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
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The word weep, the Greek word klaio,
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literally means to weep,
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to wail, to shed tears.
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It could even be translated sob.
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The word howl, means to bewail or to lament.
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It expresses feelings
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that is just wailing and wailing.
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for your miseries - and guess what?
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This word misery, is a Greek word which
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describes as a person
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that is totally calloused
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and insensitive to the needs of others.
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your situation is so miserable,
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you're calloused, you're insensitive to the needs of others
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and particularly insensitive to the needs of those
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that are working for you.
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You need to weep,
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you need to howl because something's going to come upon you.
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And when he says upon, in Greek it is the word epi,
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which means right on top of
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and when it comes, it will cover you.
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This will be devastating.
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Then he adds in verse 2: your riches are corrupted
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and your garments are motheaten.
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But when you read this in Greek, it says, ho ploutos humon.
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That word humon is really, really important
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because it tells us James is not addressing all
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rich people.
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He's addressing rich people who financially abuse those
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who work for them.
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He's speaking to one particular category of rich people.
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All rich people do not
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but he's speaking to abusers
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And again, the Greek says ho ploutos humon.
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It has a definite article with the word ploutos.
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It means the riches of yours.
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He's speaking to one particular category of people, those
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who do not financially compensate their employees correctly.
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The riches of yours - remember who he is talking
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to - are corrupted.
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The word corrupted means they're rotten. Wow!
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And this word corrupted, is from the Greek word sepo.
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And guess what? It's where we get the word for sepsis,
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which is a life-threatening infection
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that triggers a chain reaction through the body
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and that without treatment can rapidly lead
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to tissue damage, organ failure and death.
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And James is really saying
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that when you treat people wrongly,
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it will release all kinds of corruption
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and disease in your own life.
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There's always a payback.
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Remember the law of sowing and reaping.
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And when you don't deal with
people correctly financially,
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it comes back to you.
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And here we find the word sepo, where we get the word
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for sepsis.
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And then he says, your garments are motheaten.
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describes the exquisite, brightly colored,
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beaded posh outer garments that were popular among
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rich Greeks and Romans
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and it was a status symbol.
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So here they are decking themselves out.
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Every time you see them, you understand
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what brand they're wearing.
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These are very wealthy individuals wearing posh clothing.
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And he says, those clothes are motheaten.
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Then he says in verse 3: Your gold
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and silver is cankered
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and the rust of them shall be a witness against you
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and shall eat your flesh as it were fire.
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You've heaped treasure together for the last days.
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The word gold, here is the Greek word chrusos,
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which describes the very finest kind of gold, pure gold.
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But notice it says, your gold.
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And in Greek, again it has the
word humon - the gold of you.
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He's not speaking to everybody that has money.
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He's not speaking to everybody that has gold.
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He's speaking to one particular group of people
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who are not compensating
their employees correctly.
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He says, the gold of you,
your particular gold.
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And then he adds silver.
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The word silver, the Greek word, arguros: it refers
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to money of any kind.
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Your money, your silver, your cash,
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and the rest of them shall
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The word witness
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that is used here is derived from the Greek word, martus.
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And the word martus is one who is summoned
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to testify in a court of law:
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firsthand testimony
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and evidence presented in a
legal case in a court of law.
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And now James says, your gold
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and your silver is gonna
be called as a witness -
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but wait - he says, shall be a witness against you.
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And the word against, is a Greek word eis.
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This word eis, means it's going to enter
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or it will be admitted into.
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And here we have a picture
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of their wealth being
summoned upon being admitted
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to a court of law, being
put on a witness stand
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to testify against the owners.
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That's amazing. He says, the
wealth you have, the gold,
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the silver and the rust
of them will be admitted
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to the court of law to
testify against you.
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This will be the primary evidence
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to bring judgment against you.
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And then he adds in verse 3:
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and shall eat your flesh as it were
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fire. The word, eat the Greek word phago.
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It means to eat, to consume, to devour.
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It says, shall eat your flesh. And guess what? Again
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the Greek has the word humon:
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shall eat the flesh of you - is what the Greek says.
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Again, he's not speaking to
everybody who is an employer.
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He's not speaking to every wealthy person.
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He's speaking to wealthy people who abuse their positions
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and do not correctly compensate those who work for them.
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And he says, the flesh of you. He's speaking
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to one particular category of individual.
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The flesh of you it shall eat as fire.
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The word as, in Greek is the word hos.
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It means similar to just like fire: the word fire,
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the Greek word pur,
which depicts a burning
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with its twisting, swirling, swirling, flickering
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flames that bend, twist, turn and arch upward.
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And here, this fire is pictured burning and consuming
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and eating their flesh.
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My friend. This is a very
strong warning to those
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who do not correctly compensate their employees.
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You've heaped treasure together for the last days.
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And when he says you've heaped treasure together,
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it's a form of the Greek word, thesauros.
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The word thesauros is a Greek word which describes a
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treasure, a treasure chamber,
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or a place of safekeeping where riches
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and fortunes are kept; and here it means to accumulate
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and store away vast amounts of treasure.
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So it's not that they
didn't have the money
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to pay their employees,
they just had chosen not
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to correctly compensate them.
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not refer to every category
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of person that has wealth,
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but it refers to a
specific category of people
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who have wealth
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and could have treated their
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That is who James is
addressing in this verse.
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And he says, you've
heaped treasure together
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for the last days.
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The word last, is the Greek word eschatos.
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The word days, is the plural version of
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the Greek word hemera.
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to the ultimate end of a
thing like the final port
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or last stopping off
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The word hemerais, which here is plural, refers to a day.
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to the last part of a person's
journey on earth, the end
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of their life or their senior years,
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or the phrase eschatos, really could point
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to the last days in terms of eschatology.
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But it seems that James is
writing to very wealthy people
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who are accumulating wealth
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and accumulating wealth, wanting
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to make sure they're
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of in the senior years of their life,
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but they're not compensating
people correctly.
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And in fact, when you see
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what James says in verse 4, it's quite shocking.
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He says, Behold, the hire of the laborers
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who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back
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by fraud, crieth. Then begins verse 4
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with the word behold. The word behold, the Greek word idou,
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it carries a sense of bewilderment, shock,
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amazement, wonder:
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wow it is amazing. James is amazed by their behavior.
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He says, the hire of the laborers:
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and the word hire, in Greek is, ho misto.
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It has a definite article.
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or compensation.
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that means you would translate it: the salaries, the wages,
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the compensation,
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and this would not refer
to the salaries, wages,
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or compensation of everyone,
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but it's referring to one
particular group of people
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that are not being compensated correctly.
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Many people are compensated correctly,
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but he's referring to those
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that are not being paid correctly.
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And he says their wages, the wages,
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the higher the compensation of the laborers.
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a laborer or an employee.
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He says, the very ones that
have reaped down your fields;
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the Greek says the fields of you.
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He's addressing this one particular group
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that is not correctly compensating those
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that work for them.
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And he says, you've reaped
down your fields, which
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of you is kept back by fraud.
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to keep back, to cheat, to defraud
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or to rob what rightfully
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And guess what: in Greek again, it has the word humon,
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which means your fraud, you in particular
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and points to the fact
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that these words are not directed toward every employer,
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but to a particular category of employers
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who are wronging their employees.
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That he says in verse 4: Behold the hire
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of the laborers who have
reaped down your fields, which
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of you is kept back by fraud -
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listen to this - crieth. That word crieth,
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the Greek word kradzo, which means to scream, to yell,
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to exclaim, to cry out at
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It's a loud outburst of emotions.
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And the cries
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of them which have reaped are entered into the ears
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of the Lord of Sabaoth.
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This is very, very powerful, my friend.
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God hears all kinds of things.
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And now James says, when
people are not paid correctly,
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it goes into the ears of God.
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God hears this injustice.
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And actually when you
study scripture, you find
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that God hears all kinds of things.
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For example, we know from Genesis 4:10
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that God hears the cry of shed blood.
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Listen to what Genesis 4:10 says;
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And God said, what has thou done?
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The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the
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ground. God could hear the cry of shed blood.
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God hears the cry of sin.
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We know that from Genesis 18:20 to 21.
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And the Lord said, behold the cry of Sodom
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and Gomorrah is great because their sin is very grievous.
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I will go down now and see whether they've done altogether
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according to the cry of it. God could hear the cry of sin.
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We know from Genesis(EXD) 3:7, God hears the cry
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of his people when they are suffering.
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It says, and the Lord said,
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I've certainly seen the affliction
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of my people which are in Egypt,
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and I have heard their cry by
reason of their task masters
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for I know their sorrows.
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And now in James 5:4, we hear
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that God hears the cry
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of injustice when people are
not compensated correctly.
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He really hears that.
Listen to what it says.
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Behold, the higher of the laborers
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who have reaped down your fields, which
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of you is kept back by fraud.
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The hire - what you pay them is crying out.
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And it says, the cries
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of them which have reaped are entered into the ears
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of the Lord of Sabaoth.
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My friends, this is very serious
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because Sabaoth describes Heaven's armies.
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Lord Sabaoth is the Lord of the armies,
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which means God is about to
release his forces to those
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who are doling out injustice.
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Lord Sabaoth is gonna come on the scene to set things right.
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Then he says in verse 5:
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You've lived in pleasure on the earth and have been wanton.
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You've nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
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Lived in pleasure, is a Greek word which means,
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to lead a luxurious life, to live self-indulgently.
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The word wanton is a Greek word, which means
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to live extravagantly, to indulge in luxury,
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to live wastefully, to live with no indulgent restrictions.
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It really means lewd living.
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He says, you've nourished your hearts.
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The word nourished means you've nourished yourself,
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fed yourself, fattened yourself, enlarged your hearts.
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And notice he says your hearts,
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and again, we have the word humon.
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This is not everybody's
hearts is speaking just
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to those employers that
have doled out injustice.
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The hearts of you in
particular would be a very
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good translation.
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And then in verse 6: you've condemned
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and you've killed the just. The word killed, here
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of form the Greek word phoneuo, which means
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to kill, to murder,
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to commit homicide, intentional murder or slaughter.
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It doesn't intentionally mean physical murder,
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but it's slaughtering people,
not treating people correctly.
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And he says, you've killed the just.
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In just, it has a definite article.
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It says ton dikaion.
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The definite article means you would translate it:
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the just one,
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the upright, the one who has done right
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and is right in the sight of God.
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He is working to the best of his ability
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and yet you're not correctly
compensating that individual,
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and then James adds: and yet God does not resist you.
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That is amazing, the mercy
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The word not, is the Greek word, ouk.
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It is emphatic: the strongest form of the word,
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not. The word, resist the Greek word
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antitassomai, which means to stand against
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or to set one's self against someone else or something else.
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And James now says, in
spite of these rich men
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who could do better
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and they are not, in spite of that fact,
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God has not set himself against them.
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God is giving them time to repent.
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God is willing that
everybody should repent.
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But here he addresses employers
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and he says, if you have
the ability to do good
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and you're not doing it, you're wrong.
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Don't consume it all on yourself.
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Remember, there's a God in Heaven
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whose name is Lord Sabaoth,
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and if you don't deal
right with your employees,
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he will come with his armies
to set things in order.
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Now, that is a very serious text to anyone
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who owns a business or to anyone
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who is an employer and my friends,
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if you're employed
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and you feel that you're
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and compensated as you should be,
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just remember your salary is crying
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and it's going into the ears of the Lord.
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He is not ignorant about
what you're going through.
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He's well aware and God is
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where people are crying out for someone
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to feed them the word of God.
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And so today, if you're not already a part
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of our Giving Team to pay off this facility, I'm asking you
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to join us as a part of our Ministry Expansion Project
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to pay off this facility and
we can say, done, finished,
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and give glory to God: but my friends,
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we can only do it with your help.
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So thank you if you're
already part of the team,
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and if not yet part of the
team, please join us as a part
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of the Giving Team to pay off this facility
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so we can be finished with it
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and use these funds to
take the gospel further
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to other places across the world.
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My friend, we have covered
so much material today,
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and it may be that you've
never heard this particular
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material ever covered before,
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but it's just a little taste of everything
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that's in my brand new series called, Getting the Basics
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Right: based on James 5.
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The subtitle says, Biblical Guidelines for Money,
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Relationships, Prayer
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and Dealing with Wayward Believers, Friends
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or Loved ones. It is jam packed
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and touches so many practical issues in our life.
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Please order yours today by going online
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or by giving us a call.
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And remember that it comes with a study guide.
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And right now we're also offering you my book,
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which is called, Signs
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You'll See Before Jesus Comes. Jesus is coming
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and he gave us signs we would
see just before he comes,
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and we need to know what the signs are.
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But my friend, I want to pray for you
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and remind you that if you
need prayer, give us a call
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or send us an email.
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And the moment we hear
from you, we'll begin
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to pray very concretely for your needs.
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But Father, we thank you that you want us
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to do right with money.
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And Father, whether we're the employer
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or the employee, help
us to have a right heart
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and do everything we do as unto you.
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In Jesus' name, Amen. I'll see you tomorrow.
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But remember Ecclesiastes 8:4,
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It says, "Where the word of a king is, there is power."
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If you've never received Jesus as your Savior
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and Lord, now is the time for
you to experience a new life
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Jesus has to give you.
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Pray this prayer with me
right now: Lord, I repent
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of my sin and receive you as my Savior
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and Lord. Wash away my sin
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and make me completely new.
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I thank you that my sin is removed
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and Satan no longer has any
right to lay claim on me.
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I faithfully promise that
I will serve you as my Lord
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for the rest of my life.
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Amen.
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If you just prayed the
prayer of salvation with us,
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would you please let us know by going
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to renner.org/salvation.
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We would love to connect with you.
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Renner Ministries is proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ
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through every available media avenue
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to the uttermost parts of the Earth.
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Discover the many ways you can
help us make a difference in
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lives around the world
with the word of God.
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We invite you to partner with
us in teaching, strengthening
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and rescuing lives for the glory of God.
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Together we can make a difference
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that will last throughout eternity.
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This program was made possible by the giving
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of the God called partners of Renner Ministries.