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Lesson 2 James 1:1-2.
Text
1 James a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the
twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
2 My brethren count it all joy when ye fall into divers
temptations;
What is a servant? 1401
He first identifies himself as a slave or servant, One who
gives himself up to anothers will. Some one who is in bondange
usally but in scripture it is a choice not a bondage.
In New Testament times people owned servants.
Every 7 years at year of Jubilee all debt was free and the
Servant was set free.
If you decided to stay after 7 years you were then marked with
a hole in the ear then they become a bond servant.
James had made a life long committment to the Lord.
He showed he was committed by saying he was a servant.
James only uses the term Jesus Christ twice in the Book of
James.
What is a tribe? 5443
There are two or three possiblities. It is all the Decendents
of Jacob. This was called a tribe.
Of people of a race or Nation, or habitation.
To the Jews who were being scattered.
To the Christians is the strongest possiblity who he was
addressing.
Describe the meaning of the word greeting. 5463
This is a traditional Gentile greeting not a Jewish greeting.
The Jewish was the word Shalom which means Made whole.
Paul usally used grace or peace in his greetings.
Means cheerful, happy, rejoice, Wish you well, God speed in
this greetings is what is represented.
Describe the word joy. 5479
Calls us brethern which means kinship.
The same blood has made us the same by Christ.
Count it all Joy. Consider it all joy.
Joy means: Cheerfulness, calm, delight, gladness.
Joy is associated with life, The experience of sorrow helps
you have the capicity of joy. Joy is the oppisite of sorrow.
Happiness and Joy is often mixed up and they are not related.
Happiness is a product of the soul, based on feelings, or
circumstances.
Happiness comes and goes.
Joy is not of the soul but of the spirit. Gal 5:22
Sorrow if when your spirit is sinking and joy is described
when your spirit is bursting forth.
This comes from the root word used for grace.
Neh 8:10, The joy of the Lord is your strength. Luke 15:7, Joy
in heaven over one sinner repenting.
Isa 12:3. With joy ye shall draw forth out of the waters of
salvation.
Psa 16:11, In thy prescence there is fullness of joy. In his
presence there is joy.
Joy is supernatural. It is very powerfull.
Count it joy when you fall in divers temptations. When you
fall into temptations count it as joy this releases joy into the
circumstance.
It does not equal pleasure. it is progress to become Christ
like.
Joy is the ability to expect God to move and Joy sustains you.
Explain the word fall. 4045
When you fall, to fall into something all around you.
Be surrounded with, be compassed with problems all around you.
You wake up and it seems it is all around you. This is what he
is talking about.
Like being in a snow storm or fog all around you. This shows
us we cannot always control things around us.
It takes joy to count yourself this way in the midst of
problems. We need to stop and let Joy come on the scene.
What is divers? 4164
Manifold is alternitive word, Various temptations is also ok.
Comes for the word pictures from the root links. Mixture of
colors in any picture.
Talking about all different kinds of circumstances.
We need joy to help us in all circumstances.
Count it joy.
Define the word temptations. 3986
Can be a experiment. To test it. to be tested or go through
trials, proving, adversity, affliction, provications.
Count it all joy when you fall into these different problems
or times of your life.
Can mean outward circumstances, and also inside on your morals.
Trials is outward tests.
Temptations as inwards tests this is in the English.
Both of these help you either go toward or away from God.
If you count it as joy it will draw you closer to God.
In a trial some people pull away from Church and Christian
people.
Trials come in varied form.
People often stumble over circumstances.
There is a testing of our faith.
Every trial builds character in us. We learn to be used in
eternity for the Lord.
React with joy from the Spirit Man not with the soul.
Lesson 3 James 1:3-4.
Text
2 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
3 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be
perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
Explain the word knowing. 1097
Knowing is a weak word in the English word.
Reletive words means to understand completly, a defiteness, to
recognize , to come to know, absolutly percieve somthing.
The following words come from the same root word in Greek.
Prognosis to know beforehand.
Agnostic means ingnorance.
God wants us to know him. To come to a full revelation of Him.
To know him fully.
Trials help you to know.
Give other words that describe trying. 1383
Knowing this.
Means approving, atried, trustworthyness, To prove with the
expectation of geting an approval. We are going to go through
trying with a expected result of approval.
Our testing and trials will give us approval after going
through this there is a trustworthiness in our life.
I Peter 1:6-9
Our trial of our faith is more precious then gold.
The end of our faith is the saving of our souls.
Give a brief description of faith. 4102
This is what is going to be tied.
Faith is : A assuranse, or a strong conviction, a firm
persuasion, a confidence.
A bold strong Confidence.
Our Faith is always on Trial.
Three things that watch our test of faith.
One is the Demonic Beings, Two is God and his Heveanly Beings,
and The third are those around us.
Define worketh. 2716
Means to do work fully, not just active but to work fully, to
accomplish, to achieve, to bring about results. To bring forth
fruition.
Trials achieve something in us. Children of Israel went
through the same thing to see what was in their heart.
What is patience? 5281
Good word for this is steadfastness, Those that endure until
the end the same will be saved. Must endure to the end not get
started and give up.
Constancy, to stay constant.
If we cannot do nothing else in our christian life stay
constant.
Endurance to get to a specified point.
Patience is developed by going through trials. Only this kind
of patience can be achieved this way.
Describe the word perfect. 5046
Trials Worketh to achieve this endurance in our life.
Many People blame God, or are mad at Him becaule of trials.
Complete , full aged, Moral Character , Mature.
Example someone when they reach the age of 21 they have more
choices and responsibilities.
Let patience have her complete work.
Define the word entire. 3648
So that we can be complete or fully mature by letting patience
have her perfect work.
Entire Means : to be complete in all its parts. Free from sin,
faultless, whole, perfectly sound, complete.
Patience will bring us to the point of Entire.
Without Patience we cannot be made entire.
First going through a trial you count it all joy, Then we
knowing that this kind of trying is subject of approval which
will get us some where.
Our faith is on trial Rom 10:17 Faith.
Is being tested for approval.
The trying of our faith achieves endurance which brings about
maturity or completness.
This shows a pathway what a trial does to your life from
beginning to end.
This is the end results of going through trials.
Explain wanting. 3007
Means lacking nothing.
What will be lacking?
Nothing.
Notes
Could you imagine a trial could produce all this in your life.
This is the only way to achive this goal to be mature in
Christ.
Count it all joy.
Our ability to release joy is important.
Your ability to endure is patience.
We need to do this consistanly over time to come to maturity.
Lesson 4 James 1:5-8.
Text
5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth
to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given
him.
6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that
wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and
tossed.
7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing
of the Lord.
8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
What is Wisdom. 4678
The word lack and wanting are the same word in the original.
Wisdom is a very powerfull word that needs in depth study.
Must ask of God the source.
Eph 1:8 Wherin he hath abounded in all wisdom and prudence.
God wants us to hath all wisdom possible, hath abounded.
Wisdom is the insight to the true nature of things.
Prudence is the ability to deserns the modes of action.
Wisdom is theoricital, all things have theory.
Prudence is pratical knowledge.
I Cor 2:4-7 speech was not in mans wisdom but in the power of
God.
We speak the wisdom of God not of man. This shows the
different kinds of wisdom. The hidden mystries of God.
Was veiled from ungodly men. God wants his people to recieve
his wisdom.
But my God shall supply you with all your need according to
his riches in heaven. Money is not in heaven but Knowledge and
Wisdom.
Prov 2 - 3:13 Describes what wisdom will do for you.
Wisdom comes from God to help us in many ways.
If connects the previous verse. This is one possible area we
need to be entire is wisdom.
Describe Liberally. 0574
This is the nature of God to give us all things liberally.
God is not stingy.
Means to be bountifully, openenlly, singleness of heart he
gives openly.
God gives Wisdom bountifully.
Conditions God requires is to ask
What does upbraideth 3679 mean?
Means to chide, taunt, revive, without finding fault, does Not
reproach you.
Because you lack wisdom Gods will not look down on you.
He will give it openly to you from his own heart and treasures.
What method should we ask?
If we ask it will be given to you. It is not a sin to have
wisdom, but it would be a sin to not ask for wisdom.
God knowst commit <3431-moicheuo->
adultery <3431-moicheuo->, said <2036-epo-> also <2532-kai-
>, Do not
kill <5407-phoneuo->. Now <1161-de-> if <1487-ei-> thou
commit
<3431-moicheuo-> no <3756-ou-> adultery <3431-moicheuo->,
yet
<1161-de-> if thou kill <5407-phoneuo->, thou art become
<1096-ginomai-> a transgressor <3848-parabates-> of the law
<3551-nomos->.
12 So <3779-houto-> speak <2980-laleo-> ye, and so <3779-
houto-> do
<4160-poieo->, as they that shall be judged <2919-krino->
by the law
<3551-nomos-> of liberty <1657-eleutheria->.
13 For he shall have judgment <2920-krisis-> without
<0448-anileos->
mercy <0448-anileos->, that hath shewed <4160-poieo-> no
<3361-me->
mercy <1656-eleos->; and mercy <1656-eleos-> rejoiceth
<2620-katakauchaomai-> against <2620-katakauchaomai->
judgment
<2920-krisis->.
14. What <5101-tis-> [doth it] profit <3786-ophelos->, my
brethren
<0080-adephos->, though <1437-ean-> a man <5100-tis-> say
<3004-lego->
he hath <2192-echo-> faith <4102-pistis->, and have <2192-
echo-> not
works <2041-ergon->? can <1410-dunamai-> faith <4102-
pistis-> save
<4982-sozo-> him?
15 If <1437-ean-> a brother <0080-adephos-> or <2228-e->
sister
<0079-adelphe-> be naked <1131-gumnos->, and destitute
<3007-leipo->
of daily <2184-ephemeros-> food <5160-trophe->,
16 And one <5100-tis-> of you say <2036-epo-> unto them,
Depart
<5217-hupago-> in peace <1515-eirene->, be [ye] warmed
<2328-thermaino-> and filled <5526-chortazo->;
notwithstanding ye give
<1325-didomi-> them not those <3588-ho-> things which are
needful
<2006-epitedeios-> to the body <4983-soma->; what <5101-
tis-> [doth
it] profit <3786-ophelos->?
17 Even <2532-kai-> so <3779-houto-> faith <4102-pistis->,
if
<1437-ean-> it hath <2192-echo-> not works <2041-ergon->,
is dead
<3498-nekros->, being alone <2596-kata->.
18 Yea <0235-alla->, a man <5100-tis-> may say <2046-ereo-
>, Thou
hast <2192-echo-> faith <4102-pistis->, and I have works
<2041-ergon->: shew <1166-deiknuo-> me thy faith <4102-
pistis->
without <5565-choris-> thy works <2041-ergon->, and I will
shew
<1166-deiknuo-> thee my faith <4102-pistis-> by my works
<2041-ergon->.
19 Thou believest <4100-pisteuo-> that there is one <1520-
heis-> God
<2316-theos->; thou doest <4160-poieo-> well <2573-kalos->:
the devils
<1140-daimonion-> also <2532-kai-> believe <4100-pisteuo->,
and
tremble <5425-phrisso->.
20 But wilt <2309-thelo-> thou know <1097-ginosko->, O
vain
<2756-kenos-> man <0444-anthropos->, that faith <4102-
pistis-> without
<5565-choris-> works <2041-ergon-> is dead <3498-nekros->?
21 Was not Abraham <0011-Abraam->our father <3962-pater->
justified
<1344-dikaioo-> by works <2041-ergon->, when he had offered
<0399-anaphero-> Isaac <2464-Isaak-> his son <5207-huios->
upon the
altar <2379-thusiasterion->?
22 Seest <0991-blepo-> thou how <3754-hoti-> faith <4102-
pistis->
wrought <4903-sunergeo-> with his works <2041-ergon->, and
by works
<2041-ergon-> was faith <4102-pistis-> made <5048-teleioo-
> perfect
<5048-teleioo->?
23 And the scripture <1124-graphe-> was fulfilled <4137-
pleroo->
which <3588-ho-> saith <3004-lego->, Abraham <0011-Abraam-
>believed
<4100-pisteuo-> God <2316-theos->, and it was imputed
<3049-logizomai-> unto him for righteousness <1343-
dikaiosune->: and
he was called <2564-kaleo-> the Friend <5384-philos-> of
God
<2316-theos->.
24 Ye see <3708-horao-> then <5106-toinun-> how that by
works
<2041-ergon-> a man <0444-anthropos-> is justified <1344-
dikaioo->,
and not by faith <4102-pistis-> only <3440-monon->.
25 Likewise <3668-homoios-> also <2532-kai-> was not Rahab
<4460-Rhaab-> the harlot <4204-porne-> justified <1344-
dikaioo-> by
works <2041-ergon->, when she had received <5264-
hupodechomai-> the
messengers <0032-aggelos->, and had sent <1524-eiseimi->
[them] out
another <2087-heteros-> way <3598-hodos->?
26 For as the body <4983-soma-> without <5565-choris->
the spirit
<4151-pneuma-> is dead <3498-nekros->, so <3779-houto->
faith
<4102-pistis-> without <5565-choris-> works <2041-ergon->
is dead
<3498-nekros-> also <2532-kai->.
James 3
1. My brethren <0080-adephos->, be not many <4183-polus->
masters
<1320-didaskalos->, knowing <1492-eido-> that we shall
receive
<2983-lambano-> the greater <3187-meizon-> condemnation
<2917-krima->.
2 For in many <4183-polus-> things we offend <4417-ptaio-
> all
<0537-hapas->. If <1487-ei-> any <1536-ei tis-> man offend
<4417-ptaio-> not in word <3056-logos->, the same <3778-
houtos-> [is]
a perfect <5046-teleios-> man <0435-aner->, [and] able
<1415-dunatos->
also <2532-kai-> to bridle <5469-chalinos-> the whole
<3650-holos->
body <4983-soma->.
3 Behold <2400-idou->, we put <0906-ballo-> bits <5469-
chalinos-> in
the horses <2462-hippos->' mouths <4750-stoma->, that they
may obey
<3982-peitho-> us; and we turn <3329-metago-> about <3329-
metago->
their whole <3650-holos-> body <4983-soma->.
4 Behold <2400-idou-> also <2532-kai-> the ships <4143-
ploion->,
which though [they be] so <5082-telikoutos-> great <5082-
telikoutos->,
and [are] driven <1643-elauno-> of fierce <4642-skleros->
winds
<0417-anemos->, yet are they turned <3329-metago-> about
<3329-metago-> with a very <1646-elachistos-> small <1646-
elachistos->
helm <4079-pedalion->, whithersoever <0302-an-> the
governor
<2116-euthuno-> listeth <1014-boo-lom-ahee->.
5 Even <2532-kai-> so <3779-houto-> the tongue <1100-
glossa-> is a
little <3398-mikros-> member <3196-melos->, and boasteth
<3166-megalaucheo-> great <3166-megalaucheo-> things.
Behold
<2400-idou->, how <2245-helikos-> great <2245-helikos-> a
matter
<5208-hule-> a little <3641-oligos-> fire <4442-pur->
kindleth
<0381-anapto->!
6 And the tongue <1100-glossa-> [is] a fire <4442-pur->,
a world
<2889-kosmos-> of iniquity <0093-adikia->: so <3779-houto-
> is the
tongue <1100-glossa-> among <1722-en-> our members <3196-
melos->, that
it defileth <4695-spiloo-> the whole <3650-holos-> body
<4983-soma->,
and setteth <5394-phlogizo-> on fire <5394-phlogizo-> the
course
<5164-trochos-> of nature <1078-genesis->; and it is set
<5394-phlogizo-> on fire <5394-phlogizo-> of hell <1067-
geena->.
7 For every <3956-pas-> kind <5449-phusis-> of beasts
<2342-therion->, and of birds <4071-peteinon->, and of
serpents
<2062-herpeton->, and of things in the sea <1724-enalios->,
is tamed
<1150-damazo->, and hath been tamed <1150-damazo-> of
mankind
<0442-anthropinos->:
8 But the tongue <1100-glossa-> can <1410-dunamai-> no
<3762-oudeis->
man <0444-anthropos-> tame <1150-damazo->; [it is] an
unruly
<0183-akataschetos-> evil <2556-kakos->, full <3324-mestos-
> of deadly
<2287-thanatephoros-> poison <2447-ios->.
9 Therewith <0846-autos-> bless <2127-eulogeo-> we God
<2316-theos->,
even the Father <3962-pater->; and therewith <0846-autos->
curse
<2672-kataraomai-> we men <0444-anthropos->, which <3588-
ho-> are made
<1096-ginomai-> after <2596-kata-> the similitude <3669-
homoiosis-> of
God <2316-theos->.
10 Out of the same <0846-autos-> mouth <4750-stoma->
proceedeth
<1831-exerchomai-> blessing <2129-eulogia-> and cursing
<2671-katara->. My brethren <0080-adephos->, these <5023-
tauta->
things ought <5534-chre-> not so <3779-houto-> to be.
11 Doth a fountain <4077-pege-> send <1032-bruo-> forth
<1032-bruo->
at <1537-ek-> the same <0846-autos-> place <3692-ope->
sweet
<1099-glukus-> [water] and bitter <4089-pikros->?
12 Can <1410-dunamai-> the fig <4808-suke-> tree <4808-
suke->, my
brethren <0080-adephos->, bear <4160-poieo-> olive <1636-
elaia->
berries <1636-elaia->? either <2228-e-> a vine <0288-
ampelos->, figs
<4810-sukon->? so <3779-houto-> [can] no <3762-oudeis->
fountain
<4077-pege-> both yield <4160-poieo-> salt <0252-halukos->
water
<5204-hudor-> and fresh <1099-glukus->.
13. Who <5101-tis-> [is] a wise <4680-sophos--oneidismos->
man and
endued <1990-epistemon-> with knowledge <1990-epistemon->
among
<1722-en-> you? let him shew <1166-deiknuo-> out of a good
<2570-kalos-> conversation <0391-anastrophe-> his works
<2041-ergon->
with meekness <4240-prautes-> of wisdom <4678-sophia->.
14 But if <1487-ei-> ye have <2192-echo-> bitter <4089-
pikros->
envying <2205-zelos-> and strife <2052-eritheia-> in your
<5216-humon-> hearts <2588-kardia->, glory <2620-
katakauchaomai-> not,
and lie <5574-pseudomai-> not against <2596-kata-> the
truth
<0225-aletheia->.
15 This <3778-houtos-> wisdom <4678-sophia-> descendeth
<2718-katerchomai-> not from above <0509-anothen->, but
[is] earthly
<1919-epigeios->, sensual <5591-psuchikos->, devilish
<1141-daimoniodes->.
16 For where <3699-hopou-> envying <2205-zelos-> and
strife
<2052-eritheia-> [is], there <1563-ekei-> [is] confusion
<0181-akatastasia-> and every <3956-pas-> evil <5337-
phaulos-> work
<4229-pragma->.
17 But the wisdom <4678-sophia-> that is from above <0509-
anothen->
is first <4412-proton-> pure <0053-hagnos->, then <1899-
epeita->
peaceable <1516-eirenikos->, gentle <1933-epieikes->,
[and] easy
<2138-eupeithes-> to be intreated <2138-eupeithes->, full
<3324-mestos-> of mercy <1656-eleos-> and good <0018-
agathos-> fruits
<2590-karpos->, without <0087-adiakritos-> partiality
<0087-adiakritos->, and without <0505-anupokritos->
hypocrisy
<0505-anupokritos->.
18 And the fruit <2590-karpos-> of righteousness <1343-
dikaiosune->
is sown <4687-speiro-> in peace <1515-eirene-> of them
that make
<4160-poieo-> peace <1515-eirene->.
James 4
1. From whence <4159-pothen-> [come] wars <4171-polemos->
and
fightings <3163-mache-> among <1722-en-> you? [come they]
not hence
<1782-enteuthen->, [even] of your <5216-humon-> lusts
<2237-hedone->
that war <4754-strateuomai-> in your <5216-humon-> members
<3196-melos->?
2 Ye lust <1937-epithumeo->, and have <2192-echo-> not:
ye kill
<5407-phoneuo->, and desire <2206-zeloo-> to have <2192-
echo->, and
cannot <1410-dunamai-> obtain <2013-epitugchano->: ye fight
<3164-machomai-> and war <4170-polemeo->, yet <1161-de->
ye have
<2192-echo-> not, because <1223-dia-> ye ask <0154-aiteo->
not.
3 Ye ask <0154-aiteo->, and receive <2983-lambano-> not,
because
<1360-dioti-> ye ask <0154-aiteo-> amiss <2560-kakos->,
that ye may
consume <1159-dapanao-> [it] upon your <5216-humon-> lusts
<2237-hedone->.
4 Ye adulterers <3432-moichos-> and adulteresses <3428-
moichalis->,
know <1492-eido-> ye not that the friendship <5373-philia-
> of the
world <2889-kosmos-> is enmity <2189-echthra-> with God
<2316-theos->?
whosoever <0302-an-> therefore <3767-oun-> will <1014-boo-
lom-ahee->
be a friend <5384-philos-> of the world <2889-kosmos-> is
the enemy
<2190-echthros-> of God <2316-theos->.
5 Do ye think <1380-dokeo-> that the scripture <1124-
graphe-> saith
<3004-lego-> in vain <2761-kenos->, The spirit <4151-
pneuma-> that
dwelleth <2730-katoikeo-> in us lusteth <1971-epipotheo->
to envy
<5355-phthonos->?
6 But he giveth <1325-didomi-> more <3187-meizon-> grace
<5485-charis->. Wherefore <1352-dio-> he saith <3004-lego-
>, God
<2316-theos-> resisteth <0498-antitassomai-> the proud
<5244-huperephanos->, but giveth <1325-didomi-> grace
<5485-charis->
unto the humble <5011-tapeinos->.
7 Submit <5293-hupotasso-> yourselves therefore <3767-oun-
> to God
<2316-theos->. Resist <0436-anthistemi-> the devil <1228-
diabolos->,
and he will flee <5343-pheugo-> from you.
8 Draw nigh <1448-eggizo-> to God <2316-theos->, and he
will draw
nigh <1448-eggizo-> to you. Cleanse <2511-katharizo->
[your] hands
<5495-cheir->, [ye] sinners <0268-hamartolos->; and purify
<0048-hagnizo-> [your] hearts <2588-kardia->, [ye] double
<1374-dipsuchos-> minded <1374-dipsuchos->.
9 Be afflicted <5003-talaiporeo->, and mourn <3996-
pentheo->, and
weep <2799-klaio->: let your <5216-humon-> laughter <1071-
gelos-> be
turned <3344-metastrepho-> to mourning <3997-penthos->,
and [your
<3588-ho->] joy <5479-chara-> to heaviness <2726-katepheia-
>.
10 Humble <5013-tapeinoo-> yourselves in the sight <1799-
enopion-> of
the Lord <2962-kurios->, and he shall lift <5312-hupsoo->
you up.
11. Speak <2635-katalaleo-> not evil <2635-katalaleo-> one
<0240-allelon-> of another <0240-allelon->, brethren <0080-
adephos->.
He that speaketh <2635-katalaleo-> evil <2635-katalaleo->
of [his]
brother <0080-adephos->, and judgeth <2919-krino-> his
brother
<0080-adephos->, speaketh <2635-katalaleo-> evil <2635-
katalaleo-> of
the law <3551-nomos->, and judgeth <2919-krino-> the law
<3551-nomos->: but if <1487-ei-> thou judge <2919-krino->
the law
<3551-nomos->, thou art <1488-ei-> not a doer <4163-
poietes-> of the
law <3551-nomos->, but a judge <2923-krites->.
12 There is one <1520-heis-> lawgiver <3550-nomothetes->,
who
<3588-ho-> is able <1410-dunamai-> to save <4982-sozo->
and to destroy
<0622-apollumi->: who <5101-tis-> art <1488-ei-> thou that
judgest
<2919-krino-> another <2087-heteros->?
13 Go <0033-age-inders our relationship with God.
Use that anger that the Devil will try to cause and use that
anger to be used in a positive way.
Anger can be channeled to be used for a good purpose.
Wrath comes from the soulish part of man which is made up of
our mind, will, and emotions.
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