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James Study.
Introduction to James.
By Ron Clagg Typed by Ray Hamilton
Lesson 1.
Who is the most probable authority?
Three James in N.T.
Most likely the James the Just the half brother of Jesus.
James the Apostle. Edited later by someone else.
It was written in very good Greek, This in one of the reasons
to
help understand the style.
Was written out of a Jewish Christian culture.
Most probable author was James the half brother of Jesus.
Opens with the feeling of oppression.
James is considered the book of Proverbs of the New Testament.
Very Relevant for today.
James mentioned Jesus Christ twice in his book.
Who was the book written to?
Destination of the book of James was to not a certain local
church but is a open book to all.
When was this epistle written?
Date was written in approx. Ad 44 to 63.
What is the purpose of the epistle?
What is the teaching of James?
Sin, judgement , and regeneration, The Christian life, Trials,
Temptation, The Rich and the Poor, The Old Jewish Law. Faith and
Works. Wisdom, Meekness and Endurance.
What kind of literature does the book contain?
Bits and pieces of Wisdom, and peverbal sayings.
How did James feel about his brother before he died?
His Brother Jesus Christ.
He did not accept his brother until after he died or close to
it.
What position did James hold and where?
He was know as the Bishop of the Church at Jerusalem.
He wrote this when he was pastor at Jerusalem.
James declares that faith without works is dead.
James Interlinear Text.
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James Chapter One Study Notes.
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 another's will. Some one who is in bondage usually
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 commitment 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 possibilities. It is all the
Descendent 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 possibility 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 usually 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 brethren 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 capacity of joy. Joy is the opposite 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 presence there is fullness of joy. In his
presence there is joy.
Joy is supernatural. It is very powerful.
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 alternative 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, provocations.
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 inward 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.
Relative words means to understand completely, a
definiteness, to
recognize , to come to know, absolutely perceive smoothing.
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, tried, trustworthiness, To prove with the
expectation of getting 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 assurance, 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 Heavenly
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 because 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 completeness.
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 achieve 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 consistently 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 powerful 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 discern the modes of action.
Wisdom is theoretical, all things have theory.
Prudence is practical 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 mysteries of God.
Was veiled from ungodly men. God wants his people to receive
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 knows we are created through Adam.
Wisdom is to know how to use knowledge.
Let him ask in faith nothing wavering.
What are other words for waver 1252?
Means to hesitate, to doubt, to stagger, Abraham did not
stagger
or waiver when God spoke to him about being a Father of many
nations.
Do not let doubt be in your mind.
What is a person like who wavers?
He is like a wave of the sea.
How can you build a foundation on a wave.
What happens to him?
If you stagger on the promises then you are like a wave of
the
sea driven by the wind and tossed.
It would be a sin to waiver.
What should that persons expect?
Faith is the key that is dealt with in the Book of James.
Ask in faith or else don't expect anything from God.
Describe doublemindedness. 1374
Means double soul is the same word mind in original.
Double means two. Means to have two minds or two souls in
operation.
We cannot operate rightly with this doubleminded.
Which mind you feed the most, That part will be the
strongest.
This is to illustrate the power of death and life and the power
of
good and evil.
He is unstable in all his ways.
Define the word unstable. 0182
Inconstant, in all his ways, restless. All these things can
come
at you in your times of trials.
The enemy may come at you to cause division.
This shuts the door of heaven.
Release divine joy to overcome all those things that comes
against you.
In all his ways, this affects every facet of his life.
If he has love it will affect his relationships to God and
people.
Lesson 5 James 1:9-11.
Text.
9. Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is
exalted;
10. But the rich, in that he is made low; because as the
flower
of the grass he shall pass away.
11. For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but
it
withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the
grace
of the fashion of it perisheth; so also shall the rich man fade
away
in his ways.
Explain the term low degree. 5011
Notice the Brother.
Means: not rising far from the ground, Depressed maybe in
financial sense, Could be mental.
Talks of Men of low estate. We may work with someone like
this
or know someone like this.
Those who are poor.
Describe the word rejoice. 2744
To boast, to glory, to glory on account of a thing, to joy.
This is pretty tuff to do in the midst of things.
Rejoice because of the strength and the bringing up is a
supernatural miracle.
What does exalted mean? 5311
Means: Rank, to a high station, to lift up, to raise up.
God has made many promises in the Bible 2cor 8:9 Christ was
made
poor so that we may be made Rich.
To rejoice because God will meet his needs.
Who are the rich? 4245
Means: Wealthy, abounding in material resources.
But in the rich that he is made low.
Why will the rich be made low?
He is to rejoice in that he is being made low.
Because riches are temporary they will fade away.
Because as the flower of the grass he will pass away.
2 Cor 4:18 That which is seen is temporal, that which is not
seen is eternal.
We must invest where moths and rust will not destroy.
Describe the word grace. 2143
Gods grace will bring them to the point of humility.
One difficult problem with rich men will be humility.
Some rich men their blessings come from God.
Mat 23:12 If you exalt yourself will be abased, If you abase
yourself you will be exalted.
Isa 40:4-8 Let every valley be lifted up, All flesh is grass,
the grass and flowers fades but the Word of God lives forever.
I Pet 1:22-25 Obey the truth, see that you love one another
with
a pure heart. The word of God abideth and levity forever. The
word
of the Lord will levity forever. Flesh and grass is compared with
the length of the life of the Word of God.
James compares life to the flowers and grass.
Graceful.
What does fashion mean. 4383
Face or countenance.
The flower is short lived but it still has a beautiful face.
The sun comes out and the flower fade away.
So shall a rich man in his ways.
What part of the rich man will fade away?
His ways will fade away.
Describe the word ways. 4197
His ways, his circumstances, his undertakings, his purposes.
What are the ways of a rich man?
James 2:6 Here he talks about the rich man again.
Verse 1,2 he talks about separating rich and poor.
Do not rich men oppress you.
Don't they draw you into the judgment seats. Hire lawyers
because
they have the money to do so.
Do they not blaspheme that Holy Name.
Verse 8 Thy shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
Do have respect for other people.
We feel out of place because of their riches and how we look
compared to them.
They have a way of intimidation.
Notes.
James condemns not the rich man but his ways.
Christ can help the poor man suffering for Christ to be
exalted
for Christ.
Cars, Clothes, and Houses reflect our image. These can be
bought
to reflect their personalities.
Lesson 6 James 1:12-14.
Text.
12. Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he
is
tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath
promised to them that love him.
13. Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God:
for
God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
14. But every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own
lust and enticed.
Describe this word endureth. 5278
Means to remain, to perservere, to stand ground.
What is temptation? 3986
To test it. to be tested or go through trials, proving,
adversity, affliction, provications.
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.
Explain tried. 1384
Means; approving for the sake of approval. to be acceptable,
to
be proved. To come out and be pleasing to the Lord in all things.
What is a crown? 4735
Crown of Life, wreath of flowers, represents a award or a
prize.
If we persevere in all trials we will receive a victors
crown.
What kind of life is this? 2222
Three kinds of life.
Bios: Blood life
Physcy life: Soul life
Zoe life: Vtitality, Fullness of life, This is the God kind
of
Life, Zoe only comes from the Holy Spirit. It is the Life of God
in
us.
John 10:10 I am come that ye may have life and have it more
abundantly. This zoe life.
Zoe life is what is being used here.
What kind of love is this?
Agape love is the God kind of love.
Describe this word temptation. 3985
God will not use evil to tempt us.
To try to make trial of tests, for purpose of ascertaining
your
choice.
Bad sense to test you.
Bad sense to test ones faith and virtue and character to sin
to
solicit to sin and to tempt.
God will not use sin in front of you to try your faith which
will be tested.
What is evil? 2556
God will not use evil to cause temptation.
Satan will do this as shown in the temptation of Christ by
Satan
in the desert.
Explain the word drawn. 1828
We need to learn the difference between God helping us
develop
character or It is Satan trying to entice us to be drawn away and
sinning.
Majority of temptations are brought out by our own lusts.
We must understand the Word of God and stand up on it.
What is lust? 1939
Means: own desire, own cravings, own longings. To be
somewhere,
that is not the will of God.
Phrase describes the emotions of the Soul. The natural
tendency
of things toward evil.
May not be evil but can be against the things of God. Or not
the
will of God for our life.
Could be self will that is blocking the Will of God in our
life.
If the emotions are allowed to rule then we will be drawn
away
from the perfect will of God.
What does entice mean? 1185
To begat, to allure, to beguile, to entice, to set up a
deception or to bait.
These can entice us away from what we need to do and find
ourself away from Gods perfect will.
Even though we may be pulled away from God or we blew it if
we
will turn to God He will help us to be victorious.
We cannot stay down but get back up and God will give us
grace.
We are drawn and enticed that causes us trials and
temptations.
Sometimes this takes this kind of problems to see what they
are
like inside.
Sometimes in times of stress this comes out and needs to be
dealt with.
What draws a man away?
His own lusts, Satan can if we will listen to him.
Lesson 7 James 1:15-17.
Text.
15. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and
sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
16. Do not err, my beloved brethren.
17. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and
cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no
variableness,
neither shadow of turning.
What is Lust? 1939
Strong desire, longing
Describe the word Conceive. 4815
To put together our strong desires and the bait that the
devil
sets up for us and these two coming together.
Our desires cannot come in contact with the bait of the
enemy.
Every man is tempted when he is drawn away.
Lust by itself does not do nothing unlit it comes to the bait
of the enemy. then this brings forth sin.
What is sin? 0266
Missing the mark, Seed of sin is in the human body.
As long we were in a body we are subject to sin.
We are born with a sin nature. We were born that way.
Through the blood of Christ we can be set free.
Lust can bring forth the nature of sin to destroy you and
then
you will miss heaven.
Not do what you know to do, Lack of faith, and missing the
mark.
These are the three ways to sin in the Bible.
Explain the word Finished. 0658
Can bring about physical death but the primary meaning is
spiritual death.
The source of temptation is from within.
Every body has to deal with the sin nature.
After desire has conceived it gives birth to sin.
The first is the birthing process.
When sin is brought to maturity it brings forth death.
What is Death? 2288
With the renewed mind we must determine where thoughts come
from.
First seed is planted.
Second we imagine it.
Third we submit our will to it.
We must get control of our thoughts so that the devil cannot
control us to build up a stronghold in our life.
After it is a stronghold then we verbalize it and it gives
the
devil legal ground to cause temptations and sin in our life.
I John 1:9 God forgives us of sin if we confess our sin. He
is
faithful to forgive us.
The separation of man from God. Adam died spiritually when he
sinned.
Death is the opposite of life.
Death is eternity without God.
Life is eternity with God.
Describe the word err. 4105
Means: to stray, to cause to stray, to roam, to wander.
If you miss the mark you miss the mark.
Do not err my beloved brother. Do not wander off of the path.
We have a great roadmap <the Word of God> to lead us on the
path
of righteousness.
Define this word gift. 1394
Matter of debt and credit account.
Describe the word perfect. 5046
Having reached its end, complete, maturity.
What is variableness? 3883
Change, fickleness, or
What is turning? 5157
Neither shadow of turning.
God will not allow any being to separate you from his love.
Notes.
Lesson 8 James 1:18-20.
Text.
18. Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that
we
should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
19. Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to
hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath:
20. For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of
God.
Describe the word will. 1014
Means: To will diliberly, have a purpose, make a choice, to
desire and make a deliberate choice.
By God's deliberate choice he begat us.
Define the word begat. 0616
He gave birth, To bring forth from the womb, To give birth
to in
the Spirit.
Eph 1:4 Before the foundation of the world he chose us.
He with his own words he called us out. He has a plan for us.
God has a purpose for us. He was crucified before the
foundations of the world. He finishes all thing before he builds
the
earth.
Explain the word "Word". 3056
We were begat in our spiritual birth by the word
Luke 1:38 Mary gave birth by the word spoken to her as she
responded in faith. Mary gave consent to the angel for the Word
of
God to be created within her.
Our spirit is a womb. When we were born again we become a
member
of the family of God.
Logos is the word used here. This is the written word of God.
Rhema is the spoken word of God that the Holy Spirit reveals
to
us. Example of Christ in temptation and he used specific verses
to
use against the Enemy.
Jesus is termed the Word of God. Logos.
What is the kind of First Fruits? 0536
Gal 4:19 Paul travailed with birth pains for the word of God
to
be planted within them.
Is the first product off of the vine, The best off the vine
or
the tree.
We are the end time harvest compared to the early christians
Could be referred to certain Christians
Romans 16:5
What are creatures. 2938
2 Cor 5:17 New creature in Christ.
The product of a creative act of God.
He birthed us, He is creating a new us as we submit to his
will.
Made is to make from something, To create is to make
something
out of nothing.
God Created the earth and then made man from the earth and
his
spirit to make a complete creation.
What should we be swift to do?
Hear
What should we be slow at?
Speak and wrath.
What is wrath? 3709
Two words in Greek, English is wrath, and anger.
Orge a more settled condition of the mind, a more active
emotion.
Orge is when something happens you get anger and twenty
minutes
later you have forget it.
The other type of anger is a buildup of anger within us over
a
period of time.
This is the worst kind as it is not dealt with.
What does the wrath of man accomplish?
Fails to produce the Righteousness of God.
God has given us anger as a emotion and we must deal with it
righteously.
This is a commandment to be slow to wrath. Not to be quick
tempered.
Quick to hear and slow to speak.
Does not work the righteousness of God.
Wrath of man works unrighteousness.
It turns off our spirit man. It hinders 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.
Notes.
Lesson 9 James 1:21.
Text.
21. Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of
naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which
is
able to save your souls.
What does lay apart 0659 mean?
To put off, You are responsible to put off or put away from
oneself.
What is filthiness? 4507
Means: wickedness as moral defilement, obsinitys,
pornography is
considered filthiness in this terms. Means vile
Wicked things.
2 cor 6:14-16
Paul is very clear about filthiness. God wants us to separate
ourselves.
Filthiness means wrong or defilement around us. But could be
within us also.
What is superfluity? 4050
Abundance or exceeding measure, above the ordinary, a
abundance
of wickedness in the world. We need to get rid of it.
What is naughtiness? 2549
Means: It is a desire to injure someone, Means badness in
quality, To be depraved to lack compassion.
Ones who purposely hurt someone. To harm someone.
James says to put all this away from this sin, To stay away
from
to separate oneself from.
Describe receive. 1209
Means to receive when some thing is held out to us or
offered to
us.
Readily to reach out and take something.
Example to eat supper in the evening when you are hungry.
What is meekness? 4240
Means: Dealing with a inward grace of the Spirit.
It is the fruit of power.
Rather is a inwrought grace of the soul. It is a temper of
the
spirit that receives his dealing with us as good.
It is a condition of the mind and heart.
It is received from the Lord.
Meekness is the opposite of ego to be self served.
It is a quality of the Strong Man. We must be in this spirit
to
receive from the Lord.
We know our source of power.
Spiritual receptivity.
Define the word engrafted. 1721
Means to implant, A metaphor of a seed being planted.
To graft two kinds of trees together, to be planted together.
To have the Word of God is being planted in something.
The Spirit of Man come from God. Man has a soul , and His
body
come from dirt.
The word has to be planted in our spirit. It cannot be put
only
into the mind. But must be received into our spirit.
If the word of God is not planted into our spirit we do not
have
the word of God.
Gal 4:19 He travialed for us that the word of God be formed
inside our spirit.
This opens up all the parables of Christ of the sower and the
seeds and the soil.
Engrafted into our soul.
What kind of word 3056 is this?
Logos word. Must speak the Word to get angel involved Psalms
103:10.
We must speak the word.
The word of God will not return unto him void.
Heb 3:1 Christ is the high priest of our confession. We must
agree with the Word that has already been said.
A high priest can only offer to God what the person had to
offer
to him.
Matt 10:32-33 We must confess before man or we will be
denied by
God.
We must confess to God.
Cycle
God speaks the word.
We take the logos word and put it into our spirit.
We should train ourself to pray the word of God.
We sacrifice our words to our high priest who offers it to
God.
Talk to God, Man, Devil, Angels with the word of God.
We must serve God with our spirits not our minds.
Mt 15:13 Every plant not planted by God will be plucked up.
Rom 6:5 We are planted together in same likeness we will be
raised together.
Explain save. 4982
Means: Almost the same as peace, Deliverance from danger,
suffering, sickness, evil means to be made whole, means to be
delivered from.
Some people understand as being born again.
But means deliverance from sickness, bondage, sin, everything
Means to be safe to make well, to restore to health, to
deliver,
means spiritual healing, to be delivered from the judgments.
Rom 10:8-10 Same word here to be made whole.
The engrafted word has the power to deliver you from
everything
that Satan tries to bring upon man.
What is our soul? 5590
Dealing with the part of man that is the soul <mind, will,
emotions> This is the part of you that is self conscience.
The spirit part of us is that draws us to God, The part that
is
God conscience.
Be transformed by the renewing of the mind<part of the Soul>
The word of God renews the mind.
When we receive Christ our Spirit gets born again but a lot
of
christians do not let their soulish man grow.
We must bring light into darkness for it to leave. Some
people
do not let his happen so their soul is still in darkness.
Secret of living a christian life is to depend on the word of
God and not on oneself.
Lesson 10 James 1:22-25.
Text.
22. But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only,
deceiving
your own selves.
23. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is
like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
24. For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and
straightway
forgetteth what manner of man he was.
25. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and
continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer
of
the word, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
Explain the word doer. 4163
Means: Is dealing with, a maker, a producer, a performer, to
adopt a way by act to expressing our feelings.
Comes from the words that is used for poet.
To be a author of the word of God.
Our challenge is to be responsible for what we learn.
Knowledge brings responsibility.
Be a doer of the engrafted word.
Do what the Word of God says to do.
Act 17:28 Uses the word poet.
Be ye doers not just listen to the Word of God.
What is a deeper understanding of the word deceiving? 3884
Means: to reckon wrong, reasoning, false reasoning.
We reason and deceive ourself that we are ok. Must be a doer
of
the Word of God.
What is a hearer? 0202
To listen, to reason as a inflow of the Spirit of God into
our
life. This has to be the reasoning of our listening.
We need to do our reasoning on what the Word of God says.
We need to plant the word down into our spirit.
What does behold mean? 2657
To observe ,to consider, to discover.
What is a glass? 2072
In ancient days they used steel to see themself.
This is a mirror.
What does a person do in a mirror?
Look at themself.
What does he do next?
Goeth his way and forgetteth.
What is another word for manner? 3697
Quality or memory of what is.
Describe the word looketh. 3879
To inspect curiously, to intently look into something.
To stoop and look at intensely.
To dig and gaze into because you are serious about looking.
To look intently into the Word of God.
Seek and desire the Life of the Word of God.
Define the word perfect. 5046
Means :full grown, full age, complete, mature.
Most of the time used in the Bible it is used to be full
grown
or mature.
We can come to maturity. We do not have to sin everyday. We
are
victorious in Christ and his work on the Cross.
We need to be Righteousness conscience or righteousness
mentality not a sin mentality or sin conscience.
The new testament points to Heaven and Grace but the Law
points
to your sin and imperfection.
Describe liberty. 1657
Means: freedom, from corrupt desires, so we can do that
which is
right.
We have three enemy's The World system, The Devil, and The
Flesh.
Freedom from the dominion of corrupt desires so we are free
to do
by free will what God desires.
This is a prayer where free choice is their instead of
Demonic
forces.
What does the word work mean? 2041
Work, acts, deeds, by art, industry, or by hands, or by the
mind.
The deeds of our hand will be blessed as we submit them unto
the Lord.
If we want to be blessed in our deeds and works we must come
through the Word of God.
We must be in line with the Word of God.
Explain the word blessed. 3107
More then one word for bless or blessing.
One is saying blessed words over someone.
This term Means: Base word means large or lengthy, Mega in
spanish.
This is a measurement of size.
Your life becomes enlarged when the word is in our life.
Be a doer of the Word and he will bless your work.
What are deeds? 4162
Means same as doer.
Different sense, Means the acts of performing.
Instead of being the performance it is the performer, the
person
that is being active in these deeds.
Notes.
There are lots of people who listen in the church world.
after learning the Word of God we are responsible to act our
the
Word of God.
It is a lot harder to do something then to just learn.
We are deceiving ourself if we do not be a doer of the Word
of
God.
The greater the influence of the word of God has on you the
Greater influence you have on the world.
Notes by Charles Beach
God is flesh and bones
God is man
God changes
God has many ways
These are not taught in the Book of Mormon.
Teach man can become God.
These are opposite of the Word
JW
Is jesus Christ
Isa 9:6
Mt 22 1-3
Jonh 1:28 MY lOrd and God
John 1:1
They have changed this.
Did they call Jehovah A God
Mt 22: 21 23 Emanual With us the God
John 22:28
BEst Scripture
Heb 1:8 Father is calling the son the God
Father said to him the throne of the God.
Moonies
Mt 24:30
Mk 24:13
Jesus is coming back to the earth
Adventist
Not relationship with the church but with the Lord.
Talk to mormons
Ask if they are
The mormons taught me that Flesh and bones but the book of
mormon does not have it in it.
JW Deal with Jesus John 8:24 If you do not believe you will
die
in your sins.
Lesson 11 James 1:26-27.
Text.
26. If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth
not
his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is
vain.
27. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is
this. To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction,
and to
keep himself unspotted from the world.
Explain the word seem? 1380
Means to be of the opinion, to assume, to think.
Has a opinion of being religious.
The proof is in the pudding not how you act but what you do.
The fruits of the tree will speak for itself.
Define religious. 2357
Means: Fearing or Worshiping God, trembling.
Fearing the external.
To exercise religiously, to exercise every day.
Christianity is a relationship which deals with the heart.
Religious is a outward experience more than a inward
experience.
This is because it is a religion not a relationship.
Jesus said if you are going to fast to wash your face and not
let everyone see you works.
He wants us to do it unto God only not unto men.
Explain bridleth. 5468
Means to hold in check, to restrain.
To be led or guided.
If we cannot control our tongue our religion is vain.
Restrain our tongue is a commandment.
What does deceive mean? 0538
Means to cheat.
If we do not control our tongue we cheat our own self.
Brings us to spiritual poverty.
God only give us the power to create with our tongues. Good
or
bad. Life or death is in the power of the tongue.
Explain the word vain. 3152
To be vain, to be empty, void, devoid of power. To be void
results, not fruitful.
Good deed are clouded over because of not controlling the
tongue.
Define this word pure. 2513
Means: one Greek word is to be free from mixtures.
Pure as being cleansed. To go through a cleansing.
To be pure from cleansing. Purity from cleansing.
Religion that has been cleansed from self.
Undefiled religion.
Relationships that has been cleansed.
Our relationship with God is developed after cleansing.
Describe the word undefiled?
Means free from contamination, unsoiled, undefiled.
Explain the word visit. 1980
Means to look upon to help or benefit, to care for or provide
for.
To go with the idea to provide for to love them, to help
them in
their needs. To give to their needs.
Be prepared for ministry to their needs.
To become a caring person to their needs.
Who are we to visit?
The orphans and widows.
To help even though it is not easy.
We need to use our resources to invest back into people not
into
buildings to out do the next church down the block.
To care to be a caregiver.
What is affliction? 2347
Means a pressure, pressing, anything that burdens the spirit.
Depression is when the spirit is broken.
To be in the straits.
We are to provide and care for orphans and widows in their
affliction.
Distress condition, to be in straits.
What does unspotted mean? 0784
Means: Irreproachable, or not stained, Free from vice.
Unstained from the world.
Don't get stained. We cannot flirt with sin. It will destroy
you
if you do.
What is the world? 2889
Means: cosmos, Present condition of the world system that is
in
opposition to God.
We are to keep ourself unstained from the world system.
The world system is alienated from God.
Every aspect of our world system is polluted.
With Gods help we can live successful in Gods will.
It is a challenge to be programed by the Kingdom of God. Not
by
the world system.
Notes.
Bridal the tongue.
Visit the fatherless and widows.
Keep ourself unspotted from the world.
James Chapter Two Study Notes.
Lesson 12 James 2:1-4.
Text.
1. My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ,
the
Lord of glory, with respect of persons.
2. For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold
ring,
in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile
raiment;
3. And ye have respect to him that wreathe the gay clothing,
and
say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor,
Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool:
4. Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become
judges
of evil thoughts?
Explain the term respect of persons. 4382
Having partiality.
The fault of one to give judgement to make a judgement
according
to one that who one is born to or has money to sway a judgement.
These verses talk about respect of persons.
Rom 2:11 No respect of persons with God.
Eph 6:9
Col 3:25 Reap what you sow there is not respect of persons.
We are not to be partial in our judgement.
Describe the word goodly. 2986
Means: Shining or brilliant, bright, gorgeous clothing,
elegant
or luxurious clothing.
Costly clothing.
Describe the word vile. 4508
Means: filthy, old, shabby clothing.
We cannot judge by the outside clothing.
What is a good place? 2573
Means: honorable place, a place of high distinction.
Define poor. 4434
Means no influence, or lack of money, no honors, may be
afflicted.
It may cost you to get to know that person.
Lacking of specific needs.
What does a footstool represent? 5286
To sit under my footstool
Represents: to be subject oneself to, to reduce one under
yourself.
To be under your feet.
Normally it is a dog who sets under your feet.
We are not to put people in this position by our judgments.
What does partial mean? 1252
Means: to separate in our mind , To distinguish , to
categorize
them to judge, to hesitate or to doubt another person.
When you minister to these kinds of people we put ourself at
great risk, we can be misunderstood.
What if they have the same kind of problem again.
What does a judge do?
Make judgments.
Rom 2:1-3 Do not judge others or we judge ourselves.
Rom 14:1- Do not judge by what you eateth
Eats herbs if he is weak.
We are not to judge by what others eat or on what day we
worship.
Pass judgement, Pass sentence or damn.
God does not do these but he convicts.
What is evil? 4190
Denotes evil that causes pain, evil, toilsome, painful, bad,
worthless.
What are thoughts? 1261
Deals with the mind.
Inward reasoning, design or imagination.
If we do this kind of judgement then we are becoming evil
inside.
Bringing thoughts into Captivity every thought.
This can be only done with the Spirit of Gods help.
We do not know a lot of things about this man.
2 Cor 5:16 We do not look at Christ after the flesh.
Let us look at others through the Spirit.
Through the eyes of Christ. We need to see them as God sees
them.
We can do this with Gods help.
Notes.
Gay clothing is the same as goodly apparel. Used from the
same
original word.
Lesson 13 James 2:5-6.
Text.
5. Hearken my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosed the poor
of
this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath
promised to them that love him?
6. But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress
you,
and draw you before the judgment seats?
Describe this word chosen. 1586
Means: Very important word. to pick out or choose for
oneself.
Usually deals with verbalization, the spoken word.
God spoke the selection out when we were chosen of God.
Hearken means to listen, to pay attention to.
God has called out or chosen with conditions.
What are the poor? 4434
Means needy or destitute of wealth.
Destitute to the point of needing public assistance.
2 Cor 9:8 Christ become poor so that we may be rich.
What kind of poor is this?
May not be speaking poor about wealth. Could be a person of
poor
influence.
In the eyes of the world we may not be seen as prosperous.
We may not be a influence to the world system but may be in
the
living Church of God.
Poor in position or knowledge.
Describe this world. 2889
Refer to Lesson 11 Question 12.
We live in the world but we are not of this world.
We need to feed from God's Word not from the world systems
words.
What does rich mean? 4145
Means influence, power, wealth, rich in money or other
things.
What is this man rich in?
Rich in faith. It could be by choice.
Their are some people that God has prospered for a purpose.
Poor people can judge rich people as rich people can judge
poor
people.
Some people do not prosper because of lack of choice or
perspective.
What is an heir? 2818
Heirs of the kingdom.
One who receives by lot, by right of sonship.
Also the same word is used for clergy. The Levites had a
portion
given to them for their meat.
In Clergy or called men who are preachers, their is a special
anointing. Yet everyone is annointed. Each person has gifts given
to us by God.
What is a kingdom? 0932
Denotes sovereignty, royal power, dominion, the territory
over or
people where a king rules.
God is the king and he rules.
The disciples were disappointed when they understood that it
was
not a geographical area.
The kingdom of God is within you. It is now. Eph 1: The Holy
Spirit of promise is a down payment of Heaven.
These people have allotted space in the Kingdom of God.
Luke 17:20 The kingdom of God is within you.
You cannot stand on the outside and look in and be a part of
the
Kingdom. You must get on the inside.
Some people still live still as they are not in the Kingdom
of
God.
Too many people are happy or satisfied in their present
state.
Explain the word promise? 1861
Announcement or summons from God for us
What does despise mean?
Means: to dishonor, to insult, to treat with contempt, with
word, or thought or deeds.
God know our thoughts. If we let the same thoughts go through
our mind and buy into them.
What does oppress mean? 2616
Means: To exercise power over, to have power, to use ones
power
against another.
When the rich exercise power over the poor.
Define the word draw. 1670
Drag to.
Where does rich men draw us to?
To the judgement seats.
Notes.
We need to have agape love, from God to help those who have
needs.
Lesson 14 James 2:7-10.
Text.
7. Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are
called?
8. If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture,
Thou
shalt love thy neighbour as thyself ye do well:
9. But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are
convinced of the law as transgressors.
10. For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in
one point, he is guilty of all.
Explain the term blaspheme. 0987
Usually means speaking against God.
Could mean to injure, most likely by speech.
To rail, Revile, evil speaking, to speak evil of, to defame,
to
speak reproachfully.
Describe worthy. 2570
Worthy Name: This is the second time James refereed to
Christ.
Means: good, fair, honorable, beautiful, precious,
magnificent.
What does fulfill mean?
Means to bring to a close, to end, to accomplish.
We are obligated to accomplish the will of God.
What does royal refer to? 0937
Means to belonging to a King. God put forth this law.
Befitting
to a King.
We need to accomplish this royal law of God.
Explain the word scripture. 1124
Means: Comes from the same word graph.
Rhema, Logos, and Graphe
Refers to the written word, written words.
Who should we love and how much?
Love our neighbor as much as ourself.
This is part of the royal law.
Every thing is built on two commandments one is to love the
Lord
thy God with whole being and love thy neighbors as thyself.
We must love by choice based on what the Word of God said.
What is sin? 0266
Commit sin: failing to miss the mark, or to miss the mark.
Aim for heaven and miss. The choice of heaven is a eternal
choice and if you miss it you never have another choice after
death.
Three kinds of sin in the Bible.
1. To do good and do it not is sin.
2. To not do it in faith is sin.
3. To miss the mark.
It is a sin to judge people by what they possess or wear.
Explain the word convinced. 1651
Means: to convict usually with the suggestion to put this
convicted person to shame.
The law brings shame. It will expose what we are not, or have
not done right.
To be convicted by the law.
Talking about the Law of Moses.
Describe the word offend. 4417
Means: To stumble or to cause one to stumble or fall. When we
offend others we are doing this to them.
To cause offence by the Devil using people.
Now is not a time to get offended but to pull together and
work
together to build the Kingdom of God.
Can be caused by assumptions or false expectations.
Feelings can give you many wrong assumptions. We are not to
live
on feelings.
Become or to fall in misery or wretched.
A lot of people do get offended.
We cannot afford to get offended in this life as we have a
much
more higher calling then to be offended by others. We need to
minister to others not be offended.
What does guilty mean? 1777
Held in bondage or in bonds, by guilty of punishment.
All sin is sin.
Notes.
Transgress the law of God is to be in sin
We are here because of love that God had for mankind.
Lesson 15 James 2:11-13.
Text.
11. For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do
not
kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art
become a transgressor of the law.
12. So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by
the
law of liberty.
13. For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath
shewed
no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.
What is adultery? 3431
Means: To have unlawful sex with another married person. To
be
unfaithful in marriage.
This one of the ten commandments.
What is a transgresses? 3848
To break the law. One who stands beside then operates out of
bounds.
We cannot be a transgressor if their in no law.
The law of Moses was a measuring device of what sin is. It
measures us up to what sin is.
We fall short of what the law says to do. We all have failed
the
law so this is why Christ had to come and die on the cross.
How shall we act?
We must speak and act as people who are to be judged under
the
law of liberty.
This is a different law then the Law of Moses.
The Law of Liberty is higher then the law of Moses.
The Law of liberty is a better law then Moses.
The law of Moses is a law of outward restraint to deal with
sin.
The law of the land and government is to control the outward
environment.
The law of Liberty is a law of the Spirit that starts from
the
inside of us.
What is the law of liberty? 1657
Mat 5:28 Lust in the heart is the same as adultery.
This was a external law until Christ come and changed it
from a
being sin externally only to a sin if done internally.
Means: freedom from the dominion of corrupt desires. This
laws
works on the inside to free us from within.
We do by the free impulse what God desires.
I John 3:15 Here hate is the same as being a murderer.
If we do these things in our heart then we have done those
things as sin inside of us. This then affects us in our inward
man.
James 1:25 Be a doer of the word of God.
We should live higher then the law of Moses.
2 Cor 3:17 Where the Spirit is there is liberty.
A comparison between the law of Moses is like a horse with
its
bits and harness on and the law of liberty is as the horse is
controlled by the spoken word and not by the bits and harnesses.
The law of liberty changes the heart to be made Christlike.
Gal 5:1 Stand fast in the liberty that Christ has made us
free
and be not entangled with the yoke of bondage.
This law of liberty is dealing with the inner man and being
transformed by the power of God.
This is talking about the Law of Christ and not the Law of
moses.
We are responsible for the law of Liberty and we will be
judged
by them not by the Law of Moses.
This law is based on love. This is not a liberty to feed the
flesh.
What is mercy? 1656
Means: Mercy has more power then judgement.
Mercy exalts and rejoice over judgement.
Who will not receive mercy?
Those who do not give mercy.
What is greater than judgment?
Mercy has more power then judgment because of this law.
What is the law of reciprocity according to Luke 16:27-38?
This a law that cannot be changed.
Luke 6:27 Do good to them that hate you, Love your enemies.
What happens when you love your enemies, When you give love
you
begin to receive love.
Pray for them who despitfully use you.
For every action there is a opposite and equal reaction.
One way to visualize this is a two man saw when one man goes
one
way then the other man goes the other way.
This law works and is active everyday wether we are aware of
it
or not.
We are breaking a negative law with a positive law of
reciprocity.
We should be treating others, as we want them to treat us.
Scratch my back and I will scratch yours.
Love breaks the enemy, hate, lies. If we take the opposite of
what the Devil does we can break his hold.
Be merciful like our Father is merciful.
God gave us mercy and we need to give out mercy to receive
mercy.
This works the same way with forgiveness of sin.
If we do not judge others and we will not be condemned.
Verse Luke 6:38 Give and it shall be given unto you. Very
much
good measure, pressed down, running over. With the same measure
of
giving it will be given back to you.
What two laws were discussed today?
Two laws are working in our life. Law of Liberty and the Law
of
Repeciprocity.
Notes.
Lesson 16 James 2:14-18.
Text.
14. What doth it profit my brethren, though a man say he hath
faith, and have not works? can faith save him.
15. If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily
food,
16. And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye
warmed
and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which
are
needful to the body; what doth it profit?
17. Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being
alone.
18. Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works:
shew
me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by
my
works.
Explain the word profit. 3786
It is a benefit or advantage
Describe faith again. 4102
Means: A firm persuasion, a conviction, a assurance of.
Fidelity or real.
Is the confidence of the things that you expect.
What are works? 2041
Deeds, acts, by hand or by the mind (art) industry, anything
accomplished.
What we do.
Being a doer of the Word.
Explain the word save. 4982
Means:Deliver, rescue, make whole, to heal, to restore
Talking about everything that Christ purchased at the Cross.
This would cover then the full meaning of Saved.
Wholeness of mind, body, spirit is in this word.
Completion of faith is manifested in the works.
We need to get this down into our spirit.
What do the terms naked (1131) and destitute (3007) mean?
Example of faith alone is not the answer.
We must produce when their is need to show works.
What is our responsibility to those in need?
Meet their needs. Help those as much as possible.
What profit are our words?
Only when we back them by our deeds. Then they become of
value
to other people or to God.
How good is faith by itself?
Dead, it is of no good, without fruit.
What will faith accomplish without works?
Nothing without works.
How do works get accomplished?
By faith.
First step of faith.
Rom 10:17 Faith cometh by hearing and hearing cometh by the
Word
of God.
Our heart is the soil and the Word of God is the seed and it
has
to be planted into your heart.
Two avenues into our spirit. One is our eyes and the second
is
the ears.
The more seeds you put into your heart the more seeds will
come
up.
If seeds do not come up and do something what value would do
this.
What if as a mother carried a seed but did not give life it
would not be a productive situation.
Notes.
Lesson 17 James 2:19-22.
Text.
19. Thou believest that there is one God: thou doest well:
the
devils also believe, and tremble.
20.
21.
22.
What is the basis for the word believe? 4100
What does the devil do that we do?
Believe.
What does the devil do after he believes?
It produces fear and horror, when he is confronted with God.
The works in the devil is fear and trembling.
Describe the word tremble. 5425
Horrify, Shudder , to struck with extreme fear.
Why do demons tremble.
Because they understand God is real, they believe.
Define vain. 2756
Destitute of spiritual wealth.
Of one who boasts of his faith as a transcendent possession.
Yet without the fruits of faith.
Fruitless, without effect.
Puffed up in having great faith but does not product fruits.
Faith without works is dead. Faith must be based on the Word
of
God.
What is faith alone?
Dead.
Explain justified. 1344
Means to show to be right or righteous.
Acquittal from guilt.
Just as it never happened.
Abraham believed and acted on the Word of God.
First believe and then act.
First must have a foundation on the Word of God to have
faith in
then act upon them.
We are not made righteous by our deeds but by our faith in
the
blood.
We cannot go by our feelings but by faith on the Word of God.
Abraham did not live under grace but under the Law of Adam.
Define the word wrought. 4903
Means: to work with, to work together, helping a helper.
Faith and works one helps the other to get accomplished what
the
will of God is.
What does perfect mean? 5048
Means to reach its finish. to complete, to be fully grown.
Faith is made complete or matured by this process.
The purpose of faith is to produce.
Comes to completion to be real faith.
Notes.
What does the devil think when a man brags about his faith
and
has no works.
Isa 55:10-11 The Word of God will not return unto him void.
This is the cycle of the Word of God.
Lesson 18 James 2:23-26.
Text
23.
24.
25.
26.
What scripture was fulfilled?
Gen 12:6
Accounted Gal 3:6
Rom 4:6
Describe this word friend. 5384
Brought out of red into the black.
One who is dear.
Familiarity.
One who is loved.
What are the O.T. references that Abraham was a friend of God?
II Chron 20:7 Friend of God forever
Isa 41:8
What two ingredients do James say justifies us?
By works and by faith.
This is the Second step of Faith.
This is the fruits of faith. With fruits the faith is dead.
Why was Rahab justified by her works?
She believed and did what she could.
She did what she could with what she had and could do.
What does the Spirit give to the body?
Life
Eternal Life.
What three kinds of life do we have?
Bios - Blood - Flesh life
Psuche - Soul Life
Zoe - Spirit Life John 10:10 I am come that you may have life
and have it more abundantly. The enemy comes to kill and destroy.
What is our body according to I Cor 3:16, 6:19-20
Temple of the Holy Spirit.
What is the parallel in this verse?
For as the body without the spirit is dead so is works
without
faith is dead.
The body is the tangible evidence of the invisible spirit in
us.
Our works is the tangible evidence of faith being is us.
Notes
James Chapter Three Study Notes.
Lesson 19 James 3:1-4.
Text.
1. My Brethren be not many masters, knowing that we shall
receive the greater condemnation.
2. For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in
word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the
whole
body.
3. Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may
obey
us; and we turn about their whole body.
4. Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and
are
driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very
small
helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.
What is a Master? 1320
Teacher.
Means: Dealing with those who take on teaching with the
assistance of the Holy Spirit.
Not just a teacher but one who is annointed by God in the
gift
of teaching.
What is condemnation.
Means: pass judgment or pronounce a sentence on someone.
This chapter deals with the tongue. This is a foundation on
the
tongue.
Accountable for our words, To whom much is given to much is
required.
We are held accountable as teachers. Most people are
followers.
We as hearers are held accountable to what we hear.
Teachers are responsible to speak the truth.
Define offend. 4417
Means: To cause to stumble or fall.
Make someone to fall or stumble we are the offender.
What should we not offend in?
We should not offend in word.
Our tongue directs or life.
If we can bridle our tongue we can bridle our whole body.
If we can control and not make people be offended we can
control
our whole body.
Describe this word perfect? 5046
Maturity. fully grown, to be complete, finished, to be whole.
What is a bridle? 5469
A harness but on a horse to control them.
We can control the whole body of the horse by the mouth.
What controls the whole body?
The tongue.
Where do you put the bit on a horse?
The Tongue.
How do we control horses?
With a bridle.
What is a helm (4079) on a ship?
Rudder or a blade of a oar.
These are used to steer a boat.
The direction of the boat is determined by the rudder or
helm.
What is a governor? 2116
Is a rudder.
What is the helm compared to?
The tongue.
What does the helm do?
Guides the ship or boat.
Notes.
Read the book of Proverbs and underline any thing talking
about
the tongue or mouth.
The tongue can release the Kingdom of God or the enemy into
the
world.
Some people idly talk and this is because the soul in not
controlled by their spirit.
We eat the fruit of our mouth. Prov 18:20-21
Lesson 20 James 3:5-6.
Text.
5. Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great
things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
6. And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the
tongue among our members, that it setteth on fire the course of
nature: and it is set on fire of hell.
Define the word boasteth? 3166
Means: To bear oneself loftily in speech or action.
To speak great things, to lift up the neck.
Haughty speech that provokes.
Arrogant speaking, Boast a lot, Boasteth great things.
This word deals with our speech or language.
What does fire do after it starts?
It grows and enlarges Prov 30:15-16.
What is the tongue like?
It is like a fire.
All fires start out small and grow.
The effect of the tongue is like a fire.
The tongue is more powerful then fire in the natural.
In the spiritual realm our tongue starts fire.
What is a world of iniquity? 0093
Means: Injustice, Unrighteousness.
Our tongue is a world of injustice or a world of
unrighteousness.
Describe the word defileth. 4695
Means: Stain or spot, moral defilement.
This does it to the whole body.
What is the course 5164 of nature? 1078
The tongue starts the fire in our being.
The Course of nature is: Wheel or cycle of life, Circuit of
physical effects, Round of human activity.
Course of life, Seed of life, Wheel of our Lineage.
A glowing axle that heats up and sets on fire the whole
wheel.
Nature: Birth, The start of the cycle of life.
From birth on to death the tongue sets that life on fire.
It is set on fire of hell.
We can change our life by changing our tongue.
What kind of hell is this? 1067
This refers to the lake of fire as the eternal hell of the
damned.
Is refereed in the Old Testament as a place where trash was
burned.
What sets the tongue on fire?
Hell sets the tongue on fire.
The tongue is set on fire of hell.
What is the source for the tongue according to Matt 12:33-37
We are justified or condemned by our words.
We get the source of our words from the heart.
Where then is the storehouse?
This is in the heart.
What we put in the storehouse will come out.
We need to speak the anointed Word of God to survive in the
end
times.
This is more important than anything else we can do.
Explain the following ref. I Sam 16:7, Jer 11:20, Psalms 44:
21,
139:23, Prov 23:7, Prov 4:23?
I Sam 16:7 The Lord looketh on the heart. This is what God
looks
at and he knows what is stored there.
Jer 11:20 The Lord judges the heart.
Psalms 44:21 God knows the secrets of hearts.
Psalms 139:23 Pray for God to know your heart and thoughts.
Prov 23:7 For as he thinketh in his heart so is he. The word
thinketh is a gatekeeper. What we open the gate to shapes our
life.
Prov 4:23 Out of the heart cometh forth the issues of life.
Guard our heart is what we need to do. What we take in can
renforce what is in us.
What is the progressive path for the tongue according to II
Cor
10:3-6?
Pulling down strongholds, and every thought that exalts
itself
against God.
Three sources from either God, the Devil or from within your
spirit.
Meditate on the Word of God. Thoughts is the initial data
that
programs our minds and if it is thought about very much it
becomes a
imagination and if it works in that very long it will become a
stronghold as it is turned over to a stronghold because it is
your
will given over to it.
If you verbalize it then you will start believing it. People
will talk about things before they do them and these words are
directing their life.
The Devils goal it to get you to verbalize your imaginations
that gives him legal position in your life.
Notes.
Isa 61:3 The supernatural power to heal hurts. To give oil of
joy for mourning and the garment of praise for the spirit of
Heaviness.
We need to be careful how our words affect one another in the
body of Christ.
We need to change what comes out of our mouth to be the Word
of
God.
To know who we are in Christ is a way to get over hurt that
can
come from other people.
When someone would attack you then you need to have the Word
of
God to back up your position in Christ.
The words of Jesus were Spirit and Life so should be our
words
to those that hear them.
Mark 4:24 What you hear will come back to you so we need to
be
careful what we hear.
To change our life we need to change what we hear.
If we listen to rock and roll music all day long we will be
involved in what we hear.
We need to have our tongue under the control of the Holy
Spirit
and if it is not then it is being controlled by the Devil.
Speaking in tongues by the Holy Spirit lets you submit your
tongue unto the Holy Spirit.
We cannot control our tongue unless we control what we hear.
We need to be very careful what we hear.
Psalms 103:20 Angels hearken unto the Word of God.
Lesson 21 James 3:7-9.
Text.
7. For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents,
and
of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
8. But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil,
full of
deadly poison.
9. Therewith bless we God, even the Father: and therewith
curse
we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
Define the word tame. 1150
We try our best to discipline our tongue but the only way is
by
the Word of God and the Holy Spirit of God.
Man cannot tame his own tongue.
Means: Restrain, curb, subdue, conquer or to control.
Who tames the animals?
Man does with his tongue.
What is man unable to do?
To tame his tongue. We can do on a temporary sense but it
can be
done permanently by the Spirit of God and the Word of God.
Even though Adam had capability to tame all the animals and
yet
he could not tame his own tongue.
The tongue is the most powerful part of our life.
Describe the word unruly. 0183
Means: Tame cannot be restrained or control of, restless,
unsettled, unstable, disorderly.
The tongue is tied or hooked to our mind and our whole being.
Two ways to control the tongue.
One is to change the supply to redirect the tongue
Two is to let the Spirit of God to control it.
There is blessings, helpings, life in the tongue.
What does the word evil mean? 2556
Means: Troublesome, Injurious, Destructive, Vainful.
The tongue causes a lot of pain and hurt.
The tongue is very injurious.
What is deadly 2287 poison 2447?
Deadly Means: Death bringing, bringing about death.
Poison means Active: You have seen rust and if left alone it
will eat up and eat through on what it is on.
Poison creates deadly poison as it eats away in us.
Fire is rapid oxidation and rust is a accelerated oxidation.
This is in line with what James said.
Describe the word bless. 2127
Celebrate, to praise, celebrate with praises, giving thanks,
to
invoke blessings on a person, to cause to prosper, to make happy.
Can be carried over to people, to prosper people, to edify
one
another, to build up one another.
Explain this word curse. 2672
To pray against, to wish evil against a person or thing, to
doom, to impricate evil on.
Opposite of blessing.
To curse is to expressing that the hope of evil trageidy
would
come onto a person.
What is similitude? 3669
We are cursing man who is made in the image of God.
Means: likeness Gen 1:26-27 Man was made in the likeness of
God
in his image.
When we curse man that is in the likenss of God we are then
cursing God.
We have no right to curse man who is made in the Likeness of
God.1
How are we like God: God said in the book of Genesis and God
said and there it was.
Man has the same ability in a limited form to say and to
create
with the words of his mouth.
Man is not able to tame his tongue and is therefore is
subject
what comes out of his mouth.
Our words are spiritual. They either create life or death.
Samuel words did not fell to the ground as he was annointed
by
God.
Why shouldn't we curse men?
Because they are made in the likeness of God.
List the ways we are like God.
Only creation of God that has the ability to create with the
tongue and the words of our mouth.
And God said in Genesis is a example of God creating.
God came down on the tower of Babel and stopped them from
saying
what they were saying so what they were saying would not come to
pass.
The Devil wants us to give control of our tongue to him.
The person who does not offend with his tongue is perfect.
Isa 57:19 God creates the fruit of the lips.
This is very important.
Ps 103:20 The angels hearken to the voice of His word.
Is 55:10-11
Written word of God was give to man and man wrote it down
then we take the word of God and take it and put into our
heart
then next it has to be spoken Heb 3:1 High priest of our
Confession.
The High Priest only offers what we bring to him.
Christ is the High Priest of our confession then he offers
our
words unto the Father.
The word of God will not return until him void.
Notes.
How can we control our tongue.
We need to watch what we listen to.
We need to speak the Word of God.
Religion will speak their belief with their tongue and when
they
speak these beliefs the will believe them more whether they are
true
or not.
Knowledge brings responsiblities.
Words are like seed that are planted into our heart and will
bring forth a harvest in our life.
Lesson 22 James 3:10-12.
Text.
10. Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My
brethren, these things ought not so to be.
11. Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water
and
bitter?
12. Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries?
either a
vine, figs? so can no fountain both yeild salt water and fresh.
Define blessings and cursings.
See notes on previous lesson.
What does James say should not be?
We should not curse and bless out of our mouth.
What kind of water does a fountain give forth?
One kind of water only.
Either bitter water or sweet water not both.
What does fig vine bear?
Figs.
They can only bear their own fruit.
Where do you get salt water and fresh water?
Salt water from a salt water source and fresh water from a
fresh
water source.
What lesson does nature teach us?
We cannot mix these.
That one or the other should come out of our mouth only not
both.
That one bears after its own kind.
If we are speaking bitterness where is it coming from?
Matt 15:18-20 Evil or good come from out of our heart.
It comes out of the abundance of our heart and they defile
the
man.
How do you change your words?
Change your heart.
How do you change your heart?
I John 1:9 If we confess our sins He is faithful and just to
forgive us of our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Matt 12:25-37 Treasures of our heart.
Two things that needs to be done.
One: What is already in there that shouldnt be there has to
be
confessed and cleansed.
Two : Your must change the source of what you put into your
heart. II Cor 3-6 I thes 5:? Casting down imaginations and
thoughts
and everything that exalteth itself against God.
Mark 4: The word of God is a seed. Plant the Word of God into
your heart.
Mark 4:24 We are to be careful what we hear because it will
be
multiplied back to us.
We need to put the right things into our spirit for the right
things to come out.
Two channels into your spirit is your ears and eyes.
If we are not careful we will pollute ourself with what we
see
or hear.
When we speak cursing or bitterness what are we doing?
We are creating either cursing or bitterness.
What does James 1:8 say about a double minded man?
That he id unstable in all our ways.
When a nation divided against itself cannot stand.
Notes.
Study the book of Proverbs and its uses of the words doing
with
the tongue.
To be able to control the tongue we have to learn to shut our
mouth.
Words are a product of the soulish realm and are tainted if
they
are not annointed by the Holy Spirit.
Don't react but act on what the Word of God says.
Heb 10:26 we can purge our mind and life from the influence
of
the worlds and its music.
Music influences our moods either to the good or evil.
We need to be influenced by the music based on the Word of
God.
Lesson 23 James 3:13-15.
Text.
13. Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you?
let
him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of
wisdom.
14. But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts,
glory not, and lie not against the truth.
15. This wisdom descendeth not from above but is earthly,
sensual, devilish.
Describe the word wise. 4680
Means: It is someone who is able to put things together, at
least mentaly, This comes from God, have insight and
comprehension.
Quick and correct conception, To be descit and cirmcumpect.
This is related to the use of the tongue in understanding
where
wisdom and understanding comes from that feeds the tongue.
Who is able to understand the power of the tongue he is a
wise
man and endued with knowledge.
Explain the word knowledge. 1990
Means: To be intelligence to be skilled, expert or
experienced.
To be trained and skilled in a area.
You go to one who is skilled to learn.
What is our conversation? 0391
We need to show our wisdom with our conversation.
Means: Manner of life, Conduct, Behavior, Lifestyle.
We show this with meekness of wisdom.
Matt 12 What is in our heart will come out of us.
Matt 15 What comes out of us is what defiles us.
A wise man will understand this.
Describe this phrase meekness 4240 of wisdom. 4678
Meekness of wisdom means: Will show forth works with
meekness of
wisdom.
Controled power, the fruit of power.
Gentleness is not completly appropriate, Meekness manifested
by
the Lord is the fruit of power.
The Lord was meek even though he had the forces of heaven at
his
command.
We are secure and able to keep under control is to be in
meekness.
We can live our life this way, where we can understand the
power
of the tongue and the power of the Holy Spirit is us and let it
be
used to manifest the wisdom of God to our world.
What is envying? 4089
But if we have, then the above verses will not work.
Means: It comes from the word zeal or zealous.
Means: excitment of the mind, firver of spirit, a envious or
contentions rivalary, Jealously, it flames the mind and incitest
these problems.
This word is the feeling of displeasure of the advantage of
someone else. The feelings inside are envious.
The second step of envious is jealousy.
To desire to have the same sort of thing for oneself.
To not have bitter jealousy.
What is strife? 2052
Means: denotes ambition, seeking to get followers, to seek
base
amitions, to cause factions, to get followers to follow you to
make
you look good or to gain control.
This is to do whatever there is to be a means to an end.
What are we to do with the truth?
To not glory about it and not lie about it.
What is the truth James is talking about?
That out of the abundance of the heart will come out.
If we have these things in your heart dont boast about it
but go
and repent.
Theese laws will hurt you instead of help you until you get
these things out of your heart.
If you know if these things are there and you pretend that
they
are not there it still will be manifested through your tongue.
Where does this kind of wisdom come from?
This comes from earthly sources.
What is earthly? 1919
That which exist on earth, natural things are earthly things.
We have a hard time sometimes to detect what is earthly and
what
is not.
What is sensual? 5591
Have the nature of and characteristics of animals, live
governed
by the appetite as the animal is.
Coming from a senous level. Not coming from God but from the
earthly realm.
I Cor 2 Shows different kinds of wisdom.
Mans philosphy, New age movement, humanism, Secular TV,
Books.
It is devilish.
Means: proceding from or resembling a demonic spirit.
There is no middle ground but this wisdom is either a
earthly,
sensual, or demonic. This wisdom comes from our of the mouth with
the tongue.
The devil uses the things that are natural to bind us.
Have not being eating the meat of the Word of God and
therefore
cannot disern between good and evil.
Notes.
We are a Spirit with a soul and live in a body.
Animals are not a spirit but they still live in a body.
The source of a lot of wisdom is sensual, earthly, and
demonic
that is put forth today.
Lesson 24 James 3:16-18.
Text
16
17
18
What is confusion? 0181
Describe this word evil. 5337
What is this word work? 4229
What is Pure? 0053
What is peaceable? 1516
What is gentle? 1933
What does easily to be intreated mean? 2138
What is mercy? 1656
What is hypocrisy? 0505
Who produces peace?
Notes
James Chapter Four Study Notes.
Lesson 25 James 4:1-3.
Text.
1. From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they
not
hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
2. Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and
cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask
not.
3. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may
consume it upon your lusts.
What are other words that describe wars? 4171
Fightings, battles, quarrels, disputes, strifes.
What is lust? 2237
There is two different definitions for this word. Desire for
pleasure. A natural or sinful desire.
Is used of gratificaton of the desire or sinful desires.
Where comes wars and fightings.
Covers powers, manipulation, control.
Most of our conflicts come based on desires within as
christians.
These verses are being spoken to the Church.
The reason it exists so strong today is because, This is the
thrust of the world. Society is built around this philosphy.
This is also in the church, we need to be holy and pure
before
God.
Sin is still sin no matter what people say.
This causes war and fightings in the church because of this
being in our hearts.
What does this word war mean? 4754
This word war is different then the first word war.
Means encamped army, a spiritual conflict.
In our members of our physical body there is a conflict or
war
raging. This war will be there until we die.
As long we are in the flesh we have the capibility to sin
but we
do not have to sin.
The war inside us is won by the one that we feed the most.
This
is the battle of the spirit versus the flesh.
We need to feed our spirit consistantly.
We are fighting a spiritual battle.
What are our members? 3196
Means the parts of our body.
The eyes watches sin and the ears listen to sin unless we
control them.
Define this word lust? 1937
Means: Desire, To set ones heart on, Emotions of the Soul.
The devil will look at you desires and will work on the one
that
is weakest. Then he will builds the bait to hook you.
He builds the kind of bait that allures your desires. There
is a
conception when these come together.
Conception is when the bait and the desire come together.
To have your heart set on.
Describe this word desire. 2206
To burn with envy, to be heated, to boil to be moved with
anger,
a burning desire.
What does our fighting, wars, desires get us?
Things that feed the flesh. Nothing
Why don't we receive?
Because we ask not.
We need to ask God for it.
What kind of asking did they do?
They asked amiss.
What is amiss? 2560
Means: Badly, ill, miserably, improperly, wrongly, bad
intent,
evil intent.
This is prayers the are for oneself.
I John 3:22-23 I John 5:14-15 He heareth us.
We need to pray the will of God.
We need to understand the Word of God for this is his will
for
our life.
God will answer every Bible based prayer he will answer it
in a
answer of yes, no, or wait.
We need to keep praying not to give up for God will answer
our
prayers.
What does consume mean? 1159
Means:To squander, to consume on ourself, To heap on oneself,
God bless us to be a blessing to others.
God has to be first in our life and if he is then our prayers
will be right.
Notes.
How can we apply this lesson in our life.
The source of our troubles in ourself.
Lesson 26 James 4:4-6.
Text.
4. Ye alulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the
friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore
will
be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
5. Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit
that
dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
6. But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God
resisteth
the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
What is adultery? 3432
Unlawful intercourse with another persons spouse in the
natural.
This passage talks about a spiritural adultery. Breaking our
union with Christ. It is used of the Jews in their relationship
with
God.
We have been bought and paid for by the blood of Christ.
We were married to God with a spiritual union.
If we turn away from God to the world then we are committing
spiritual adultery.
What is the world? 2889
Cosmos to arrange in order, Means: The world system. Worldly
affairs, The aggrigate of things earthly, the circle of worldly
goods, riches, pleasures. These are obstacles to prevent us from
obeying God.
These things can seduce us from God.
God is our total source of supply.
What is enmity? 2189
Where is the friendship of the world and enmity of the world
clear cut as to the line of friend or enmity.
Means: enemy, hatred, opposite of agape love of God.
If you are a friend of the world what are you?
This means you hate God. We are in variance with God.
We need to be carefull what we feed ourself on.
We are a enemy of God if we are a friend of the world.
What does the spirit do?
Lusteth to envy.
Rom 8:28
Rom 8:14 Spirit of adoption. To guard over that draws us
toward
God.
Longeth toward envy.
The Spirit yearns over us to bring us back to God.
What does God give in this situation?
Gives us grace that is greater then that which is spoken
about
the previous verse.
Who does God resist?
The proud.
Describe the word proud. 5244
Showing oneself to be above others. To overtop someone, to
appear to be above, haughty, arragant.
Legalism will create spiritual pride.
What is grace? 5485
If we are humble we will be given grace but if we are proud
God
will bring us down from that grace.
Kind, divine favor, Delight.
Explain this word humble. 5011
Humble in spirit, low degree, defering serverly to others,
putting others first, humility, meekness.
Submitting oneself.
Notes.
Our security is not based on our public image we present, Our
security is based on that relationship we have with God.
We can show our humilty. If we humble ourself God will give
grace to you to make it through.
God resisteth the proud but giveth grace to the humble.
Lesson 27 James 4:7-8.
Text
7. Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and
he
will flee from you.
8. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse
your
hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
Define this word submit. 5293
This is a military term, There is a General then there are
different rankings underneith them.
Each is lined up in their ranks by order.
What does it mean to resist? 0436
Means: Stand against or oppose, To set against, to withstand,
against.
Same term in verse 6 where God resist the proud.
When we are Resisting the Devil we are submitting to the
Lord.
Who is the devil? 1278
He is our Adversary, our enemy, slander, false accuser, to
accuse, to gossip, to malign. These are descriptions of our
adversary so we know his personality and his workings.
Describe flee. 5343
Means: Being a fugitive (someone on the run) Hiding from the
law, The Devil is a fugitive. We must resist him and he will flee
from you. The devil only works where we give him place. We have
authority over him.
The blood of Christ has to be applied and this keeps the
Devil
away from us.
Avoid by flight, inspiring fear, or threating danger, The
devil
is terrorized when we resist him. We have much more power over
the
devil then we realize.
The Devil will be fleeing from us. This is a continious
action.
Describe draw nigh. 1448
To be near God, Reach out and cling to him.
Draw near to God and he will be drawing to you.
A lot of people have problems and the first thing they do is
they pull back from God. They are putting distance from God.
Cling to Him and He will cling to you.
The Devil is a bully, to con you to bluff you. The devil
hates
direct confrontation.
When you challenge the Devil he will always show up.
How do you cleanse (2511) you hands?
Free from the defilement of sin, be free from guilt and
disease,
to be free of condenmation, to purify from wickedness.
God works through us to cleanse us and to purify us.
We pull away from sin and a cleansing of our hands.
What is a sinner? 0268
One who has missed the mark.
Means: one devoted to sin to miss the mark.
Three kinds of sin
one missing the mark
two To know to do good and do it not it is sin.
Describe this word purify. 0048
Ceromonily to become chaste.
What is double minded? 1374
Two souled, wavering, doubting, undecided, divided in
interest.
What is a double minded man?
Unstable in all of his ways.
Notes
We are unstable in alot of ways if we are unstable in all of
our
ways.
Lesson 28 James 4:9-12.
Text
9. Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be
turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
10. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall
lift you up.
11. Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh
evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of
the
law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art
not a
doer of the law, but a judge.
12. There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to
destroy:
who art thou that judgest another?
Describe the word afflicted. 5003
Means: Endure labor, undergo a hard substance, hardship,
We need to humble ourself before God.
Define the word mourn. 3996
Means: Sorrow for sin, or for condoning sin.
To have a Godly sorrow, The worldly sorrow is you are sorry
you
got caught, but godly sorrow brings repentance and a sorrow that
you
did the sin.
The process of humility is to mourn and this will bring about
humility.
Weak means brokenhearted, brokeness like at a funeral.
What should our laughter be turned to?
To heaviness and mourning.
What is heaviness
Means: Dejection, a outcast look, a expression of sorrow.
Describes a Godly sorrow when there is sin.
Our life needs to be broken before God for him to use us.
Listen to what The Lord is telling us in our hearts to be
humble
before him.
What must we do in the sight of God.
Any thing we gain in the spiritual world or comes into the
spiritual world has to be birthed from the spiritual to the
natural.
Any thing that comes into the natural world has to be
birthed.
Humble ourself
Describe the word lift. 5312
I Pet 5:5-6 Humble ourself before God and he will exalt you
in
due time.
Same word lift and exalt.
Means: To raise to dignity, Example of Joseph where God
raised
him up to a place of dignity.
To raise the spirits, to raise up, to exalt.
This only happens to those who humbles themself. Bring
ourself
low before God, and God then reaches down and raises you up and
lifts you up.
Explain the phrase to speak evil. 2635
Means: To slander, to speak against, to incriminate someone,
The Word says not to do it.
What do we do when we judge? 2919
We condemn, We punish, to pass sentence.
What do we do when we judge our brother?
We are speaking evil of the Law when we speak against our
brother.
What do we become then?
A judge of our brother, then of the law then of the lawgiver
and
the of God.
Who is the law giver and what does he do?
God is the Law Giver.
Who do we think we are to judge?
We need to judge ourself.
Notes
Lesson 29 James 4:13-15.
Text
Notes
James Chapter Five Study Notes.
Lesson 30 James 5:1-3.
Text.
1.
2.
3.
Describe this word rich. 4145
Garments, gold, silver, different items of value.
Describe weep. 2799
It is a loud expression of greif, wail out loud.
Very serious. There needs to be done.
What does howl mean? 3649
To cry out loud, To call out for appease their gods in case
of
false gods.
What are miseries? 5004
Means: Hardships, troubles, calmities, distress, miserable.
What is corrupt?
Rotten, rot off, perish, destroy.
What happens to their garments?
Moth eaten.
What becomes rusted?
Gold and silver.
What shall rust be?
A witness against you and eat your flesh.
Describe the word heaped. 2343
Means: Keep in store, great reserves, hoard in the last days,
To accumalate
The treasures were heaped for what period of time?
The last days.
Notes
Lesson 31 James 5:4-7.
Text.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Describe this word hire. 3408
Means: Dues paid for worker wages.
What does fraud mean? 650
Means: to rob, deprive or spoil, fraudlent.
Explain the phrase the "Lord of the Sabbath"?
Lord of hosts. What does God listen to. God heard their cry.
Lord of the angels.
Describe this word pleasure. 5171
Means: To live delicatly, live luxiously, to be given a
luxiously life.
To live this way does not develop character or strength.
What does it mean to be wanton?
Means: To live a volumpuish life, to give oneself to
pleasure.
This might be about the flesh wanting and fullfilling what it
desires.
What does the just man do?
Does not resist them.
How long are we to be patient?
Till the presence off the Lord comes.
Till the precious fruit of the earth comes forth for the
early
and latter rain.
What is a husbandman?
God taking care of the earth, in the natural it is a gardner
taking care of the garden or orchard.
Tiller of the soil or a vinedresser.
What is the husbandman waiting for?
Till the fruit of the earth comes forth.
Precious fruit of the earth is the harvest of human beings as
sons and daughters of God.
What is the early and latter rain?
Means: Early rain is a moderate rain.
Means: Latter rain is a heavy rain.
Dt 11:13-15.
Joel 2:23.
Zec 10:1.
Latter rain is in March and April.
Early rain is in Oct.
Early rain was to bring forth life.
Latter rain is to bring forth the harvest to maturity.
This is talking about people that God the husbandman is
patiently waiting for.
There is going to be a latter rain where there is going to
be a
great harvest.
The purpose is to bring a forth a great harvest of God.
Notes.
Lesson 32 James 5:8-11.
Text
8
9
10
11
Describe patience. 3114
Means: To be of a long spirit, endure misfortunes and
troubles,
longsuffering, slow to anger, to not lose heart.
The Lord is longsuffering for the harvest to come forth.
It is a commandment for us to be longsuffering.
Define the word stablish. 4741
Make stable, to fix firmly, to set ones face, steadfastly,
establish, constant, consistant, to set fast like glue.
We need to be consistant in attending church and grow where
God
has planted.
We are commanded to stablish our hearts.
Describe the word coming. 3952
Means Presence or arrival or advent, draw nigh.
Explain the word grudge. 4727
Means: To groan literally, a inward feeling of unexpessed
sorrow, murmering, sorrowing, sighing, deals with the verbal.
What does it mean to condemn? 2632
Means: to give judgment against or to pass sentence.
What is suffering? 2552
Means:To suffer evil, evil suffering, trouble, distress, or
affliction.
Demonic suffering.
What is affliction? 2552
Same as suffering.
Describe the word happy. 3106
Blessed are those who endure, Happy means blessed.
How do you endure? 5278
Means to remain, abide, to perservere, bear up couragusaly,
to
not recede or flee, no endurance.
To hold fast to ones faith, If God said it stick to it till
it
happens.
A lot of people run or leave when their is problems.
We need to learn to endure.
Gives example of Job's endurance for us to look up.
Job had faith in God and God was faithful.
What does pitiful mean? 4184
Means: Full of pity, Very kind, very commpassionate, tender
hearted, to be big hearted, Ggnerous, soft hearted.
This is part of the attributes of God and his personality,
and
his character.
We need to serve God faithfully all of our life.
Job's life shows Gods faithfullness.
These need to be manifested out of our life through the
fruit of
the Spirit in action in our life.
Describe the word mercy. 3627
Tender mercy, To be compassionate for the ills of others.
Christ was touched with the feelings of our infirmities.
Tender mercy: God has these feelings for us and for our
problems.
Notes.
The fruits of the Spirit and the Character of God are some of
the best defence we have against the enemy.
If we have longsuffering and forgiveness and other fruits
around
us we put a wall around us against the enemy and stop the enemy
to
come in.
Lesson 33 James 5:12-13.
Text.
12.
13.
Describe the word swear. 3660
Means: To affirm or to promise, or to deny by a oath, or to
threaten with a oath.
We should not swear by this scripture.
It is use of affirming or denying a oath.
What is an oath? 3727
That which restrains a person, that which is pledged or
promised
with a oath.
It is a confinement, it puts up walls around something.
It is something that is absolute.
It is very binding, or enlosure around.
What three things are we not to swear by?
Heaven, Earth, or a oath.
Heaven is the most secure or solid place that is why it is
used.
The earth is a secure or solid tanagible thing also.
How should we speak?
Let our yes be yes and our no be no.
We should be able to stand on our word not by something else.
If we swear we are saying that our yes is not good enough
that
we have to add on a swear to build the believing in our words.
What are subject to fall into?
Judgement.
Describe the word afflicted? 2253
To suffer hardships, evils and troubles.
Evil torment.
What are we to do when we are afflicted?
Pray.
This is the answer to our afflictions and sufferings.
Describe the word merry. 2114
To be of good spirits, joyful, be cheerful, be of good
courage.
Sing psalms.
What are the merry to do?
To play songs. To sing psalms.
What is a psalm?
To sing songs, to play music, instrumental or with singing.
Notes.
Pray:
Lesson 34 James 5:14-15.
Text.
14.
15.
Describe the word sick. 0770
A in greek means negitive. astheneo means strength.
Means to be without strength, weak, impotent.
Means also weak in the mind to make a decision.
Could be mental pressure or stress.
Dealing with a weakness.
Who are the elders? 4245
Means: Speaking about spiritual mature people.
Those who are raised to have the gift of spiritual care.
God gives this ability or gift.
To exercixe oversight.
The ecclisia (The called out ones.)
What is the anointing? 0218
Means: To rub with oil.
The oil is symbolic of the Holy Spirt and Joy.
Denotes those things that are holy or sanctified in the Old
Testament.
Whose name are we to anoint in?
In the name of the Lord.
What kind of prayer is this? 2171
Means: The prayer of faith the vow of faith.
Different then the word for prayer in verse 13.
Means: A vow of faith. We need to speak unto the mountains in
Mark 4:24.
Num chapter 6 is a description of a Nazerite vow.
The purpose of this vow.
Acts 18:18 Paul made a vow.
Acts 21:23 Same word used as here in Jas 5:15.
A vow of faith is taking God at his word until the healing
and
wholeness comes based on the Word of God.
God wants the Word of God to come out of our spirit, and
speak
it with faith to bring back wholeness, healing, and other
aspects of
salvation.
God uses this flow from out of our inner being comes forth
the
healing.
Exercise this of speaking the vow until God brings forth the
word that you have spoken, that lines up with His word.
Describe this word save?
Means to be made whole, to fullfill completly, everything
that
Christ made available for us at the cross.
To be delivered.
What will the Lord do?
Raise him up and if he has committed sins the Lord will
forgive
him.
What will happen to his sins?
They will be forgiven him.
Define this word for sin?
Means missing the mark.
In a sick or weary stage we are more suceptible to miss the
mark
and to sin.
How far has God removed our transgressions according to Psalm
103:12.
As far as the east from the west.
There is no measurement from the east to the west.
If you started going east there would be no end of going east
around the earth.
Notes.
To call for the elders is to reach out in faith for prayers
of
the the elders of faith for healing.
The sick needs to keep his words and confession in line with
the
vow of faith.
The faith of Christ and their faith that come to Him both
affected the healing of each person.
The power to heal is promised each believer, not only to the
elders.
Lesson 35 James 5:16.
Text.
16. Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for
another, that ye may be healed. The efffecutal fervent prayer of
a
righteous man availeth much.
Explain the word confess. 1843
Coming forth from the heart, freely acknowlege one to
another,
acknowledge openly.
To speak from the heart.
Some people refuse or are fearful of confessing their faults.
What are faults? 3900
Means to fall beside something, sin, misdeed, trespass,
willful
or unwillful.
We need to confess our side slips, deviations, offence, etc.
This is to bring healing.
Who are we to confess our faults to?
To one another.
Cautions of confessing sins.
It should be to fellow Christians.
We should confess to those who are trustworthy.
To those who are mature in the faith.
Who are we to pray to and for what?
To the Lord and that ye may be healed.
Praying for one another.
Define this word heal. 2390
To be healed physical in the body.
Describe the word effectual. 1754
Operative power.
Put forth power, display ones activity.
The energized operative petition.
Explain the term fervent. 1162
Fervent same as effectual as they both come from one word the
word operative.
Describe the word avail. 2480
Means: to have power, effective, capable, to have strength,
to
overcome, to be strong.
What kind of man must he be?
A righteousess man.
Notes.
Conditions of answered prayer.
Confession one to another.
Pray for one another.
We need to be righteousess.
The best way to do this to release the Spirit of God in our
prayer and to pray the Word of God in our prayers.
The Word of God will go back to God and not return void.
Mat 16:18 18:18 speaks of the unity with Christ in the midst
of
us.
Body Unity, Soulish Unity, and Spiritual Unity is the three
kinds of unity.
Marriage unity is contrasted with Christ's unity with the
body
of Christ.
Lesson 36 James 5:17-20.
Text.
17. Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and
he
prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and i rained not on the
earth by the space of three years and six months.
18. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the
earth
brought forth her fruit.
19. Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one
convert him;
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.
Who is Elias? 2243
Elijah.
Describe the term like passions. 3663
He had the same nature, same feelings.
If he can pray so can we.
If he had a effective prayer so can we.
What kind of prayer did he pray?
Effective and operative.
What did his prayers do?
Stoped the rain comming on the earth for 3 and 1/2 years.
And when he prayed again it started.
What did the earth do?
The earth brought forth her fruit.
When there is rain from heaven there will be spiritual fruit
on
the earth.
Describe the word err. 4105
Means: To cause to stray, to decieve someone, to move away
from
the true faith, led away from the truth.
To wander away from the true faith.
True faith is living your life based on the Word of God.
A lot of people live on their religion and not on the Word of
God.
Observing religions rites will not get us to heaven.
Explain the term convert. 1994
Means: To cause one to return, to turn about or around, To
cause
to come back.
Someone who is in errors and he is turned around to come
back to
the truth.
What happens to the sinner who is converted?
Saved his soul from death.
What will it hide?
A multitude of sins.
Notes.
Christ come into the world to save the world not to judge.
James in Review
James in Review Part 1.
Who is the author of this epistle?
Most likely the James the Just the half brother of Jesus.
What is joy 1:2? 5479
Joy means: Cheerfulness, calm, delight, gladness.
What will be tried according to 1:3?
Our trial of our faith is more precious then gold.
What will be God give to all men liberally who ask?
Wisdom comes from God to help us in many ways.
What is a double minded man according to 1:8?
He is unstable in all his ways.
Who shall receive the crown of life 1:12?
If we persevere in all trials we will recive a victors crown.
What is lust in 1:14? 1939
Means: own desire, own cravings, own longings. To be
somewhere,
that is not the will of God.
What brings death in 1:15?
Finished Sin.
Three kinds of sin: Not do what you know to do, Lack of
faith,
and missing the mark. These are the three ways to sin in the
Bible.
What is the ingrafted word able to do in 1:21?
21. Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of
naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which
is
able to save your souls.
What is pure religion in 1:27?
27. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is
this. To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction,
and to
keep himself unspotted from the world.
Who are we not to have respect to in 2:3?
3. And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing,
and
say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor,
Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool:
Rich persons, or wealthy.
How do you fulfill the royal law in 2:8?
8. If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture,
Thou
shalt love thy neighbour as thyself ye do well:
What is faith without works in 2:20?
Dead.
What is the body without the spirit in 2:26?
Dead.
James in Review Part 2.
What is a master in James 3:1?
What makes us a perfect man in 3:27?
What defiles and controls our body in 3:4-6?
What can no man tame in 3:8?
What should not happen according to 3:9-12?
What are envying and strife in 3:14?
What three areas does this kind of wisdom come from?
What comes with envying and strife in 3:16?
What does the wisdom from above produce?
What is this wisdom without?
James in Review Part 3.
Define the word lust. 2337
What are the things that we do to try to obtain in 4:2?
Why don't we receive in 4:2-3?
Who is the enemy of God in 4:4-5
Who does God resist?
What will the devil do when you resist him?
What happens when we draw nigh to God?
What should we not speak?
What is our life according to 5:4?
What is sin in 5:17?
What have rich men heaped up their treasures for?
How did they get their riches according to 5:4
What is the Lord waiting for in 5:7?
Who are the happy people in 5:11?
Who are supposed to swear by in 5:12?
What will the prayer of faith do in 5:15?
What does the effectual fervent prayer do?
How are like Elijah?
What did Elijah do?
Explain the word convert. 1994
What happens when a sinner gets converted?
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