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  • James Introduction
  • Lesson 1 Introduction to James.
  • 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 Christina 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 Revelant 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 certian local
  • church but is a open book to all.
  • When was this epistle written?
  • Date was written in aprox. 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 Jersalem.
  • He wrote this when he was pastor at Jersalem.
  • James declares that faith without works is dead.
  • James Interliner Text.
  • <jas.int>
  • James chapter 1 <Jas.1>
  • James chapter 2 <Jas.2>
  • James chapter 3 <Jas.3>
  • James chapter 4 <Jas.4>
  • James chapter 5 <Jas.5>
  • James chapter 6 <Jas.6>
  • James Strongs Dictionary.
  • <Jas.dic>
  • 1000 <Jasdic.1>
  • 2000 <Jasdic.2>
  • 3000 <Jasdic.3>
  • 4000 <Jasdic.4>
  • 5000 <Jasdic.5>
  • 5500 <Jasdic.6>
  • 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 anothers will. Some one who is in bondange
  • usally but in scripture it is a choice not a bondage.
  • In New Testament times people owned servants.
  • Every 7 years at year of Jubilee all debt was free and the
  • Servant was set free.
  • If you decided to stay after 7 years you were then marked
  • with a hole in the ear then they become a bond servant.
  • James had made a life long committment to the Lord.
  • He showed he was committed by saying he was a servant.
  • James only uses the term Jesus Christ twice in the Book of
  • James.
  • What is a tribe? 5443
  • There are two or three possiblities. It is all the
  • Decendents of Jacob. This was called a tribe.
  • Of people of a race or Nation, or habitation.
  • To the Jews who were being scattered.
  • To the Christians is the strongest possiblity who he was
  • addressing.
  • Describe the meaning of the word greeting. 5463
  • This is a traditional Gentile greeting not a Jewish greeting.
  • The Jewish was the word Shalom which means Made whole.
  • Paul usally used grace or peace in his greetings.
  • Means cheerful, happy, rejoice, Wish you well, God speed in
  • this greetings is what is represented.
  • Describe the word joy. 5479
  • Calls us brethern which means kinship.
  • The same blood has made us the same by Christ.
  • Count it all Joy. Consider it all joy.
  • Joy means: Cheerfulness, calm, delight, gladness.
  • Joy is associated with life, The experience of sorrow helps
  • you have the capicity of joy. Joy is the oppisite of sorrow.
  • Happiness and Joy is often mixed up and they are not related.
  • Happiness is a product of the soul, based on feelings, or
  • circumstances.
  • Happiness comes and goes.
  • Joy is not of the soul but of the spirit. Gal 5:22
  • Sorrow if when your spirit is sinking and joy is described
  • when your spirit is bursting forth.
  • This comes from the root word used for grace.
  • Neh 8:10, The joy of the Lord is your strength. Luke 15:7,
  • Joy in heaven over one sinner repenting.
  • Isa 12:3. With joy ye shall draw forth out of the waters of
  • salvation.
  • Psa 16:11, In thy prescence there is fullness of joy. In his
  • presence there is joy.
  • Joy is supernatural. It is very powerfull.
  • Count it joy when you fall in divers temptations. When you
  • fall into temptations count it as joy this releases joy into the
  • circumstance.
  • It does not equal pleasure. it is progress to become Christ
  • like.
  • Joy is the ability to expect God to move and Joy sustains
  • you.
  • Explain the word fall. 4045
  • When you fall, to fall into something all around you.
  • Be surrounded with, be compassed with problems all around
  • you.
  • You wake up and it seems it is all around you. This is what
  • he is talking about.
  • Like being in a snow storm or fog all around you. This shows
  • us we cannot always control things around us.
  • It takes joy to count yourself this way in the midst of
  • problems. We need to stop and let Joy come on the scene.
  • What is divers? 4164
  • Manifold is alternitive word, Various temptations is also ok.
  • Comes for the word pictures from the root links. Mixture of
  • colors in any picture.
  • Talking about all different kinds of circumstances.
  • We need joy to help us in all circumstances.
  • Count it joy.
  • Define the word temptations. 3986
  • Can be a experiment. To test it. to be tested or go through
  • trials, proving, adversity, affliction, provications.
  • Count it all joy when you fall into these different problems
  • or times of your life.
  • Can mean outward circumstances, and also inside on your
  • morals.
  • Trials is outward tests.
  • Temptations as inwards tests this is in the English.
  • Both of these help you either go toward or away from God.
  • If you count it as joy it will draw you closer to God.
  • In a trial some people pull away from Church and Christian
  • people.
  • Trials come in varied form.
  • People often stumble over circumstances.
  • There is a testing of our faith.
  • Every trial builds character in us. We learn to be used in
  • eternity for the Lord.
  • React with joy from the Spirit Man not with the soul.
  • Lesson 3 James 1:3-4.
  • Text
  • 2 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh
  • patience.
  • 3 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be
  • perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
  • Explain the word knowing. 1097
  • Knowing is a weak word in the English word.
  • Reletive words means to understand completly, a defiteness,
  • to recognize , to come to know, absolutly percieve somthing.
  • The following words come from the same root word in Greek.
  • Prognosis to know beforehand.
  • Agnostic means ingnorance.
  • God wants us to know him. To come to a full revelation of
  • Him.
  • To know him fully.
  • Trials help you to know.
  • Give other words that describe trying. 1383
  • Knowing this.
  • Means approving, atried, trustworthyness, To prove with the
  • expectation of geting an approval. We are going to go through
  • trying with a expected result of approval.
  • Our testing and trials will give us approval after going
  • through this there is a trustworthiness in our life.
  • I Peter 1:6-9
  • Our trial of our faith is more precious then gold.
  • The end of our faith is the saving of our souls.
  • Give a brief description of faith. 4102
  • This is what is going to be tied.
  • Faith is : A assuranse, or a strong conviction, a firm
  • persuasion, a confidence.
  • A bold strong Confidence.
  • Our Faith is always on Trial.
  • Three things that watch our test of faith.
  • One is the Demonic Beings, Two is God and his Heveanly
  • Beings, and The third are those around us.
  • Define worketh. 2716
  • Means to do work fully, not just active but to work fully,
  • to accomplish, to achieve, to bring about results. To bring
  • forth fruition.
  • Trials achieve something in us. Children of Israel went
  • through the same thing to see what was in their heart.
  • What is patience? 5281
  • Good word for this is steadfastness, Those that endure until
  • the end the same will be saved. Must endure to the end not get
  • started and give up.
  • Constancy, to stay constant.
  • If we cannot do nothing else in our christian life stay
  • constant.
  • Endurance to get to a specified point.
  • Patience is developed by going through trials. Only this
  • kind of patience can be achieved this way.
  • Describe the word perfect. 5046
  • Trials Worketh to achieve this endurance in our life.
  • Many People blame God, or are mad at Him becaule of trials.
  • Complete , full aged, Moral Character , Mature.
  • Example someone when they reach the age of 21 they have more
  • choices and responsibilities.
  • Let patience have her complete work.
  • Define the word entire. 3648
  • So that we can be complete or fully mature by letting
  • patience have her perfect work.
  • Entire Means : to be complete in all its parts. Free from
  • sin, faultless, whole, perfectly sound, complete.
  • Patience will bring us to the point of Entire.
  • Without Patience we cannot be made entire.
  • First going through a trial you count it all joy, Then we
  • knowing that this kind of trying is subject of approval which
  • will get us some where.
  • Our faith is on trial Rom 10:17 Faith.
  • Is being tested for approval.
  • The trying of our faith achieves endurance which brings
  • about maturity or completness.
  • This shows a pathway what a trial does to your life from
  • beginning to end.
  • This is the end results of going through trials.
  • Explain wanting. 3007
  • Means lacking nothing.
  • What will be lacking?
  • Nothing.
  • Notes
  • Could you imagine a trial could produce all this in your
  • life.
  • This is the only way to achive this goal to be mature in
  • Christ.
  • Count it all joy.
  • Our ability to release joy is important.
  • Your ability to endure is patience.
  • We need to do this consistanly over time to come to maturity.
  • Lesson 4 James 1:5-8.
  • Text
  • 5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth
  • to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given
  • him.
  • 6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that
  • wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and
  • tossed.
  • 7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing
  • of the Lord.
  • 8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
  • What is Wisdom. 4678
  • The word lack and wanting are the same word in the original.
  • Wisdom is a very powerfull word that needs in depth study.
  • Must ask of God the source.
  • Eph 1:8 Wherin he hath abounded in all wisdom and prudence.
  • God wants us to hath all wisdom possible, hath abounded.
  • Wisdom is the insight to the true nature of things.
  • Prudence is the ability to deserns the modes of action.
  • Wisdom is theoricital, all things have theory.
  • Prudence is pratical knowledge.
  • I Cor 2:4-7 speech was not in mans wisdom but in the power
  • of God.
  • We speak the wisdom of God not of man. This shows the
  • different kinds of wisdom. The hidden mystries of God.
  • Was veiled from ungodly men. God wants his people to recieve
  • his wisdom.
  • But my God shall supply you with all your need according to
  • his riches in heaven. Money is not in heaven but Knowledge and
  • Wisdom.
  • Prov 2 - 3:13 Describes what wisdom will do for you.
  • Wisdom comes from God to help us in many ways.
  • If connects the previous verse. This is one possible area we
  • need to be entire is wisdom.
  • Describe Liberally. 0574
  • This is the nature of God to give us all things liberally.
  • God is not stingy.
  • Means to be bountifully, openenlly, singleness of heart he
  • gives openly.
  • God gives Wisdom bountifully.
  • Conditions God requires is to ask
  • What does upbraideth 3679 mean?
  • Means to chide, taunt, revive, without finding fault, does
  • not reproach you.
  • Because you lack wisdom Gods will not look down on you.
  • He will give it openly to you from his own heart and
  • treasures.
  • What method should we ask?
  • If we ask it will be given to you. It is not a sin to have
  • wisdom, but it would be a sin to not ask for wisdom.
  • God knows we are created through Adam.
  • Wisdom is to know how to use knowledge.
  • Let him ask in faith nothing waivering.
  • 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 do'nt expect anything from God.
  • Describe Doublemindedness. 1374
  • Means double soul is the same word mind in orginal.
  • 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
  • finacial 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 temorary 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 liveth forever.
  • The word of the Lord will liveth 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 countenace.
  • The flower is short lived but it still has a beutiful 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 seperating rich and poor.
  • Do not rich men opress you.
  • Dont 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 accectable,
  • 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 recive a victors crown.
  • What kind of life is this? 2222
  • Three kinds of life.
  • Bios: Blood life
  • Physcy life: Soul life
  • Zoe life: Vtitality, Fullnes 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
  • abudantly. 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.
  • Descibe this word temptation. 3985
  • God will not use evil to tempt us.
  • To try to make trial of tests, for purpose of acertaining
  • 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
  • tendoncy 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 begate, to allure, to begile, 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 untill 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 ae 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 concieved 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 seperation 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 seperate 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 refered 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 submitt 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 righteounsess 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

  • James Chapter Two Study Notes
  • James Chapter Three Study Notes
  • James Chapter Four Study Notes
  • James Chapter Five Study Notes