James 1c

James 1c

Shawn Bumpers / General

James

 

 

 

 

Matthew 7:22–23 NKJV

Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’

Hebrews 5:12 NKJV

For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food.

 

Revelation 3:17 NKJV

Because you say, ‘I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing’—and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked—

John 17:17 NKJV

Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.

Psalm 19:9 NKJV

The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever; The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.

Psalm 119:142 NKJV

Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, And Your law is truth.

Psalm 119:152 NKJV

Concerning Your testimonies, I have known of old that You have founded them forever.

If we fulfill these responsibilities, we will have an honest walk with God and men.

Romans 1:16 NKJV

For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.

Romans 6:22 NKJV

But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life.

Acts 2:45 NKJV

and sold their possessions and goods, and divided them among all, as anyone had need.

Galatians 5:22–23 NKJV

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.

Hebrews 13:15 NKJV

Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name.

John 15:4 NKJV

Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.

Ephesians 2:8–10 NKJV

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

Romans 10:17 NKJV

So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Mark 4:24 NKJV

Then He said to them, “Take heed what you hear. With the same measure you use, it will be measured to you; and to you who hear, more will be given.

Luke 8:18 NKJV

Therefore take heed how you hear. For whoever has, to him more will be given; and whoever does not have, even what he seems to have will be taken from him.”

Matthew 13:13 NKJV

Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.

Hebrews 5:11 NKJV

of whom we have much to say, and hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.

Look at the first part of verse 19.

The believer should be attentive to what God has to say.

2 Samuel 23:15 NKJV

And David said with longing, “Oh, that someone would give me a drink of the water from the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!”

 

Many times we argue with God’s Word … probably not audibly, but in our hearts and minds. 

Proverbs 10:19 NKJV

In the multitude of words sin is not lacking, But he who restrains his lips is wise.

Proverbs 17:27 NKJV

He who has knowledge spares his words, And a man of understanding is of a calm spirit.

 

Do not get angry at God or His Word. 

Proverbs 14:29 NKJV

He who is slow to wrath has great understanding, But he who is impulsive exalts folly.

Psalm 97:10 NKJV

You who love the Lord, hate evil! He preserves the souls of His saints; He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.

 

1 John 1:9 NKJV

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

πραΰτης prautēs: humility; gentleness … referring to an inward attitude.

 

soil and seed.

illustration of a mirror.

 

Isaiah 6:5 NKJV

So I said: “Woe is me, for I am undone! Because I am a man of unclean lips, And I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King, The Lord of hosts.”

Luke 5:8 NKJV

When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord!”

Job 42:6 NKJV

Therefore I abhor myself, And repent in dust and ashes.”

The Word made Flesh and as the Great Physician.

“the perfect law of liberty.”

Romans 7:22–24 NKJV

For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man. But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?

The law brings us liberty not because we are able to keep it, but because we cannot.

Romans 8:1–2 NKJV

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

Reconciliation.

The original laver of the tabernacle was made from the bronze mirrors of the women of Israel.

John 15:3 NKJV

You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

Ephesians 5:26 NKJV

that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word,

1 Corinthians 6:11 NKJV

And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

Titus 3:4–6 NKJV

But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior,

1 John 1:9 NKJV

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

2 Samuel 12:13 NKJV

So David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die.

 

2 Corinthians 3:18 NKJV

But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.

μεταμορφόω metamorphoō: be transformed

Romans 12:2 NKJV

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Psalm 139:23–24 NKJV

Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties; And see if there is any wicked way in me, And lead me in the way everlasting.

1 John 1:8 NKJV

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

θρῆσκος thrēskos: devout or pious … devoted to proper religious expression.

SPEECH is mentioned many times in this letter … in fact, it’s in all but the last chapter.

Matthew 12:34–35 NKJV

Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things.

Psalm 34:13 NKJV

Keep your tongue from evil, And your lips from speaking deceit.

 

John 14:30 NKJV

I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming, and he has nothing in Me.

John 17:16 NKJV

They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

James says, “To keep oneself unspotted from the world.”

James 4:4 NKJV

Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.