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James 2:1-4
DIR By: clark thompson
Date: August 1, 2016, 7:47 pm
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James 2:1-4 King James Version (KJV)
2 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 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:
4 Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges
of evil thoughts?
James 2:1-4 New Life Version (NLV)
The Rich and the Poor
2 My Christian brothers, our Lord Jesus Christ is the Lord of
shining-greatness. Since your trust is in Him, do not look on
one person as more important than another. 2 What if a man comes
into your church wearing a gold ring and good clothes? And at
the same time a poor man comes wearing old clothes. 3 What if
you show respect to the man in good clothes and say, “Come and
sit in this good place”? But if you say to the poor man, “Stand
up over there,” or “Sit on the floor by my feet,” 4 are you not
thinking that one is more important than the other? This kind of
thinking is sinful.
New Life Version (NLV) Copyright © 1969 by Christian Literature
International
These are my thoughts, please share yours.
1 He is the light that we are commanded not to hide but to shine
to the world. The glory of is so great that Moses shined from
his contact with God simply being in His presence. We are to
trust in God first not to trust in others first. We often times
look to other people as great but we are to look to the Lord as
great and just look to serve Him, this is a mentally of the
world that we often times have a hard time letting go, this not
to say that we can not learn from others more or that certain
people can be used to help us and some can’t this is simply
saying that we should not favor them more because of this, this
is a form of us dying to self to serve Him.
2 They had a problem with valuing people based on what they
owned this could be a problem some churches face today, they can
have a tendencies to please certain people more because they
give more money yet we are to be concerned about pleasing the
Lord giving should never be done to win favor with people but
should be done to please the Lord. We are to meet the needs and
look at a person’s heart. We often have to train ourselves to
look past outward appearance.
3 James most likely addressed this because this was a problem
that they were having Jesus died for both the rich and the poor
we the church should have accepted those that were poor as much
as they accepted the rich. Those were rich to have rings on
shows that they are keeping their wealth rather then using it to
serve the Lord so why they are more valuable to the church any
way, each soul matters the same. As Christians should not we
favor people because of the closeness to God rather then what
they have on earth.
4 We are to realize that God has us to serve for everyone that
He brings our way this may mean we are used by Him to people we
may not want to be we trust Him and are to let His light shine,
He very well may bring us into places of service that is outside
our comfort zone, this way we zone on Him rather then on are
selves then others.
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