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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.
  • <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 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?