#9: “Warnings”
SCRIPTURE: James 4:13-5:6
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town
and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— 14 yet you do not know what
tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and
then vanishes. 15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or
that.” 16As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. 17 So whoever knows
the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.
5 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon
you. 2 Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten.
3 Your gold and silver have
corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You
have laid up treasure in the last days. 4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your
fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the
harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. 5 You have lived on the earth in luxury
and in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. 6 You have
condemned and murdered the righteous person. He does not resist you.
There are two warnings in this section:
1. A warning concerning making plans for the future; and
2. A warning to the rich.
First, let’s consider…