Hello ladies and gentlemen. Welcome on this Thursday night, our favorite night of the week, isn't it? As we come together for Bible study. Having a little fun tonight. In James chapter five, verses one through six, only six verses, but I think we're going to find some amazing stuff that reminds us that James is written to a specific audience at a specific time. We don't want to take it universally for all men of all time is so often done. And we'll see how much of a backbone this guy James had as he gets to business, right down to business with the rich men of his tribesmen. So we'll see that here in just a moment. But before we get there, let me give this a little announcement. This little announcement right here. And that is Tow's Prophecy Conference. It is September 23 through the 25th and that means it's next week. We will have Bible study next Thursday night because we just never rest. So we got Bible study Wednesday night, Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday morning, Sunday. It's going to be a good week. And you say that's worth a little extra. Hell, I'll tell you what, we'll let you give a donation to the building fund at Tow's First Baptist. Our building is 80 years old and made out of mud. It always needs some work. And so that's what the extra offering will go for. During the Tows Prophecy Conference, questioning the assumptions about Genesis chapter one, we're going to look at a lot of fun stuff like the gap theory, like this rise in the flat earth thinking is there anything to it? Because it's mostly coming from those who are fundamentalist in their approach to scripture and many times even those who are right divider. So let's take a look at that and see if we can see where they're coming from. What's up with that? So we can either join them or know how to combat that. And then we're also going to look at a lot of things. Just in the beginning of the chapter, like in the beginning, God created light. We're going to look at the way God has made our universe to work. What's the energy that keeps things going for 6000 years now? What's up with that? We'll figure that out and take a look at that. It'll be kind of fun. How in the world could Adam and Eve live forever in the Garden of Eden? We're going to look at our lives and our bodies fearfully and wonderfully made how God created us to be. This sounds hippie to be in harmony with the universe. But we'll put all that together and see. So it's going to be fun. You can still get here. You could come be here by Friday night. You got a week in a day and come join us. And if you want to come early, come for work week. We'll take you. We'll put you to work, put a broom in your hand or something like that and get going if you'd like to do that. Got several couples coming for that. And then we've got the first ever Tows Prophecy Conference road trip right after we'll finish on Sunday. On Monday, Monday through Friday, we got a great little road trip planned. It's only one night away from Tau, so we got some local lodging here if you want to do that. And we'll do things like the Coombars and Toll Tech narrow gauge railway up through the beautiful mountains of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado. We're going to hit my favorite restaurant in the state. We are two of my favorite restaurants, actually. We're going to Rancho de Chimao and we're going to Wadaburger. That's worth it right there. And we're going to go to the state capital. We're going to go downtown Santa Fe. We're going to see the Tows pueblo. We're going to go to San Diego Peak, riding the tramway in Albuquerque and see some historic things in Albuquerque. We're going to go to the nuclear museum in Albuquerque. We're going to go out to the Wild West and see where some Western movies were made and see a lot of history of the Wild West. We are just going to have a great time. 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Okay, I'm going to turn that off. And now we get into Bible study. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to James, rightly, divided verse by verse. And here we begin tonight session number twelve with James, chapter five, verses one through six is what we're going to look at tonight. This section speaks about the rich at the end of the kingdom offer. I think it is important to understand that this is not about the rich period. It is about the rich at the end of the kingdom offer. This coming Sunday, as a matter of fact, I'll begin a series on the life and times of Abraham. Abraham was a rich man. Is he supposed to weep and howl for the miseries that come upon you? No, because he's not one of the rich in the time of the kingdom offer. He got a kingdom promise of sorts. He didn't even know it would be a kingdom at that point. But he got a kingdom promise of sorts and yet the offer was not there. He was searching for a city which has foundations as builder makers, God, but he never received it. Now these people are living in the time of the kingdom offer. That means the kingdom is approaching, it is nearby, it is right here and not established yet. But boy, you could almost reach out and grab it in that kind of time. You better not be rich because in those days, the days of the kingdom offer, if you are rich, it's honestly, because when the Antichrist said jump, you said, how high? So sure, I'll do whatever it takes to be rich. These are the days, the last days. Now, before I finish that statement, let me say James is writing, let's say about 45 Ad at probably the latest. And so the kingdom is being offered. The Pauline mystery has not even been voiced yet, not been revealed yet. And so there is absolutely nothing other than we know that boy, God has been patient, not bringing us judgment yet. The judgment has got to be the next thing on the calendar. We'll see that when we get to verse three. And so that's what James is expecting. Now, you and I know that the dispensation of the grace of God was given to Paul and that it was a mystery unsearchable. And that mystery included setting aside the offer of the kingdom during these days in which you and I live. But it will come back. The offer of the kingdom will come back. You know that you and I live in a day in which there's neither Jew nor Greek and therefore there can't be a kingdom offer because the kingdom offer is to the Jews. And so for our purposes, we can say the book of James is written for the end times. Now, to be a rich man in the end times is, as I've already said, to have bowed down and kissed the big toe with a happy face of the Antichrist. And so it is totally appropriate to speak to them in the manner in which James is going to speak to them. And in James's day it was as well. And so we will take this and look and we begin again in verse one, chapter five, verse one, where James says, go to now, you rich men. Weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Now, again, we've got this little phrase go to now that was used in verse 13 of the previous chapter. If you go back to session number eleven and listen to the notes on verse 13, it's an unusual way of saying things. It is difficult to get it translated here into the English because it's unusual. It is. What if we want to be sophisticated, we'll call it vernacular. He's spoken the vernacular. Now that's a sophisticated way of saying he talked like they talk in the hood. He talked to his brothers in a very kind of slang type way. And this shows us that, hey, he definitely is a first century Jew talking to first century Jews because that's the way they would have talk. That's the language, the type of language they would have used with one another. And so here it is. Go to now. I spoke about this last week. I'll just say a little word. I think we do ourselves a disfavor when we take out the awkwardness of that phrase and make it something like come now, it doesn't fit the accuracy and it doesn't cause us to trip a little bit over the words. And I think we're supposed to trip a little bit over the words. And that causes us to look in and say, hey, what's up with this? And what's up with this is we got a first century Jew talking to first century Jews. That's the only people who would say it like that. Go to now. I remember every now and then I chase a rabbit. But I remember when I was out in West Texas and pastored my first little church and they grew a lot of melons in that town, watermelons and cantaloupe and whatnot. And it was about the time of year when all the melons were coming off. And so Brother Tommy, he's deceased now, but Brother Tommy filled my trunk with watermelons and a few days later I said, hey, Tommy, thanks for those watermelons. Those are wonderful. I remember him saying, where they have any count? And I thought, I don't know, six or eight, I guess. What do you mean, were they of any account? That's what I want to know. What he meant is, did they taste good? Well, I never said that. I never asked somebody when I'm cooking biscuits and gravy, hey, those any count? So I didn't really know. It's a vernacular. It's a local in West Texas. If you're old West Texas watermelon farmer, that's a good way to say it in account. So this again, it alerts us, saying, hey, we're dealing with real people and real things that are going on here. So go to now, you rich man. Weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Now, most evangelicals, you know, I have a little book called Evangelical Garbage. Most evangelicals will take this passage and just make it verses one through six. And here we're in verse one. They'll take all of this and they'll just make this kind of a general condemnation of the rich. But evangelicals don't get very far giving a general condemnation of the rich because they love the rich young ruler when he comes in. I mean, evangelicals will bend over backwards in order to get the rich young ruler to join their church. I know this, I've been a pastor many years. And you just look at where God is calling I put that in air quotes. God is calling church planners today. It's where there are rich young rulers. I think God is calling me there to whiteville as having the burbs where they're making $170,000 as a median income. They need me, they need the gospel. And yet you get there. You preach kind of this antirich message to a bunch of rich white guys, and you have to be careful. So it always becomes rich people are richer than we are. Those of you who are richer than I am, weep and howl for your miseries and you end up with this socialistic garbage out of this kind of passage, and it's messed up over and over and over again. I guess it would be fun in a painful kind of way someday to just gather together and get sermons on a passage like this and sit for a weekend. Would we survive? Sit for a weekend and listen to how utterly awful the preaching of a text like this is in evangelical circles. And these would not be those who are sort of outside of the norm. We could pick guys we know, preachers we know, and say, whoa, you wouldn't believe what they did with this. And sadly yet then we would find the next one and the next one and the next one, and it would just continue on as we would go through on all that. So go to now, you rich man, weep and how. Now, I personally find that there really is only one thing to do with this passage versus one through six, and that is to apply it literally to the people to whom James writes. That is, the tribes, the first century of Israel and the tribes of Israel and those of the kingdom offer. So it will apply again later, as we see in verse three. It will apply into the last days. So he wants the rich man right then to weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you in the future, he says. And as you read the passage, he says, not too long in the future you've got some miseries, your miseries. You cooked this goose here, and your miseries shall come upon you. So there's the basic instruction. And then in verses two and three, he comes together and he speaks of, shall we say, the description of what has happened in these riches. And he has some very interesting terminology here, terminology that I would say puts James well ahead of his time. Let's see what it is here. James, chapter five, verse two. Your riches are corrupted, your garments are moth eaten. Okay, we can kind of understand here how he echoes a little bit the words of Jesus, who says, lay not to treasure up for yourselves where thieves break in steel and where moths destroy, corrupt so. Your riches are corrupted, your garments are moth eaten. Then in verse three, your gold and silver is cankered. The rest of them shall be a witness against you and shall eat your flesh, as it were fire. You have heaped treasure together for the last days. So you got this rotting problem, this corruption problem, this motheating problem, he says in verse two. But then when he comes into verse three, he gets very specific. Your gold and silver is conquered. Now, let's talk about this in just a moment. Excuse me. As we see gold and silver conquered. That perked my imagination or my mind just a little bit. The underlying word to canker. Let's just go over right here to our middle section, and I tell you what in verse three. Let's put up the interlinear here, and it kind of runs together here. But tankered is this word right here. And if we were to hover over it, I know that's too hard to see, but it's to rust or to corrode. Now, we get the English word cathode from catio. Now, cathode, you've probably heard it. You've heard of the anode and the cathode. And we could all pass a test on it because we took physics and chemistry back in the day, right? The anode and the cathode. Oh, yeah, I understand that. All that. So, madison, you're a graduate of the John Nelson derby academy. Would you like to step forward and define a cathode for us? She's thinking maybe not a cathode. Catio as it's down here and it's translated as cankerd. Let me turn some of the busyness off right there. What is interesting, your gold and your silver is a cathode. Gold and silver not is a cathode, but has been cathoded. I know that's not a good english your gold has been consulted because this is a passive verb. So it doesn't say your gold and silver is a cathode. That would be active in the passive. It is cathoded. Now, cathoded, you really do have a very good definition here in canker. It has been cankered, especially if you look up in the Oxford English dictionary, which says, looks like that group session may have gone bad there, but we'll see what happens. Nathan will fix that. It says the Oxford English dictionary for canker. Is this a destructive or corrosive agent? A destructive or corrosive agent? Well, that in a sense is what a cathode is, a destructive or a corrosive agent. It is like a cathode. Your battery has a cathode. It has an anode, and it has a cathode. And a cathode receives electrons. Might be losing you here, but hang on for just a moment. A cathode receives electrons. I'll take it. I'll I'll take it. Take it. I'll take it. Well, when something receives electrons, something else has to give up electrons. When something gives up electrons, we call that oxidized. It has been oxidized because it gave up its electrons. Well, guess what oxidation is. Oxidation is corrosion. Oxidation is that which can cause. So here he says your gold let's focus on gold, especially. Your gold has been oxidized. Your gold has suffered from a catholic experience. As a matter of fact, we get the word catheter there also, your gold's been drained out. It has been drained out of its electrons, and that causes it to rust, to corrode, to be oxidized. Your gold has been oxidized. Now, I know some people are saying, wait, wait. Gold can't be oxidized. And gold, as a matter of fact, is one of the most stable elements that there is actually on planet earth. It doesn't oxidize much. Silver doesn't much, but it will. Any of you who have real silverware know that what happens to the silverware. It tarnishes. The oxygen took some of the electrons out of it. The oxygen sucked those electrons out, and the silver became cankered. So you polish up the silver. Well, you don't really have to do that, really, with gold, because oxygen just doesn't have the strength to pull away some of those electrons or to join together in with some of those electrons, like gold. So gold doesn't really tanker. Gold doesn't really corrode. Gold doesn't really rust. Silver doesn't much either, compared to you take iron or steel or something like this. In which it would just corrode under certain circumstances, fairly quickly. Well, gold and silver don't really that's why they make coins out of gold and silver. They're not going to rust away. But here he says, your gold has been oxidized. It speaks very scientifically here. Your gold has been oxidized. Now, in this case, he says, and the rust of them shall be a witness against you. Wait a minute. Gold rust. Here he uses cathode, and here he uses the word rust. And the word rust is iOS. We get the word ion. It's just a different form of iOS, an ion. What is an ion? An ion is any atom or molecule that has a charge to it. It is not neutral. It has a negative charge or a positive charge. And in most cases, rust would have a negative charge because electrons are negative, and it sucked out those negative, those electrons. So your gold lost its electrons and became the element that was left when the gold broke down was rust. Gold rust. Well, I'd take some gold rust. Well, no. Gold rust, it is often said, and if you do it on the internet, search engine almost said that bad word. But if you do it on the internet, search engine, does gold rust, does gold oxidized, does gold corrode you probably find no, it doesn't. It doesn't. And then you might even find someone out there who doesn't trust the word of God, who said what a doofus James was. He thought gold could rust. James again used some very scientific terms here, well ahead of his time. Or maybe we just have a bad view of his time, as he says, your gold has become and it became iOS or an ion, and that shall be a witness against you. Now, what's so interesting about this? Well, as I already mentioned, gold is the word I was looking for is inert. Inert. It means it doesn't give up its electrons very easily. And if it's something that doesn't give up electrons very easily, doesn't rust, it doesn't corrode. Oxygen isn't going to take it away. Water isn't going to take it away. Some of the common things salt isn't going to take it away. Now, you try that on something else. Take water or salt or oxygen, or if you really want to do it fast, take water and oxygen and salt and stick something in it and see how long it lasts. It will oxidize, it will rust. If it's metal, which is just an ion, a positive ion, it's rusted. Now, so you've got this inert material. Gold inert doesn't rust. Oh, wait a minute here. James said it rusted. The rest of them shall be a witness against you. And while gold rust or ionize gold is very hard to make happen, it does happen. As a matter of fact, there is something called gold oxide. Gold oxide is gold rust, gold ions. And James knew exactly scientifically what he was talking about. Now your rusted gold shall be a witness against you and then notice what he says and shall eat your flesh, as it were. Fire. Now, again, probably if you and I didn't have scientific minds, we might say he's just speaking figuratively, spiritually. And he says there's really no sure thing you need to know. There's rich people, you think you really got it. Well, there's no sure thing. Even gold, the thing that can't rust, rusts and it's going to be used as a witness against you, eat your flesh as it were. Fired again, sort of taking it as a spiritual judgment. God's going to get, you know, that my rule of thumb is if you can take it literally do it. You can take it literally. Do it. Okay. Now, gold oxide is gold rust. Gold oxide is gold rust. What does gold oxide do? He says it shall eat your flesh. Yeah, here we go. I looked up today, this right here, I'll have to make it a little bigger for you. I think I can do that. Let's see. So this is from ThermoFisher scientific a safety data sheet. Okay, what does it do? This chemical is considered hazardous. What does it do? Skin corrosion. So James, who says gold oxide will eat your flesh, he knew exactly what he was talking about. Now, one of two things take place here. Either James is well educated, james understands electrons and the passing of electrons and cathodes and what happens when you lose electrons and how that ionizes something or we would say oxidizes. It oxidizes ionizes, it's close to the same thing. And how you can have gold oxide, gold rust and he knew exactly what that element would do. I don't know all the letters to it au something and something another that if you want the table of elements, numbers, you could find it. But he knew that gold oxide would eat your flesh. It was a skin corrosive. So he might have been very educated and known that. Now, I think if you talk to the modern scholars they would say why, this wasn't known until 1948 when Drumba over at Harvard University discovered this with government grant, got the Nobel Prize. That's probably what they would say. But I wonder if even ancient men, shall we say, didn't know basic chemistry and physics better than we know it 2000 years ago that they knew electrons, they knew all this kind of stuff. That would not surprise me. And so then you would say James is just writing here out of a very knowledgeable chemistry, physics, understanding. It's a possibility. Now, the other possibility, if you just want to insist, there is no way that James could have known about gold oxide or that it would eat your flesh. If he just didn't know about it, then that's just a sign that this is a Godbreezed book. God, the creator obviously would know about this and. So he would bring it in. And maybe one of these occasions in which James, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, is writing words that he doesn't fully understand, and yet he's going with it. I don't know which way to go. I could go either way on this, that either James knew it as an educated man and that would then say that advanced scientific knowledge was pretty mainstream among ancient Jews or the GrecoRoman world. I have a hunch that might be true, or God has always known. And so God was very knowledgeable, and so he put these words that were, again, precise scientific words that have been proven accurate later and comes through that either way. I think it's a fascinating thing. By the way, if you think it's a fascinating thing, join us for our Saturday morning session of the Towers Prophecy Conference, in which we're going to talk about some of these things and electricity in the way that it works. Now, with that, it comes together. It says you did this. And here at the end of verse three, you have heaped treasure together for the last days. You have heaped treasure for the last days. Let's take for a moment the inspiration view of verse three rather than the education view. Let's say James didn't know what he was talking about, but he's scientifically correct because it's inspired. And then he says, you've heated this together for the last days. And then you think, okay, it is difficult. I doubt that a high school chemistry class could come up with the thing that would make gold oxide. You got to have the right chemical composition in order to or chemical products to electrons. Electrolysis. There's the word I'm trying. You got to have just the right electrolysis to make gold turn into rust. Could it be that something will happen in the last days that will literally cause gold to rust? And that James is talking here really in a prophetic way, that those who trust in gold, guess what they're going to find in the last days. They're going to find something that causes gold to rust and that God will actually do that physically, that in the last days gold will rust. I wouldn't mind if I were writing today a book about the last days. I might even put a chapter about the days in which gold is going to rust. And I would put it literally, gold is going to rust. Not that gold won't be worth anything, but literally gold is going to rust. And the scientists might say, no, there is no way you could get gold on a massive scale to rust. But I just don't know about this. I don't think nuclear warfare and a lot of radiation brings about much gold rust, so I doubt it's a nuclear warfare. But when I read in the book of Zechariah, for example, and their flesh falls off of them and their sockets dry out their eyes dry out right in the sockets. And some of these things, well, whatever forces are going on. And I read the Book of Revelation and I see the stars falling out of the heavens and everything else rusting. Gold wouldn't be too much of a surprise and that the Lord might do that in a very, shall we say, natural manner that a chemist could tell us, yeah, this is what would happen if you did this and this and this. You had this kind of environment. Well, guess what? Gold oxide, gold would rust and you would have gold oxide and that would eat your flesh. What if and I don't know how far I would want to go with this, but what if that skin flesh drying up in the days of Zachariahs, as mentioned, in the days of the great and terrible day of the Lord, what if that's the people who are hoarding to their bars of gold and it just corrodes their skin right there? What if it's not scientifically outside of the realm of imagination, but if you just want to take it a little more spiritual than all that, then, hey, you trust in gold. You can't trust in gold. This is going to eat you up. And here you have heaped treasure together for yourselves in the last days. The last days. Imagine that. You can tell that the end is near. Either you're going to die or judgment day is going to come. I mean, you can tell it's right out there. How many would schedule an appointment with their banker to go and negotiate a better CD. No, it doesn't matter at that point. Leave all that. So here's this real condemnation against them that you guys are meeting with the banker, trying to get a better rate in the last days. Haven't you got something better to do? You're not going to be around to see it. And so here's the teaching or the discussion that goes along with that. I find verse three rather fascinating, really, as shall we say, testimony to the validity of Scripture and the accuracy of Scripture. Now let's go on to verse, verse four. As he says, behold the higher of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, the higher the wages cry out because it's fraud. You didn't pay them. They reaped down your fields. They went and did the work, you never paid them. And that cries out even before I finish the verse. Obviously, we got crooks here. We got people who the world is falling apart and they are capitalizing on it in the worst kind of way and trying to bring about here's the laborer who is far worse than they are and they just hire, never pay them. And the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sevayath. Okay, I think it's a pretty clear issue here on the rich men in the last days, and the Lord is about to come and give judgment, and you are willing to have all these laborers out there testify against you. I think I can say it this way, this is a special kind of stupid. What in the world are you thinking? And so Mourn and Howl, you rich man. So he speaks to them again, so bluntly. You think he's been blunt so far? Wait till we get to verses five and six. But here he is, and he uses this interesting term, the Lord of Sabayoth. Lord of Sabaoth. Now, I want you to know that is not Lord of Sabbath. Sabbath is the 7th day of the week, the day of Jewish worship and devotion. This is a Hebrew word sabayoth. This is a word, the Hebrew word is Sabe. It is transliterated into Greek as Sabayoth, and then it is transliterated into English as Sabeov. So it just stays Hebrew. We just put it in Greek letters and then we put it in English letters rather than Hebrew letters. And this is the only time that a New Testament writer uses this name here, the Lord of Sabaith. Now, there's one possible exception. Paul writes the words Lord of Sabeyat in Romans chapter nine, verse ten, I believe it is Nine, verse 29, Romans 929. Paul says Lord of Sabaoth, but he is quoting from Isaiah, chapter one, verse nine. It's a quote, and to get it into Greek, he brings it as Lord of Sabaoth. But Sabaos, you say. What does this mean? Well, if you were to look it up, for example, in Romans one nine, where Paul quotes in Romans 929, it would be the Lord of hosts. The Lord of Hosts. Now, the Lord of hosts is the Lord of the armies. So this is a bad thing when the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the guy who's in charge of all the armies, the armies from heaven that are going to come, and the armies from heaven that are going to judge. And this becomes a difficult, a rough, challenging time. Now we know, okay, now, Lord of Sabayov means lord of the armies, lord of hosts. With that, why didn't he say something in Greek like Lord of the army, something along that line? Well, I think because he is a Jew and because he is writing to Jews. Now, if he was Greek writing to Greeks or Gentile writing to Gentiles, he wouldn't use that term because again, it's local speak, you and I, Gentiles, look at it and say, I don't even know what it means. What's up with that? Lord of Sabayoth? So it's just more testimony that he really was writing to the twelve tribes of Israel, just like he said he was writing to the twelve tribes of Israel, lord of Sabayov. I think it's Mighty Fortresses, our god. That old great hymn, Mighty Fortresses, Our God, and it talks about one, let's see fortresses our god a board never failing our helper he emits the flood of evil evil worlds prevailing ask who that may be it talks about Satan and then talks about the one who's going to have victory over Satan and then it says Duff, ask who that may be. Lord Sabayath is he no something lord Sabioff? Yeah, it's in there. It's in that song. I'm obviously not a good Lutheran, but that's a great hymn, by the way. Lord Sabaith his name from age to age the same I'll get it. That's about the only time we use it in a gentile world is speaking of the one who's coming to conquer the devil martin Luther. Got it right here. Lord Sabaha his name from age to age the same and he will win the battle so again it shows. This is a Hebrew writing to Hebrews, a very Jewish book that we have right here. Now into verse five, james five, verse five. It says here's this accusation you have lived in pleasure on the earth and been wanton. Lived in pleasure and been wanton I don't know. Madison, you're in a graduate of the John Derby academy. Would you like to step forward and define wanton for us? Oh, she was very good. She said, unable to be disciplined. Actually, she said it like this unable to be disciplined. Which, by the way, is a good I don't mind when the John Nelson Derby Academy students learn how to look something up. My wife who teaches third graders, she was telling me the other day, she says the kids have such maybe I shouldn't tell all these secrets. No, let's go ahead. She said, the kids have such a problem with these vocabulary things. It's a matching thing. This word matches up with that. They always get it wrong. And then she said, and the answer is right there. You just scroll up and you see the answer. It's exactly worded, exactly the same and they never get it. I said you should teach them control f. This is where you search the page for it and you find it okay, maybe better just to have memorized everything. But it's not a bad skill just to know how to search for it and find it. So a plus to our John Nelson Derby graduate unable to be disciplined. Wanton, by the way, juan is a prefix ton. It comes from tuan t. If you were to look this up, the etymology of it just because you're feeling very smart tonight, one, it mostly left the English language and turned into UN. And t is a word that don't I know that it came in any other form in the English language, but it is to be led or to be controlled or to be disciplined. So wanton is undisciplined. Unmanageable can't lead him. So here you all have lived in pleasure on the earth. Nobody told you what to do because you wouldn't even listen to them. You have nourished your hearts. How wonderful. You've nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter. Now, this is a little bit concealed, but I would say of all of the strong things he has said so far, this is the strongest. Yet don't give up hope because we got verse six. But here this as in a day of slaughter. He slaughters them because you lived in pleasure. You've been wanting, you nourished your hearts. It's this idea of boy, you took it, you just fattened your cells, you fat cats, as in a day of slaughter. Now, the key word right here is as. But if you were to look up, let's check young's Literal here and just see what youngs did with it. My guess is they did about the same. Let's see. You did live in luxury upon the earth and wanton. You did nourish your heart as in a day of slaughter. So there we have it there in the exact same way as in the King James over here. I would suspect, in fact, I would put money on it, that if you go to a modern version, we don't allow modern versions on biblify because it's actually the Bible. But if you go to a modern version that is based upon the critical text, you would find they leave out the word as. It is just you've nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter. Now that would basically be saying the same thing as up here. In verse, verse three, you heap treasures together for the last days. And in verse five, you nourish your heart in a day of slaughter. But the word as is important and it was taken out of the Alexandrian text, the critical text, the modern text, the word as was taken. Now, when you take it out, it again means the same thing as verse three, which is bad enough. I mean, verse three, that was bad. We said here, Judgment Day is tomorrow and the whole world is going to end and you're negotiating your six month interest rate. What an idiot. If I can use a Greek word there, idiots. So here it would be the same thing, nourish your heart in a day of slaughter. That doesn't make any sense. But when you put the word as there, what he says here is you guys are right there at the feeding trough in the feed yard and you are eating that stuff up like there is no tomorrow. You're getting fat, fat, fat, fat, fat. And you're so proud of yourself. And the owner of the feed yard is saying, yeah, they're almost fat enough to slaughter. And his readers knew what they were saying, what James was saying again, you are preparing yourself for the slow. You're just getting fat so they can kill you and put you on the table. You're invited to lunch, at lunch. So very strong words that come about on this. And then we come to the strongest words, verse six. You have condemned and killed the just and he does not resist you. Now if you're not careful here, you will take what I think here is the greatest condemnation of the whole passage one through six. This just builds. It gets stronger and stronger and stronger. I know sometimes when I'm preaching I just get going and it just gets sharper and sharper and sharper and sometimes it just gets worse and worse and worse. But you get on a roll. You get me talking about abortion or something like that and it'll get sharp before it's over with. It happens every time. But here James gets the Pulitzer Prize for honing in with the sword that he is using to stab them right in the heart. And so after he says, you bunch of fat heifers are eating up that grain so that they can slaughter you, so we can have roast beef out of you. If that's not bad enough, you have condemned and killed the just. Sadly, because evangelicals make this to be about rich people in general, they miss the most important part of this verse. Again, I think if we had the weekend of listening to all the people, all the evangelicals preach on this passage, we would find that they get it. They miss it. Excuse me, this direct condemnation, they miss the meaning of it. I am convinced that what James is saying is you have condemned and killed Messiah. You rich Jews killed our messiah. He uses the singular right here, the just, not just that, hey, you don't care anything about the laborers. You just go out and you just kill them. Good people, righteous people, you kill them. The just. If we let scripture interpret scripture, we're going to come up with the fact that the just singular is Messiah. And I don't know, there's probably eight or ten places in which we would find the term used. And what we would find is that unless it's very obvious in the context and it would be so obvious it would jump off the page, all of the ones that are kind of left hanging right here, who are we talking about? All of those are about the Messiah. So the just, the Bible enthrepius that it absolutely could not be any other one other than Messiah. That they do this in the James passage. They don't do this. I think it should be capitalized. They don't because King James is put your big boy pants on kind of Bible that says we're going to leave this one to you. We're not just going to tell you that's who it is. We're going to leave this to you. So let's look at another passage in the book of Acts. Let's look at Acts, chapter 22, verse 14. Here it says, he said, the God of our fathers hath chosen thee that thou shouldst know his will and see that just one and should have hear the voice of his mouth speaking to Paul again, god chose you to see that just one. It's the same English, the just. Excuse me, the same Greek underlying it, the just. It's a reference again to the Messiah. Not convinced yet. Let's go to Romans, chapter three, verse 26. And here it says to declare, I say at this time his righteousness that he might be just and the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus that he might be just or the just, did all this, gave himself on the cross in order to be the just one. Let's look at another one where it's translated just a little different. And this is one. John, chapter two, verse one. My little children, these things are right into you that you sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. Guess what? Exactly. Same Greek terminology here. It's translated righteous, but there is no doubt whatsoever who we're talking about. We're talking about Jesus Christ. The just. Jesus Christ the righteous. So when we get back into James five, six, you have condemned and killed the just. You put Messiah to death. Here you go about, oh yeah, we're looking for our Messiah, I can't wait for him to arrive. James said, look, you fat, heifers eating at the trough right there. Hire people and then you never pay them. Your gold is going to turn to rust and it is going to rot your flesh. You killed our Messiah. I don't think they were too happy with him at this point. He is calling the nation to repentance, just as Peter did in Acts chapter three. So you killed the just. And then he says, and he does not resist you. He does not resist you. Now you can take that either in the past tense if you want to. Like Isaiah 53, verse seven jesus was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and yet he opened it not his mouth as a sheep led to the slaughter does not open his mouth. In that case, you would be saying he did not resist you. The Greek might allow for that. I think this is a better way to put it. He does not resist you. Like right now, you killed him and he doesn't resist you. That is, the owner of the feed yard hadn't come for his slaughter yet. He's given you some time. He does not resist you right now. He has, thanks to Stephen's prayer. I think he's allowing you a little more time. You got a little more time, rich man, time to get with it. And so he does not resist you right now. But that's verse six. What happens when we go down? Just a few verses and we get to verse eight be also patient, establish your heart for the coming of the Lord. draweth nigh. We'll look at that next week. But here it is. Hey, he does not resist you right now but guess what, he's about to. The Lord is coming. The coming of the Lord draws nigh. You better get ready, you're not going to survive. The world physically is going to change in such a way that that gold that you hang on to, it's going to turn to gold oxide and rust you that feeding trough that you think, boy, man, I have gone to hog heaven. You're going to find out it's a feedlot. You're about to go and the guys you hired and they brought in all your crops, you got rich off them but you never paid them. They're crying out to lord of Sabaoth, the Lord of the warriors and he hears them and think all that's bad, you killed our Messiah. You got a little bit of time to repent but not much. Wouldn't you agree with me? That is just about the strongest message that you could ever see. What's going on there? And I think that the sad part is that evangelicals miss it over and over again. If we had that torture of having to listen to all those evangelical sermons, we would just find that they preach and teach James chapter five, verses one through six and they never make it eschatological in times. They never get down to the detail. Why? Because though their statement of faith says they take the word of God literally and they let scripture interpret scripture, they don't. They take it for some cute application purposes and to establish their own agenda and it's evangelical garbage. Okay. Now with that, that concludes our message for tonight. I would love to say some hellos to you here tonight and see who's with us. If you haven't given a chat yet, go ahead and do it. And while I wait for just a moment before I do that, let me say to you that tomorrow we have asthathellusian 10:00 A.m. Mountain time. Would love for you to join us. Sunday morning we have our hermeneutics class at 09:45 A.m. And then the first sermon of the Life and Times of Abraham. Join us for that if you can. We would love for you to do so. 10:45 a.m. The life and times of Abraham. I look forward to seeing you for that. Now let me give a few greetings, see who's here around the great big electronic table here tonight. We've got Scott, good to see you, glad you are here. Down in the hill country of Texas. We've got Vulcan, Alberta, Canada. Neil, always good to see you on these Thursday nights. The dinners with us, pittsdon, Pennsylvania, doctor Mike and Lorna, thanks for being here. And we got Everett in Sholo, Arizona, I always appreciate you, thanks for being here. There's Debbie and Darryl in Crystal Springs, Mississippi. Thank you very much. We've got Roger, Maryland up in Wabasha, Minnesota, thank you for being here. Our friend Pastor Jeff in Trinidad, Colorado. Glad you're here with us as well. And let's see, we've got Jerry down in southwest Georgia. Thanks for being here. Is it cooling off in southwest Georgia? And those of you who are down in the Southeast yet, it's cooling off here. Even Madison said today, boy, it's kind of chill in the air overnight and it's nice fall weather, but when you're coming next week for the Towers Prophecy Conference, bring a little jacket with you. Especially. We got a family coming from San Diego. Okay. Buy a sweatshirt when you get here. Poco, West Virginia. Rich and Jody, good to see you. Jody's mom had a little accident and broke some bones, and so they're caring for her. We pray for you as you do. That Shirley in Ridge Crest, California. Thanks for always being here with us. And let's see, we've got Cypress, Texas. Bill, good to see you. Thanks again for being with us. And then we have rosemary from Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean. Glad to have you. Trinidad and Tobago, just north of South America, a couple of islands out there. What are they most famous for? Turn to Dead and tobogga pirates. And Rosemary, the Taboggan team in the Olympics and the flag bearer. All sorts of things they're famous for. Thanks for being here. Glad you joined us. Can we come visit you sometime? That's what we'd like to know. Eric in Ohio. Glad to see you. Speaking of Ohio, I'm going to be in Iowa. Going to be in Iowa. October 7, eight, nine, I think it is. I know the Sunday is the 9th, so I suppose the 7th, 8th, 9th. Joel Sink from South Dakota and I is going to give a right division conference. We got several of our people going to meet us there, and maybe if you're anywhere in the Iowa area, come join us. But it's Eric in Ohio, which reminded me of Iowa. Feel and dream. I'm glad you're here. From Lexington, Kentucky. Thank you. And Jim in Piedmont, South Carolina. God bless you. Roger and Carol out in Fresno, California, thanks for being here. Sharon and Russ, they're coming to Iowa to see us. And Sharon and Russ, good to see you. In Ellendale, Minnesota. Linda out there in Lexington also. I hope you're having a great evening. Good to see you. Steven out in Winston Salem, North Carolina. Thank you for your faithfulness. Here scarlett in Illinois. I'm glad you're here. Thank you, Scarlett. Welcome back. And oh, we got western Pennsylvania. The laser falcon. Thanks for being here. We appreciate you. In Pennsylvania. We need Pennsylvania to vote, right? The nation is depending on it. Lisa and Darryl in Moundridge, Kentucky. Thanks for being here. Edith, good to see you. And the warming Ozarks, I guess you don't have a cool chill in the air tonight. Edith up in Missouri. Thanks for being here. And we got Chuck out in Weatherford, Oklahoma. God bless you. We've got forney texas here tonight with the giles family. Thank you. We got scott, good to see you. Saying bibliphy looks like another software doctor white uses. It does, doesn't it? How does that work? You can start the test, start working on it. Bibliphy. Worshippi.com biblify. Worstify.com anybody can use it. It's free. You can set up a free account if you want. Some features coming, like notetaking and all that. You can put in notes now, but we're going to improve a lot of that and several things. I think it'll really one of these days, it'll be the best free bible software that there is out there. In fact, one of these days, we plan to put our dispensational publishing books available to you on it. Those might not all be free because we owe something to the authors, but make those available and all that kind of stuff and have good stuff there's. Worship.com keith, the hall family from auburn, kentucky. Good to see you. And gerard in the kingdom of the netherlands tonight. Thank you for being here. We've got galaxy t 945 t 495. I'll get it. Nothing possible without randy. Well, I appreciate the thought, but it's not true. Scott, scott. Scott. Georgiana in jefferson, texas. Beautiful little town there in east texas. Could the gold and silver be radioactive in the last days? Yeah, maybe so. I ran out of time. I started to look up all of that. It's just one step beyond my knowledge of electrons, radioactivity and all that kind of stuff, but I think something like that in the gold and silver, that it will actually corrode your skin as gold oxide will already do. Cool. Yeah. I would take that again to be very physical. Is it radioactivity or is it something different? I suspect if we were able to get a world class chemist and have him analyze that verse and what would cause the mass oxidation of gold and silver so that it would be flesh eating. I suspect that somebody who really knew chemistry could explain that and bring that to bear. And hey, if there's any world class chemists out there, tell them I'd like them to write a little booklet on it and I will publish it@dispensationalpublishing.com. What causes the mass oxidation of gold and silver, turns it into gold oxide or silver oxide? I didn't look up what silver oxide does and silver rust, how that comes about or what that does to you. But it's probably like gold. I'm not sure. Completely curtain. Brenda, they're going to see us in iowa. Also Wasaw wisconsin. Glad you're here tonight. Even live with us. Herb and sherry, good to see you. And back in lafayette with some great weather, working out on the farm. Very good. Glad herb is doing so well tonight. Science class at tows theological seminary. I like that, scott. Thanks. Let's see. Jerry down in georgia, he says in the jewelry business, we called it tarnish when referring to precious. Metals that tarnish is the oxidation of gold and silver. Again, gold doesn't tarnish as easily as silver does. But gold will tarnish. I saw some pictures of it today. I know gold will tarnish. I saw it on the Internet. Let's see here. Lorna, I have a Pet scan in the morning. Oh, no, I had I'll get my verbs right. I had a Pet scan this morning praying for a clean report. We'll be praying for that, too, as you've dealt with this for such a long time. Nancy, good to see you here. Packing for the Tau's trip. I'm glad. Hey, Nancy, I've been meaning to text you. When are you coming? I can't remember. Text me and tell me when you'll be here. They're coming down for work week and road trip. They're doing them both. And the retreat. The haplus is good to see you in Lilywalp, by the way, if you missed it, Thomas and Jamie go back to this morning Ask the Theologian. Had one of your questions there. Bev and John, good to see you up in Roberts, Wisconsin. Thanks for your presence here and I appreciate all of that. Chuck, that's a nice comment. Thanks for the wonderful study. I could have never pulled all that out of the text, but I believe you did it right. I appreciate that. Even a few weeks ago, I don't think I could have pulled it out of the text either, especially the gold and silver part because I had not studied electrons and oxidation and reduction and all the things that take place on an electrochemical level. I guess you would say that. But I've been studying up for the town property conferences, so the timing was very good to come into all of that and take a look at that. Okay, thank you all for being here. I appreciate it. I love Thursday nights. They're just always a wonderful time of fellowship and goodness around the great big electronic table here. And let me lead us in that word of prayer here, by the way, not here with us tonight or this morning in Australia, but Vina had some surgery, been in the hospital, is recovering. So, Vina, if you catch this on the archives, we love you, been praying for you. And let's bow now for a word of prayer. Heavenly Father, thank you for the good people who come to join us in Bible study. So many live, so many chat and so many others who we don't see their chats all the time, and yet we know that they are here and we hear from them from time to time. And I pray a great encouragement, I pray that you would help each one of us to really be persnickety about the way we read the word of God and to dig in deep and to take those words literally and just to contemplate, how can this be literally? How can we take it literal? And we learn so much from that. And I just pray that you would encourage and bless us as we go from here. Keep us safe. We pray for vena, we pray for lorna, getting a good report, and many others. Dear Heavenly Father, pray for those traveling as they come here to towels, pray for the preparations that I will be giving for that conference, and pray for your goodness and blessing on us as it always is. We ask this in Jesus name. Amen. God bless each one of you. Thanks for being here. Thanks to Nathan on the controls and for each one of you listening. And we shall see you tomorrow. And then don't forget Sunday, the life and times of Abraham brand new. Look forward to that. Until then. Until tomorrow. God bless you. Thanks every now and then when you click the donate button too, we appreciate that. We'll see you soon.