Wisdom About Wealth: James 5:1-4
Welcome to Timeless Truth with Pastor Jim Thomas. In this episode, we continue our study with James 5:1-4.
“Nothing keeps the heart so detached from earthly comforts as considering the various ways they may be taken from us. This evinces our close dependence on God and the absolute dominion of providence.”
Thomas Manton, James
“For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.”
1 Timothy 6:10
“There is no sin in merely being rich; where sin exists among the rich, it arises from the manner in which wealth is acquired, the spirit which it tends to engender in the heart, and the way in which it is used.”
Albert Barnes
“There is no mark of God’s special favor in possessions, nor in the lack of them. The peculiar danger confronting the rich, however, lies in the false sense of security which wealth creates and in the temptation to trust in material resources and personal power when what is demanded by the Law and the gospel is a whole-hearted reliance upon God.”
William L. Lane, The Gospel of Mark
“We cannot love our neighbor while hoarding wealth gained by his suffering.”
John Stott
“Ecclesiastes is a satiric attack on an acquisitive, hedonistic, and materialistic society. It exposes the mad quest to find satisfaction in knowledge, wealth, pleasure, work, fame, and sex.”
Leland Ryken, Ecclesiastes
