Ill-Gotten Gain (Part 2 of 4)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 15 September 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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You’ve likely heard the saying “Save for a rainy day.” It refers to tucking some money away for an unforeseen need. Careful planning isn’t the same as wrongful hoarding, though. Learn how to distinguish between them on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | We've all heard people talk about saving for a rainy day. |
| 0:29.9 | Today, on Truth for Life, we learn how to distinguish between the two. |
| 0:46.9 | Well, we return in our studies in James to these opening verses of chapter 5, where James |
| 1:07.6 | issues what is nothing less than a stinging condemnation upon ill-gotten gain. In issuing such |
| 1:17.9 | a condemnation, he also issues a warning and a clear warning to Annie and all who are tempted |
| 1:26.0 | in the realm of the misuse of money and wealth. Now, when we come to this stinging condemnation |
| 1:35.6 | as we've put it, we will go immediately wrong if we fail to recognize that James is not issuing |
| 1:42.8 | a blanket condemnation of the wealthy. But it doesn't stop people from doing it, taking the first |
| 1:48.4 | six verses of James chapter 5 as some great sort of sociopolitical template that they can press down |
| 1:54.9 | on all of us. Now, we must allow the Bible to be the Bible and not impregnate it with our own |
| 2:01.2 | political and economic theories. James knows his Bible well enough to understand that when Solomon |
| 2:09.1 | wrote Proverbs 10, 22, he was very, very clear. The blessing of the Lord brings wealth, and he adds |
| 2:16.2 | no trouble to it. Solomon understands Deuteronomy, where Moses says, who gave you the ability to get |
| 2:22.1 | money? Who gave you the ability to get wealth? Obviously, God did. And when God gives in this way, |
| 2:28.7 | he doesn't add trouble to it. We, because of our perverse human nature, add trouble to ourselves. |
| 2:35.2 | But God in the giving of good things, in the giving of wealth and prosperity, does not bring it mixed |
| 2:41.5 | in with a little trouble. James understood the Bible. And indeed, I'm sure that's why he quotes Job |
| 2:48.1 | in verse 11 of chapter 5 here. You have heard of Job's perseverance and have seen what the Lord |
| 2:54.2 | finally brought about. We discover that God gave him back many times over what he had taken from |
| 3:00.1 | him in the first instance. So he ends up an exceptionally wealthy individual. And James is not |
| 3:06.7 | about, on the one hand, to hold him up as an example of God's blessing and compassion, and then |
| 3:12.1 | the other hand, to take others who've known such blessing and compassion and rub their noses in |
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