Money Miseries

James 5:1-6

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you! 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days. 4 Indeed the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. 5 You have lived on the earth in pleasure and luxury; you have fattened your hearts as in a day of slaughter. 6 You have condemned, you have murdered the just; he does not resist you.

I.  The Misery of Idle Money “You have heaped up treasure in the last days.” 

1) It’s unused treasure.

2) There is unused talent. “Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire.” 

II. The Misery of Illegal Wealth “Indeed the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.”

1) The cry of the wages. “the wages of the laborers cry out.” 

2) The cries of the laborers. “The cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.”

III. The Misery of Indulgent Wealth. “You have lived on the earth in pleasure and luxury; you have fattened you hearts as in a day of slaughter.”

IV. The Ministry of Invested Wealth. “I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.” (Luke 16:9) 

There’s only one way to financial peace, and that’s to walk daily with the Prince of Peace, Christ Jesus!