4th Sunday after Epiphany Year B Sermon

G’day, in Chapter 1 we saw James giving circular reasoning to help the new Christians know that they need to seek and ask for God’s wisdom in His Word, about what works God considers important for them to show their faith is genuine. And naturally, God will give this wisdom generously to all who ask without finding fault. How by using this wisdom from God, you will receive the Crown of Life. Which led nicely into Chapter 2 where James gives two similar parallel scenarios highlighting simple ways they are not using God’s wisdom and therefore failing to do faith works that please God. And now in Chapter 3 James targets a specific group of Christians using ever increasing intensity in analogies to hammer home his point of another vitally important area where their ‘works’ are not up to scratch. And so they need to seek God’s wisdom.