This teaching goes through each one of these verses and also goes back to the book of Matthew a few times in which James is mentioning in this letter to the 12 tribes out there in the Gentile nations.
It is suggested that James was the one whom wrote this letter; the Lords brother. It is thought the letter was written in 49 AD, and a tradition suggest that James was martyred in I believe it was 62 AD. This lesson here is going through each verse above; to see what we can learn for us in our lives now today.
Drawing Close to God
4 What is causing the quarrels and fights among you? Don’t they come from the evil desires at war within you? 2 You want what you don’t have, so you scheme and kill to get it. You are jealous of what others have, but you can’t get it, so you fight and wage war to take it away from them. Yet you don’t have what you want because you don’t ask God for it. 3 And even when you ask, you don’t get it because your motives are all wrong—you want only what will give you pleasure.
4 You adulterers! Don’t you realize that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God? I say it again: If you want to be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God. 5 Do you think the Scriptures have no meaning? They say that God is passionate that the spirit he has placed within us should be faithful to him. 6 And he gives grace generously. As the Scriptures say,
“God opposes the proud
but gives grace to the humble.”
7 So humble yourselves before God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
