4:9,10
James is urging them to take things seriously. “Grieve, mourn and wail.” Their attitude and actions were very wrong and they needed to do something about it. They were acting in an arrogant or selfish way. Instead they should be humbling themselves before God, “and He will lift you up”. So again we see a combination of seriousness and mercy. It is imperative that we take sin seriously, but if we do we will receive much mercy from God.
4:11
People were slandering each other. In this social media day there is also a lot of slandering going on, a lot of taking against people. If we do this then we are putting ourself above the Law, we making ourself the judge. So instead of keeping the Law we are “sitting in judgement on it”. We are putting ourself in the position of judge. We should be those who keep judge, not those who are judges.
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