James 5, here we go.

Let's work on the Epistle of James, chapter 5, with a few questions:

1. A person who cheats his workers of their pay, in v. 4, is committing sin, a grievous sin which cries out to heaven. What is the nature of that cry? For what does it ask?
2. Is keeping back a wage the sin of theft or lying?
3. Have you ever been cheated out of a paycheck?
4. Does slavery jive with James' admonition here in v. 4?
5. What would Blessed Sal of Goldenrod say is the answer to v. 4's injustice?
6. Did Jesus ever get cheated of wages?
7. Is there ever a cry out of heaven along the same lines that James describes in v. 4?
8. Were the prodigal son and his father ever in a wage dispute?
9. Anointing with oil, as a sacrament, has its roots in vv. 13-15. What kinds of anointing happened in the Old Testament?
10. Was Jesus ever anointed?

We must gaze steadily into the perfect Torah of freedom, if we desire wisdom. The Epistle of James is just a start.

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