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5 You have lived on the earth in pleasure and1 luxury; you have fattened your hearts3 as in a day of slaughter.  
6 You have condemned, you have murdered the just; he does not resist you.

Be Patient and Persevering

7 Therefore be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently for it until it receives the early and latter rain.
8 You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord1 is at hand.  
9 Do not1 grumble against one another, brethren, lest you be2 condemned. Behold, the Judge is standing at the door!  
10 aMy brethren, take the prophets, who spoke in the name of the Lord, as an example of suffering and bpatience.  
11 Indeed awe count them blessed who bendure. You have heard of cthe perseverance of Job and seen dthe end intended by the Lord—that ethe Lord is very compassionate and merciful.  
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No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for James 5:7.

James 5:7-11

So here we got have James 5, starting in verse 7. Notice this. Notice how many times he uses what I call a patience word.

Did you count them? James 5:7-11 contains seven occurrences of patience and its synonyms, whether it is endurance or perseverance or waiting. He is showing here just how important patience is to establishing our hearts for the return of Christ. It is not all going to happen in one go. We are not going to be ready, most likely, at the end of the first week after we are baptized. It just does not work that way. It takes a long time for the fruit of righteousness to be produced, and we have to be patient because it comes in shifts and stages, and you learn one thing, maybe how to be content. Oh, that would be great, wouldn't it? But then you have to learn all the other things. How many fruit of the Spirit are there? Let us go look.

Excerpted from Still Producing Fruit?

James 5:7-11

But you need to be patient. The Lord is coming, He is standing at the door. He is coming to judge this earth in righteousness, He is coming to reward His saints, but as I have been saying, we do not know when it is. It is soon, it might be sooner for some than others, because some of them will not be alive when He returns. So we have to be patient, and like the farmer, keep on working until the fruit comes in.

Excerpted from What Should We Do While Waiting for Christ's Return?

James 5:7-9

The second point of self-sacrificial servant leadership is to endure hardship and keep on keeping on, patiently without grumbling. God warns us in James 5 that the strain of our battle may drive us to discontent with God and with one another, if we do not keep focused on the goal and remember the Judge is at the door.

Excerpted from The Essence of Servant Leadership

 
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