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Paul Shirley
Thesis: You rich weep and howl over your certain condemnation. (v. 1)
I. Weep over your certain condemnation because you have hoarded wealth. (vv. 2-3)
a. Your hoarding is in vain. (vv. 2-3a)
b. Your hoarding will be judged. (v. 3b)
II. Weep over your certain condemnation because you have cheated your workers. (v. 4)
a. The pay you withheld, and the workers you cheated cry out against you. (v. 4a)
b. The outcry has been heard by the Lord of Hosts. (v. 4b)
III. Weep over your certain condemnation because you have lived a self-indulgent life. (v. 5)
a. Your lived a soft and self-centered life. (v. 5a)
b. You fattened yourself for destruction with your life. (v. 5b)
IV. Weep over you certain condemnation because you have oppressed the righteous. (v. 6)
a. You oppressed the righteous. (v .6 a)
b. The righteous did not even resist you. (v. 6b)
Conclusion:
Do not envy those who are consumed with their riches on this earth for their life has been wasted, and God will punish them for their rebellion.
Several times during the current sermon series on Living with Providence Pastor Chris has given his definition of God’s governing providence. Pastor Chris has been kind enough to provide his definition for this blog. Here is that definition:
God reigns over all things such that He governs every facet of nature and all the doings of His moral creatures so as to accomplish his eternal, foreordained purposes. Yet, in His governance, God never violates the moral responsibility of His creatures or their freedom to freely choose in concert with their will, nor does God do any violence to His own moral perfection by leaving Himself liable to the charge of responsibility for evil, either as its author of approver.
