The Test of Wealth: A Warning to Rich Men (James 5:1-6) [Audio]

LifePoint Baptist Church Pastor Jarrod Stotmeister lpforme.com Wednesday Night Sermon Title: The Test of Wealth Date: July 8, 2026 Passage: James 5:1-6 In this Wednesday Night Sermon, Pastor Jarrod Stotmeister preaches from James 5:1-6 on the testing of wealth. James gives a severe warning to those who trust in riches, oppress others, and live for earthly pleasure while ignoring the judgment of God. Believers are reminded that riches are fleeting, the Lord hears the cries of the wronged, and true treasure is found in Christ rather than in this world. James 5:1-6 1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. 3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. 4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. 5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. 6 Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.