How to Do Just Fine Without Health Insurance, Legally

by Frederick Hoehn, copyright 2013, all rights reserved.

Chapter 1

Very much in the news these days is the fact that millions of Americans are losing their health care insurance because of the new law.  I've heard that more than five million have been victims so far, and that it could easily grow to more than fifty million.

There are many sad stories about people who have signed up for new plans to do what the old plans would do, but costing fifty or a hundred per cent more, and with much higher deductibles, so that out-of-pocket expenses will also be significantly higher.

Many are not able to keep their same doctors, or same hospitals, although they were promised that they could.

The fact is, we now have a health care crisis in our nation.

Some of the doctors are saying they don't want to be health care providers under the new rules.  Some of the hospitals don't want to be providers under the new rules.

I've heard that some hospitals are shutting down.

Some of the American business owners are saying this could put them out of business, because of the increased expense of the health care insurance for their employees.

As a Priest, and as a Senior Citizen, I've learned some things.  I will now show you How to Do Just Fine Without Health Insurance, Legally.

Someone might be quick to say, "But if the law requires me to buy health insurance, then how can I be without it?"

The law requiring everyone to have health insurance is illegal.  It is illegal because it is unconstitutional.  It is unconstitutional because it violates the Constitutional right of every American to Freedom of Religion, which is one of the Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

From Acts chapter 5,

26 Then the captain went with the officers, and brought them without violence, for they feared the people, so they wouldn't be stoned.

27 And when they had brought them, they set them before the council, and the high priest asked them,

28 "Didn't we strictly command you not to teach in this name?  And see, you've filled Jerusalem with your teachings, and intend to make us guilty of this man's blood."

29 Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, "We ought to obey God rather than men."

Peter and the other apostles had been teaching in the name of Jesus.  But the authorities had told them not to do so.

The authorities were saying that Peter and the Apostles should not have disobeyed.

Peter answered, "We ought to obey God rather than men."

I'm with Peter on that, are you?

Some might point out that the U.S. Supreme Court has found Obamacare to be Constitutional.

The Supreme Court failed to look at all the evidence.  They overlooked, or underestimated the importance of what God has said in his book, the Bible.

They overlooked the fact that a significant sector of American Christians are trusting God to provide their healing, and that Obamacare therefore violates the Constitutional rights of those people by requiring that they purchase health care insurance contrary to their religious beliefs.

Some employers are being required to pay for birth control medications and abortions for their employees, contrary to the employers' religious beliefs.

Some single men are being required to have maternity coverage.  But men, you see, don't ever get pregnant, as most people are already aware.

It is a very serious mistake that the Supreme Court would provoke God in this manner.  What do they think, that God can't do anything to them?

Provoking God to anger will sooner or later bring punishment against those who do so.

This action the Supreme Court has taken against God's people, the Christians, will bring action from God against those responsible.

And God will punish the originators of the so-called "Affordable Health Care Act," (Obamacare).

I choose to be on God's side even if it means the Supreme Court is on the other side.  The Supreme Court can't send me to hell, but God can. (Matt 10:28)

Of course, it would not be appropriate to invoke your right to Freedom of Religion regarding this health care issue if you say that you're an Atheist.  How can you say, "God will heal me," if you're saying there is no God?

But if you've been an Atheist, now would be a good time to reconsider.  Whatever your reasoning process was, you came to the wrong conclusion to say there's no God.

God created us just like it says in the book of Genesis.  Judgment Day is coming.  If your name is not found in the Lamb's Book of Life in heaven, you'll spend the rest of eternity in a fiery hell.  Hell is forever.

My Dad was an Atheist, and then he died and went to hell.  My Mother was a Christian, and then she died and went to be with Jesus in heaven.

There is the possibility that you'll face a challenge from the authorities if you choose to be a Christian and to get your healings from God.  But there's a higher authority than the earthly authorities, and that is God the Father and his Son, Jesus.

I've put myself on the winning side by choosing God.  My God will laugh at his enemies and mine that are behind this evil health care law, and will put them to shame and disgrace.

The most important medical book ever written is a book people don't normally think of as a medical book.  The most important medical book ever written is the Holy Bible.

Yes, the Bible is a book of history.  Yes, the Bible is a book of Theology.  Yes, the Bible tells people how to avoid hell and go to heaven.

But the Bible also tells us about free healing for our bodies.  You don't have to be rich.  You don't have to be a college graduate.  You don't have to be a genius.

Here is what God said in Exodus 15:26, "I am the Lord that heals you."

In Psalm 103:3, "Who forgives all your sins, who heals all your diseases."

It says the Lord heals you.  It says the Lord heals all your diseases.  Now who is this "you," and who is this "your" that God is speaking about here in these scriptures?

That "you," and that "your," is the whosoevers.

Which whosoevers?  The whosoevers in Matthew 7:24, which says, "Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock..." (King James Version)

And it goes on to say that those who've built their houses on a rock by hearing and doing what Jesus has said will survive the storms of life.  But the others, having built their houses on the sand, will crash.

Now who is it that's using the "whosoever" word there?  Jesus spoke those words, and Jesus doesn't lie.

I'm saying you can do just fine without health insurance, but not, however, if you try to leave Jesus out of it.

If, for some reason, you're violently opposed to Jesus, then I don't have a solution for you.

There is no good reason to be violently opposed to Jesus, but if you feel that way, then it appears that you need to have one or more demons cast out of you.

Demons are fallen angels that rebelled against God when Satan did.

But you could still choose to accept Jesus and become a Christian, and then, as a Christian you would have authority to cast out demons. (Luke 10:19, Mark 16:17,18)

It's best, however, for Christians who want to cast out demons to have the Baptism with the Holy Ghost with the speaking in unknown tongues.  You'll be better equipped. (Acts 1:8)

You get it from Jesus.  First, be a born again Christian, then ask Jesus for the Baptism with the Holy Ghost.  When you pray, believe that you receive the things you ask for, and you'll have them. (Mark 11:24)

You'll know that you've received the Baptism with the Holy Ghost when you speak in a language you never learned, and that you don't understand.  Once you start praying in unknown tongues, continue to do so every day.

Please see my book, "What the Bible teaches about Grumbling, Divine Healing, Prayer, The Baptism with the Holy Ghost."

Please see my book, "It's God's Will that we Cast Out Demons."

But there is a kind of demon that doesn't go out except by prayer and fasting, Jesus said.

My Dad was opposed to Jesus.  And why was Dad opposed to Jesus?  Because when Jesus came to earth, he came into a Jewish family.

Dad was against the Jews because he had previously worked for an employer who was a Jew, and the man hadn't treated Dad very well.

But I've had bosses that weren't very good who were gentiles.

There are good and bad Jews, and there are good and bad gentiles.  It is wrong to reject a people just because you've found one of them that was bad.

My Dad was wrong to refer to Jesus as a Jew.  Is God a Jew?  There were no Jews until Abraham.

God the Father and his Son, Jesus, existed long before Abraham.  God is not a Jew, and his Son, Jesus, is not a Jew.

But because of God's covenant with Abraham, the Hebrew, when earth's Savior, Jesus, was sent down to earth from God in heaven, Jesus came into a Jewish genealogy as a descendant of Abraham and of King David.

Chapter 2

I've quoted above two healing verses from the Old Testament, with its thirty nine books.

Here is more about healing from the New Testament, with its twenty seven books:

"Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us, for it is written, cursed is everyone that hangs on a tree." (Gal 3:13)  The cross that Jesus was nailed to was made from one or more trees.

Sickness and disease are the results of the curse of the law, as can be seen in Deuteronomy chapter 28.

Jesus gets us out from under the curse of the law.

"For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death." (Rom 8:2)

"By whose stripes you were healed." (1 Pet 2:24)  When Jesus hung on the cross, he bled and died for our sins.  But his stripes from the whips of the Roman soldiers paid for our healing.

"Himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses." (Matt 8:17)  Since Jesus took them and carried them, there's no need for us to do so.

Beside the various scriptures that promise healing for God's people, look at the many examples of Jesus healing people in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, the first four books in the New Testament part of the Bible, including the woman with the issue of blood.

Her body just kept on bleeding.  But she said in her heart, "If I can just touch the border of his garment, I'll be healed."

So she pushed through the crowd and touched Jesus clothes and got healed.

Jesus told her that it was her faith that healed her.

"Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." (Rom 10:17)

Your Pentecostal, full-gospel, Charismatic churches believe in divine healing, such as the Foursquare denomination, and the Assemblies of God.  Rhema Bible Training Center (Near Tulsa) teaches divine healing, and New Life Bible College, Cleveland, TN.

The word Charismatic, in its religious sense, means having the glossolalia, the speaking in unknown tongues, as in Acts chapt 2, chapt 10, chapt 19.

Teachers like Kenneth E. Hagin, Kenneth W. Hagin, Charles Capps, Lester Sumrall, Norvel Hayes, Smith Wigglesworth, Frederick Hoehn teach divine healing.

K.E. Hagin wrote nearly a hundred books, most of which were best sellers.  His books are available at www.Rhema.org

Norvel Hayes is at www.nhm.cc  Charles Capps is at www.CharlesCapps.com  Sumrall founded LESEA Broadcasting.  I think they have a website.  You can Google it.  My books are at www.Amazon.com

I think Smith Wigglesworth's publisher is Gospel Publishing House, Springfield, MO.  They didn't yet have the internet when Wigglesworth was preaching.  GPH is part of the Assembly of God denomination and they have a website.

Some of the books are available at Christian Book Stores.  Look for the "Charismatic" section in the Christian Book Store.

One of Lester Sumrall's best books is "Demons, the Answer Book."

I think the best Charles Capps book is, "God's Creative Power will Work for You."  Or, get his trilogy, three books in one.  They are the one just mentioned, and "God's Creative Power for Healing, and God's Creative Power for Finances."  Those are the books that I recommend from Charles Capps.

Someone might say, "But if healing is for Jews and Christians, why are so many Jews and Christians sick?"

One problem is that many Jews and many Christians don't know that healing belongs to them.  ("My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge." Hos 4:6)

But of those who suspect that they have a right to healing, many haven't been taught how to receive healing from God.  The churches have been somewhat negligent in this area.

I believe it also has something to do with the fact that the U.S.A. is, compared to much of the world, a rather prosperous nation.  As a prosperous nation, our citizens have been able to pay money for health care rather than having to rely on God for health care.

Now that there's a health care crisis, hopefully more Americans will learn to turn to God for their healings.  And the health care from God is free of charge.

Also, the health care that God provides is better quality than any earthly doctor can provide, just as the inventor of a complex machine is better qualified to repair it than some wanna be mechanic.

Kenneth E. Hagin was born with an incurable heart disease that would have killed him before he reached age twenty one.  Five doctors said he couldn't survive.

But Hagin learned to receive healing from God by using his faith.  Please see my book, "Kenneth E. Hagin, Prophet, Teacher, Healer."

If some doctor says your disease will kill you, answer like Norvel Hayes said, "But Doctor, you forgot about Jesus."

Personally, I don't expect to ever need to answer a doctor that way because I don't expect to go see a doctor.  My doctor is Dr. Jesus.

Hagin learned by studying the Bible, and with the help of God.

He got his miraculous healing by believing God's word, the Bible.  He got it by faith.

Then, the Lord told K.E. Hagin, "Now go teach my people faith."  So Hagin taught faith for probably seventy years, and cast out demons, and healed many people, and won many souls.

Dr. Norvel Hayes has gotten people healed in his ministry, and cast out demons.  Smith Wigglesworth has healed many, and cast out demons.  I've helped people get healed, and have cast out demons, and won souls for Jesus.

Just as the Lord called Kenneth E. Hagin to be a teacher, the Lord has also called me to be a Priest.

I said earlier that you can't leave Jesus out of it.  Also, you can't sort-of half include Jesus and half exclude him.

Jesus taught that you're either with him, or against him. (Mark 9:39,40)

Someone might say, "I'd like to have the free healing from God, but I'm not sure I really want to become a Christian."

But look at this--It's not just about health care.  Everyone is going to leave this life that they have on earth.  When your life is over, it's only your body that dies.  Then you, the person who has been living in that house that is your body, will either go up to heaven, or down to hell.

You go to heaven if you're a Christian, otherwise you go to hell, says Jesus.

More important than your health is your soul.  Jesus said, "What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his soul, or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" (Matt 16:26)

Losing your soul means going to hell forever, where their worms don't die, and where the fire is never quenched; where there's crying and gnasing of teeth, says Jesus.

People gnash their teeth out of anger.

Not Bill Gates, or any other of the richest people in the world can buy their way into heaven.

Jesus said, "You must be born again." (John chapt 3)

So how does a person get born again?  You hear (or, read) the gospel message that we are all sinners (Rom 3:23) and that the wages of sin is death, but that the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Rom 6:23)

And then, you apply Romans 10:9,10,  "That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you're saved.  For with the heart man believes for righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made for salvation."

You confess with your mouth that Jesus is now your Lord, and you believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, as the scriptures say in the early books of the New Testament.

Just pray a simple prayer, asking Jesus to forgive your sins and to be your Savior.  He won't turn you down, for it is written, "Him that comes to me I will no way throw out." (John 6:37)

To get a healing from the Lord, quote aloud the scriptures in the Bible on the subject of healing on a regular basis.  I've included only a few of them here.  There are more in my book, "A Collection of Promises from God for his People."

Ask God for the healing you need, and believe that you receive, according to Mark 11:24.

Follow the teaching of Norvel Hayes who said, "Whatever your problem is, that's your mountain, command it to go!" (based on Mark 11:23, where Jesus said you can command the mountain to go, and it will go, if you believe that what you say will happen, and you don't doubt in your heart.)

But something that will hold you back is if you engage in talking wrong.  If you're believing God for something that you've asked him for, don't talk unbelief.

I heard of a young woman who asked God for something, and then after the prayer, she said, "Well, I'm probably not going to get it."  That's right, she's not going to get it, because she canceled her prayer by saying she's probably not going to get it.

Pray this prayer that David prayed, "Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips." (Psa 141:3)

But here is something to remember about healings.  Many of the diseases that people come down with are demonic in nature, especially many of the cancers.

The other day on C-SPAN, they were interviewing a successful businessman who had difficulty reading because of dyslexia.  Dyslexia is caused by a demon that needs to be cast out by a Christian.

So, if the disease in question is caused by a demon, then cast out the demon. (Luke 10:19, Mark 16:17,18)

Someone might say, "But how do I know whether the disease is caused by a demon?"

You don't have to know for sure.  Open your mouth and say out loud, "All evil spirits connected with this disease, I command you to go and not return, in Jesus' name."  Expect what you say to happen, based on Luke 10:19 and Mark 16:17,18.  (Put your faith with your words.)

But Jesus said that some demons don't go out except by prayer and fasting.

Lester Sumrall did a famous casting out of demons in the Philippines.  The Lord sent him to do that.  He first fasted for twenty four hours, eating nothing, and no doubt did some extra praying.

Then he went and cast the demons out of a woman.  This is in the chapter, "Bitten by Demons," in his book, "Demons, the Answer Book."  The woman had fang marks in her arm from being bitten by a demon.  The marks could not have been left by human teeth.

One of the world's foremost experts on divine healing was Kenneth E. Hagin.  If you need healing from God, I recommend his books.  And I recommend Norvel Hayes and Charles Capps and Frederick Hoehn.

Kenneth E. Hagin healed a woman of lung cancer by first casting out the demon causing the lung cancer after the Lord opened Hagin's eyes to see into the spirit world.  He saw the demon and cast it out.

But after you receive a healing from God, the Devil is likely to counter attack.  What you have to do then is "Resist the devil and he will run from you." (James 4:7)  Command him to go in Jesus' name.  If he comes again, resist him again.

The Old Testament prophet Daniel was promoted to a high government office.  Daniel had some political enemies that, by legal maneuvering, got Daniel thrown into a den of lions. (Book of Daniel)

Lions, of course, are known to be ferocious wild animals with powerful bodies, and large teeth, that don't turn aside for fear from approaching animals, and not always from approaching humans.

The expectation of Daniel's enemies was that Daniel would not survive the experience, which would have been pleasing to Daniel's foes.

But God had a different idea.  God sent an angel to shut the mouths of the lions, and Daniel felt no harm.

Next morning, the King brought up Daniel from the lion's den, and sent down Daniel's enemies instead, who were destroyed before they even hit the ground.

This experience of Daniel confirms the scripture, "If God is for us, who can be against us?" (Rom 8:31)

But if a Christian did happen to die for his beliefs, and some have, then what they have is early promotion to the wonderful place that is heaven.

I met a young man, a professing Christian, in Los Angeles, and tried to give him a little book from a good teacher.  He told me, no, he just gets it all from the Bible.  Well, of course, every Christian should study the Bible.

But in Ephesians 4:11, we are told that God gave us apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers.  If God thought it was important to put teachers into His church, then we would be wise to try to learn what we can from the best teachers.

After all the pain, inconvenience, and discomfort that Kenneth E. Hagin went through as he was learning how to get healing from God, there's no need for us to go through all of that ourselves, when we can get that knowledge from reading some of his books, or listening to his CD's.

Please see my other books on the subject of healing, demons, and Christianity.  At Amazon.com, on the home page, type Frederick Hoehn into the search box, and then press "Enter."

Scriptures quoted are either from the King James Bible, or from the Holy Bible, Hoehn Version, which is available at www.Amazon.com

___James chapter 1

1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes that are dispersed around, greetings.

2 My brothers, count it all joy when you fall into various temptations,

3 Knowing this, that the testing of your faith works patience.

4 But let patience have its perfect work, so you'll be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.

5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God for it, who gives to all men liberally, and won't find fault, and it shall be given to him.

6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering.  For he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.

7 For let that man not think that he'll receive anything from the Lord.

8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted,

10 But the rich, in that he is made low, because as the flower of the grass he'll pass away.

11 For the sun has no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withers the grass, and the flower of it falls, and the grace of the fashion of it perishes, so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

12 Blessed is the man that endures temptation, for after he's been tested, he'll receive the crown of life, that the Lord has promised to those who love him.

13 Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God can't be tempted with evil, nor does he tempt any man,

14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.

15 Then when lust has conceived, it produces sin, and sin when it's finished, produces death.

16 Do not err, my beloved brothers.

17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, nor shadow of turning.

18 He chose to father us with the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

19 So, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

20 For the anger of man doesn't accomplish the righteousness of God.

21 So, lay apart all filthiness and the unnecessary naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man seeing his natural face in a mirror,

24 For he sees himself, and goes his way, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.

25 But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty, and continues in it, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

26 If any man among you seems to be religious, and doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is for nothing.

27 Pure religion and undefiled before God the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

___James chapter 2

1 My brothers, don't have the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.

2 For if a man with a gold ring comes to your assembly in fancy clothes, and a poor man in dirty clothes comes in also,

3 And you have respect to him that wears the fancy clothes, and say to him, "Sit here in a good place," and say to the poor, "Stand there, or sit here under my footstool,"

4 Aren't you then partial in yourselves, and have become judges with evil thoughts?

5 Listen, my beloved brothers, hasn't God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him?

6 But you have despised the poor.  Don't rich men oppress you, and bring you before the judgment seats?

7 Don't they blaspheme that worthy name by which you're called?

8 If you fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, "You shall love your neighbor like yourself," you do well,

9 But if you have respect of persons, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as sinners.

10 For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

11 For he that said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not kill."  Now if you don't commit adultery, yet if you kill, you've become a breaker of the law.

12 Speak in such a way, and do, as those who'll be judged by the law of liberty.

13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that has shown no mercy, and mercy rejoices against judgment.

14 What does it profit, my brothers, though a man says he has faith, and doesn't have works?  Can faith save him?

15 If a brother or sister needs clothes, and lacks daily food,

16 And one of you says to them, "Depart in peace, be warmed and filled," but you don't give them the things that are needed for the body, what good is that?

17 Even so faith, if it doesn't have works, is dead, being alone.

18 Yes, a man could say, "You have faith, and I have works, show me your faith without your works, and I'll show you my faith by my works."

19 You believe that there is one God, you do well, the devils also believe, and tremble.

20 But don't you know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

21 Wasn't Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son on the altar?

22 Do you see how faith worked with his deeds, and by works faith was made perfect?

23 And the scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness, and he was called the friend of God."

24 You see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.

25 Likewise also wasn't Rahab the prostitute justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?

26 For like the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

___James chapter 3

1 My brothers, don't be many masters, knowing that we'll receive the greater condemnation.

2 For in many things we offend all.  If any man doesn't offend in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.

3 See, we put bits in the horses' mouths, so they'll obey us, and we turn around their whole bodies.

4 Look also at the ships, which though they're so large, and are driven by fierce winds, yet they're turned around by a very small helm, wherever the captain wants.

5 Even so, the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things.  See how great a matter a little fire kindles!

6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of sin, so is the tongue among our members that it makes dirty the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and it is set on fire by hell.

7 For every kind of animals, and of birds, and of snakes, and of things in the sea, gets tamed, and has been tamed by mankind,

8 But no man can tame the tongue, it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

9 With it we bless God, the Father, and with it we curse men, who are made after the likeness of God.

10 Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing.  My brothers, these things ought not to be.

11 Does a fountain send out at the same place sweet water and bitter?

12 Can the fig tree, my brothers, produce olive berries?  Or a vine, figs?  So no fountain can yield both salt water and fresh.

13 Who is a wise man, possessing knowledge among you?  Let him show out of a good lifestyle his works with meekness of wisdom.

14 But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, don't glory, and don't lie against the truth.

15 This wisdom doesn't descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be reasoned with, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

18 And the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace by those who make peace.

___James chapter 4

1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from?  Don't they come from your lusts that war in your members?

2 You lust, and don't have, you kill, and desire to have, and can't obtain, you fight and war, yet you don't have, because you don't ask.

3 You ask, and don't receive, because you ask wrongly, so you can consume it on your lusts.

4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God?  Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world is an enemy of God.

5 Do you think that the scripture says for nothing, "The spirit that lives in us lusts to envy?"

6 But he gives more grace.  So he says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."

7 Submit yourselves therefore to God.  Resist the devil, and he'll run away from you.

8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you.  Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double minded.

9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and cry, let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he'll lift you up.

11 Don't speak evil about each other, brothers.  He that speaks evil about his brother, and judges his brother, speaks evil about the law, and judges the law, but if you judge the law, you're not a doer of the law, but a judge.

12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy, who are you that judges someone else?

13 Go on now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we'll go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and make a profit,"

14 Actually, you don't know what will happen tomorrow.  For what is your life?  It is a puff of steam, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

15 For you ought to say, "Lord willing, we'll live, and do this, or that."

16 But now you rejoice in your boastings, all such rejoicing is evil.

17 Therefore to him that knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.

___James chapter 5

1 Go on now, you rich men, cry and howl for your miseries that shall come on you.

2 Your riches are corrupted, and your clothes are moth eaten.

3 Your gold and silver are rusted, and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh like fire.  You've heaped treasure together for the last days.

4 See, the wages of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which you've kept back by fraud, shouts, and the shouts of those who've reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabbath.

5 You've lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton, you've nourished your hearts, like in a day of slaughter.

6 You've condemned and killed the just, and he doesn't resist you.

7 Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord.  See, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, and has long patience for it, until he receives the early and latter rain.

8 You also be patient.  Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is getting near.

9 Don't grudge against each other, brothers, so you won't be condemned, see, the judge stands at the door.

10 Take, my brothers, the prophets, who've spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.

11 See, we count them happy that endure.  You've heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.

12 But above all things, my brothers, don't swear, not by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath, but let your yes be yes, and your no, no, so that you don't fall into condemnation.

13 Is anyone among you afflicted?  Let him pray.  Is anyone merry?  Let him sing psalms.

14 Is anyone sick among you?  Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord,

15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up, and if he has committed sins, he'll be forgiven.

16 Confess your faults to each other, and pray for each other so you'll be healed.  The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man is does a lot of good.

17 Elijah was a man subject to the same kind of passions that we are, and he prayed earnestly that it wouldn't rain, and it didn't rain on the earth for three years and six months.

18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.

19 Brothers, if any of you strays from the truth, and someone converts him,

20 Let him know, that he that converts the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.