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b'Australia is a wealthy nation & Australians are rich people by the world\\u2019s standards. James is writing to poor refugee Christians - the contrast could hardly be stronger! So is this passage of God\\u2019s Word unnecessary for us to give attention? Definitely not!\\nThere is great danger for rich Christians in this world which sets its goal of earthly happiness in wealth - not in the riches of grace that we have in the Lord Jesus Christ! Wealth is God\\u2019s gift to be used generously for the needy - inside & outside the church.\\nJames desires that us, as his readers, have a biblical view of money - whether we have it or don\\u2019t have it. A Christian World-&-Life-View!\\nHe has a word to the non-Christian also. What might that be, I wonder?\\nJames uses parallelism & contrast to get his important message of the wisdom of poverty across to us. He uses the words \\u201chigh\\u201d & \\u201clow\\u201d to contrast the positions of poor Christians & rich non-Christians - then pointing out God\\u2019s perspective that we are to practise.'