“Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. Ye have condemned and killed the just; and He doth not resist you.” (James 5:5-6)
James describes the wealthy, heartless rich whose lifestyles exhibited no Christian character at all. Wantonness is unbridled lust and pleasure. They had nourished their wicked hearts. That seems to be a description of the soldiers on the battlefield stripping the dead enemy soldiers of all their goods. The soldiers gambled at the foot of the cross for the garments of Jesus as He was dying.
Wicked men demonstrated their wickedness at the cross of Calvary. Peter spoke on the day of Pentecost to the Jewish leaders about Jesus and said, “Ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain.” (Acts 2:23) They had killed the Just One. He who could have called twelve legions of angels to come to His aid did not resist them.
In His wondrous love for us He yielded His life to cruel men that He might pay our sin debt.
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