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Growing toward maturity in Christ without

Growing toward maturity in Christ without. shortcuts or gimmicks…. James 5:13-18. Luis Palau Agentine-born International Evangelists. Big Idea. Scope. PRIMARY. Invitation. Context. 13 Is any one of you in trouble? He should pray. Is anyone happy?

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Growing toward maturity in Christ without

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  1. Growing toward maturity in Christ without shortcuts or gimmicks…

  2. James 5:13-18 Luis Palau Agentine-born International Evangelists

  3. Big Idea Scope PRIMARY Invitation Context • 13 Is any one of you in trouble? • He should pray. • Is anyone happy? • Let him sing songs of praise. James 5:13-18 Trouble Happy Pray through all of life.

  4. James 5:13-18

  5. Big Idea SECONDARY • 14 Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church • to pray over him • and • anoint him with oil • in the name of the Lord. • 15 And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; • the Lord will raise him up. • If he has sinned, he will be forgiven. James 5:13-18 Trouble Happy Pray for ________ (emotional, physical, spiritual) _________.

  6. Instructions Who? • 14 Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church • to pray over him • and • anoint him with oil • in the name of the Lord. • 15 And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; • the Lord will raise him up. • If he has sinned, he will be forgiven. James 5:13-18 Instructions Promise

  7. Instructions James 5:13-18 Spiritual Care Functions Executive Functions Acts 20:28 Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood.

  8. Instructions Ask your small group leaders to pray for you James 5:13-18 Spiritual Care Functions Executive Functions Elders Small Group Leaders

  9. Instructions • 14 Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church • to pray over him • and • anoint him with oil • in the name of the Lord. James 5:13-18 Primary Secondary Sacrament? Medicine? Symbol?

  10. Promise Not Always Simple! Right? • 15 And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; • the Lord will raise him up. • If he has sinned, he will be forgiven. James 5:13-18 J. P. Moreland, distinguished professor of philosophy, Talbot School of Theology

  11. Promise 15 And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven. James 5:13-18 Clue 1: Context Clue 2: Vocabulary Clue 3: Style This is not an absolute and unconditional promise.

  12. Promise Clue 1: Context Clue 2: Vocabulary Clue 3: Style 15 And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven. James 5:13-18 James 1:5-8 James 4:2b-4 The need for absolute commitment to the Lord The problem of asking with selfish motives

  13. Promise Clue 1: Context Clue 2: Vocabulary Clue 3: Style 15 And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven. James 5:13-18 I John 5:14-15 14 This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 15 And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.

  14. Promise Clue 1: Context Clue 2: Vocabulary Clue 3: Style 15 And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven. James 5:13-18 Ambiguous Vocabulary? James meticulously chooses wording in connection with the earthly benefit of healing, whose fullest meaning is concerned with our eternal salvation.

  15. Promise Clue 1: Context Clue 2: Vocabulary Clue 3: Style Matthew 18:19 James 5:13-18 Again, I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven. John 14:13-14 13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. 14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.

  16. Big Idea SECONDARY • 14 Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church • to pray over him • and • anoint him with oil • in the name of the Lord. • 15 And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; • the Lord will raise him up. • If he has sinned, he will be forgiven. James 5:13-18 Trouble Happy Pray for complete (emotional, physical, spiritual) healing.

  17. Instruction &Promise James 5:13-18 More focus on healing in relationships … 16 Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.

  18. Illustration It means much to James that we should really believe all this: that prayer is the truest response to problems (13), even to the problem of serious illness (14–15), and that it has power to heal the sin-sick soul and the sin-torn fellowship (16a). (Motyer, J. A. ) James 5:13-18 17 Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. 18 Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth produced its crops. I Kings 17-19

  19. Big Ideas James 5:13-18 Trouble Happy Pray through all of life. Pray for complete (emotional, physical, spiritual) healing.

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