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 We are finishing up James.

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 Like I said, I'm taking the last section of James, which is James chapter 5, verses 13-20.

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 Before I read that, though, I want to read a verse from Hebrews.

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 It's going to frame at least some of the things that are in this passage.

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 I think the things that probably stuck out to me the most.

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 I'm probably going to give the most time to, Lord willing.

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 This is Hebrews chapter 12, starting in verse 5.

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 Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it.

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 How much more should we submit to the Father of our spirits and live?

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 For our fathers disciplined us for a little while as they thought best.

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 But God disciplines us for our good that we may share in his holiness.

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 No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful.

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 Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.

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 So the thing that I think is on my heart with that is I know my dad loves me.

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 And there's a lot of reasons I know my dad loves me.

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 But one of the reasons I know he loves me is that he disciplined me.

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 He wouldn't let me get away with it.

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 He didn't like doing it.

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 But he loved me, and so he denied himself.

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 And he did what was good for me by taking the time and the care to discipline me.

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 And he did it imperfectly because he's human.

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 He's got sin, and he's a man of weakness.

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 He's saved by the grace of God, but he's a man of weakness, so he did it imperfectly.

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 But I know my dad loves me, and if he had not disciplined me, I think I would not know.

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 Even if he did, I don't think I would know.

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 Because it's a mark of a father's love that he disciplines his sons.

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 It says it right here.

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 If you're without discipline, you're an illegitimate child.

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 And other translations render it bastard.

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 Okay?

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 You're illegitimate.

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 An illegitimate child doesn't get disciplined.

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 How do you know you're a legitimate child?

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 You get disciplined.

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 That's what it's saying here.

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 And if our earthly fathers showed us that, and we have, I'm sure, a lot of range of experience here with broken homes,

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 that might land on you in an off-putting way.

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 If your father was an abusive father and didn't discipline you in love.

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 But it says here, you know, if our fathers disciplined us for a little while as they thought best,

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 well, there's a whole range of behavior there.

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 Maybe it's just total absenteeism.

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 Maybe they tried to be faithful, but they messed up.

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 Our earthly father does it for our heavenly father.

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 I mean, sorry.

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 Our heavenly father, God the Father,

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 will discipline all those he receives as his child through Christ for their good.

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 And it's perfect.

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 And it produces its intended effect.

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 Holiness.

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 Okay?

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 We want to have that in our minds as we finish up James.

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 It does connect.

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 But it'll connect a little bit towards the end of this passage.

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 Okay, so let's turn to James.

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 If you have your Bibles, please open up to James chapter 5, starting in verse 13.

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 I am reading out of the old NIV.

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 This is the 1984 NIV.

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 Samir Reed did this for me.

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 I just keep reading in it because it's so good.

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 So my apologies to everyone who has other translations.

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 Usually we preach out of the ESV, but I don't know.

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 I was reading it.

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 I was meditating on it, doing my devotions in it, and it just hit so good.

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 So I'm going to continue.

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 Thank you, Samir, for doing that.

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 He binds Bibles, by the way.

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 Little plug.

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 All right.

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 I'm going to read the whole passage, and then I'll break it down here.

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 James chapter 5, starting in verse 13.

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 Is anyone of you in trouble?

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 He should pray.

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 Is anyone happy?

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 Let them sing songs of praise.

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 Is anyone of you sick?

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 He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord.

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 And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well.

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 The Lord will raise him up.

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 If he has sinned, he will be forgiven.

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 Therefore, confess your sins to each other and pray for each other that you may be healed.

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 The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.

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 Elijah was a man just like us.

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 He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years.

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 Again, he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth produced its crops.

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 My brothers, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring him back, remember this.

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 Whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way will save him from death and cover over a multitude of sins.

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 Okay, so moving through this, starting in verse 13 in here, opens and says,

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 Is anyone of you in trouble?

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 He should pray.

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 Is anyone happy?

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 Let him sing songs of praise.

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 The thing I took from this is that there's different seasons in the Christian life.

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 Different seasons call for different responses.

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 There's not an expectation of sameness.

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 There is sameness.

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 Through Christ, we aren't less a child of God when we're going through a hard time,

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 or more a child of God when we're going through a good time, we're encouraged.

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 Through Christ, we have an unshakable sonship.

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 Okay?

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 But what we ought to do in our responses do vary based on what season we're in.

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 So he's saying here, if you're suffering, pray.

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 If you're happy, if things are going good and you're encouraged, praise God.

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 Sing songs of praise.

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 And I think this is important because there is, you know, we know how we ought to be.

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 Okay?

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 We've read the Bible.

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 Usually, we've read the Bible.

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 If we come to know Jesus, we should be reading the Bible.

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 We've heard things like rejoice always, pray without ceasing.

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 And so you start to internalize this as a sad Christian is a bad Christian.

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 Okay?

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 If you're having a hard time, well, I can't show it.

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 I can't be honest.

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 Like, I had a horrible week.

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 Because you know that Christians, like, technically shouldn't have horrible weeks because you should be rejoicing always.

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 Right?

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 And so you put your fake smile on.

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 You're just like, yeah, just good, brother.

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 You know?

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 That's bad.

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 That's faking it.

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 Okay?

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 That's hypocrisy.

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 That's a bad way of internalizing, yes, a goal.

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 We should all be rejoicing always.

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 Give thanks in everything.

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 But that can look, that goes along with being real.

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 The grace of God connects them up.

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 And I think you see this, you see this in Jesus.

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 Jesus was honest.

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 Matthew 26, verse 38 through 39.

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 He's in the Garden of Gethsemane.

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 He's about to go to the cross.

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 And he says to them, his disciples, his imperfect disciples, who he's obviously head and shoulder more mature than.

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 I mean, that's an understatement.

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 Okay.

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 But that's important.

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 Okay?

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 And I'll explain why a little bit.

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 Then he said to them, my soul is very sorrowful, even to death.

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 Remain here and watch with me.

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 I need you.

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 Okay?

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 The Son of God, as a man, wants his disciples to stay and pray with him.

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 And going a little further, he fell on his face and prayed, saying, my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me.

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 Nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.

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 He's honest.

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 He's overwhelmed with sorrow.

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 The Son of God, no sin, overwhelmed with sorrow, has need.

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 Okay?

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 And he expresses it to his imperfect disciples.

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 Will you please stay with me and stay with me for a while?

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 He goes to God, I know what you want me to do.

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 And I don't want to do it.

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 Like, if there's another way to do this, will you please have mercy and show me a different way?

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 Nevertheless, not my will but yours be done.

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 These are my good Bible.

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 Oh, my precious wife.

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 That's maturity.

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 Do you think he was not obeying the commandment to rejoice always, without ceasing?

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 No.

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 A fake person projects what they should be.

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 A real person projects who they actually are.

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 Because another person stands in our place before God, I can now be who I am.

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 Bad and good.

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 Doesn't matter.

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 I can be real.

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 I can be honest.

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 If I'm having a hard time, I can talk to people and be like, I need some help.

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 I need some encouragement.

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 I need you to pray for me.

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 If I'm cheerful, that's great.

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 I can praise God and I can tell people how awesome it is and I don't have to feel bad that I'm having an awesome day.

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 You know, it's just, but there's a whole roller coaster throughout the Christian life.

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 You read the Psalms, it's just full of it.

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 You know?

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 So, anyway, I meant that to be basically an aside, but that was a little bit long.

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 Grace liberates us to be real.

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 Well, and we should not be fake.

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 Going on, verse 14.

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 Is any of you sick?

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 You should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord.

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 And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well.

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 The Lord will raise him up.

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 If he has sinned, he will be forgiven.

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 So, here's another season.

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 Sickness.

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 What do you do if you're in a season of sickness?

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 We've been sick for like two weeks.

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 Julie's mom is sick.

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 Julie's mom, we just found out, has a very bad brain cancer.

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 You know?

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 Sickness.

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 Like, what do Christians do when you're sick?

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 He says right here.

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 All the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord.

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 And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well.

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 The Lord will raise him up.

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 And if he sinned, he will be forgiven.

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 So, you know, this is the basic response.

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 I mean, there's other things in the Bible written about, you know, what we ought to do in seasons of trial and tribulation and sickness.

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 Pray for each other.

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 Bear one of those burdens.

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 You know, Galatians 6 is so fulfilled the law of Christ.

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 That's what we're supposed to do.

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 We're supposed to open up that.

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 Don't just try to rough it all by yourself.

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 That's just denying the reality of the interdependency of the body of Christ.

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 And people don't know if you're having a hard time.

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 They can't help you unless you're honest with them.

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 All right?

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 I can't do it by myself.

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 I need some help.

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 Praise God.

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 God made it that way.

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 Okay?

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 You're sick.

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 You need to get people to pray for you.

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 Okay?

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 And there's some promises in here.

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 The first promise is that the prayer of faith will heal.

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 The other promise here is forgiveness of sins.

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 We're going to talk about this more later.

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 James' thought evolves and kind of unpacks itself in the later verses about this forgiveness of sins part of the promise.

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 But right here, you just have a simple promise.

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 The prayer of faith will heal.

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 Okay?

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 So, we are a charismatic church.

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 We believe in the continuation of the gifts, the spiritual gifts.

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 We probably are not as charismatic as some other churches.

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 Who, like, probably some of the churches who you might immediately think of when you think of charismatic.

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 We believe in the sober, biblical definition of the spiritual gifts.

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 But it's easy to just kind of say, well, I don't know.

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 I don't know if healing is a thing anymore.

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 But there's nothing in the Bible to say that it's not.

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 So, we believe it.

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 I don't see, and in my personal experience, I've not seen that many miraculous healings in my life.

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 But they happen.

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 And I can think of one time, one really clear example of this in my life where this happened.

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 It was actually with a Hindu guy I was on mission to.

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 And his son had a really bad stomach problem.

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 He was born with a congenital disease that was very serious.

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 And they were about to go into surgery, and it was a very high-risk surgery.

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 And he knew that I was a believer.

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 It was at my old job.

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 And we would talk about the Lord and stuff.

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 And he liked his Hinduism.

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 And he would talk about that.

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 And I liked, you know, the gospel of Jesus Christ.

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 And I would talk about that.

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 I prayed for him.

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 And he came to me and said, I would like you to pray for us.

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 When I pray, I don't get answers.

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 But I've seen that when you pray, you get answers.

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 I would like you to pray for my son.

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 And the Lord just filled me with faith that God was going to heal this kid.

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 And I said, I'm going to pray for you, Nitin.

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 And you need to understand something.

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 Jesus Christ is the Lord of the universe.

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 He made your child.

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 I was just filled with faith.

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 I just believed it.

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 I was just like, I believe that God is going to use this as a witness.

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 This unbeliever.

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 And I said, I'm going to pray for him.

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 If God heals him, you need to understand something.

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 He's doing it because he's trying to get your attention.

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 And you need to repent and believe in the gospel.

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 They went to the appointment.

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 Doctor said, it's the craziest thing.

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 It's all healed.

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 And so a minute, his wife, Nitti, started walking down through the hospital.

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 And they're walking out.

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 And they see a little hospital chapel.

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 And she says, we need to go in and thank Seth Scott.

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 So they go in there.

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 They go in front of the cross.

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 They get down on their knees.

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 And they pray.

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 And they thank the God who Seth worships, who healed their son.

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 I can't think of many other circumstances.

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 This is like the only one.

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 And it was interesting because it had to do with a testimony to a total unbeliever.

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 Prayed for a lot of Christians.

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 And they haven't gotten healed.

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 Prayed for something they did.

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 But my brother's here.

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 And his daughter had brain cancer.

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 And the Lord healed her.

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 My mom had cancer.

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 And she died.

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 Okay.

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 So how do we take some of this stuff?

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 How do we take this promise that it's going to heal them?

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 Well, I think the key here is it says the prayer of faith.

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 The prayer offered in faith.

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 I mean, sick person well.

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 And you could spend a sermon series on that.

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 And I can't do that.

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 But one passage did stand out to me to help put a little definition in our minds of what this looks like.

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 Acts 14, verse 8 through 10.

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 There's in Lystra.

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 This is one of Paul's missionary journeys here.

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 At Lystra, a man was sitting who had no strength in his feet, lame from his mother's womb, who had never walked.

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 This man was listening to Paul as he spoke.

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 Paul the apostle.

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 Okay.

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 This man was listening to Paul as he spoke, who, when he had fixed his gaze on him and had seen that he had faith to be made well, said with a loud voice, stand upright on your feet.

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 And he leaped up and began to walk.

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 Paul saw something through the spirit.

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 He saw this dude was looking at him and that this guy had faith to be saved.

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 And so, to be healed.

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 Okay.

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 And when Paul spoke, it was on the basis of faith.

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 Like, he knew this guy had faith to be healed.

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 So, you know, according to your faith, be done to you.

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 Jesus says that.

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 So, whatever it is, when there are miraculous healings and we pray for it, the prayer of faith is part of it.

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 It's not just a hope.

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 Okay.

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 You're praying based on something that is, you know, either a plain promise of God and the investment or something that's supernaturally revealed.

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 Okay.

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 So, anyway, that's important.

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 Otherwise, I think we might be a little broken in our theology when we think about faith healing.

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 It's just like, okay, if anyone, you know, we got to bring you up here and anyone who has any diseases, if you have enough faith, you can get healed.

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 Well, faith comes by hearing, hearing by the word of God.

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 You know, we all pray and hope that God will heal.

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 But not every prayer is in faith, and we need God to actually give that.

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 Okay.

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 And, I mean, that's basically as much as I can speak, but all the rest is about my pay grade.

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 I just not dug into this enough.

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 Not all prayers for healing are answered in the New Testament.

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 Paul had a thorn in his side.

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 Seems like it could have very well been some kind of disease, like with his eyes or something.

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 He prayed three times that God would take it away.

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 God said no.

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 Timothy had recurring stomach problems.

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 Paul says you need to drink a little bit of wine for your stomach's sake and you're off in infirmities.

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 Other people are getting healed left and right.

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 What's the deal with these guys?

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 Well, Lord knows.

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 But we should pray for him.

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 Okay.

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 Okay.

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 Verse 16.

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 First part of this verse.

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 Therefore, confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.

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 I'm going to pause there before we finish that verse.

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 Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.

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 Confession is tied to healing.

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 I think there's two kinds of healing it's talking about here.

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 One is the context of the verse before.

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 You have a disease.

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 You're sick.

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 Spiritual healing.

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 But you remember he said, and if he sinned, you'll be forgiven.

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 What?

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 I thought we were talking about like sickness.

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 But then like sin and getting forgiven for sin is in there.

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 Well, I think there's something connected here.

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 And one of the categories we need to keep in mind is not all sickness is totally natural.

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 Yes.

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 Sickness is in the world.

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 Ever since the fall, there's sickness, viruses.

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 We get viruses, you know, germs, cancer, all that stuff.

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 But there's a category of sin.

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 And this is I'm not going to read this.

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 We actually read this at communion last Sunday.

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 In 1 Corinthians 11, verse 27 through 32, Paul gives a warning about taking communion.

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 And he says, if there's a way to take communion in an unworthy manner that results in judgment.

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 And the specific judgment that he refers to is sickness.

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 And some people actually dying.

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 And he said, this happens as a discipline.

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 That it actually happens to God's people who are believers.

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 Which that might break some of our theological categories a little bit.

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 But this is we got to take the whole counsel of God here.

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 Okay.

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 And it has to do with discipline.

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 Unrepentant hidden sin.

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 God takes very seriously.

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 And there are sicknesses that can happen in our life that are because of that.

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 Now, no one else knows that.

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 Only God knows.

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 Okay.

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 But if we're sick, we need to at least ask the question, Lord.

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 Okay.

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 I'm a sinner.

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 If there's anything that I've been holding back from you, I want to get it right.

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 Okay.

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 I want to get it right.

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 And there's right here in exhortation, confess your sins to each other and pray for each other.

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 So you might be healed.

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 And the context is coming out of, if you're sick, go get the elders to pray for you.

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 Anoint you with oil.

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 And if you have sinned, your sins will be forgiven.

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 And I'm reading into this.

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 This is my opinion.

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 I think when the elders are praying and they're doing this service here of anointing with oil,

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 administrating their pastoral duty and praying for the sick, they're keying into this.

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 They know what's going on.

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 They know how this works.

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 And they're asking questions.

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 Hey, let's just, you know, we're going to assume love hopes all things, believes all things.

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 What's the best?

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 You just got a stomach bug, you know.

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 But is there anything that you need to get right with the Lord?

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 Let's get that in the light.

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 Let's confess that.

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 Okay.

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 And that's part of it.

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 Okay.

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 It's not the only thing.

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 A lot of sicknesses, again, that are not due to this at all.

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 And so we shouldn't get weird about this.

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 But it's a thing.

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 It's a category.

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 Okay.

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 So confession is tied to healing.

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 Confess your sins to each other.

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 Pray for each other so you may be healed.

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 So the second here is we need to be healed from the bondage of sin.

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 And this is where the one anothering work of the body is essential.

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 We all know that, you know, we have been saved.

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 We're being saved.

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 We will be saved.

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 We've been justified by the work, the finished work of Christ once and for all.

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 We're also being sanctified by that.

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 Okay.

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 Jesus, like through his spirit, is applying the finished work of Christ through the Holy

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 Spirit progressively conforming us to the image of Christ.

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 We're being saved.

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 And we'll be saved perfectly.

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 When he comes back, we're going to get a glorified body.

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 Sin's gone.

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 Okay.

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 So anyway, but how does that work?

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 How does the sanctification work?

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 Well, there's a one anothering aspect of sanctification in the church where we confess sin

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 and we pray for each other that God would heal you.

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 You don't get to get sanctified all by yourself.

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 Okay.

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 Has God done that?

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 Sure.

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 But he doesn't only do that.

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 That's why he's put us together in the body of Christ.

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 It says this in Ephesians 4, that speaking the truth and love, we would grow up into him

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 in all things.

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 It's essential.

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 So there's no way that you will be sanctified from your besetting sins without getting it

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 into the light and asking for help and praying for each other.

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 We won't do it.

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 Okay.

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 We'll talk about that more later.

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 I want to do, I do want to clarify here.

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 We're talking about confessing sin.

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 We don't confess to people for forgiveness.

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 We confess to God for forgiveness.

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 1 John 1, 9 says, if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins

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 and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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 This isn't Catholicism.

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 We don't go to a priest for confession.

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 We have a high priest, one mediator between God and man, who perfectly administrates the

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 affected blood of Jesus on our behalf.

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 Washes us clean.

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 We confess.

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 He forgives.

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 But we confess horizontally for freedom and for fellowship.

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 This is how we grow closer to each other.

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 This is how the Lord frees us from things that we've been held in bondage for years in.

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 So look about that more a little bit here.

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 He continues.

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 Verse 16, continuing verse 16, the prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.

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 Elijah was a man just like us.

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 He prayed earnestly that it would not rain and it did not rain on the land for three and

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 a half years.

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 Again, he prayed and the heavens gave rain and the earth produced its crops.

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 So there's a lot of confidence in here on the effective nature of prayer.

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 Okay.

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 There's the prayer of a righteous man.

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 Well, that might actually rob our confidence because we feel, well, I'm not totally righteous.

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 You know, I know the righteousness of Jesus, but like, man, how righteous do you got to

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 get before this works?

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 Well, he says, he clarifies, Elijah was a man just like us.

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 Some translations say a man of like passion, like nature.

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 All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.

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 There is no one good, not even one.

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 So whatever the righteousness is, it's not some sort of earthly Christian perfection that

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 you can attain a certain level of obedience.

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 And now you feel good about asking God for things and that he'll actually answer you.

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 No.

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 John 14, verse 13 through 14.

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 And Jesus says to his disciples, imperfect, fallen, you know, sinners.

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 Whatever you ask in my name, that will I do so that the father may be glorified in the

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 son.

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 If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.

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 We ask God for answers in the name of Jesus.

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 In his name.

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 I like to think of Jesus going and asking God something.

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 I think of myself asking God something.

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 It's kind of like, I don't know.

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 Maybe he'll answer.

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 Maybe not.

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 But then you think about Jesus asking God something.

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 That's the same question.

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 Will God answer Jesus prayers?

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 Yes.

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 Why?

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 Because he's Jesus.

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 That's what he's saying here.

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 If we ask in his name, we're asking on the basis of his track record, his relationship.

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 So we can ask confidently.

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 The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.

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 Why?

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 Because we're asking through a man who has a perfect relationship with God and gets what

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 he asked for.

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 And it's also effective.

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 James 5, 16 says, it renders this passage, the effective prayer of a righteous man can

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 accomplish much.

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 So there's another layer to this where we need to not just pray whatever.

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 Okay.

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 We need to pray for the things that God has put in his word and called us to pray for.

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 First John 5, 14 through 15 says, this is the confidence we have toward him that if we

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 ask anything according to his will, he hears us.

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 Wow.

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 If we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the request that

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 we asked of him.

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 So here we have these two foundations for confident praying.

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 One, I'm righteous through Jesus.

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 So I have access to God.

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 He'll hear me.

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 And two, I know what to pray because I know what God's will is.

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 I can pray the things that are in his word that he's told me I ought to pray for and

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 be confident he's going to answer that prayer.

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 There are a lot of things I pray and hope.

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 I don't know if he's going to answer it.

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 I'm going to still pray it anyway because I have a loving father and I have hopes, you

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 know.

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 But there are certain things I'm going to pray and I'm going to hold God to task in

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 a humble way because he's promised.

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 He said it in his word.

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 Here's one.

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 This applies.

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 First Thessalonians 4, 3.

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 The beginning of the verse.

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 For this is the will of God, your sanctification.

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 You know, a prayer that God is going to 100% answer, make me like Jesus Christ.

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 Make my brother and sister in the Lord like Jesus Christ.

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 Okay.

00:26:49.079 --> 00:26:50.259
 I can ask in faith.

00:26:50.859 --> 00:26:52.559
 I can have an effectual prayer.

00:26:53.599 --> 00:26:57.399
 I can trust for miracles like famine.

00:26:57.400 --> 00:27:03.480
 It's good to pray that God disciplines each other.

00:27:04.180 --> 00:27:05.440
 It's good to pray that stuff.

00:27:06.280 --> 00:27:07.420
 The Lord's disciplined me.

00:27:08.200 --> 00:27:09.320
 Terrible, terrible time.

00:27:10.600 --> 00:27:14.060
 I wouldn't pray for the world because he worked righteousness.

00:27:14.860 --> 00:27:16.620
 He helped me hunger and thirst for righteousness.

00:27:17.259 --> 00:27:20.660
 We can pray for each other these things like and God will answer.

00:27:21.300 --> 00:27:24.400
 I'm not saying we should be praying that God sends spiritual famine into each other's

00:27:24.400 --> 00:27:25.140
 lives so we see sin.

00:27:25.140 --> 00:27:30.300
 It's just we need to be praying for sanctification in each other's lives, in our own life.

00:27:30.720 --> 00:27:32.380
 We can be very confident God's going to answer that.

00:27:32.780 --> 00:27:33.620
 Spiritual healing.

00:27:35.080 --> 00:27:35.480
 Continuing.

00:27:36.480 --> 00:27:37.000
 Verse 19.

00:27:37.080 --> 00:27:40.640
 My brothers, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring him back,

00:27:40.680 --> 00:27:41.280
 remember this.

00:27:42.080 --> 00:27:48.300
 Whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way will save him from death and cover over

00:27:48.300 --> 00:27:49.800
 a multitude of sins.

00:27:49.799 --> 00:27:55.879
 So he's closing up and he's really doubling down now on this second theme here.

00:27:56.279 --> 00:27:58.579
 Freedom from bondage to sin.

00:27:59.480 --> 00:27:59.639
 Okay.

00:28:02.279 --> 00:28:06.079
 Unrepentant hidden sin has more serious consequences than physical sickness.

00:28:07.099 --> 00:28:08.139
 It's very serious.

00:28:09.099 --> 00:28:10.019
 Think about healing.

00:28:10.720 --> 00:28:12.319
 Think about God blessing me.

00:28:12.319 --> 00:28:19.700
 And it says about Jesus, he sent him to bless you by turning each one of you from your sins.

00:28:20.779 --> 00:28:22.119
 This is the healing we need.

00:28:22.359 --> 00:28:23.220
 We need this healing.

00:28:23.619 --> 00:28:24.279
 And it's serious.

00:28:24.579 --> 00:28:25.879
 It's not something to joke around with.

00:28:27.339 --> 00:28:28.480
 And it says it right here.

00:28:28.559 --> 00:28:30.339
 Like we have a responsibility to each other.

00:28:30.399 --> 00:28:34.799
 It says, my brothers, if one of you, one of you believers in this room here, one of you

00:28:34.799 --> 00:28:37.019
 professing believers, like obviously the Lord knows our hearts.

00:28:37.119 --> 00:28:37.960
 The Lord knows those are his.

00:28:37.960 --> 00:28:41.220
 There are true professors and false professors, but we're people.

00:28:41.559 --> 00:28:41.660
 Okay.

00:28:41.740 --> 00:28:42.559
 So we don't get to know.

00:28:44.640 --> 00:28:49.500
 But if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring him back, remember

00:28:49.500 --> 00:28:54.079
 this, whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way will save him from death.

00:28:55.100 --> 00:28:56.360
 He's talking about health.

00:28:57.340 --> 00:28:57.480
 Okay.

00:28:57.480 --> 00:29:01.039
 He's not talking about your life's a little bit shorter than it ought to be.

00:29:01.360 --> 00:29:01.759
 No.

00:29:02.600 --> 00:29:03.640
 This is eternal death.

00:29:03.720 --> 00:29:04.460
 This is serious.

00:29:04.460 --> 00:29:10.380
 Look at the promise there.

00:29:13.259 --> 00:29:15.299
 I want to read a couple verses here.

00:29:20.640 --> 00:29:22.140
 Hebrews 10, 26.

00:29:22.140 --> 00:29:29.740
 If we deliberately keep on sinning after we've received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice

00:29:29.740 --> 00:29:36.460
 for sins is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume

00:29:36.460 --> 00:29:37.440
 the enemies of God.

00:29:38.100 --> 00:29:42.620
 Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

00:29:42.619 --> 00:29:49.419
 How much more severely do you think a man deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot,

00:29:49.879 --> 00:29:53.459
 who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified him,

00:29:54.000 --> 00:29:56.119
 and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?

00:29:57.199 --> 00:29:58.339
 For we know him who said,

00:29:58.439 --> 00:30:00.399
 It is mine to avenge.

00:30:00.659 --> 00:30:01.500
 I will repay.

00:30:02.219 --> 00:30:04.179
 And again, the Lord will judge his people.

00:30:04.899 --> 00:30:07.859
 It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

00:30:09.859 --> 00:30:10.759
 It's apostasy.

00:30:10.759 --> 00:30:10.819
 It is a dreadful thing.

00:30:11.720 --> 00:30:11.960
 Okay?

00:30:12.920 --> 00:30:16.859
 Now, the doctrine of the perseverance of the saints is a precious thing.

00:30:18.819 --> 00:30:19.879
 Jesus will keep you.

00:30:20.539 --> 00:30:20.960
 Okay?

00:30:22.299 --> 00:30:25.180
 But we've got to take it with the whole counsel of God.

00:30:26.259 --> 00:30:28.000
 He didn't give any qualifications here.

00:30:28.039 --> 00:30:33.879
 He doesn't give qualifications when he's talking about this dynamic of someone wandering from the truth

00:30:33.879 --> 00:30:38.539
 and someone needing to bring them back in order to save them from death

00:30:38.539 --> 00:30:41.339
 and cover up our multitude of sins.

00:30:42.859 --> 00:30:45.639
 And essentially, it's this.

00:30:46.159 --> 00:30:46.279
 Okay?

00:30:47.599 --> 00:30:50.059
 God uses church discipline.

00:30:50.819 --> 00:30:51.460
 Each other.

00:30:51.460 --> 00:30:55.799
 For fulfillment of the promise that he's going to keep you.

00:30:56.420 --> 00:30:56.980
 It's means.

00:30:57.940 --> 00:30:58.180
 Okay?

00:30:58.640 --> 00:30:59.360
 There's a promise.

00:30:59.620 --> 00:31:00.440
 I'm going to keep you.

00:31:00.980 --> 00:31:01.680
 How does he do it?

00:31:02.340 --> 00:31:05.559
 There's a lot of ways he does it, but there's a big one right here that he's talking about,

00:31:05.620 --> 00:31:10.160
 which is brothers and sisters taking responsibility for each other.

00:31:11.299 --> 00:31:12.059
 Confronting sin.

00:31:12.059 --> 00:31:14.379
 Not just saying, not my problem.

00:31:15.839 --> 00:31:17.200
 Oh, so-and-so's not coming here anymore.

00:31:17.299 --> 00:31:17.539
 Okay.

00:31:17.879 --> 00:31:18.019
 No.

00:31:19.519 --> 00:31:19.919
 Whatever.

00:31:22.500 --> 00:31:24.159
 Brother, oh, yeah, he's always like that.

00:31:24.200 --> 00:31:25.159
 He's just always dealing with that.

00:31:25.259 --> 00:31:25.720
 You know, it's okay.

00:31:26.139 --> 00:31:26.460
 It's okay.

00:31:28.200 --> 00:31:28.559
 No.

00:31:29.419 --> 00:31:30.319
 It's not like that.

00:31:31.779 --> 00:31:34.879
 If Jesus treated you like that, you'd be gone.

00:31:35.200 --> 00:31:36.319
 Like, you'd be done.

00:31:37.179 --> 00:31:38.139
 He's not like that.

00:31:39.159 --> 00:31:44.240
 I'm going to read a couple verses here from Matthew chapter 18 to underscore this point.

00:31:45.960 --> 00:31:47.119
 Starting in verse 10.

00:31:47.339 --> 00:31:48.500
 Matthew 18, verse 10.

00:31:49.000 --> 00:31:51.200
 See that you do not look down on one of these little ones.

00:31:51.439 --> 00:31:55.099
 For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.

00:31:55.859 --> 00:31:56.480
 What do you think?

00:31:57.039 --> 00:31:59.480
 If a man owns a hundred sheep and one of them wanders away,

00:31:59.579 --> 00:32:03.099
 will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go look for the one that's wandered off?

00:32:03.099 --> 00:32:11.039
 And if he finds that I tell the truth, he's happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off.

00:32:11.899 --> 00:32:18.559
 In the same way, your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should be lost.

00:32:19.319 --> 00:32:19.579
 Wow.

00:32:19.679 --> 00:32:20.119
 That's awesome.

00:32:20.199 --> 00:32:20.879
 Take that to the bank.

00:32:21.279 --> 00:32:22.599
 That's how Lord Jesus thinks about me.

00:32:23.419 --> 00:32:25.099
 If I get off, what's he going to do?

00:32:25.639 --> 00:32:26.699
 He's going to chase me down.

00:32:27.339 --> 00:32:28.219
 That's reassuring.

00:32:28.719 --> 00:32:32.159
 That goes back to those whom I love, I rebuke.

00:32:32.160 --> 00:32:35.720
 The Father disciplines every son he receives.

00:32:35.940 --> 00:32:37.420
 How do you know you're a real son?

00:32:37.820 --> 00:32:39.420
 He doesn't let you get away with it.

00:32:39.900 --> 00:32:40.880
 He gets you.

00:32:41.259 --> 00:32:42.320
 He catches you.

00:32:43.360 --> 00:32:43.840
 It's awesome.

00:32:44.519 --> 00:32:48.000
 I know my Heavenly Father loves me because he's had me on such a tight leash.

00:32:49.519 --> 00:32:53.519
 And my flesh has wanted to get away with it, and he won't let up.

00:32:54.100 --> 00:32:54.660
 It's awesome.

00:32:55.640 --> 00:32:57.880
 What's this look like in practice?

00:33:00.420 --> 00:33:01.220
 Keep going.

00:33:01.220 --> 00:33:01.900
 Verse 15.

00:33:02.960 --> 00:33:06.420
 If your brother sins against you, go and show him his fault.

00:33:06.759 --> 00:33:08.080
 Just between the two of you.

00:33:09.000 --> 00:33:11.640
 If he listens to you, you have won your brother over.

00:33:12.519 --> 00:33:13.040
 That's how.

00:33:14.240 --> 00:33:20.380
 That is Jesus Christ, through the church, keeping you.

00:33:21.500 --> 00:33:24.700
 If your brother sins against you, go and talk to him about it.

00:33:25.060 --> 00:33:25.740
 Church discipline.

00:33:26.620 --> 00:33:30.599
 When you think of church discipline as like the last step of church discipline where you excommunicate somebody.

00:33:31.240 --> 00:33:39.539
 Well, I mean, that's like going to a doctor and they refuse to treat you for anything until you're about to die.

00:33:39.700 --> 00:33:42.180
 And then I guess they pull the plug on the life support.

00:33:42.339 --> 00:33:43.680
 I didn't think that analogy through.

00:33:43.680 --> 00:33:48.580
 But just like zero care for you whatsoever until it's time to cut you off.

00:33:48.900 --> 00:33:49.980
 That's not church discipline.

00:33:50.340 --> 00:33:51.279
 You know what church discipline is?

00:33:51.519 --> 00:33:54.860
 I see my brother sin, or they sin against me.

00:33:54.859 --> 00:33:58.359
 And I say, it is my problem.

00:33:58.359 --> 00:34:01.240
 Not because of me.

00:34:01.379 --> 00:34:03.559
 I don't want them to change to make my life easier.

00:34:03.699 --> 00:34:06.359
 Although, of course, life's easier when people don't sin against you.

00:34:08.279 --> 00:34:10.960
 But because of their soul.

00:34:11.659 --> 00:34:12.960
 Because I actually love them.

00:34:12.960 --> 00:34:22.039
 But if you will not listen, take one or two others along so that every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.

00:34:22.599 --> 00:34:23.019
 Guess what?

00:34:23.159 --> 00:34:23.800
 Sometimes you're wrong.

00:34:24.659 --> 00:34:26.380
 Sometimes you're a little too wound around the spokes.

00:34:27.019 --> 00:34:27.599
 That's it!

00:34:27.980 --> 00:34:29.400
 No, you're just kind of a jerk.

00:34:29.880 --> 00:34:30.119
 Okay?

00:34:31.500 --> 00:34:32.980
 And that's an okay response.

00:34:33.079 --> 00:34:36.119
 Someone comes and confronts you on something that's just...

00:34:36.119 --> 00:34:37.519
 Maybe you're right.

00:34:37.599 --> 00:34:38.300
 I don't know.

00:34:38.300 --> 00:34:40.240
 I think you're getting a little wound around the spokes.

00:34:40.420 --> 00:34:41.280
 I've been that person.

00:34:41.280 --> 00:34:44.240
 Time to get a few other people involved.

00:34:44.840 --> 00:34:45.120
 Okay?

00:34:45.400 --> 00:34:48.019
 Don't just leave it there in a passive-aggressive way.

00:34:48.100 --> 00:34:49.700
 Just being like, well, you didn't hear me?

00:34:50.060 --> 00:34:51.820
 I don't like that guy anymore.

00:34:52.300 --> 00:34:52.519
 You know?

00:34:52.880 --> 00:34:53.860
 They wouldn't listen to what I said.

00:34:54.140 --> 00:34:54.720
 Well, you know what?

00:34:54.740 --> 00:34:56.960
 They feel the same way about, you know, I think you're a judgmental jerk.

00:34:57.519 --> 00:34:57.760
 You know?

00:34:58.460 --> 00:35:00.620
 And so no one's helped at this point.

00:35:01.640 --> 00:35:02.080
 Praise God!

00:35:02.519 --> 00:35:03.880
 Very practical mitigation plan.

00:35:04.220 --> 00:35:05.380
 Take two or three other witnesses.

00:35:05.580 --> 00:35:08.300
 Let every matter be established in the presence of two or three witnesses.

00:35:09.120 --> 00:35:09.420
 Okay?

00:35:09.420 --> 00:35:11.680
 Maybe you weren't out to lunch.

00:35:12.300 --> 00:35:13.639
 Maybe it was actually pretty...

00:35:13.639 --> 00:35:14.599
 It was a serious thing.

00:35:15.300 --> 00:35:16.740
 Get a couple more people involved.

00:35:17.720 --> 00:35:18.159
 You know what?

00:35:18.360 --> 00:35:18.639
 Wow.

00:35:20.280 --> 00:35:22.139
 I thought you were just being a jerk at first.

00:35:22.619 --> 00:35:25.720
 But now I realize that other people agree.

00:35:26.420 --> 00:35:29.659
 And there's actually some more verses that they brought up that I hadn't really thought about.

00:35:30.900 --> 00:35:31.720
 I need to repent.

00:35:32.579 --> 00:35:33.340
 I need to repent.

00:35:35.200 --> 00:35:35.980
 It's restoring.

00:35:35.980 --> 00:35:39.199
 If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church.

00:35:39.699 --> 00:35:43.639
 And if he refuses to listen even to the church, treat him as you would a pagan or a tax collector.

00:35:45.260 --> 00:35:50.880
 So, that's what the church does.

00:35:51.619 --> 00:35:51.760
 Okay?

00:35:51.760 --> 00:35:59.640
 See, at the end of the day, if you have persistent, unrepentant sin, if you refuse to repent, you're out of fellowship with God.

00:36:01.040 --> 00:36:04.480
 And if the church keeps up the show of being in fellowship with you, it's a lie.

00:36:04.700 --> 00:36:05.440
 They're lying to you.

00:36:06.100 --> 00:36:08.340
 They're saying, I'm nicer than God.

00:36:09.940 --> 00:36:10.260
 Okay?

00:36:10.260 --> 00:36:11.680
 You're not nicer than God.

00:36:12.360 --> 00:36:12.640
 Okay?

00:36:13.100 --> 00:36:16.300
 The nicest thing you can do is to treat them like God's treating them.

00:36:17.100 --> 00:36:24.700
 And if they're deluding themselves, that they can go on in known, unrepentant sin and make it in the end.

00:36:24.699 --> 00:36:36.119
 And the most loving thing to do is to have on earth the same reality experienced and expressed as it is in the heavenly places.

00:36:36.559 --> 00:36:37.819
 They're not walking in the light.

00:36:37.879 --> 00:36:40.139
 If you walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another.

00:36:40.839 --> 00:36:43.339
 If he says he does and walks in darkness, he lies.

00:36:43.960 --> 00:36:44.679
 He's lying.

00:36:45.659 --> 00:36:47.379
 He's lying to himself even.

00:36:47.380 --> 00:36:56.460
 They might even think, they might have some theological categories about, you know, justification that break when you compare it with the other verses about sanctification.

00:36:57.280 --> 00:36:58.500
 And they're deluding themselves.

00:36:58.579 --> 00:37:02.820
 They're taking the grace of God and they're using it as a license for perpetual disobedience.

00:37:03.260 --> 00:37:07.460
 Crossing your fingers and hoping someday God's going to do, he's going to break in, he'll do his work.

00:37:08.200 --> 00:37:09.200
 But until then, what are you going to do?

00:37:10.460 --> 00:37:12.320
 Definitely not getting anybody else involved.

00:37:14.160 --> 00:37:14.820
 That's fatal.

00:37:15.340 --> 00:37:16.180
 That's apostasy.

00:37:16.179 --> 00:37:20.419
 That's the road to experienced apostasy.

00:37:21.579 --> 00:37:22.259
 Bible says,

00:37:22.359 --> 00:37:28.519
 We've got to hold these things together, all right?

00:37:28.639 --> 00:37:29.480
 And they do fit together.

00:37:30.359 --> 00:37:32.039
 Perseverance of the saints is a glorious thing.

00:37:32.779 --> 00:37:33.799
 How does he do it?

00:37:34.399 --> 00:37:36.539
 Well, one of the ways he does it is through church discipline.

00:37:37.339 --> 00:37:44.940
 And we need to take up our responsibility that we have to each other to participate in the keeping work of the Lord Jesus Christ.

00:37:44.940 --> 00:37:46.400
 For all those who call on his name.

00:37:47.119 --> 00:37:49.119
 And especially those who are in our midst.

00:37:49.179 --> 00:37:49.579
 Okay?

00:37:49.720 --> 00:37:51.079
 The ones who are actually in our families.

00:37:51.920 --> 00:37:52.820
 In our church.

00:37:53.079 --> 00:37:54.500
 We have a responsibility to each other.

00:37:54.500 --> 00:38:02.360
 1 Peter 2, verse 24 through 25.

00:38:02.559 --> 00:38:04.960
 Let's share this and I'll wrap it up with a few points here.

00:38:04.960 --> 00:38:06.659
 It says about Jesus,

00:38:06.659 --> 00:38:12.579
 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree that we might die to sin and live to righteousness.

00:38:12.719 --> 00:38:16.039
 By his wounds you have been healed.

00:38:16.779 --> 00:38:22.099
 For you were straying like sheep but have now returned to the shepherd and overseer of your souls.

00:38:22.940 --> 00:38:23.619
 Healing.

00:38:23.619 --> 00:38:26.019
 spiritual healing.

00:38:27.599 --> 00:38:29.460
 Praise God for healing from sickness.

00:38:31.759 --> 00:38:33.900
 But healing from spiritual sickness,

00:38:34.400 --> 00:38:37.159
 it's way more important.

00:38:37.819 --> 00:38:39.839
 And we have way more promises

00:38:39.839 --> 00:38:41.739
 that God will answer that prayer

00:38:41.739 --> 00:38:43.619
 to stand on when we're praying for it.

00:38:44.679 --> 00:38:45.719
 It's guaranteed.

00:38:48.019 --> 00:38:49.519
 By his wounds you've been healed.

00:38:49.519 --> 00:38:50.000
 Okay.

00:38:53.119 --> 00:38:56.059
 I have a few points in the form of exhortations.

00:38:56.599 --> 00:38:57.619
 First one is

00:38:57.619 --> 00:38:58.860
 fakery kills fellowship.

00:38:59.259 --> 00:38:59.679
 Be real.

00:39:01.300 --> 00:39:03.579
 We all know what we ought to be.

00:39:05.119 --> 00:39:05.920
 Don't fake it

00:39:05.920 --> 00:39:06.460
 until you make it.

00:39:06.800 --> 00:39:08.239
 It just totally destroys fellowship.

00:39:09.119 --> 00:39:10.199
 You're not tricking anybody.

00:39:10.780 --> 00:39:12.139
 It just feels artificial.

00:39:12.639 --> 00:39:13.320
 And we've all done it.

00:39:14.380 --> 00:39:16.199
 But we don't need to do it.

00:39:16.239 --> 00:39:18.259
 We have a better high priest and he was not fake.

00:39:18.260 --> 00:39:18.740
 Okay.

00:39:22.000 --> 00:39:23.060
 First exhortations.

00:39:23.180 --> 00:39:24.120
 The second one is

00:39:24.120 --> 00:39:25.280
 don't go it alone.

00:39:25.400 --> 00:39:26.360
 Get help from the body

00:39:26.360 --> 00:39:27.500
 for ongoing sickness

00:39:27.500 --> 00:39:28.860
 and besetting sin.

00:39:29.420 --> 00:39:31.120
 So have you confessed your sins to each other?

00:39:31.860 --> 00:39:33.680
 Have you made it easy for people to confront you?

00:39:34.200 --> 00:39:35.320
 That's one thing to exhort you to,

00:39:35.520 --> 00:39:35.780
 you know,

00:39:35.900 --> 00:39:37.540
 people to go confront and stuff.

00:39:37.620 --> 00:39:38.060
 But hey,

00:39:38.240 --> 00:39:40.800
 have you just lovingly opened up about,

00:39:40.900 --> 00:39:42.220
 hey, this is the stuff that I've been

00:39:42.220 --> 00:39:43.220
 defeated by.

00:39:43.320 --> 00:39:45.160
 I'm convicted to get it in the light.

00:39:46.360 --> 00:39:47.480
 This is not for forgiveness.

00:39:47.480 --> 00:39:49.619
 You don't need to confess to another human being

00:39:49.619 --> 00:39:51.119
 on the planet to be forgiven for your sin.

00:39:51.179 --> 00:39:52.079
 We already talked about that.

00:39:53.119 --> 00:39:54.300
 This is for healing.

00:39:54.800 --> 00:39:55.480
 Let me ask you this.

00:39:55.840 --> 00:39:56.740
 Do you want to get free?

00:39:58.480 --> 00:39:59.320
 Do you even want to?

00:40:01.079 --> 00:40:02.699
 Or do you prefer

00:40:02.699 --> 00:40:04.980
 not getting free

00:40:04.980 --> 00:40:08.019
 and just getting forgiven

00:40:08.019 --> 00:40:09.079
 on an endless,

00:40:09.719 --> 00:40:11.960
 endless cycle?

00:40:12.420 --> 00:40:13.500
 Do you prefer that?

00:40:15.880 --> 00:40:17.179
 I want to question something.

00:40:17.719 --> 00:40:19.119
 If that's your preference,

00:40:20.119 --> 00:40:22.619
 you need to put your faith to the test.

00:40:23.619 --> 00:40:24.039
 Okay?

00:40:24.460 --> 00:40:25.280
 Whoever is born of God

00:40:25.280 --> 00:40:25.840
 does not

00:40:25.840 --> 00:40:27.679
 go on sinning.

00:40:27.679 --> 00:40:29.339
 1 John

00:40:29.339 --> 00:40:31.299
 in the sense of

00:40:31.299 --> 00:40:32.779
 a habitual

00:40:32.779 --> 00:40:34.059
 lifestyle pattern

00:40:34.059 --> 00:40:34.279
 of,

00:40:34.500 --> 00:40:34.819
 it's fine.

00:40:36.480 --> 00:40:37.339
 God will love Jesus

00:40:37.339 --> 00:40:38.239
 and wash me clean.

00:40:38.659 --> 00:40:39.539
 You go to your confessor

00:40:39.539 --> 00:40:39.960
 every week.

00:40:40.279 --> 00:40:40.799
 That's just,

00:40:40.799 --> 00:40:42.000
 that's just Catholicism.

00:40:43.059 --> 00:40:43.899
 It's death.

00:40:44.259 --> 00:40:45.299
 It'll damn your soul to hell.

00:40:46.139 --> 00:40:46.379
 So,

00:40:47.059 --> 00:40:47.379
 anyway,

00:40:47.879 --> 00:40:48.419
 free forgiveness

00:40:48.419 --> 00:40:48.960
 through Jesus

00:40:48.960 --> 00:40:50.419
 and for a true believer,

00:40:50.739 --> 00:40:51.639
 you want to get free.

00:40:51.980 --> 00:40:52.239
 Okay?

00:40:52.679 --> 00:40:53.179
 And I trust

00:40:53.179 --> 00:40:53.920
 if you're a true believer,

00:40:54.000 --> 00:40:54.739
 the Lord's convicting you

00:40:54.739 --> 00:40:55.119
 about that

00:40:55.119 --> 00:40:56.039
 because it convicts me.

00:40:57.279 --> 00:40:57.480
 And,

00:40:57.519 --> 00:40:58.759
 anyway,

00:40:58.879 --> 00:40:59.559
 but don't go it alone.

00:40:59.739 --> 00:41:00.420
 You can't go it alone.

00:41:00.659 --> 00:41:01.119
 There's no way

00:41:01.119 --> 00:41:01.659
 you're going to get free

00:41:01.659 --> 00:41:02.259
 from your sin

00:41:02.259 --> 00:41:03.440
 unless you get in the light

00:41:03.440 --> 00:41:03.779
 about it

00:41:03.779 --> 00:41:04.759
 with other brothers and sisters.

00:41:05.859 --> 00:41:06.259
 Third,

00:41:06.420 --> 00:41:07.139
 take responsibility

00:41:07.139 --> 00:41:07.980
 for each other

00:41:07.980 --> 00:41:09.379
 in two ways.

00:41:09.460 --> 00:41:09.719
 One,

00:41:09.859 --> 00:41:10.159
 prayer.

00:41:10.859 --> 00:41:11.000
 Okay?

00:41:12.199 --> 00:41:12.879
 God's will

00:41:12.879 --> 00:41:13.920
 is your sanctification,

00:41:14.460 --> 00:41:15.339
 so pray in faith.

00:41:15.779 --> 00:41:16.559
 We can pray for freedom

00:41:16.559 --> 00:41:17.500
 from sickness for people,

00:41:17.920 --> 00:41:18.659
 but we can pray

00:41:18.659 --> 00:41:19.839
 confidently in faith

00:41:19.839 --> 00:41:20.299
 for freedom

00:41:20.300 --> 00:41:21.800
 for spiritual sickness.

00:41:22.220 --> 00:41:23.460
 And we have a responsibility

00:41:23.460 --> 00:41:24.519
 we owe to each other

00:41:24.519 --> 00:41:25.700
 to partner together

00:41:25.700 --> 00:41:26.700
 in the work of the Holy Spirit

00:41:26.700 --> 00:41:30.160
 to get free from sin.

00:41:30.680 --> 00:41:30.840
 Okay?

00:41:31.060 --> 00:41:31.880
 From besetting sin.

00:41:33.160 --> 00:41:34.019
 And the second is

00:41:34.019 --> 00:41:34.720
 church discipline.

00:41:35.860 --> 00:41:38.000
 Restoration to a right relationship

00:41:38.000 --> 00:41:39.380
 with God and people.

00:41:39.860 --> 00:41:40.860
 That's the work

00:41:40.860 --> 00:41:42.100
 of leaving the 99

00:41:42.100 --> 00:41:43.620
 and going and getting the 1.

00:41:44.019 --> 00:41:44.780
 It's the work

00:41:44.780 --> 00:41:45.440
 of having that

00:41:45.440 --> 00:41:46.720
 uncomfortable conversation

00:41:46.720 --> 00:41:48.320
 that you keep putting off

00:41:48.320 --> 00:41:50.700
 with your brother

00:41:50.700 --> 00:41:51.100
 or sister.

00:41:53.780 --> 00:41:54.519
 Because that's how

00:41:54.519 --> 00:41:54.940
 he does it.

00:41:55.320 --> 00:41:55.800
 You realize

00:41:55.800 --> 00:41:56.500
 that's Jesus

00:41:56.500 --> 00:41:57.820
 through you

00:41:57.820 --> 00:41:59.380
 reconciling someone

00:41:59.380 --> 00:41:59.760
 to God.

00:42:02.480 --> 00:42:02.840
 So,

00:42:03.039 --> 00:42:04.280
 we need to do that.

00:42:05.019 --> 00:42:06.059
 Don't think of church discipline

00:42:06.059 --> 00:42:06.780
 as something just like

00:42:06.780 --> 00:42:07.480
 the elders do

00:42:07.480 --> 00:42:07.940
 and you get,

00:42:08.039 --> 00:42:08.180
 you know,

00:42:08.200 --> 00:42:09.180
 just excommunication.

00:42:09.360 --> 00:42:09.700
 No, no, no.

00:42:09.780 --> 00:42:10.559
 We all have

00:42:10.559 --> 00:42:11.300
 a responsibility

00:42:11.300 --> 00:42:12.120
 to each other

00:42:12.120 --> 00:42:13.880
 to bear each other's burdens

00:42:13.880 --> 00:42:14.500
 and so fulfill

00:42:14.500 --> 00:42:15.000
 the law of Christ.

00:42:15.059 --> 00:42:15.860
 That's what he's talking about.

00:42:16.559 --> 00:42:16.720
 So,

00:42:16.780 --> 00:42:17.180
 we need to pray

00:42:17.180 --> 00:42:18.680
 and we need to practice

00:42:18.680 --> 00:42:19.440
 church discipline

00:42:19.440 --> 00:42:19.940
 that's loving.

00:42:20.039 --> 00:42:20.800
 We just need to tell each other

00:42:20.800 --> 00:42:21.519
 if their brother sins,

00:42:21.700 --> 00:42:22.000
 tell them.

00:42:22.800 --> 00:42:23.180
 There we go.

00:42:23.620 --> 00:42:24.180
 Church discipline,

00:42:24.280 --> 00:42:24.740
 one-on-one.

00:42:24.980 --> 00:42:26.059
 We should all be doing it.

00:42:26.400 --> 00:42:27.420
 It's not weird.

00:42:27.940 --> 00:42:28.760
 It might be weird

00:42:28.760 --> 00:42:29.660
 for a little bit

00:42:29.660 --> 00:42:30.440
 if you haven't been

00:42:30.440 --> 00:42:31.160
 practicing it,

00:42:31.360 --> 00:42:32.340
 but it's a whole lot better

00:42:32.340 --> 00:42:33.019
 than gossiping

00:42:33.019 --> 00:42:33.960
 behind somebody's back.

00:42:34.579 --> 00:42:35.400
 That doesn't seem weird.

00:42:35.800 --> 00:42:36.640
 Do that all the time.

00:42:39.000 --> 00:42:40.780
 Why doesn't it feel weird

00:42:40.780 --> 00:42:41.360
 like you know

00:42:41.360 --> 00:42:42.019
 about someone's sin?

00:42:42.079 --> 00:42:42.780
 Why doesn't it feel weird

00:42:42.780 --> 00:42:43.380
 when you go on

00:42:43.380 --> 00:42:44.220
 to start talking about

00:42:44.220 --> 00:42:44.780
 that person

00:42:44.780 --> 00:42:45.740
 and their sins

00:42:45.740 --> 00:42:46.380
 to other people?

00:42:47.160 --> 00:42:48.099
 I'm just seeking counsel.

00:42:51.360 --> 00:42:51.720
 That's,

00:42:51.980 --> 00:42:53.039
 maybe,

00:42:53.700 --> 00:42:54.619
 but if you

00:42:54.619 --> 00:42:55.780
 haven't talked to them

00:42:55.780 --> 00:42:56.460
 or you have no plans

00:42:56.460 --> 00:42:56.900
 to talk to them

00:42:56.900 --> 00:42:57.680
 and you're on the calendar

00:42:57.680 --> 00:42:58.160
 and you're praying

00:42:58.160 --> 00:42:58.740
 towards that end,

00:42:58.780 --> 00:42:59.360
 you're getting counsel

00:42:59.360 --> 00:43:00.420
 in order to have a conversation

00:43:00.420 --> 00:43:01.579
 real soon,

00:43:02.220 --> 00:43:02.660
 BS.

00:43:03.340 --> 00:43:04.260
 You don't actually

00:43:04.260 --> 00:43:05.160
 care about that person.

00:43:05.260 --> 00:43:06.119
 You care about yourself.

00:43:07.059 --> 00:43:07.300
 Okay?

00:43:07.400 --> 00:43:07.860
 And you need to repent

00:43:07.860 --> 00:43:09.120
 and go have

00:43:09.120 --> 00:43:09.860
 those conversations.

00:43:11.720 --> 00:43:12.380
 Last one.

00:43:13.120 --> 00:43:13.800
 Don't hide.

00:43:15.620 --> 00:43:16.180
 This is

00:43:16.180 --> 00:43:18.360
 first exhortation.

00:43:18.620 --> 00:43:19.760
 The exhortation

00:43:19.760 --> 00:43:20.320
 right before this

00:43:20.320 --> 00:43:21.200
 is the people

00:43:21.200 --> 00:43:21.720
 who know

00:43:21.720 --> 00:43:22.099
 they're supposed

00:43:22.099 --> 00:43:23.059
 to talk to other people.

00:43:23.880 --> 00:43:24.039
 Okay?

00:43:25.420 --> 00:43:26.320
 This is the person

00:43:26.320 --> 00:43:27.120
 who needs to be talked to.

00:43:27.300 --> 00:43:27.700
 Don't hide.

00:43:29.500 --> 00:43:30.460
 Church discipline

00:43:30.460 --> 00:43:31.780
 is God's means

00:43:31.780 --> 00:43:32.900
 of preserving you

00:43:32.900 --> 00:43:34.320
 from apostasy.

00:43:34.680 --> 00:43:35.120
 You believe

00:43:35.120 --> 00:43:35.680
 in perseverance

00:43:35.680 --> 00:43:36.320
 of the saints?

00:43:36.320 --> 00:43:38.360
 Well, do you believe

00:43:38.360 --> 00:43:39.140
 in God's means

00:43:39.140 --> 00:43:40.000
 for keeping you?

00:43:42.519 --> 00:43:43.280
 Do you really?

00:43:45.100 --> 00:43:45.820
 How is he going

00:43:45.820 --> 00:43:46.280
 to keep you?

00:43:46.580 --> 00:43:47.240
 I think about this.

00:43:48.400 --> 00:43:49.320
 Who makes children?

00:43:50.960 --> 00:43:51.320
 Anybody know

00:43:51.320 --> 00:43:51.820
 who makes children?

00:43:52.360 --> 00:43:52.800
 Who makes children?

00:43:53.340 --> 00:43:53.760
 Kids know?

00:43:56.039 --> 00:43:56.480
 God.

00:43:57.120 --> 00:43:58.180
 God makes children, right?

00:43:59.340 --> 00:43:59.780
 Okay.

00:43:59.980 --> 00:44:00.460
 How does God

00:44:00.460 --> 00:44:00.880
 make children?

00:44:03.039 --> 00:44:03.860
 Through a mom

00:44:03.860 --> 00:44:05.220
 and a dad

00:44:05.219 --> 00:44:06.319
 the sperm

00:44:06.319 --> 00:44:07.279
 and the egg

00:44:07.279 --> 00:44:08.559
 words and the bees.

00:44:10.039 --> 00:44:10.480
 So,

00:44:10.679 --> 00:44:12.000
 you are

00:44:12.000 --> 00:44:13.139
 putting your confidence

00:44:13.139 --> 00:44:13.819
 that God's going

00:44:13.819 --> 00:44:14.579
 to preserve you

00:44:14.579 --> 00:44:15.039
 all the way

00:44:15.039 --> 00:44:15.459
 to the end

00:44:15.459 --> 00:44:16.439
 because you trusted Jesus.

00:44:18.839 --> 00:44:19.539
 But you

00:44:19.539 --> 00:44:20.480
 are hiding.

00:44:21.919 --> 00:44:22.559
 You're living

00:44:22.559 --> 00:44:23.399
 a double life.

00:44:25.359 --> 00:44:26.199
 You don't want

00:44:26.199 --> 00:44:26.799
 people to get up

00:44:26.799 --> 00:44:27.299
 in your business

00:44:27.299 --> 00:44:29.019
 and see what's

00:44:29.019 --> 00:44:29.319
 going on

00:44:29.319 --> 00:44:29.719
 in the kitchen.

00:44:29.719 --> 00:44:33.819
 do you really

00:44:33.819 --> 00:44:34.219
 believe?

00:44:34.359 --> 00:44:34.919
 You're basically

00:44:34.919 --> 00:44:36.179
 saying,

00:44:36.359 --> 00:44:38.079
 God make a baby

00:44:38.079 --> 00:44:38.939
 and you're refusing

00:44:38.939 --> 00:44:40.559
 to do the

00:44:40.559 --> 00:44:41.659
 divinely ordained

00:44:41.659 --> 00:44:42.139
 means

00:44:42.139 --> 00:44:44.659
 that he put in place

00:44:44.659 --> 00:44:45.339
 to have babies.

00:44:46.159 --> 00:44:47.139
 Does God make babies?

00:44:47.239 --> 00:44:47.500
 Yes.

00:44:47.739 --> 00:44:48.539
 Do people make babies?

00:44:48.639 --> 00:44:48.919
 Yes.

00:44:49.139 --> 00:44:49.679
 Both are true.

00:44:50.379 --> 00:44:50.559
 Okay?

00:44:50.879 --> 00:44:51.239
 So,

00:44:51.599 --> 00:44:52.119
 we need to connect

00:44:52.119 --> 00:44:52.919
 these truths up.

00:44:53.419 --> 00:44:54.539
 If you have confidence

00:44:54.539 --> 00:44:55.199
 that Jesus is going

00:44:55.199 --> 00:44:55.779
 to continue

00:44:55.779 --> 00:44:56.399
 and keep you

00:44:56.399 --> 00:44:56.919
 to the end,

00:44:57.319 --> 00:44:57.939
 better start walking

00:44:57.940 --> 00:44:58.260
 in light.

00:44:59.059 --> 00:44:59.220
 Okay?

00:44:59.400 --> 00:44:59.940
 Because currently,

00:45:00.360 --> 00:45:00.780
 you should be

00:45:00.780 --> 00:45:01.539
 losing confidence.

00:45:02.139 --> 00:45:02.800
 The longer you

00:45:02.800 --> 00:45:03.500
 walk in darkness,

00:45:03.900 --> 00:45:04.619
 the more you

00:45:04.619 --> 00:45:05.280
 start to sound

00:45:05.280 --> 00:45:05.820
 like the people

00:45:05.820 --> 00:45:06.200
 who are in

00:45:06.200 --> 00:45:07.039
 John chapter 3.

00:45:07.880 --> 00:45:08.440
 It says men

00:45:08.440 --> 00:45:09.039
 hate,

00:45:09.099 --> 00:45:09.500
 this is the

00:45:09.500 --> 00:45:10.139
 condemnation,

00:45:11.159 --> 00:45:12.340
 men hated

00:45:12.340 --> 00:45:12.900
 the light

00:45:12.900 --> 00:45:14.700
 because they

00:45:14.700 --> 00:45:16.360
 loved the

00:45:16.360 --> 00:45:16.980
 darkness

00:45:16.980 --> 00:45:18.619
 because the

00:45:18.619 --> 00:45:19.780
 light revealed

00:45:19.780 --> 00:45:20.679
 their deeds.

00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:22.340
 Oof.

00:45:24.659 --> 00:45:24.900
 First,

00:45:24.980 --> 00:45:25.200
 first,

00:45:25.280 --> 00:45:25.220
 first,

00:45:25.300 --> 00:45:25.480
 first,

00:45:25.480 --> 00:45:27.519
 first,

00:45:27.940 --> 00:45:28.460
 don't tell

00:45:28.460 --> 00:45:28.740
 me what

00:45:28.740 --> 00:45:29.039
 to do.

00:45:30.280 --> 00:45:30.539
 Like,

00:45:31.179 --> 00:45:32.079
 that's broken.

00:45:32.760 --> 00:45:32.880
 Okay?

00:45:32.900 --> 00:45:33.400
 That's broken.

00:45:34.300 --> 00:45:34.940
 John chapter 3

00:45:34.940 --> 00:45:35.519
 continues and

00:45:35.519 --> 00:45:35.920
 says those

00:45:35.920 --> 00:45:36.159
 who are of

00:45:36.159 --> 00:45:36.480
 the truth

00:45:36.480 --> 00:45:36.940
 come to

00:45:36.940 --> 00:45:37.320
 the light

00:45:37.320 --> 00:45:38.940
 so that

00:45:38.940 --> 00:45:39.320
 their deeds

00:45:39.320 --> 00:45:39.559
 would be

00:45:39.559 --> 00:45:40.220
 seen as

00:45:40.220 --> 00:45:40.960
 having been

00:45:40.960 --> 00:45:41.340
 wrought in

00:45:41.340 --> 00:45:41.599
 God.

00:45:42.679 --> 00:45:43.039
 You know what?

00:45:43.059 --> 00:45:43.360
 There's two

00:45:43.360 --> 00:45:43.920
 categories of

00:45:43.920 --> 00:45:44.079
 deeds.

00:45:44.220 --> 00:45:44.700
 One is

00:45:44.700 --> 00:45:45.760
 things that

00:45:45.760 --> 00:45:46.320
 God's actually

00:45:46.320 --> 00:45:47.139
 done positively

00:45:47.139 --> 00:45:47.700
 in my life

00:45:47.700 --> 00:45:48.079
 to help me

00:45:48.079 --> 00:45:48.539
 obey God.

00:45:48.619 --> 00:45:49.079
 That's awesome.

00:45:49.340 --> 00:45:49.480
 Okay?

00:45:49.599 --> 00:45:50.200
 Praise God.

00:45:50.260 --> 00:45:50.519
 Bring it to

00:45:50.519 --> 00:45:50.679
 light.

00:45:51.079 --> 00:45:51.220
 You know what

00:45:51.220 --> 00:45:51.800
 another deed is?

00:45:52.039 --> 00:45:52.579
 Conviction of

00:45:52.579 --> 00:45:53.000
 sin by the

00:45:53.000 --> 00:45:53.420
 Holy Spirit.

00:45:54.119 --> 00:45:54.960
 And you bring

00:45:54.960 --> 00:45:55.420
 it into the

00:45:55.420 --> 00:45:55.619
 light.

00:45:55.700 --> 00:45:56.039
 That's one of

00:45:56.039 --> 00:45:56.380
 the first

00:45:56.380 --> 00:45:56.920
 ministries of

00:45:56.920 --> 00:45:57.300
 the Holy Spirit

00:45:57.300 --> 00:45:58.099
 Jesus prophesied

00:45:58.099 --> 00:45:58.960
 is he will

00:45:58.960 --> 00:45:59.640
 convict the

00:45:59.640 --> 00:46:00.059
 world of

00:46:00.059 --> 00:46:00.340
 sin.

00:46:01.280 --> 00:46:01.900
 Show the

00:46:01.900 --> 00:46:02.420
 work God's

00:46:02.420 --> 00:46:02.760
 doing in

00:46:02.760 --> 00:46:03.240
 your life

00:46:03.240 --> 00:46:04.079
 by convicting

00:46:04.079 --> 00:46:04.420
 you of

00:46:04.420 --> 00:46:04.900
 hidden sin

00:46:04.900 --> 00:46:05.240
 that no one

00:46:05.240 --> 00:46:05.619
 else knows

00:46:05.619 --> 00:46:05.880
 about.

00:46:06.460 --> 00:46:06.960
 Get it out

00:46:06.960 --> 00:46:07.240
 there.

00:46:08.440 --> 00:46:08.780
 And then

00:46:08.780 --> 00:46:10.480
 receive this

00:46:10.480 --> 00:46:11.340
 awesome assurance

00:46:11.340 --> 00:46:12.140
 that God is

00:46:12.140 --> 00:46:12.820
 keeping you.

00:46:14.180 --> 00:46:14.539
 Whom the

00:46:14.539 --> 00:46:15.260
 Father loves,

00:46:15.539 --> 00:46:16.200
 he disciplines.

00:46:17.380 --> 00:46:17.700
 Yeah,

00:46:17.860 --> 00:46:18.500
 it sucks.

00:46:18.940 --> 00:46:19.539
 No discipline

00:46:19.539 --> 00:46:20.140
 is pleasant

00:46:20.140 --> 00:46:21.280
 for the time.

00:46:21.760 --> 00:46:22.920
 But afterwards,

00:46:23.320 --> 00:46:24.000
 it produces

00:46:24.000 --> 00:46:25.000
 the peaceable

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 fruit of

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 righteousness

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 to those

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 who've been

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 trained by it.

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 Praise the

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 Lord.

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 So,

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 anyway,

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 that's it.

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