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and I invite you to turn to James and chapter five the letter of James in the New Testament I think it's page 856 in the church Bibles we've come today I believe to the end of our studies in James tonight we'll be in the final two verses and this morning we deal with the three or four verses that lead up to that but let me just read the section that begins from verse 13 through to the end of the chapter is any one of you in trouble he should pray is anyone happy let him sing songs of praise is any one of you sick he should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord and the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well the Lord will raise him up if he has sinned he will be forgiven therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed the prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective Elijah was a man just like us he prayed earnestly that it would not rain and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years again he prayed and the heavens gave rain and the earth produced its crops my brother's if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring him back remember this whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way will save him from death and cover over a multitude of sins amen now it's good for us indeed it's necessary for us to remind ourselves especially as we get to the end of this letter that James is writing to a select group of individuals select not in terms of their geographical destination as in some of the other letters of the New Testament but in relationship to their identity as sons and daughters of the Living God and I want purposefully to turn you just for a moment to the 18th of chapter one so that we might be in no doubt as to to whom this letter is addressed in that eighteenth verse and it's some months ago now we looked there and discovered God's initiative insofar as he chose to give us birth this may seem a strange statement to people and wonder just what it could possibly mean it's the same kind of pondering that mark Nicodemus when he came to Jesus as a religious man by night and he was from his perspective in a relationship with God and Jesus said to him you know Nicodemus you actually have to be born again and Nicodemus says well I don't understand that how could I possibly be born again can I enter a second time into my mother's womb and be born and Jesus goes on to explain to him that he's speaking in spiritual terms and this is something that we do not know by simply thinking this is something that we only discover by God's revelation namely that by our nature we are dead in our trespasses and in our sins and unless God comes to make us alive we remain spiritually dead and the wonder of God's dealings is that he comes in the person of his son taking the initiative and giving birth to sinners and it is this that James emphasizes he then goes on it's still in verse 18 to remind his readers that the instrument that God has used in bringing this spiritual birth about is the word of truth we might think immediately in terms of our Bibles and we wouldn't be wrong there but I think James probably has in mind not so much the written word of Scripture but the Living Word namely Jesus himself the one whom John introduces as the word in the beginning was the word and the Word was with God and the Word was God and he goes on to say of that word in him was life and that life was the light of men and the intention of God in doing this in bringing people to birth through the word of truth is that those who have come to this experience of the Living God would be a kind of firstfruits an early indication of God's ultimate purpose and God's ultimate purpose is to put together a people that are his very own that will begin increasingly to look like Jesus until finally one day when they see him they will be made absolutely like him and when Paul writes concerning these things he says in a similar vein to the Ephesians you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth the gospel of your salvation and the question this morning of course that is then obvious to us is whether we fit the descriptive nature of those to whom James is writing are we able to look to a place a time in our lives when we recognized that we were brought from blindness to sight from death to life when we were included in Christ when the Bible became alive to us when hymns and songs became the expression of our hearts and when quite frankly in biblical terms we were just made new people and this of course is the wonder of God's dealings and that's what we've been singing about this morning in a number of our hymns and you may if you are a skeptic or if you are a seeker have had difficulty with some of those words because in your heart of hearts you knew that they were describing something that was not actually true of you is not true of you but the wonderful news of the Bible is that it may be true of you and that God wants to include you and to welcome you so that the words that we're now about to consider in James chapter 5 will be distinctly applicable to you and it is to those who have been included in Christ then that he gives these exhortations at the end of his letter because to be included in Christ is not to live angularly or solitarily but is but is to be brought into a family to be brought into a group of people who are quite literally in jesus our brothers and our sisters united as a result of the initiative of the same father brought to life as a result of the living word of truth and intended to take on a family likeness that will be a testimony to the power of god in the world and so it is important that we realize that what James is saying as he draws his letter to the close is is being said to the family to the the gathering of God's people and we need to think of it in terms of mutuality that may seem very straightforward to some and yet to others it may seem very countercultural the whole idea of the corporate nature of our lives in a world that has embraced a fierce individualism i took what was offered to me as a spinning class on one day of last week some of you will know what that is those of you think it's standing around with a spinning top we'll need to go on the online and find out what it really is I can trust trust me it isn't that at all you sit on a bicycle until you're almost dead and then and then it stops and I signed up for this class somewhat unwittingly arrived only to discover that there were eight of us in the class the other seven participants were ladies and that wouldn't have been so bad whether or not for the fight that they all seem to be doing far better than me and and only pride kept me on the bicycle to the end of the class I couldn't allow this lady who looked to be about 65 years of age pedal faster than me for 44 40 minutes but I mentioned that only because of what happened at the beginning of the class and that was that when the class commenced the the lights dimmed in the in the gymnasium the music began and the instructor in the class began to talk and she said to as immediately now close your eyes which I thought was rather dangerous in the first instance the case some of us fell off the bicycles but any we were to close our eyes and then she said and I love them I allow the music to begin to fill you can you feel the bass drum in your and the bass guitar in your sternum and allow this music to take you over and then as we were all apparently taken over by the music she said and and and see yourself see yourself can you see yourself she said and then she said and it is all about you it's all about you well I wanted a shout out in the class immediately but I thought I might fall off the bicycle and disrupt everything and so I had just I just I just suck it up but I thought well this is a microcosm of our society this is simply an expression of what people are fed on a daily basis that the whole of our existence starts with us that it is all about me so when that is true in the culture it will be increasingly true when you form church families a lot of people who come from that culture unless we are instructed and guided by the countercultural emphasis of the Bible itself which turns everything on its head I've told you before that when we conjugate Hebrew the verb to be in Hebrew it is the reverse of what it is in English in English it is I am you are he is in Hebrew it is he is you are I am and so it is that if we are to live the Christian life effectively we need to think Hebraic ly if you like concerning the nature of our relationship first to God and then to one another and until that actually is galvanized in our thinking then we will continue to read our Bibles on a purely experimental and individualistic basis asking the question always about me about me about me now you will notice that James is not talking about the me of the individual or the I of the individual but he is talking in the terms of mutuality calling on the elders of the church that is God's family and so on and having given the exhortation to the elders as to what they should do in these circumstances he now comes in verse 16 - let it be known that this privilege of prayer does not fall simply to those who are in leadership but indeed falls both as a privilege and a responsibility to all who are in the congregation and so he says therefore in light of what I've been telling you about coming and asking for prayer and seeking God in faith I want you he says verse 16 to confess your sins to each other to pray for each other so that you may be healed and then he goes on from there well first of all notice that in that first half of verse 16 he gives us an exhortation and exhortation it is very clear I want you to confess your sins to each other and I want you to pray for each other it's not easy to pray for each other I mean we've been offered the little booklet today to pray for the missionary family and some of us take it and have it in our Bibles and forget that it's even there I can do that very very easily consistently and then I have to do a big sort of gathering collective prayer on about the twenty ninth of the month Oh Lord I'm sorry I didn't pray for them so it's 28 days but you know who they all are and please bless them and so on that's not very good so very honest but it's not very good and because it isn't easy and the reason it isn't easy is because the evil one is opposed to our going to God in prayer because he actually knows what we often fail to register and that is that somehow in the mystery of God's purposes prayer is directly linked to his activity and so Satan fears realistically the prayers of God's people and when I find it difficult to know how to pray for others I look to those who are better at praying than me I read the prayers of others in history I read the prayers of the New Testament and I discover as I do so that it helps me to be able to think sensibly about the kind of things that he can ask God for in relationship to the other members of our church family so for example Colossians chapter one here's one of Paul's prayers for this reason he says since the day we heard about you we have not stopped praying for you and asking God now listen to the things he's asking for to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding and we're praying this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord may please him in every way bidding fruit and every good work growing in the knowledge of God being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you might have endurance and patience and so that you might joyfully give thanks to the Father who has done this wonderful thing in qualifying you to share the inheritance of the Saints in light you see how helpful that is now there's nothing illegitimate that it just seems to me to be eminently sensible we do not know how to pray the disciples themselves were honest with Jesus weren't they Lord would you teach us how to pray so he gave him a model prayer well perhaps that's enough on that because James in his exhortation says not only that there speak to their to speak to God on each other's behalf but you will notice he says that they are to be humble and honest with each other concerning their sins confessing your sins to each other praying for each other so that you may be healed now what he has in mind are probably offenses against one another the kind of offenses and sins which spoil relationships and inevitably hinder prayer now you will notice and I want to underscore it for you that there is a there is a tight connection here between confession and prayer indeed we might go so far as to say that the purpose of the confessing of our sins is in order that we might pray for each other now I highlight this because there are some dangers to avoid for example if we're going to listen to someone confess sins to us if we're going to listen to the faults of others how are we to do that how are we to do it in a way that is proper if you like well let me suggest to you that the only way to listen to someone confess their faults or their sins to you is to do so with a deliberate single-minded devotion to turn it into a matter of prayer so that if someone is honest enough to come and say I offended against you in this way or whatever it might be it doesn't then become something for us to mark up as an arch that we can now use against that individual some day when we say well I know that you felt that way or you did that towards me therefore I can hold it against you no we are to listen in such a way that we might be able to pray to God for one another for each other as it says and in order that there might be healing and restoration failure to do so will not result in healing it will result in havoc it will not result in healing it will result in havoc if we do not listen with that ear that turns to prayer then we may be guilty of listening with some kind of idle speculative curiosity we may be even be guilty of entering into a form of unhelpful voyeurism we may use the material shared with us as a basis for gossip that in turn may produce within the community of faith allegations and slander if you think I overstate the case I don't and when we come this evening to the notion of winning back the Wanderers an obvious cross reference for us is Galatians chapter 6 and verse 1 you needn't turn to it I'll quote it for you but here is how Paul begins his final chapter to the Galatians in a similar vein to what James does at the end of his letter as we'll see tonight brothers if someone is caught in a sin you who are spiritual should restore him gently and then what does he say butwhat's yourself or you also may be tempted watch yourself or you also may be tempted do you know how many times in a counseling situation especially where people are counseling people of the opposite sex the very sharing of information becomes the opportunity for further sin either on the part of the sharer or on the part of the listener I've tried my best to forget every instance in which that has been apparent to me in the last 25 years as I've lived here but believe me it has happened time and time and time again and it speaks to a number of things which is beyond the province of our concern right now there is a danger then in the way in which we listen and there is an equal danger in the way in which we speak for if our ears need to be trained by the Spirit of God our lips in confession need to be guided by the Spirit of God and one of the great dangers in the confession of sin is the dangerous strange as it may sound of exhibitionism exhibitionism there is a perversity about the human heart that unfettered from the direction of God's Spirit can take some kind of strange delight in telling other people bad things that we have done and indeed one may have reason to suspect that the reason they do so in such an instance is the hope that we may have an equally bad ear listening to their equally bad voice and when those two things combined you have a recipe for absolute disaster you see how much is demanded of us in terms of common gumption in the way in which we read and apply the Bible thinking sensibly I'm amazed at how many times men who in their everyday lives exercised clear rational thinking when it comes to the decisions of business or of engineering or of science or of craftsmanship whatever it may be and yet when it comes to the issues of the Bible somehow or another they go loopy somehow or another they decided that there is another mechanism that we use when we read this text no there isn't the Spirit of God works and he works through means and the warning here in this exhortation is that if we're going to apply this process we need to test our motives and we need to trust our relationships test the motive in speaking and trust the relationship you can talk to everybody about everything you didn't some people are like a their mouths are like a babbling brook they're just waiting for further information to be fed into the stream and it's no sooner in the stream that has gone downstream you can't tell things to those people you need to look for people who are the Dead Sea all of the information flows it but it never comes out the other end it simply has turned to God in prayer with this I or if you like to mix analogies you need the person who is the firewall there's the person who digs the dirty great ditch and says the fire will not jump beyond here if you tell it to me together we take it to God and the matter is finished and done with and we move on test your motives choose your relation chips and trust those you choose and finally in relationship to this it is a good rule of thumb and I've told you this before to regard the area of commission as the area of confession what I simply mean by that is if we have offended it against somebody with our words and often involving more people than the individual in the hearing of our words then it is almost always right to go back to that person and to say that we are sorry that we confess it that we ask for their forgiveness and that we perhaps even pray together and move on but it may not be indeed I would go as far to say as it probably won't be at all helpful to do the same thing with regard to our thoughts to our words and our actions yes to our thoughts no now your sensible people you can work this out to confess sinful thoughts to God is always right to confess them to each other is almost always not right in my humble estimation now you say well you probably have a self interest in this well I may actually in some way that I'm not prepared even fully to acknowledge but it is it is a quite devastating experience as a pastor to have somebody unearth this kind of confession passage and then the what they want to come and tell you all the bad thoughts they've ever had about you please don't tell me them confess them to God because that's what I'm doing with all the bad thoughts I've had about you so fair's fair right what possible benefit is there for me to come and tell you things that I have thought that are perverse that are unkind that are unwise and that may actually be untrue tell me one benefit in that there isn't a benefit in it the area of commission should be the area of confession in my thought life which God knows and I know to God I go if I offend against you in my words or in my actions I will come to you and you should come to me and it is in that context that we can expect healing to take place confess your sins to each other pray for each other so that you may be healed whether he has spiritual or physical healing and mind here we can't say with any great authority you know that from our study of three weeks ago in the evening when everybody just said staring at me like like donkeys looking over a wall I wasn't at all surprised but anyway I I think the cross reference and we'll move on from this is Jesus words in the Sermon on the Mount if you're offering your gift of the altar and there remember that your brother is something against you leave your gift there in front of the altar and first go and be reconciled to your brother and then come and offer your gift dislocation of relationship with God confession restores it dislocation of relationship with one another confession and intercession restores it so goes dislocation confession intercession restoration but if dislocation leads to repression rather than acknowledgement then you create another whole set of circumstances that will eventually just jump up and bite you well that's the exhortation in 16a we go now to the observation in 16b confess your sins to each other pray for each other so that you may be healed then here's the observation in a sentence the prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective if like me you were brought up the King James Version you know this verse are this half of the Versailles the effective the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much sounds very serious doesn't it but actually it's serious the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much the NIV gives it as the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man is is are they sorry I repeat myself there the prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective now who is this righteous man well we needn't go back all the way through this we've tried to identify ourselves in the eighteenth verse of chapter one and we've sung about it at least twice this morning haven't we his wounds have paid my ransom this is the individual who recognizes that there is no way that our attempts at righteous living or good living will be able to avail us a welcome into God's eternal presence therefore we're just in a dire position unless of course someone would come and live and keep God's law in perfection and that that same person would then pay the penalty of the offenses of those who are unable to keep God's law and that of course is the story of the gospel in the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ as a ransom for our sins as the one who takes our debt upon himself that we might enjoy all the benefits of his righteousness hence our song in royal robes I don't deserve I live to serve your majesty covered over in a righteousness that God provides this is the individual whose prayers are powerful and effective the person who's put in a right relationship with God will reveal that right relationship with God in a number of ways and many of those ways have been entertained and we have followed them through in the practicalities of James we don't go back to them now the righteous man or woman because they read the Bible and love the Bible will strive to avoid all known sin remember the sanest also praise cleanse me from my my hidden faults and my on my unknown stuff but the righteous individual avoids all known sin because they realize what the psalmist wrote if I had cherished sin in my heart the Lord would not have listened but God has surely listened and heard my voice in prayer notice that if I had cherished sin cherish is a wonderful verb it seldom if ever used in public conversation it's still used in some of the marriage services where we talk about cherishing our spouse but the idea of cherishing something is not simply to have it around it is to focus on it it is to be devoted to it it is if you like to have a very nice toffee in your mouth and to eat it really slowly and to move it all around the places in your mouth and just going man this is a fantastic toffee you know I don't want to finish this toffee I am cherishing this toffee now you remember we dealt with a double minded man or woman earlier than thing if the double minded man receives nothing from the Lord why is that because they're double minded you can't ask God to forgive you from a sin that you're cherishing in your heart or forgive me for this can't wait to do it again forgive me I'm gonna try that again forgive me the hypocrite can leave their sin and love it the holy person leaves their sin and loathes it and it is the righteous individual who is learning to keep short accounts with sin and that sin with one another hence the confession of our folks to one another and this individuals prayers are powerful and effective they these individuals know they can come to God directly they know that they may come intimately they know that they must come humbly they know that they're able to come expectantly now prayer is a vast subject and it is not time for a discourse on it but let me just give you one or two thoughts to stimulate your thinking as we move to our final point thought number one is simply this that God's plans in the world include our prayers if we go wrong there will never pray if our view of God's providence or God's sovereignty suggests to us that prayer is an irrelevance then we will never engage in prayer but somehow or another in the mystery of God's purposes he includes the prayers of his people in the accomplishing of his will he commands prayer and he moves our hearts to seek Him in prayer the Bible speaks of how God is both the inspirer and the hearer of our prayers he doesn't ask us to pray so that he might discover what we need because you remember jesus told his disciples your father knows what you need before you ask him Oh says someone well that's just what I'm talking about if he knows why would I ask him well are you a parent the fact that you know certain things about your children's expectation doesn't diminish in any way the legitimacy of their ask or the tremendous delight that is attached to it insofar as you as a father recognizing their expectation of you is able to respond because you see our prayers speak of dependence of dependence that is why the self ISM which is the pagan god of America in the 21st century the pagan god of the 21st century in America is self self it's all about me the answer is in me if I only look in properly I'll be able to find it God is his creation I am part of creation therefore I am part of God therefore I am ipso facto somehow or another a little God in my own right the Bible stands against that at every point and says that the creator of the universe with whom we have to do stands outside of his career and it is to him that we are accountable and it is upon him that we are dependent every breath that we take every move that we make is directly related to him and that's why it is dependence that gives voice to our prayers that's why the children and you'll see them all around in the hall here today you'll hear them and every song you hear the real voice it says daddy help daddy my shoe daddy how the Spirit of God comes and lives in our hearts and enables us to cry Abba Father the reason we don't just talk about God as someone or something or as a cosmic power is because we've been made new people before we became Christians God was something or someone way up there but now when we were included in Christ when we believed the word of truth when we accepted his gift of salvation suddenly God became accessible to us God became known to us and we're quite prepared to say I depend upon him entirely and that same God delights in his children coming to him he delights in it again Jesus said this you know memory said which of you fathers if your son asked for a fish would give him a snake or he asked for an egg we give him a stone he comes down for his breakfast and you're there on duty this is a realm of which I'm unaware but anyway we'll continue the illustration and and you're there on duty and you say what would you like it said I'd like a boiled egg so you're given balls here a glass of orange juice and then just a stone in the egg cup and just put it there who would do that no one would do that and then Jesus says if you then being evil know how to give good things to your children how much more will your heavenly Father give good things to them that ask him somehow or another as if God is there in some way unwilling to bestow his blessings and his benefits upon his children he loves it he's not commanding prayer as an irrelevancy he's not asking us to come and share our needs with him in some strange way No well you say give me a definition well Eisley I can't give her definition it's hard let me give you a quote from Derrick prime though that might help us as we come to our final point it says there are times when God wants us to persist in praying for something so that we assured ourselves of our own earnestness and keep ourselves available to become part of God's answer to our own prayers I'm thinking here of the conversion of close relatives and friends there are other areas of concern where to persist in praying about them indicates a lack of confidence in God rather than a confidence in him the distinction between the two probably is something to do with whether or not I'm asking God for something which is for my own personal advantage or something which I know God plainly wants for others if I'm asking God for something for myself which I know may or may not be his will than to continue to ask him for the same thing may well be inappropriate knowing he has heard my prayer I may trust him to do what's best on the other hand if I'm praying for the conversion of others for those whom the father has given to his son as a fruit of Calvary then I'm right to continue in my asking until I see God's answer for in some mysterious way my praying together with that of others has a place in the unseen spiritual battle that goes on for men's souls I seldom if ever in this life know what place my prayers may have but I do know that when I pray I have the privilege of opening the resources of heaven to those for whom I prayer 7:30 Saturday morning I welcome you to come as we open Heaven's doors as we pray for the conversion of Greater Cleveland as we pray for the conversion and restoration of some who once lived with us and walked with us as we pray in order that we might seek to win back the Wanderers as we will discover in our final session this evening well there is an exhortation there in 16 a there's an observation in 16 B and 17 and 18 gives us an illustration our time is gone I'm going to have to just give this to you in outline form and trust that you will actually do your homework look at what it says here Elijah Elijah was a man just like us that is very striking because anyone who knows anything about the Bible knows in one sense Elijah really wasn't just like us Elijah was Elijah he was the daddy of all prophets when Jesus that takes his disciples under the Mount of Transfiguration who's there Moses and Elijah when John the Baptist steps on the stage of human history who do they think it is Elijah reappearing when Jesus Christ from the cross Eli Eli lama sabachthani they some of them thought that he was calling for Elijah and James as Elijah was a man just like us the word in greek is hor my path s homo is sounds like home oil Pathak doesn't it homeopathic that's exactly where we get our word he was the same in nature he was the same in emotions he was the same in his liability to weaknesses and if you go for homework and read first Kings 17 18 and 19 it will be time well spent and you will discover that he had his ups that's when he took on the prophets of bale and gave them a real dusting and he had his downs when after that he was chased by Jezebel and he went and he hid under a broom tree oh it's so encouraging isn't it he who could take on these prophets and and say to them why don't you call on your God some more maybe they're in the bathroom or something I don't know what's happening and then eventually turns into curtains to the god of Abram Isaac and Jacob and he says o God glorify your name before these people and then within a relatively short time he's bought into the me generation I'm the only person left in Israel I'm the only one that's doing anything good I'm so tired I'm so sick of this I don't want to be a prophet anymore Elijah was a man just like us now why does he say that because of what he goes on to say he says and he prayed that it wouldn't rain and it didn't rain for three and a half years and he prayed again and then it started raining a man just like us how are we to make sense of it all well first of all notice that when he prayed he prayed in earnest that he prayed with God's glory and honor in view that he prayed according to his understanding of God's will and when you read your homework you will discover the significance of first Kings 17 verse 1 and first Kings 18 verse 1 that somehow in the mystery of God's purposes the cries of Elijah to God were directly in line with the will of God in relationship to his judgment over a three and a half year period on the people so in other words it wasn't some outlandish thing that Elijah did oh I got an idea why don't I pray that it won't rain for three and a half years what are you talking about where do you come up with that stuff Elijah no it was within the framework of God's revelation that's why it is always vital that we allow our Bibles to direct and undergird and frame our prayers so that what is revealed in the Bible as a promise we can pray for with absolute certainty right if anyone likes wisdom let him ask God and He will give to him without finding fault so I can ask God for wisdom he promised it it's God's will that we should be holy it's God's will that we should be thankful and joyful and so on therefore we can ask God with absolute certainty concerning these things and we can pray these things for one another but when there is no clear command or promise in Scripture then all we are able to do is acknowledge that we might pray if it is your will if it is your will I've I've read my Bible and I don't think this is in any way of sin I don't think it's a violation of anything I don't know whether I'm supposed to live in Cleveland or to live in Glasgow I don't know whether I'm supposed to marry her or stay single I'm not sure if I should change this job I don't know whether to hire him or whatever it is and I'm asking you for wisdom in relationship to this but in terms of the specific decision of nowhere to go except to ask you for your help and I'm about to make a decision and I pray that I might do so in your will and in my experience most of my discoveries of God's will have been found not prospectively but retrospectively looking over my shoulder and seeing again the amazing way in which God has chosen to take all the eventualities and apparent inconsequence realities of life and mold them together in order to fulfill his purposes well it's just pause and pray together God hears the prayers of the penitent he hears us when we ask him to forgive us some of us need to be honest enough to say that our prayer life is frankly a manifold shambles that if the missionary family depended on us there's no same where they would be and we want to ask you Lord to help us to be more diligent and more consistent in our prayers forgive us for wanting to tell things wrongly forgive us when we want to listen perversely comment abide with your church Lord Jesus Christ we pray you are the head of the church you are our advocate with the father and now may the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ the love of God the Father and the Fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us all evermore amen

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