If Anyone Is Sick… (Part 1 of 2)

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Alistair Begg

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🗓️ 31 July 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Prayers for healing are a common request. James claimed that “the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up.” Explore what’s involved in such prayer when you study along with Alistair Begg on Truth For Life.

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0:00.0	The You're going to do you.
0:13.0	Do you do you do you do you do
0:15.0	do you do Anytime people gather together to pray there are often requests for healing and in the book of James we see that the prayer of faith will save
0:35.7	the one who is sick and the Lord will raise him up. How should we understand that?
0:40.3	We're going to see what's involved in this kind of prayer today on Truth for Life
0:45.0	as Alistair Beg takes us to James Chapter 5. Well, we have seen that the response to trouble is not to become embittered or rebellious but to go to God in prayer. The response to
1:08.4	blessing is to go to God in praise and in prayer. And now in verse 14 we come face to face
1:19.3	with this area that is of importance and is challenging and it reminds us forcibly of the
1:28.4	importance of handling the word of God always with care and with humility. It would be possible for us to
1:36.5	become so distracted by questions that are often unresolved and issues about which we cannot ultimately be finally dogmatic, then to leave aside
1:48.0	what James is actually saying, and that is that in all the circumstances of our lives, whether in sickness or in health, in joy and in sorrow,
1:57.0	the recourse of the people of God is to go to their heavenly faithful Father in dependent prayer. And if we're going to pray properly, then
2:06.6	we need to pray as we've noted together with a God-centered perspective so that we do
2:11.7	not put ourselves at the center of the universe and also with a God-centered trust,
2:17.3	recognizing that always and in every instance our Heavenly Father knows best. Now what I want to do then having said that is
2:27.8	stand back for a moment from this passage and try and get some perspective on it
2:32.2	in relationship to the way it has been dealt with throughout
2:36.1	the centuries. I don't mean this to be protracted, but it has been pressed and pulled in a variety
2:41.8	of directions and some of us, depending in our backgrounds,
2:45.4	will have been part of the pulling and pushing process.
2:48.5	We may be very clear and if you are, then I hope that nothing I'm about to say will rob you of your clarity.
2:55.2	Classically, the Roman Catholic Church has used and does use this passage to provide them
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