James 5: Reliance in Prayer

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1 James 5:13-18 Reliance in Prayer

2 Do we really believe? Is God alive & active? complaining grumbling bargaining

3 13 Is any one of you in trouble? He should pray. Is anyone happy? Let him sing songs of praise. 14 Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord.

4 15 And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven. 16 Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.

5 17 Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. 18 Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth produced its crops.

6 Do we really believe God is alive & Active? Grace Nature

7 Do we really believe God is alive & Active? Grace Nature

8 Thomas Aquinas the will of man is fallen but the intellect was not Grace Nature intellect becomes autonomous natural theology divorced from Scripture

9 Cimabue Giotto

10 Petrarch - the first to climb a mountain for the pleasure of it Nature is swallowing up grace

11 Van Eyck

12 Van Eyck

13 Massaccio

14 Filippo Lippi nature is eating up grace

15 Fouquet grace is dead when nature is made autonomous it kills grace

16 Friedrich Nietzsche God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?

17 Gabriel Vahanian modern secular culture had lost all sense of the sacred, lacking any sacramental meaning, no transcendental purpose or sense of providence. For the modern mind "God is dead". A transformed post- Christian and post-modern culture was needed to create a renewed experience of deity. Spirituality is back En Vogue!

18 The Shahada from Birth

19 Sleep in! Nature has eaten up Grace, God is dead. We do not know how to live out of faith because almost nothing about our world promotes the idea of it.

20 Bert Wagoner The Trinity of God Father - Son - Holy Spirit VS The Trinity of Humanism Science - Technology - Education

21 Think about how you think... Is your worldview formed by the Word under the guidance of the Holy Spirit?

22 Post-Modernism Nature has spirituality! the line between nature and grace is being erased!

23 Rely on God in faith you have a God who is alive & active

24 James 5:13 Is any one of you in trouble? He should pray. Is anyone happy? Let him sing songs of praise.

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

26 The desire for rational predictiable answers, algorithms, and processes...but...my goal is Jesus, not healing and miracles.

27 False teachings practical answers Call on the elders in community

28 Who can pray? The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective. 17 Elijah was a man just like us.

29 How do you pray? James 4 - you do not have because you do not ask. Ask for specifics.

30 How do you pray? You do not have because you do not ask God. 3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. Ask with the right motives

31 How do you pray? Don t say, I won t do your will but I will ask for your blessing Live in Purity

32 How do you pray? James 1:6 But, when he asks, he must believe and not doubt. Ask in faith

33 Rely on God in faith Know where you came from God is alive and active Pray for specifics down or up with the right motives in pursuit of purity