If you have your Bibles, you can turn
to James chapter 5.
I'm going to be finishing James tonight because
it all flows together.
I tried to divide it up a little
bit, but it all flows together.
James chapter 5, verse 13.
And I'm going to warn you up front,
this is a controversial topic because we're talking
about wandering from the faith.
We're talking about anointing oil.
We're talking about healing.
We're talking about a lot of things that
people, well I think it means this, and
I think it means this.
And what I've found, and what I've tried
to do, even though it's hard at times,
is to let the Bible speak for itself.
And let it tell us exactly what he's
talking about.
And we don't want to throw in too
many things that aren't here, but I think
we can unpack quite a bit of this.
So James chapter 5, verse 13.
Is anyone among you suffering?
So are you suffering tonight?
And this is not sickness in this passage
here.
This is suffering.
This is going through a challenging time.
This is going through maybe persecution or difficulties
at work or difficulties in your home.
Are you suffering?
Here's the answer.
Let him pray.
Is anyone cheerful?
Let him sing psalms.
Is anyone among you sick?
Let him call for the elders of the
church and let them pray over him, anointing
him with oil in the name of the
Lord.
And the prayer of faith will save the
sick, and the Lord will raise him up.
And if he has committed sins, he will
be forgiven.
Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray
for one another that you may be healed.
The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man
avails much.
Elisha was a man with our nature, with
a nature just like ours, and he prayed
earnestly that it would not rain.
And it did not rain on the land
for three years and six months, and he
prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and
the earth produced its fruit.
Brethren, if anyone among you wanders from the
truth, and someone turns him back, let him
know that he who turns a sinner from
the air of his way will save a
soul from death and cover a multitude of
sins.
Wow.
There's a lot there to unpack.
And he was basically bringing up Elisha to
show that he was just like us.
Sometimes we think of these Bible heroes as,
oh, these almost angels.
And Elisha is just like us, a man
with the same type of passion, and God
used him.
Why?
Because the effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous
man or woman availeth much.
Effectual, meaning it's effective, it's fervent, it's passionate.
And the more you live right, the better
you pray.
I'm convinced of that.
King Ahab lived at the same time of
Elisha, and their prayers carried a lot less
power from King Ahab than it did Elisha.
Men who live well pray well.
Now, it doesn't mean that a person on
the street who doesn't know God can't pray,
and God won't hear him, of course it
will.
But there's something with living right and being
holy and set apart for God that the
weight of our prayers carry more weight.
When we're close to God, we know what
to pray for and how to pray for
certain things.
So let's look at each point.
Suffering, again, this is trouble.
The answer is prayer.
But what do we do?
We either lash out or we simply grin
and bear it.
I don't know about you all, I'm just
going to grin and bear it this week.
I'm going through it.
And we get upset or we hold it
in.
We lash out or we retaliate.
And that's not the answer.
When you're going through suffering, when you're going
through persecution, just take it to God and
let him fight the battle.
Much easier that way.
And you'll accomplish much more when you let
God fight that battle.
And there's suffering sometimes on Facebook, right?
You get in arguments or debates or persecution,
and we don't know really anything about persecution.
What James is writing, the setting, is severe
persecution.
But if something is happening, it's difficult, finances,
losing a job, all these things, suffering, take
it to prayer.
And don't become bitter.
Don't become mad at God.
There's not a month that goes by that
I don't hear about somebody that got bitter
at God because of what they're going through
or what God allowed or what God didn't
do.
And instead of taking it to prayer, they
become bitter.
So if you're going through trouble, suffering, the
answer is prayer.
Nervous breakdowns is usually what happens or walking
away from God.
Now the good thing about suffering is affliction
can lead us to humility.
Those close to God have endured much affliction.
So if you look at affliction and persecution
and suffering as the mechanism to draw you
closer to God, it can help you get
through it.
Because, okay, Lord, I'm going to rely on
you as I go through this.
And you build a deeper relationship with him.
That's how people who went through things can
look back and they love the Lord because
God has brought them through certain things.
And then he goes to the complete opposite.
If you're cheerful, then fuel that joy, fuel
that cheer.
Sing praises to God.
Worship God.
You have to fuel that joy.
Here's what happens many times.
When people are blessed and they're cheerful and
things are going well, God goes in the
back pocket.
I don't need him anymore.
I need him with that suffering stuff.
But I don't need him when things are
going well.
So when you're cheerful, when things are going
well, sing to the Lord and let that
joy fuel that motivation to continue serving him.
So also with that, draw closer to God,
not further away.
Doesn't that happen?
You've got the job, the money's coming in,
let's go to the movies, let's dine out,
let's not go to church anymore.
Everything's going good.
When really, we need to take that and
put it back to God.
So you have the suffering, you have the
cheerful, and then he says, if any of
you are sick.
Now there's a lot here.
Let him call for the elders of the
church would mean to me that this is
probably a pretty severe sickness.
It's not if I have a cold or
my back hurts.
The person is not heading in a good
direction.
The sickness has overtaken them.
And they need to actually call for the
elders of the church and anoint them with
oil in the name of the Lord.
So God is allowing sickness here, or it's
a demonic attack, or it's a condition of
our fallen nature, of our bodies.
It may be self-created, it may have
just happened because of genetic predispositions, or just
our body in general.
So think about that with sickness for a
minute.
Either God does allow it, which happens because
we're going to get to in a minute,
chastisement, or a demonic attack, or a condition
of our body.
People, our bodies just fall apart.
Sometimes it's not the devil.
The devil's not after, you know, the devil's
here and the devil's here.
Not all the time.
Sometimes it's just our own body.
So that's why we don't know where the
sickness is coming from sometimes.
So he says, let him call for the
elders of the church and let them pray
over him, anointing him with oil in the
name of the Lord.
Now, I don't want to talk too much
about oil, but oil represents who is doing
the healing.
The oil often represents the power of the
Holy Spirit, or the anointing of the Holy
Spirit.
The oil would flow, and they use oil
for healing and different things.
So to anoint a person with oil in
the name of the Lord, it's just a
representation, much like communion.
So you don't have to carry around oil
and the powers in the oil.
The oil is representing, Lord, in your name,
we're praying for healing, in the power of
the Holy Spirit, we're anointing you with oil.
So if people do call on the elders,
we would do this.
It's not a practice we do at every
Sunday, because it's here, go call to them,
get them, it's a person requesting it, the
severity is now warranted it, and there's nothing
wrong with praying for a person, and you
take oil you'd usually put on their forehead,
or somewhere on their shoulders, and just pray
for them, we're just obeying scripture.
And if you read commentaries, they're all over
the place on what this means.
What could mean this, and there are healing
properties of oil, but it's not saying put
oil on a wound, it's not saying eat
the oil, it's not saying, so I think
it just represents that you're praying in Jesus'
name, and we're asking for the work of
the Holy Spirit in this life.
And the prayer of faith will save the
sick, and the Lord will raise him up.
Now the question comes up, well why aren't
a lot of people healed?
Why isn't, what it says right here, that
the faith of the elders, and the faith
of this prayer will save the sick, and
the Lord will raise him up.
So I'm hoping I can kind of unpack
that as I go through.
So let's start with this.
As I said, men who live well, pray
well.
The effectual fervent prayer of a man, in
right standing with God, prevails a lot.
So what he's saying here is, I'm probably
going to get ahead of myself, but it's
okay to put this in context.
This person is sick as the result of
sin.
If you put it in context, there is
sin, it's a besetting sin that they are
not repenting of, and God is using it
as chastisement on the person.
So go and get the elders, the elders
come in, spiritual leaders of the church, they're
prayed up, they can sense the will of
God, and they go through it, and the
person confesses, and confesses to what the sin
is, and the elders pray for that person,
and because the sin was connected to that,
healing takes place.
If I just summed it up in one
minute right there, and that's where they're going
with this.
And the prayer of faith will save the
sick, and the Lord will raise him up.
If he has committed sins, he will be
forgiven.
Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray
for one another that you may be healed.
So it's confessing to one another, and this
is interesting, when I wrote that article about
Roman Catholicism, and the priesthood, and how it's
not biblical to go to the priest, and
not to God, go to these priests, and
they would use this verse, confess one another,
but when was the last time you saw
a priest turn around and confess to the
other person?
That's what it's saying, confess to one another.
It's not used to support a confessional behind
this thing, and confessing to a priest, and
then the priest takes it to God.
God says go boldly to the throne of
grace, confess to God your faults, but if
there are faults against one another, you confess
your sins to one another.
And this happens sometimes in the hospital homes,
where I'll go and I'll visit patients, and
there's somebody in there with either heroin overdose,
or drugs, half of them are alcohol-related,
and different things, and they begin to confess,
and I even would say, you know what,
I haven't been perfect.
I've blown it my younger years as well,
and I didn't walk a perfect line.
It's this position of humility and confession, and
actually the person, it really helps them to
see, oh, okay, this person isn't perfect.
We're confessing our faults before each other, one
another.
Now, the prayer of faith will save the
sick.
So what is the role of faith?
God gives the elders this gift, or He
gives the person this gift of faith, during
this time.
So it's a unique setting where a person
is sick because of sin, and they are
probably dying, and the elders come in, and
the sin is confessed, the elders pray for
this person, and healing takes place.
And if it was always God's will to
heal, we would never die.
Have you ever thought about that?
This person's 65, they're having heart problems, okay,
pray for them, they're healed.
Now they're 75, and they're having cancer, pray
for them, they're healed.
Now they're 90, and their heart's failing, we'll
pray for them, and they're healed.
They would never die.
So healing isn't automatic all the time.
And it's an interesting topic, a topic that
I have not fully understood, because you do
see people being healed, but often, more often
than not, you don't see people being healed.
And people say, we don't have enough faith,
or you didn't have enough faith, or the
person didn't have enough faith.
And it goes back and forth.
The bottom line is God's sovereign plans will
prevail, and you want to line up with
the heart of God.
So when elders go to pray, they want
to seek God, they want to pray for
God's wisdom in this area, to hopefully lead
this person to repentance.
And this is why it's not an absolute,
but when sin is connected to the illness,
that's what he's talking about here.
Now you can look at sin's connection to
illness in Mark 2, 5, John 5, 14,
John 9, 2-3, 1 Corinthians 11, 30.
Yeah, 11, 30.
There's connections.
Hezekiah, I think of in the Old Testament.
There's connections with sin and illness.
Now, before you get upset, I'm not saying
that everybody who's sick, it's because of sin,
or we'd all be in trouble.
Because we all sin.
Now, there, God will use chastisement.
In these different scriptures I read, it looks
something like this.
If a person's caught in sin, and it's
a besetting sin, they're not confessing it.
They're just like, well, I don't care.
I'm just going to ride this out, whether
it's lying, whether it's sexual sin, whether it's
drug use, and different things.
God's warning.
He's convicting.
Don't do that.
I love you enough.
I love you enough not to leave you
there.
So then he brings chastisement.
One way is to humiliate people.
One way is to get caught.
They get arrested.
One way is to do something like this,
where the body is afflicted because of the
besetting sin.
So if there's an area in your life
that you know God is wanting you to
take measures on and get rid of, I
would suggest that you get rid of it,
and not keep playing with it.
Oh, yeah, but this or that.
We make excuses, and God convicts.
He convicts you right now in your heart.
The Word of God convicts.
You know it's not right.
And there's no really joy and peace.
Remember having the joy of the Holy Spirit
and the peace of the Holy Spirit.
And these things will impede us, and they'll
take away from what God wants to do.
So often, sometimes he will bring sickness because
of this sin that's not being confessed.
Now this is different with somebody struggling with
something, and they're confessing it, and they're repenting.
God, help me with this.
They're getting help.
And then they fell back six months later.
God's like, okay, now you've got cancer.
You know, it's more of a besetting sin
that the person is not dealing with, and
God loves us enough to chastise us.
And that's a hard concept for some people.
Like, whoa, that's not a loving God.
But he loves us enough to, like with
your kids, you give them a little spanking,
right?
Hopefully, maybe some of you do.
Do they do that anymore?
I don't know.
A little swat.
Remember my mom would grab something off the
tree, and I'm, oh, I'm in trouble now.
And just right on the butt, you know,
just swatting.
Chastising, not to do that again.
Shane, don't go up on the roof again.
You're gonna get a little switch there.
And God does that as well in different
situations.
So I would encourage you, if you are
in a situation tonight, and you know it's
not of God, you know it's not good,
you know it's something you need to take
care of, take care of it.
We need to stop confusing his patience with
his approval.
Many times, God's patient with us, so he
must approve of it.
Not necessarily.
Guilt can also cause sickness.
Guilt can cause sickness.
I went just online.
You can even look at psychology websites, and
they'll have headlines like this.
Is guilt getting the best of you?
How emotions can cause disease and illness?
What are the physical effects of guilt?
Something interesting, when we're caught in the sin,
do you feel great?
Was worship wonderful, and you just love church,
and everything's great, or it's hard to even
look people in the eye?
Oh, but don't run into them.
And we live this life of we're guilty,
we feel bad, and somehow that guilt and
even unforgiveness, these toxic emotions harm the body.
So some of that guilt we're feeling, the
sin, and it can bring ailments to the
body, and actually hurt us physically.
And if he has committed sins, he will
be forgiven.
This word forgiven will be let loose.
So if this ailment is due to sin,
God says, when you confess it, you repent,
you'll be let loose of that, and be
healed of it.
Matthew 6.15, if we refuse to forgive
others, God will not forgive your sins.
And people are like, oh, that's a pretty
hard verse, I don't quite understand it.
Well, let's start with what we do know.
As a believer, you are forgiven.
You're set free, you're forgiven by God.
So this verse then, if we refuse to
forgive others, God will not forgive us.
As believers, did you know you can still
hold in unforgiveness?
Don't leave me up here hanging, because I
know I can.
And if I'm not going to, okay, there's
somebody that really hurt us, I'm not going
to forgive them, well, that says God will
not forgive us.
Really, what I believe this is saying, if
you look at the word study, and you
can look at the Greek language, and the
different things, cleansing and release take place when
we forgive, and we allow forgiveness.
So when God forgives us of what we've
done, there's cleansing that takes place, there's freedom,
the joy is returned.
But if I'm not going to forgive that
person, then God is going to hold that
release over me, and I'm going to feel
this weight of this responsibility of holding that
against the person.
He's not going to forgive me, he's not
going to let this go, I'm still going
to feel the guilt, and I've got to
let this go, but I'm not going to
forgive this person, I've got this God also
pressuring me to forgive.
So once I forgive, he releases that, and
the floodgates open of joy and peace.
So it has nothing to do, in my
opinion, about salvation.
If we refuse to forgive others, God will
not forgive us.
Now you could take this out a little
bit, and say a person who truly has
been born again, the Holy Spirit in you
wants you to forgive others.
So you could say if a person doesn't
want to forgive, they never forgive, then have
they truly been saved?
And then if not, they haven't truly experienced
God's salvation, God's forgiveness.
So it's an interesting concept there, but we
do know that we can't forgive, we can't
refuse forgiveness, and it's been hard.
There are people who have had to forgive
people that have molested them.
They've had to forgive people who have cheated
on them, and taken things, and it's not
an easy process, but anytime that I'm confronted
with something like this, or I'm talking to
people I'm often reminded, that if God in
Christ Jesus forgave us, there's really no excuse.
There's really no excuse.
We want to hold it in, because we
think if I forgive them, then that will
mean that they were right, and I was
wrong.
Forgiveness has nothing to do with that.
Forgiveness just means I'm releasing this unforgiveness I
have.
I'm letting it go.
I'm setting myself free.
I'm not going to be held by this
toxic emotion anymore.
I'm releasing it.
And that's what forgiveness is.
Brethren, if anyone among you wanders from the
truth, and someone turns him back, let him
know that he who turns a sinner from
the error of his way will, ready, save
a soul from death and cover a multitude
of sins.
Now, if we look at the context, if
anyone among you suffers, if anyone among you
is cheerful, if anyone among you is sick,
as I'm reading this, I think he's talking
about if anyone from among you, like we
can even say in this body of believers,
if anyone from among you wanders from the
truth, and somebody turns him back, he will
save a soul from death and cover a
multitude of sins.
So we can't take out the fact that
he's been talking about a person who is
in sin, then the sickness is the result
of sin, and then now in context, if
you turn that person away from that sin,
you will save that soul from death.
So the imagery is, this sin is getting
worse and progressing, and getting worse and progressing,
and eventually will lead to death.
And you go to that person, you pray
with that person, you lead that person to
repent to that sin, they're wandering from God,
and they turn back to God, you save
that person from death.
Now, and again, this is different theology, an
Armenian, a person who believes that a person
can lose their salvation, may take this to
mean that a person is wandering from truth,
they lose their salvation, but you pull them
back, and you save that soul from that.
Or somebody, a Calvinistic persuasion, would say you
can't lose your salvation, so this is dealing
with somebody who is a believer.
Well, putting those aside, just the context of
the person being in fellowship, and everything I
just read, leads me to believe that this
person is a believer who's wandered from the
truth.
And soul here, in the Greek, is psuche.
Does that word sound like anything?
Psychology?
It's spelled close to that, psuche.
And also in the Old Testament, it was,
the Hebrew is nephesh, and God breathed an
atom, the breath of life, and it became
a living soul, living nephesh.
It's the life of the person.
So you save that person from death, and
you cover a multitude of sin.
So to wander, his name is P.H.
Davids, he wrote an epistle on James, a
commentary on it, the Greek New Testament.
He said to wander is, to reject the
revealed will of God, and to act contrary
to it, either through willful or deceit of
others, including demonic powers.
So to wander here is, I know the
right path.
How about Jeremiah 6.16?
Thus says the Lord, stand in the way
and see, and ask for the old path,
where the good way is, and walk in
it, then you will find rest for your
soul.
So Jeremiah is writing to the children of
Israel, children of Israel, come back on the
old path, don't keep wandering, come back on
the good path, the old path.
What about Luke and Matthew, all talk about
the sheep who wanders, and we go and
look for a sheep who wanders.
Transgression of the law, especially idolatry, Isaiah, Jeremiah,
Ezekiel, Psalm, Proverbs, a lot of these passages
talk about the children of God, the people
of God wandering from God, and getting them
back to God.
That was really the whole role of the
prophet.
If you look at the major prophets, the
minor prophets, were to go and be very
bold, very in your face, very confrontational, to
get the people to what?
To turn back to God, to stop wandering.
So the context here, in my opinion, is
a believer who's wandered from the truth, they're
stuck in sin, much like a prodigal son.
But they said, in Jeremiah 6, but they
said, we will not walk in it.
God said, I sent watchmen over you, saying
listen to the sound of the trumpet, but
they said, we will not listen.
So God is saying, I sent you these
watchmen, I cried out to you, but you
would not listen.
So if we were to sum it up,
it's this, this sickness is not caused by
wandering from God.
I'm sorry, this sickness is caused by wandering
from God.
It's a pattern of sin.
From alcohol, to drugs, to lying, to slander,
from sexual sin, to the sin of pride.
The warnings, the convictions, and the rebukes, have
all been ignored.
So the elders get involved, in the hope
that confession, and repentance take place, and that
faith filled, and that the faith filled prayer,
will release this person, from God's chastisement.
The person, was heading toward physical death, as
a result of wandering from God, but now
they are restored.
The soul is saved, and his ongoing pattern
of sin, this multitude of sin, is now
covered.
This multitude of sin, he was caught in,
it's not just one little sin, it's a
multitude, is now covered, because of that person,
comes back to the Lord, and it's dealt
with, and it's concealed.
Death is the final end result, of wandering.
To cover sin, is to forgive.
To cover the sin, what happened in the
garden, Adam and Eve?
They sinned, and God covered their nakedness, covered
that sin.
So that, to me if you read it,
covers a multitude of sin, because of the
repentance, took place in the restoration.
So here's a closing application.
Those in the Christian community, who do have
wander from the truth, need to wander back.
This is maybe a message, for somebody here
tonight.
It's a smaller group, obviously than Sundays, but
if there's an area, where you know, that
God is dealing with you in, don't keep
playing, with God in this area.
Don't keep playing with God.
Take it to the cross, tonight during worship,
repent, confess, say God I need to make
some changes, and then make the changes.
Make them.
We know what they are.
So don't keep, use this as a catalyst,
to make that change.
It'll be uncomfortable, it may hurt, you may
not like it, but in the end, God
will reward you.
But number two, I don't want to miss
this, the responsibility of the person, who knows
that a person is caught.
See once you know, somebody's caught in sin,
we have a responsibility, to go to that
person, and lovingly challenge them.
Go to them.
So if I know somebody's caught in sin,
I'm not going to say anything.
Hopefully the Holy Spirit, convicts them over the
next couple months.
I'm not going to say a word, please
no Lord.
Now you don't want to rush to them,
and be a sin sniffer, and point out
every little thing.
But we have, like I believe it was
Ezekiel, God said, when you see the sword
coming, and you don't warn the people, their
blood's going to be on your hands.
Now New Testament, obviously a lot's changed there,
but the principle's the same.
When we see somebody, caught in something, the
flesh doesn't want to, because it's intimidating.
We don't want to upset people, we don't
want to be a jerk.
But if we go, listen I see you're
caught in this sin, you're caught in this
lifestyle, that's not right, and it's not pleasing
God, I just want to come alongside, and
help you.
I've been caught before, confessing our faults to
one another.
I can relate, I totally want to be
there for you.
And we go to them, and we help
them come out of it.
We have a responsibility, once you know something,
and you know, something's brought to the church,
and we go, oh gosh, we don't want
to handle that, we'll just let that, God
please just take care of that.
And that does happen in a lot of
churches.
I can name a dozen around the valley,
that I know, they just like, well hopefully
that'll fix itself, you know, we're not going
to get involved.
But actually Matthew 18, says you go to
a brother, who has offended you.
Or the church goes to somebody, that we
know, something's happening in the home, that's not
right, and we go to them and say,
listen, we love you enough to tell you
the truth, we want to share God's heart
with you, and you come in a spirit
of humility, take heed lest you fall, and
you confess your sin, also, you know, I'm
not perfect in this area, we've got things
to work on, so it's this atmosphere of
confession, and repentance, and humility before the Lord,
before others, we're not trying to hold, and
hide these secret sins, and sometimes God will
allow sickness to come in, or challenge, not
just sickness, challenging situations, finances are failing, my
job's failing, my health is failing, what's going
on, you might not be lined up with
where God wants you to be, because as
we all know, we usually don't make change,
do we?
Until, something happens.
Doctor says, I've got great health, person's making
$150,000 a year, going to Cancun next
month, not much is going to change, but
he begins to take things from them, these
little mini wake up calls, or the church
will come, and say something, or Christians will
come, or say something, or the word of
God will come, and say something to your
heart, and pierce your heart, and get you
to turn back to God, so that's the
application, I don't know, if there's anybody really
in this room, that would, with the sickness
issue, and things, but I know there are
people, have wandered from God, and wandered off
that path, and the heart of God, is
to get you back on the right path,
so you can never go wrong, on the
right path, you can never, you'll never look
back, and regret, and say, I wish I
would have never, took that right path, nobody's
ever said that to me, have they ever
said that to you, of course not, but
here's what happens, sin feels good for a
season, when the season's over, there's hell to
pay, sin feels good for a season, when
the season's over, there's hell to pay, but
we like to live in this season, it
feels good, I mean I talk, one of
my areas of ministries, if I go to
AA meetings, now and then, I bring some
of those guys here, or I talk to
people with addiction, they always get caught back
into it, because these thoughts, I remember it
was so joyful, yeah but now you lost
your wife, and your house, how did that
happen, yeah but it just, the buzz was
so good, it got me, and they see
it deceased, for just a little bit, and
then it takes back, it deceased for a
little bit, and takes back, that's the deception
of sin, if it wasn't deceptive, nobody would
do it, so it looks good, Eve, all
that fruit, whatever it was, it's not an
apple, I don't think, looks good to the
eye, pleasant to the eye, good for food,
it tasted good, and desirable to make one
wise, and she took of it and ate,
so you always have to remember that, does
it line up with God's word, because sin
will feel good for a season, and people
get caught in sin, they say see nothing's
happening, nothing's happening, nothing, nothing at all, I
mean probably more than anything, when I, I
don't do as much anymore, my mom helps
a lot with counseling, and pre-marriage counseling,
but when we counsel like couples, who are
wanting to get married, and they're living together,
and they're still in sexual sin, and like
well, this is fine, we love each other,
nothing's wrong, nothing's happening, you talk to them
six months later, after the wedding, they all
want annulment, I married, I married Satan, well
you're sure Satan too, and this, and they,
what happened, what was this beautiful little thing,
was going on guys, it's called lust, it's
called sin feels good for a season, it's
called, it's called the devil's going to back
off for a while, and let you enjoy
this season of sin, but when God says
listen, turn back to me, turn back to
me, because this season's going to bring hell,
hard is the way after the transgressor, the
transgressor, when sin finally is full grown, sin,
which James also says we learn, when sin
is conceived, right, it brings forth, wait, when
desire is conceived, it brings forth sin, and
that sin fully grown, brings forth death, you've
got to abort it, you've got to abort
it in the infant stages, that kind of
abortion is good, so maybe that's for somebody
tonight, God is done with wandering, it's time
to come back, it's time to get back
on the right path, and I want to
encourage you, I've made mistakes myself as well,
I've got to always come back to that
path, Lord I want to have a good
attitude, and not prideful, I don't want to
open these doors to the enemy, I want
to follow you, and you come back to
that, and you've got to have boundaries, you've
got to have different things, and God wants
us to get back on the right track.