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Is Anyone Sick Among You?

Is Anyone Sick Among You?. James 5:14. Is Anyone Sick Among You?. Investigate the verse in context Defining the terms that are used Answering these questions: What is the primary function and responsibility of elders? Is this work miraculous? Is this physical or spiritual weakness?

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Is Anyone Sick Among You?

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  1. Is Anyone Sick Among You? James 5:14

  2. Is Anyone Sick Among You? • Investigate the verse in context • Defining the terms that are used • Answering these questions: • What is the primary function and responsibility of elders? • Is this work miraculous? • Is this physical or spiritual weakness? • What is meant by anointing with oil?

  3. Context: • James encourages patience in adversity (Jams 1:2-4; 5:7) • What can hardship or adversity do? • Murmur, complain and quarrel with one another. (5:9) • Take an oath in hardship (5:12) • James outlines a course of action. • Are you suffering? Pray • Are you cheerful? Sing praises • Is anyone sick? Let him call upon the elders

  4. James Outlines a Course of Action • Are you suffering? Pray (5:13) • Are you cheerful? Sing praises (5:13) • Is anyone sick? Let him call upon the elders (5:14) • Let the elders pray over him, anointing him with oil (5:14) • Confess yours sins to one another, and pray for one another (5:16) • If any among you strays from the truth, and one turns him back (5:19)

  5. Results Are Reassured • The prayer on behalf of the sick brother will save the sick (5:14-15) • The Lord will raise him up (5:15) • The fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much (16)

  6. The Different Opinions on James 5 • Sickness refers to physical sickness • Sickness refers to physical sickness, but the healing is miraculous • Sickness refers to spiritual sickness

  7. Sick—astheneo (Verb) • Lit. to be weak, feeble a, negative, sthenos strength (Vine, vol. iv, page 27) • To be weak, feeble; univ. to be without strength, powerless (Thayer, page 80) • Is weak (Marshall, Interlinear Greek-English New Testament) • Occurs 36 times in the New Testament. 23 times it is referring to physical infirmities. At least 9 occurrences in the epistles it refers to spiritual weakness.

  8. Sick--Kanno • The term speaks of being wearied. • Vine: “primarily, to work, hence, from the effect of constant work, to be weary…” • Thayer: To grow weary, be weary 2. to be sick • The term is used two other times in the New Testament. Both cases speak of spiritual weariness. (Hebrews 12:3; Revelation 2:3)

  9. Is the Passage Referring to Miraculous Healing? • No, the purpose of first century miracles was: • Revelation (John 16:13; Acts 1:8) • Confirmation (Mark 16:20; Hebrews 2:3-4) • Timothy had stomach ailments and was not healed by Paul (1 Tim. 5:23) • Paul left Trophimus sick (2 Tim. 4:20) • Paul did not heal himself (Gal. 4:13-15) • Did the elders have authority to exercise a power that the apostles did not? • Why didn’t they heal Timothy? Epaphroditus? Paul?

  10. Is the Passage Speaking of Spiritual Weakness or Physical Sickness? • IF physical the elders are made doctors or at least nurses given to routine medical care. • The elder’s work is primarily spiritual (Acts 20:28-31; Hebrews 13:17; 1 Tim. 5:17; 1 Thess. 5:12 • When physical needs arose, this type work was done by the especially appointed servants of the church. (Acts 6:1) • If the sickness is literal then why not interpret the anointing with oil as literal?

  11. Anointing with Oil • To appoint to a high office or position (1 Sam. 16:12-13) • To make bread for the tabernacle under the law (Ex. 29:2) • For food—in preparing bread (1 Kings 17:12) • As a cosmetic for the face (Psalm 104:15) • For light—to burn in lamps (Ex. 27:20) • As a medicine of healing (Luke 10:34) • As a symbol of blessing (Hebrews 1:9) Anointing in scripture is used in a figurative way to speak of a blessing from God. (Psalm 23:5-6; Hebrews 1:9; Isaiah 61:1-3)

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