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NASB | James 5:16 Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | James 5:16 Therefore, confess your sins to one another [your false steps, your offenses], and pray for one another, that you may be healed and restored. The heartfelt and persistent prayer of a righteous man (believer) can accomplish much [when put into action and made effective by God--it is dynamic and can have tremendous power]. |
Subject: Ridding myself of guilt and fear |
Bible Note: Hello BradK: If we read ALL of what the holy bible teaches us as the inspired words of God and ask God to enlighten our understanding, then we can clearly see that Christ purchased our salvation as an act of obedience and thereby, "...being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him," HEB 5:9. It does not say to those who believe on Him or those who want a pardon or those who want to escape hell. Those who do obey Him have repented of their sins; they have come into His kingdom and service. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned, MK 16:16. Now let’s take some of these words that we think we understand so well into the original to find out what they really mean in the original. It is very important. The word believeth is used twice in our text, but the meanings are just 180 degrees apart. "He that believeth, and...he that believeth not." The meanings are direct opposites in the original Greek. In the first instance the word believeth" is taken from the Greek word, "Pisteuo" which means "To have faith in, i.e., to entrust one’s spiritual well being to Christ, to believe, to trust in Christ." In the second instance, the word believeth is taken from the Greek word, Apisteo which means, "To be unbelieving, to disobey, a person unworthy of trust or obedience, unbelief, unfaithfulness, disobedience, incredible thing, an unbeliever." That is saying that the person who "believeth not" does not believe the Lord Jesus Christ is worthy of their obedience. It means that one would count Christ as incredible; it means one does not believe Him. What does it mean to repent? To have saving faith? It means to trust and obey Him as being worthy of all obedience. If we believe Him, we will keep His commandments. See John 14:15 "If you love me, keep my commandments." Can a person claim saving faith and still walk in disobedience? That is a contradiction of the meaning of the word. Do you see how Satan perverts the gospel? He has men believing that they are saved by grace and that baptism and obedient faith is irrelevant. It is confusion; you cannot disassociate obedience of faith with saving faith. When one talks of unbelief, you are talking of being disobedient because you do not believe He is worthy of your trust or obedience. Can you say you are placing all your spiritual trust in the Lord Jesus Christ and disobey Him? That is speaking with a forked tongue. Now you see the satanic deceit of teaching that you can walk contrary to the Word of God and still have saving faith. The gospel has as clearly identified faith with obedience as it has identified unbelief with disobedience. ROM 16:25-26 says, "Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began, but now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith." And yes, Christ's sacrifice on the cross IS sufficient to cover all of our sins, but only when we believe through our obedient faith. |