reetings, holy children of God, in the wonderful name of our lord and saviour Jesus, the Christ. The sermon subject for today is:

JMS:5:14 IS ANY SICK AMONG YOU? 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; 15. AND THE PRAYER OF FAITH SHALL SAVE THE SICK, AND THE LORD SHALL RAISE HIM UP; AND IF HE HAVE COMMITTED SINS, THEY SHALL BE FORGIVEN HIM. 16. CONFESS YOUR FAULTS ONE TO ANOTHER, AND PRAY ONE FOR ANOTHER, THAT YE MAY BE HEALED. THE EFFECTUAL FERVENT PRAYER OF A RIGHTEOUS MAN AVAILETH MUCH. 17. ELIAS WAS A MAN SUBJECT TO LIKE PASSIONS AS WE ARE, AND HE PRAYED EARNESTLY THAT IT MIGHT NOT RAIN; AND IT RAINED NOT ON THE EARTH BY THE SPACE OF THREE YEARS AND SIX MONTHS. 18. AND HE PRAYED AGAIN, AND THE HEAVEN GAVE RAIN, AND THE EARTH BROUGHT FORTH HER FRUIT. 19. BRETHREN, IF ANY OF YOU DO ERR FROM THE TRUTH, AND ONE CONVERT HIM; 20. LET HIM KNOW, THAT HE WHICH CONVERTETH THE SINNER FROM THE ERROR OF HIS WAY SHALL SAVE A SOUL FROM DEATH, AND SHALL HIDE A MULTITUDE OF SINS. WHEN ANY SAINT IS SICK THEY SHOULD SEEK THE KINGDOM OF GOD FIRST, BY CALLING FOR THE ELDERS OF THE CHURCH, AND LET THEM LAY THEIR HANDS ON HIM, AND LET THEM PRAY OVER HIM, ANOINTING HIM WITH OIL IN THE NAME OF THE LORD THAT HIS HEALTH MAY BE RESTORED, AND IF HE HAS COMMITTED SINS, HE SHALL BE FORGIVEN. THE PRAYER OF A RIGHTEOUS MAN MAKES TREMENDOUS POWER AVAILABLE. WHY ANOINT WITH OIL? THE ANOINTING OIL AND PRAYER WILL SANCTIFY AND CONSECRATE THE SICK SAINTS. EX:30:22 MOREOVER THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES, SAYING, 26. AND THOU SHALT ANOINT THE TABERNACLE OF THE CONGREGATION THEREWITH, AND THE ARK OF THE TESTIMONY, 27. AND THE TABLE AND ALL HIS VESSELS, AND THE CANDLESTICK AND HIS VESSELS, AND THE ALTAR OF INCENSE, 28. AND THE ALTAR OF BURNT OFFERING WITH ALL HIS VESSELS, AND THE LAVER AND HIS FOOT. 29. AND THOU SHALT SANCTIFY THEM, THAT THEY MAY BE MOST HOLY: WHATSOEVER TOUCHETH THEM SHALL BE HOLY. 30. AND THOU SHALT ANOINT AARON AND HIS SONS, AND CONSECRATE THEM, THAT THEY MAY MINISTER UNTO ME IN THE PRIEST’S OFFICE. THERE ARE MANY SAINTS OF GOD, IN BOTH THE SPIRITUAL CHURCH, THE BODY OF CHRIST, AND THE PHYSICAL CHURCH BUILDINGS THAT ARE SICK.; THAT HAVE THE FAITH TO BE HEALED. IF THEY WOULD CALL FOR THE ELDERS OF THE CHURCH TO LAY THEIR HANDS ON THEM, AND ANOINT THEM WITH OIL, IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST AND PRAY OVER THEM. WHEN THE HOLY GHOST COMES TO DWELL WITHIN A PERSON HE BRINGS A GIFT OR GIFTS. NOT EVERY ONE RECEIVES THE SAME GIFT; HEALING IS ONE OF THE GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT. 1COR:12:7 BUT THE MANIFESTATION OF THE SPIRIT IS GIVEN TO EVERY MAN TO PROFIT WITHAL. 8. FOR TO ONE IS GIVEN BY THE SPIRIT THE WORD OF WISDOM; TO ANOTHER THE WORD OF KNOWLEDGE BY THE SAME SPIRIT; 9. TO ANOTHER FAITH BY THE SAME SPIRIT; TO ANOTHER THE GIFTS OF HEALING BY THE SAME SPIRIT; 10. TO ANOTHER THE WORKING OF MIRACLES; TO ANOTHER PROPHECY; TO ANOTHER DISCERNING OF SPIRITS; TO ANOTHER DIVERS KINDS OF TONGUES; TO ANOTHER THE INTERPRETATION OF TONGUES; 11. BUT ALL THESE WORKETH THAT ONE AND THE SELFSAME SPIRIT, DIVIDING TO EVERY MAN SEVERALLY AS HE WILL. 12. FOR AS THE BODY IS ONE, AND HATH MANY MEMBERS, AND ALL THE MEMBERS OF THAT ONE BODY, BEING MANY, ARE ONE BODY: SO ALSO IS CHRIST. A PERSON MUST HAVE FAITH, MUST BELIEVE THAT GOD IS ABLE TO HEAL, AND WILL HEAL THEM, AND LEARN TO WAIT UPON THE LORD, TO RECEIVE THEIR HEALING. ACTS:14:8 AND THERE SAT A CERTAIN MAN AT LYSTRA, IMPOTENT IN HIS FEET, BEING A CRIPPLE FROM HIS MOTHER’S WOMB, WHO NEVER HAD WALKED: 9. THE SAME HEARD PAUL SPEAK: WHO STEDFASTLY BEHOLDING HIM, AND PERCEIVING THAT HE HAD FAITH TO BE HEALED. 10. SAID WITH A LOUD VOICE, STAND UPRIGHT ON THY FEET. AND HE LEAPED AND WALKED. WHY LAY HANDS ON THE SICK? WHEN WE, THE ELECT OF GOD, ARE BAPTIZED OUT OF THE WORLD AND INTO THE BODY OF CHRIST, AND RECEIVE THE HOLY GHOST, WE BECOME A MEMBER IN THE BODY OF CHRIST. 1COR:12:27 NOW YE ARE THE BODY OF CHRIST, AND MEMBERS IN PARTICULAR. WHEN WE LAY OUR HANDS ON SOME ONE THE BODY OF CHRIST IS TOUCHING THAT PERSON, AND VIRTUE FLOWS FROM THE BODY OF CHRIST, AND HEALS THE PERSON. LK:6:19 AND THE WHOLE MULTITUDE SOUGHT TO TOUCH HIM: FOR THERE WENT VIRTUE OUT OF HIM, AND HEALED THEM ALL. WHEN THE ELECT OF GOD RECEIVE THE HOLY GHOST POWER COMES TO PREACH, TEACH, WITNESS, TO REMIT SIN TO RETAIN SIN, TO LIVE THE SIN FREE LIFE, AND WHAT SOEVER THE LORD CALLS US TO DO. EVIDENCE; CONCERNING RECEIVING POWER, ACTS:1:8 BUT YE SHALL RECEIVE POWER, AFTER THAT THE HOLY GHOST IS COME UPON YOU: AND YE SHALL BE WITNESSES UNTO ME BOTH IN JERUSALEM, AND IN ALL JUDAEA, AND IN SAMARIA, AND UNTO THE UTTER MOST PART OF THE EARTH. EVIDENCE; CONCERNING SAINTS HAVING POWER TO REMIT SIN, AND RETAINING SIN. JN:20:21 THEN SAID JESUS TO THEM AGAIN, PEACE BE UNTO YOU: AS MY FATHER HATH SENT ME, EVEN SO SEND I YOU. 22. AND WHEN HE HAD SAID THIS, HE BREATHED ON THEM, AND SAITH UNTO THEM, RECEIVE YE THE HOLY GHOST: 23. WHOSE SOEVER SINS YE REMIT, THEY ARE REMITTED UNTO THEM; AND WHOSE SOEVER SINS YE RETAIN, THEY ARE RETAINED. NEW CONVERTS TO THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION MAY NOT KNOW HOW TO RECEIVE THE HOLY GHOST. IF THE ELECT OF GOD WILL REPENT, AND BE BAPTIZED IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST, THEY WILL COME INTO THE PROMISE THAT THEY SHALL RECEIVE THE GIFT OF THE HOLY GHOST. EVIDENCE , ACTS:19:1 AND IT CAME TO PASS, THAT, WHILE APOLLOS WAS AT CORINTH, PAUL HAVING PASSED THROUGH THE UPPER COASTS CAME TO EPHESUS: AND FINDING CERTAIN DISCIPLES, 2. HE SAID UNTO THEM, HAVE YE RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST SINCE YE BELIEVED? AND THEY SAID UNTO HIM, WE HAVE NOT SO MUCH AS HEARD WHETHER THERE BE ANY HOLY GHOST. 3. AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, UNTO WHAT THEN WERE YE BAPTIZED? AND THEY SAID, UNTO JOHN’S BAPTISM. 4. THEN SAID PAUL, JOHN VERILY BAPTIZED WITH THE BAPTISM OF REPENTANCE, SAYING UNTO THE PEOPLE, THAT THEY SHOULD BELIEVE ON HIM WHICH SHOULD COME AFTER HIM, THAT IS, ON CHRIST JESUS. 5. WHEN THEY HEARD THIS, THEY WERE BAPTIZED IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS. 6. AND WHEN PAUL HAD LAID HIS HANDS UPON THEM, THE HOLY GHOST CAME ON THEM: AND THEY SPAKE WITH TONGUES, AND PROPHESIED. 7. AND ALL THE MEN WERE ABOUT TWELVE. WHY IS IT SO IMPORTANT TO BE BAPTIZED IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST? THERE IS NO OTHER NAME UNDER HEAVEN GIVEN AMONG MEN WHEREBY MEN MUST BE SAVED. EVIDENCE; ACTS:4:10 BE IT KNOWN UNTO YOU ALL, AND TO ALL THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL, THAT BY THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST OF NAZARETH, WHOM YE CRUCIFIED, WHOM GOD RAISED FROM THE DEAD, EVEN BY HIM DOTH THIS MAN STAND HERE BEFORE YOU WHOLE. ACTS 4:12. NEITHER IS THERE SALVATION IN ANY OTHER: FOR THERE IS NONE OTHER NAME UNDER HEAVEN GIVEN AMONG MEN, WHEREBY WE MUST BE SAVED. HERE ARE THE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE PERSON THAT RECEIVES THE HOLY GHOST. WHEN A PERSON RECEIVES THE HOLY GHOST THE INWARD MAN THE SOUL COMES TO LIFE. THAT PART OF A MAN COMES TO LIFE THAT SHALL LIVE IN ETERNITY. 2COR:4:16 FOR WHICH CAUSE WE FAINT NOT; BUT THOUGH OUR OUTWARD MAN PERISH, YET THE INWARD MAN IS RENEWED DAY BY DAY. 2COR:4:18. WHILE WE LOOK NOT AT THE THINGS WHICH ARE SEEN, BUT AT THE THINGS WHICH ARE NOT SEEN: FOR THE THINGS WHICH ARE SEEN ARE TEMPORAL; BUT THE THINGS WHICH ARE NOT SEEN ARE ETERNAL. YOU CAN TRULY LOVE, FOR GOD IS LOVE. GAL:5:22 BUT THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT IS LOVE, JOY, PEACE, LONGSUFFERING, GENTLENESS, GOODNESS, FAITH, 23. MEEKNESS, TEMPERANCE: AGAINST SUCH THERE IS NO LAW. THE KINGDOM OF GOD COMES TO DWELL WITHIN YOU. ROM:14:17 FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS NOT MEAT AND DRINK: BUT RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND PEACE, AND JOY IN THE HOLY GHOST. THE ANOINTING THAT THE HOLY GHOST BRINGS WILL TEACH YOU, AND BRING YOU INTO ALL TRUTH. 1JN:2:27 BUT THE ANOINTING WHICH YE HAVE RECEIVED OF HIM ABIDETH IN YOU, AND YE NEED NOT THAT ANY MAN TEACH YOU: BUT AS THE SAME ANOINTING TEACHETH YOU OF ALL THINGS, AND IS TRUTH, AND IS NO LIE, AND EVEN AS IT HATH TAUGHT YOU, YE SHALL ABIDE IN HIM. THE RECEIVING OF THE HOLY GHOST IS THE EARNEST OF OUR INHERITANCE. EPH:1:13 IN WHOM YE ALSO TRUSTED AFTER THAT YE HEARD THE WORD OF TRUTH, THE GOSPEL OF YOUR SALVATION: IN WHOM ALSO AFTER THAT YE BELIEVED, YE WERE SEALED WITH THAT HOLY SPIRIT OF PROMISE, 14. WHICH IS THE EARNEST OF OUR INHERITANCE UNTIL THE REDEMPTION OF THE PURCHASED POSSESSION UNTO THE PRAISE OF HIS GLORY. THE CHILDREN OF SATAN, LIVING TOOLS OF THE DEVIL, FAITHLESS HUMAN BEINGS, CANNOT RECEIVE THE HOLY GHOST BECAUSE THEY CANNOT SEE HIM. THE HOLY GHOST MUST BE RECEIVED BY FAITH. JN:14:16 AND I WILL PRAY THE FATHER, AND HE SHALL GIVE YOU ANOTHER COMFORTER, THAT HE MAY ABIDE WITH YOU FOR EVER; 17. EVEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH; WHOM THE WORLD CANNOT RECEIVE, BECAUSE IT SEETH HIM NOT, NEITHER KNOWETH HIM: FOR HE DWELLETH WITH YOU, AND SHALL BE IN YOU 18. I WILL NOT LEAVE YOU COMFORTLESS; I WILL COME TO YOU. THE TARES OF THIS WORLD DO NOT BELIEVE IN ALLOWING THE ELECT OF GOD TO CALL FOR THE ELDERS OF THE CHURCH, NEITHER DO THEY BELIEVE IN ANOINTING THEM WITH OIL, AND NEITHER DO THEY BELIEVE IN LAYING THEIR HANDS ON THE SICK, AND PRAYING OVER THEM SO THAT THEY MAY RECEIVE THEIR HEALING; BECAUSE THEY ARE FAITHLESS. THIS COMMANDMENT IS GOING TO CAUSE SOME MEN LOTS OF TROUBLE WHEN THEY STAND BEFORE GOD. JM:5:14 IS ANY SICK AMONG YOU? 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; WHEN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST RETURNS JUDGMENT SHALL BEGIN AT THE CHURCH. AND, MANY SHALL HAVE TO GIVE AN ACCOUNT FOR ALLOWING THE SAINTS TO SUFFER SO. 1PT:4:17 FOR THE TIME IS COME THAT JUDGMENT MUST BEGIN AT THE HOUSE OF GOD: AND IF IT FIRST BEGIN AT US, WHAT SHALL END BE OF THEM THAT OBEY NOT THE GOSPEL OF GOD? THERE ARE TWO ANOINTINGS, THE PHYSICAL, AND THE SPIRITUAL. YOU CAN SEE BOTH ANOINTINGS WHEN DAVID WAS ANOINTED, CONSECRATED, AND SANCTIFIED, TO BE KING OVER ISRAEL. 1SM:16:12 AND HE SENT, AND BROUGHT HIM IN. NOW HE WAS RUDDY, AND WITHAL OF A BEAUTIFUL COUNTENANCE, AND GOODLY TO LOOK TO. AND THE LORD SAID, ARISE, ANOINT HIM: FOR THIS IS HE. 13. THEN SAMUEL TOOK THE HORN OF OIL, AND ANOINTED HIM IN THE MIDST OF HIS BRETHREN: AND THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME UPON DAVID FROM THAT DAY FORWARD, SO SAMUEL ROSE UP, AND WENT TO RAMAH. THE ANOINTING OF DAVID MADE HIM ROYALTY. WE, THE ELECT OF GOD THAT HAVE RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST, HAVE BEEN ADOPTED INTO THE FAMILY OF GOD; AND HAVE BECOME SONS, AND DAUGHTERS OF GOD. THE SPIRITUAL ANOINTING HAS MADE US ROYALTY. THERE IS A VERY SPECIAL PROMISE THAT GOES WITH CALLING FOR THE ELDERS OF THE CHURCH, AND THAT IS, THE LORD WILL RAISE THE SICK UP, AND IF THEY HAVE COMMITTED SINS THEY WILL BE FORGIVEN. JMS:5:15 AND THE PRAYER OF FAITH SHALL SAVE THE SICK, AND THE LORD SHALL RAISE HIM UP; AND IF HE HAVE COMMITTED SINS, THEY SHALL BE FORGIVEN HIM. THE APOSTLE PAUL HAD THE GIFT OF HEALING. ACTS:28:8 AND IT CAME TO PASS, THAT THE FATHER OF PUBLIUS LAY SICK OF A FEVER AND OF A BLOODY FLUX: TO WHOM PAUL ENTERED IN, AND PRAYED, AND LAID HIS HANDS ON HIM, AND HEALED HIM. WE KNOW THAT IT IS GOD’S WILL THAT ALL SAINTS BE HEALED, AND PROSPER. 3JN:1:1 THE ELDER UNTO THE WELLBELOVED GAIUS, WHOM I LOVE IN THE TRUTH. 2. BELOVED, I WISH ABOVE ALL THINGS THAT THOU MAYEST PROSPER AND BE IN HEALTH, EVEN AS THY SOUL PROSPERETH. THERE ARE WONDERFUL PROMISES MADE TO THOSE THAT FAST, ESPECIALLY THOSE THAT FAST WITH THE PROPER INTENT. WHEN A PERSON FAST AND PRAYS GOD WILL SAY "HERE I AM." THE SAME ONE THAT CREATED HEAVEN, AND EARTH, AND ALL THAT IS IN THEM; IS THERE TALKING WITH YOU, AND, HE IS ABLE TO MAKE YOUR HEALTH SPRING FORTH SPEEDILY; FASTING IS ONE WAY A PERSON CAN HUMBLE THEMSELVES BEFORE THE LORD. FASTING AFFLICTS THE SOUL, CAUSES THE SOUL TO PAIN. IS:58:5 IS IT SUCH A FAST THAT I HAVE CHOSEN? A DAY FOR A MAN TO AFFLICT HIS SOUL? IS IT TO BOW DOWN HIS HEAD AS A BULRUSH, AND TO SPREAD SACKCLOTH AND ASHES UNDER HIM? WILT THOU CALL THIS A FAST, AND AN ACCEPTABLE DAY TO THE LORD? 6. IS NOT THIS THE FAST THAT I HAVE CHOSEN? TO LOOSE THE BANDS OF WICKEDNESS, TO UNDO THE HEAVY BURDENS, AND TO LET THE OPPRESSED GO FREE, AND THAT YE BREAK EVERY YOKE? 7. IS IT NOT TO DEAL THY BREAD TO THE HUNGRY, AND THAT THOU BRING THE POOR THAT ARE CAST OUT TO THY HOUSE? WHEN THOU SEEST THE NAKED, THAT THOU COVER HIM: AND THAT THOU HIDE NOT THYSELF FROM THINE OWN FLESH? 8. THEN SHALL THY LIGHT BREAK FORTH AS THE MORNING, AND THINE HEALTH SHALL SPRING FORTH SPEEDILY: AND THY RIGHTEOUSNESS SHALL GO BEFORE THEE; THE GLORY OF THE LORD SHALL BE THY REREWARD. 9. THEN SHALT THOU CALL, AND THE LORD SHALL ANSWER; THOU SHALT CRY, AND HE SHALL SAY, HERE I AM. IF THOU TAKE AWAY FROM THE MIDST OF THEE THE YOKE, THE PUTTING FORTH OF THE FINGER, AND SPEAKING VANITY; WHEN THE LORD HEARS THE YOUR PRAYER KNOW OF A CERTAINTY YOU HAVE YOUR PETITION. 1JN:5:14 AND THIS IS THE CONFIDENCE THAT WE HAVE IN HIM, THAT, IF WE ASK ANY THING ACCORDING TO HIS WILL, HE HEARETH US: 15. AND IF WE KNOW THAT HE HEAR US, WHATSOEVER WE ASK, WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE THE PETITIONS THAT WE DESIRED OF HIM. GOD WILL NOT HEAR EVERY MAN’S PRAYER THAT CONTINUES IN SIN. THE MAN BLIND FROM BIRTH, THAT JESUS HEALED SAID THESE WORDS. JN:9:30 THE MAN ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO THEM, WHY HEREIN IS A MARVELLOUS THING, THAT YE KNOW NOT FROM WHENCE HE IS, AND YET HE HATH OPENED MINE EYES. 31. NOW WE KNOW THAT GOD HEARETH NOT SINNERS: BUT IF ANY MAN BE A WORSHIPPER OF GOD, AND DOETH HIS WILL, HIM HE HEARETH.