Tag: Revelation

James 5:16
New International Version (NIV)

¹⁶ Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.

James 5:16
New King James Version (NKJV)

¹⁶ Confess your trespasses^[a] to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.

First Forgiven, then Confess your sins

James 5:15-16
New International Version (NIV)

¹⁵ And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise them up. If they have sinned, they 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 person is powerful and effective.

1. Forgiven ( God Forgiving Us )
2. Confess your sins to EACH OTHER ( Not to God : because God already forgave you in Point number 1. )

Example Situation

1. Forgiven : Imagine someone paid off all you debts
2. Confession of sins : You tell to others that your debts have been Paid by that someone

Jesus is that person who paid off all your debts.

Old Covenant Confession of sins

Proverbs 28:13
New International Version (NIV)

1. Confess your sins
2. Possible Forgiveness from God if the confession and the repentance is genuine

We are not under Old Covenant

• We are under the New Covenant

Capernaum

• Place where many miracles happened
• Place which is called the Town of Jesus in the Gospels

Matthew 11:23
New King James Version (NKJV)

²³ And you, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to Hades; for if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.

Exalted to Heaven

• Capernaum Saw His miracles of Grace
• Saw His Love
• And Yet they Rejected Grace

Sin Against Grace is the worst sin than the sin of Sodom

Miracles

• Jairus Daughter Raised from the dead
• Centurian Servant Was Healed
• Women with the issue of blood healed

How Transformation?

• Mighty Works

Luke 1:46-47
New King James Version (NKJV)

⁴⁶ And Mary said:

Revelation 7:9
New King James Version (NKJV)

⁹ After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands,

• This is not for believers (Church)

Matthew 7:14
New King James Version (NKJV)

¹⁴ Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.

• Find : is present tense in Greek
• Greek Word for Find: heuriskontes
• Present tense implies its for Jews at that time
  • Only few people believed Jesus at that time

“Find” or “heuriskontes” Grammar

• Greek Word : heuriskontes

 

• So that we won’t be robbed Left and Right