Title: Restoring Brothers (23)
Series: James
Text: James 5:19-20
Author: Stephen Whitney
Being involved in ministry you meet all kinds of different people who each have their own problems. Many have walked with the Lord for some time, but over the years have drifted away. When I was a Chaplain in the Army, I met Jim who grew up in a Christian family, but during High School dropped out of church. Then while in the Army he met a Mormon girl and they became engaged. He told me that he was converting from being a Baptist to Mormon.
As I talked with him, I tried to explain that he was giving up real faith in Christ for a false hope in Joseph Smith and that becoming a Mormon was really leaving the Christian faith. But he was so in love with her that he was going to follow through with his decision so they could be married in the Mormon church.
I met another person named John who grew up with an alcoholic father and a Christian mother. He told me he never felt loved by his father, but as a young person he made a commitment to Christ.
Because of his own personal problems, he started to drink and over the years lost possession of his children, been in and out of jail and drug treatment programs many times, lost numerous jobs and had to live on the street because of his addictions.
Over the years that I have known him, he walks with the Lord for a while and then falls back into the world and ends up in jail again. His life has been one sad tail of success and then failure over and over again.
Satan is always looking for ways to cause us to wander away from the Lord; to go our own way, to do our own thing and to be our own person. He will try anything in his power to get us to fallaway from the Lord and into his control.
I Peter 5:8-9 Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Resist him, firm in your faith.
Background
James knew that Satan would tempt believers to wa ...
Series: James
Text: James 5:19-20
Author: Stephen Whitney
Being involved in ministry you meet all kinds of different people who each have their own problems. Many have walked with the Lord for some time, but over the years have drifted away. When I was a Chaplain in the Army, I met Jim who grew up in a Christian family, but during High School dropped out of church. Then while in the Army he met a Mormon girl and they became engaged. He told me that he was converting from being a Baptist to Mormon.
As I talked with him, I tried to explain that he was giving up real faith in Christ for a false hope in Joseph Smith and that becoming a Mormon was really leaving the Christian faith. But he was so in love with her that he was going to follow through with his decision so they could be married in the Mormon church.
I met another person named John who grew up with an alcoholic father and a Christian mother. He told me he never felt loved by his father, but as a young person he made a commitment to Christ.
Because of his own personal problems, he started to drink and over the years lost possession of his children, been in and out of jail and drug treatment programs many times, lost numerous jobs and had to live on the street because of his addictions.
Over the years that I have known him, he walks with the Lord for a while and then falls back into the world and ends up in jail again. His life has been one sad tail of success and then failure over and over again.
Satan is always looking for ways to cause us to wander away from the Lord; to go our own way, to do our own thing and to be our own person. He will try anything in his power to get us to fallaway from the Lord and into his control.
I Peter 5:8-9 Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Resist him, firm in your faith.
Background
James knew that Satan would tempt believers to wa ...
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