What is Anointing | Sermons outlines | Biblical questions

 

170. Why call this an ordinance? 

It is a Christian ceremony. 

177. Is it a command? 

It comes to us rather as a divine suggestion 

178. If not an absolute command, why observe it? 

Anything brought to us through the suggestion of the divine inspiration merits our prayerful consideration. 

179. Who should administer it? 

The elders of the church (James 5:14). 

180. Why not elders of some other church ? 

For the same reason that you would not send for them to administer the communion. 

181. Does not the oil referred to in James 5:14 mean the “oil of grace?” 

Man cannot anoint with the “oil of grace.” 

182. Is this obligatory upon all sick people? 

We believe that if this were an absolute command it would have been given in that form. As it is, we 

 regard it in the same light that we regard the preceding verse. 

183. What promise is coupled with the anoint 

“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” (James 5:15). 

184. Should anyone be anointed who has not faith that these things shall be accomplished? 

It can not be the “prayer of faith,” unless faith is exercised in these promises. 

185. Is it not appropriate to have the anointing just before death? 

The Bible is silent on this. The anointing spoken of in James 5:14,15 is for healing and raising up; not an 

 unction of the soul. 

186. Is it not every sick man’s privilege to be anointed and healed? If this were so, no one would die

 except because of failure to live up to his Christian privileges. 

187. Is there an instance in the Bible to show that the apostles suffered a case of sickness among the

 faithful to go by without bringing about instant healing? 

“Trophimus have I left at Miletum sick” (2 Timothy 4.20). 

188. Should small children be anointed? 

Not any more than they should be baptized. 

189. What evidence have we that only persons who are right before God should be anointed? The Word 

 says, “If he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.” Only people with the right attitude toward 

 God can have their sins forgiven. 

190. Do we conclude from this reference to sins that sin is the cause of the sickness? 

Not necessarily. The presence of that word “if” shows that James recognized that a person may be sick 

without having committed sins. 

191. Under what circumstances, then, should a person be anointed? When a person is so sick that it 

becomes necessary for some power to “raise him up”, when he has fully resigned himself to God so that 

 in case he has committed sins he is in shape to have them forgiven; when he has prayerfully considered 

 this question in the light of God’s promises, and has full faith that “the prayer of faith shall save the 

sick, and the Lord shall raise him up”; then it is his privilege to “send for the elders of the church, which 

 privilege should not be neglected. 

192. What spirit should pervade all prayers? 

“Thy will be done.”