Spiritual Sickness

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Spiritual Sickness
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Spiritual Sickness

• Jesus came to heal the sick (Mk. 130-34
  215-17)
• What are the characteristics of spiritual
  sickness?

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Spiritual Sickness Can Occur

• Everyone, sometime in their life gets sick
• Children can become sick (1 Cor. 31)
• Elderly can become sick (Gal. 57)
• Everyone can become sick (1 Cor. 1130)

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Spiritual Sickness Can Be Diagnosed

• What are your symptoms? What is the diagnosis?
• Divisive and contentious (1 Cor. 110-11)
• Fleshly minded (Gal. 519-21)
• Tossed back and forth (Eph. 414)

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Spiritual Sickness Can Be Diagnosed

• Refuse to work together (Phil. 42)
• Lack of growth (Heb. 512-14)
• Follows human wisdom (Col. 28ff)
• Disorderly (2 Thess. 36)

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Spiritual Sickness Can Be Diagnosed

• Drifting and falling (Heb. 21 312 41ff)
• Forsaking the assembling (Heb. 1025)
• Fighting and worldliness (Jas. 41-4)
• Lukewarmness (Rev. 316-19)

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Spiritual SicknessLike A Common Cold

• Envy and jealousy
• Gossip
• Lying
• Lustful thoughts
• Vengeance
• Misplaced priorities
• Anger, malice
• Conformity
• Laziness

• Ingratitude
• Selfishness
• Murmuring
• Unforgiving
• Discontent
• Pride
• Discouragement
• Worry
• Strife

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Spiritual Sickness Can Be Contagious

• Where did you get your sickness?
• From friends (1 Cor. 1533)
• From family (1 K. 2125)
• From brethren (1 Cor. 56-7)

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Spiritual Sickness Can Be Deadly

• How bad is your sickness?
• Sin brings death (Rom. 623)
• Spiritual sickness can grow (Isa. 15)
• Spiritual sickness left untreated results in
  death (Heb. 66 1026-27 1 Jn. 516-17)

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Spiritual Sickness Can Be Cured

• Do you want to be healed of your sickness?
• You must turn to God, not man (Jer. 67
  3012-14 Hos. 513)
• You must get help (Ezek. 344,16)
• You must follow the orders of Jesus the Great
  Physician (Mk. 217)