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And you know James 5 is a chapter that we often neglect because of the fact that it's a chapter that's abused by the Roman Catholics. And you know, sometimes there are scriptures in the Bible that false religions will twist and abuse and then we sometimes make the mistake of just walking away from that scripture and ignoring it. Now just because someone is misinterpreting and abusing and misusing a scripture, you know what, we still need to go to that scripture and find out what it really means and apply it to our lives and not just throw it out. You know, and for example, the concept of anointing with oil and praying for the sick. You know, the Pentecostals have abused that and turned it into a Las Vegas show that comes to town, right? And claim to be an apostle but they're liars and they claim to be able to do these miracles that they can't really perform. Let me tell you something, we still should follow James 5 even though the Pentecostals have abused it. The Roman Catholics have abused it with their last rites. You know, where they anoint on the deathbed and the last rites and the false doctrine associated with that. And then also the doctrine of confession has been abused by the Roman Catholic Church with the confessional booth. You know, where you go to the priest and you confess your sins to the priest through this little anonymous little grating or whatever bizarre thing. And he tells you, okay, I forgive you. You know, do these Hail Marys and these Our Fathers and all. You know, that's a lie out of the pit of hell to think that we could go to some man who we have not sinned against in any way, shape, or form and that somehow he represents Christ. He does not represent Christ. There is one mediator between God and man and it's not a guy who calls himself Father. It is not a Catholic priest. He is not the mediator between God and man. Jesus Christ, the only mediator between God and man. And if I need to be forgiven by God, I'm going to pray to the Father in Jesus' name. I'm not going to go to that guy. I don't need him. I don't need his help for anything, okay? But with that being said, even though the confessional booth is a wicked heresy and the confessional booth is totally unscriptural and wicked, but in James 5 the Bible does tell us, let's read it in verse 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. And that is something that we should do. I'm not saying, you know, oh, you have a cold, okay, let's come and pray over you, anoint you. But you know, when people are deathly, and I've done this before, when people are deathly ill, you know, this does come into play. But he says, let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord, and the prayer of faith shall save the sick. And again, not talking about he's going to go to heaven now, that's not what it's saying. He's saying it's going to save him as in it's going to save his life from death because he's on the point of death. The prayer of faith shall save the sick, the Lord shall raise him up, meaning he's going to come out of the deathbed that he's on. He's going to be back up and about. And if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. But look, verse 15 ties in with verse 16. It says, 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. So this is the part that we ignore is verse 16. We look at that and we say, you don't confess your sins to a man, only confess your sins to God. Don't confess to that priest. That's true, but hold on, the reason why the confessional booth doesn't fit in here is because it says confess your faults one to another. It doesn't say one person is always confessing their faults to the other guy because he's the representative of God on earth. That's the false doctrine. And hey, if you went into that confessional booth and ripped down the grading, tell them what you did and then say, now what did you do, you pervert, you stinking Catholic pedophile priest, whatever you are. But I'm just saying, the point is, you know, the Bible is teaching us to confess our faults one to another. So that shows that sometimes there is a time to confess your sins unto someone else besides God. Does it not say that? And it doesn't say confess your sins to the pastor, like I'm the holy man of God and I'm here to take your confessions after the service today. It says confess your faults one to another. That's a two-way street. That's an attitude that says, you know what, when I sin against someone and when I wrong someone I should tell that person, I should go to that person and tell them, hey I'm sorry, I've done wrong, okay, and not try to hide and cover our sins and to be a humble enough person to admit when we've done wrong and to confess our faults one to another and to pray one for the other that we will be healed, okay. So this is a biblical doctrine of confession. Confession to God, yes. Confession to our brothers and sisters in Christ, yes, okay. Confessional booth, no.