Sermon Tone Analysis

KJ 7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. 10 As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

7 tBe not deceived; uGod is not vmocked: for pwwhatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

8 For xhe that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap ycorruption; but xhe that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

9 And zlet us not abe weary in well doing: for bin due season we shall reap, cif we faint not. 10 dAs we have therefore opportunity, elet us do good unto all men, eeespecially unto them who are of fthe household of faith.

A Decision That Determines Our Destiny

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The Holy Bible: King James Version.

(2009).

(Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version., ).

Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.

Paul has led the Galatian believers to understand the historical and theological background for the crisis in their churches and given them general principles about life in the Spirit.

Now he spells out specific responsibilities for those who are led by the Spirit so that they can rebuild their broken relationships.

Paul has led the Galatian believers to understand the historical and theological background for the crisis in their churches and given them general principles about life in the Spirit.

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The responsibilities of those who are spiritual are directly related to the problem of the division in the Galatian Churches

So far Paul has led the Galatian believers to understand the historical and theological background for the crisis in their churches and given them general principles about life in the Spirit.

Now he spells out specific responsibilities for those who are led by the Spirit so that they can rebuild their broken relationships.

The responsibilities of those who are spiritual (v. 1) are directly related to the problem of division in the Galatian churches.

We have already noted that when Paul describes the problem in the churches, he speaks of “biting and devouring each other” (5:15) and “provoking and envying each other” (5:26).

The false teachers’ campaign to force all the Gentile believers to become Jews would have divided the churches into hostile groups: the Jewish Christians who zealously campaigned for the necessity of circumcision and observance of the Mosaic law, the Gentile believers who zealously pursued the goal of living like Jews, and the Gentile believers who were not willing or able to live by the Mosaic law.

Paul’s list of responsibilities in this section shows how those who are truly led by the Spirit can bring healing and unity in their divided churches.

The responsibilities include both the believers’ corporate responsibilities to one another and the individual believer’s personal accountability before God.

Our public care for one another must be matched by integrity in our private walk before God.

Note how corporate responsibilities and individual accountability are woven together in this section:

I. Paul had described the problem in the churches as biting and devouring each other (5.15) provoking and envying each other (5:26) And the False Teachers.

So in this discourse Apostle Paul gives us the list of responsibilities & shows us how those who are truly led by the Spirit can bring healing and unity in their divided churches

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The responsibilities include both the believers corporate responsibilities to one another and the individual believers personal accountability before God.

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Our public care for one another must be matched by integrity in our private walk before God.

If someone says, “I love God,” but hates a fellow believer,* that person is a liar; for if we don’t love people we can see, how can we love God, whom we cannot see?

21 And he has given us this command: Those who love God must also love their fellow believers.*

Note How corporate responsibilities and Individual accountability are woven together in this section.

* 4:21 Greek The one who loves God must also love his brother.

Tyndale House Publishers.

(2013).

Holy Bible: New Living Translation ().

Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers.

gal 6

1. Corporate: restore him gently

2. Individual: watch yourself

3. Corporate: carry other’s burdens

4. Individual: each one should test his own actions....each one should carry his own load

5. Corporate: share all good things with his instructor.

6. Individual: do not be deceived a man reaps what he sows

Deceived

The word šeqer indicates something false, or deliberately misleading.

In the NT the idea of leading astray is conveyed in the Gk.

planáō and cognates; apátē and related words often imply seduction

7. Corporate: do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers

Restoring Sinners, Examining Yourself (6:1)* The first responsibility of those who are spiritual is the restoration of one who has sinned.

Paul’s conditional clause, if someone is caught in a sin, is framed in such a way as to point to the high probability that members of the church will sin.

2. Sin in the Church is not a hypothetical possibility, it is a reality.

Paul and his readers both knew of believers in the the church who had been trapped by sin.

Moral failure in the church should not be a surprise, nor should it be considered fatal to the life of the Church.

What is important is the Church’s response when such failure occurs .

(Peter)

But Paul wants to show that the occasion of sin is the opportunity for Spirit-led people to display the fruit of the Spirit in order to bring healing to the sinner and unity in the church.

In order to bring healing to the sinner, we must have a compassionate view of the one who has sinned.

Paul views the the sinner as one who is caught in a sin

When a person sins, other people are hurt; other people are victims of that sin.

But we must remember that sinners themselves are also in some sense victims of sin.

Abusers have also been abused.

They have been overtaken, ambushed and seized by sin.

Paul is not excusing the sinner of personal responsibility.

But he is recognizing the terrible captivating force of sin.

Jesus said ‘Everyone who sins is a slave to sin..

Paul appeals to those who are spiritual to help the one who is caught in a sin.

The spiritual are not some elite leadership group of spiritual giants.

All the way through the letter Paul has been emphasizing that all of his converts in Galatia have received the Spirit

Paul’s directive to the spiritual is to restore the sinner.

the verb restore could be used in the physical or material contests to signify reseting a broken bone or mending a torn net..

Paul uses the same verb to express his desire that the divided church in Corinth “be perfectly united.”

The church had been broken and torn by divisions; it needed to be reset as a physician would reset broken bones and mended as a fisherman would repair torn nets.

Galatians 6:1 the verb restore calls for spiritual therapy so that a broken member of the body can once again work properly and perform its vital functions for the benefit of the whole body.

As long as any member of the body is broken, the whole body suffers.

If the broken member of the body is amputated, the whole body suffers the loss.

What is needed is restoration.