Sermon Tone Analysis

Its all about you!

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Slide - Caught

Caught up

Galatians 6:1

Bear One Another’s Burdens

Bear One Another’s Burdens

Prior to coming into a relationship with Jesus we were all sinners in need of a saviour

6 Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness.

Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.

2 Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

6 Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness.

Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.

2 Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Prior to coming into a relationship with Jesus we were all sinners in need of a saviour

Prior to coming into a relationship with Jesus we were all sinners in need of a saviour

Caught up

Dog wrapped up in a garden hose - the dog had gotten himself into a real mess

Story of fishing on the reserve and my job was to untangle the fish from the net - The fish fight to get out but inevitably get more tangled the harder they fight

We were all “caught or caught-up” in sin

If you want a description of what sin is you can look to the 10 commandments or go back to

Slide Galatians 5:19-21

We were living by desire - doing what we wanted, what felt good what we thought was right

Caugth Up

sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies

We were living by desire - doing what we wanted, what felt good what we thought was right

We were living by desire - doing what we wanted, what felt good what we thought was right

The first step in becoming “Spiritual” is recognizing that Christ’s desire and our desire are in opposition to one another

Faith in Christ’s death and resurrection has given those who believe and confess a new spiritual life in which we continually examine ourselves and model goodness.

If you are a believer you are a spiritual being free from the eternal consequences of your past

You have as well be given a responsibility to search out the sin in your life

As you become aware of the sin in your life you will as well become aware of the sin in other peoples lives.

Getting caught up

Slide - Keep watch on yourself lest you be tempted

How do you respond to an awareness of sin?

When someone goes and steals a bunch of cash do you secretly wish that you had that money?

Giving room in your thought life for

When someone is being promiscuous?

Are you secretly envious?

When people seem to reject Jesus yet continue on in their life doing whatever they want and maybe even seem to be rewarded for their sinful way of life - how do you respond to that?

We can be tempted by:

Our own thoughts about others sin

Our thoughts about our past lives

We can even get caught up by believing that we are better because we are not sinning like “those people”

So far the book of Galatians has dealt with issues of the Law and leaders who had come along and tried to impose

Galatians

Paul had been

So what does it mean to be Spiritual?

It means that we live with an observable, growing expression of the fruit of the Spirit

If anyone is caught in a sin those who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness

Gentleness is the same way that Jesus responded to you when you surrendered your life to him

This is proof of life - Do you respond to sin differently than you did before you knew Jesus !

Love Joy Peace Kindness Goodness Faithfulness.

Gentleness Self-control

The spiritual person will have these charateristics inceasingly in thier life.

Slide - You who are Spiritual

What does it mean to be spiritual

As mentioned earlier you must first believe in Jesus Christ as your saviour

A spiritual person will deeply believe in the existence of an intimate God, and concede Jesus has a sovereign right over his life

The spiritual person will acknowledge that he does not possess the inherent wisdom to know how to conduct his life

The spiritual man and woman will strive more than anything else to obey God.

The spiritual person views things in terms of eternity, not time.

For example, he may experience hardships and heartaches now, but he understands “that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to us later on

A spiritual individual subordinates the material to higher interests.

He sets his mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth ().

He does not become inordinately preoccupied with “things” of a material nature.

Rather, he seeks foremost the kingdom of God (), and trusts the Lord to provide his needs (in conjunction, of course, with exercising personal responsibility – ).

One who is truly spiritual strives for balance in his existence.

He does not compartmentalize his service to God by “selective devotion.”

Similarly, in Jesus’ day, the Pharisees would tithe of their smallest garden plants, while leaving undone weightier matters of the law (e.g., justice, mercy, and faith – Mt. 23:23).

The Lord did not grant the option of choosing certain areas of obedience and ignoring others.

Check Yourself

It goes beyond our own existence

Christ came to remove our sins from us and our burdens we no longer carry alone

Being a Christian we learn to live with an attitude of “Pay it forward”

The spiritual person person will fulfill the “Law of Christ”

Some are conscientious guardians of theological precision, but exhibit almost no discernible compassion for their kinsmen in the Lord, while others scurry about, immersed in benevolent activity, laboring under the misconception that “grace” exempts from obedience.Check Yourself

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In order to fulfill the law of Christ you must first be a follower of Christ

Jesus said some interesting things as to what it means to be followers

In order to fulfill the law of Christ you must first be a follower of Christ

Jesus said some interesting things as to what it means to be followers

Pick up your cross and follow me

Our Choices Our Responsibility

Your cross is not some burden that you carry - the cross represents only one thing to the original readers of these words, a very painful slow agonizing death.

2000 years later we tend to focus on the grace forgiveness and mercy of the cross and that is important but we must never lose sight of the agony and death that the cross held for Christ

We are called to carry that cross ourselves - we die to ourselves and surrender our lives to live for Jesus

Matthew Mark Luke - Fishers of men

The disciples went from being fishermen to following Christ and searching for the lost and leading them into a relationship with Jesus

In all four Gospels Jesus tells us to

Love God and Love one another

Bear one anothers burdens can then have two different applications

Have the salvation of others in your thoughts

Help others overcome their struggles with sin

Our Choices are Our Responsibility but first we must look at our own lives

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Galatians 6

Sometimes there is a tendency to let your spirituality cause you to believe that you are somehow “better than” someone else!

We may say “well I am not perfect but I am better than that guy!”

When it comes to a relationship with Jesus it isn’t about “That Guy” it is about you!