Carry On
Galatians • Sermon • Submitted • Presented • 41:21
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· 162 viewsWhat is the law of Christ? Pastor Chase takes us on a two fold journey through Galatians 6:1-5. He describes what it looks like to be a burden-bearer for others and how to handle Biblical discipline in the church body. These are two topics that will get you or someone you know out of their comfort zone and into the way life was meant to be lived. Carry on!
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Brothers and sisters, if someone is caught in a sin, you who live by the Spirit should restore that person gently. But watch yourselves, or you also may be tempted. Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. If anyone thinks they are something when they are not, they deceive themselves. Each one should test their own actions. Then they can take pride in themselves alone, without comparing themselves to someone else, for each one should carry their own load.
FAMILY LIFE
(Verses 1-5)
Treating each other as God would expect
Bearing our burdens
God’s desire is not for us to carry our own burdens
It seems brave and like we are in control but it is not Christian and it is not humble.
To think we can carry burdens ourselves is to think we can handle it ourselves and don’t need others- pride
To handle things ourselves is not what God intended
Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken.
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
There is one burden that we could never carry for ourselves or others.
Jesus Christ alone can bear the burden of our sin and guilt; He bore them with His own body when he died on the cross.
Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.
Christ also bears our burdens of worry, temptation, doubts and sorrows through human friendships.
Example: Paul’s letter to the Corinthians. He was worried about the church there and how they would receive his letter. 2 Corinthians 7:5, 6
For when we came into Macedonia, we had no rest, but we were harassed at every turn—conflicts on the outside, fears within.
But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus,
God’s comfort was not given to Paul through prayer or waiting on the Lord but through a friendship and through the good news he brought with him of the Corinthian church.
When we carry each other’s burdens in our friendships we are living out the purpose of God’s people.
SO we shouldn’t keep them to ourselves but seek a Christian friend who will help bear them with us.
GUILTY: MY STORY OF EMAIL LAST WEEK TO BOARD
The Message of Galatians 2. How Christians Should Treat Each Other (Verses 2–5)
To be a burden-bearer is a great ministry. It is something that every Christian should and can do. It is a natural consequence of walking by the Spirit. It fulfils the law of Christ. ‘Therefore’, wrote Martin Luther, ‘Christians must have strong shoulders and mighty bones’—sturdy enough, that is, to carry heavy burdens.
KINGDOM LIFE
(VERSE 2)
The result of carrying and sharing burdens is that we ‘fulfill the law of Christ’ (Verse 2)
Paul’s language is directed to the Judiazers. (Those Jews who were only following the law and pushing it on others at that time.) He was hoping those Judiazers would see that some of the laws requirements were a burden to them.
When we make God’s Word legalistic we can have the same tenancies as them. We burden ourselves and others by expecting them to follow rules that we can’t keep.
Paul is simply saying to them (and to us), stop imposing the law as a burden to others and fulfill the law of Christ.
What is the law of Christ?
It is John 13:34; 15:12
“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.
It is what Paul said in Galatians 5:14
For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
This is all about fulfilling the commands of the Lord.
Love the Lord God with all our heart, mind, soul and strength
We love God with our thoughts, words, and actions.
Love our neighbor- love one another
We love our neighbor with our word and action.
Why did I not say “we love our neighbor with our thoughts”?
Because only God knows our thoughts and sometimes it’s better we don’t say or act out our thoughts to our neighbor!
RESTORING A BROTHER OR SISTER
VERSE 1
What to do?
“If your brother or sister sins, go and point out their fault, just between the two of you. If they listen to you, you have won them over. But if they will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.’ If they still refuse to listen, tell it to the church; and if they refuse to listen even to the church, treat them as you would a pagan or a tax collector.
Brothers and sisters, if someone is caught in a sin, you who live by the Spirit should restore that person gently. But watch yourselves, or you also may be tempted.
If a man is overtaken in any trespass (sin), restore him.
“Restore” (Kat-ar-tizo) = Put in order or restore to its former condition.
Mark 1:19
When he had gone a little farther, he saw James son of Zebedee and his brother John in a boat, preparing their nets.
‘mending’ their nets is the same use in this verse as Verse 1 in Galatians 6:1 “restore him”
Order of restoring:
Go to the brother or sister and tell them their fault- face to face, and privately.
Jesus calls us to make our objective positive and constructive.
Seek to ‘restore’ them, as Paul writes.
2. Who is to do it?
Brothers and sisters, if someone is caught in a sin, you who live by the Spirit should restore that person gently. But watch yourselves, or you also may be tempted.
A mature or spiritual Christian
Steve preached on this last week in Galatians 5:16-25
One that is not perfect but walks in the Spirit and displays the fruits of the Spirit
The requirement is that the one to restore or help restore a brother or sister is one that is ‘walking in the Spirit’
This does not give an out to the person who finds them self ‘less spiritual’- that person and especially the one involved would go with the spiritually mature individual to the person in sin
3. How should it be done?
Galatians 6:1
Brothers and sisters, if someone is caught in a sin, you who live by the Spirit should restore that person gently. But watch yourselves, or you also may be tempted.
“You who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Look to yourself, lest you too be tempted.”
This is the same word (gentleness) used in the fruit of the Spirit.
Spiritual people approach restoration in a gentle spirit.
They know they have been shown much grace and forgiveness by the Lord.
Spiritual people approach restoration in a humble spirit.
They know they are prone to sin and have been forgiven much by the Lord.
The Message of Galatians c. How It Should Be Done
Yet if we walked by the Spirit we would love one another more, and if we loved one another more we would bear one another’s burdens, and if we bore one another’s burdens we would not shrink from seeking to restore a brother who has fallen into sin. Further, if we obeyed this apostolic instruction as we should, much unkind gossip would be avoided, more serious backsliding prevented, the good of the church advanced, and the name of Christ glorified.
Here are three truths to remember as we close.
1. We easily remember that we’re sons and daughters of God, but too often forget that we’re all brothers and sisters- yet our kids learn the opposite from our word and action.
2. When we focus on ourselves, we can’t see the people around us that God has put in our lives, for a purpose.
3. God put us here for a purpose and that is to fulfill the law of Christ and obey His teachings, not just follow the ones we want to.