Galatians 5:25-6:5
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I think I'm stalling time is. Are they like that? If you are keeping track it in my Bible we have just one case. We are getting very close to the end.
Some of the things that we talked about in here this today a really back to the beginning of relations and it is hard to remember all of the things that Paul talked about at the beginning, but we'll do our best to that as we start to wrap off.
So this week we have another one of those packages that has a lot of seemingly disconnected that come across more like master. So I'm not sure if you all know. About this particular basketball coach named John Wooden of what he is probably the most famous basketball coach in the world really made a name for himself while he was coaching the UCLA men's college basketball team to a record-setting seven consecutive NCAA championships all together. I think he coached Decades of record-setting basketball programs throughout his life coaches. He's he's so well-known that even a non sports world and people like me they can find access to the things that he said and did a through the world of leadership. So I need to become a fan of John Wooden because of his NC double A National Basketball Championships or because of his success as a basketball coach in general is riding lessons that he had his players with all areas of life band. He told his players as much in life as he did in Halloween on the court. No lessons event became Legends. I think he was one of those rare people who actually live out the things that you said at least that is his reputation. Listen to some of his maxims on light. Don't measure Yourself by what you have accomplished. But by what you should have accomplished with your ability. Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out. never mistake activity for achievement
be more concerned with your character than your reputation because your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are. If you don't have time to do it, right, when will you have time to do it over? That's a good one for me. Perform required each day. Coach John Wooden is equally as well known for his success in basketball as he is on his success in life in these Maxon. There was a greater Legacy that his record on the court. So what is a Maxon? Is there a short a short statement that expresses a general truth or rule or comment? It's something easy to remember and is applicable in various areas of our life. Maxim set the tone for understanding behavior, and they can be a source of cultural or personal values. But it's not just enough to see them. It doesn't really matter if you memorize a few Maxim's for life and then never pay attention to them. Maxim's only matter if you internalizing and his character and not just the number of wins and losses. As you can tell by then I realized early on that. There are two kinds of behavior behavior that everyone activities in your tangible accomplishments. This is your external Behavior.
often times we call this contest the other type of behavior is internal. It's a lot more difficult to see and understand is often referred to as or internal private. It's those things that you think in the process is you engaged to form conclusions about the world and other people around you. August 9th is internal behaviors can also influence and produce coordinated external Behavior. in the two external and internal Behavior
of those two internal behavior is the one that's more influential over the whole person, but you can hear it in coach wouldn't massive happening inside before it pays attention to what's happening outside.
Or I guess you can say if the external behavior is problematic then perhaps attention needs to be paid to what's going on inside.
One of my favorite Maxim from coach wooden is winning takes talent to repeat takes character. The maxim gets right to the point character. The cognitive emotional and spiritual inner realities of a person or what is most important as we go through life. If our internal and external Behavior been difficult to walk through life following a consistent pattern is difficult to walk through life as a good husband father's business owner.
To bring us into a theological. Living a good Christian Life can't be done by following a set of external behaviors. There's no list to follow. Is dead God is more concerned about who we are inside. Then what are the ape hangers are on the outside?
I deal with it too will be coordinated, but that's not necessarily reality. So the question then becomes, who are you inside? What do you have? What things do you say about people in your head that you don't say your inner motivations and intentions are the real determiner of Who You Are Especially if you didn't act authentically. If we claim to live by the spirit, then our internal Behavior towards others should demonstrate it because that is what God.
If you have your Bibles handy open in his relations chapter 5 verse 25 final a section of Galatians that we started a few weeks ago. Is commonly referred to as the series of exultation from Paul to the Galatians and it's hard to group them together an outline and determine any type of flow from it. So in some ways, I think it's best to think of this section as a series of massive about what it means to live life by the spirit. Let's read Galatians chapter 5.
If we live by the spirit, let us also keep in step with the spirit. What does not become conceited provoking one another NV? 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 to be tempted bear one another's burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ. For if anyone thinks he is something that he is when he is nothing he deceives himself and then his reason to ignore her for each will have to bear his own.
Father God as we approached your word on when you look at Paul's letter to the Galatians that what was said then can be made real in my life. We pray that in order for that to happen that we can understand you over the father, please teach us today. Look at your word.
One of the difficulties with this passage is trying to keep it in perspective trying to keep it in its own contact because it seems like it's easy to just plug these verses out of context didn't understand them in no way. That's the weather here. We see her a reference back to the beginning chapters of relations as well as a continuation of presented in 1624 the context of what that really sound like blossoms at somebody like coach wooden with you for a living out the Christian Life. But you better understand them. We need to rely on pretty much the full letter up to this point it all points to the idea of interpersonal relationship.
These Masters have a little bit of a back-and-forth description of individual and communal responsibility. Suppose starts out with a conditional statement in verse 25. He says if we live by the spirit And that's sort of like a rhetorical question that Paul is expecting his readers and listeners to say yes to yes. We live by the spirit. In that preamps is second-class keep its there.
If you have been changed on the inside, then you should also act in a way that is in accord with your inner reality. The fruit of the spirit that makes up your inner reality should also produce coordinated external Behavior. You who believes are no longer subject to the desires of the flesh. Since those have been crucified with Christ. Therefore we should keep in stuff or act in a way that our internal behavior and our external Behavior.
We actually had an example of this concept earlier in the winter with a can chapter 2 verse 14. They are Paul is describing his encounter with Peter in Antioch a bag then all of this group of men from James. And Peter was intimidated and starting to separate himself from the Gentiles. East End Fellowship
Do you remember how Paul describe Peters action? He said when I saw that their conduct was not and stuff with the truth of the Gospel.
This metaphor describes the problems that happen when our internal behavior and external Behavior.
When the theological and spiritual realities that to find Christians are superseded contact has been knocking step with the truth. What Peter did was wrong? He should have lived according to the theological reality and not the cultural reality the theological reality chapter 3 verse 3.
This Expedition is present. There's while living in the spirit being led by the spirit does not mean that life is on autopilot and we can just cruise through but it means constantly choosing to follow the leaving of the spirit is better than desires of the flesh or the need for performance.
If you live by the spirit and keep it staff at the Spirit.
after this massive Paul provide an explanation of what keeping in step with the spirit looks like according to Life Community and the struggles of interpersonal relationships That's one of the most damaging qualities when you are in Community Pride. Rs.26 is very straight for us not become conceited. This word conceited is only used here in the New Testament and it's definition describes pry it means to have fried without the proper basis. false interesting leave Hall doesn't say don't be prideful rather. He chooses in Oscar word that only appears once in the New Testament to describe a time for false Pride or Fanny. In addition to being in step with the spirit also means you don't challenge others. You don't provoke them to something or to respond in a certain way. Unity is often built by provoking others manipulating.
And lastly, let's not live in the state of envying other. each of these things represent inner realities false Pride vanity is produced by thinking we are more Better than others. It's it's produced by a false sense of our own status. provoking others with challenging them Insightful way it is designed to add to our own Prime as well. Being jealous is because our own energy thought processes have you turned in that? We are owed something. We don't have even though others have it. If we claim to live by the spirit then our internal behaviors.
The next Matson that Paul gives to the Galatians concern how Christians should respond to those who are noticed to be struggling with living by the spirit. In chapter 6 verse 1 it's describe someone who is falling behind or falling away if you can freshen. Someone who is struggling to live according to the spirit and is choosing to find their identity and performance.
There are a few ways that you can respond to this type of situation. You can provoke them.
You're just going to inject anger and frustration if you can book at them with me.
But both of those responses with Snappy keeping stats.
I'll provide the answer of how to respond if its maximum. He says you who are spiritual should restore him in the spirit of gentleness. Can you hear the Pion if you are walking in step with the spirit then gentleness will be a response. The correct response is the inner Behavior needed to help a Christian brother or sister who struggled gentlest is responding with your dignity.
The inner behavior of keeping in step with the spirit is one where we acknowledge sin. But we respond the way with compassion dignity.
Because we two should know how difficult the Christian Life is. We should understand that the Christian life is not one of the section but one where we continually struggle between the already and understanding of ourselves where we know we are saved and citizens of Heaven that we can call Godfather. Yeah, we still live in a fallen world with falling bodies and Fallen Minds. Our lives are one of the struggle.
We know this. This is our reality each and every one. So when we see a brother or sister in Christ struggling with that same reality our response should be one of gently restarant all the while keeping watch on our own our own struggle with education so that we too don't start to fall behind.
The number for DePaul uses here comes from the World of Sports sports teams. When you guys keep watching yourself. When the first century reader or listener, it wouldn't conjure up the image of a runner running a race and keeping his eyes on the finish line. Not looking around not looking over his shoulder to see where everyone else is. But keeping his eyes focused on the Finish again. Our internal should be focused on Christ so that we can live by the spirit everyday choosing friends over spouse.
That is also to imitate Christ in his priorities. Verse two things out is a maxim that could be many different parts.
Or maybe the easiest way to understand this versus to look at it backwards to forwards. So so I asked what could people be talking about. What is the law of Christ? I think we need to rely on the previous passage chapter 5 verses 13 and 14 service and how that fulfills the law. The Loft - is the freedom you genuinely serve others from the disposition of Jesus fulfilled the law and live a life that describe the essence of the law. We too can genuinely Serve the People of God five bearing one another's burdens. And this isn't a specific.
It doesn't say what the burden might be. There's no clue in the Greek language as to what that could be.
It's really anything that is ready to crush a person from his weight. Thank you. That could be a financial have to be level with with being stealing stuff in life. You are a part of the people of God and you are free to stop worrying about yourself and generally serve others in the people of God, then you should help others carry their virgin. It's sort of a complex maximum or at least the way I explain it to me. You kind of cough last for a short.
What is a highly contextual statement that should remain in this contact? We can't take this verse out of the letter and then applies the situation.
All of these matches they seem to relate to each other somehow. Because by helping a brother or sister carry the burden they have then we too need to be in watch lest. We are tempted by that same further or by the house. Regency the idea of Tennessee versus it makes me wonder what was happening in the Galatians Community with these false teachers how much false pride in the identity was circling around these issues did the Galatians somehow look down on those?
Or were they just suffering from the shame displayed by judaizers? We don't know and to do anything more than
What we do know is that Paul says if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing he deceives himself.
I believe this is still in the context of a false Pride vainglory when you take advantage of others not advocating that we Christians should consider ourselves as nothing.
But false pride is considering yourself something.
A false prizes when you to see yourself.
Deceive yourself literally describes reading your own mind and strength. This again speech to our internal Behavior patterns. When are internal thought processes and self-evaluation false? We determine that we are more important. I'm more spiritual because we help other Christians then we have led our own mind as straight. You have deceived ourselves don't house. Verses 4 and 5 post seem to relate to or perhaps more accurately explain the maxims found.
We have this interesting juxtaposition of QVC hosts of the yourself. Hawking's to pull out the trump card that if you want to be the one who test the worth of others that you can feel better about yourself then know that you will be tested by God.
Fall has a very similar but more detailed version of this concept in his letter to the Romans chapter 12 verse 3 4 by the grace given to me. I say that every one of you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to. But you think we'll still be touching each according to the measure of faith.
Basically, he's saying I clearly evaluating yourself and if that self-image corresponds to real even though But not by centipedes be shaving others.
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that is they will be responsible before God will be there Josh. So it doesn't matter what you think of yourself how much you help or receive or give you are ultimately responsible for yourself or God? That bad idea might be not sure how to say it not very popular in our current American cultural setting. We seem to be constantly looking for someone else to be responsible for.
again Like all interaction with the Earth. Our culture is not the stores, but I'm thinking God in his values communicate with his way right now. On the last day you and I will be responsible for our own behavior.
We don't have to wait for the last day. We will stand before God. Part of our already but not yet geology. Understands that since we have the spirit living inside of us. We already have access to the presence of God as soon as I follow God choosing to follow our own desires.
so if we live by the spirit Then our internal Behavior you demonstrated. because that is what God before us responsible for
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I pray that our internal Behavior. will be the thing that determines that demonstrates that means I whatever your internal Behavior will be focused on.
Why do they hold of them for our own lies? And they will be real. And I beseech to live our life by the spirit. We will be able to walk at 7. Okay. Thank you.
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Are they continuing the one we do that if it's something where we we remember the sacrifices? But we also remember that he will be back. It's a visible tangible sign of the already but not yet. The ology that is part of our lives.
so if you have the elements ready, we will begin the process.
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If you believe in Jesus.
As we walked through our actions that we know that you are the source. And that's why you're lying on you.
We get what we deserve.
The Lord G on the night that he was betrayed. He took his bread and we need to give him things. He broke it and said, this is my body, which is for you.
You said your son here for us? He poured himself out.
father As we walk through life being led by the spirit.
Or ourselves out my brothers and sisters.
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in the same way after supper. He took the cup saying this cup is the New Covenant remind what do this?
but whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup you proclaim the Lord's that
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that you filled a lot for us that our sins are no longer comfortable.
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well this week as you go walking around the neighborhood with your masks on.