Bearing one another

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Bearing one anothers burdens

• Galatians 6

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Affect of walking in the Spirit

• Seek to restore those having trouble (v.1)
• Restore others in spirit of gentleness (v.1)
• Bear one anothers burdens (v.2)
• Bear your own load (v.5)
• Share with others (v.6)
• Dont grow tired of doing good (v.9)
• Do good to all (v.10)

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Bear one anothers burdens and so fulfill the law
of Christ

• This is not optional
• It is what Christs law aims at
• Requires the fruit of the Spirit to be successful

Can you think of any Bible examples of this?
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Bible Examples

• Ruth helping Naomi
• Sarahs agreement with the
  sister plan
• collection for the Jerusalem poor fund
• Jobs 3 friends when they sat silent with him
• Moses carried the burden of Israel (Num 1111-17)
  and then shared it with the 70

• Samuel praying for the people
• Rahabs hiding of the spies
• Jonathans assistance to David while a fugitive

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The problem with helping others

• Considering yourself lest you also be tempted
  (v.1)
• We think too highly of ourselves (v.3)

• How do we prevent this???
• Really believe that we are nothing (v.3)
• Examine our own work (v.4)
• Bear our own load (v.5)

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We have to bear our own load

• Must serve others bear their burdens like
  Christ did for us
• Must do it in a manner that reveals the fruit of
  the Spirit like Christ did

Cant possibly do it in isolation from people!
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Generosity (sharing)

• Based on belief that everything
  belongs to our God
• Driven by motive to serve one
  another through love

• Dont be deceived God wont
  be mocked
• If we mock (sneer) at others, God considers this
  sneering at Him!
• If we arent generous with others, God will not
  be with us (v.7)
• Do good to ALL (especially believers)

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Dont be deceived.

• God wont be mocked (ridiculed)
• We will reap what we sow!

2 Cor 96 But this I say He who sows sparingly
will also reap sparingly, and he who sows
bountifully will also reap bountifully. James
318 Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in
peace by those who make peace.
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Large Letters

• Paul usually dictated his letters and
  only wrote the end. (2Thess
  317 Col 418
  1Cor 1621). He may have written this last part
  in large letters himself to emphasize his summary
  points.
• Some think Paul was trained in Hebrew, not Greek,
  and that he wrote this letter in fairly large
  Greek letters.
• Using the KJV see how large a letter, some
  think the letter was a long letter. (but compared
  to Hebrews Romans its not!)

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Motive of the Judaisers

• Want to make a good
  showing in the flesh (v.12)
  look good to others
  popular
• Dont want to suffer persecution for teaching the
  cross of Christ (v.12)
• Want to boast about what they convince us to do
  (v.13)

Circumcision
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Pauls Motive

• Wont glory in his own works
• Will only glory in the cross of Christ
• The world has been crucified to Paul
• Paul has been crucified to the world

How shall we who died to sin live any longer in
it? (Rom 62)
"I have been crucified with Christ it is no
longer I who live, but Christ lives in me (Gal
220)
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Glory in the Cross of Christ

• 1 Cor 117-31 Paul did not
  preached in words of human wisdom, lest the
  cross of Christ be emptied of its power
• Philip 318 enemies of the cross of Christ

How could Paul glory in the cross of Christ?
Because the cross of Christ was turning Paul into
a new person, a member of the family of God
forever by the grace of God
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All that matters is the new creation

• 2 Cor 517 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he
  is a new creation old things
  have passed away behold, all
  things have become new.
• Rom 821-22 because the creation itself also
  will be delivered from the bondage
  of corruption into the glorious
  liberty of the children of God. For we know that
  the whole creation groans and labors with birth
  pangs together until now.
• Eph 210 For we are His workmanship, created in
  Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared
  beforehand that we should walk in them.
• Eph 424 and that you put on the new man which
  was created according to God, in true
  righteousness and holiness.

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Walk according to this Rule

• Want to be crucified with Christ
• Want to become new creatures (born again to be
  children of God)
• Hate Sin like God hates it

Upon these Paul says will be mercy peace
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The Israel of God

• Rom 228-29 For he is not a Jew who
  is one outwardly, nor is circumcision
  that which is outward in the
  flesh but he is a Jew who
  is one inwardly and
  circumcision is that of the heart, in the
  Spirit, not in the letter whose
  praise is not from men but from God.
• Rom 96 For they are not all Israel who are of
  Israel

Maybe Pauls way of referring to true believers
of all ages
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I bear in my body

• Gal 220 Paul was crucified with
  Christ (220)
• 2 Cor 410-11 always carrying
  about in the body the dying of Jesus, so
  that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in
  our body.

For we who live are constantly being delivered
over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life
of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal
flesh.
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Grace of the Lord Jesus be with your spirit
Free Gift

• Let the Grace that Jesus shows to us
  dominate our way of
  thinking (our attitude) in
  the way we deal with one another.

Grace
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Lessons from Galatians

• Faith working through love will motivate us to
  live as Gods children far more than law
• Appreciate Gods gospel of grace thank Him
  every day and show our thankfulness by being
  merciful to others
• Dont use our freedom to serve our flesh, but
  through love serve one another
• Spend more time energy on developing the fruit
  of the spirit, not judging each other by
  comparing ourselves with ourselves
• Bear one anothers burdens dont make the
  burdens heavier

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Tomorrow we have the opportunity to let the love
of God motivate us to produce the fruit of the
spirit by the way we treat one another
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May God bless us to bear fruit to His glory!
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