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GOSPEL RELATIONSHIPS
What difference does the gospel make to your relationships?
How does it affect the way you look at yourself in terms of those around you; and how you look at others in terms of yourself?
The Gospel creates a whole new self-image.
We take what we have, and what we are and offer it up to God as a sacrifice of gratitude for what He has done.
For Paul, it is never enough to simply teach doctrines and apply them to broad principles of conduct.
He must always give ways to apply it to our lives, using concrete examples of what living out the doctrines and principles involves.
Paul’s burden has been that we should walk in the Spirit (5:16), and that we should keep in step with the Spirit (5:25)
Meaning we should look to the Spirit for guidance and strength as He directs us how to live.
To “become conceited”—to seek our own glory in relationships—means that, however close we are to someone else, our treatment of them must always be tinged with selfishness.
The gospel undermines that—it enables us to live as “brothers” (6:1).
How do we see this work in Practice?
ILLUSTRATION:
A series of contemporary superhero movies present super bad guys who at times demonstrate a biblical view of sin but the wrong cure for our sin.
These super-villains understand that human beings are flawed sinners, but their solution is almost always the same: wipe out every human being without mercy and without lifting a finger to redeem a fallen human race.
The Matrix - Agent Smith calls humanity "a virus."
"Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet.
Batman 2005 - villain Ra's al Ghul, the leader of the League of Shadows, tells Batman: "Gotham's time has come.
Like Constantinople or Rome before it the city has become a breeding ground for suffering and injustice.
It is beyond saving and must be allowed to die.
The Dark Knight Rises, the bad guy Bane tells Batman that he has come to carry on the League of Shadows' mission in the wake of Ra's' death.
Batman prevented their attempt in Batman Begins, but Bane has returned to finish the job by mercilessly wiping out Gotham.
CONNECTION: those who bring justice to the earth are without mercy or sorrow, and they do not offer redemption.
BIG IDEA: Bear the burdens of the one another’s and restore joy of their empty hearts.
Some of you wonder what you are supposed to do with your life.
Here is a vocation that will bring you more satisfaction than if you became a millionaire ten times over: Develop the extraordinary skill for detecting the burdens of others and devote yourself daily to making them lighter.
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1.Restoring the fallen repairs the virus of self-reliance.
Pride, or self-exaltation, or self-reliance is the one virus that causes all the moral diseases of the world.
This has been the case ever since Adam and Eve ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil because they wanted to be God instead of trust God.
And it will be true until the final outburst of human pride is crushed at the battle of Armageddon.
There is only one basic moral issue: how to overcome the relentless urge of the human heart to assert itself against the authority and grace of God.
If a doctor is going to address his medical students on a disease caused by a certain virus he will most likely address the virus that is causing the disease in every lecture.
Let’s get address the white elephant in the room.
Pride and self-reliance are the workshop of Satan.
Exposing someones sin will be difficult but it does not mean that we should ignore it and walk the other way.
Most people have become the CEO of minding your own business!
Illustration:
It has become common in some evangelical circles to accuse other Christians of lacking in love because they take a firm stance on ethical, doctrinal, and practical issues.
Is it unloving to confront brothers who are not walking in the truth.
What about Paul who earlier in Galatians confronted Peter.
() Many will say this is arrogant and that no one is the owner of the truth.
Others, however, understand that it is part of our biblical calling to examine all things and to keep what is right and reject what is false, wrong, and unjust.
To speak of love is not a guarantee of spirituality and truth.
There are those who boast of loving but do not live a righteous life before God.
Biblical love disciplines, corrects, and always tells the truth.
Therefore, those who get offended by the defense of the faith, the exposing of error, and the confrontation of untruths is not biblical love.
Lack of love would be letting people continue to be tricked and duped by the enemy into the error of sin and not at least try to show them their errors.
Who should confront the fallen?
Restoration: returning something or someone to it’s original state.
Restoring the fallen is done by the spiritually strong.
| We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
We will accept our responsibility, as Spirit-filled brothers, to help.
Paul is speaking to “you who are spiritual” (v 1); that is, to those who “live by the Spirit” (5:16, 25).
This is not talking about some super spiritual elite Christians; he is saying to ordinary Christians: “If you follow the desires of the Spirit, you will do this.”
This responsibility belongs to anyone who is trying to live a Christian life at all.
Restoring those who have fallen (v.1).
“Believers being caught in sin.”
A person who is sinning needs our help.
Paul says, "Restore him."
The word means, make things right.
It's used for repairing nets that are torn ().
Sin is a breakdown in the machinery of our life.
It has to be repaired.
Gives the appearance of being taken by surprise as apposed to a deliberate pre-mediated act of sin.
The spiritual man would seek to restore the person in love while the legalist would exploit their brother.
Paul showing us how keeping in step with the Spirit transforms our relationships.
“The woman caught in adultery.”
They are ‘found out’ before any repentance has taken place.
This may be a situation where sin takes believers by surprise.’
In other words their sinful acts are unpremeditated.
Temptation has suddenly taken hold of them, and they have yielded.
Either way, there has been sin of sufficient seriousness for them to need the restorative ministry of a fellow believer.
NOTE: This woman was found out before any repentance has taken place.
We are not to spend our time going around trying to dig up sin on someone just waiting for the to fall.
How are we to restore?
Restoring the fallen is always done with gentleness.
To “restore them gently”.
The Greek word translated “restore” here is Katartizdo.
This i s a medical term used for setting a dislocated bone back into place.
A dislocated bone is extremely painful, because it is not in its designed, natural relationship to the other parts of the body.
To put a bone back in place will inflict pain, but it is a healing pain.
Our aim of confronting sin is to prompt a change of life and heart.
“Restore such a person”
Do we kick such a person out of the church?
No. Pick him or her up.
Help them to run better than they did before.
Set their bones for them if they have been broken.
Help put everything back into it’s proper place.
When someone is caught in sin it is too often the habit to push them down - to cast them out and forget them all together.
The spiritually minded person does not do this.
“The spiritually minded person is always thinking how they can help restore this person.”
Gentleness will only come if we watch ourselves.
We will not be able to confront someone if we think we are not capable of similar or equal sin.
If we do not feel we are capable of similar or equal sin.
If we do feel we are above the person, our air of superiority will come through and we will destroy, not restore.
6:25 “Let us not become conceited, provoking one another envying one another.”
The Greek word translated “conceit” literally means “vain-glorious” or “empty honor”.
This kind of conceit leads us to a need to prove our worth to ourselves and others.
This then fixes our mind on comparing ourselves with others.
When we feel better or more superior than others it puffs us up and makes us feel greater.
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