How To Carry Your Brother's Burden

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Carry your brother's burden of consequence of sin.

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A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians (c) Exhortation to Restore Those Who Fall, and to Bear One Another’s Burdens (6:1–5)

Mindful of the danger that not all those who purpose to live by the Spirit will always live thus, the apostle appends to the injunction of 5:25 an exhortation to those who live by the Spirit to restore any who fall, adds exhortations to mutual burden-bearing, and reminds them that each man has a burden of his own.

Normal life in the body of Christ.
The body of Christ is made up of regenerate people.
Regenerate people sin inadvertently.
They require reproof to correct them.
They return to following Jesus Christ.
Illustration: How Should Christians Relate to Each Other?
Matthew 18:1–6 NASB95
1 At that time the disciples came to Jesus and said, “Who then is greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” 2 And He called a child to Himself and set him before them, 3 and said, “Truly I say to you, unless you are converted and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. 4 “Whoever then humbles himself as this child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 5 “And whoever receives one such child in My name receives Me; 6 but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck, and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.
Matthew 18:1–2 NASB95
1 At that time the disciples came to Jesus and said, “Who then is greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” 2 And He called a child to Himself and set him before them,
How You See Yourself:
The pride that is behind this statement is acceptable in the religious world of the self-righteous.
In the kingdom, it is an untenable question.
Matthew 18:3–4 NASB95
3 and said, “Truly I say to you, unless you are converted and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. 4 “Whoever then humbles himself as this child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
How You Treat Yourself:
The way that a person sees himself must be the way that a little child sees himself.
“παιδίον” = a young child in training.
Unless a person sees himself like this, he will see himself in the question asked above: “Who is the greatest?”
Do not think of yourself any higher than this.
Romans 12:3 NASB95
3 For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith.
How Treat Your Brother:
Therefore, since we are all little untrained children, we must see each other that way.
It is always hard to be spoken to in a condescending way.
However, a child does not speak to a child in condescension since they are equals.
The relationship is that of a family.
God is the Father.
We are all equal children.
Matthew 18:5 NASB95
5 “And whoever receives one such child in My name receives Me;
You receive another Christian in the church in the way that you would receive a brother or sister in the family.
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How NOT To Treat Your Brother:
Matthew 18:6 NASB95
6 but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck, and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.
I have learned that every conflict in the church is not because a person rebels against another person in the church.
Broken relationships are only symptoms of the real problem.
Broken relationships are ways to see where love does not exist.
Conflicts in the church are the result of disobedient children TOWARDS GOD.
What does repentance look like?
Psalm 51:1–4 NASB95
1 Be gracious to me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness; According to the greatness of Your compassion blot out my transgressions. 2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity And cleanse me from my sin. 3 For I know my transgressions, And my sin is ever before me. 4 Against You, You only, I have sinned And done what is evil in Your sight, So that You are justified when You speak And blameless when You judge.
True repentance occurs when a person sees their sin as against God, the Father alone.
The symptoms of that sin against God shows up in relationships in the church.
But, conflict ALWAYS begins when we, as children, disobey our Father.
THEREFORE:
A person’s spiritual condition, not so much saved or not, but obedient or not, is the issue when dealing with sins.

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Galatians 6:1 NASB95
1 Brethren, even if anyone is caught in any trespass, you who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; each one looking to yourself, so that you too will not be tempted.
Galatians (1) Bearing One Another’s Burdens (6:1–3)

What this particular transgression was we do not know, nor can we be sure whether Paul was here referring to an actual “case study” that had come to his attention or whether, as seems more likely, he was providing a general guideline for dealing with serious moral lapses that were occurring with some frequency among the Galatians. Clearly Paul was responding to a real life situation in which concrete acts of wrongdoing such as those he had just listed among the works of the flesh were disrupting both the Galatians’ relationship to God and their fellowship with one another. What were the believers to do in such a situation?

A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians (c) Exhortation to Restore Those Who Fall, and to Bear One Another’s Burdens (6:1–5)

This sentence is closely connected with the thought of chap. 5. Recognising the possibility, too sadly proved by experience, that one who has chosen the life by the Spirit may nevertheless fall into sin, the apostle exhorts those members of the community who have not thus fallen to care for him who has.

Galatians (1) Bearing One Another’s Burdens (6:1–3)

Clearly Paul was responding to a real life situation in which concrete acts of wrongdoing such as those he had just listed among the works of the flesh were disrupting both the Galatians’ relationship to God and their fellowship with one another. What were the believers to do in such a situation?

“Brethren” = endearing term.
“trespass” = passive, possibly referring to being overtaken by sin.
1 Corinthians 2:14–16 NASB95
14 But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised. 15 But he who is spiritual appraises all things, yet he himself is appraised by no one. 16 For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he will instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ.
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