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Galatians 6:1–5 (ESV)
1 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 too be tempted.
2 Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
3 For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
4 But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor.
5 For each will have to bear his own load.
Opening Prayer
Recap
The last few weeks we’ve been looking at the foundation of sanctification...
And, the power behind sanctification.
The foundation of sanctification is our justification.
The power behind our sanctification is the Spirit of God.
The process of sanctification is learning anew, how to relate to:
God differently.
He is our Father.
Positionally, we have been judged already, in Christ, and declared blameless.
We will experience this with the same results in the future.
God’s Law differently.
It no longer demands of us, it woos us.
The demands have been satisfied by Christ.
And, through our new spiritual birth, we find satisfaction in obedience.
Others differently.
We should no longer consume relationships for the sole benefit of self.
We can now pursue relationships for the benefit of both parties.
We rest in God’s opinion of us, no one else’s.
Our value is in Christ, immutable.
By the Spirit, we care for one another the way God intended...
Sanctification is meant to be fleshed out in community.
We are being sanctified by the moment by moment revealing of God’s providence.
Community is important to God.
And, so Paul now takes us from the security and power of sanctification...
To specific expressions of it within Community...
And, gives cautions to be taken while pursuing sanctification in Community.
First, let’s notice a very important truth for living in Community in the bonds of Christ...
Our Love for Others Involves a Willingness to Suffer with Them or from Them
What do I mean by that statement?
Well, v.1 involves confrontation (positive)
And, confrontation carries with it the potential of different reactions.
Someone could be open to your help...
And, invite you into their pain and their weakness...
And, now you’re going through it with them in a way that you would not have if you weren’t involved.
But, your love for others compels you to help them.
And, you feel with them and hurt with them and celebrate with them and cry with them.
Or they could not receive your help, turn you away, and avoid you.
Now instead of suffering with them...
In a certain portion, your suffering is coming from them.
So, any time we love others enough to get involved there must be a willingness to suffer.
And, when we are willing to suffer...
Either with someone or from someone...
We do so resting in God.
Trusting God...That whatever happens...
God will use for our sanctification.
He will use it for our transformation.
For our good.
The next, and very important component for Community in Christ is..
Our Love for Others Involves Gentleness
Galatians 6:1 (ESV)
1 Brothers, ...you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness.
Gentleness is caring.
Caring for how our brother/sister are perceived.
Caring for how they are treated.
Caring that they know they are genuinely loved.
Caring that they know they are loved by you.
How?: How would you want to be treated if you were the one caught in the sin?
Think Honest & humble, note prideful heroic, answers.
Think of times when you were ensnared into sin...
Weakened by sin.
Weakened by the flesh.
How would you have wanted someone to approach you?
Proverbs 15:1 (ESV)
1 A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
What does Paul mean caught in any transgression?
Sin to be dealt with is sin that seems to be habitual.
They’re caught up in the sin.
It’s power over them has caught them unaware.
It’s not that they didn’t sin willingly...
They did.
we all do.
But, the sin has entangled them.
Paul’s not talking here of people who make momentary misjudgments...
Like a momentary lapse of judgment in speech.
Or someone who got carried away in the moment and took something too far.
More times than not, the HS will handle those things quickly without the means of us.
And, I believe that sometimes our intervention without prayerful consideration can delay the sanctification of the one we try to help.
Don’t be the Christian that’s walking around with their ears wide open, hoping to catch someone doing something they disapprove of so they can correct them and be perceived as Spiritual.
When this happens, it is most often that the person doing the correcting is only being mindful of what they want the circumstances to be, personally.
Their needs.
Their wants.
Their ceremonies kept.
But, that’s Wrong.
Wrong motive.
Wrong behavior.
These types of people are living in...
Galatians 5:26 (ESV)
26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
We need to remember that we are not the Holy Spirit.
And, we have to be extremely careful that we are not imposing opinions and preferences, nor our individual ceremonial laws on people.
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