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Bearing
one
another’s
burdens
Galatians 6
Affect of “walking
in the Spirit”
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Seek to restore those having trouble (v.1)
Restore others in spirit of gentleness (v.1)
Bear one another’s burdens (v.2)
Bear your own load (v.5)
Share with others (v.6)
Don’t grow tired of doing good (v.9)
Do good to all (v.10)
Bear one another’s
burdens and so fulfill
the law of Christ
• This is not optional
• It is what Christ’s law aims at
• Requires the fruit of the Spirit to be
successful
Can you think of any
Bible examples of this?
Bible Examples
• Ruth helping Naomi
• Sarah’s agreement with the
“sister” plan
• collection for the Jerusalem poor fund
• Job’s 3 friends when they sat silent with him
• Moses carried the burden of Israel (Num 11:1117) and then shared it with the 70
• Samuel praying for the people
• Rahab’s hiding of the spies
• Jonathan’s assistance to David
while a fugitive
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???
1) Really believe that we are nothing (v.3)
2) Examine our own work (v.4)
3) Bear our own load (v.5)
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
Can’t possibly do it in
isolation from people!
Generosity (sharing)
• Based on belief that everything
belongs to our God
• Driven by motive to serve one
another through love
• Don’t be deceived – God won’t
be mocked
– If we mock (sneer) at others, God
considers this sneering at Him!
– If we aren’t generous with others,
God will not be with us (v.7)
• Do good to ALL (especially
believers)
Don’t be deceived….
• God won’t be mocked
(ridiculed)
• We will reap what we sow!
2 Cor 9:6 But this I say: He who sows
sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who
sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
James 3:18 Now the fruit of righteousness
is sown in peace by those who make peace.
Large Letters
• Paul usually dictated his letters and
only wrote the end. (2Thess 3:17;
Col 4:18; 1Cor 16:21). 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 it’s not!)
Motive of the
Judaisers
• Want to make a good
showing in the flesh (v.12)
[look good to others – popular]
• Don’t 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
Paul’s Motive
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Won’t 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 6:2)
"I have been crucified with
Christ; it is no longer I who live,
but Christ lives in me; (Gal 2:20)
Glory in the
Cross of Christ
• 1 Cor 1:17-31 Paul did not
preached in words of human wisdom, lest the
cross of Christ be emptied of its power
• Philip 3:18 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
All that matters is the
new creation
2 Cor 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he
is
a new creation; old things have passed
away;
behold, all things have become new.
Rom 8:21-22 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 2:10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ
Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand
that we should walk in them.
Eph 4:24 and that you put on the new man which was
created according to God, in true righteousness and
holiness.
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
The Israel of God
Rom 2:28-29 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 9:6 For they are not all Israel who are of
Israel
Maybe Paul’s way of referring
to true believers of all ages
I bear in my body
Gal 2:20 Paul was crucified with
Christ (2:20)
2 Cor 4:10-11 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.
Grace of the
Lord Jesus be
with your spirit
Free
Gift
Let the Grace that
Jesus shows to us
dominate our way
Grace
of thinking (our
attitude) in the way
we deal with one another.
Lessons from Galatians
• Faith working through love will motivate us to
live as God’s children far more than law
• Appreciate God’s gospel of grace – thank Him
every day and show our thankfulness by being
merciful to others
• Don’t 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 another’s burdens – don’t make the
burdens heavier
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
May God bless us to bear fruit to His glory!