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Classic Christianity – Book of Galatians P24 (09-18-24)

Carry Each Other’s Burdens in Love

~ “Carry one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.” Galatians 6:2 Be understanding towards one another. Imagine if you were in their shoes, and don’t be so quick to condemn someone for troubles they are facing in life. Maybe they lost a loved one recently and they are struggling in life to make sense of it all. Help them to see Truth but with understanding of how they are having difficulty dealing with things. But don’t cover over Truth, with the lies of Satan either. Point out Truth as Jesus explained of Himself to Martha that He is the Resurrection and the Life. ‘Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies. And everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?”’ John 11:25,26 Remember also, just before Jesus raised Lazarus from physical death, that He actually was deeply troubled over the situation himself, for He knew and had compassion on the people. ‘Therefore Jesus, when He saw her weeping and the Ἰουδαίους (Ioudaious) Judaeans having come with her weeping, was deeply moved in spirit and Himself troubled. “Where have you put him?” He asked. “Come and see, Lord,” they answered. Jesus wept.’ John 11:33-35 He understood and was deeply moved by everything that was taking place himself and He wept. For Jesus understood exactly what everyone was going through, and because He Himself is God in flesh, He carries our burdens everyday also. Because He understands each of us better than we understand ourselves. And so, when a person who is in Christ in the Spirit, and allows the Holy Spirit to live in and through them, they too will be filled with the emotions of others and can carry one another because we understand what they must be going through, because the Holy Spirit shows that to us. And so allow the Holy Spirit to use you, and the author of Love will have His love and compassion flow through you and carry the person’s burdens.

“Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.” John 3:36

“For Christ is the end of the law, to bring righteousness to everyone who believes.” Romans 10:4

Brothers, if someone is caught in a trespass, you who are spiritual should restore him with a spirit of gentleness. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted. Carry one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.

If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

Each one should test his own work. Then he will have reason to boast in himself alone, and not in someone else. For each one should carry his own load. Nevertheless, the one who receives instruction in the word must share in all good things with his instructor.

Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return. The one who sows to please his flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; but the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.

Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to the family of faith.

Final Warnings and Blessings

See what large letters I am using to write to you with my own hand!

Those who want to make a good impression outwardly are trying to compel you to be circumcised. They only do this to avoid persecution for the cross of Christ. For the circumcised do not even keep the law themselves, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.

But as for me, may I never boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything. What counts is a new creation.

Peace and mercy to all who walk by this rule, even to the Israel of God.

From now on let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers.

Amen. Galatians 6:1-18

Pray to God:

Do you really want to know the WHOLE Truth of what is going on today?

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.” Matthew 7:7

Lord Jesus, teach me the truth of the world today and give me the wisdom to know the truth and identify the lies of the devil. Thank you God.”

~ “Carry each other’s burdens. What does that mean? Carry each other’s burdens. In other words, there’s a burden that’s there. I’ll carry it with you. I understand I got burdens too, and in this way, you will fulfill the law of Christ. Now we all talk about wanting to be under the law and fulfilling the law. What is the law of Christ folks? Love. Love your neighbors as yourself. That’s the law of Christ. Do you want to fulfill the law of Christ, then don’t stop with being loved. Pass it on. And until we’ve passed it on, all we’ve done is become the Dead Sea. And so you carry each other’s burdens, and in this way, fulfill the law of Christ, fulfill the law of love. So here’s an attitude in verse three that keeps us from that if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. Now folks, what is it saying here? If you think you’re something when you are what? God sent on nothing. How much do you say we could do apart from Him? Nothing. What did Paul say? I consider all these things lost compared to that of what? Knowing Christ. You see, everyone is trying to build up our self image and tell us, you got to think you’re a somebody, somebody. Paul says You’re nothing. Who are we going to believe here?” ~ Bob George

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And so, because in light of eternity, whatever happens down here is a speck of time, whatever happens down here is a speck of time. In light of eternity, do we understand that? So when we start looking at things from an eternal standpoint, we see there isn’t any big deal. It’s bad. It has repercussions to it. Sin always has natural repercussions to it on this level. But we cannot get over zealous. We have to understand it’s happened, and I’m a child of God now I’m going to go and try to restore you, gently, not going to condemn you, because I could do it myself. Now, in case you don’t believe that, keep reading. When you go to restore someone gently, not banging them in the head, not this old stuff. And I don’t know how you could ever do such a dumb thing, because I believe people that say that. And God Says, I’ll show you, I’ll show you how you can do such a dumb thing, and you’ll do something else just equally as dumb. But he says, Watch yourself, or you may also be tempted. So in other words, when we’re going into a situation, we can be tempted by the situation. Now, folks, that is why I do not believe in counseling, that it is wise to sit down, especially with someone of the opposite sex, and let’s go back into your past, and let’s talk about all the things that’s happened to you. And so they start in and they start talking about the things that’s happened to them, you say, really, that’s interesting, and before long, we’re sitting there wishing we’re involved in that. It is not wise to dig into a person’s past in too much detail, especially someone of the opposite sex. Why? You also could be tempted. There are many counselors who have affairs with their counselees. That’s why pastors need to be very careful about that, and counselors need to be very careful about that, because it can happen. I know a situation in Dallas where the counseling counselor was counseling with a couple. Both of them had insurance, and he ultimately said, Let’s just forget your husband’s insurance, and we’ll use that for you so that we can counsel more. And they ended up on the couch. They ended up divorcing. They ended up remarried, and they ended up divorcing again. Can it happen? Absolutely. And so we have to be cautious. He’s saying to us, don’t ever hesitate to reach out to someone who’s caught in a sin, but watch yourself always with an attitude of restoration, not condemnation. But watch yourself, or you may also be tempted.

Carry each other’s burdens. What does that mean? Carry each other’s burdens. In other words, there’s a burden that’s there. I’ll carry it with you. I understand I got burdens too, and in this way, you will fulfill the law of Christ. Now we all talk about wanting to be under the law and fulfilling the law. What is the law of Christ folks? Love. Love your neighbors as yourself. That’s the law of Christ. Do you want to fulfill the law of Christ, then don’t stop with being loved. Pass it on. And until we’ve passed it on, all we’ve done is become the Dead Sea. And so you carry each other’s burdens, and in this way, fulfill the law of Christ, fulfill the law of love. So here’s an attitude in verse three that keeps us from that if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. Now folks, what is it saying here? If you think you’re something when you are what? God sent on nothing. How much do you say we could do apart from Him? Nothing. What did Paul say? I consider all these things lost compared to that of what? Knowing Christ. You see, everyone is trying to build up our self image and tell us, you got to think you’re a somebody, somebody. Paul says You’re nothing. Who are we going to believe here?

Now, folks, when you get another idea that I’m really something, I’m a really, a somebody, somebody. And I want to tell you something that attitude comes and is being fanned by this blab it and grab it mentality that’s in Christianity today. And all you’ve got to do is just ask God, he’s going to do it for you. You just speak it into existence if it we’re not, and it will come to pass. And you just walk around you, just boss God around you. Just tell him what you want, and he’s got to do it for he’s obligated to do that for you. And we’re just a cocky we just strut across the podiums. We’re so cocky, we can hardly stand because I’m a somebody, somebody Paul says we’re nothing, which is it is that going to give you a bad self image to say you’re nothing? No, I just reality. And if you think you’re somebody, get cremated after you die and see how much of you is left. Everything we have is temporal, folks. We think we’re big deals. Driving by Tilton’s place over here on the way in is empty, desolate, empty. Had his day of glory, it isn’t there anymore. We come, it says we’re not even acknowledged. We have our time in the sun, and then we’re gone, and someone else takes over. Said, we’re about as important as sticking your fist down into a bucket of water, and you take it out and you see how much you’re missed. Is that right or wrong guys? My mom and dad were here. They’re gone. They were missed, still to a degree, missed, but time cures a lot of ills. And so we have to look at life soberly. We don’t look at life as look at look at me, what I’ve accomplished, because they could all be taken away. And so he says, If someone thinks he’s something when he’s nothing, he deceives himself. A person walking around thinking he’s a somebody, somebody is deceived. And how many of us have ever been subject to that kind of thinking?

I don’t need a good self image. I don’t need a bad self image. I need a proper self image. The world teaches you. You need to learn to love yourself more. I thought the Bible said that pride was our problem. We love ourself too much. Said before you have somebody come in the office and say, I hate myself, I’m ugly. No, if you hated yourself, you’d be glad you were ugly. I mean, if you had someone across the street, you couldn’t stand it was ugly. Would you be bad? Feel bad? You’d feel good. So we don’t have a poor self image. We’ve got an exalted image. Now that manifests itself in all kinds of ways. But the issue is, pride is the root of all evil. And so he says, You’re deceived. Now each one of us, he says, should test our own actions, then you can take pride in himself without comparing to someone else. So it’s saying, if you’re going to take pride in yourself, take pride in your own actions, not as it relates to somebody else. Now, again, folks, another way that Jesus said was, I’m the vine and you’re the branch, right? So are you a branch on the vine? Okay. So let’s say that you look down and you’re up here, this little, tiny branch with just a little piece of fruit hanging out of it. And you look down below, and here’s a branch that just overloaded. It just got fruit hanging all over. And you look down on there and say, I want some of that. So out you go, trying to grunt and grown out fruit. You’re this branch down there, the whole bunch of fruit hanging on it. You look up with the one or just little one, and say, look at that. Now, does that sound like? How big is your church? Only 1000 got 20,000 literally. Are you doing comparing yourself by yourself? You know what the scripture says a man compares himself by himself is what? A fool. So numbers mean nothing to God. The issue is, how are you doing?

Remember what he said to Peter, I don’t care what I do with John. I’m telling you to follow me. I’m not telling you to be like the crowd. I’m not telling you to follow what the crowd is doing. I’m saying you follow me. Just you, and don’t wait for someone else to come along. Just you follow me. When I went into full time Christian work back in 1971 it didn’t make a difference to me who else was going into it or who had been into it. It was the fact God was saying, this is where I want you to go and you follow. What were the results going to be? I didn’t have a clue. Had two kids to get through college, had all kinds of stuff that I would looked at, would have said, Hey, I can’t do this, but God provided for all of that, and still, to this day, does. And so he’s saying that you can take pride in yourself without comparing yourself to someone else. For each one should carry his own load. God called you individually unto himself. There aren’t any grandchildren in heaven, just children. God called you unto himself. Now, guess who’s leading you, the Spirit of God. You don’t need to go to a big assembly to pray. Isn’t that some thought that the only place I can pray is on Wednesday night. He says, You pray. You see a person caught in a sin. He says, You go to them. You know our deal is, hello, Salvation Army. No. He said, You go to them. You’re the one. You’re there, you go to them, you help them. And again, when God puts these circumstances in front of our face, that’s where we have the opportunity of responding. God’s done that now he says, respond to it. So carry your own load. Anyone who receives instruction in the word must share good things with his instructor. I love that passage. Let me read that again. Anyone who receives instruction in the word must share all good things with his instructor. Now, what is that? What does it say? What is that saying, guys? All of you are blank out there. What does that mean? It means to share with your instructor. Now, what does that mean? Does that mean strictly money? No. Could mean sharing your lives, sharing your prayers, sharing passing on the message that he’s passed on to you or she has, whatever it might be, financial is certainly there. That’s what giving does. It does help to provide for the income of people who are doing the sharing. So what does it say? Share with people who are sharing what, giving you instruction, where? In the word, it doesn’t say to share with those who are developing programs. It doesn’t even say sharing with those who are calling you to prayer. It says who are sharing what, instruction from where? The Word. Where else you’re going to get instruction, except in the Word of God, and so it says, to share with them. Do not be deceived. God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.

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Now, how many of you have heard you reap what you sow? See there now you need to sow the seed. Send me 100 bucks. God will multiply it to 1000 How many have ever heard that one? If you send that. God will multiply it to 1000 you send me 100 he’ll give you 1000 I love what the lady from West Texas said. It appears to me that you need money a lot worse than I do. So why don’t you send me 100 let him give you the 1000.

That is not talking about sowing money that’s talking about you’re going to reap what you sow. The one who sows to please his flesh. From that flesh, you’re going to reap destruction. Does the Scripture not talk about that? Should we go on sinning so that grace may abound? God forbid, don’t you know that whatever you give your body over to will control you? And so we have two sources of control in our lives, God and Satan. And when we give in to please, and we live to please, the flesh. From that flesh, we’re going to be destroyed. It will destroy us. Is that right or wrong? It does. And the one who sows to please the Spirit, from that Spirit will reap eternal life. When you and I sow to please the Spirit of God, and what is pleasing to the Spirit of God? Faith, that what pleases God, without faith, it’s impossible to what? Please God. The only thing that pleases God is faith. So when you and I sow by faith into the Spirit, we’re going to reap that eternal life, the benefit of the eternal life.

Let us not become weary in doing good. Can you become weary of doing good? How come? What is it that makes you worry from doing good? Never get anything back. Rejection. How many of you ever you’ve just given yourself and given yourself and given yourself, and then the people you give yourself to turn around and bite your hand off? You ever seen that? It’s a true thing, isn’t it? And you’ll find that in your life that you give and you give and you give, and the very people that you’re giving to, in one way or another, are the ones who ultimately sit back and start criticizing you, and ultimately, like he said, you become stubborn. Does that get discouraging? Yes, it does. But he said, Don’t become weary of doing good, for at the proper time, we’ll reap a harvest if we don’t give up. So in other words, we never stop giving because we don’t get back. We just keep giving. And what does it say about giving? It’s more blessed to give than to receive. And folks that is true, if you are going to reach out to others with love, you have to realize that they could return that with hate and vengeance, and yet it says, don’t stop and don’t get discouraged, because that is discouraging. And Satan comes along says you’re a fool. Well, you just keep giving and giving and giving, and you’re not getting anything back in return. Marriages are destroyed because of that. My husband doesn’t meet my needs. Well, my wife doesn’t meet mine. Neither one are meeting each other’s needs. What is that, folks? That’s flesh. Christ will meet your needs. He’s the one who meets your needs. You all have a need for unconditional love and acceptance. Every person sitting in this room has a need for love and acceptance. Do you not? What’s our problem? We go to the wrong place to find it. Where do we go? People.

You see love, unconditional love is a spiritual need. That’s a need. You have a spiritual need to be loved unconditionally and accepted unconditionally. Nothing wrong with that need. It’s a God given need. What we don’t understand is that’s a spiritual need that can only be met spiritually. Now when we don’t understand that, I know I got the need, but I’ll turn physically to get it met, and we’ve turned to the wrong place. So when we come to a point where that need for unconditional love and acceptance has been met in Christ, His love to be loved by Him, accepted by him, all of a sudden it’s Wow, that needs met. That needs met. I’m loved by Him and and I’m convinced that nothing can separate me from the love of God. Hardships can’t trials can’t tribulation can’t, nothing can separate me from the love of God that needs met. Now, what does that do for us folks? That’s a spiritual need that can only be met spiritually. Now I got this soulish, but you see now I am free because my needs met to do what soulishly and bodily, which is where you live, marriage, in marriage, to serve one another in love not to serve, to get to serve, to serve. And how can I Why am I able to serve? Because we need man that needs been met. I’m not looking for my mate to meet that need for unconditional love and acceptance. I’d like to get it, but I can’t get it. She doesn’t have it. Only God does. And so marriage or thinking about marriage is, who can I serve? Is this a person I want to serve in love for the rest of my life? What are some of the things you’re going to have to do if you want to serve your mate in love? You’re going to have to forgive them and love them, because we’re all going to make mistakes. There’s no such thing as a marriage without mistakes. There’s no such thing as a marriage that your mate is not doing what you don’t want them to do. And have you ever noticed how opposite we are, not just men and women, but I’ve just noticed, as an example, a little thing, if you’re one of those people that want to go to bed early and get up early you’re married to someone who would stay up late and sleep late. Have you ever seen that hardly fail? I’ve never seen that accepted boy the early bird marries the late one, and we’re different, and that means forgiveness is absolutely essential if we’re going to live in peace with each other, is to forgive each other and to understand the difference, to have unity in the midst of our diversity. Instead of trying to make each other like one another, you’re never going to make a man like a woman, and you’re never going to if you do, you got a strange one on your hands, and you’re never going to make a man like a woman or a woman like a man. We’re different. God meant it that way. He said, You can have unity in the midst of your diversity.

So let us not become weary of doing good, for at the proper time, we’ll reap a harvest if we do not give up. Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers. Be good to one another. We’re in the same body. Now Paul is saying, see what large letters I use as I write to you with my own hand, Paul used what is called an amanuensis, and that it was merely a man who would take down dictation, as he would dictate to Him. The Bible had to be written by an apostle or an amanuensis of an apostle in order for it to be in the canon. Many people would duplicate Paul’s writings or write in the name of Paul. There’s a whole segment called the pseudepigrapha, which is groups of writings with the apostle signatures to them that they never wrote. So in order for Paul to verify that this was from him, he wrote it out in his own hand, and he said he wrote it in large letters. And those who want to make good impressions. Now he’s going to be talking about those who want to make good impressions outwardly, or trying to compel you to be circumcised. And that’s talking again about the legalism that was taking place in those days. And we’ll finish that up next year or next year, next month, next week. Sometime. It may take a year to finish it up.

But folks, this is a marvelous book. The book of Galatians is a book of freedom. It’s a book that we have in our hands that teach the freedom that we have in Christ Jesus. It identifies the problems of trying to commingle law and grace. You cannot do that. You have to get on one side or the other, either be on law or be on Grace, but you can’t commingle the two. And so it’s been a wonderful book, and as we have wrapped up, as he has wrapped up this book, in chapter six, he’s giving us an attitude, if you really believe what Christ has done for you, and you really believe what is truth. Because folks, our time down here is short at the best. It’s short. In light of eternity, he’s saying, love each other. How? As Christ, Jesus loves you, love each other. Quit criticizing each other and backbiting each other and gossiping with each other. Do you know that gossip, this tongue of ours, it says, is like a wild forest fire, and yet we use it for the destruction. Do we not of other people? Don’t mean to necessarily. It’s just a byproduct of it. He says, love each other. Quit talking about each other if you’re going to talk about each other, talk about things that are pure and good, holy, acceptable in the sight of God, and love each other. That’s the message of the gospel. That’s a message that has been passed on to you. Let’s pray together.

Father, we thank you for these instructions. There’s something inside that almost sounds easy to do again. We know better. So many times when we see a person who is trapped in a sin, our immediate response is criticism. Our immediate response is condemnation, even though we read in the scripture that there is now no condemnation awaiting those who are in Christ, Jesus. But yet we decide to condemn. But it says to go to them and to restore them. Gently. Be gentle. The gentle Jesus, the one who reached down to the woman who was caught in adultery and said, Ma’am, your sins. Where’s all of your accusers. Said, they’re all gone. Said, Neither do I condemn you. Get up and sin no more. That’s gentleness, that’s a kind of love that draws you to the heart of God and to the heart of people who exercise that. So Father, I pray in my own life and in the life of these my brothers and sisters in Christ that we’ll take a fresh look at the love that reached down to us and to realize these aren’t just stories, that it’s reality. The God of this universe loved us so much that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever would believe in him would not perish but have everlasting life. And as Christ, Jesus loves us, to love one another. Put aside these ideas, these precepts that we have, that sin is something unusual. All you have to do is to look around the world and see it’s not unusual at all. And then, if we are truly spiritual, if we’re people in Christ to go to these people, go to the person, and to help restore them, gently and lovingly, we pray these things and thank you for them in Jesus name and for his sake. Amen.

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