Doing Good (10 of 10)
Series: Live Free
Craig Smith
Galatians 6:1-10
Introduction
Hey welcome to Mission Hills. So good to have you with us today.
If you're just joining us, for the past few weeks in our Live Free series, we've been exploring one of the major obstacles to freedom which is that we don't really understand what freedom is. Specifically, we tend to think of freedom in terms of what we're free from, but we often fail to focus on what we're free for. And as we've said several times, if we don't lean in to what we're free for, we'll drift back to what we're free from and we'll fail to experience real, lasting freedom.
Now last week, we saw that one of the ways we embrace that principle is that we have to stop indulging the self-centeredness of the flesh and start indulging the other-centeredness of the Spirit. And in the passage we're going to look at today, Paul gives us some specific ways we can do that.
Why don't you go ahead and grab a bible and start making your way to Galatians 6:1?
Last week Paul gave us some broad insights into what it looks like if we're cooperating with the Holy Spirit in our lives...what we call the fruit of the Spirit. Today what he's going to give us is some specific things we need to do to practice cooperating with the Holy Spirit in our lives. Let me show you what I mean.
Main Body
Brothers and sisters, if someone is caught in a sin, you who live by the Spirit should restore that person gently. (Gal 6:1a)
Let's start by clarifying something important. You who live by the Spirit isn't a reference to super-spiritual people. These aren't the Christian elites. What Paul means by ''you who live by the Spirit'' is just the followers of Jesus who are seeking to indulge the other-centeredness of the Spirit. So this is all of us who are looking to be more other-centered. And what does he say other-centered people do?
Other-centered people help others escape the self-destruction of their sin.
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Series: Live Free
Craig Smith
Galatians 6:1-10
Introduction
Hey welcome to Mission Hills. So good to have you with us today.
If you're just joining us, for the past few weeks in our Live Free series, we've been exploring one of the major obstacles to freedom which is that we don't really understand what freedom is. Specifically, we tend to think of freedom in terms of what we're free from, but we often fail to focus on what we're free for. And as we've said several times, if we don't lean in to what we're free for, we'll drift back to what we're free from and we'll fail to experience real, lasting freedom.
Now last week, we saw that one of the ways we embrace that principle is that we have to stop indulging the self-centeredness of the flesh and start indulging the other-centeredness of the Spirit. And in the passage we're going to look at today, Paul gives us some specific ways we can do that.
Why don't you go ahead and grab a bible and start making your way to Galatians 6:1?
Last week Paul gave us some broad insights into what it looks like if we're cooperating with the Holy Spirit in our lives...what we call the fruit of the Spirit. Today what he's going to give us is some specific things we need to do to practice cooperating with the Holy Spirit in our lives. Let me show you what I mean.
Main Body
Brothers and sisters, if someone is caught in a sin, you who live by the Spirit should restore that person gently. (Gal 6:1a)
Let's start by clarifying something important. You who live by the Spirit isn't a reference to super-spiritual people. These aren't the Christian elites. What Paul means by ''you who live by the Spirit'' is just the followers of Jesus who are seeking to indulge the other-centeredness of the Spirit. So this is all of us who are looking to be more other-centered. And what does he say other-centered people do?
Other-centered people help others escape the self-destruction of their sin.
...
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