Bear One Another's Burdens'
Miles Seaborn
Galatians 6:1-5
Caring Christians bear one another's burdens. When we read Galatians 6:l-5 there seems to be a contradiction between 6:2 and 6:5, but there is not. In Galatians 6:2 the word for burdens refers to a heavy load, a trial, something that is very difficult to bear. In verse 5, the word refers to a little load that you carry on your back. It was a word used for a soldier's pack.
ILL. I have certain burdens that only I can bear. I cannot pass my responsibilities to others because I have to fulfill that work myself. I have to be the husband and father in my home. I have to do the work God has called me to do. Therefore I have to bear my own burden. Carry my own pack.
Those people who try to give their responsibilities to someone else are mising a blessing in disobeying God. So verse 5 is talking about the responsibilities of ministry, but verse 2 is talking about the burdens of life that are heavy to carry, trials that come to us as believers.
So the admonition is ''Bear ye one another's burdens and so fulfill the law of the Lord.''
Now this challenge of God's word is in the context of restoring a brother or a sister who has sinned. If someone in the church has been overtaken with a fault, he was tempted and he failed, our responsibility is to help him bear that burden.
There are many burdens that we can help people carry. That's one of the beautiful things about the fellowship of the church. As we fellowship together in the name of the Lord we can help one another. We can help one another materially and physically. We can help each other financially. There are many ways that we as Christians can bear burdens. The particular way that is emphasized in Galatians 6 is to help those who have stumbled and fallen, missing the mark in sin.
Paul gives us three instructions in this paragraph. First, he explains what we should do - restore, Second, he told us why we should do it; because of ...
Miles Seaborn
Galatians 6:1-5
Caring Christians bear one another's burdens. When we read Galatians 6:l-5 there seems to be a contradiction between 6:2 and 6:5, but there is not. In Galatians 6:2 the word for burdens refers to a heavy load, a trial, something that is very difficult to bear. In verse 5, the word refers to a little load that you carry on your back. It was a word used for a soldier's pack.
ILL. I have certain burdens that only I can bear. I cannot pass my responsibilities to others because I have to fulfill that work myself. I have to be the husband and father in my home. I have to do the work God has called me to do. Therefore I have to bear my own burden. Carry my own pack.
Those people who try to give their responsibilities to someone else are mising a blessing in disobeying God. So verse 5 is talking about the responsibilities of ministry, but verse 2 is talking about the burdens of life that are heavy to carry, trials that come to us as believers.
So the admonition is ''Bear ye one another's burdens and so fulfill the law of the Lord.''
Now this challenge of God's word is in the context of restoring a brother or a sister who has sinned. If someone in the church has been overtaken with a fault, he was tempted and he failed, our responsibility is to help him bear that burden.
There are many burdens that we can help people carry. That's one of the beautiful things about the fellowship of the church. As we fellowship together in the name of the Lord we can help one another. We can help one another materially and physically. We can help each other financially. There are many ways that we as Christians can bear burdens. The particular way that is emphasized in Galatians 6 is to help those who have stumbled and fallen, missing the mark in sin.
Paul gives us three instructions in this paragraph. First, he explains what we should do - restore, Second, he told us why we should do it; because of ...
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