Galatians 6 | The Upward Way | Bible Study with A. Z. Adams — Transcript

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1. 0:00The last chapter of Galatians
2. 0:02sums everything up. The previous
3. 0:04chapters
4. 0:06have created some very clear contrasts.
5. 0:10Those who live by the flesh versus those
6. 0:13who live by the spirit. Those who put
7. 0:15their confidence in do's and don'ts
8. 0:18versus those who live by the promise and
9. 0:21walk by love.
10. 0:23Love fulfills the law and the prophets.
11. 0:25And in the end of the chapter 5, he told
12. 0:29us
13. 0:30that
14. 0:31the deeds of the flesh are evident.
15. 0:33He named them all out.
16. 0:35Then he told us the fruit, the one fruit
17. 0:37of the spirit is evident, and he told us
18. 0:39all the sections of that one orange.
19. 0:42And then he said, "Let us not be
20. 0:44boastful or challenging one another." He
21. 0:46said that if we want to belong to Jesus,
22. 0:48we have to crucify the flesh. So now, in
23. 0:52the last chapter, he's going to tell us
24. 0:54what to do when we do get caught up in
25. 0:57those sins. He's going to show us how to
26. 1:00walk in love
27. 1:02even for people who fallen into the
28. 1:04wrong approach.
29. 1:07He starts with this word,
30. 1:09"Brethren,
31. 1:12if anyone is caught
32. 1:15in
33. 1:15>> [music]
34. 1:16>> any trespass,
35. 1:18you who are spiritual
36. 1:22restore such a one
37. 1:24in a spirit
38. 1:26of gentleness.
39. 1:28Each [music] one
40. 1:30looking to yourself, so that you too
41. 1:32will not be tempted.
42. 1:34Bear one another's burdens and thereby
43. 1:39fulfill the law
44. 1:41of Christ."
45. 1:43He told us that love for one's neighbor
46. 1:46fulfills the law. Now he calls it the
47. 1:48law of Christ.
48. 1:50Do you get it? But what is the means by
49. 1:54which we help somebody who gets caught
50. 1:57in the Hagar spirit of the flesh. It's
51. 2:00the spirit. You who are spiritual
52. 2:04in a spirit of gentleness
53. 2:07help.
54. 2:09Don't climb up on your high horse and
55. 2:11point.
56. 2:13Don't climb up on your soap box and
57. 2:15condemn.
58. 2:16The whole point is help them.
59. 2:19Help them. If you can help them, if you
60. 2:22can get them back into the spirit, if
61. 2:24you can get them back into faith, then
62. 2:27you have fulfilled the law of Christ.
63. 2:29You've done what Jesus did.
64. 2:32This is how love wins every single time.
65. 2:35Climbing high upon a tree where someone
66. 2:37else should die.
67. 2:39For if anyone thinks he is something
68. 2:43when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
69. 2:47When you see others fail, you can lift
70. 2:49yourself up. Oh,
71. 2:51did you notice?
72. 2:53But you think you're something when
73. 2:54you're nothing. And all of us are
74. 2:56nothing. That's why we need to belong to
75. 2:59Christ. That's why we need to surrender
76. 3:01ourselves to him.
77. 3:03But each one must examine his own work.
78. 3:08Not each one should make sure he has no
79. 3:10works.
80. 3:11But each one must examine his own work.
81. 3:14And then he will have reason for
82. 3:15boasting in regard to himself alone. And
83. 3:18not in regard to another.
84. 3:20In other words, he's saying, don't boast
85. 3:22that you're not like him.
86. 3:24Boast in whatever God is doing in your
87. 3:26life.
88. 3:27And not in a boastful spirit, but in a
89. 3:29testimony gratitude spirit. Jesus set me
90. 3:32free from this. Jesus delivered me from
91. 3:35that. I know that in myself I'm nothing.
92. 3:38That's what he's just said above.
93. 3:41But God.
94. 3:43For each one will bear his own load.
95. 3:46We're going to each stand alone before
96. 3:47the judgment seat of God.
97. 3:49The one who is taught the word is to
98. 3:52share all good things with the one who
99. 3:54teaches him.
100. 3:56The one who is taught the word
101. 3:59is supposed to share all good things.
102. 4:02If people are bringing you the truth,
103. 4:04give them practical things. Help them
104. 4:06out.
105. 4:08Share with the one teaching you.
106. 4:11Do not be deceived.
107. 4:13God is not mocked.
108. 4:15For whatever a man sows,
109. 4:18this he will also reap.
110. 4:21How would God be mocked if we thought
111. 4:24that
112. 4:28we could sow things and not reap it?
113. 4:31Because that's how God set up the world
114. 4:34when he put the life of everything in
115. 4:36its own seed and told the seeds to bear
116. 4:40fruit according to their kind.
117. 4:42So, if God has spoken that the life is
118. 4:45in the seed, then we mock his creation
119. 4:48when we think we can live a certain way
120. 4:50and reap a different way.
121. 4:53Do you understand? But, the immediate
122. 4:55context that he's speaking of here is
123. 4:57he's saying to help people who preach
124. 4:59the word to you.
125. 5:01That's how you sow.
126. 5:03And he's saying, "Don't expect to reap
127. 5:04something different than what you sow.
128. 5:07If you're not willing to help the
129. 5:08ministry, don't expect to be helped by
130. 5:10the ministry."
131. 5:12Do not be deceived. God is not mocked.
132. 5:14For whatever a man sows, this he will
133. 5:16also reap.
134. 5:18For the one who sows to his own flesh
135. 5:20will from the flesh reap corruption.
136. 5:23What he's saying is if you give all your
137. 5:25assets only to your own pleasure, okay,
138. 5:29expect your pleasure to help you in your
139. 5:30time of need. But, if you support the
140. 5:33body and the ministry and the kingdom of
141. 5:35God, in your time of need, you're going
142. 5:36to reap from what you sowed.
143. 5:39But, the one who sows to the spirit will
144. 5:41from the spirit reap eternal life. Sow
145. 5:44to what the spirit is doing. Is the
146. 5:46spirit starting a church somewhere? Help
147. 5:48with help that.
148. 5:50Is the spirit ministering effectively in
149. 5:52your body? Help. Help that ministry of
150. 5:54the spirit.
151. 5:57Let us not lose heart in doing good.
152. 6:00For in due time, we will reap if we do
153. 6:04not grow weary.
154. 6:06So then, while we have opportunity, let
155. 6:09us do good to all people
156. 6:13and especially
157. 6:14to those of the household of faith.
158. 6:18So the whole point of the sowing and
159. 6:19reaping is how are you helping your
160. 6:21body? How are you helping the household
161. 6:23of faith? That's the sowing and reaping.
162. 6:26And don't expect to give little and reap
163. 6:29much.
164. 6:32See with what large letters I am writing
165. 6:35to you with my own hand.
166. 6:37Now this probably means that Paul does
167. 6:39have an eye affliction. So he writes
168. 6:42with a large letters to even see his own
169. 6:44writing.
170. 6:45And so that comment is probably making
171. 6:47them remember his affliction.
172. 6:50See with what large letters I am writing
173. 6:52to you with my own hand.
174. 6:55Those who desire to make a good showing
175. 6:57in the flesh
176. 6:59try to compel you to be circumcised
177. 7:02simply so that they will not be
178. 7:04persecuted for the cross of Christ. So
179. 7:06he's saying, "There are people who are
180. 7:09telling you that my affliction is the
181. 7:11judgment of God. They're trying to make
182. 7:13a good showing in the flesh. Look how we
183. 7:15don't have eye problems.
184. 7:17Look how healthy we are." He says the
185. 7:19truth is they're just trying to escape
186. 7:21being persecuted. They're cowards.
187. 7:25For those who are circumcised
188. 7:28do not even keep the law themselves,
189. 7:31but they desire to have you circumcised
190. 7:34so that they may boast in their flesh.
191. 7:38But may it never be
192. 7:40that I would boast
193. 7:42except in the cross
194. 7:45of our Lord Jesus Christ.
195. 7:47Through which the world
196. 7:50has been crucified to me
197. 7:52and I to the world.
198. 7:56So, we know how
199. 7:57the world is crucified to Paul.
200. 8:00He's put to death the things in him that
201. 8:02wanted that world.
202. 8:04But, Paul is also crucified to the
203. 8:06world. They look at him and they run the
204. 8:08other direction. He's [snorts] anathema.
205. 8:10He's disgusting to the world just like
206. 8:12the world is disgusting to him.
207. 8:16For neither is circumcision anything nor
208. 8:19uncircumcised. Now, here's the second
209. 8:21time he says it. For neither is
210. 8:23circumcision anything nor uncircumcision
211. 8:27but
212. 8:28a new creation.
213. 8:32And what is that new creation?
214. 8:34It's Christ.
215. 8:36It's not just you as a new creation.
216. 8:38It's you as part of the one new man who
217. 8:41is Christ, the body of Christ.
218. 8:45And those who will walk by this rule
219. 8:49this rule
220. 8:50that doesn't look at anything except the
221. 8:53new creation of the body of Christ.
222. 8:56Those who will walk by this rule, peace
223. 8:59and mercy be upon them and upon the
224. 9:03Israel of God.
225. 9:06So, they [music] are the true Israel.
226. 9:08They're not Hagar.
227. 9:11From now on
228. 9:13let no one cause trouble for me
229. 9:16for I bear in my body
230. 9:19the brand marks of Jesus.
231. 9:23The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be
232. 9:25with your spirit, brethren.
233. 9:27Amen.
234. 9:29When he says I bear in my body the brand
235. 9:31mark
236. 9:32the brand marks of the Lord [music]
237. 9:33Jesus, what that means is that
238. 9:36when a man was made a slave,
239. 9:39he was branded, usually right here on
240. 9:41the neck, just below his collar, so that
241. 9:44if he was ever arrested, a soldier could
242. 9:46just look,
243. 9:47and they would see that he had a brand.
244. 9:50And that meant that he was in a he was a
245. 9:51slave, and they knew who he belonged to.
246. 9:54Paul says, "The things that I'm
247. 9:56suffering,
248. 9:57my affliction in my eyes, the
249. 9:59persecution,
250. 10:01the misunderstanding, the false
251. 10:02accusation,
252. 10:04they are my brand marks
253. 10:06that I am a slave,
254. 10:08but the slave of the one who loved me
255. 10:10and died for me.
256. 10:11Not the slave of any man, not the slave
257. 10:14of the law, not the slave of fear,
258. 10:17but my body and my flesh is the slave of
259. 10:20Jesus, even while my spirit, my new man,
260. 10:23is completely free as a true son.
261. 10:26There's a part of you that's a slave and
262. 10:28should always stay a slave, your flesh.
263. 10:30And there's a part of you that's not a
264. 10:31slave,
265. 10:33and that's your new man, your spirit,
266. 10:35the son of God that he's made you to be.
267. 10:38That's the end of Galatians.
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