Lesson 78 December 8, 2002
A warning Given
each one
looking to yourself, lest you too be tempted.
The why of the warning!!
lest you
too be tempted.
- the
thrust here is to keep your eye on your own motivation, don't become arrogant
or self-righteous, thinking that you'd never do this or that, whatever is the
other's sin.
Summary
1. Have a
situation where one has forsaken the walk of faith or walking by the Spirit for
an extended period of time and is seeking help in being restored from their drift
off the course of grace.
2. The
first requirement for helping someone like this
is to ensure that you yourself be spiritual, which in the context
would include a walk of faith (3:1-5), walking by the
Spirit not the flesh (5:16-17) and manifesting the fruit of the Spirit (5:22-23).
3. Our
objective is to point them in the direction that the Word takes them, back to
the cross and the realization that Christ was judged for those sins and that
they need to confess that sin to the Father and receive the forgiveness and
cleansing that is needed to restore them to fellowship.
4. How
should we approach them? What should our
mental attitude be?
a. with a
readiness to provide what ever spiritual counsel needed to point them in the right direction.
b. doing so
with an attitude of forgiveness, need to
learn to forgive and forget!
c. remember
we are to forgive as Christ forgives and since we are to be manifesting the
character of Christ by the fruit of the Spirit
Eph. 4:32
5.
Considerations in aiding the restoration of the one who drifted of the
course of grace;
a. don't seek the gory details, you don't really
need to know.
b. be sure
your in fellowship yourself so that you have a clear read out of truth, the
discernment needed.
c. don't
judge the individual, (motivation) just deal with the doctrinal principles
needed.
d. make
the truth clear to them that they need to apply, first is the necessity of 1 John 1:9
e.
encourage them to pursue a consistent study of the Word of truth so that
they can acquire the knowledge that they need to have.
- need to reestablish their MPR 2 Pet. 3:18
f.
encourage them to apply the truth as they learn it.
2. Toward the fellow believer with a heavy
burden 6:2-5
Bear one another's burdens, and
thereby fulfill the law of Christ.
- the
immediate application in Galatians is towards those believers who had succumbed
to the Judaizers teaching and influence and found themselves under the weight
of the consequences of the enslavement that resulted.
-
Caution: This exhortation is not
to be used as an excuse to live the other persons life for them but to give
them the encouragement and aid necessary to for them to get there thinking
straight and therefore their life.
and
thereby fulfill the law of Christ.
- fulfill avnaplhro,w basic to fill up completely; here of
observing the law fulfill, fulfill the
requirement of; to obey, the law of Christ.
The
key to this law of Christ is that it is fulfilled not by the compulsion of an
external code but by the transformation of the thinking, the viewpoint by the
Holy Spirit as he illuminates the Word of truth.
Rabbit trail
James 1:25 The Desired Objective for each Believer -
Reality of living the CWOL
James details
4 steps that are necessary in the
process of realizing this blessing.
#1
- Step But one who looks
intently
#2
- Step in process and abides by it
#3
- Step not having become a forgetful hearer - lit not a hearer marked by forgetfulness
#4 step in the process = he puts the truth into
practice
but
(alla) an
effectual doer - lit a doer
marked by work
THE
PROMISE IS THEN STATED
this
man (the one described as
fulfilling the 4 steps in the process) shall be blessed
in what he does. Lit in his doing
NET
But the one who peers into the perfect law of liberty and fixes his attention
there, and does not become a forgetful listener but one who lives it
out—he will be blessed in what he does.
SUMMARY OBSERVATIONS:
1.
Believers we must accept the Bible as
authoritative truth, the perfect and complete product of a perfect God.
2.
As such it is the source of the standard's that form the thinking and framework
for our lives, that is it instructs us as to the will of God for us.
3.
The standard's expressed in this perfect
law of liberty are for our provision -
including blessing in time as well as for eternity.
4.
We are freed from slavery to the OSN and therefore free to obey God's will for us. Gal 5:1; 13
5. If (3cc) we are to realize the full range of
God's blessing we must become active practitioners of work - that is divine
good production.