Galatians 6:1 – 5
As a Christian and more so as a Minister/Pastor I wonder
how the Lord, our Master and Heavenly Father see’s us today. I wonder if we are
truly walking in the Spirit as God commanded or are we in many ways failing
God. The Lord never commanded that we only believe and teach the Truth of His
word, but that we also teach and walk in His word. James wrote in 2:18 “Yea,
a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without
thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.” The question I
have is, are we actually walking in the very truth we believe and teach? The Lord
told the Church in Laodicea “I know thy works, that thou art neither cold
nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.” Rev. 3:15 A cold church is one
that is basically without spiritual life, a hot church is one that is absolutely
walking in the Spirit and as correct as we can be. The Lord went on to say in
V. 16 “So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I
will spue thee out of my mouth.” Have the churches fallen into a state
of lukewarmness? The Lord commanded in Gal. 6:2 “Bear ye one another's
burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.” Are we as Christians and
churches “bearing one another’s burdens”? So, let us understand what the Lord
is talking about here, I do not believe it is just financial but also spiritual,
I believe this burden is our walk in the Spirit. Paul wrote in 1 Cor. 13:3 “And
though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be
burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.” So, no
matter what we do in our Christian Walk, if it is not done in love than we are
failing. Believing and preaching the Truth, standing strong in the Truth, this
is not enough. To be a hot church, or to be a hot Christian is to walk within
all the word of God. Do we remember the old WWJD (what would Jesus do)?
This is exactly what our Christian Walk should be, asking ourselves am I handling
this like Jesus would? As Christians and even whole churches we need to examine
ourselves in all the word of God because it is our righteous walk. Do we see
any commandments that we lack, and if we do, do we simply ignore them rather
correct our walk. This is not what we believe, but how we are showing what we
believe in our walk. The Lord said in Gal. 6:3 “For if a man think himself
to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.”
Are we actually walking correctly or are just lukewarm or even worse cold in
our walk, if so, are we deceiving ourselves into believing we are hot when we
are not? The truth is bearing the burdens of others is a walk of love, it is
loving the other Believers and doing everything to help their spiritual walk.
If we just cast each other aside then we have failed in our Scriptural Walk, we
have failed to help bear another’s burdens. We must understand that we are
all subject to fall, we can all get to the point of needing spiritual help.
Paul wrote in Rom. 12:3 “For I say, through the grace given unto me, to
every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he
ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to
every man the measure of faith.” In the church we are one and if
we are right in the scriptures we are in unity. And as Christians we are also
one in Christ, one big family, and as part of that family it is our job to help,
in a very loving way, to pick up our fallen brothers and sister that have
fallen into the trials and temptations of Satan. It is sometimes a battle,
sometimes we have to be a little rough, but the goal is to help and not just
cast away. Where would we be if the Lord treated us the way we treat others?
How would we like it if the Lord just broke fellowship with us, or just gave up
and stopped trying to help us? Why if the Lord just refused to help us with our
burdens and left us alone to continue in them alone. Where did we get all that
love, doctrine, from. James warned us in James 5:19 - 20 “Brethren, if any
of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; (20) Let him know, that he
which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul
from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.” A Christians burdens
belongs to us all, we are one big family trying to help one another with much
grace and love, just like God does with us. It is possible that some have
fallen too far for our help, but never to far for our prayers.
