Wednesday Study Material
June 29, 2011
The Believer's Life and Walk: Free and Spiritual
Galatians 5:13-6:18
1. The Believer's Great Law of Life. (5:13-15)
2. A Walk Combating the Great Enemy in Life: The Lusts of the Flesh (5:16-21)
3. A Walk Bearing God's Nature: The Fruit of the Spirit (5:22-26)
4. A Walk Restoring the Man Who Slips (6:1-5)
5. A Walk Doing Good to One's Teacher (6:6-10)
6. A Walk Boasting in the Cross of Christ (6:11-18)
A Walk Restoring the Man Who Slips
Galatians 6:1-5
1. Let the spiritual believers handle the matter. (vs. 1)
a. Does the believer bear the fruit of the spirit? (Gal. 5:22-23)
b. Does the believer live a crucified life with Christ, that is, a sacrificial, self denying life?
(Gal. 5:24)
c. Does the believer walk in the spirit?
d. Does the believer walk free from envy and pride? (Gal. 5:26)
2. Approach the fallen brother in a spirit of meekness. (vs. 1)
Goal: Restore; forgive; welcome him back
3. Consider yourself. (vs. 1)
The word "consider" (skopon) means to look, to think, to give attention to oneself.
4. Bear one another's burden.
(John 13:34-35; Matthew 7:12)
5. Confess your own nothingness.
(Romans 3:23; Romans 3:10; Ecclesiastes 7:20)
6. Examine your own work.
Work here refers more to conduct and behavior than to employment. (Matthew 7:5)
7. Realize your own responsibility. (Examine yourself)
Every believer has his own burdens, his own sins to bear.
(Matthew 12:36-37; 2 Corinthians 5:10; Hebrews 9:27)