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Gal_6:1. Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault,—
He is a slow traveler; he is not speeding swiftly on the way to heaven, so the fault overtakes him. Had he been quicker of pace, he might have outstripped it; but he is “overtaken in a fault.” What then? Turn him out of the church? Have done with him? No. “If a man be overtaken in a fault,”—
Gal_6:1. Ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness;
Pick him up, help him to run better than he did before.
Gal_6:1. Considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
Paul does not say, “Lest thou also fall;” but, “Lest thou also be tempted,” — as much as to say, “You will be sure to fall if you are tempted;” and that man, who thinks that other people ought to be cast off because they have committed a fault, is so proud in his own heart that he only needs to be tempted, and he would fall, too. This is a very expressive way of putting the matter: “Considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.”
Gal_6:2. Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Help your brethren. If you see that they have more to do than they can accomplish, take a share of their labour. If they have a heavier burden than they can bear, try to put your shoulder beneath their load, and so lighten it for them.
Gal_6:3. For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
Paul does not say, “He deceiveth other people;” no, “he deceiveth himself.” As a general rule, other people find him out, they learn what he really is, but “he deceiveth himself.”
Gal_6:4-5. But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. For every man shall bear his own burden.
There is, after all, a burden which we cannot carry for others, and which we cannot shift upon others. There are burdens of care, and sorrow, and trouble, which we can take from other men’s shoulders; but the great burden of responsibility before God, each man must himself carry.
Gal_6:6. Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.
Those who are taught, should maintain those who are their teachers as far as they are able to do so.
Gal_6:7. Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
That is true under the gospel as well as under the law.
Gal_6:8. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption;
That is what always comes to the flesh; it decays and corrupts.
Gal_6:8. But he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
No corruption shall come to that which belongs to the Spirit: “He that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.”
Gal_6:9-10. And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season are shall reap, if we faint not. As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are if the household of faith.
This exposition consisted of readings from Gal_5:13-26; and Gal_6:1-10.