SPIRIT LED TRUTH TO RESTORE
Gal 6:1-3 (KJV)
1 Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
2 Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
3 For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
Biblical love speaks truth from God. Truth has one author: God. Truth has one source: the Bible. The fundamental problem with religion is that it is man’s standards and ideas instead of God’s standards. Christianity is not a religion but a relationship: sinners redeemed and saved by the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ. A lost person blinded by Satan and practicing a lifestyle of sin will reject and mock the Bible because truth is spiritually discerned (1 Cor. 2:14) When a believer sees one ‘overtaken in a fault’ (caught up in sin) we are to restore them in a spirit of meekness. We are to be ‘Spirit led’ and remember who we are outside of the grace of God: nothing. We are all dependent on God’s grace and mercy. Truth alone transforms. Paul reminds us here in Gal. 6: you who are ‘Spirit led’ restore others in a spirit of meekness. We love people, we speak God’s truth in love and pray that the Holy Spirit brings conviction and change into the lives of others who are destroying themselves in sin!
2 Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
3 For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
Biblical love speaks truth from God. Truth has one author: God. Truth has one source: the Bible. The fundamental problem with religion is that it is man’s standards and ideas instead of God’s standards. Christianity is not a religion but a relationship: sinners redeemed and saved by the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ. A lost person blinded by Satan and practicing a lifestyle of sin will reject and mock the Bible because truth is spiritually discerned (1 Cor. 2:14) When a believer sees one ‘overtaken in a fault’ (caught up in sin) we are to restore them in a spirit of meekness. We are to be ‘Spirit led’ and remember who we are outside of the grace of God: nothing. We are all dependent on God’s grace and mercy. Truth alone transforms. Paul reminds us here in Gal. 6: you who are ‘Spirit led’ restore others in a spirit of meekness. We love people, we speak God’s truth in love and pray that the Holy Spirit brings conviction and change into the lives of others who are destroying themselves in sin!
James 3:13-16 (KJV)
13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.