Not Growing Weary Series

Life Choice Series

Not growing weary

Galatians 6:1-10

Good morning church, we are glad that you are joining us and we pray the Lord speaks to you in a powerful way as we gather to hear his word.

Prayer-

We have been in a series called Life Choices-

We’ve looked at the most important choice and that is your accepting or rejecting Jesus offer of salvation and heaven.

The People who are in our lives that will either draw us closer or farther away from the Lord.

Last week, the value of community- The church and the encouragement we offer to each other, making sure we leave no wounded soldiers left behind in the battlefield of life.

This week, to look at not growing weary- The choice to finish the race strong.

Anyone tired at times?

Life is a journey not a sprint.

Apostle Paul tells us that we are to be like athletes and train for a marathon not a sprint, to be able to know what it will take to not only finish but to finish strong. We cannot all finish first but we can all finish strong.

For people that come shooting out of the gate of life and don’t know it is a long haul to the finish line will find themselves growing weary.

If you are not getting the right people around you, or not joining with the local church to get some good teachings and instructions. You will grow weary!

We must realize the freedom we have in Christ is determined by how close we are walking with Jesus

The freedom we have and the wisdom we gain as a believer is found in Jesus Christ!

In Paul’s writing to the church in Galatians 5 He talks about the freedom we have in Christ.

That as believers, we have a freedom that allows us to be set free from the bondage of sin and the Holy Spirit empowering us to live a life for Christ.

Two key issues of a mature Christian (1) set free from bondage of sin and (2) Holy Spirit of God empowering us with His strength and wisdom.

One of the things lacking in most believers lives is knowing who they are in Christ and the power that is available for us to live victorious and purposeful lives.

How can you do what is needed when most do not even know what they are up against!

He tells mature Christians in numerous writings to the churches that once we understand the freedom we have in Christ that we must not abuse it.

That the flesh must be controlled by the Spirit of God and not by our fleshly desires that pull us away from our relationship with God.

Galatians 5 also tells us that we must walk in the Spirit of God and by walking in the Spirit of God that we will not gratify our fleshly desires and do things contrary to the Spirit of God.

To the church at Corinth, Paul really admits his failings and says that what he desires to do are the things he does not do and the things that he does not want to do is what he does when he is not lead by the spirit of God.

Anyone relate to that? Sometimes we fall short and we just cannot understand why we keep stumbling.

Our text is Galatians chapter 6- After we understand and are reminded that we cannot do the things of God without the Lord being in our lives and working in our lives, we see in the text that he gives instruction to the church.

You would think these words would be to unbelievers but it is the church that he speaks words of encouragement that need to be written on our hearts and active in our lives.

Gal. 6:1-10 Read from Bible to the church

Paul knew the problems that can come up in a believer’s life.

The best of people mess up.

The word Paul uses (Paratoma)- They slip up, take false steps) does not mean a deliberate sin; but a slip as might come to a man on an icy road or a dangerous path.

Now, the danger of those who are really trying to live the Christian life is that they could be unsympathetic. But Paul says that if a man does make a slip, the real Christian duty is to get him on his feet again.

The word he uses is used for executing a repair and also for the work of a surgeon in removing some growth from a man's body or in setting a broken limb.

The whole atmosphere of the word lays the stress not on punishment but on the cure; the correction is thought of not as a penalty but as an amendment.