Ha53 08232015 sowing goodness

Sowing GoodnessLesson Text: Galatians 6:1-10

Heritage Addition church of Christby Jim Bradshaw

Sunday Morning, August 22, 2015

What is Good?Good – having moral qualities best adapted to its design and use, or the qualities which God’s law requires; virtuous; pious; religious; applied to persons, and opposed to bad, vitious, wicked, evil. (Websters 1828)

Mar 10:18 NKJV So Jesus said to him, "Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God.

Goodness – is the state of being good.

We must live by the

Gal 5:22-23 NKJV But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, (23) gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.

Eph 5:9 NKJV (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth),

Sowing Goodness Means that You Lighten the Load for OthersGal 6:1-4 NKJV Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, considering yourself lest you also be tempted. (2) Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. (3) For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. (4) But let each one examine his own work, and then he will have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.

We should lift one another up because even Christians can Fall

Sowing Goodness Means that You Lighten the Load for OthersWe should lift one another up because even Christians can Fall

Fault -- paraptōma – a false step

Romans 3:23

Sometimes we fall and cannot get up by ourselves

Sowing Goodness Means that You Lighten the Load for OthersGal 6:2 NKJV Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.Burdens – (bara) weight; heavy; Life weighs us down.

We observe fully the Law of Christ when we help other.

Hebrews 10:25

Sowing Goodness Means that You Lighten the Load for OthersEven YOU can STUMBLE!!!

1Co 10:12 NKJV Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.

Gal 6:3 NKJV For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

Sowing Goodness Means that You Lighten the Load for OthersHas your work been Approved?

Gal 6:4 NKJV But let each one examine [PAM] his own work, and then he will have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.

1Jn 5:13 NKJV These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.

Sowing Goodness Means that You Lighten the Load for OthersHas your work been Approved?

2Co 13:5 NKJV Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

Sowing Goodness means that You take Care of Your Own

ResponsibilitiesWe Each Bear Our Own Special Load

Gal 6:5 NKJV For each one shall bear his own load.

Is there a contradiction between “Bear one another’s burdens,” vs. 1, and “bear his own load,” vs. 5

In verse 1, baros – weight;, whereas vs 5 fortion meaning payload.

Sowing Goodness means that You take Care of Your Own

ResponsibilitiesA Congregation has responsibilitiesGal 6:6-8 NKJV Let him who is taught the word share in all good things with him who teaches. (7) Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. (8) For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.

1Co 9:14 NKJV Even so the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should live from the gospel.

We Reap What We Sow

Sowing Goodness means Finding Opportunities to do Good to ALL

We Must Persevere!

Gal 6:9-10 NKJV And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart. (10) Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of faith.

Loose heart (Faint not – KJV) like the limbs of the weary, i.e. weightlifting.

Sowing Goodness means Finding Opportunities to do Good to ALL

We Must Persevere!

Heb 12:1-2 NKJV Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, (2) looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Sowing Goodness means Finding Opportunities to do Good to ALL

We Are Given Opportunities to do good

Sowing Goodness is not an option

Jas 4:17 NKJV Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.