Galatians 6:2 (English Standard Version) Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Verse Thoughts
Believers in Christ are fellow-members of His body, which is the Church. All are children of God and all have been born of the Spirit. All have been transferred from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of His dear Son. All have received eternal life as a free gift of God’s grace, and all have been granted an inheritance, that is kept for us in heaven.
Each member of Christ’s body is accountable to the Lord for the way we live, but we also are responsible for the attitudes we adopt, and the actions we take towards our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. We each have a responsibility to support and encourage fellow believers, and are called to bear one another’s burdens, and thereby fulfil the law of Christ.
In the previous verse, the spiritual believer is instructed to help to restore a brother or sister, who has fallen into sin – but to do it with gentleness and Christ-like consideration. Indeed, the spiritual one is warned against being adversely influenced by the carnal behaviours, or led astray by a misguided brother, lest they also are tempted into similar, ungodly ways, or fall into carnality themselves. Paul instructs those that are spiritual to restore those who are not walking by means of the Spirit – or who have been overtaken by worldly sin, the wiles of Satan or fleshly carnality.
However, in this verse, it is caring concern for a brother in Christ, who has become heavily burdened or deeply distressed, with whom the spiritual Christian should be concerned. Every one of us has areas in life by which we are weighed down, discouraged and deeply burdened, and the instruction to come alongside and help one another, is identified as fulfilling the law of Christ.
The Lord Jesus Himself explained the distinguishing qualities of this “law of the spirit of life’, which is found in John 13:34 – where we read a new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. Love for God and love for our brothers and sisters in Christ is the fulfilling of the law – but it can only be carried out, by the power of the indwelling, Holy Spirit, in the life of a spiritual believer – i.e. a Christian, who is walking in spirit and truth.
There is much misunderstanding concerning the difference between spirituality and maturity in our Christian walk. Maturity is a life-long process, which takes place over time – as we humble ourselves under the mighty hand of God, study His word and apply its principles in our life. The spiritual believer is one who abides in Christ, obeys His commands, honours His name, is growing in grace and is becoming more Christ-like with every passing day. The more we die to our self-life, and live for Christ, the more we mature in our Christian walk, and the more Christ-like we become.
Spirituality, however, is not a process but a state. We are either spiritual at a given point in time or we are not spiritual! We do not become more spiritual or less spiritual with each passing day. At any given time in a believer’s life we are EITHER walking in the spirit and truth OR we are living in fleshly carnality.
We are either spiritual or we are fleshly – we are either living for God or living for Self – we are either in fellowship with our heavenly Father or we are out of fellowship with Him – because the antithesis of spirituality is carnality. Jesus said: Whoever is not with Me is against Me, and whoever does not gather with Me scatters, while Peter, who was prompted by the Holy Spirit to confess Jesus as the Christ, the Son of the living God, became a fleshly tool in the hands of Satan, soon after his great spiritual revelation from God.
Christians do not progress towards spirituality in the same way that they progress towards spiritual maturity. Just as one is either saved or not saved, at a given point in time, a believer is either spiritual or not spiritual, and there is no middle ground. When we sin in our Christian walk, we are unspiritual and lose fellowship with our heavenly Father. However, as soon as sin is confessed, God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and return us into fellowship with Himself – and spirituality is once again restored.
Let us seek to be those that are spiritual, and are enabled to restore those that have fallen and to bear one another’s burdens.. in humility and gentleness. Let us die to self and live our life to the glory of God, so that we may mature in the faith, grow in grace and become a living testimony to the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Source: https://dailyverse.knowing-jesus.com/galatians-6-2
To fully live the righteousness of God’s statute we are to carry one another’s burdens which means love each other in a caring manner and support and encourage each other in a delightful way for negative thoughts lead to negative tongues and negative lifestyles God wants us to love one another not be criticizing to each other let ourselves die of the world and live in Christ being fully supportive of each other
J. Palmer
As spoken from the commentary above from Source: https://dailyverse.knowing-jesus.com/galatians-6-2 Let us die to self and live our life to the glory of God, so that we may mature in the faith, grow in grace and become a living testimony to the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Bear ye one another’s burdens
Which may be understood either of sins, which are heavy burdens to sensible sinners, to all that are partakers of the grace of God; Christ is only able to bear these burdens, so as to remove them and take them away, which he has done by his blood, sacrifice, and satisfaction; saints bear one another’s, not by making satisfaction for them, which they are not able to do, nor by conniving at them, and suffering them upon them, which they should not do, but by gently reproving them, by comforting them when overpressed with guilt, by sympathizing with them in their sorrow, by praying to God for to manifest his pardoning grace to them, and by forgiving them themselves, so far as they are faults committed against them: or else the frailties and infirmities of weak saints, which are troublesome, and apt to make uneasy, are meant; and which are to be bore by the strong, by making themselves easy with them, and by accommodating themselves to their weakness, and by abridging themselves of some liberties, which otherwise might be lawfully taken by them; or afflictions may be designed, which are grievous to the flesh, and are bore by others, when they administer help and relief under them, whether in a temporal or spiritual way; and when they condole them, and sympathize with them, bear a part with them, and make others’ griefs and sorrows their own:
and so fulfil the law of Christ;
which is the law of love to one another, ( John 13:34 John 13:35 ) in opposition to the law of Moses, the judaizing Galatians were so fond of, and by which Christ’s disciples may be distinguished from those of Moses, or any others. This is a law or doctrine which Christ has clearly taught, and recovered from the false glosses of the Pharisees; it is his new commandment, which he has strengthened and enforced by his own example in dying for his people, and which he, by his Spirit, inscribes upon their hearts. The Jews speak of the law of the Messiah as preferable to any other.
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) which a man learns in this world is vanity, in comparison of (xyvm lv wtrwt
) “the law of the Messiah”, or Christ;”by “fulfilling”, it is meant, doing it, acting in obedience to it, and not a perfect fulfilling it, which cannot be done by sinful creatures.
by “fulfilling”, it is meant, doing it, acting in obedience to it, and not a perfect fulfilling it, which cannot be done by sinful creatures.
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