July 10th, 2006
The Sinful Nature Study – Edition #4: Carried Away
Galatians 6:1-5
Brothers, if someone is caught in a sin, you who are spiritual should restore him gently. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted. Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. Each one should test his own actions. Then he can take pride in himself, without comparing himself to somebody else, for each one should carry his own load.
I don’t get it. I am supposed to carry my own load and other people’s burden’s as well? I find that I have been burdened. I have been stressed some by my burden and I have allowed many to carry that burden outside of just a few. And more than that, I look around and I look at things around my house and I see things that give me that “incomplete” feeling. Maybe it is cabin fever, I am not sure. I just had a weekend where I spent a lot out time outside the apartment, but alas, here I am again. But I see paintings that I never finished, degrees that I never finished, different things that I never finished, and bada-bing – there I am with this feeling. And I think it gets magnified with this “muscle disease” that I may or may not have. So, then love…
1st Corinthians 13:5
…it (love) keeps no record of wrongs.
Wrongs:
kakos
kak-os'
Worthless, that is, (subjectively) depraved, or (objectively) injurious: - bad, evil, harm, ill, noisome, wicked.
And yet, every time I look around, I am constantly reminded of my shortcomings and failures. Todd’s message yesterday was amazing.
Ruth 1:8; 2:20; 3:10 kindness:
chêsêd
kheh'-sed
Kindness; by implication (towards God) piety; rarely (by opprobrium) reproof, or (subjectively) beauty: - favour, good deed (-liness, -ness), kindly, (loving-) kindness, merciful (kindness), mercy, pity, reproach, wicked thing.
Galatians 5:22-23
The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.
I am not sure if Todd had this in his message yesterday or not, about the fruits of the spirit, but I thought that Ruth did a brilliant job of expressing kindness to others, as well as Boaz. In fact, she did a great job on all of these. And as Todd noted, she was a foreigner. She wasn’t even a Jew. Or to put in a language I can better understand, she wasn’t even saved. She was doing the right things, going through the right motions, but she wasn’t apart of the right “people”. She was a FOREIGNER and she had a better heart than the people who were apart of God’s people. I keep wondering, am I apart of the problem or am I apart of the solution. Am I helping to make things better, or am crushing things and breaking things apart? Sometimes, I really don’t know.
Noisome (adj.):
The Sinful Nature Study – Edition #4: Carried Away
Galatians 6:1-5
Brothers, if someone is caught in a sin, you who are spiritual should restore him gently. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted. Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. Each one should test his own actions. Then he can take pride in himself, without comparing himself to somebody else, for each one should carry his own load.
I don’t get it. I am supposed to carry my own load and other people’s burden’s as well? I find that I have been burdened. I have been stressed some by my burden and I have allowed many to carry that burden outside of just a few. And more than that, I look around and I look at things around my house and I see things that give me that “incomplete” feeling. Maybe it is cabin fever, I am not sure. I just had a weekend where I spent a lot out time outside the apartment, but alas, here I am again. But I see paintings that I never finished, degrees that I never finished, different things that I never finished, and bada-bing – there I am with this feeling. And I think it gets magnified with this “muscle disease” that I may or may not have. So, then love…
1st Corinthians 13:5
…it (love) keeps no record of wrongs.
Wrongs:
kakos
kak-os'
Worthless, that is, (subjectively) depraved, or (objectively) injurious: - bad, evil, harm, ill, noisome, wicked.
And yet, every time I look around, I am constantly reminded of my shortcomings and failures. Todd’s message yesterday was amazing.
Ruth 1:8; 2:20; 3:10 kindness:
chêsêd
kheh'-sed
Kindness; by implication (towards God) piety; rarely (by opprobrium) reproof, or (subjectively) beauty: - favour, good deed (-liness, -ness), kindly, (loving-) kindness, merciful (kindness), mercy, pity, reproach, wicked thing.
Galatians 5:22-23
The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.
I am not sure if Todd had this in his message yesterday or not, about the fruits of the spirit, but I thought that Ruth did a brilliant job of expressing kindness to others, as well as Boaz. In fact, she did a great job on all of these. And as Todd noted, she was a foreigner. She wasn’t even a Jew. Or to put in a language I can better understand, she wasn’t even saved. She was doing the right things, going through the right motions, but she wasn’t apart of the right “people”. She was a FOREIGNER and she had a better heart than the people who were apart of God’s people. I keep wondering, am I apart of the problem or am I apart of the solution. Am I helping to make things better, or am crushing things and breaking things apart? Sometimes, I really don’t know.
Noisome (adj.):
- Causing or able to cause nausea.
Galatians 5:22 kindness:
chrēstotēs
khray-stot'-ace
Usefulness, that is, moral excellence (in character or demeanor): - gentleness, good (-ness), kindness.
Keep no record of wrongs, no record of the worthless things that you have done… my teacher on Thursday had mentioned that Adam and Eve did not understand what death was… I disagree. I believe that they in fact did have an understanding of death. They did understand that death was something not good. And if they didn’t have some understanding, some working brain, Eve wouldn’t have used that as a rebuttal against the serpent. What Adam and Eve did not have an understanding of was pain and negative emotion. And with sin, there comes pain and emotion. And with all the muck and junk, there has to be forgiveness. I keep a record of wrongs against myself, I carry a load that I don’t share with anyone else, or at least with a limited amount of people, and I need to get a grip with some forgiveness with all this stuff…
Matthew 6:9-15
“This, then, is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’ For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.”
Matthew 6:12 forgive: (actually, all of them above)
aphiēmi
af-ee'-ay-mee
To send forth, in various applications: - cry, forgive, forsake, lay aside, leave, let (alone, be, go, have), omit, put (send) away, remit, suffer, yield up.
If I omit something, I leave it out. It’s like I forget it… and that is a easier said than done when it comes to my junk instead of someone else’s stuff. I can forget someone else’s stuff rather easily… I don’t have their reminders throughout my house. Anyway… Johnny Out.
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