Genuine Christlike sympathy must be practical. Negatively. The burden of individual responsibility.4. W. Beecher.When the child was dead, and the prophet came to heal it, he stretched himself out on the child, and put his lips to the child's lips, and his hand on the child's hand, and his heart to the child's heart. If any trouble befalls those within the circuit of our affections, we need no exhortation on this point. A fifth boy said: "I saw my mother was very tired one day. That will lift up the load from her, and it will send you to your family altar with a new cause for thanksgiving and praise. This law is emphatically the law of Christ — "as I have loved you. I. Galatians 6:2-5 ; Galatians 6:6-10 ; Galatians 6:11-18 ; Galatians 614:-18 ; WIL POUNDS. Raleigh, D. D., Bp. IV. Marshall. We are to have a nice and tender regard to the peculiar circumstances of men — their external conditions. “Bearing One Another’s Burdens” Scripture – Galatians 6:2-10 Sermon Preached by Gregory Knox Jones Sunday, May 26, 2013 If you grow up in Oklahoma, tornadoes are a part of life, like hurricanes in Florida, blizzards in Colorado or earthquakes in California. Pity to others is kindness to ourselves.III. It seemed doubtful whether the operation would be successful, and equally doubtful whether all this filial devotion would not be wasted time and worthless endeavour. We are all on a journey; if one is like to give way, the other must refresh him; if one is likely to fall, the other must help him up.(Starke. By observing the principles of the text we fulfil the law of Christ. Bear the load of thy neighbour's poverty, and let him bear with thee the load of thy wealth. 2. Obligations cannot be transferred.5. He is made to feel in a thousand various ways, according to the degree of refinement which his nature has attained, the discord between the slightness of his own life and of that larger life of which his own is but an insignificant fraction.(A. Why? There must be no such shifting away of the trial or hardship, which, in the course of providence, he has to bear, as will exempt him from the ordinary lot of humanity. Those who have leisure to do so, may show it by visiting the sick and afflicted, and alleviating, by gentle acts and kindly attentions, the suffering they find around them. This law is emphatically the law of Christ — "as I have loved you. We may sympathise with distracting doubts and difficulties, whether as to faith or conduct, by patiently hearing all the doubter's perplexity, by offering in all humility solutions which have satisfied the minds of others, or, if it be so, by showing how we ourselves have groped our way amid such clouds of the mind from darkness to partial light: or at least we may do so by secret prayer, that God in His own good time will lead all who err or waver into the narrow path which struggles upward towards the truth. IMMUNITY. And as we have so learned it in our personal experience, we have found happiness in this joy of human sympathy. If a flaming, demonstrative nature, and a cool, undemonstrative nature, come together, neither of them understanding or making allowance for the peculiarities of the other, there can scarcely fail of being unhappiness.5. Hastings.How few know the mystery that shadowed Lamb's life! There is this sympathetic instinct in our mental and spiritual maladies It is when we have learned in our own personal experience the struggles of mind and heart, the manifold bonds of human life, that we have gained the only power to help our fellow-men. No man can fulfil the spirit of this Divine command, who does not dwell in the spirit of love. A man may make you feel happy, and yet be a bad man. By patience bear with their infirmities, and even with their conceit (ver. By as much as men are defrauded of any sense, or weakened in any power, we afford them protection. Marshall. I shall not merely be sorry for his bereavement, but I shall feel that the bereavement is my own. If we have brought our sunshine into the life of others, if we have given of our comfort to those whose lot is less fortunate, we can enjoy the wealth with a new sense of His goodness who has made us stewards. We make up our minds to treat babes tenderly, because they are babes. 2, 3). Each must bear his own shame, which results from his sin.3. ... St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Newport Beach, CA Title: The Law of Love Text: Galatians 6:2 Throughout this entire letter to the Galatians, Paul has emphasized the importance of God's Grace, Living by the Spirit. )Sympathy aided by sightH. It is that spirit the Christian believer must cherish. Unique Identity. Are not these burdens to be borne, even though men may have brought them upon themselves? I am thankful that in London you have your Samuel Morley, and other faithful servants of the Lord, who rejoice to be God's switch-tenders, to turn the needy, and the tempted, and the young into paths of sobriety, prosperity, and blessing. Each must bear his own judgment at the last.III. You do not need to be told that a warm climate is indispensable to the production of pomegranate and olive-trees. We all possess a faculty of conscience. Wordsworth., Starke.This world is full of burden-bearers. And the lowest should be helped first, and the most needy should be helped most.3. W. Beecher.Many persons are caught with the most superficial contradiction. One man is generally said to sympathize with another, who is pained, when and because that other is pained; and sympathy, as thus understood, is little more than pity or commiseration. I longed for a little rest. And then I thought how the Blessed Saviour says, 'If you love Me, lean hard.'" Sympathy must be personal. By prayer and practical help bear the burden of their labours, and thus lighten it (ver. It is as inevitable for him to be honest as it was for the other man to be dishonest. Life in this world may lead to life eternal in the world to come. The deepest cause of our uncharitableness is our ignorance. True, but we must think of what they may be raised to The poorest man is a man altogether, and capable of all a man can be in soul and circumstances. Free Reading Plans and Devotionals related to Galatians 6:2. So do ye reach forth a hand one to another when about to fall, and one with another fulfil the law in common, each completing what is wanting in his neighbour by his own endurance. What cared the Roman citizen for the slave that went his round of ceaseless toil? Each must bear his own shame, which results from his sin.3. The text is needed, then, to make that Christian which is simply natural, to change hard necessity into holy duty. "Ah, lads, I see by your looks that you have something to tell me." There is, for example, the well-authenticated case of a lady who could not even hear the description of a severe surgical operation, but she felt all the agonies of the patient, grew paler and paler, and shrieked and fainted under the horrible imagination.(T. And Christian graces, as set forth in the New Testament, imply this atmosphere of love in the soul. KJ21. I. He goes to work and digs a ditch through it, risking his health, and removes the stagnant water. (2) This Divine command also forbids the spirit of hard judging. Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. 5).1. L. Cuyler, D. D.)The blessedness of burden bearingF. H. But so, too, conscience in a good man may leave you stirred up. EVERY MAN HAS A BURDEN OF HIS OWN.1. )The law of ChristW. L. Cuyler, D. D.)The blessedness of burden bearingF. But the wayfarer, eyeing him suspiciously, mutters to himself, "He wants to steal it;" or else obstinately replies, "I am obliged to you, sir, but I can carry my own luggage."(T. The burden of sinful character.3. To "weep with them that weep" is a ministration of love far more intense than to "rejoice with them that do rejoice." Those that are superfluous.3. Would you have compassion upon a man who was attacked by an outward disease, and none for a man whose soul was diseased Are there no bearers of men's inward burdens? Fear and anxiety are magnified inloneliness. A waggon comes up, and the kind-hearted owner calls out, "Friend, you look tired. Spurgeon. You do not need to be told that a warm climate is indispensable to the production of pomegranate and olive-trees. All are in jeopardy. It is the easiest thing he can do. This is one of the first facts of which our opening intelligence informs us.2. But all the same it was there, a latent possibility, and it marked out a narrow pathway in which she would have to go softly to the end of her days. It is, generally, such a course of conduct towards our fellow-men, as shall enable them more easily to carry and manage their infirmities and troubles. They have strong passions, but no sympathy. Burdens of infirmity. "Give us," you are ready to say, "pictures or descriptions of distress; expatiate upon the miseries by which numbers are oppressed; and move our feelings by a touching tale of human grief; but as to wishing us to make the wretchedness our own — that we should labour for its alleviation, just as though it were pressing upon ourselves — that is altogether beyond nature, and its possibility is but the fiction of an exaggerated theology!" The relief of poverty for instance, the guarantee, that is, of the conditions of life in its lowest form, was long the work of the religious orders. What a motive to exertion on their behalf! Trouble. THE SOUL'S INDIVIDUALITY (ver. An air of condescension and a lofty tone of patronage are out of place in Christian service. The new birth, repentance, faith, love, holiness, fellowship with God, etc., are all personal.2. Christians are not to rejoice in iniquity, or affect a disdainful sanctity, but to seek with Christlike gentleness and grace the recovery of the erring one (James 5:19, 20). "Just keep your eyes open and your hands ready to do anything good that comes in your way this week, and tell me next Sabbath if you have not managed to be useful in some way or other," said the teacher. One of our noblest women, Fidelia Fisk, tells us that when she was in Syria one day, preaching to the native women, she found herself very tired. But so, too, conscience in a good man may leave you stirred up. We have all burdens to bear, but not all equally, and it is the privilege of those who are less burdened than their fellows to minister to the relief of those by whom they are surrounded. I could not do such a thing. The law of love. What if it were a man crying out for water, with lips parched by merciless fever? W. But the Christian Church is not to relegate all her poor to the workhouse; nor is the relieving officer the substitute for the Christian pastor and his Christian flock. THE SOUL'S WELL-BEING IS SECURED BY MINISTERING TO THE BROTHERHOOD. It is taught by our life work.5. He went from one to another, and told the pitiful tale. W. Beecher.When the child was dead, and the prophet came to heal it, he stretched himself out on the child, and put his lips to the child's lips, and his hand on the child's hand, and his heart to the child's heart. The next Sabbath those boys gathered round the teacher with smiling lips and eyes so full of light that they fairly twinkled like the stars. W. What thought had the feudal lord for the drudge that wore out his brief existence in subterranean damps to do his master's pleasure? But we can do much to help it by the spirit in which we strive to understand and reach human need. Chris. In truth, all that matters is the cross. After such a man has gone through years and years and years, practising his various tricks and sleights of dexterity, if you talk in his presence of a man being honest, he will laugh at you. It includes the whole catalogue of conditions, and influences, and causes, that weigh men down, and hinder them, when they are endeavouring sincerely to live lives of rectitude. Then each told his story. "Agreed," said the lads; and so they parted. (Canon Miller. (2) This Divine command also forbids the spirit of hard judging. Our workhouses, like our hospitals, may be due to Christianity, and standing evidences of that care for the poor which Christianity after the example of its Divine Founder enjoins. (1)Not being ministered unto,(2)but in ministering; which is(a)to lighten our own burdens and(b)to lighten others, so that they may fulfil the law of Christ.(S. I have read of a Christian man, who, to know the reality of poverty, put on the dress of a beggar, and went into the hard lodging-house, where the poor outcasts have a comfortless pallet of straw and a ration of bad food, and after a week of experience gave this evidence, that it was worth to him ten years of study, and the source of the most intense pleasure in his lifetime. So with the sense of sin.3. Have not I seen the horse enjoy his feed of corn when his yoke-fellow lay a-dying in the neighbouring stall, and never turn an eye of pity on the sufferer? H. Spurgeon.There is a gateway at the entrance of a narrow passage in London, over which is written, "No burdens allowed to pass through." He goes to work and digs a ditch through it, risking his health, and removes the stagnant water. Our relationship to each other, and our possession of advantages and talents, involve us in manifold responsibilities. Sympathy overcomes evil and strengthens good, it lies at the root of all religion. Guthrie, D. D.)Real burden-bearingFoster.A poor woman was reduced to extreme poverty by the loss of her cow, her only means of support. Just lean against me; and if you love me, lean hard — lean hard.' I have read of a Christian man, who, to know the reality of poverty, put on the dress of a beggar, and went into the hard lodging-house, where the poor outcasts have a comfortless pallet of straw and a ration of bad food, and after a week of experience gave this evidence, that it was worth to him ten years of study, and the source of the most intense pleasure in his lifetime. Take an old gambler — or a young one, it makes no difference which; for they are both alike. If a man does not believe, when he has done wrong, that he is in the wrong, it is perfectly right for us to apply the rule of judgment to his case, and convince him of his error; but we are not to be stern, nor harsh, nor severe, but gentle, sympathizing, and all-loving and helpful. By assistance bear their wants (vers. W. )The blessedness of sympathy and the vice of selfishnessA. The greatly tried is to have our greatest sympathy. WE MUST DO THIS AS THE LAW OF LIFE. We put ourselves out of the way for the sake of those that are blind and deaf. Guthrie, D. D.)Real burden-bearingFoster.A poor woman was reduced to extreme poverty by the loss of her cow, her only means of support. The nature of His Kingdom is, in proportion as its principles prevail, to bring all evils to an end, and poverty undoubtedly tends to produce and perpetuate evil; e.g., it prevents the acquisition of knowledge, makes decency very difficult, quenches nobler strivings, makes life a drudgery. So he continued: "You think it is not so; but suppose you just try it for a week." III. Mutual interposition in sympathy and for succour in any emergency — fellow-feeling and fellow-helping — is the duty inculcated, as opposed to that selfish isolation which stands aloof, or contents itself with a cheap expression of commiseration, or an offer of assistance so framed as to be worthless in the time or the shape of it (2 Corinthians 11:29). I cannot tell how she thanked me." The reponsibility is on each man to carry himself and his trials and troubles through life. A neighbour, who was unable to give aid, personally went round to different friends to solicit money to buy another one. "(Mary B. We have in America our William E. Dodges who are the Lord's switch-tenders. L. Cuyler, D. D.The application of this law are manifold. We need only to vary this thought a little to make it apply to our requisitions in social intercourse. L. Cuyler, D. D.)The blessedness of burden bearingF. 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