Galatians // Fulfil the Law of Christ [Galatians 6:1-10] (Murray Grindlay)

By the gratefully we draw near to you in the precious name of

the Lord Jesus, we thank you for the words that we have sung and

worship today. No other name, no other

treasure, no other satisfaction, but all found in new our Lord

Jesus and in you our God. Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

We thank you that today we have been able to consider the

finished work on the cross and the salvation that you have

provided. We thank you that today you have

lifted our eyes to consider your greatness, your kingship, the

fact that you are sovereign. And so today we subject

ourselves to that. We bow before you.

We rest in your wisdom, in your power, in your might, in your

sovereignty, and today, as weak and fallible people, we turn to

you as we see your grace and your gentleness with us, as we

see your hand of mercy upon us. We come to you as families.

We come to you as a church family and as individuals, and

we look to you for your mercy and for your comfort and your

strength and healing. Today we pray for our families

amongst us. We pray for our mothers, and we

thank you for them. We thank you for the children

and pray that you'll bless and encourage as they grow up to

know about you and to trust you. And as they go to Sunday school

now, Lord, we pray that you'll encourage and please the

teachers. We pray that you'll give them

wisdom that you give help as you're weird is open to these

young people that you're bless and encourage as the senior

school and the teen Bible class goes ahead further.

We thank you for your word to us today.

And as we open your word, as we welcome Murray, we thank you for

the privilege of being in your word.

We pray that you'll help us to be hearers and do us, and we

pray your blessing in the name of the Lord Jesus, Amen.

Very good, Thank you. It's good to come back here

again. And you've changed your Chapel

around a little bit since last time I was here.

So anyway, it's good to see such a good crowd of people here

today. And part of the work I do is

does take me around the country visiting churches and

individuals. So it's a it's one reason why

I'm up this way for a period of time.

Before I start looking at if if Galatians we were messages

today. I just want to say a few things

about Ms. Bible School, which is something I'm involved in.

So we've got May Correspondence School, it's a something's been

going for a long time, since 1942 in North America, but it's

been in New Zealand since the late 1950s.

But it aims to help people just to get to know the scriptures.

And so there's courses that have been developed and spread around

the world, is being used printed copies in 110 different

countries and it's been translated into 86 different

languages. And so there's a wide range of

subjects and books that are covered in the courses.

We've got about 100 of them available now from my office in

Wellington. There's a brochure which sets

out a lot of courses. The brochure is free.

If you want a newsletter, seems a bit of news about what's

happening, that's free as well. If you'd like, of course, please

pay for it sort of between 4:00 and $12.00.

Basically for the courses, effectively most of them or all

of them have got questions and answer questions to be answered

in them and they can be seen in for marking to our office in

Wellington if you want to get in the marked.

So just to give an idea of what's involved in the last

financial year, there's 1646 courses that we sent out, OK, or

distributed to different people around New Zealand.

And we marked 601 courses. Many of those who do the courses

are prisoners. Maybe 8080% of those who are

doing the courses would be in gaol, but we're thankful that

many of them are. Well, I would say we're

benefiting spiritually from studying the Bible this way.

And so don't need to be a prisoner to study the Bible.

I hope you want to study the Bible.

And there's something which may have helped me and when I was a

teenager to get into the word of God.

And then I developed my own method.

But it's something which if you've never studied the Bible,

will you get one of these courses and just let it help you

to, to get the discipline of study there.

If for some reason you don't like paper courses, well, you

can do it online. There's the Ms. app, which has

been developed recently and the app has been accessed and all

but seven countries of the world and it's available in 31

languages and 8 / 80,000 active installations.

And so if you prefer to study the scriptures using that sort

of method, then you can do that. It's administered through people

overseas. It's not not something I have

anything directly to do with, but it's something which is

there if you prefer that way. OK.

The other thing I mentioned, one of the other things I do is I

eat at the magazine run with the good news.

If you haven't seen a copy or want one, there are some in the

four. You're the free and so you're

welcome to take a copy. It's got some news of New

Zealand work and also some Bible based articles.

I'm currently working on the June edition.

OK, we're going to look at Galatians chapter 6, verses 1 to

Galatians 6:1–10

10. So I want to start by reading

that passage and then I'll talk a bit about this section of the

Bible. So Galatians chapter 6, verses 1

Galatians 6:1–10

to 10. So we'll read the passage and

then I'll talk a bit about what's in it.

Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are

spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness.

Keep watching, watch on yourself, lest you 2 be tempted.

Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

For if anyone thinks he has something when he is nothing, he

deceives himself. But let each one test his own

work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone

and not in his neighbor, for each will have to bear his own

load. That's the one who was taught

the word. Share all good things with the

one who teaches. Do not be deceived.

God is not mocked for whatever one shows that will he also

reap. For the one who shows to his own

flesh will from the the flesh reap corruption, but the one who

shows to the Spirit, will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

And let us not grow weary in doing good, for in due season we

will reap if we do not give up. So then, as we have opportunity,

let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of

the household of faith. God will bless His word to us.

So the letter to the Galatians, it's a book which is about

freedom. It was especially about freedom

from slavery to the law of Moses.

And much of the letter concerns the true good news, the true

gospel and its relationship to the law.

Now there's only one good news message from God, one true

gospel. Any other gospel is not a true

gospel. And Paul says that people who

teach a different gospel should be condemned.

That's harsh words, but it's truth is important.

In any other kind of message, claiming to be from God is

leading people astray. And Paul says those who involved

in spreading that should be condemned.

Now the good news is that God declares righteous all those who

believe in his Son Jesus Christ and their acceptance by God does

not depend on the keeping of God's Lord.

It depends on Jesus Christ, especially on his death on the

cross and salvation is a gift from God-given by innis grace to

those who believe. Now, the problem with the

Galatians was basically they had people going around saying, you

know, to be a really good Christian or maybe even to be

accepted by God, you have to keep the law of Moses and those

big emphasis on circumcision. But it really stood for all the

ceremonial stuff in in the law of Moses, maybe except the

sacrifices. And so Paul is writing against

that sort of teaching, say, well, God accepts us because of

what Jesus has done. It's not.

We don't have to sort of keep keeping the law thinking that

God will not accept us unless we keep all these other commands.

And so we're not under the Old Testament law today.

It had a purpose. It was there to lead people to

the Messiah, to Christ, but that was only temporary now.

So looking at some of the teachings in this letter, he

talked about the Christian life. What's it about?

Well, he says to us that Jesus Christ died for our sins so that

he could deliver us out of this present evil age.

And that suggests that when you receive Jesus Christ as Saviour,

if he, if you're a believer, then your life should be

different from unbelievers. We are delivered from this

present evil age, not in the sense that God removes us out of

this world, but rather we are. Now we have a different life.

Paul has said that he no longer lives.

Christ lives on him. I'd be crucified with Christ and

I no longer live, but Christ lives in me and so he lives the

life he lives. He lives by faith in Jesus

Christ, and so Jesus Christ is now the master of his people.

I am not my own as we were singing.

And so we're, we're no longer our own masters, but we live by

faith in Christ, obedient to him.

He says that all have been baptised into Christ, have

clothed themselves with Christ. So it maybe means that we're

becoming like Christ. That's the aim, that we should

become like Christ as a transformation that is going on.

And what is important in the Christian life is faith working

through love. So faith must express itself.

You can't just sort of say I've got faith in Jesus in my life.

There's no different from what what it used to be that it needs

to work out in people's lives. True faith isn't just in the

mind. It must show itself in actions.

And so we've got really three ways you could live, and only

one of them is right. And so some people say, well,

we're not under law, but under grace.

So then we can just send anyway. You want to heard recently the

some group of people in Auckland, I think they go into

the name Free Grace where they kind of have the idea that you,

you trust in Christ, but then you can just go and live in

summer anyway you like, live anyhow.

Well that's a false teaching. There's three ways you could

possibly do it and 1 is on the left side.

As you say, well we are under law.

And this is the problem that Paul was particularly

confronting, and he wrote to the churches in Galatia, because

there are people who are saying, well, we should really obey the

law of Moses, and that will make you a good Christian, that will

do what God wants. And Paul says no.

And there are some people who say, well, if you wanna be

really good, they have extra laws, extra rules that you have

to obey. And they may sound good, but yet

they really are not what God is requiring.

Now as long as you get a an opposite reaction from a

somewhat wrong idea and some go to the other extreme and say

well you can be lawless. You don't need to have any laws.

You're even free to sin because God will forgive you, you're or

under grace. And Paul is very clear in this

later that this is not what the way the Christians should live,

but we live under grace. We live by faith, we live by the

Spirit. We are to obey Christ.

And so in the section of the letter from chapter 513 through

to six verse 10, he talks about the nature of Christian freedom.

And and so he says that in the chapter 5 verse 13, he says, for

you were called to freedom, brothers only.

Do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but

through love serve one another. And so he's got a bit about true

freedom. Then he talks about how there is

this conflict between the flesh or the sinful nature and the

Spirit, the Holy Spirit in the believer.

And while we're in this world, we do have this conflict within

us. None of us reach a stage where

we're sort of kind of totally free from temptation.

We don't have any in ourselves, but there's all this conflict

and how do we live for God? He talks about that.

And then we're coming to chapter 6, first ten, one to 10, where

he talks about fulfilling the law of Christ.

And so today if we look at this passage, there's five headings I

want to look at this under. We're gonna start about with

talking about the law of Christ and then we'll look at the four

things we see is here to help one another, to have a proper

opinion of yourself, to appreciate your leaders and to

do good. And so we have the law of

Christ. And so there's a statement in

chapter 6, verse 2 where he says at the end of the verse, so

fulfil the law of Christ. Now in chapter 5, there's a

number of general statements about Christian living.

It talks about walking by the Spirit, faith, working through

love, through love, serve one another.

And sometimes we don't necessarily put those things

into practise because they sound a bit general, that kind of

sound nice, but what do they actually mean?

And we don't perhaps think they apply to situations where in and

people can talk about love. There have been at times a lot

of songs about popular songs about love, All you need is love

and things like this and the community sound very nice.

But it can be harder when you get down to the concrete details

of people's lives in particular situations.

And for some of these, Paul is now unfolding and he tells us

how if we're walking by the Spirit that we should or should

not behave towards one another. And so Paul is ready.

I'll sort of four things that he's wanting to tell or tells

Christians to do in these verses we're going to look at and some

of these these teachers, some of the things that God expects us

to do now. So there are commands that in

the Bible that we should obey. Now, we're not under the Old

Testament law. That's very clear.

If you read right through Galatians, it's very clear that

we're not under the Old Testament law today.

So you don't have to be bothered about clean and unclean food and

male circumcision and that that's sort of those sort of

details or keeping the Jewish feast and that kind of thing.

But Paul makes it quite clear that we are under the law of

Christ and 1st contains 9. Paul says that even though he

himself was not under the law, he was not being outside the law

of God. That was under the law of

Christ. The Lord Jesus said if you love

me, keep my commandments. He has my commandments and keeps

them. He is the one who loves me, and

he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him

and manifest myself to him. And Christ has given commands to

his followers and Paul speaks of some things that fulfil the law

of Christ. Now this doesn't mean that we

we're going, we make progress in the Christian life by just

setting it before ourselves. A whole lot of rules and

regulations. There's nothing in the last half

of Galatians or the New Testament suggests that is the

way the Christians to live. But still it means that the

essential ends of of God's law will be met in those who are

being called by God and filled with the Spirit of our God to

produce the spirits fruit in their lives.

And being under the law of Christ is different from being

under the law of Moses. Moses law promised life for

obedience, but didn't give any power to obey it and could only

encourage people to obey it by fear of punishment.

But the law of Christ is loving instruction for those who

already have life. If you have life, if you've been

forgiven your sins, you have eternal life, then we have

instructions as to how we should live.

And believers are enabled to keep its precepts by the power

of the Holy Spirit. And motivation is love for

Christ. Do you love Jesus Christ?

Well, I hope you do. Most of us here have taken the

bread and the cup this morning. And among other things, that

should be an expression of our allegiance to Jesus Christ, that

we appreciate what he's done, we're thankful for what he's

done, and that we want to serve him and to do what is right in

this world. And so there is the law of

Christ that he has given us things we should obey.

And if we love him, we should keep his commands.

So this will behind what Paul is saying here 0 we'll come to help

one another. The really is the first thing

that he sees in this particular passage here and he starts by

dealing with a particular type of situation.

Help a brother who has since brothers.

If anyone has caught in any transgression, you who are

spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness.

But keep watch on yourself. This you 2 be tempted.

And there are times when we can we discover that a fellow

Christian has committed a son. He's done something that is

wrong and this place is speaking about a person who particularly

has has been tempted. He's he's committed some one act

of sin. It's not really so much a person

who claims to be a Christian who's continually singing in

some way. It's we're all subject to

temptation. And even though we should not

give in to temptation and sin, it is possible that all of us do

you sin from time to time. But what are you to do?

If your brother or your sister's sons what?

What are you gonna do about it? Do you just overlook it?

You tell everybody else about it because you're more holy than

your brother or sister. Well, all tells us that a person

who's led by the Spirit is not going to do either of those

things, that there are lawyers who should help this person who

has fallen into sin. You who are spiritual, I wonder

if you're a spiritual person. Now, of course at these days

there are a lot of people who say, well, I'm not religious,

I'm just spiritual. Now, this is not what Paul's

talking about here. He's a he's talking about

Christians who are, who are led by the Spirit, who are filled

with the Spirit. And so the people who are able

to help someone who has fallen into sin, it's really only those

who have are really walking with God, who are, who are led by the

Spirit of God, who are really able to give spiritual help to

those who have fallen into temptation and, and fallen into

sin. And what's the aim of helping

this person? Well, the aim is restoration.

You should restore him to bring the person back to a an obedient

way of living. Now, sometimes a lot of these

things can be dealt with privately.

I can think of a situation and a church I was in some years ago

when I lived in Zambia and 11 brother there was he was tempted

in a certain way, wasn't it didn't fall into gross sin, but

it was something that was wrong. And I felt I, the other person

involved told me about it. And I thought, well, I've got to

go and talk to this man and just confront him with it and just

try to to help him in this situation.

Anyway, he he admitted he had done wrong and, and he was sorry

but for the situation. And it was a sort of one off

situation and I so I wasn't necessarily take any greater

steps. But the aim is to bring a person

back to an obedient way of living when we're not if a

person, if a brother sense of sister.

Since it's not that you don't just just reject the person, but

you try to restore him. And of course, the one whose sin

must accept that he has sinned and shows signs of repentance.

And it's a spiritual Christian who will try to lead the one who

is seen to do this and then help him to avoid sin in the future,

the same sin or maybe other types of sin, and to do it with

gentleness. Restoring A sinning Christian is

not to be done with pride or with harshness.

It's to be done with gentleness, which is one of the fruit of the

Spirit. Now all of us can fall into sin

as long as we're living on earth.

I can do that. I can fall into sin if I'm not

careful. Maybe I'm not gonna be bothered

with the same temptation this particular brother has fallen

into. Well, maybe I will be, but there

might be some other temptations that could trip me up and I need

to realise that there but for the grace of God go I, I, I

could fall into that. And if I had the OHH falls in

this other person's circumstances, maybe I would

fall into sin. And so it needs to be that, the

gentleness there, that humility, we need to be watch full over

ourselves lest we be tempted. One of the problems sometimes

with dealing with people who have fallen into sin is if we're

not careful, we can be corrupted by the particular evil they've

got into, and we need to be careful about that ourselves.

And so somebody said, if we walk by the Spirit, we would love one

another more, and if we love one another more, we would bear one

another's burdens. And if we bore each other's

burdens, we would not shrink from seeking to restore a

brother who has fallen into sin. And further, if we obeyed this

Apostolic instruction, we should as we should.

Much unkind gossip would be avoided, more serious

backsliding prevented, the good of the Church advanced, and the

name of Christ glorified. But we should know that God is

not commanding us to restore a brother into fellowship at all

costs. If the person refuses to return

to God's ways, and if he persists in his Son, then the

Scriptures say, then it may mean he has to be separated from the

congregation. So restore a brother, help a

brother who has sinned, and then bear each other's burdens, bear

one another's burdens and so fulfil the law of Christ.

Now believers in Jesus Christ have various faults and problems

and we need to be patient, be to endure patiently the weaknesses

and failings of others and not just please ourselves.

We need to help people with their problems.

And so this is something which continues on really from the

beginning command about restoring the fallen brother.

The scriptures are very clear. We need to help one another,

support those without strengthening, encourage the

oppressed, that the strong of a hand to the weak and the rich

support poor. I like the illustration and the

Good News Bible which I've put on there about bearing 1

another's evidence how we can all help one another with

various burdens. The law of Christ calls us to

love one another. And this love will show that

everybody that we are disciples of Jesus Christ.

And there is a certain assumption behind this, that all

of us have burdens of one sort or another and that God does not

mean us to carry the heavy burdens alone.

And if, if we've got heavy burdens, then we do need it's

it's good if other brothers or sisters can come and help us in

that situation. An illustration of that is in

the given in the case of the apostle Paul, there was one

stage in his life he was terribly burdened.

He was really worried over the state of the church in Corinth

and particularly about their reaction to a rather severe

letter that he had written to them.

And his mind couldn't rest because he was thinking

continually about this problem, so great was his suspense.

Paul could say we were afflicted at every turn, fighting without

and fear within. Well, he had this big burden

about his concern about other Christians, but how did God

comfort him and help him? Well, God sent a long man called

Titus. Titus had been to Corinth and

we're told that he came back to Paul and he reported back to

Paul. There was good news.

He'd been there. So that sorted out the problems

and so he was able to come back with good news.

And so Paul says that it was through the coming of Titus that

God gave him comfort. It wasn't just through his own

private prayer, but this man, this human companion came and

helped and encouraged Paul. So long as you can help somebody

else just through being there with him or her, you can help

them carry the burden of some be heavy burden they've got.

This is one reason why Christian fellowship is so important.

I've always said by people who are Christians, but for various

reasons they don't go to church anymore.

But we do need each other in Christ.

Christians belong to one another, and our task is that we

can make our burdens lighter when we share our burdens with

others. And so we do need to help one

another, seek to restore a brother who has sinned, and seek

and bear each other's burdens. And they're doing this will

fulfil the law of Christ. Well, we can't tell you at this

next section hitting three have a proper opinion of yourself.

This is the second thing that Paul is saying to these people.

Have a proper opinion of yourself.

For if anyone thinks he is something when he has nothing,

he deceives himself. But let each one test his own

work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone,

and not in his neighbor. For each of us will have to bear

his own load. It's important to think about

ourselves in a proper way. Pause this something similar and

his letter to the Romans, chapter 12, verse 3.

Romans 12:3

For by the grace given to me, I say to everyone among you, not

to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to

think with sober judgement, each according to the measure of

faith God has fined. Now we do not choose our own

identities. We need to consider how God has

made us, how He's gifted us, and how He is using us.

And God has given each of us responsibilities.

He's all He's given each of us something to do, some work to

do. He's given us different

abilities and one Christian cannot do the work will take on

responsibility that God has given to another.

And it's important not to compare yourself with others.

If you compare what we're doing for God or ourselves with other

people, then you could it may lead to either you become proud

because you think you're better than others.

We maybe we're even indispensable.

Or else you can become discouraged because you think,

well, I'm not as good as other people, I'm worse, or maybe I'm

even totally useless. And we do need to be careful.

We don't comparing ourselves with others, but rather we're to

do the task that God has given us to do.

Our responsibility is to serve God and what He has given us to

do. Now you can find something on

hand where you can do something for God.

God. God's plan is that each of us

have something to do, and if you don't know what to do, we'll

look around and see if there's somebody you can help that you

can. At least you can pray for

people, but there's usually something you is available.

Maybe humble, humble task, but if you do it well, maybe God

will show you something more you can do and do the task that God

has given you. So then each of us will have to

give an account of ourselves to God, and each will be rewarded

according to his own labour. And so we've got

responsibilities allowed that that God has given us.

And so if we look at the Lord rather than at other Christians,

rather than comparing ourselves with others, what what Lord,

what do you want me to do? That's a good question.

What should I do, Lord? I've had a number of times in my

life where I've come into a, perhaps a crisis situation in

life. Often it's occurred in relation

to work. And I've said, Lord, what do you

want me to do? What should I do, Lord?

And the Lord does provide and guide as to what we should do.

We need to do the task on hand, but carry your own load.

Each one shall bear his own load.

That's not a contradiction with verse 2.

It talks about carrying one another's burdens.

There's different words that are used for their loads there.

In inverse 2, the word for carrying one another's burdens,

it's a heavy load there that's mentioned, but in this five it

literally is a expression about a soldier's pack.

The idea really that each soldier must bear his own pack.

And so I do quite a bit of tramping and I have a pack that

I have to carry. And it's, it's important that I,

I carry my essential things. Now for some reason I was

carrying something very heavy then maybe somebody else could

help. But just basically, I've got to

look after my own stuff when I'm I'm tramping.

We certainly do need to help one another if we've got very heavy

burdens of life, but there are responsibilities that we cannot

pass on to others or are things that we need to do.

We need to take our own responsibility.

One man who was a father, he's, he said, well, if my car breaks

down, my neighbor can help drive my children to school, but he

cannot assume the responsibilities that only

belong to me as their father. That's the difference.

It would be wrong to says it would be wrong for me to expect

someone else to be the father and our family.

That's a burden and a privilege that I alone can bear.

But sometimes there are Special Situations where the extra

burdens where you need help. So have a proper opinion of

yourself. Don't compare yourself with

others, but bear the load of responsibility that God has

given you, right. Appreciate your teachers.

So appreciate your teachers. What they, the one who was

taught in the word, share all good things with the one who

teaches. And that has to do with the use

of positions. It tells us that we should

appreciate people who faithfully teach us God's word.

We do need to be taught or instructed in the word of God

and the teacher is a spiritual gift.

And you read about the the teacher and three of the lists

of the spiritual gifts that are there and the one who has taught

well, it does indicate we do have a need to be talked, taught

and helped by those who have an ability to teach God's word.

And so the instructions to share an all good things.

And basically it's saying support those who particularly

are devoting themselves full time to the teaching of God's

Word so that they can do their task now finally do good.

And so we come to this last part here that do not be deceived.

God is not mocked for whoever, whatever one shows that he will

also reap inverse Tncs. So then as we have opportunity,

let us do good to everyone and especially those who of the

household of faith. And so there's a point there

that we reap what we sow. It's a picture taken from

agriculture. You put in a, you know, potato

seeds, you're going to get potatoes out of the ground.

You're not going to get roses or carrots or something different.

It's and it's a warning that our lives or an encouragement in our

lives that we can get reap what we sow.

And so there's two types of sewing.

You can sow according to the sinful nature, the flesh, or you

can sew according to the Spirit of God.

And So what we do to be sung in either of these directions, and

there are consequences of that. But he goes on to say, don't

grow weary in doing what is good.

Don't get discouraged. So nice.

We don't see things happen immediately.

But if you are involved in agriculture and you're sewing

something, you've put in your your potato seeds, let's say,

are you gonna go along tomorrow and see if the the potato were

there? Studies don't grow that fast, so

they don't grow in one day. You've gotta wait a period of

time and sometimes there is a wait.

We need to wait for the long term consequences of what we do,

but don't get weary and doing good.

There will be a harvest, but rather use the opportunities

that we have while we have them. Sometimes the opportunities will

pass away. We can no longer help somebody,

but we have to do what is good. And there's a summary chart that

I put there which covers a number of things there the the

solar. Firstly, you got the teacher who

shows God's Word and so he shows it into the mind and hearts of

the church. And his harvest he will reap it

as his living. But any Christian who his own

thoughts and deeds, he saying we saw this to the flesh, the

sinful nature, he will reap corruption.

And so don't think because you're a Christian, if you go

indulging in sinful things, you're gonna reap corruption out

of that. But if you say to the Spirit,

then there's eternal life. It says here the idea not only

of the everlasting life, but an ever deepening communion with

God. But a Christian who can do good,

he can sow good works, commit to people in the community and

especially the believers, and there can be a good crop in the

lives of those he serves and a reward from God himself and

eternity. So there's a number of things

that we've been looking at. Fulfil the law of Christ.

There are commands that we should, we should be obey

because we belong to Jesus Christ.

Here's our master and so just a summary here.

Fulfil the law of Christ by doing good and helping others,

especially other believers who are burdened or in need.

Actions have consequences and we will receive consequences from

the things we do and say. And this warns us against sin

and encourage us to faithfully live for God.

So just finally, just applications there.

The Christian freedom means serving our Lord Jesus Christ

and Chris Christian free. He set us free from sin.

We're not slaves to wrong beliefs about the world or the

law of Moses. He's given us the Spirit so we

can live for God. And Christian freedom is shown

by faith expressing itself and love.

And love is practical. So help one another, have a

proper opinion of yourself, appreciate your teachers and do

good. May the Lord help us all to

fulfil the law of Christ. Thank you.