Sunday Morning August 23, 2015 sermon slides. Sowing Goodness Galatians 6:1-10

1. Sowing
GoodnessLesson Text: Galatians 6:1-10
Heritage Addition church of Christ
by Jim Bradshaw
Sunday Morning, August 22, 2015

2. 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.

3. 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),

4. Sowing Goodness Means that You
Lighten the Load for Others
Gal 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

5. Sowing Goodness Means that You
Lighten the Load for Others
We 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

6. Sowing Goodness Means that You
Lighten the Load for Others
Gal 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

7. Sowing Goodness Means that You
Lighten the Load for Others
Even 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.

8. Sowing Goodness Means that You
Lighten the Load for Others
Has 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.

9. Sowing Goodness Means that You
Lighten the Load for Others
Has 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.

10. 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.

11. Sowing Goodness means that You
take Care of Your Own
ResponsibilitiesA Congregation has responsibilities
Gal 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

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. 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.