Saturday, March 09, 2013

Galatians 6:5


5 For every person will have to bear (be equal to understanding and calmly receive) his own [little] load [of oppressive faults].

This verse ties right in with Romans 11:32.

For God has consigned (penned up) all men to disobedience, only that He may have mercy on them all [alike].

We were all created by God to have faults. None of us is perfect on his own. Even Jesus told that the people when He was here 2000 years ago that He wasn’t perfect. 

And Jesus said to him, Why do you call Me [essentially and perfectly morally] good? There is no one [essentially and perfectly morally] good—except God alone. Mark 10:18

So relax, you have shortcomings. Our Father created all of us to have them. Our imperfection in no way hinders our relationship with our Father. He has mercy on us all alike. We are perfect because of Jesus and what He has accomplished for us, not because of ourselves and our efforts, John 19:19-23.

But then Law came in, [only] to expand and increase the trespass [making it more apparent and exciting opposition]. But where sin increased and abounded, grace (God’s unmerited favor) has surpassed it and increased the more and superabounded, Romans 5:20

Now this Truth scares a lot of people. They believe that if we talk this way then people will just go and do whatever they want to. The problem with this fear is that it makes Jesus totally passive. It makes of Father reactionary to us instead of leading us. It is only when we are enlightened by the Holy Spirit to understand that our Father is always in control and that we can never do anything on our own, that He will actually stop us from doing the things that we call wrong. 

O unhappy and pitiable and wretched man that I am! Who will release and deliver me from [the shackles of] this body of death? O thank God! [He will!] through Jesus Christ (the Anointed One) our Lord! So then indeed I, of myself with the mind and heart, serve the Law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin. Romans 7:24-25

Jesus Alone allows us to be delivered from ourselves and He is really good at it.

For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. [For all things originate with Him and come from Him; all things live through Him, and all things center in and tend to consummate and to end in Him.] To Him be glory forever! Amen (so be it). Romans 11:36

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