You Belong: Carrying Burdens as Family
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Introduction: Value of Restoration
Introduction: Value of Restoration
Overtaken in trespass
Spiritual responsibility to restore people
“Excuse me, I’m spiritual… therefore...”
“Excuse me, I’m not spiritual… therefore...”
Introduction:
Keep watch on Yourself
Why? Les you too be tempted into transgression
Bear One Another’s Burdens
Fulfill the law of Christ
Love your neighbor as yourself.
Deception
You ain’t all that
Value of Restoration
Value of Restoration
Test
Test your own work
This morning we’re going to talk about how the church grows in maturity.
Last week: Membership leads to maturity!
How do we grow together as we go out because...
Y’all are sheep!
Sheep need shepherds
In a world of brokenness, the church is in the restoration business.
Outline: When we spot brokenness:
What is a
What to do?
From What?
Who is to do it?
How it is to be done?
We restore people.
When there is brokenness, the church is in the restoration business.
We restore people.
We bear one another up.
“Caught doing something wrong”
Feeling NEW, refreshed, restored, cared for: not lonely, or depressed or anxious...
What to do?
What to do?
What to do?
What to do?
If someone is caught in sin, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness.
Transgression:
Main verb: Restore!
to mend, bring back to it’s original, to perfectly join together, to furnish completely
Bringing back to it’s original before the snatch
Restoration business= community sanctification.
Restoration: Care and craft, patience and timing
Video
Business of Restoration
Restoration: Care and craft, patience and timing
Warning: Watch it, lest you be tempted
Toy Story Illustration
We restore people.
Feeling NEW, refreshed, restored, cared for: not lonely, or depressed or anxious...
Not the place that is anxiousless, but a place that is honest about our anxiousness.
Not a place that is sinless, but a place that is honest about our sinfulness.
Not a place that is burdenless, but a place that bears each others burdens!
Feeling NEW, refreshed, restored, cared for: not lonely, or depressed or anxious...
Restore from What?
Restore from What?
Vs.1: Sin!
Vs.1: Sin!
Sin:
Context: 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery/witchcraft, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, 21 envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these.
Clear foul balls: Sexual immorality- sexual activity outside of marriage- sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, divisions, drunkenness, orgies
Example of Witchcraft: 2 women after church talking about the church service. “Gospel conversation”. Left with a book about how to become a witch
LA Times: June 11: The Working Witches of Los Angeles just Want You to be Your Best Self:
Modernization of the Occult
Witch #1: “If you think being a witch is just sitting around doing spells all the time, you think wrong. Half my business is being on Instagram.”
“If you think being a witch is just sitting around doing spells all the time, you think wrong,” she says. “Half my business is being on Instagram.”
“I would say she’s doing spiritual coaching. You can go to see her the way you might see a rabbi or pastor.”
Witch #2: 420,000 followers on social media: “Instagram has been a huge way to make magic and mysticism accessible for everyone.”
Sabina Magliocco, an anthropologist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, says the growing interest in magic and witchcraft is a natural response to a cultural moment in which many people feel marginalized and silenced.
She says a loss of faith in institutions, particularly the government, and organized religion has led large swaths of the population to feel unmoored — like the world no longer makes sense.
Softer Sins: jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, envy
Impurity, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, envy
Impurity, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, envy
Impurity, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, envy
Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery/witchcraft, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, 21 envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these.
Jealousy, anger, rivalries, envy: What are they doing on this list? You can’t allow the obvious blatant sins to overshadow the more common , everyday ones, and we need restoration from that as well! We need forgiveness from that as well.
And so who’s going to do this restoration work?
Deal with
Jealousy, anger, rivalries, envy
Suffering:
Who is to do it?
Who is to do it?
Easy answer: God restores me. The Holy Spirit cleanses me. Washed by the blood of the Lamb.
God USES the church...
“You who live by the Spirit should restore that person gently.”
You who are spiritual
Who is spiritual? YOU ARE! If you are a Christian, you belong to God’s restoration business, clothed with the Spirit’s Power.
Pentecost Plan: Restore a People!
Filled with the Spirit
Filled with the Spirit
“Am I my brother’s keeper?” Gn. 4:9
Spiritual responsibility to restore people
Another Meaning?
“You claim a superior spirituality? Prove it, then, by acting spiritually in this case.” Alan Cole
You think you’re all that and a box of chocolates, O Spiritual Ones? Prove it!
Two Responses then:
“Excuse me, I’m spiritual… therefore...”
Get over yourself!
“Excuse me, I’m not spiritual… therefore...”
Get over it! You are spiritual!
If you are jealous, you can’t be gentle
How it is to be done?
How it is to be done?
“In the spirit of gentleness.” Spiritual people communicate in a spirit of gentleness.
Gentleness: Most underrated of Christian values
Ineffective: “Why did you do that?”
“Why are you being such a numbskull?”
“Are you okay?” “How is your marriage going?”
The problem is never really the problem. Always something deeper:
Self-harm, drinking problems, sexual addictions= external manifestation of inward pain, inward depletion, misdirected love
Gentleness doesn’t mean avoid the issue, it means confront the issue with a spirit of gentleness.
2. By bearing one another’s burdens”
Bear: shoulder, 5:10: Chief Judaizer ‘bear’ heavy judgment of God. Same sense: shared responsibility and care, and possibly even sharing the load of guilt.
Fulfilling Christ’s Law: Love one another
They were a law people! They wanted to keep the law, BUT Christ’s law takes over: Love, lift one another up. Do you have the spiritual maturity to lift another person up?
They were a law people! They wanted to law, and Christ’s law takes over: Love, lift one another up. Do you have the spiritual maturity to lift another person up?
We get to fulfill the law of Christ!
NIVAC: “The principle, then, of restoration is loving one another. Christians are responsible for one another and, because of the love of God that comes to them through the Spirit, they carry one another’s burdens when those burdens are too difficult for one person to carry.”
Sabina Magliocco, an anthropologist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, says the growing interest in magic and witchcraft is a natural response to a cultural moment in which many people feel marginalized and silenced.
She says a loss of faith in institutions, particularly the government, and organized religion has led large swaths of the population to feel unmoored — like the world no longer makes sense.
She says a loss of faith in institutions, particularly the government, and organized religion has led large swaths of the population to feel unmoored — like the world no longer makes sense.
“Studies have shown that people turn to magic and ritual in high-risk and high-stress situations,” Magliocco says. “And that describes the world for a lot of people right now. People are flipped out.”
“Studies have shown that people turn to magic and ritual in high-risk and high-stress situations,” Magliocco says. “And that describes the world for a lot of people right now. People are flipped out.”
Conclusion:
Conclusion:
Willingness to be restored for the sake of the other
The principle, then, of restoration is loving one another. Christians are responsible for one another and, because of the love of God that comes to them through the Spirit, they carry one another’s burdens when those burdens are too difficult for one person to carry.
Resurrection was Restoration
Jesus going back to the original with scars.
“I thank the Lord for his scars.”
Those weren’t hidden. They were revealed and shown. How did he take on those scars?
Physical: Weight of his body pulled
Spiritually: Weight of our sin on the Son of God!