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Please open your Bibles to
Read Galatians 6:6-10.
This is an Uncomfortable Passage
This is one that needs to be preached.
And it’s one that needs to be gently and humbly handled, especially concerning the ways that we have seen it abused.
This is about paying pastors
And if you haven’t noticed, I’m a pastor.
You might be able to see why it’s awkward.
It’s telling the church to financially support pastors, and here I am a pastor, preaching on a text that says pay your pastor.
Initially, this is uncomfortable.
It’s uncomfortable
It’s awkward.
Once when preaching from this text, Martin Luther said, “I do not like to interpret such passages, for they seem to commend us (the us are pastors), as in fact they do.
In addition, it gives the appearance of greed if one emphasizes these things diligently to one’s hearers.”
If I faithfully preach it, and then give good application, then you are going to give, and that benefits me.
This could make me seem greedy.
This definitely can seem like I’m using the position of preacher, purely for my own benefit.
I am uncomfortable with a passage like this because I’ve seen how pastors, or men fancy suits on TV, have used it to pad their wallets, or buy new jets.
I may be uncomfortable with this passage, but I shouldn’t be.
Buy a new jet
False teachers
Remember these things as we move forward
There are a few reasons why we should embrace it, and boldly have it preached to us, and believed.
First, these aren’t my thoughts.
These come from the Bible
First, these are Paul’s Words to the Galatians.
And when Paul was writing this, he wasn’t asking for money.
This wasn’t a letter requesting them to support him in anyway.
Paul was establishing a point.
Paul was telling the Galatian church to support their pastor.
At some point, the Galatian church would receive this letter, be told to support their pastor and have the same conversation we have had.
And we will talk more about this in a couple minutes.
This was Paul telling a church to support their pastor.
That should make this less awkward.
And if these are Paul’s words, then I’d like you to know what they aren’t my words.
I am not making this up.
The test of every sermon, of every truth, should be is it found in the Bible.
And hopefully you will see that this morning.
I may not be comfortable with the topic, but this is God’s Word, and therefore it must be preached.
In fact, I need to correct myself.
I would rather preach something else, but I am not dictated by my desires when it comes to preaching.
I am bound to God’s Word.
Therefore, I must preach God’s Word.
Therefore I must get comfortable with this passage, just as you need to get comfortable with it.
I remember when I was a kid, and my mom would make something for dinner that I didn’t like.
I would sit down at the table, see what was on the table, and kind of groan.
My mom would say, “You will eat.
And you will like it.”
This is God’s Word.
You will eat.
And you will like it.
There are a few doctrines that I have initially encountered, and I wasn’t a fan of them.
But then I remembered, it is God’s Word, and I grew to like it.
I embraced.
I loved it.
So we will talk about money, and yes it’s a personal matter.
But it’s His Word, that mean’s it is good.
It’s meant to be preached.
It’s meant to be heard.
It’s meant to be applied.
And we need to grow to like it.
This is true for anything in Scripture, if you find something in Scripture, that you don’t like, then you need to bend your will to God’s will.
You don’t get to say, “I don’t like that.”.
You don’t get to avoid it.
Because as long as you avoid a text, or flat out refuse a text, you are going against God.
That is rebellion.
Instead, the areas that you struggle with are the areas where you need to surrender to God in.
And in preaching through a text like this, we also see the benefits of expository preaching.
That’s what we do here, expository preaching.
It’s the text that drives the preaching.
It’s where the text is examined, and the meaning and application come from the text.
The text is God breathed.
This means it is God who directs our preaching.
That is the strength of the sermon, it’s God’s Word.
If I were to come up here and just talk.
And talk about whatever came to my mind … there would be no authority there.
No truth there.
If I came up and said, “Pay your pastor” but didn’t have any text to support it, then I would be guilty of greed.
I think it is neat that we are preaching on this today.
In a man centered world, we would preach this sermon:
At the end of the year, to balance the budget.
Or at the start of the year, when we have a new budget.
Or in March and April when you receive your tax returns.
But we are bound to God’s Word, and instead, we preach on it in September.
This isn’t at the start of a new year, or at Thanksgiving
Or after you received your tax returns
And one more reason to preach this text, is to explain why Southwest Christian Church has a paid preacher on staff.
Think of this sermon, think of this text as biblical defense or explanation for having a paid teaching pastor.
Paul begins by talking about burden of providing for a pastor, or The Pastoral Financial Burden.
I said Pastoral Financial Burden.
A PR person might say I chose the wrong word there.
Burdens are negative.
They aren’t something you want.
You see this in verse 6, “Let the one who is taught the word share all good things with the one who teaches.”
Paul spends the beginning of the chapter talking about how we bear one another’s burdens.
Paul spends the beginning of the chapter talking about how we bear one another’s burdens.
He has said that we support one another.
That we carry one another.
Now Paul gives us an example of a person to carry.
He says that the one who is taught ...
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