Give Online: https://pushpay.com/pay/gatecitychristian Website: https://www.gatecitychristian.com/ Decision Card: https://gatecity.churchcenter.com/people/forms/371658 BEAR WITH ONE ANOTHER One Another – Part 7 2/25/2024 Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. Galatians 6:1 ESV You can only see what you are looking at through your own eyes not the eyes of someone else. Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. Galatians 6:2 ESV Bear: (βαστάζω) to take up, carry. Shouldering another person during their struggle to help get them back on track. A burden is a sin, a setback or a situation we face. Often we see people as the burden, they are not the burden they are carrying the burden. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Galatians 5:14 ESV I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. Ephesians 4:1-3 ESV Two Truths 1. When bearing one another’s burdens…our love for God fuels our love toward others. For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. Galatians 6:3 ESV Some people think burden bearing is beneath them – it’s to messy, they don’t deserve it, it’s their problem not mine ... If you think you are too important to help someone, you are only fooling yourself. You are not that important. Galatians 6:3 NLT 2. When bearing one another’s burdens…we honor others above ourselves. But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” James 4:6 ESV Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. 2 Corinthians 1:3-4 ESV Your pain in the past will enable you to help others in the present. 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. Galatians 6:4-5 ESV Burden bearing is when your pain lives in my heart–and it’s the language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see, because when you carry someone’s burden for them you resemble Jesus.