So today's teaching is going to be part three of a series I've titled Helping the Hurting.

Up to this point, we've looked at specific ways in which we can help those who are overtaken by or perhaps better said caught in some sin and we can do so by restoring them

back to spiritual health which is really the gist of what Paul is saying here to the Galatian churches. Because doing so will be germane to our

understanding of today's text, I want to just real quickly revisit the first three ways in

verses 1 through 5. The first one is in verse 1, and it's that of being gentle to others.

Here, Paul says if, pardon me, someone has been caught and is at fault,

those who are spiritual should, keyword, gently restore them. However, he packages with

this admonition to gently restore them a warning. And the warning is that we need to be very careful lest we ourselves be tempted to think

that we're some way and somehow better than others because the fact of the matter is this could

have been easily us instead of the one whom we're seeking to restore.

He's going to mention this again, as we'll see here shortly.

In addition to being gentle to others were to be compassionate toward others.

In verse 2, Paul says,

especially to those concerned with fulfilling the law,

that we can restore others by having compassion on others,

and we can have compassion on others

by bearing and carrying each other's burdens.

To be gentle to others and compassionate toward others requires that we be humble before others.

I will say that humility has to be at the core of everything, from which everything else comes.

It's that humbly seeing yourself as you ought not more highly of yourself than you ought.

And this is why Paul says what he says here in verses 3 through 5.

He's sort of blunt in saying this, but he says that those who think more highly of themselves

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