Today we come to this last in the series of messages entitled God Freedom from the Epistle to the Galatians.

And here the Apostle Paul basically builds that conclusion on a wonderful principle, a principle that is as true as God in heaven himself is true. Sowing and reaping.

You cannot sow bad habits and reap good character. You cannot sow bitterness and hatred

and expect to reap love and friendship. You cannot saw dissipation and over-indulgence and reap

healthy body. You cannot sow deception and reap confidence. You cannot so neglect to the

word of God and then want to reap well-ordered life.

Look with me, please, at Chapter 6.

I have divided this chapter into three sections of sowing different seeds.

In the first five verses, he tells us about sowing seeds of relationship, good seeds, in our relationship with one another.

And then in verses 6 to 10, he tells us about sowing good seeds into our own life, in our conduct, in our walk with Christ.

And thirdly, in verses 11 to 18, he talks about sowing seed of standing firm on the truth of the Word of God. And no matter who

compromise, you stand firm and refuse to compromise. Sowing good seeds for our relationship with one another. It is an impossibility

to live the Christian life in isolation. It is an impossibility. You cannot survive any more

than you take a log of fire out of the fireplace and set it aside by itself. A Christian life must be lived in

community. And Paul says that it is the responsibility of the spiritually minded believers to

gently endeavor to help those who have fallen into sin. Remember, I told you a few messages ago. The question is not

how you fell or how a person fall, but what you do when you fall. That's really the important

question. And when a Christian falls in transgression, it is the responsibility of those who are mature,

for those who are spiritual, to restore him or to restore her. I'm only too aware of the fact that

there are some people who refuse to be restored. At that point, your responsibility

has ended. But I want you to notice here in verse one, the word caught. Someone, if someone is caught,

what does that mean? It's an important choice of word on the part of the apostle because it does not

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