Supporting the weak.

That, my friends, is the key to the unity of the church.

Instead of the more mature, spiritually minded believers standing in pride over the sinning

ones who've fallen, we have to help them. Welcome to Grace to You with John MacArthur.

I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

Today, John turns to the book of Galatians to unpack some critical instructions on how to restore a sinning brother or sister to Christ, specifically how the principle

of the strong taking care of the weak should play itself out in a church. It's part of John's

practical study called My Brother's Keeper. If you've never really thought about how to address

sin in a fellow believer's life, I encourage you to stay here for some clear instructions

from God's word. Now here's John with the lesson. As you know, we've been studying the wonderful

18th chapter of Matthew, and we saw how the Lord instructs his disciples in regard to the disciplining

of those who sin. And then we saw how the Lord instructs regarding the forgiving of those who sin and then turn from that sin.

And so we've discussed the whole matter of discipline, reproving, rebuking sin, being ministers of holiness,

seeking to go after that sinning Christian and bring

them back to the place of obedience.

I thought so much about the area of discipline, and we've clearly delineated that, and I thought

about the area of forgiveness, and that's so wonderfully presented in this 18th chapter. But there was one other area that we hadn't really discussed in detail.

And the chapter, that is the 18th chapter of Matthew, doesn't discuss it in detail either.

And that is the ministry of restoration.

What do you do when someone sins?

You discipline them.

What do you do when they repent and turn from that sin?

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