Galatians chapter 6, verse 1. I've entitled this, The Law of Christ. The Law of Christ. Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, A trespass, a sin, error. You which are spiritual restore such in one. In the spirit of meekness, considering yourself, lest thou also be tempted. Bear ye one another's burdens. and so fulfill the law of Christ. There it is. The law of Christ. For if a man think himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. The law of Christ. Let's pray together. Lord, how thankful we are to be able to meet together. Open your word. But Lord, this is all vain unless you meet with us. Deliver us from hearing the thoughts of a man, but enable us to hear from thee, the living God.

We thank you for who you are. We thank you that you're in control of everything. We pray that you'd order our steps in your word and let no iniquity have dominion over us. We pray for your blessing on the rebuilding of this building. We know it came from you and we pray for wisdom and direction in all things. Lord, we confess our sins. We pray for forgiveness and cleansing. Pray that you would bless all your people wherever they meet together. We pray for your blessing on the TV and the radio. We ask that you would open up doors for us to preach your gospel. Be with all your people wherever they meet together. In Christ's name we pray, amen.

The law of Christ, what is, The law of Christ. Is it the law of Moses? No. No. What is it? The law of Christ. Now, the Galatians had demonstrated an inordinate desire to be under the law of Moses. Do you remember when Paul said, tell me you that desire to be under the law? Don't you hear the law? Don't you understand what the law has to say?

And I suppose that goes back to Acts chapter 15, when some people came down from Jerusalem into the churches of Galatia and said, except you be circumcised after the manner of Moses, you can't be saved. And it's needful for you to be circumcised and to keep the commandments. And they swallowed it, hook, line, and sinker. And I think of what Paul said in 1 Timothy chapter one, as a matter of fact, turn with me there, I would like you to read it with me. Sometimes it's better to look at it than it is to hear it quoted. Verse eight, 1 Timothy chapter one, but we know that the law is good if a man use it lawfully. There's an unlawful use of the law.

Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man. Now, do you hear that? A righteous man does not need law. but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, for whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for men-stealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that's contrary to sound doctrine. Now, the law is not made for a righteous man. And if I have a desire to be under the law, all I'm doing is saying, I'm not a righteous man.

Every believer is a righteous man. With that exception, every unbeliever, everyone that desires to be under the law, they expose themselves. Back to our text. Verse two, bear ye one another's burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ. Now, what is the law of Christ? It's not the Mosaic law. Now we love God's law. I love the 10 commandments. I love every commandment. And I'm so thankful that I've kept them all in Christ. I have nothing to fear. I love God's law.

But when he's speaking of the law of Christ, he's not talking about the 10 commandments. Turn with me to Hebrews chapter eight for a moment. Verse seven, for if the first covenant, the 10 commandments, the law, had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. For finding fault with him, now what's the fault with the law? Us. Not the law, us. You and I are the problem.

Finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

Now, if you take a child by the hand, you can move him any way you want. You can get him to do this, you can get him to do that, but you don't have the heart. I can't make my child obey. Yeah, you can. Little kid, yeah, you can take them by the hand, move them any way you want. But that doesn't change the heart.

Now look what God says, for this is the covenant that I'll make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their mind and write them in their hearts. Notice the word laws is plural. He doesn't say, I'll put my law. He said, I'll put my laws into their hearts. Now he's not talking about the Indian commandments because Romans chapter two, verses 14 and 15 says that's written on everybody's heart. Everybody that's born into this world knows lying is sin. They know sexual sin is sin. They know stealing is sin. They know murder is sin. You know, when people say we need to be taught how to live, you already know how to live.

Everybody does. The law is written in everybody's heart. So he's not talking about writing the 10 commandments in the heart of people. He's talking about what Paul calls the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus. Romans 8, verse 2, the law. Now, a law is something that must be kept.

It's the law of the new nature or the laws of the new nature. You see, when you're born again, you're given a new man. You're given a new nature that was not there before, birthed by the Spirit of God. And you know how to have a new nature, and it's your nature to do certain things. I read in the Scriptures, New Testament, six laws that every believer has that is the law of their nature.

One of the reasons free will is not true because your will is controlled by your nature. God doesn't have a free will. God's will is controlled by his nature. What do I mean by that? He can't sin. He can't choose to sin. He can't choose to be evil. He can't choose to tell a lie. Scripture says God cannot lie.

God obeys his nature. A fallen man obeys his fallen nature. A man that's born of God obeys this new nature given to him by God. Now that's what this is speaking of when it's speaking of God putting his laws in their heart, writing them in their heart. This is encoded, I'm speaking ignorantly, I realize this, but this is encoded in the, for lack of a better word, the DNA of a new nature. This is the new nature. Now, I read of six different laws in the New Testament.

First, there's the law of righteousness. A new man cannot find any peace in anything except a perfect standing before the holy law of God. The only thing that gives me peace is knowing, if this is Romans, 9, 32, 32, the law of righteousness. You cannot find peace without a perfect standing before the law of righteousness. And then we have in Romans chapter seven, verse 23, the law of sin.

Now it's only the new man that sees this. An old man can't understand it, but if I have a new man, I find then a law. that when I would do good, this is a law I can't change. And it's only the new man that recognizes this. An old man doesn't have any understanding of this. It takes the new man to see this.

I find then a law that when I would do good, evil is present with me. Paul calls it the law of sin, which is in my members. Now, if you're born again, you understand this. The law of sin, it's a law. That old man cannot not sin. And you understand that if you've got a new man. Only the new man understands this. The law of a sinful nature.

And then we read in Romans 3 27 of the law of faith. I love this. The law of faith. You know if you're a believer you cannot not believe. Now your old man doesn't believe, and that's what that man meant when he says, I believe, help thou mine unbelief. The new man always believes. You cannot not believe the gospel. You believe the gospel if you're a new man.

And then we read in James chapter 2 verse 8 of the royal law of love. This is a love an unbeliever can't possess. The royal law of love. You love God for who he is. You love all of his attributes. You love him as he reveals himself in his word. You love His people. Anybody that loves Christ, you love. You're a fan of that person. You love them. And you love men. You want men to hear and believe the gospel. That's your desire for all men. The royal law of love, we read of the law of liberty in James chapter 1. I love this.

You've got something in your nature that you must have liberty. You can't be put under law, you can't have any peace if you're under law. If there's some requirement that you need to come up with, you have to have this perfect freedom. Free from the law, oh happy condition, Jesus hath bled and there is remission. Cursed by the law, slain by the fall, Christ hath redeemed us once for all. The law of liberty, stand fast. in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free and don't be entangled in that yoke of bondage, the law. And this is a new man, the new heart that he gives. God's law is written in the heart. And then we read here in Galatians chapter six, verse three of the law of Christ. Now, what is this law of Christ?

Let's go back to verse one, brethren. Now he said a lot of pretty rough things to the Galatians. I stand in doubt of you. But here he says, brethren. And I want us to remember that a brethren, a brother, can fall into error, sin, whatever it might be. Brethren. I love the way he called them brethren. Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, a trespass, a sin, an error.

Now, before we go on, how easy would it be for you to be overtaken by any sin unless the Lord prevented it? I make an appeal. Don't you know that so? You and I could be overtaken by any sin unless the Lord prevents it. You know that. If a man be overtaken in a fault, confront him, warn him, Put him under church discipline. Expose him. Warn others about him lest they be infected with this disease.

Let me remind you of the proverb, Proverbs 10, 12, love covereth all sin. Don't ever forget that. Love covereth. all sin. Proverbs 17, 9, he that covereth a transgression seeketh love, but he that repeateth the matter separateth very friends. Love covers.

Now, you and I ought to understand a man being overtaken in a fault. Brethren, If a man be overtaken in a fault, you which are spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering yourself, lest thou also be tempted. Now, I love his use of the word spiritual, you which are spiritual. You know, that term is used in society. I'm a spiritual person. I'm not just materialistic. I care about other things. No unbeliever is a spiritual person because they don't have the spirit of God. This describes every single believer without exception.

Turn back to 1 Corinthians 2 for just a moment. Verse 12, now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God, that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Only spiritual people know the things that are freely given. A natural man just, he's not on that page. Which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man, every man who's not spiritual, he receives not the things of the Spirit of God, for they're foolishness unto him, neither indeed can he know them, because they're spiritually discerned.

You have to be a spiritual person to understand spiritual things. You have to be given the Holy Spirit. You have to be born of God. You have to be born again. He which is spiritual is every believer without exception. But I love this description. He which is spiritual restores such a one. Now how do you go about doing that? How do I restore this brother overtaken in a fault? What is the process?

Do I say, let me help you with that mote in your eye and let me get my magnifying glass out and I'll get that mote out. You know, if I think that all I'm demonstrating is I've got a beam in my own eye, if that's the way I think, how are you meant? To mend means to repair, to restore, to, how are you, how are you mend? How are you, how am I meant? I don't know, mended? I get, whatever the word is, but the only way I'm mended is by hearing the gospel. That's what mends my soul, hearing the gospel.

So do I take this fellow and expose him and correct him? Turn to Romans chapter 15. Here's an example. Verse 1, we then that are strong ought to correct and point out the infirmities of the weak. What? We that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak. Put up with them. Put up with them. Pray for them. Seek to be an example of graciousness. This is what it means to restore your brother. It doesn't mean to expose him. It means to preach the gospel to him. It means to live the gospel before him.

Be forgiving. Passage of Scripture in Ephesians chapter four, verse 32. Be kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. Restore such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering yourself, lest you also be tempted. Now, how do I treat this brother? The spirit of meekness, humility, knowing that God is the first cause of everything and whatever he does is right. And with meekness, there's always humility. You can't be meek and not be humble. Restore such a one in the spirit of meekness.

Considering yourself, really believing, understanding your own proclivity to sin. you're tempted. Considering yourself lets you also be tempted. If I'm put in that position, I'll do worse than him. You really believe that? That's how to deal with your brother. Considering yourself lets you also be tempted.

You know yourself enough to know if you're tempted, You know what will happen. That's why we pray, lead us not into temptation, deliver me from being tempted. I don't want to be tempted because if I'm tempted, I know where that goes. Considering yourself. There's a good time to consider yourself, to consider your own weakness and inability. Considering yourself, lest thou also be tempted.

Verse two, bear. ye one another's burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ. That man who's overtaken in a fault, that brother who was overtaken in a fault, his sin is a burden to him. Is your sin a burden to you? It's a burden. David said, my sin is ever before me. Your sin's a burden to you. That brother's sin is a burden to him. Bear ye one another's burdens. What that means more than anything else is be patient with one another. Put up with one another. Be gracious to one another.

That's the fulfilling of the law of Christ. Turn to Colossians chapter 3. Verse 12. Put on therefore as the elect of God, holy and beloved, boughs of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering, forbearing one another, and forgiving one another. If any man have a quarrel against any, even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. Now, there's the law of Christ. Bear ye. one another's burdens. And so fulfill the law of Christ. Now in the context, look in verse three.

For if a man think himself to be something, when he's nothing, he deceives himself. What a powerful statement. Now in the context of this statement, That man that's overtaken in a fault, if you think, I'm something, I've got something over him, Paul says, you're deceiving yourself. If a man thinks himself to be something, have some ability, when he's nothing, he has deceived himself. 1 Corinthians 1. I don't have time. Scratch that. That's to bring to nothing the things that are, but I don't have time to deal with that.

But thinking yourself to be something when you're nothing, not only do you deceive yourself, it's only that one who is nothing that really believes Christ is all. If you believe you're something, Christ is not all of you. I love that statement, I'm a poor sinner and nothing at all. But Jesus Christ is my all in all. If you're a nothing, it's easy to trust Christ as everything. If you're something, Christ is not all to you. It's only in being nothing that causes the law of Christ to be obeyed. Isn't the law of Christ beautiful? Amen.