Galatians chapter 6, and let's
begin looking in verse 1. Brethren, if a man be overtaken
in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit
of meekness, considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Vary
ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
For if a man think himself to be something when he is nothing,
he deceiveth himself. But let every man prove his own
work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and
not in another. For every man shall bear his
own burden." This first one I think we have to stop and clarify this
just a little bit to make sure we understand what the Apostle
Paul is saying here. And sometimes the best way to
understand what he's saying is to realize what he's not saying. If a man be overtaken, he says,
in a fault, he's not speaking of someone whose course of life
is sin. He's not speaking of someone
who is unconverted and who professes the Lord, and yet their course
The course of their life is serving sin. He's not speaking of a person
like that. You can't restore a person like
that, can you? You can't restore someone that's
never been stored. He's got to be converted. He's
got to be regenerated. And that's the type of person
Paul's talking about. A man who sincerely and honestly
professes Christ, and he's fallen. You noticed how he said that
there? If a man be overtaken in a fall, in a fault. He's implying there that a man
needs to be restored. That a believer has been overcome
and he's fallen and now he's broken-hearted. He's like David
was this morning that Brother Larry told us about when Nathan
the prophet went to him and confronted him with his sins. He's a broken
man. And he's not speaking then of
a man who is living in sin. He's not speaking of a man who
is unrepentant of sin. He's unbroken. But he's speaking
here of a man who has earnestly fallen and now he's earnestly
broken. And he's repentant. And Paul
says, you that are spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit
of meekness. Now I like this. I like what
our translators used here instead of offense. They translated a
fault. if any man be overtaken in a
fault." Now, that's not as harsh a word as probably you'd find
in the original. The original may say offense,
it may say sin, it may say transgression. But I like the word here that
they use, fault, because it seems to lessen the offense. Someone who has fallen into an
open and profane sin, instead of someone who has transgressed,
it's someone who has committed a fault. Sounds less harsh, doesn't
it? In our eyes, it's less harsh.
And I think that's what the translators meant when they translated this
word, fault. And you know why I like that
so well. You and I, as believers, can sometimes be so harsh As
believers, sometimes we can be so judgmental. We make something
more severe than what it is. It may be bad, but when we're
finished with it, it's really bad. So instead of saying here
sin, instead of saying transgression, he says a fault. He lessens that
in our eyes. That lesson that Brother Larry
taught us this morning is a prime example of this. when Nathan
went to David and told him that little parable about this man
having plenty of sheep. He had many sheep, many lambs. And this fellow here just had
one lamb. Well, he went when this stranger came to eat with
him and killed that fellow's little lamb. And Nathan said, basically, David,
what should be done with this fellow? He said, before the Lord,
this fellow, bring him here to me and I'll cut his head off.
I'll kill that fellow. Ain't that what he said? Boy,
that's pretty harsh, eh? I mean, I know the fellow just
had one little lamb, but to kill him over a lamb? David said, let him die. But
wait, David, look what you've done. You've stolen a man's wife. You've had her husband killed.
You've deceived the people as to what you've done, and you're
so harsh and judgmental. You're going to kill that fellow
for getting that fellow's lamb? But ain't that the kind of attitude
sometimes we can get into? We can take even that which is
so small sometimes and magnify it. So I like this word right
here. I like this word, fault. Fault. You and I are out to exaggerate
the sin of a brother and judge him more harshly even than we
judge ourselves for the very same thing. You ever catch yourself
doing that? You accuse someone for doing
something, and then it comes to your mind. It seems like the
Lord reproves your own conscience. Haven't you done the same thing?
And if you've not done it, you've thought about doing it. You've
thought about doing it. So I like this word, fault. If
a man be overtaken in a fault, the Holy Spirit doesn't tell
us what it is. But whatever it is, don't exaggerate it. Don't let it be so great in our
minds that it so offends us that we can't restore a brother and
we can't forgive him. Whatever it is, it seems like
our translators are saying, just look upon it as a fault. Don't
exaggerate. If a man be overtaken in a fault,
ye which are spiritual, restore such a one. Who is a spiritual
person? That was on a test I took one
time in a little course I took at a Bible school. What is it
to be spiritual? Who is a spiritual person? Well,
you and I have been studying all the way through this book.
Paul gives us verse here and a verse there what a spiritual
person is. He tells us in chapter 3 verse 2 is this. Here's what
a spiritual person is. They that have received the Spirit
through the hearing of faith. You hear the gospel of Christ
and you believed it. And when you believed it, what
happened? You received the Spirit. That's a spiritual person. And
he said in the very next verse, it says, You who have begun in
the Spirit, That is, you've begun by new birth, you've been born
again. Those who have heard the gospel
and believed it, those who have been born again. You can't be
spiritual if you're not born of the Spirit, can you? And then
he goes on in chapter 4 and he says this, that God has sent
the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, Father, Father. That's a spiritual man. who cries,
Father, Father. And here in chapter 5 in verse
18, he says this, if you be led of the Spirit, you're not under
the law. You're led of the Spirit to mortify
the deeds of the body, to keep this old man crucified, not let
him have his way. And he says here also in chapter
5, there in verse 25, if we live in the Spirit, if we're alive
in the Spirit, let us walk in the Spirit. That's what it is
to be a spiritual person. You've heard. And you believe
what you've heard. You believe whom you've heard.
You're born of the Spirit. You've had the Spirit sent forth
into your heart, crying, Father, Father. You're led of the Spirit.
You're alive in the Spirit. You walk in the Spirit. It's
not a spiritual man that you meet down at the grocery store
and you hear him down the aisles hollering, Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
That may not be a spiritual man at all. It may be a hypocrite.
It may be a show-off. But I'm telling you, here's a
spiritual man. Here's a spiritual man. And I'll
tell you how you know him. I'll tell you how you know him.
If a brother falls, he'll restore him. He'll restore him. You who are spiritual, you restore
such a one in the spirit of meekness. What's the attitude of a spiritual
person? You know his attitude? Love,
joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, faithfulness, goodness, meekness. That's it, ain't it? That's his
attitude. What is a spiritual person? It's
not just what he does, it's who he is. We studied last time on
this, didn't we, about these divine attributes becomes the
believer's attitude. He's like the Master. What kind
of a man was Jesus Christ? He told us Himself. And when
He tells us what He is, we can believe Him. I may tell you what
I am, but you may not ought to believe me too quickly. But when
the Master tells us who He is, you can believe Him. And you
remember what He told us about Himself? I am meek and lowly
in my heart. That's what I am. That's who
I am. And here, Paul tells us, if a man be overtaken in a fault,
you who are like the Master, you who are meek and lowly, you
restore such a one in the spirit of meekness. Meekness, meekness. It's not just what we do, it's
what we are. It's our attitude. And notice
this about this too. Look at this. Here's another
reason. that Paul gives us here in verse 1, the first reason
is that we restore somebody for this reason, because we're spiritual. We're spiritual. You know, you
just can't hardly help it, can you? I mean, if you saw a brother
that was fallen, or a sister that was fallen, and their hearts
was broken, and you just put your foot on them and shoved
them on down, well, you'd go home and you wouldn't sleep a
wink about that. You just couldn't do it because you're meek and
lowly like the Master. You have His attitude within
you. But here's another reason the Apostle tells us in the last
portion of verse 1, not only because you're spiritual, but
he says, Consider yourself lest you also be tempted. Restore this person lest you
also be tempted. Now he seems to imply here that
this person failed because he was tempted out of a temptation. A temptation had either suddenly
come upon him or he had got on his trail and stayed on his trail
and he became so heavy and worn out and weary with it that finally
he yielded to it. But it seemed like that's why
he fell. That was the fault. Lest you be tempted like he was
tempted. David was tempted because he
fell because he was suddenly tempted. Remember what he was
doing? Larry told us this morning. He
didn't go out to battle. He was in his house and just
opened the window and looked out, and there was that temptation
right in front of his eyes. Suddenly, he fell. Peter fell
out of sudden temptation. But some people fall because
they just stay so heavy. They're tempted so long, finally,
they just get so weak, and they yield to it. You know what we
see in this? The temptations are a dangerous
thing. They're a dangerous thing. Avoid
temptation at all costs. Don't put yourself in a situation
where you'll be tempted. If you don't watch and pray against
temptation, it's because you've forgotten how dangerous they
are. You cannot stand against a temptation. If it comes on you suddenly,
or if it stays on you long enough, you'll probably fall. There have
been better men and better women than us that have done it. Here's
what the Master said about temptations. Pray lest you enter into temptation. Watch and pray lest you enter
into temptation. And here's why this man failed.
He was tempted. He was tempted. Avoid temptation
at all costs. James said, don't let any of
you say, when you're tempted, I'm tempted of God. God's not
tempted of evil, and He don't tempt anybody of evil. We're
tempted when we're drawn away of our own lust and enticed.
Don't trust yourself. For Christ's sake, don't trust
yourself. You say, Bruce, I'm a believer.
I don't care. You're still a sinner too. And
the flesh still lusts against the Spirit too. Don't put yourself
in a situation where you'll be tempted, because you may fall. You may fall. That's what happened
to this man. Lest you also be tempted. Watch and pray, lest you enter
into temptation. If desire and opportunity meets
together, and the Lord don't uphold us, I'm telling you, we'll
fall. Brothers and sisters, we'll fall.
We sure will. Consider yourself, lest you also
be tempted. And what this verse seems to
be saying here, that if you don't restore a brother who is fallen,
you may be tempted. Ain't that what that seems to
be saying? Restore him that's overtaken in a fall, lest, lest
you also yourself be tempted. That's another good reason. If
you're spiritual, you'll restore a person. And if you don't, you
may be tempted just like He was tempted. And if you're tempted
just like He was tempted, as suddenly as He was tempted, or
as long as He was tempted, you'll fall too, because you're no better
than He was. Now ain't that so? Ain't that
so? Ye which are spiritual, restore such a want in the spirit of
meekness. Now look in verse 2. Bear ye
one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. Bear ye one another's burdens."
You see, this man had a burden, didn't he? He had a burden. He was tempted in some weakness
that he had. And that weakness was a burden
to him. I tell you folks, I've got some weaknesses. I have some
infirmities. That's a burden to me. I have
prayed about them. I have to watch against them.
They're a burden to me. I have to bear them. And you
ought to help me bear them. You ought to share my burdens.
I ought to share your burdens. If you have infirmities and you
have weaknesses, I ought to get right under the load with you.
Instead of judging you and condemning you, just pack the load with
you. Long-suffering, ain't that one
of the attributes? You know what long-suffering
means? It means to suffer long. Ain't that a wonderful definition?
Just turn it around. Suffer long. Boy, I've suffered
with that guy. How long have you suffered? A
month? Well, suffer two months with him. Suffer six more months
with him. Long-suffering. Why? Because it's a burden to him
too. I tell you, you've got things,
and I've talked to some of you people, you've got faults and
you've got infirmities that you weep over. I've talked to some
of you. Some of you have infirmities
that is such a burden to your heart, and you can't lay them
down. All you can do is try to keep
them under check. And that's the way we all are.
And brothers and sisters, if we reach a place where we can't
bear with one another and share one another's burdens, will never
survive as a congregation. Endeavor to keep the unity of
the Spirit in the bonds of peace. Bear, bear ye one another's burdens. It's not easy to bear a burden.
It gets grievous sometimes. It gets heavy. It gets heavy.
Paul is speaking here concerning the church. But ain't this the
way it is in everyday life? What are we doing with these
infirmities anyway? Why are we even talking about falls? Why
are we talking about falling? Why are we talking about yielding
to temptation? Because we're such sinners. Society has been
ruined by sin. It's so imperfect and it'll never
be perfect. We talk about sometimes our court
system, how we should be more strict and we need more prisons.
But I tell you, you know, the courts can be as strict as they
want to, and you build a hundred times the number of prisons we've
got, and we can fill them all up. Why? Because society is a
fallen society. You go out here this evening,
before you got home, you could be arrested and put in jail,
arrested and wrote out tickets, because we break laws all the
time. And a police officer could stop
you and arrest you or write you out tickets for all sorts of
things. Have you ever stopped at a corner
and you go across it and you wouldn't wait until the light
changed? You know that's jaywalking. You know they can write you a
ticket still for jaywalking. That's a crime. They very seldom
do it. Why not? Because just about everybody
does it. Did you know before you turned before you turn off
the main highway onto another highway, 200 feet before you
turn, did you know you're supposed to give a signal? If you give
a signal less than 200 feet before you turn, that's a crime. And
there's been people giving a ticket for that. There's all kinds of
laws that you and I have no idea of. They're on the books. And
if the police officer don't wink at us, then he's going to get
so strict that everybody's going to be criminals. Everybody's
going to be paying tickets. See what I'm saying? We're sinners. We're fallen sinners. And in
every aspect of our life, we have to bear with one another.
A society cannot exist, a church cannot exist, a family unit cannot
exist if we pick and devour at every little thought that we
see one another. Terrence, how patient you have
to be with Miranda. Miranda, how patient you have
to be with Terrence. Because you're sinners. You're sinners.
Ain't that the truth? And that's what Paul's saying
here. Bury one another's burdens. And we've got them. We've got
them. We sure have them. Bury them. Bury one another's
burdens. We try to improve. God help us
to improve. But we're going to live and we're
going to die imperfect. Imperfect. And our Lord Jesus
is the best example that you can find in all the history of
humanity about burying one another's burdens. Look at the last part
of verse 2. Bury ye one another's burdens
and so fulfill the law of Christ. What was the law of Christ? Burying
the burdens of those he loved. Ain't that what was said about
him? He hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. Born
our griefs. Imagine the faults he saw in
people that he associated with? If I can see Clarence's faults
and he can see my faults, can you imagine what the Lord sees? And I've told you so many times,
never one time did he tell his disciples, I've had it with you
ignorant bunch of people. I'm washing my hands of you. I'm not burying your ignorance.
I'm not burying your pride. I'm not burying up with your
foolishness anymore. I'm washing my hands. I'm finished
with you fellows." He never said that. Never one time do you find
him saying that. But he bore their infirmities. He bore with their infirmities.
That's the law of Christ. having loved his own which were
in the world, he loved them until the end. And when he got ready
to go to the cross, you know what he told them? As I've loved
you, you love one another. As I bore with your ignorance
and your silliness, you bear with the brother's ignorance
and silliness. As I've loved you, as I've forgiven you, you
go do likewise. Ain't that what he said? That's
the law of Christ. That's the law of Christ. We
may get up and fool somebody with how much we know about theology,
but I tell you how to show you love Christ. You take His law
and you obey it. And what is it? Bear one another's
burdens. By this shall all men know that
you are my disciples, if you have love one for another. What
does love do? It just bears the burdens, don't
it? It gets underneath the load and bears the burdens. These
self-righteous Pharisees that came down here to Galatia, they
knew nothing of this love. They knew nothing of the law
of Christ. They talked about the law of Moses. They didn't
even believe that. But they sure didn't understand
the law of Christ. They were concerned about putting
on a show, or a front, or impressing somebody. Looked down their noses
at people that had fallen. and the weak and those full of
infirmities, that they knew nothing about the law of Christ. And
Paul said of him here in verse 3, here's what he said of a man
that won't graciously and meekly forgive and bear with the infirmities
of the others. Look what he said in verse 3.
For if a man thinks himself to be something when he's nothing,
he deceives himself. Why would a man think himself
to be something? Why would somebody think that
he was an unimportant person? Well, Paul said, Jerry, you don't
know himself. If a man thinks himself to be
something when he's nothing, he deceives himself. I wonder
if this is why, one reason the Lord allows this warfare that
we looked at last time, we looked at this book, the flesh lusteth
against the Spirit. You know the Lord could stop
that if He wanted to. But he allows this warfare. And
I wonder if one of the reasons he don't allow this warfare is
to teach you and I what we are. That we're just nothing. That
we're nothing. We're so sinful. I was reading
a message not too awful long ago by, well I probably shouldn't
name him, but I will, Charles Finney. And in his message, in
a book that he had written, he was trying to convinced us that
men weren't sinners by nature. And he said, you're not a sinner
until you've committed a sin. And then when you commit a sin,
then you become a bad person. You become a sinner by nature.
But you're born a good person. And you're never a sinner. Now
if you want to look that up, it's in his message that he preached
on making a new heart and a new spirit. And if you'll just not
sin, if you'll avoid that, you can go a long way in this life
and never be a sinner. What's the matter with that fellow?
You know what's the matter with him? He don't know himself. He
don't know himself. He thinks himself to be something,
but he really don't know that he's nothing. And what's he done? He's deceived himself. He deceives
himself. He don't know there's a plague
and the plague is in his heart. It's not what he's doing, it's
what he is. But until God opens a man's heart
to let him see the plague that's there, the sin that's there,
you know what he'll do? He'll just keep thinking, I'm
not a bad person. I just can't understand this
election business. Why would God choose one person
passed by another? That's not necessary. Why should
Christ die upon a cruel cross? That's not necessary. My sin's
not that bad. Why should the Holy Spirit be
necessary for Him to call me? I don't need to be called. If
I have a free will, I'll come. Why do people think thoughts
like that? They don't know how corrupt they are. They don't
know what God-haters they are. They don't know the plague, the
sin of their own heart. And they think to themselves,
And Paul said all they're doing, all they're doing is deceiving
themselves, just deceiving themselves. Paul said this, he said, I say
to every man that's among you not to think of himself more
highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly. What is
it to think soberly? How are we thinking when we think
soberly? We think about ourselves as God thinks about us. We judge
ourselves as God judges us. And what does He tell us? We're
nothing. We're nothing. Bruce, I'm not
anything. I don't know anything but what
He teaches me. How can I brag about what I know
when all I know is what He's taught me? How can I brag about
who I am when all I am, I am by the grace of God? How can
I brag how far I've advanced in the Christian life when I've
come no farther than He's drawn me? We're nothing, aren't we? Christ said, without Me you can
do nothing. Without Him we can know nothing.
Without Him we are nothing. That's all we are. And if a man
thinks himself to be any more than nothing, he's just deceiving
himself. That's all it is to him, just
deceiving himself. That's what the Apostle tells us. He tells us here in verse 4,
look at this. Let every man prove his own work. Let every man prove his own work. And then shall he have rejoicing
in himself alone and not in another. Prove your own work. He's saying stop being so critical.
Stop being so judgmental. Stop building yourselves up on
the backs of some fallen brother. Don't look at him and say, man,
I'm a lot better than he is. I ain't perfect, but at least
I ain't fell like he has. That's building ourselves up
on other people. I may come here and set myself
forth as being the smartest person, but I'm going to have to find
some ignorant person to make me look good. Boy, I'm so strong
spiritually, and the way I'm going to prove that to you is
to find some weak, fallen brother. Paul says, stop doing that. Stop
comparing yourself with yourselves. Judge your own selves. Examine
your own motive, not in the light of some fallen brother, but judge
your motive before God. How are you when you stand before
the Lord Jesus Christ? Prove your own selves. Are you
walking humbly with Him? Then prove that in your own conscience.
Let every man prove his own work, your own motives, your own desires,
and prove it before God. And not on the backs of some
weak or ignorant or fallen brethren. And then when you prove that,
when you prove that, when your conscience can say, my conscience
is clear before the Lord, and have Him to bear witness to it,
my motives are right before Him, then you can rejoice in yourself. in yourself alone and not in
another, not because you built yourself up on the backs of some
poor, weak, fallen brother. That person who has examined
himself has proved by Scripture and by conscience that he's walking
in the light as God is in the light, and he has nothing to
prove by bragging to others and exalting himself before others
and commending himself before others. You see people out here
bragging how smart they are, they are trying to prove how
smart they are. You see people that are pushing people down,
they are just trying to brag how holy they are and strong
they are. That is all that is. But you take a man that is walking
in the light and he has proved his own self before God, you
will not hear much out of that fellow. He has done proved himself. And if you've proved yourself,
it don't matter what everybody says, does it? If you've proved
yourself, it just don't matter what people say about you or
what people around you do. That don't affect you at all.
You've proved yourself. How is it between you and the
Lord? Let me ask you that question. Have you proved your own self?
Have you proved your own self before the Lord? Why are you
here this evening? Well, those so-and-so could have
been here if they would have been. Sorry, Bunch. Why are you here? What's your motive in being here?
That's a good question. Well, if you come here this evening
and your motive is you come here just to worship, you didn't come
here just to be seen or to get on to somebody that's not here,
but you've come here to worship. You've come here to hear the
Word of God preached. You've come here to sing His praises.
That's why I'm here. Then you've proved yourself and
your conscience is clear before the Lord and you can rejoice
in that. Don't you rejoice in that? I do. I ain't going to
rejoice if my motives are wrong, are you? If my motives are sinful? Only if they're right before
the Lord, and you prove that. He bears witness to your conscience
that that's right. You can rejoice in yourself,
and not in somebody else. Those Pharisees, that's all they
done was find, they found that fallen woman that got caught
up in adultery, And boy, that made him feel so good about himself.
At first, he was there in the temple praying, God, I thank
you that I'm not like that. Boy, he got so lifted up, didn't
he? But what kind of fellow was he in God's eyes? He was the
worst sinner that Republican. Look in verse 5. For every man shall bear his
own burden. Now this seems strange the way
the apostle says this, but he's thinking about two different
things. In verse 2 he says, bear ye one another's burdens. Now
down in verse 5 he says, every man shall bear his own burden.
Well in verse 2 he was talking about us bearing one another's
infirmities. One another's weaknesses. Getting on the Lord with them
where you can. But here in verse 5 he's talking about clearing
your conscience. Proving your own work, proving your own motives
before God. Nobody can help you do that,
brothers and sisters. That's a burden that you're going
to have to bear yourself. Why did you come to Christ? You'll
have to answer that yourself. Do you truly believe in the Lord
Jesus Christ? You'll have to answer that yourself.
Are you serving the Lord in truth and in sincerity? You'll have
to answer that yourself. Nobody can do that for you. That's
a burden that you're going to have to bear for yourself. That's
between you and the Lord. Prove your own selves how that
Christ is in you. I can't prove that for you. You
can't prove that for me. Nobody else can repent for you.
Nobody else can believe for you. Nobody else can walk with the
Lord for you. Nobody else can know the Lord
for you. That's a burden you're going to have to prove yourself.
You've got to bear that yourself. See that? And when you have confidence
that it's all well between you and the Lord and you've proved
that, boy, you can have rejoicing. You can rejoice. And when it
comes time to die, you won't have to have 15 church members
standing around your bed to hold your hand to comfort you because
you're afraid to face death. You've already bore the burden.
You've already proved yourself. You know the Lord for yourself.
You don't holler for the pastor and say, I can't take this by
myself. You've got to come go with me. I can't, and you can't
go with me. That's a value we've got to cross
for ourselves, ain't it? Prove your own selves. Everybody
will have to bear his own burden. And then when you stand before
the Lord in judgment, He won't be a stranger to you. You won't
say, well, I'm just believing what the preacher told me. He
told me everything's alright, and that settled it. No, I'm
not telling you everything's alright. I'm telling you, go
to the Lord yourself. Believe Him for yourself. Walk
with the Lord yourself. Clear your conscience with Him
yourself. It'll be a burden. It'll be a burden. Examine yourself
to see if Christ is in you. It may hurt to examine yourself.
You ever had the doctors examine you? All examinations ain't too
comfortable, are they? Examine yourself to see if Christ
is within you. But settle it. Settle it. Settle that burden. Every day
examine your motives. Every night when you go to the
Lord in prayer, get everything and everybody else off your mind
and bear this burden to the Lord yourself. What have I done today? Have I done it for His glory?
What's been my motive? And bear that burden and settle
it. before the Lord and just between you and the Lord. And
when you do that, and as you walk with the Lord that way,
I'm telling you, you'll rejoice. You'll rejoice. Quit thinking
about other people, brothers and sisters, and when you do,
pray for them. You know something I found that
really helps me, and it helps me to quit talking about people,
and it helps me to quit thinking bad about people. When I do,
I just stop and pray for them. Just stop and pray for them.
And I'm telling you, that makes the devil so mad. And it just
humbles the flesh. Because the devil just likes
to get in your mind and get you raging, boy, and get you full
of anger, bitterness, and exaggeration. Boy, when you just stop and say,
Lord, I've been thinking about old so-and-so, and it hasn't
been very good. Lord, forgive me for thinking
such thoughts. And pick them up. Strengthen
them. And help them. And boy, this
makes the devil, gets the devil so discouraged he can't hang
around and he'll flee from you. That's what James said, he'll
flee from you. Bury your one another's burdens
and then bury your own burden. Keep your conscience clear with
the Lord. God bless his Word.