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Don't Get Weary in Doing Good | Walking in the Spirit | Bible, Bros & Brew
In this episode, we wrap up our epic journey through chapters 5 and 6 of the book of Galatians, with a focus on the critical principle of staying persistent in doing good. As all of us know, this is far easier said than done, because the battle to maintain a positive attitude and keep pressing forward when it looks like nothing is happening is always a challenging thing to do. Digging into Galatians 6, David & Phil explore the timeless encouragements and admonishments that can help believers stay strong, steady, and resilient in their walk with Christ.
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What you sow is what you're going to reap, and we're going to look a little further, one more time, at the concept of walking by the flesh or walking in the spirit. Paul has some great things to say in Galatians 6, 7 through 10 that'll help us put a nice bow on our conversation Up next, on Bible Bros and Brew. Hey everybody and welcome to Bible Bros and Brew. I'm David and with me tonight I've got the one and only Philip Rich.
Phillip Rich:I had to put my hand up to help determine which direction he was in.
David McIntyre:Look, you did better than I do. Down below me is Ryan Holderman and to my cat-a-corner is the one and only DJ, john. Gentlemen, I hope you guys are all having a great night. Tonight we're going to, as I stated in our opener, we're going to get into the last part of Galatians, chapter 6. A little add-on to Galatians, chapter 5, that we decided to go down the road of because Paul wasn't quite finished with his conversation and instruction to the Galatians. So we're going to maybe wrap that up tonight. We'll see how far we get, but before we do, let's talk about what's in the cup. Let's see tonight. I'm actually going to let Philip go last. Come on. So we'll start off with John tonight. John, what's in your cup?
Ryan Holdeman:what's in your cup? That is a great, great question. Um, what was in my cup? Uh, I, I wanted to go bold and try something different and I found like a little cherry chocolate coffee and it made me nervous. I like cherry, I like coffee, but I just didn't. It didn't. I wasn't convinced that it was the right combination to make. So I added a lot of cookies and creamer and it's a lot better now. Nice, I'm rocking a lot of dessert-flavored coffee tonight. Yes, sir, yeah, that's what's going to fuel this conversation for sure.
David McIntyre:When it doesn't work, just throw a bunch of creamer in and let's see what happens.
Ryan Holdeman:Right, there's a lesson in that.
David McIntyre:Ryan, what about you? What are you drinking?
Ryan Holdeman:I've got another version of the Busy Cold Brew. Yes sir. This is the organic espresso blend, with flavor notes of chocolate, berry and brown sugar. Come on now.
Phillip Rich:That's not good man I like Busy. Busy is quite the flavorful coffee man. Yeah, it's really good.
Ryan Holdeman:I like it.
David McIntyre:I'm going to have to try that. I haven't reached out beyond Stoke yet, so I need to live right. I have gone back to Christmas with a very special Christmas cup called Sugar Cookie. Yes, sir, I'm having a little Sugar Cookie here in just a moment. I'm going to quietly whip it up a little bit so that I can get some froth on the top to enhance the experience. All right, phillip. How about you? What are you drinking tonight?
Phillip Rich:Tonight. This is a reliable standby in the rich household. It is the Peregrine Columbia decaf. I've featured it a few times and those were typically the nights where I drank way too much coffee during the day. So this is where we find ourselves. But this is actually a very, very good, good decaf. I mean it has notes of they say notes of marzipan, cinnamon, chocolate and tangerine. Interestingly enough, I get all of that somehow, but I don't know. It's just so complex. It's like a I don't know when you first drink it. It's just the complexity goes all up in your mouth, man. So it's really nice. I just wanted to share that from our good friends at Peregrine. Yes, I'm curious.
Ryan Holdeman:I want to try it. I want to try it.
David McIntyre:Hey, you sold me on it for pop, pop all up in your mouth.
Phillip Rich:I'm sorry.
David McIntyre:I don't feel nearly as bad for my earlier faux pas, because it just proves that we all have them. I'm human, dang it.
Phillip Rich:We all fall short of the glory, that's for sure.
David McIntyre:Yes, lord and the glory has surely been missed at least once today, at least once. Oh man, all right, that's what's in our cups. Now we're going to dig into the word a little bit and talk through this scripture. So last week we talked a little bit about the concept of giving to those who teach the word to you, and if you didn't get a chance to take a listen to that, I want to encourage you to go back and check that episode out, because we talked about some really good things that I think are important for us. But now we're going to continue on in the conversation where Paul brings us up to verse seven. And in verse seven and again I'm reading from the Amplified version, just because I really like this version for these verses but in verse seven of Galatians, chapter 6, verse 7 says it takes us to the next place.
David McIntyre:Get ready, buckle in, do not be deceived. God is not mocked. He will not allow himself to be ridiculed, nor treated with contempt, nor allow his precepts to be scornfully set aside. Allow his precepts to be scornfully set aside, for a man sows this and this only is what he will reap. And for for me, philip I, I don't know how, how you feel and I um, I won't say what I was about to say, but it brings this concept of seed time and harvest into this conversation. That says that whatever you put into the ground is guaranteed to come up.
David McIntyre:And that's the other interesting part.
David McIntyre:It talks about doing all of these things whether it's some of the first things that we talked about bearing one another's burdens, being mindful of yourself, to not think of yourself more highly than you ought, to. Going back into verse five, sowing the fruit of the spirit, it communicates that all of these things are a type of sowing, type of putting seed in the ground, and that the things that you do will reap a harvest. Now, the kind of harvest is going to be dependent upon the seed that you sow. And so I love here that Paul brings this concept of seed time and harvest and it's not brings it new, because we were already talking about it in Galatians 5, but he brings it back here into Galatians chapter 6 for us to deal with this concept of if you plant it, you can expect to receive a harvest of it. Not only this, he takes it to another level and he said in the seed time and harvest process God will not be mocked. It's not as though you're going to plant bad seed and get a good harvest.
Phillip Rich:Come on.
David McIntyre:It says, on the contrary, that if you, as you look through verse 7, and at least in the Amplified version, he's not going to allow himself to be ridiculed, he's not going to be treated with contempt, nor allow his precepts to be scornfully set aside. But there's a focus here that just you're not going to make a fool of God, you're not going to make a fool of his precepts, and things are going to go as they should. As you sow, so will you reap. What's your thought in there, philip?
Phillip Rich:Man. I love, like you said, the amplified version at the end of verse 7. Ryan, if you could pop that back up on the board. Um, thank you. It says in the green there highlight. It says for whatever a man sows, this and this only only is what he's going to reap. You know, it's like, like you said, david, you can't plant bad stuff and expect to get a good harvest later down the line. I think Jesus said in Matthew 12, he was like every tree is known by its fruit. A good tree will produce good fruit. An evil tree produces evil fruit.
Phillip Rich:And I thought about this just in the context of some stuff. That's kind of everyday life. Honestly, it's like I remember there was a time when, before I was saved let's call it BC, before Christ I cussed a lot, dude, I cussed a whole lot. No, no, yeah. And as I got into the Bible and into, you know, becoming a believer and following Jesus, that stuff kind of started dropping off and I started getting more convicted by the Holy Spirit. Like you can't just keep saying this stuff, dude, it's not great, you know. And then after a while you know it just, it just no longer was a part of my daily conversation or nothing like that, like it used to be. But then you know if you start exposing yourself to stuff like let's say you watch what you know you're ready to talk about probably.
Phillip Rich:Let's say you watch certain movies and there's tons of cussing in the movie. Or you watch, you listen to certain music and there's a lot of cussing in the music, cussing in the movie. Or you want you listen to certain music and there's a lot of cussing in the music. All of a sudden, this stuff's coming back in your mind. You're hearing it you're getting mental pictures of things and all kinds of stuff like that, and then it's like you know.
Phillip Rich:Next, thing you know, I remember this happened to me, like I forgot when it was. It's been a minute, but it happened to me. It's like all of a sudden I'm doing my thing and a cuss word just flies out of my mouth.
Phillip Rich:I'm like I had said that in forever you know, but it was like right after I'd been watching movies with a lot of cussing and things like that, and I was like dude, uh, you know, of course I'm like, I repent. You know, corrupt communication, all that kind of stuff, and this is what came to me, dude, I'll never forget this. And, of course, the big thing is I didn't mean to say that, I didn't mean to say that, and it was you're not going to get what you intend. You're going to get what you've sowed. You know what I mean. It's not about your intention. What are you sowing? That's what's going to come out of you. You know what I mean.
Phillip Rich:Not like, I want to be this way, I want to be a good person, I wanted this and that. What are you sowing? That's what you're going to get. You know. And and that really, really convicted me, man, I was like dude, I, I, you know, I missed the boat on that one. I had to really repent, like, okay, let me take this more seriously, you know. So there's a little life life lesson that I learned from that you know.
David McIntyre:So there's a little life life lesson that I learned from that. So, and just you know, I I will confess also to having uh, fallen backwards into the cuss realm from time to time, um, and so I have, and I do not actively cuss or carry on. The Bible says evil communication corrupts good manners.
David McIntyre:There, you go, and so I want to make sure that I have the right kind of communication. But stuff can slip up on you. But you're so right, philip, in your communication, because what you said is true You're not going to get a mystery harvest.
Phillip Rich:Right.
David McIntyre:What you sowed, yeah, you're going to get exactly what you planted. Yeah, and there's so many. I mean, and you, just now, you go back to the beginning of Galatians, chapter 6, and you see Paul's warning and you see how it plays out, where, in the top of the verse. You know if you go back to one for me, ryan, just scroll down just a little bit.
David McIntyre:If anyone is caught in any sin, you who are spiritual, that is, you who are responsive to the guidance of the Spirit, are to restore such a person in a spirit of gentleness, not with a sense of superiority, of self-righteousness, and it goes on. But you have to realize if you are planting being spiritual, then you're going to reap a spiritual thing in other. If I take the action and practice being a spiritual person and helping my brother who is in need, who's carrying a burden, number one, I believe that I have the seed in the ground for if I ever have a burden, that somebody will come alongside of me and help carry me, because I've planted that seed. But the other thing that I think comes up is that because I've done something spiritual, I grow spiritually.
David McIntyre:That spiritual seed now produces a spiritual harvest in my life, and what that scripture doesn't say is that you won't reap multiple harvests. It just says you're going to reap what you sow.
Phillip Rich:That's good, man, that's good.
David McIntyre:And so I just think this is such a I think it's such an important part, phil, that we recognize that in all of these things it asks us to do in Galatians, chapter six, and the care it asks us to take, even in the giving to those who teach us the word, just remember there's seed time and there's harvest that's connected with that. So do good, plant good, sow good and reap good harvest from those things.
Phillip Rich:That's good man. And you know it's interesting too, like even the non-believing world has their version of this stuff. You know like people talk about karma. You know what goes around comes around Also known as Kramer.
Phillip Rich:Yes, yes, but it's like. You know, the principle is in the earth because god put it in the earth and to some degree, a lot of people, most people, believe that there is something to that. Like I can't just put bad things out into the world and into the universe, if they want to call it that, you know and not I love that you said that.
David McIntyre:So especially hollywood, they love that word, you know. You just put things out into the universe.
Phillip Rich:Into the universe, I hope they realize the universe is mainly just a bunch of gases and rocks.
Ryan Holdeman:That's all the universe is?
Phillip Rich:It's just gases and rocks.
David McIntyre:Look at you shooting down people's. The one thing they were holding on to is the universe. Yeah. Down people's. The one thing they were holding on to is the universe, yeah. And you know, part of the reason they even say the universe is because they're so afraid to say God did it.
Phillip Rich:I know it's unbelievable man. I'm like you know God don't man, don't skip over it. Don't fail to give him credit. He deserves some credit.
David McIntyre:He's been doing a lot of good stuff for a long long time, since 0-0 BC, he's been good oh man. I'll go ahead and finish your thought there, philip, sorry, just really quick, man.
Phillip Rich:Just you know the things that people call karma and that type of stuff. What goes around comes around. It was already put into the earth by God. It was a principle he established. He thought of it first. We might call it something different, but it doesn't change the fact that it was a principle that was originated by God.
David McIntyre:Right, right. So now let's slip into the place that I've been waiting to get to since, about Galatians, chapter 5.
Phillip Rich:Four score and seven years ago.
David McIntyre:And I want to look at verses 8 and 9 kind of together. So we see that we've got to have our seed right. And then verse 8 goes on and tells us for the one. It continues on Now.
David McIntyre:Now he listened to this and now I really want you especially those of you who've been watching with us in going through this fruit of the spirit from the beginning, or if you jumped in at some part where we talked about the works of the flesh, which is the Greek word sarx, remember that.
David McIntyre:And then we talked about the fruit of the spirit.
David McIntyre:And Paul brings us all back together again right here in verse 8, which is why we decided to go 1 through 10, because Paul didn't stop talking about choosing between the flesh and the spirit.
David McIntyre:He's reinforcing the thought, reinforcing and telling you what the benefit of each one is, hoping that you will not see one as a benefit and you'll see the other as such a great benefit against, such that there is no law that you'll so willingly run to it. And in verse 8, he goes on to say for the one remember we're talking about seed time and harvest in verse 7, for the one who sows to his flesh his sinful capacity, his worldliness, his disgraceful impulses will reap from the flesh ruin and destruction. But the one who sows to the spirit will, from the spirit, reap eternal life. And I was, I'm reminded, when we read eternal life there. I was reading in john uh this last week, and I think it's John, chapter 19, philip help me if I get it wrong 8, 19,. I believe it is where he makes clear what eternal life is, and it is God, the Father, and Jesus Christ, his Son.
David McIntyre:They are. That is eternal life, and in just a minute I'm going to read you something from the commentary where it talks about the difference between you know, going to hell, life is in Christ, it is in the Father, and hell is something horrible and it's eternal and that ought to scare the, literally. That ought to scare the hell out of you, to know that to go to hell is to spend your eternity not dead but decayed by sin, but alive to experience all that hell is.
Phillip Rich:Good Lord, have mercy.
David McIntyre:And that's a horrible place to be. But, philip, go ahead, talk about. I'll let you talk about this for a moment and then I'm going to pull out my commentary.
Phillip Rich:Yeah, yeah, the main thing that stands out to me about that verse. In verse 8, when it says he who sows to the flesh reaps corruption from the flesh, and then he who sows to the spirit reaps. In the King James it says eternal life, and when you look that phrase up, eternal life is this word zoe in the Greek, and zoe means, simply put, we could.
Phillip Rich:you know, there's a whole five hour teaching we could get into about this but it basically means the life of God, and I think when people hear that phrase eternal life they think automatically about quantity, like a long, long life, but actually the more true or accurate rendering would be a quality of life. It's the type of life you're going to have versus the length of life you're going to have, if that makes sense. So when it says, if you sow to the spirit, you'll reap the life of God, it is the life as God lives it, if you want to call it that. You know the life that's in him is now a part of you, and to me that's what it means in second Peter, like when it says second Peter one, it says that through his great and precious promises we become partakers of divine nature. You know that is his life in us, and so it's a quality of life more than it's a quantity of life. And to me that just kind of is an eye opener about what that phrase eternal life is all about.
David McIntyre:So that's good, phil. I I want to. I want to make a point about seven and eight from. I just read something else in this commentary that I feel like I overlooked um, there's scripture where it says we're in verse seven where it says god cannot be mocked. It says there will be a payday someday because, a man reaps what he sows.
David McIntyre:You cannot outwit God. The crop you plant in the soil in the spring will inevitably sprout forth into the harvest of the fall. This is a common sense saying and a prudential maxim found in many ancient writers. Found in many ancient writers, uh, for example, demos, demosthenes, uh said for he that furnished the seed, is responsible for what grows. And then if you remember, back in hosea, chapter eight and seven, hosea said they sow the wind and reap the whirlwind.
Phillip Rich:Whirlwind yeah.
David McIntyre:So you know again, god is not. You cannot mock God. You can't trick him about the seed. He's not going to be deceived about what you've sown. He is going to be very clear about what you've sown and what you've planted. And you are going to get the harvest that goes with what you've sown and what you've planted. And you are going to get the harvest that goes with what you planted. And so when paul here is telling us so, then once again it's another variation of choose life, it's another opportunity to say I'm going to plant spirit, I'm not going to plant to the flesh. He says the Greek word for Thora.
David McIntyre:I'm reading from the New American Commentary. It says the word Thora. It means destruction, decay and corruption and it conveys the idea of a putrid corpse in the process of decomposition. It goes on to say, as we saw in our earlier discussion of the works of the flesh, sark's, as an ethical principle involves more than the physical or material aspect of the human or material aspect of the human. Nonetheless, the consequences of sin are nowhere more vividly seen than in the ravaging of the human body through disease, decay and death.
David McIntyre:Wow, as Burton correctly observes, paul here affirms that devotion of oneself to the material, bodily side of life brings physical death unrelieved by the Christian hope of resurrection. In other words, paul is affirming that living your life for the material good and for your flesh there's literally. It's living in a way where there is no Christian hope of resurrection. Goodness gracious, you don't have access. In one sense, it seems, maybe access isn't the right word, but you don. But you live apart from the hope of that resurrection, meaning the hope of that salvation from hell, that salvation from death, and because that is dependent upon the Spirit, which you are denying, because you are living a material, fleshly life, wow, wow. And it goes on to say um, we shouldn't be. However, we should not be misled by this graphic depiction of utter decay and desolation into thinking that the final destiny of those who sow to the flesh is annihilation or non-existence. Hell is both final and eternal Good.
Phillip Rich:Lord.
David McIntyre:In Revelations 21 and 8,. The roll call of those who will find their place in the fiery lake of burning sulfur is remarkably similar to Paul's category of evils and verses galatians 5, 19 through 21 wow goodness man, the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts and the idolaters and all liars.
Phillip Rich:My goodness.
David McIntyre:My goodness. So you see, even if we are to look at Romans, revelations 21 and 8, and Paul tell you who all has their part in the lake of fire, there's a direct connection to Galatians 5, 19 through 21 when we're talking about the works of the flesh. It's a real thing when we get back here to this point where Paul is reminding us again between choosing the spirit or choosing the flesh and and you guys, it has to become we all have to get to this place in our lives where it is a no-brainer that we have to choose the spirit. It does not mean that we won't make fleshly mistakes, but it's how you choose to live. You can make a fleshly mistake, but because you still walk and live in the spirit, you repent, you deal with what you've done and you step back in. But if you live in the flesh, then the only way out that you have is repentance and turning your back on the things of the flesh.
Phillip Rich:Good Lord, man, that's good stuff. Wow, you know, it's interesting, man. Like I don't know what it's, what it is, what's going on lately, but it seems like there's more and more Christians, more and more Christian teachers or pastors, coming out and saying that hell is not real. I don't know if you've seen this, but I've seen this in many different places, many different people saying this stuff, and it's like I personally, you know, nobody firsthand has found this out Okay, like that's still alive. To tell it, right, we can, we can, we can agree on that. I mean, I've heard of people who've said, yeah, I went to hell and came back. Maybe you know, maybe you did who say, yeah, I went to hell and came back. Maybe you know, maybe you did.
Phillip Rich:But the majority of us have not been to hell to know and live to tell about it. But I'll say this I don't want to take that gamble. Okay, I believe that you got to stack the odds in your favor, all right, and because here's the crazy thing about it If hell is not real, let's say that you know, when you die, you never received Jesus, you didn't care about God, you lived just to satisfy your flesh or whatever, and you die and there's nothing there, then there's nothing there for all of us. And hey, we all get off the hook somehow. But it is true, and it is, and it's a thing, and it is. Jesus said in Matthew 25 that hell was created for the devil and his angels. That's the purpose for hell, the original purpose for hell. But then, when those who decide they want to submit their self to the lordship of Satan by living by the flesh, then they're going to get the same judgment that their Lord got Right.
Phillip Rich:So that's why people end up in hell, and it's not because God's mean. It's because he created a place for the devil and his angels. Anybody who decides that they want to live in a way that says this one is my Lord, not God, then they got to end up in the same place. Satan and his angels are going to end up.
David McIntyre:There it is.
Phillip Rich:Matthew 25, 41. It says then he will say to and this is Jesus talking y'all, this is the red he said. Then he'll say to those on his left depart from me, you who are cursed into the and this is what David just said man, the eternal fire. So this is like ongoing, prepared for the devil and his angels. I'm like, bro, no, it was never, really. I mean, you don't have to go that way.
Phillip Rich:Because, people say well, why would a loving God send people to hell? Well, a loving God also sent his son. You know. He sent his son for you to get born again and get completely out of that whole scenario Just by receiving Jesus, you know. So I'm just saying I'm not willing to gamble my eternal destiny on the fact or the possibility that hell might not exist. I'm believing that it does, because Jesus said it does.
David McIntyre:Yeah, and you know. The word tells us that. You know creation. Testifies of god. Did we?
David McIntyre:you know if we, if we were honest and we were, we were just aware we would know that god is is true and and you know that so many people do, because, um, when they they get so convicted about their lifestyles and it's just yeah, we have to make real serious decisions here. I'll read you one other quick thing, Philip, out of this, out of this commentary, just like you were talking about hell just a moment ago it says eternal life. Of course, is not merely life that lasts eternally. It is rather God's very own life, the life of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, graciously bestowed upon the children of God through faith in the. Redeemer.
Phillip Rich:That's good stuff.
David McIntyre:So we have, as believers, we have much to look forward to. But on this earth it's so easy to get caught up in the day-to-day. You know it's so funny, philip. You know we, in one sense, we look at this life and we say, oh boy, it's, it's been forever ago.
David McIntyre:And we can let the length of days and the things that have happened and time lead us to believe that we've got so much time to figure this out, to figure things out, to adjust this, to move that and all that, but then somewhere something happens along the way and you realize time has not really been on your side.
Phillip Rich:My goodness.
David McIntyre:You begin to realize that you wasted a lot of time, that you've used time for unimportant things, and now it's a game of you're trying to catch up and make the most of the time you've got. You got to move fast and you know we can let the length of time sometimes lead us to believe that, you know, maybe this is and isn't true. I got time to figure it out down the road, maybe when I'm older you know, all of a sudden and then, when you're older, you look back and you're like I've wasted so many years.
David McIntyre:How do I make up this difference? We just have to be wise and not let the things of this earth and this world to remember. Yes, the earth is the Lord and the fullness thereof, but there's also Satan running loose in this world a little bit, and he's doing everything he can to deceive you into believing something other than what God intended, and you can tell he has deceived a lot of people yes yes, and you just have to make sure that you're not one of the deceived.
David McIntyre:And the way that you make sure you're not one of the deceived is by accepting Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior, repenting of your sins and making that 180 degree turn and turning your life towards Him and beginning to walk and talk like Him to the best of your ability as you grow and mature in the things of the spirit, and to chase after the things that allow you to walk in the spirit and not fulfill the lust of the flesh. Philip, if we, if we add on here um, verse 9 goes on to say so, then well, it doesn't say so. Then I added that.
David McIntyre:Sorry, don't add anything to it and don't take anything away from it there's probably a translation that says so, then after hearing all of that and knowing you're planting, knowing that you want to plant and sow to the spirit, not the flesh. Here's the thing Let us not grow weary or become discouraged in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap if we do not give in. That's right. So then, while we as individual believers, have the opportunity, let us do good. You know, I'm going to save that one, because that really is the wrap up of everything but let us not grow weary or become discouraged in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap if we do not give in. And I think that Paul was communicating specifically of the Galatians, and I think that Paul was communicating specifically of the.
David McIntyre:Galatians. But I think it's a message to us too that you know the reason we sometimes cave is because we get weary doing well.
Phillip Rich:That's right, that's right.
David McIntyre:We don't you know it's still, if I can give the example of seed time and harvest. When you're a farmer and I was reading this a little earlier and I thought it was a great example when you're a farmer, you know that you plant in the spring and you're going to reap in the fall and then, depending on what you're planting too matters.
David McIntyre:You know you have that length of time. You plant corn in the spring, you're going to reap it in the fall. But you know there's stuff like lettuce and stuff that you know is eight to 12 weeks out and you're going to reap it in the fall. But you know there's stuff like lettuce and stuff that you know is eight to 12 weeks out and you're going to be able to pick that up. If you plant blackberries here, you're going to be able to reap them there. But the concept is is that around farming, you can know when you're going to be able to reap your harvest.
David McIntyre:When it comes to doing the will of God and sowing good seed and making a difference in people's lives. You don't have a time frame on when that harvest is going to come back up. That's right, that's right.
David McIntyre:And so you have to trust God for the harvest, regardless of the time frame that's connected with it. Come on and you've just got to keep doing good and not allowing yourself to say Lord, I've been good to these people for five years now. How much longer before I reap a harvest? How much longer before something changes? And God is like just keep doing good, you'll reap if you don't faint.
Ryan Holdeman:And.
David McIntyre:I think we all get to that place where we're busy doing the right thing and we don't see a harvest fast enough, and so we start to get weary and faint, and God is encouraging us not to do that.
Phillip Rich:That's good, David, that's good. And it says you know, for that word faint, there's one translation I forgot which one, it might be the Amplify but it says let us not lose heart, Let us not lose heart.
Phillip Rich:You know, I think about that. It's like, ultimately, when you stop doing the things, doing the good, staying in that mindset of sowing, when you stop doing that, actually your faith has stopped as well, because if you still were operating in your faith then you would still be doing it. You know you'd still be, because persistence is proof of your faith. Right, the moment you waver in your persistence, that's showing your faith is actually what's been wavering. At that point it's like do I really believe this?
Phillip Rich:You know, there's certain things that I've been working at for years. I mean years, and, to my own judgment or estimation, I don't think that I've seen the type of harvest that I thought would come from that, from the amount of effort I've put in, and so of course you can have this idea Is it ever going to happen? You know, I mean I've been doing this thing for a long time and many, many failures and potholes along the way and stuff like that, and so you're like will I ever see? You know, this thing that I've been working on for years and years, and it's like if I stop, I definitely won't see it. You know what I mean.
David McIntyre:Like that's a guarantee.
Phillip Rich:I'm not going to see it if I stop. So let me just keep going, Because if I keep going that is proof that I have faith that I will see it one day.
David McIntyre:You know, phil, I, if I'm being honest, uh, I just last week, I think it was, it was over the weekend, maybe I was I was talking to God about the very, this very thing and, uh, my just now put the dots together, of course. But I was asking him, how long am I going to have to sew to feel like I'm getting back something? You know, I remember when I did this and I remember when I did that and I was, I wasn't complaining, but it's just like in my current situation. You know that I found myself in. You know, I've been, I feel like I've been looking for answers for a long time and I know that god has given me promise concerning these things.
David McIntyre:He won't leave his, you know. He won't leave his seed begging for bread, you know, and that whole thing He'll provide for us. God provides for us and I honestly have just recently said Lord, when will this take place? But, I've latched back onto the concept of it will take place when it takes place and you'll see it when you see it. Just keep going, Just keep going, that's right, and when we think about it, y'all we. Sometimes that's the answer that we have just keep going, yeah, just keep going.
David McIntyre:And you know we um, I don't know Philip, I might about, I might be about to say something ugly, but you know it's like do we sometimes? I don't know Philip, do we have the right to demand of God to show us answers, to show us where the harvest is, to show us how far down the line it is? Because if we're doing that, are we trusting him?
Phillip Rich:Right, right and see, that's bro. We were talking about this. My wife and my daughters and I were talking about this the other day. That scripture in Luke 8 just blew up in all of our minds at the same time. It just kind of came out as a result of the conversation. You bring forth fruit with patience. You bring fruit with patience.
David McIntyre:We need to find that scripture. We need to look at that right now.
Phillip Rich:And my daughter said something. My youngest daughter said something that I just I couldn't even. It was like this is God talking through this girl? She said everything in the kingdom of God depends on patience. And I was like, wow, that's good man. It's true, the kingdom of God is a patience game, dude.
David McIntyre:And evidenced by what we just finished talking about. A couple of weeks ago, we covered patience. Yeah, we did.
Phillip Rich:Because I've had some things, man, oh my gosh, things in the investment realm, things in other places, that I mean opportunities. I missed that. I'm like why didn't I, you know? Like you want to scream like how come I didn't jump on that, like I was supposed to, and this, that and the other. And you realize, okay, I'm not God. And that's the thing we have to remember. Dude, he knows the times and the seasons. That's why it says in due season you'll reap if you don't faint.
Phillip Rich:And even in Psalm 1, when it talked about meditating in the word it says you'll bring forth fruit in your season. And I think God's in control of that part of it. We are in control of the effort we put in. But just like, like he said in first Corinthians you know, I planted, apollos, watered- but God gave the increase.
Phillip Rich:So and he was like so the guy who plants really isn't anything, and the guy who waters it and all that, it god who gives the increase. So it's like be patient, that is your whole job, you know. It's like what's that famous thing? You got one job to do. That is right to be patient, right, right.
David McIntyre:It's the whole concept of waiting on the lord and as we look at what it means to wait. It doesn't mean to sit idly by and do nothing but it means to go on and pursue and do the things of your day and to do the things of God, and while you're busy waiting, you're serving and God is working things out on your behalf. That's right.
David McIntyre:But it's also very human of us to sometimes, in light of all that we're doing, we lose sight of that and we need to be reminded which I'm not ashamed to say. I had to be reminded of that very thing. Philip, let's hit this last verse in this one, and that's in verse 10, as Paul wraps the whole picture up. He says so. Then, while we as individual believers have the opportunity, let us do good to all people, not only being helpful but also doing that which promotes their spiritual well-being, and especially be a blessing to those of the household of faith born-again believers Wow, to those of the household of faith born-again believers. I want to just look at that really quickly in the King James because I want to say it faster, like it's supposed to.
Phillip Rich:That's very low-key, shall we say.
David McIntyre:It says as we have, therefore, opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith. So we get this final push to not only not just do good unto all men because, again, if you remember, this is we, and I think it was Philip who talked mentioned it is we and I think it was Philip who mentioned it. But even back at the beginning of if you find, you know, if a man be overtaken in a fall, you were spiritual, restore him, that we have a responsibility both to the unbeliever and to the believer. Just like, if you read Proverbs and some other things, you know it will mention doing good to your neighbor and it doesn't specify whether the neighbor is born again or not.
Phillip Rich:Right right.
David McIntyre:Whether the neighbor is a Jew or a Gentile. Now there are cases where of course in Proverbs that it does. But typically when it comes to being good, being trustworthy, being a meaningful neighbor, being good, being trustworthy, being a meaningful neighbor, there's no differentiation that you, because you belong to Christ, are the example. But here I love that it says be good to everyone, do good unto all men, but then it goes on to say especially unto them who are of the household of faith. And sometimes I think we live in a world where people will do good to all men but then mistreat the household of faith. You know and don't feel like well, you got jesus too. You go same church I do live off the word yeah and then go and treat somebody else.
Phillip Rich:Well, what are you thinking, phil? Yeah, I think this interested. Paul used that word especially. You know it's like okay, do good to everybody, but especially the people who belong to the faith, the household of faith. It's like man. I don't know if I'm wrong for saying this, but it's almost like give preference to the people of the household of faith. And if you think about it, it lines up with what Jesus told us. He said this is the way that everybody's going to know you're my disciples If you have love one towards another. He was talking to those who were following him.
David McIntyre:Right. I was just thinking of that verse, Philip.
Phillip Rich:Oh, man Praise God man so good yeah. So it's like you know, I think that the way we treat each other inside of the body of Christ probably matters even more than how we treat the non-believer or whatever person of another faith or whatever you know.
David McIntyre:Don't you think it's a matter of you know I, I look at it and it's it. It's what's enticing, right? If I'm looking in your window, in your house window, and seeing that you guys treat each other well, there's a sense in that that makes me want to be a part of what you're doing. But then if I look in your window and y'all are slapping each other around, mistreating each other, throwing dishes and stuff, that's a household I don't want to enter. That's a place that I don't want to go, and I think that the way that we care for one another is supposed to be attractive. It doesn't mean that we're all perfect, but it's like look, they care about one another.
David McIntyre:That they're bearing one another's burdens. They're not so full of themselves that they're talking about that person on the side afterwards, making them look bad and feeling bad. They're walking in the spirit. Even though I might not recognize it as walking in the spirit. They're trying to do good things. They live well. They're not doing this, they don't do that, and I want to. I like that. I want to be a part of that. We're supposed to be attractive in that nature, by the way that we live, and it draws people unto you so that you have the opportunity to minister Christ to them, and I think that's a good thing. That's a very good thing. We're right at it in time. What are your final thoughts After we've done all of Galatians 5.16 through Galatians 6.10.? Dude.
Phillip Rich:It's been a journey man.
David McIntyre:It's been quite the journey.
Phillip Rich:Yeah, final thoughts would be these letters that Paul wrote that he left to the church.
Phillip Rich:I'm telling you there's so much wisdom in these letters and of course the Holy Spirit is the ultimate author but I think that one of the best things you can do is take time to read the entire thing like thoroughly in I don't want to say in one sitting, cause some of them pretty long but read several verses, several chapters together to get the rhythm of Paul's thought and kind of the train of thought that he's on.
Phillip Rich:I think it's important to do that because, as we've seen, just from covering Galatians 5 all the way through this chapter 6, it's like he had a continual line of thinking, he was going on. And it all makes a lot more sense when you don't necessarily just take one verse and kind of pull it out and just isolate it, but look at it through all the context of what came before it, what came after it. I encourage everybody to do that. Man, just take you know, multiverse passages and really get the line of thinking from those things. The Holy Spirit will speak to you as you just keep sewing it into your mind and heart.
David McIntyre:That's good, philip. I would agree with that completely, but I'd not but and I would say this the gist of this conversation, just like it was what led us here, if you remember, if you take it back even further, when we were doing Romans 6, 7, and 8, it still brings us back to the same general place, and that is the choice to walk in the spirit or to walk in the flesh, and that there are only two choices and you have to make one, because to not choose, I think, is to still choose.
David McIntyre:We have to make a decision to either walk in the spirit or walk in this flesh, and consequently reap the rewards for whichever one we choose. And so I want to be like Paul and encourage you walk in the spirit and you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh.
David McIntyre:And there's so much benefit to walking in the spirit that I think it will benefit you all the days of your life. Just be patient and allow the Lord to do what he does and allow his seed, time and harvest to come into play, as he intends for it to be Good stuff. Man Philip, you want to pray everybody out on this one? And just let's just pray for people to walk as we have been, to walk in the spirit.
Phillip Rich:Yes, sir, yes, sir, Praise God. Father, thank you for sharing these things with us through your Word. Thank you for showing us truly the path of life. You said in your Word that your Word is a lamp to our feet and a light to our path. Father, you said that your Word is the thing that guides us and that you'll guide us with your own eye as well. We're so grateful for that, father, you said that your word is the thing that guides us and that you'll guide us with your own eye as well. We're so grateful for that, father, and I pray over every person that'll hear this podcast.
Phillip Rich:Lord, thank you for helping them, helping all of us, to walk in the spirit and to not fulfill the lust of the flesh, to not get caught up in temporal things that will only lead to dissatisfaction later, that will never be fulfilling, that will never really give us what we're truly after, which is that sense of oneness with our Creator.
Phillip Rich:Thank you for helping us, father, by the Holy Spirit in us, to recognize deception when it tries to come, to recognize the tricks and traps of the enemy when he tries to set them before us. Lord, thank you for helping us to have sharp perception to detect those things when they try to rear their ugly head, and we thank you for that, father. We thank you for just helping us to do that. And thank you also for clear hearing from the Holy Spirit, in line with your word clear hearing from him that he'll speak to our hearts, that he'll lead us as Jesus told us that he would. Thank you for helping us to be sensitive to, and have a keen sensitivity to, the voice of the Holy Spirit. We give you praise for that, father, and thank you for all that you do for us every day, even the things we're not even aware that you do, but you're doing them behind the scenes. We thank you for that and we give you praise for all of this, father, in Jesus' name. Amen.
David McIntyre:Amen. We're so glad that you guys have joined us and thank you for walking through this journey, through Galatians 5 and 6, with us. We want to encourage you, of course, go back. You can look at our playlist. You can look back at our previous videos and you can go back and grab one of those or start at the beginning and work your way forward. These are great Bible study tools that I would highly recommend to you to help to boost up your Bible study and help you begin a little bit more. We also want to invite you to join us on social media.
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