Pastor David McGee's teaching references for 07/19/2015

Galatians 6:2-4 - Each Doing Our Part to Build the Bridge

Life Lesson (verse Galatians 6:2)

The law of Christ is to love each other.

Life Lesson (verse Galatians 6:2)

Followers of Jesus are going to love, haters gonna hate.

Life Lesson (verse Galatians 6:3)

If he thinks himself to be nothing, when he is something, he deceives himself.

Life Lesson (verse Galatians 6:4)

The Jewish people rounded the corners when harvesting so that people in need could come and 'glean' the remnants.

Life Lesson (verse Galatians 6:4)

Unemployment payment is a temporary solution to a temporary problem.

Life Lesson (verse Galatians 6:4)

The government is not your source, God is.

Gal 6:1 AMP

BRETHREN, IF any person is overtaken in misconduct or sin of any sort, you who are spiritual [who are responsive to and controlled by the Spirit] should set him right and restore and reinstate him, without any sense of superiority and with all gentleness, keeping an attentive eye on yourself, lest you should be tempted also.

Gal 6:2 AMP

Bear (endure, carry) one another's burdens and troublesome moral faults, and in this way fulfill and observe perfectly the law of Christ (the Messiah) and complete what is lacking [in your obedience to it].

Matt 22:34-40 NKJV

34 But when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. 35 Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying, 36 "Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?" 37 Jesus said to him, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.'  38 This is the first and great commandment.  39 And the second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'  40 On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets."

Prov 10:12 NKJV

Hatred stirs up strife,
But love covers all sins.

Prov 17:9 NKJV

He who covers a transgression seeks love,
But he who repeats a matter separates friends.

Prov 17:9 NLT

Love prospers when a fault is forgiven,
but dwelling on it separates close friends.

John 15:9-11 NKJV

9 "As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love.  10 If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love. 11 "These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.

John 15:9-17 NKJV

9 "As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love.  10 If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love.
11 "These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.  12 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.  13 Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends.  14 You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.  15 No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you.  16 You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.  17 These things I command you, that you love one another.

John 15:18 NKJV

"If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you."

Gal 6:4 NLT

Pay careful attention to your own work, for then you will get the satisfaction of a job well done, and you won't need to compare yourself to anyone else.

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