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9 illustrations for sermon preparation
First, the brotherhood of souls demands mutual burden-bearing.
Luther hesitated to expound such texts before congregations, fearing appearance of avarice, yet acknowledged the duty remains: believers must understand what honor and support they owe their teachers.
He does not say merely "with you," as in other epistles, but specifically "with your spirit," thus withdrawing the Galatians from carnal preoccupations and displaying throughout the beneficence of God.
Growing old, Paul refuses further interference in his calling, appealing to the Master whom he serves and by whom alone he shall be judged.
First, the believer who imagines himself mature in Christ—perhaps believing he has attained "the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ" (Ephesians 4:13)—when in reality he remains a babe, deceives himself catastrophically.
Efforts to do good are misunderstood and ill-requited; benevolent plans are ridiculed, motives misrepresented, kindness abused, and hopes of success treated as visionary.
But by what standard shall we measure ourselves?
This rule is no external constraint imposed upon the believer; rather, it emerges from the new creature itself, the regenerate inner man transformed by the Spirit (2 Corinthians 5:17).
Scholars suggest an eye affliction made writing painful for the apostle, yet he seized the pen himself.
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