“This is our [expletive] city!!” – April 21, 2013
“We will not yield to fear, we will not hunker down.
If the purpose of terrorism is to instill fear, you
saw none of it here in Boston.” – April 24, 2013
STRESSED & DEPRESSED
AMERICANS 'SNAPPING' BY THE MILLIONS
by David Kupelian
April 21, 2013
• Suicide has surpassed car crashes as the leading cause of injury death for Americans. Even
more disturbing, in the world’s greatest military, more U.S. soldiers died last year by suicide
than in combat;
• Fully one-third of the nation’s employees suffer chronic debilitating stress, and more than
half of all “millennials” (18 to 33 year olds) experience a level of stress that keeps them
awake at night, including large numbers diagnosed with depression or anxiety disorder.
• Shocking new research from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows
that one in five of all high-school-aged children in the United States has been diagnosed with
ADHD, and likewise a large new study of New York City residents shows, sadly, that one in
five preteens – children aged six to 12 – have been medically diagnosed with either ADHD,
anxiety, depression or bipolar disorder;
STRESSED & DEPRESSED
AMERICANS 'SNAPPING' BY THE MILLIONS
by David Kupelian
April 21, 2013
• Incredibly, 11 percent of all Americans aged 12 and older are currently taking SSRI
antidepressants – those highly controversial, mood-altering psychiatric drugs with the FDA’s
“suicidality” warning label and alarming correlation with school shooters. Women are
especially prone to depression, with a stunning 23 percent of all American women in their
40s and 50s – almost one in four – now taking antidepressants, according to a major study by
the CDC;
• Add to that the tens of millions of users of all other types of psychiatric drugs, including
(just to pick one) the 6.4 million American children between 4 and 17 diagnosed with ADHD
and prescribed Ritalin or similar psycho-stimulants. Throw in the 28 percent of American
adults with a drinking problem, that’s more than 60 million, plus the 22 million using illegal
drugs like marijuana, cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens and inhalants, and pretty soon a picture
emerges of a nation of drug-takers, with hundreds of millions dependent on one toxic
substance or another – legal or illegal – to “help” them deal with the stresses and problems
of life.
President Ronald Reagan
--From a speech to the American people,
February 6, 1986
“A Prayer for Healing”
“To preserve our blessed land we must look to God... It is time to realize that we need
God more than He needs us... We also have His promise that we could take to heart
with regard to our country, that ‘If my people, which are called by my name shall
humble themselves, and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways;
then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.’
“Let us, young and old, join together, as did the First Continental Congress, in the
first step, in humble heartfelt prayer. Let us do so for the love of God and His great
goodness, in search of His guidance and the grace of repentance, in seeking His
blessings, His peace, and the resting of His kind and holy hands on ourselves, our
nation, our friends in the defense of freedom, and all mankind, now and always.
“The time has come to turn to God and reassert our trust in Him for the healing of
America... Our country is in need of and ready for a spiritual renewal….”
Galatians Summary Outline
I.
II.
III.
Ch 1-2: Defense of Message and Messenger
Ch 3-4: Grace-Faith versus Law-Works
Ch 5-6: New Life in the Spirit
Ch 5-6: New Life in the Spirit
A.
5:1-6:10
1.
2.
3.
B.
5:1-5:15
5:16-5:26
6:1-6:10
6:11-18
1.
2.
6:11-16
6:17-18
Call to Christian Living
Call to Christian Liberty
Call to True Spirituality
Call to Christian Service
Conclusion
Final Challenge
Benediction
CONFESSION
DOCTRINE
YIELDEDNESS
SPIRITUALITY
WALK IN
THE SPIRIT
SPIRITUALITY
Spiritual Man
APPLICATION
Gal 6:1
“restore”
katarti,zw
(KATARTIDZŌ)
Smith and Thayer; The King James NT Greek Lexicon
to render, i.e. to fit, sound, complete
to mend (what has been broken or rent), to repair
to complete
to fit out, equip, put in order, arrange, adjust
to fit or frame for one’s self, prepare
ethically: to strengthen, perfect, complete, make one
what he ought to be
Gal 6:1
“restore”
katarti,zw
(KATARTIDZŌ)
W. E. Vine; Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words
“…in Gal. 6:1, metaphorically, of the restoration, by those
who are spiritual, of one overtaken in a trespass, such a
one being as a dislocated member of the spiritual body.
The tense is the continuous present, suggesting the
necessity for patience and perseverance in the process.”
“gentleness”
prau,thj
(PRAUTĒS)
Ron Merryman
“Unfortunately, the word ‘meekness’ has come
to mean cowardly weakness, a Mr. Milktoasttype person; whereas, the scriptural use of the
word is one of mental-attitude strength that
manifests itself in quiet, yet firm mildness.”
“gentleness”
prau,thj
Vine
(PRAUTĒS)
“In its use in Scripture, in which it has a fuller, deeper significance than in
non-scriptural Greek writings, it consists not in a person’s outward
behavior only; nor yet in his relations to his fellow-men; as little in his
mere natural disposition. Rather it is an inwrought grace of the soul; and
the exercises of it are first and chiefly towards God. It is that temper of
spirit in which we accept His dealings with us as good, and therefore
without disputing or resisting; it is closely linked with …humility, and
follows directly upon it…it is only the humble heart which is also the
meek, and which, as such, does not fight against God and more or less
struggle and contend with Him. This meekness, however, being first of
all a meekness before God, is also such in the face of men, even of evil
men, out of a sense that these, with the insults and injuries which they
may inflict, are permitted and employed by Him for the chastening and
purifying of His elect.”
“gentleness”
prau,thj
Vine
(PRAUTĒS)
“The meaning of praϋtēs is not readily expressed in English, for the terms
meekness, mildness, commonly used, suggest weakness and pusillanimity
[cowardliness] to a greater or less extent, whereas praϋtēs does nothing of
the kind. Nevertheless, it is difficult to find a rendering less open to
objection than ‘meekness’; ‘gentleness’ has been suggested, but as praϋtēs
describes a condition of mind and heart, and as ‘gentleness’ is appropriate
rather to actions, this word is no better than that used in both English
Versions. It must be clearly understood, therefore, that the meekness
manifested by the Lord and commended to the believer is the fruit of
power. The common assumption is that when a man is meek it is because
he cannot help himself; but the Lord was ‘meek’ because He had the
infinite resources of God at His command. Described negatively,
meekness is the opposite to self-assertiveness and self-interest; it is
equanimity of spirit that is neither elated nor cast down, simply because it
is not occupied with self at all.”
“gentleness”
prau,thj
(PRAUTĒS)
inner restraint through a settled assurance of
ultimate justice and victory in the Lord
Gal 6:1 – “restore such a one”
David Jeremiah
Claiming Faith finding Freedom: the study of Galatians, Vol. 2
pp. 80, 81
“We are to go to our fallen brother or sister and tell him his fault
privately in person with the goal of restoring him to wholeness…
It is the responsibility of the spiritual believer to take care of those
who are caught in sin. And while those who are spiritual are not to
be looking for sin in the lives of others, they are to acknowledge it
when it becomes evident, and they are to reach out to their sinning
brother in love…
“One of the reasons only spiritual Christians should seek to restore
the fallen one is because only the spiritual Christian is gentle, for
the gentleness of the Holy Spirit is at work is his life. We should
approach our brothers and sisters prayerfully and thoughtfully.
And when we do, we ought to run to them with tears coming down
our cheeks, not with judgment on our face.
Gal 6:1 – “restore such a one”
Ron Merryman Galatians: God’s Antidote to Legalism pg. 110
“Set such ones straight; restore them to fellowship with and
dependence upon the Spirit. Reaffirm to them the
absolute value of the death of Christ in paying our sin
debt and the need of the believer to rely upon God’s
modus operandi for Christian living. Therapy that
accomplishes restoration for those who have suffered
spiritual dislocation is the idea; there is no idea of
punishment whatever.”