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Don’t Let Another Man’s Burden Become Your Test

People have a way of uploading to you their mess. We’ve been allowing people to download mess back and jack us up. The burden of them, what they’re going through becomes our test. Allowing people to put weights upon your life, and then wanting you to deal with it. They dump and dump. Some of us make good dumping grounds. If I dump usually its off of me. But now my burden becomes your test. We have our own to deal with. So if you have some dumping to do, don’t dump it on me. I don’t want the mess you’re in to become my mess. Burden, loads, responsibilities…When you grab a hold of something from someone else, it becomes your responsibility. I don’t want someone else cross to become my burden.

Burden: Greek word is baros meaning load, abundance, authority, weight. Anything pressing on one physical thing.

I understand what you’re going through, but when you take someone else burden it makes a demand on one’s life, spirit, resources, time…most people don’t realize that. When you look at a test. What is a test? Everyone has been to school. When you take a test its a critical examination and evaluation of ones trial. How many have done an evaluation on yourself? Did you find yourself wanting? Lacking? The point is…how often do we admit our failures to ourselves? I have come to the conclusion its a daily battle to exist and a daily war to walk upright before God. Daily. The Bible tells us no one knows what tomorrow will bring. One day you’ll be all together, with inspiration of wisdom, and you think wow, I must be going somewhere. Then the next day, you are miserable and think everyone hates you. The point is that one moment we’re this way, another moment were that way, but we don’t even realize there is a day-to-day life we lead, and live walk and breath. You cannot fix things that moment. You cannot fix things that day or hour or month. Even the world can’t fix problems because it’s not them who are fixers, they are causers.

How many have ever had an evil thought? Think about it, so the negativity in the air is also because of what you thought and did. So, this world is the way it is because of us. We have allowed another man or woman’s burden to become ours and we’ve spread that disease like never before. People use the term, “I hate your guts.” No one’s ever seen your guts, how would you hate someone you’ve never had a gut to gut relationship with? You walk away feeling proud, and then when you walk away you say “why did I say that.” Now you’ve taken over someones problem. Have you ever thought about why you hate an individual? Because it didn’t meet a personal need or physical awareness, because they kept you from being fulfilled by a thing. So you traded your love for hate. How could you love one moment and hate the next? Sometimes we don’t even have to say we hate, we just live a life of hate toward that individual. How many are carrying others burdens right now? How many are in a test today? Did you create that test?

When you look at a test scenario, evaluation of yourself, a lot of times we get mad at a person because it’s expressing who we are. We’ve painted a picture of us being something different, but the truth comes out of what we really are. When our mind has told us that we are what we made ourselves out to be, then we get mad at the person calling us out. Then we inspire others to see our point of view. When we set a trap for ourselves, the Lord tells us to love everyone. But Lord I can’t love someone who treated me bad, talked about me, stabbed me in the back, called me names…sometimes we’ll reap things we’ve done from a long time ago… thought we got away with it, when the Lord says He has a time for us. Then we don’t understand and say “Lord why me? I’m the one that loves You.” As you define love and relationship in your life, what are the elements you use to define love?

How many forgive people? The sort of prayer that says “Lord I forgive them for what they’ve done and what they’re doing.” When you allow the hardship and burden of someone else to become your difficult state, then they become a detriment to yourself. You may not have said it out loud, but you may have acted like it. Its like this…you speak things into existence. Out of your mouth you condementh yourself. And that is just after you sang “I could sing of your love forever.” When you come into the house of God, I don’t want you to leave the same way you came. Most come jacked up, broken, confused, and then whats next? Did I speak about trials earlier…if you didn’t get it right the first time…you’re going to repeat it. And it doesn’t come on a time schedule. It comes when you are doing everything you like under the sun. Weigh it before you say it. Before things come out your mouth out of hatred, anger, lust, even love, make sure you weigh it against the heart and mind of God. Don’t say anything out your mouth that hasn’t been checked. The words that come out of your mouth vibrate. Everything has a vibration to it and it is stored in objects. If you take the test of someone else upon yourself when no one asks you to, then if they get an F, you get an F. Don’t get mad when the result is not positive toward you. Don’t get upset and say “Lord that wasn’t my test it was their test.” The Lord will look at you and say “were you in agreement with them or did you entertain it?” Your test is your test. So if someone is in a test, say I don’t want your test. Your test is a mess. If you aren’t able to bear it, or go through your own personal test, how will you bear it? Another man’s burden will not be mine.

Galatians 6:1-18

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil 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. Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things. Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.Ye see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own hand. As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ. For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh. But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.

Don’t call someone out of their name, or say you hate their guts or say you can’t stand them. “Galatians 6:5 For every man shall bear his own burden.” “Galatians 6:2 Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.” When it says this, it doesn’t mean bear another persons sin. Your walk is your walk. If I see another person going through, I will help, but I won’t bear it. How do you help? By praying that God’s will be done in his life, not to grab it and try to work a will, but to pray that God’s will be done. So if you take on another persons burden in another way other than prayer, it becomes your test, and it’s not what God has given you. Now, you’re bearing another’s burden through prayer because its your brother/sister, don’t get involved. We get sick, they get well and we’re still sick. Don’t hold onto some else’s burden because if they go down hill, so will you.

Jonah was given a command to go to Nineva to preach to the heathen man. The Lord said that if he preached to them, they would repent. He instead took his burden to a great fish. He said swallow me! If you do then I don’t have to say what He has to do. You’d rather be swallowed by a big fish than to do what the Lord told you to do, then you deserve everything coming to you. But the Lord didn’t let that happen. So the fish spat him out. He made a 2 weeks journey in 2 days, and did what God told him. When someone is disobedient to God, don’t be around them, run. When a grenade goes off, does it make distinctions about whom it will blow up? No it blows up everything. So if God is after someone because of their disobedience and you are associated with them, you will take the burden too. Rather you should pray that God deals with them, that God delivers them from themselves.

Why do we go through for someone else’s mess? I want to go through my own trials, because its something I didn’t get right. I don’t want you to go through for me because I won’t get the point. I won’t get it if I don’t go through because the Lord takes us through to make us, not to break us. You can’t go through what another person goes through because God is dealing with them individually. You have to realize you help people better by allowing God to take them through. God is trying to let us know He wants to make us.

What is Sin

The biggest problem with most people or just, in general, is there has been a debate over what is sin and what is not sin. Some people in the world say wrong doing when you are evil towards someone else, but the actual definition of what sin is Biblical. It’s an immoral act against God. The definition that the dictionary says is this: an immoral act considered to be a transgression against divine law. Synonyms of sin: wrong, wrong doing, active doing evil, wickedness, transgression, crime, offenses, misdeed, lying, cheating, vices. Any act under the aforementioned words is considered to be sin unto God. So you may ask, what does that mean? What it means unto God, we all have sinned and we all have come short of His glory. Is sin wrong? Well, yes. Does sin cause other people to be harmed, hurt, or injured or even killed? The answer again is yes. So we all have come short of God due to sin. For instance, if you tell a lie or half truth as they say, on an individual on a situation, you may cause someone or something to go wrong to the point of someone getting hurt or killed. If you mistreat someone evilly, harm them verbally or physically, you still have commited a sin. Most individuals don’t want to accept the fact that their sin has transpired in their life. But what we must reconginze is one important factor: sin has destroyed many hearts, lives, and possessions. So I ask you again, have you sinned, has sin played a big portion of your life? Have you ever been lied on, has anyone ever cheated on you, has anyone ever caused harm in your life?

 

Romans 6:9-23

Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin. Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death. But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

 

I read all that to say to those who say they have no sin or don’t know what it is, in todays modern day language the word sin is being limited and pointed at partiular events or situations. But the fact is its all sin, whether you lie, cheat, kill, steal, tell white lies, or mistreat, abuse, even to the point of miscarriage of justice, its still an evil act. So if you don’t like the term sin, its an evil act. No one likes an evil act, no one, and

No one likes an evil act, no one, and everyone understands what an evil act is. Well the Bible termed it as sin. So again it points to we all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, but Christ has died for your sins. He did it one time. There remains no more sacrifice, that anyone can do say or act, He is the untimate sacrifice because He died for sin. When He rose 3 days later, He brought captivity of sin captive. He made everything that we do of sin nature, dead to us, because He brought it to death. That is why it asks the questions, so since we are freed from sin, so is it ok for us to go ahead and continue sinning since we’e been freed from it? God forbid. No one else can die for you or deliver you from sin anymore, so there remains no more sacrifice athat anyone can do. SO is sin wrong, someone may ask? Is someone slapping you in the face, shooting you killing you, burning down your house, stealing your possessions, stealing your food, stealing your kids, killing your husband or wife, kidnapping, raping, are those things ok with you? If so, then you have become a part of the problem with society. You need to seek help to be delivered from that type of mentality. THe only one who can deliver you from you is our lord and saviour Jesus CHrist and for you to recongize that and understnad that these things have brought you in to being captive, these evil things. Christ came and died on the cross to set the captives free. Whom the Lord has set free they are free indeed. While you were in sin, you served another master, and the master of that term sin or evil doing is Satan, the Devil Beelsivub, and all his impts and demons, they are who you were serving. In Romans 6:16

That is why it asks the questions, so since we are freed from sin, so is it ok for us to go ahead and continue sinning since we’ve been freed from it? God forbid. No one else can die for you or deliver you from sin anymore, so there remains no more sacrifice that anyone can do. So is sin wrong, someone may ask? Is someone slapping you in the face, shooting you, killing you, burning down your house, stealing your possessions, stealing your food, stealing your kids, killing your husband or wife, kidnapping, raping, are those things ok with you? If so, then you have become a part of the problem with society. You need to seek help to be delivered from that type of mentality. The only one who can deliver you from you is our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and for you to recognize that and understand that these things have brought you into being captive, these evil things. Christ came and died on the cross to set the captives free. Whom the Lord has set free they are free indeed. While you were in sin, you served another master, and the master of that term sin or evil doing is Satan, the Devil Beelzebub, and all his imps and demons, they are who you were serving.

 

Romans 6:16-17

Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

 

It all starts by giving your heart over to Christ, repenting for who you were, asking for forgivness for where you are, and being baptized in His name for the remission of sin. In simple terms, you are changing who you serve, you stop serving Satan, and now serve the Lord. Whom the Lord sets free from sin is free indeed. Now you can go about serving God. We might get those who may say whats going to keep me from going back and serving Satan?

 

Acts 2

37 Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?

 

So if you have that same question, then Peter says in the 38th verse: Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

Not the Holy Spirit but the Holy Ghost

Continuing on to the 39th verse: For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

Holy Ghost and Holy Spirt, I hear some say that there is no difference becuase of the writers of that time. If you look at the OT it talks about the Holy Spirit from God, but the New Testament talks about the Holy Ghost from Jesus. One is from the Father the other is from the Son. The Holy Ghost will lead you and guide you into all truth. All comments and questions are welcome.