October 24.
Instruct The Newborn

Galatians 6:1

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.

Brethren. The writer of this epistle is talking to saved folk. There is a difference between the gospels and the epistles.

The gospels teach us how to be saved, but the epistles teach us how to behave. Many saved people have not yet learned how to behave. A saved person with bad behavior will make others think they aren’t saved. They will give the church and God a bad name because they have been saved but they haven’t been taught how to behave.

When a person comes down the aisle and gives the preacher their hand and gives God their heart, it is similar to the birth of a newborn baby. There is still a little after birth left on them. They have to be cleaned and bathed. The baby is still connected to the mother through the umbilical cord, which must be cut. In other words, a new believer has still got a few lies in them; a little envy, a little malice, and a little strife is still on the inside. The other thing is they are still connected to somebody in the world. When they came down, they spend only two hours at church. They will go back home and spend 166 hours that next week with some liars, backbiters, and cheaters. They will work beside gamblers, whoremongers, and peace breakers. They will be exposed to all of the things of the world.

We are sadly mistaken when we assume the work is complete the moment a person accepts Christ. God sent them to us for us to be nurses and surrogate mothers so that we can aid and assist our brothers and our sisters and bring them to a higher level. How do you think it would look if you gave birth to a child and once the baby was born you left it at the hospital with your business card saying, “If you need us call us”? When we do people that way who come to Christ, we are doing the same thing.