Son of Isaac Restoration Ministry

Galatians 6:1 tells us that if we see someone overtaken by any fault, “you who are spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness…”   This causes some to ask, “Where are they?”

Based on the scriptural criteria cited above, it seems there are very few “spiritual people” in the organized church today!  A study of the Word of God clearly demonstrates that the heart of God is “restoration.”  In the man-made organizational church — denominational and nondenominational — there is little emphasis on restoring believers who have stumbled, and possibly even fallen.

Some might question the assertion that “the heart of God is restoration.”  A careful study of the bulk of the Old Testament reveals clearly that although His Old Covenant people — natural Israel — were repeatedly unfaithful to the Lord God who chose them, He always sought after them and desired their return, and restoration.

The writer of the New Testament book of Hebrews tells us that “we have a better covenant.”  Does our Lord and Savior, who died for our sins and bore the full weight and penalty of the sin of all mankind on the Cross of Calvary desire anything less for His redeemed than He did for the Old Covenant people of God?

As mentioned in the article “EZEKIEL 34, WHO WILL GO?” (published Oct. 9, 2007), God had a  “problem” with the shepherds (pastors) who did not perform His will in regard to the “sheep” who were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered” [Ezekiel 34:5]. This was clearly brought into the New Testament by Jesus, when He said:

Matthew 18:12  What do you think?  If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn’t he leave the ninety and nine, and go into the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray?
13  And if he finds it, truly I say unto you, he rejoices more about that  one than about the ninety nine which did not go astray.

The unfortunate truth today is that few pastors/shepherds go after the sheep who stray!  Nevertheless, the responsibility of restoring the one “overtaken by any fault,” is not only that of the shepherds .  The obligation of Galatians 6:1 more closely relates to that of Isaiah 61:4 which speaks of those who have received new life  and the “Covenant of Shalom — wholeness and completeness” from the Anointed One (Messiah, Christ).  This verse says:

Isaiah 61:4 And THEY shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations [Emphasis added].

The “they” are those who have received, through Christ Jesus, the promises of the first three verses of Isaiah 61.

Isaiah 61:1  The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD has anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
2  To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
3  To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.

Based on this, the ones “who are spiritual” of Galatians 6:1 should be ALL who have been redeemed by the Lord Jesus Christ, who clearly was the One who said “The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me.”  That, ultimately, is ALL believers in the true Body of Christ.

They — all of them, ALL OF US — should be the ones who “are spiritual” — who restore those Christians who “are overtaken by any fault.”  The Amplified Bible helps us understand “any fault.”  It reads, “if any person is overtaken in misconduct or sin of any sort, you who are spiritual  should set him right and restore and reinstate him.”

You who are spiritual!  And so I end this article as I began:  WHERE ARE THEY?