Galatians 6:1-5

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. ² Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. ³ For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. ⁴ But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. ⁵ For every man shall bear his own burden.

1. We fall because we are fallen creatures. When you read the words, ‘if a man be overtaken in a fault,’ do you ever consider yourself as being that one, or are you thinking of others. How often we read the scriptures with others in view, until the Spirit of God graciously shows us that we are the one that the verse addresses. When the LORD sent Nathan to address his sin, David did not naturally see himself as the one implicated until the prophet said to him, ‘Thou art the man!’ 2 Samuel 12:7. Through the word of the prophet, David was brought low at our Redeemer’s feet and confess his sin and utter condemnation but for the blood and righteousness of the LORD Jesus to which the Spirit of God caused him to look, Psalm 32.
2. It’s not a matter of ‘if’ but ‘when.’ That is how the word in the original may also be translated. Just as in 1 John 2:1…”And if [when] any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:” None of us is exempt from being overtaken in a fault. If we live, breath, and move we are sinning, because our very being is sin through and through- Jeremiah 17:9. The apostle uses language of the fault [any lapse or deviation from the truth] running ahead of you and entrapping you.
3. ‘Ye that are spiritual, restore such an one’ There are many in organized religion that only know to put such under discipline by ostracizing them, refusing to eat, drink, or fellowship with them until they have been punished enough. However, such is not the attitude of those who are ‘spiritual,’ [led by the Spirit of God, Romans 8:14]. Where the Spirit of the LORD is, there is a desire to restore [to mend], which is how the LORD’S Spirit works in converting all of Christ’s redeemed ones. Because Christ has paid the debt, there is therefore now no condemnation, Romans 8:1. The work of the Spirit then is to restore such in fellowship with God the Father through His Son the LORD Jesus. There are none whom Christ represents who can ever draw away into perdition, Hebrews 10:39. This in the spirit of meekness, i.e. the Spirit humbling the one burdened to restore the other.
4. Considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Any who are the LORD’S readily confess that they are of like nature with the worst of sinners, but for God’s grace, 1 Corinthians 15:10. What does it take for any of us to be tempted but for God to leave us to ourselves and go the way we would go? It is the nature of sheep to wander, and the salvation of any sheep is not in their ability to avoid a pitfall, but in the mercy and grace of the Great Shepherd of the sheep to seek and to save that which is lost and bring them back, again and again to the fold. Sin is within each of us, not out in the world. We carry it around with us in our temples of flesh. All it takes is the right opportunity and God removing His hand and any one of us is a devil. This is why our LORD taught us to pray, ‘Lead us NOT into temptation, but deliver us from evil,’ Matthew 6:13.
5. Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. The law or rule of Christ is that HE bore the sin of His people, not charging it to them, but willingly accepting to be their Substitute in His redeeming, justifying death. Any who are His will also bear the burden of a fallen brother in Christ. The word ‘bear,’ is literally to take up in one’s arms and carry to safety, as a soldier carrying another fallen soldier to safety.