To bear the conditions of Christ is something far greater than merely to consider those conditions. Was it not love, to fill the universe with animated beings, and to pour the riches of beauty and happiness over creation? (3)Mere duty.These will engender disappointment and therefore weariness.IV. (1) Monotony and drudgery. (5)Because it associates us with the highest orders of beings. . So, then, two thoughts Alexander MaclarenExpositions of Holy ScriptureThe Owner's BrandI bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.'--GAL. We shall reap the growth effectuated by His Holy Spirit, though we may not always understand the nature of the gracious sheaves that we are bringing in our bosom. No; weariness in some form or other is the result of our infirmities, and as long as human nature remains what it is, the mind and the body will sink under its pressure. It is like pumping a sinking ship. Believer! H. We, not our successors, will reap.3. The apostle doubtless understood that while the end is the first in God's purpose, it is the last in manifestation. If you say a man is doing well, you mean to say that a man is increasing in his wealth, his influence, or his connections. II. Do you get up in the morning and feel a need for the power of the Spirit and seek his filling in the Word and prayer? God acts not without a plan.3. A third thought suggested by the view given us in the text of the Christian's vocation is that the believer is endowed, by God, with the capacity for imparting blessing to his fellow-men. . B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth October 20. Not only is a desire for novelty sometimes the occasion of weariness in well-doing something is to be attributed to the influence of sloth. )The difficulty of well-doingH. Hope breeds patience, and patience breeds perseverance. A third thought suggested by the view given us in the text of the Christian's vocation is that the believer is endowed, by God, with the capacity for imparting blessing to his fellow-men. (3)The training of real home missionaries. Macknight, D. D.)A caution against declension in the ways of practical pietyJohn Rodgers, D. D.I. Let us consider it, secondly, As URGING HIM TO PERSEVERANCE IN THAT VOCATION BY THE PROMISE OF ULTIMATE REWARD. A mass of useless lumber, in the shape of old instruments, may infest the Church of God, and we perhaps often feel that nothing can be done without removing such incumbrances.3. To give you an instance of the use which is always made of it, I may mention the place where we are told that the Jews found fault with Christ because He made Himself equal with God, saying that God was His Father: "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work." "Let us not be weary for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not." The text may be regarded, in the first place, as marking out the Christian man's vocation in the present world. "Fear not, Daniel; for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard." We must be eyes to see, ears to harken, mouths to plead, hands to labour, feet to walk, or shoulders to bear for the body the Church (1 Corinthians 12:12-27; Ephesians 4:11-13).3. Work on, work ever.(J. "In due season we shall reap if we faint not" (Gal. "Let us not be Weary in Well-Doing" (Gal. Whatever power can afford to rest, the power of evil never grows weary.3. What is grace, as the term is here used? W. "We shall reap, if we faint not."2. What was the issue of his labours amongst the Gentiles and Jews? My little nephew was out in the garden one evening with his father sowing peas; next morning he took a basket and was going out to gather the crop, and was greatly disappointed when told the peas were not yet grown. 'As we have therefore'--that points a finger backwards to what has gone before. The soldier it is natural to him to be amongst bullets, and to mount up cliffs, in order to plant his standard upon castles and difficult places. Go, learn yourself, before you teach others; how can you place yourself in such a position, to teach others the way to heaven?" )The difficulty of well-doingH. In the first place, it refers individually to ourselves doing well, or doing good, with regard to ourselves. Weariness of mind and of body is common to most men. Text--But grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.--2 Pet. In every duty done for God, grace calls to the work, aids in the discharge of it, makes meet for and finally bestows the promised inheritance.2. THE NECESSITY OF PERSEVERANCE IN WELL-DOING. Sunday School teaching is well-doing, because 1. vii. But Paul has a way of setting side by side two superficially contradictory clauses, in order that attention may be awakened, and that we may make an effort to apprehend the point of reconciliation between them. Man says here will I rest. WE HAVE ABUNDANT ENCOURAGEMENT IN THE PROSPECT OF REWARD.1. 4. Good harvest time, then, has not yet arrived. vii,--one of the longest in the Bible, and one full of repetition. He glories in nothing, save in the cross of Christ.Dictionary of Bible ThemesGalatians 6:94464harvest5418monotony5582tiredness5635work, and redemption5883impatience8418endurance8713discouragement9130future, theGalatians 6:6-105603wagesGalatians 6:7-94506seed5499reward, divine8255fruit, spiritualGalatians 6:9-106672grace, in relationships8262generosity, human8442good worksLibrarySeptember 19. Ye grow weary and give up sometimes on the eve of reaping, and lose the harvest. 17. His well-doings were not to make himself a name or a praise in the earth; he was no mountebank, who for a season sought to attract the gaze and admiration of men, in order that upon the pinnacle they should raise for him he might stand and enjoy his transient life of honour and worldly reputation. all the glory of thy salvation belongs to Jesus,--none to thyself; every jewel in thine eternal crown is His,--purchased by His blood, and polished by His Spirit. "Even the youths shall faint and be weary but they that wait on God shall renew their strength" (Isaiah 60:30).4. He glories in nothing, save in the cross of Christ.Dictionary of Bible ThemesGalatians 6:94464harvest5418monotony5582tiredness5635work, and redemption5883impatience8418endurance8713discouragement9130future, theGalatians 6:6-105603wagesGalatians 6:7-94506seed5499reward, divine8255fruit, spiritualGalatians 6:9-106672grace, in relationships8262generosity, human8442good worksLibrarySeptember 19. )Unwearied in errorH. Thomas, D. D.)I. Observe the spirit by which those. 'As we have therefore'--that points a finger backwards to what has gone before. (c)You strike at the root of sin in seeking the regeneration of a child.2. In this busy working world, the inactive, the disappointed, the weary, are soon trodden down and destroyed.2. What was the issue of his labours amongst the Gentiles and Jews? (3)Our reaping is absolutely certain.Application:1. I grant you that large results are often given. The difficulty of the problem depresses and disheartens us.I. Spurgeon. Keep near to the Master. In the third place, the text furnishes us with most encouraging motives for perseverence: "In due season we shall reap, if we faint not." By His visitation alone we are preserved.4. But to the other, set as he was amid the libidinous frenzy of the Sodomites, who would dare to say, "Although thy guests in thine own St. 2. Not entirely of course, but too much. He could see that his own season might not be God's season. But this, instead of discouraging us, should only make us cling closer to Him.3. )Perseverence in religious duties enforcedG. 17. The evil to which the Christian is exposed, and against which he is cautioned weariness in well-doing.III. True, the prospect may appear to us far off, though to some it may be nearer than they think.(W. At last one threw down his tools and said: "I will leave here before we starve," and he did leave. (c)You strike at the root of sin in seeking the regeneration of a child.2. 9). Reflect that the work and weariness will soon be over in that land of rest where we shall be burdened no more.(H. This work is well-doing, because (1)It is in accordance with the will of God. "We shall reap if we faint not." A. )The beauty of a Christian is to hold on in pietyT. We are sowers of seed here. You will be tempted to grow weary. Further incentives to perseverance may be found in the peculiar and insidious character of the temptations to which well-doing is exposed. But this, instead of discouraging us, should only make us cling closer to Him.3. Jesus Christ, to whom we are abandoned, and whom "we follow as the way, whom we hear as the truth, and who animates us as the life" (John xiv. Watson.It is a strange sight, to see a busy devil, and an idle Christian.2. Smyth. The struggle after a better Christian life.3. (1)Because God has formed us especially for well-doing. 19. One lay down to die; the ether, seeing his awful condition, began to rub, chafe, and rouse him. Again: unwearied continuance in "well-doing" has the distinct promise of success.(G. (c)You strike at the root of sin in seeking the regeneration of a child.2. He could see that his own season might not be God's season. A Christian will not be weary of service, that hath the crown in his eye. To have generous minds.2. In this respect a good man partakes of the Spirit of that holy and righteous Being who hateth the workers of iniquity, and with whom evil cannot dwell. "(James Sherman. She received us with that easy openness and affability which is almost peculiar to Christians John WesleyThe Journal of John Wesley"Hear the Word of the Lord, Ye Rulers of Sodom, Give Ear unto the Law of Our God, Ye People of Gomorrah,"Isaiah i. 18. This is the argument urged by the apostle in our text: "for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not." "Be not weary in well-doing." If we turn from the unwearying work of the busy world to contemplate the great power of evil, if we try to realize its presence, to separate it in thought from the world which it defiles and seeks to ruin, we are appalled by its ceaseless efforts to accomplish its deadly purpose. The evil to which the Christian is exposed, and against which he is cautioned weariness in well-doing.III. Only by well-doing, not spasmodically and occasionally, but of set intent and purpose. What was the issue of his labours amongst the Gentiles and Jews? True grace is a living principle, and wherever it is found in the heart, it always tends towards perfection.2. iii. And it is no small mercy, to reap a lively heart, and a generous soul, and an affectionate spirit, and a willingness to labour in Christ's cause, as a reward for any little acts we perform for Him. In the remarkable work known as his Retractations, Augustin makes a brief statement on the subject of this treatise on the Harmony of the Evangelists. "Even the youths shall faint and be weary but they that wait on God shall renew their strength" (Isaiah 60:30).4. vi. WebIt's a chore. Be not weary in well-doing.1. Was there any symptom of yielding, of inconstancy there?3. THE MOTIVE THE TEXT ASSIGNS. Text--But grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.--2 Pet. vi. Every good work is difficult; never was there a good work very easily done. It may be found in the depths of the valley, amid streams and rocks, or in the city, amid lofty towers, temples, and palaces, where the "Te Deums" of thankful hearts may meet and swell into one of earth's loudest anthems before the throne of heaven.3. A. In all the well-doing of the Christian, in all the toil of the earnest worker for God, there is alliance with the power of the Holy Spirit, and with the purposes of God; and it would seem that the sovereignty of God has included the labours of man in its own far-reaching penetration. But though "all be of grace," thy God calls thee to personal strenuousness in the work of thy high calling;--to "labour," John Ross MacduffThe Faithful PromiserCadman -- a New Day for MissionsS. I MUST conclude this Course of Lectures by giving converts instructions on the subject of growth in grace. Being invited to tea by Madam de Vassenaar (one of the first quality in the Hague), I waited upon her in the afternoon. Surely you will not be weary, when your salvation is so much nearer than when you first believed?(W. "Be not weary in well-doing," BECAUSE AN UNFINISHED ENTERPRISE, OR A WORK INCOMPLETE THROUGH INCONSTANCY IS BOTH A DISTRESS AND A DISGRACE. L. Galton, M. (1) The weight of the flesh. 25. The insidious character of our temptations to weariness.IV. God acts not without a plan.3. . To have generous minds.2. We may apprehend ourselves weary in it when we are not really so. God's.(J. (2)Grace perhaps is at a low ebb. (2)The work lasts on year after year.2. Beecher. "I must work the works of Him that sent Me, while it is day; the night cometh, when no man can work/' So said He, who could do more work in a minute, than we can do in a whole life. (2)The work lasts on year after year.2. The reference in these words is probably to the cruel custom of branding slaves as we do cattle, with initials or signs, to show their ownership. The text contains special exhortation to constancy in well-doing. M. The painter may be paralyzed, and his unfinished canvas be the best expositor of his malady. (5)The difficulty of the work.III. 1 The love of sin. His well-doings were not to make himself a name or a praise in the earth; he was no mountebank, who for a season sought to attract the gaze and admiration of men, in order that upon the pinnacle they should raise for him he might stand and enjoy his transient life of honour and worldly reputation. Brethren, it is true with regard to the world, "so long as thou doest well to thyself, men will speak good of thee;" it is true with regard to God, so long as you do well in His sight, shall you have His sanction and His smile.1. By its natural birth, from sinful parents, it is not in the kingdom of God, but in the realm and under the dominion of sin, death and the devil. "Be not weary," FOR THE MOTIVES TO CONTINUANCE IN THE RIGHT COURSE ARE AS POWERFUL AS THE MOTIVES TO COMMENCEMENT. Merry. Oh I to hear my Master "say in that day, "Well done, good and faithful servant!" In every duty done for God, grace calls to the work, aids in the discharge of it, makes meet for and finally bestows the promised inheritance.2. Those who cease well-doing cannot obtain the promised reward.(J. vi. Christ has become the power of God to us.1. v. 6. Conditions of growth in grace. We find Daniel, in the reign of Cyrus, saying "In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three full weeks; I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled." The words have not been taken in the same sense by all, a fact that obscures their sense. It was necessary to drill and blast a foot, two feet, six, ten, eighteen, twenty feet, and then I struck a spring. A day is hastening on, when works, and not wishes, or projects, will determine your eternal reward. The apostle means by this charge that we are not to allow any kind of weariness in right doing to arrest us in the discharge of duty, or to force us away from its path. He shows what they intend that preach circumcision.14. Christ has become the power of God to us.1. To fully realize our obligation to do good.II. Love may be compared to the rod of myrtle in the traveller's hand, which refresheth him, and keeps him from being weary in his journey. The Apostle has been exhorting to unwearied well-doing, on the ground of the certain coming of the harvest season. Do the men of the world even respect a backslider? Yet he was not weary in well-doing.II. Does any one ask, "Why is this what are its causes?" It may be found in the depths of the valley, amid streams and rocks, or in the city, amid lofty towers, temples, and palaces, where the "Te Deums" of thankful hearts may meet and swell into one of earth's loudest anthems before the throne of heaven.3. To bear the conditions of Christ is something far greater than merely to consider those conditions. It is a poor life that never treads a mountain summit, and flings an eagle glance over a promised land. There is good and solid reason why we should be so admonished. To resist the evil world.III. Not in your sight nor in mine, but in Christ's. . There are abundant opportunities for everybody.3. First, that the fulfilment of the Christian vocation is connected with certain reward in the future. HOW TO PREVENT WEARINESS IN WELL-DOING.1. Was it not love, to form man after the image of God, and to breathe into him a thinking, reasonable, immortal spirit? I just thank God for your support in the part I have to play in this church. Is a source of genuine joy.(D. Our ways of doing good may often be antiquated and cumbrous. Paul bore the conditions of Christ on his body. 5. In all the well-doing of the Christian, in all the toil of the earnest worker for God, there is alliance with the power of the Holy Spirit, and with the purposes of God; and it would seem that the sovereignty of God has included the labours of man in its own far-reaching penetration. Christians are the pledged disciples of the Great Worker in this field of holy exertion. The Christian owes his own salvation to unwearied love and infinite sacrifice.2. Christ has become the power of God to us. I distinguished, amid the din, the soft, clear voice of a woman, singing in perfect tune. IV. . Horwood. Thomas, D. D., J. F. Stevenson.I. Listen to what Job says: "When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.II. vi. Two travellers crossing the Alps were freezing to death. The harvest will come in due season.4. It is always associated with great difficulty. 5. The reward promised to patient labour. Another cause of this weariness is the want of success.5. 13, 15), or a regulative principle of Christian life (Gal. H. "In due season ye shall reap if ye faint not." Conditions of growth in grace. Man's life progresses, and each age has its character. )The difficulty of well-doingH. Was there any symptom of yielding, of inconstancy there?3. Merry. But to the other, set as he was amid the libidinous frenzy of the Sodomites, who would dare to say, "Although thy guests in thine own St. The weary and hopeless outnumber the careless, if one may judge by the eager throng which presses into the field when some direct, immediate good is set before them as capable of being done. Help others. vi. If a man should set himself to improve his mind and manners simply out of a desire to be something better than he had been, he would still, in the doing, be helping others, for he would become a more valuable member of society. One morning a man found the snow all piled up before his door. It is the casket which contains the most precious of all jewels. Those who grow weary in well-doing, so as to forsake the ways of practical godliness, lose all their former labour and pains in religion. Weight, M. A.I. The text contains special exhortation to constancy in well-doing. Varying ideas have been attached to them. Evil-doers shall also reap wretchedness and anxiety here, and eternal woe hereafter.2. Parkes Cadman is one of the many immigrant clergymen who have attained to fame in American pulpits. So in His "own season" that is, the season which is peculiarly adapted for the purpose; the season which God knows to be the most appropriate; the season that shall best fit in to all the other declarations which God shall make of His majesty, His justice, and His power, as well as His love, His mercy, and His grace: at that time "we shall reap, if we faint not." God acts not without a plan.3. The months before the ingathering may often seem long and wearisome, and verily be heart-breaking things, but God's "seasons" are not always measurable by our forecastings, even though the harvest is pledged by His oath and His promise. 18. It is, indeed, beautiful beyond expression. (1) The weight of the flesh. Let us consider it, secondly, As URGING HIM TO PERSEVERANCE IN THAT VOCATION BY THE PROMISE OF ULTIMATE REWARD. 9). The struggle after a better Christian life.3. I encouraged her to "labour and to wait." We often feel our unfitness and our unworthiness to be employed in doing good. To see Him rise from His seat, and stretch out His hand, and say, "Come, thou blessed child of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. We now propose to consider more fully why this James Hudson TaylorSeparation and ServiceConcerted Prayer"A tourist, in climbing an Alpine summit, finds himself tied by a strong rope to his trusty guide, and to three of his fellow-tourists. VII How to grow in Charles Grandison FinneyLectures on Revivals of ReligionPrincely Service. So in His "own season" that is, the season which is peculiarly adapted for the purpose; the season which God knows to be the most appropriate; the season that shall best fit in to all the other declarations which God shall make of His majesty, His justice, and His power, as well as His love, His mercy, and His grace: at that time "we shall reap, if we faint not." (2)The rearing of a generation of worship-loving people. In this busy working world, the inactive, the disappointed, the weary, are soon trodden down and destroyed.2. (2)If you don't sow the devil will. iii. In judicious labour.2. These are of great extent; they are many in number, and important in their nature. Two men were digging for gold in California once. (1)It cannot be confounded with evil doing. A mass of useless lumber, in the shape of old instruments, may infest the Church of God, and we perhaps often feel that nothing can be done without removing such incumbrances.3. The third persevering grace is love. No doubt the work is hard; yet you should not despair. (2)Others fear that it will prove a failure. We may, like the caterpillar, spin a very beautiful cocoon and call it our home, but even the caterpillar will teach us, if we will listen, that if he were to remain satisfied in that silken ball which he has woven, it would become not his home, but his tomb. These are of great extent; they are many in number, and important in their nature. 3. For see what the individual who has to instruct the human mind, has to contend with. Two travellers crossing the Alps were freezing to death. Coming to this country about 1895 he was appointed pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Metropolitan Tabernacle, New York. But to stay on the level, to live in the clear upper air, to soar untiring as an angel, to work unresting as Christ, this is the strain of life. "Let us not be weary in well-doing" (Gal. "We shall reap, if we faint not."2. V. What is not proof of growth in grace. He could see that his own season might not be God's season. Two men were digging for gold in California once. In a broad view of the Christian profession, it is a volunteer service for the help of Christ in lifting the burden of the sin and misery of mankind. The harvest will come in due season.4. A. "Do well," is the command; and the command obviously implies that those to whom it is addressed have the power to do well are, in other words, invested with an ability to benefit and bless others. W. My Father worketh hitherto, and I work."3. (2)Be proportionate to our well-doing. Having, then, assumed this, that we have learned to care for our own souls, and to regard our own immortal interests, the next point to be considered is, that we are bound to engage in "well-doing" for our fellow-creatures; for it is especially to this that the text refers. So, for instance, you remember he puts Alexander MaclarenExpositions of Holy ScriptureThe Glory of the Cross"God forbid that I should glory save in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ."--GAL. The Christian has a persevering enemy to slay.2. And surely that is not a small thing. It is like pumping a sinking ship. That season may not be ours, as, doubtless, many times it is not: that season may not be ours, not the one which we, in our fleshly wisdom, should choose; but it is the season which God chooses, the season which is best adapted, which is most peculiarly suited for the purpose of mercy and truth meeting together, and righteousness and peace kissing each other. Study the history of Jesus of Nazareth. Then he picked up his shovel, and marked off a square, and began to see how long it would take him to cast that aside; then another and another, until the whole was cleared away. This reward will be bestowed at an appropriate period. VI. If we weary in well-doing, we shall be the only recreants from duty. VI. A. We become discouraged and weary when we do not see immediate fruits of our labour. Coming to this country about 1895 he was appointed pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Metropolitan Tabernacle, New York. Watson.It is a strange sight, to see a busy devil, and an idle Christian.2. "In due season we shall reap, if we faint not."--GAL. Keep near to the Master. Now, the duty of "well-doing" embraces much of inner thought and of outward action; it embraces every Christian virtue that can be mentioned every good work that is worthy of the name; and among the many good things it includes, it most assuredly numbers among them the duty of supporting, of advancing the interests of "the house of God," as a means to an end, as an agency which the Almighty is pleased to adopt for the accomplishment of His own Divine ends, whether in the way of His Spirit or of His providence. vi. And as the farmer has long patience, so ought we to have long patience. W. Beecher.When I dug my well, I knew that there were rocks below, and when I had thrust down the pick and spade through the easily yielding earth until they struck the rock I found no water. Be not weary in well-doing.1. L. Galton, M. The want of spirituality of mind.7. And here we see the importance, if we first consider what was the issue of the apostle's labours. Do the men of the world even respect a backslider? He has VariousThe World's Great Sermons, Volume 10On Mysteries --God Gives them Here in Reality. That we may hold on a Christian course, let us labour for three persevering graces. Does any one ask, "Why is this what are its causes?" It is just the contrary; they are given to the soul in reality. I MUST conclude this Course of Lectures by giving converts instructions on the subject of growth in grace. We become discouraged and weary when we do not see immediate fruits of our labour. Differently to be admonished are those who are bound in wedlock and those who are free from the ties of wedlock. 10. Renew the fight, endure the strain. In the first place, it refers individually to ourselves doing well, or doing good, with regard to ourselves. The harvest will come in due season.4. These should not dishearten.2. "Do well," is the command; and the command obviously implies that those to whom it is addressed have the power to do well are, in other words, invested with an ability to benefit and bless others. It is something more than attention to our personal condition.2. Brown, B. She was quite confused at my question, but her answer was very striking: "Yes, sir, if I work long enough." And now let me request your attention to the last suggestion derivable from this text: That the assurance of certain reward, in connection with the fulfilment of the Christian vocation, is a sufficient motive to perseverance therein under every temptation to weariness.(C. Viney, D. D.It is the part of religion to teach man to do well. The prospect of a happy issue of our labours is a strong support. VII. Keep near to the Master. how can you expect to be blessed? Cultivate the grace of forbearance.3. 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