Unweariedly. Do he must and will. The Christian has a persevering enemy to slay.2. I must deny myself.2. vi. (1)The flesh cries out for ease. I reply something is to be attributed in this tendency to the love which the human mind has for novelty. He began to shovel it away, but there seemed to be such a mountain of it he threw down his shovel in despair saying: "I can never clear away all that snow." As they skirt a perilous precipice he cannot pray, Lord, hold up my goings in a safe path, that my footsteps slip not, but as to my guide and companions, they must look out for themselves.' Spasmodic virtue and charity are easy enough and cheap enough. A day is hastening on, when works, and not wishes, or projects, will determine your eternal reward. Ye grow weary and give up sometimes on the eve of reaping, and lose the harvest. 13, 15), or a regulative principle of Christian life (Gal. If the least of us could only anticipate the eternal issues that will probably spring from the humblest services of faith, we should only count our sacrifices and labors unspeakable heritages of honor and opportunity, and would cease to speak of trials and sacrifices for God. The second thing to regard is, the manner in which this duty is to be performed; that is to say, unweariedly: "Let us not be weary in well-doing." Believer! This is what he is specially called to the business of his life his "being's end and aim."1. What the injunction "to grow in grace" does not mean. Clay Trumbull The pious Quesnel says that "God Edward M. BoundsThe Essentials of PrayerExcursus on the Use of the Word "Canon. The third principle of unwearied stedfastness and increase in the work of the Lord, is a conviction of the evil of sin. We learned from Numbers vi, GOD'S requirements of those who desire to take the privileged position of separation to Himself. 2. A. One more occasion of inconstancy in well.doing may be adverted to, and that is the most powerful of all the natural disinclination of the mind to doing well at any time.1. Every good work is difficult; never was there a good work very easily done. In the first place, it refers individually to ourselves doing well, or doing good, with regard to ourselves. 1. In judicious labour.2. It is like pumping a sinking ship. (3)Often difficulties in the way of well-doing, and resolution is indispensable. VI. (5) It is thankless work.2. W. A. He not only gave us our being, but He holds our souls in life. "For, in due season, ye shall reap if ye faint not." 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. Ah! The reaping time will come.2. There is infinite goodness in this arrangement, inasmuch as it opens to us one of the richest sources of happiness; for what joy is comparable to that of bringing joy to others?II. For those who are bound in wedlock are to be admonished that, while they take thought for each other's good, they study, both of them, so to please their consorts as not to displease their Maker; that they so conduct the things that are of this world as still not to omit desiring the things that are of God; that they so rejoice in present good as still, with earnest Leo the GreatWritings of Leo the GreatForms Versus Character'Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.' B. Let us consider it, secondly, As URGING HIM TO PERSEVERANCE IN THAT VOCATION BY THE PROMISE OF ULTIMATE REWARD. In acceptance with God.V. 2 and 3.) "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." But this, instead of discouraging us, should only make us cling closer to Him.3. Get the love of God in your hearts, and you will run in His ways, and not be weary.(T. Simple fatigue.2. Conditions of growth in grace. (2)The rearing of a generation of worship-loving people. 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. God acts not without a plan.3. What is grace, as the term is here used? WebSowing and Reaping. 16). (George H. Work on, work ever.(J. 9). I MUST conclude this Course of Lectures by giving converts instructions on the subject of growth in grace. Ye grow weary and give up sometimes on the eve of reaping, and lose the harvest. A. Evil-doers shall also reap wretchedness and anxiety here, and eternal woe hereafter.2. "In due season we shall reap, if we faint not."--GAL. Now, there is a double link of connection between the preceding words and our text; for 'do good' looks back to 'well-doing,' and the word rendered 'opportunity' is the same as that rendered 'season.' R. Reynolds, B. The beauty of a thing is when it comes to be finished; the beauty of a picture is, when it is drawn out in its full lineaments, and laid in its orient colours; the beauty of a Christian is, when he hath finished his faith.(T. Live in unseen communings.II. The reward promised to patient labour. The certainty.3. There may be, of course, work left unfinished through necessity. VII How to grow in Charles Grandison FinneyLectures on Revivals of ReligionPrincely Service. You must observe that it does not enjoin upon us well-scheming, but well-doing not the design, but the deed. "In Due Season we Shall Reap if we Faint Not" (Gal. I encouraged her to "labour and to wait." Spurgeon. Take the most disagreeable task first: don't leave it until it becomes more burdensome than it is.2. The great controversy which embittered so much of Paul's life, and marred so much of his activity, turned upon the question whether a heathen man could come Alexander MaclarenRomans, Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. A Due Reaping. He not only gave us our being, but He holds our souls in life. Working from wrong impulses.(1)Praise.(2)Pride. It is the casket which contains the most precious of all jewels. The evil to which the Christian is exposed, and against which he is cautioned weariness in well-doing.III. The necessary power Will be given to all who attempt it.III. 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 has VariousThe World's Great Sermons, Volume 10On Mysteries --God Gives them Here in Reality. Is a source of genuine joy.(D. Observe the spirit by which those. Increases our power for well-doing.2. He was born in Shropshire, England, December 18, 1864, and graduated from Richmond College, London University, in 1889. As a sinful being the new-born infant is not in the Way of Salvation. Does the Spirit tire of striving? Does any one ask, "Why is this what are its causes?" What it does mean. Relative usefulness shall be another portion of your reaping: "we shall reap, if we faint not." )The beauty of a Christian is to hold on in pietyT. Ye grow weary and give up sometimes on the eve of reaping, and lose the harvest. THE CHARGE OF THE APOSTLE,.1. One lay down to die; the ether, seeing his awful condition, began to rub, chafe, and rouse him. Often pray to God. VI. Keep Christ in full view. III. "In due season, we shall reap if we faint not." As ever you would desire not to be weary in well-doing, beware of sloth in the ways of God. We find Jacob wrestling with the wondrous angel of God's covenant through the entire night, and prevailing not till the morning began to break. What the injunction "to grow in grace" does not mean. Christ Himself lives and works within the Christian by the power of His Spirit.III. Watson. It is true that in old times criminals, and certain classes of Temple servants, and sometimes soldiers, were also so marked, but it is most in accordance with the Apostle's way of thinking that he here has reference to the first class, and would represent himself as the slave of Jesus Christ, Alexander MaclarenExpositions of Holy ScriptureBurden-Bearing'Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. (1)The flesh cries out for ease. You are but a channel; His is the power; and that power can be communicated through you.2. The Greek Samuel DavidsonThe Canon of the BibleThe Beautiful HagueWhen we came to the Hague, though we had heard much of it, we were not disappointed. "The spirit truly is willing, but the flesh is weak." Well-doing is not the doing of the superstitious, the formalist, the exclusive, the recluse, nor the training of any peculiar faculty of the soul, but the training of the entire man under the master impulse of love. "The spirit truly is willing, but the flesh is weak." The first-fruits here. Surely you will not be weary, when your salvation is so much nearer than when you first believed?(W. Only by well-doing, not spasmodically and occasionally, but of set intent and purpose. They toiled a good while and got nothing. (4)Saturating the whole population with religious truth.(C. Jesus Christ, to whom it is abandoned, and whom it follows as the Way, whom it hears as the Truth, and who animates it as the Life, impressing Himself upon it, imparts to it His own condition. This is a sin natural to us; but there are few greater enemies to vital godliness than it is.2. 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. Nor is this all there is the spirit of self-complacency. Let us, in conclusion, consider the reason which the apostle urges for our observance of this injunction. But this, instead of discouraging us, should only make us cling closer to Him. Keep Christ in full view. In doing good we obtain good.2. The Christian has a persevering enemy to slay.2. Place yourself amid its events. He was born in Shropshire, England, December 18, 1864, and graduated from Richmond College, London University, in 1889. 9). Reflect that the work and weariness will soon be over in that land of rest where we shall be burdened no more.(H. SOME PLACES WHERE WE ARE LIABLE TO GROW WEARY.1. Sunday-school teachers may appropriate this.3. To be engaged in doing good is to sympathize with the feelings, and to imitate the conduct of all God's saints on earth. (4)Saturating the whole population with religious truth.(C. It is not enough that we being in the ways of God, that we set out in the paths of piety, but we must persevere in them; we must endure to the end; for he alone "that shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved."3. Nor is this all there is the spirit of self-complacency. In the former chapter we have shown, from Scripture and from reason, that our Church teaches only the plain truth, when she confesses that: "After Adam's fall, all men, begotten after the common course of nature, are born with sin." We grow languid sometimes in prosperity. 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. 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. "I must work, said Jesus, the works of Him that sent Me while it is day. Sunday School teaching is well-doing, because 1. Do the men of the world even respect a backslider? I encouraged her to "labour and to wait." Differently to be admonished are those who are bound in wedlock and those who are free from the ties of wedlock. TRUE WELL-DOING BRINGS WITH IT APPROPRIATE RESULTS.1. On account then of these either occupations of the servants of God, or bodily infirmities, which cannot be altogether wanting, not only doth the Apostle permit the needs of saints to be supplied by good believers, but also most wholesomely exhorteth. God's.(J. events were vitalized. 5. Help others. "The spirit truly is willing, but the flesh is weak." We grow weary when the work seems too large and we try to take it all in at once. They were less thoughtful than when she took charge of them. And sometimes God favours those, who thus enter upon the work zealously and affectionately, in their first efforts, with remarkable success. To fully realize our obligation to do good.II. The second persevering grace is hope. Paul was thus content to look forward to the time when he should reap the reward of his labours, The husbandman was first to endure toil, that afterwards he might receive the joy of the harvest.(J. (Reuen Thomas. The love of sin makes sin taste sweet and this sweetness in sin bewitches the Thomas WatsonThe Beatitudes: An Exposition of Matthew 5:1-12Introductory. B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth Doing Good to All'As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all. (3)Our reaping is absolutely certain.Application:1. )The beauty of a Christian is to hold on in pietyT. The harvest will come in due season.4. It may be found in the wide waste of sands, in the vast wilderness, where the tent of the pilgrims is erected, and from beneath the spread of its canvas may be heard the earnest breathings of a humble and contrite spirit. As to the "WELL-DOINGS" of the apostle, scarcely any doubt can be left on the mind with reference to these, if we attentively peruse the records of his commission. 16). This is the health-lift of the soul. In the first place, your duty is, to be engaged "in well-doing;" that is to say, in doing well, in doing good, in doing that which is just and approved in the sight of God. 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. In that day, the least thing done will secure you a revenue of unspeakable glory; whilst the greatest thing talked of and planned only will bring you nought but disappointment and shame.3. The want of love to Christ.6. And the boy looks from the beginning of his arithmetic through to the last page, and says: "I shall never get through that."2. )Perseverence in religious duties enforcedG. The only proper prayer in such a case is, Lord, hold up our goings in a safe path; for if one slips all of us may perish.'"--H. 18. VI. The third principle of unwearied stedfastness and increase in the work of the Lord, is a conviction of the evil of sin. To restrain natural passions and propensities.3. We find Jacob wrestling with the wondrous angel of God's covenant through the entire night, and prevailing not till the morning began to break. "(1)Be graciously abundant. The reaping time will come.2. As they skirt a perilous precipice he cannot pray, Lord, hold up my goings in a safe path, that my footsteps slip not, but as to my guide and companions, they must look out for themselves.' THE CERTAINTY OF SUCCESS IN WELL-DOING. We cannot calculate the hour nor the nature of our triumph, but we know that the Word of God standeth sure, and that the due season draweth nigh.(H. It was David's prayer, "hold Thou me up and I shall be safe;" and it was Beza's prayer, "Lord, perfect what Thou hast begun in me." The apostle doubtless understood that while the end is the first in God's purpose, it is the last in manifestation. And sometimes God favours those, who thus enter upon the work zealously and affectionately, in their first efforts, with remarkable success. The expression "due season," then, I conceive refers to a time which is known only to the Father, who hath put the times and seasons in His own power. Varying ideas have been attached to them. Paul was thus content to look forward to the time when he should reap the reward of his labours, The husbandman was first to endure toil, that afterwards he might receive the joy of the harvest.(J. The second persevering grace is hope. I KNOW IT GETS HARD, BUT DONT QUIT. (Admonition 28.) 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. 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. The absence of variety is painful, and transforms the period over which it extends into a desert a sandy plain; while, were there to be the entire negation of variety, life would be insupportable, and, like solitary confinement would soon become the harbinger of death. 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. The confession of time will be the ascription of all eternity: "By the grace of God I am what I am!" THERE IS WELL-DOING OR GOODNESS THAT IS INCUMBENT ON US, viz., sowing to the Spirit. How soon does a spirit of weariness creep over us in our spiritual career. The words have not been taken in the same sense by all, a fact that obscures their sense. Our ways of doing good may often be antiquated and cumbrous. (3)Reaping is your reward, but sowing is your work.II. )The beauty of a Christian is to hold on in pietyT. (3)Want of order and discipline in the school.3. vi. In our sowing, an absence of apparent results will beget weariness. AugustineOf the Work of Monks. Live in unseen communings.II. WHY WE SHOULD GUARD AGAINST BEING THUS WEARY IN WELL-DOING, AND PURSUE THE CONTRARY LINE OF CONDUCT.1. Weight, M. A.I. 18. In growth of character.2. No, says God, that is not what I mean for you. For those who are bound in wedlock are to be admonished that, while they take thought for each other's good, they study, both of them, so to please their consorts as not to displease their Maker; that they so conduct the things that are of this world as still not to omit desiring the things that are of God; that they so rejoice in present good as still, with earnest Leo the GreatWritings of Leo the GreatForms Versus Character'Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.' The expression there is the same that is found here; His own Father; God was His own Father. L. Galton, M. A.I. Help others. 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