Read one verse from Galatians chapter six. Next week, Lord willing, I want to look at one verse, verse 10, but Galatians chapter six, verse nine. And let us not be weary in well doing. For in due season, we shall reap if we faint not. Let's pray. Lord, we come into your presence in Christ's name. And Lord, what a blessed privilege and grace it is know that you, the living God, hear us and accept us and hear our prayers for Christ's sake. Lord, we ask that we might be given your presence, that your blessing might be upon this time, that you would speak in power to our hearts for the glory of thy holy name. Lord, we wait to hear from thee. Give us hearts hungering to hear from thee. In Christ's name we pray, amen.

Be not weary in well doing. Do you know that is repeated in First Thessalonians chapter three, verse 13. Be not weary in well doing and then when we're given this promise in due season we shall reap if we faint not be not weary in well doing now this is a very real danger that all of us face becoming weary becoming exhausted, becoming tired, becoming spiritless, to fail, to become weak. That's what this means.

Be not weary in well-doing. Don't become discouraged. Don't become disheartened. Don't give up. in this thing of well-doing. Don't grow tired of well-doing. Don't lose heart in well-doing. Don't become discouraged, ready to give up, ready to give in. You ever felt that way? Weary in well-doing. discouraged, tired, disheartened, disillusioned, disappointed. Be not weary in well-doing. Now what is well-doing? Well-doing is everything associated with the faith in Christ. That's what well-doing is. limit it to one area. It's everything associated with the faith in Christ. What you're doing right now, being here, is well doing.

Here to hear the gospel, that is well doing. Your fellowship in the gospel, that is well doing. I asked myself this, I've asked this before, if everybody in this church were just like me, what kind of church would this be? If everybody was just like me in faithfulness, in humility, in encouragement, in generosity, What kind of place would this be if everyone were just like me?

The word well is mostly translated good. Good. Be not weary in good or good doing. Let me give you some words that are associated with this. We read of good works. She hath wrought, speaking of Mary, she hath wrought a good work on me. Good trees bring forth good fruit. A tree is known by its fruit. The good ground here prepares ready to receive the seed. The Lord spoke of good measure, poured out in the basket you bring. You get out of it what you put into it. You reap what you sow.

Paul said in Galatians 4.18, it's good to be zealously affected, always in a good thing.

Oh, zeal's good, isn't it? zeal for God's glory, zeal for the honor of Christ. The law is good. Amen. If a man use it lawfully. Paul spoke of a good warfare. Think of that. Fight the good fight of faith. He said, I fought a good fight. He describes the office of a bishop. He that desires the office of a bishop desires a good work. We read of a good foundation. And this is something to do with not being weary in well-doing.

Endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. Good stewards of the manifold grace of God Hold fast that which is good. I say to myself and I say to you, by the grace of God, don't settle for mediocrity. Strive for excellence whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with all thy might. Whatsoever you do, do all to the glory of God and don't grow weary in that. Be not weary of well-doing. Would you turn with me, hold your finger there in Galatians and turn with me to Isaiah chapter 43. This is such a, it's glorious and it's sad. Isaiah 43. Verse 22, this is the Lord speaking. He says, but thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob, but thou hast been what?

Weary of me. Isn't that sad? Thou hast been weary of me. Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings, neither hast thou honored me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering nor wearied thee with incense. Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices, but thou has made me to serve with thy sins. That's all you've given me. Thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.

I'm so thankful for the next verse. I, even I am he that blotted out thy transgressions for mine own sake. I've not found a reason to do it in you. I do this for my own sake. and will not remember thy sins. Isn't that amazing? He talks about how you've become weary of me, but I'm gonna forgive you for my own name's sake. Thank God for that. There are certainly things that contribute to this weariness.

And everybody listening to me knows what it is to feel like I'm throwing in the towel. I've had it, not going on, ready to give up. David said, I'm ready to fall. I'm ready to falter. My sorrow is continually before me. There are certainly things that contribute to this weariness. And the first thing is the flesh. You and I have that same old nature that we're born with right now. It is still there, what the scripture calls the old man. And he will wear you so much.

That's the thought that Paul's talking about in Galatians chapter five, verse 17, when he says, the flesh lusts against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh. This is this war that's going on and it is It's tiresome. It's tiresome. Paul said, when I would do good, evil is present with me. I feel him right now. Oh, wretched man that I am. Not that I was, but that I am. Who should deliver me from the body of this death? Commentators think that that has something to do with a dead body chained to a prisoner. That was part of his punishment. He's carrying around a dead body with him, the body of the flesh.

And indeed, that can cause weariness and exhaustion, disappointment, lack of results as far as the way you thought they would be. They're not like you thought They were discouragement. Feeling unappreciated. The poor example of others that make you want to give up and give in. You know, sowing is not easy work.

Look at the context of this verse of scripture. Verse seven, be not deceived, God is not mocked for whatsoever man soweth. That's what we considered a couple of weeks ago. That shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption. And remember, he's speaking to believers. This is true with regard to unbelievers as well, but that's not who he's speaking to. He's speaking to the church, the churches of Galatia.

He that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption, but he that soweth to the spirit shall of the spirit reap life everlasting. Let us not be weary in well-doing, this thing of sowing to the spirit and not sowing to the flesh. For in due season, at God's appointed time, we shall reap if we don't quit, if we don't lose heart.

Things are not as I thought they would be. I'm discouraged. I'm disappointed by people I ought to be encouraged by. Now, when we think like this, and we all do, anybody here ever not thought that way? When we think like this, what we're doing is not doing what we're doing as under the Lord. We're not thinking as we should, Whatsoever you do, do as unto the Lord, not the men. And whenever we're thinking, just comparing ourselves or looking at other people, we become discouraged. And that's just becoming weary in well-doing. And we have expectations of other people that seldom meet our expectations. That means what we're doing is we're not doing it unto the Lord.

Sometimes low expectations are good with regard to other people. You won't be so disappointed. Oh, you give these high expectations, they disappoint you. Low expectations. Have high expectations of yourself, but don't have these high expectations of others. You'll always be disappointed. Quit thinking that way.

Look to the Lord. You know, if you look to others, you'll be discouraged. You look to yourself, you'll be utterly disheartened. You look to the Lord, you'll be encouraged. I love that passage of scripture in 1 Samuel 30, where David, all the people wanted to stone him and he didn't have anything to be encouraged about. So he encouraged himself in the Lord. There's always reason to be encouraged in him, isn't there?

Don't become weary in well-doing of being the best husband you can be for the glory of Christ. Don't become weary in well-doing in being the best wife you can be for the glory of Christ. Don't be weary in well-doing in being the best parent you can be. for the glory of Christ. Don't become weary in well-doing and being the best employer. You'd be the best boss anybody ever had. Or the best employee for the glory of Christ. Being the best church member for the glory of Christ.

Don't be weary in well-doing. Being the best friend for the glory of Christ. Being the best dishwasher or diplomat for the glory Christ being the best servant taking the lowest seat giving we're giving this promise don't be weary in well-doing now there's so many things that can bring this on I realize that I don't know how many times I thought I'm quitting how many times that's being weary in well-doing and we're given this promise in due season, at God's appointed time, we shall reap if we faint not, if we don't quit, if we don't become utterly disheartened. And I don't know how many times I've been disheartened. Things are not going the way I envisioned they would. Now, I listened to a message by Henry Mahan on this passage of scripture, and he preached it in 1978.

And at the time, the church had been in existence for 24 years. It began in 1954 when they founded the church. And when they started that church, there were 108 adult members, not including kids. That's a big group. That's how they started. 24 years later, he said, 24 of these people have died. Six people have moved off.

And there were 78 of the original members still in Ashland, Kentucky. Of those 78 members, 39 were now gone, still living in Ashland, And if you would have asked them if they believed, they would have said, yes, of course I do. He said they would probably even fight for the doctrine of election. They believe, they said, but they grew weary in well-doing.

Where are they now? They're gone. Why did they leave? Well, I'm sure they all had justified reasons in their own mind, but they are gone. they became weary, exhausted, tired in this thing of well-doing. At one time, they were so excited but because they became weary and well-doing, the gospel lost its luster to them.

Now, this is a very real danger, isn't it? If you know your own heart, you know it's a real danger. Becoming weary becoming exhausted in this thing of well-doing, but Paul gives us this promise, in due season we shall reap if we think not. Become utterly disheartened and wearied in well-doing.

Now, this has something to do with sowing. In due season we shall reap, sowing and reaping. In due season we shall reap if we faint not if we don't become utterly discouraged and disheartened and when we're like that I know why we're looking here. Isn't that so? You're looking within and when you look within you're always going to find reason to become weary and exhausted and disheartened.

Now, when we sow to the Spirit, you know what we're doing? We're looking to Christ only. When you look to Christ and, you're going to become weary in well-doing. Now in sowing to the Spirit, we look to Christ only and we're going to reap what we sow. We have the joy of looking to Christ only.

That's reaping what you sow. Don't forget, God will meet you on the ground you come to him. You come looking to Christ only, he's all you got, you'll reap what you sow. And oh, how glorious that reaping will be. Eternal life in Christ Jesus. All of God's acceptance, all of God's pleasure. You'll reap what you sow. You look to Christ only, you will reap what you sow. both in this life and the life to come.

You forgive, and don't become weary in that. You forgive, you'll reap what you sow. You'll be forgiven. The Lord promised that. Forgive our debts as we forgive our debtors. You show mercy, you'll reap what you sow. You'll be shown mercy. That's his promise. You take the lowest seat, you'll reap what you sow. You'll be called upon to go up higher. You take the highest seat, you're gonna begin with shame to take the lowest seat. You will reap what you sow.

Let us not be weary. in well-doing, you show yourself a friend, you'll reap what you sow, you'll have friends. You're not a friend to somebody, you'll reap what you sow. Now, I realize some people are shy and unable to bring themselves to try to make friends, I realize that, but be a friend, whatever. Be a friend, you'll reap what you sow. He that would have friends must show himself friendly.

You give, you'll reap what you sow. It'll be given to you. You cannot give God. You give, it doesn't mean you're gonna have more money in the bank, kind of like an investment. That's not what I'm talking about at all. But oh, the Lord said it's more blessed to give. than it is to receive. You give, you'll reap what you sow. You continue being faithful, you'll find God faithful to you. You preach the gospel and not become weary in it, you'll reap what you sow.

God will bless it. You come hungry, I hope I come to hear the gospel with a hungry spirit, not a critical spirit, not a judgmental spirit, not sitting back to see if I agree with what the preacher's saying, but with a hungry spirit. Lord, feed me. Give me a word from you. You'll reap what you sow. He'll speak to you. You come full, you'll reap what you sow, you'll leave empty.

Now, there is a very real sense that we get out of it what we put into it. Is that works? No, but it's so. By the grace of God, we get out of it what we put into it. Be not weary in well-doing. This is God's word. This is God's command pinned by the spirit of God. And we all are so capable of becoming weary in well-doing. You know that. Yet the Lord graciously gives us this commandment twice.

Here and in 1 Thessalonians 3.13. Brethren, be not weary in well-doing. And I know how that can be. by once again, looking to Christ only. I look to Christ only.

I'll not be weary, I'll mount up to heaven as on wings of, however it said that in Isaiah, I can't remember where it's at, but it's in there in the 40s somewhere. They shall not be weary, neither shall they faint. Be not weary. well-doing. For in due season, at God's appointed time, I love the way David said, my times are in thy hand. At God's appointed time, here's his promise, we shall reap if we faint not. Amen.