Be Not Weary In Well Doing

Q: What does the Bible say about God supplying our needs?

Philippians 4:19 assures us that God will meet all our needs according to His riches in glory through Christ Jesus. The Bible emphasizes God's faithfulness in providing for His people, as seen in Philippians 4:19 where it states, 'My God shall supply all your needs according to His riches in glory through Christ Jesus.' Throughout scripture, God demonstrates His ability and willingness to meet our needs, often providing abundantly and at the right time. This not only applies to material needs but encompasses spiritual sustenance and support in times of service. As believers, trusting in God's provision is fundamental to walking in faith and performing our tasks for His glory.

Q: How do we know God rewards our good deeds?

Galatians 6:9 reminds us not to grow weary in doing good, for in due season we will reap if we do not faint. We find assurance of God's reward for our good deeds in Galatians 6:9, which encourages believers to persevere in well-doing. The promise is that if we do not grow weary or discouraged, we will ultimately reap a harvest in God's perfect timing. This concept is rooted in the integrity of God’s word, affirming that our labor in the Lord is not in vain (1 Corinthians 15:58). While we may not always see immediate results, faithfulness in our service and ministry is honored by God, and His rewards are often not realized until eternity.

Q: Why is it important to support missionaries?

Supporting missionaries is crucial as they spread the gospel, and we are called to communicate unto those that teach us in all good things. Supporting missionaries is vital in the work of God’s kingdom. Galatians 6:6 instructs believers to share all good things with those who teach them. This establishes a partnership in the ministry, allowing the gospel to reach those who have not heard. Faithful support is also an expression of our gratitude for the spiritual nourishment we receive. Moreover, as we contribute to their well-being, we participate in the extension of God’s grace to others, fulfilling our responsibilities as part of the body of Christ. Such support fosters unity and encourages the spreading of the Gospel.

Q: What should motivate Christians in their good works?

Christians are motivated by love for God and others, seeking to do good as a reflection of His grace. The motivation for Christians to engage in good works stems from our love for God and others. We are encouraged in Galatians 6:9 not to grow weary in well-doing, reminding us of the eternal significance of our actions. Our service should align with the law of love—bearing one another's burdens and seeking to uplift each other. This reflects the gracious character of God towards us and shows the world the impact of His love. Ultimately, good works are an outflow of the transformation Christ has made in our lives, pointing others towards Him.

He promised in Philippians 4.19,
my God shall supply all your needs according to his riches
and glory through Christ Jesus. And we have tasted and found
that to be true all these years, haven't we? And no matter what God leads
us as a church and as a family to do in his name and for his
glory and to help other churches and other ministries and missionaries. He always faithfully supplies
the need. It's always there. Brother Merle
Luther told me one time, Merle was so faithful all these years
until God called him away. He said every time we add a missionary,
he was on the financial committee for years, he said every time
we add a missionary pastor, every time you appeal for funds to
help a missionary, God always increases the offerings. He said
don't ever be shy about asking, because our great God will supply
the need. He does. Just two weeks ago,
we received notice that we had 4,000 pounds of books on the way, commentaries. Isn't that 4,000 pounds of books? That's commentaries and the John
and other books for distribution and to give out to people and
Bible lessons and all. That's a pretty good expense. I don't know how much money it
is, but it's $5,000 or more. That Sunday, one of the couples
in the church wrote a check for $5,000. They didn't know the
books were on the way. God knew they was on the way,
and they gave that gift, and that takes care of the need.
When I was in Australia, I was in a pastor's home, and we received
a publication from England There
was a picture in that publication of Brother Bill Clark, our faithful
friend and missionary. Pastors never met Brother Clark.
And he was reading the publication. He said, here's your friend,
Brother Clark. I said, I'd love for you to meet him. He said,
he's never been to Australia. I said, he just needs to come
here and preach. And you need to have him in your
church and at Tamworth and at Sydney Newcastle and other places,
you fellas need to know this man and know about his ministry
and hear his message." And I said, I'll tell you what, if you'll
invite him over, we'll pay half the expenses. And I just knew
that you would. I knew you'd be glad to do that
if I felt led to project that or promise it. He said, we'll
do it if you'll take care of half of it. Well, I got the letter
today. that we needed between $800,000
and $1,000 for that expense to get Bill to Australia. So I called,
I had my office over at the house, I studied over there, and I called
Martha over here and told her, I said, we need to write a check
for Bill Clark's trip to Australia. Total 772 pounds, but we're going
to take half of it. And I said, whenever you got
the money, we'll write the check. So I sat there and read a little
longer and went out and got my mail. There was a check for $1,200
from a couple out in Texas. So I called Marty and I said,
write the check. We got the money. And that's
the gospel. You just can't out-give our gracious,
generous God, can you? He'll meet the need. Give, you
know, for his glory. I'm not talking about throwing
things away and being careless. I wouldn't do that. You know
that. I wouldn't do that. If I feel like it's for his glory,
attempt great things and expect great things. He always has supplied
the need. I signed a contract first of
the year for $52,000 for the television program, knowing it'll
be there. He wants us on there, it will
be there, and when it's not there, we'll get off. Galatians 6, Galatians chapter
6, and I think this passage of scripture is addressed to you, dear people,
you dear faithful. servants of the Lord, Galatians
6 verse 9, and let us not be weary in well doing. Let us not grow discouraged,
let us not get weary in doing the work of our God and ministering
for his glory, for in due season, in God's own time, we are in due season, in God's own time,
we'll reap if we faint not. If we don't grow weary and discouraged
and indifferent and fall along the way, he'll bless us. He'll
meet the need. Now, let's go back and see what
he's talking about. I think we have to go back to
verse 1, and let's see what the Apostle is is saying here, in
chapter 6 of Galatians, verse 1, he says, brethren, and that's
talking to believers, we're redeemed children of God, redeemed by
his grace and indwelt by his Spirit. He says, brethren, if
a man be overtaken in a fall, ye which are spiritual, ye which
are mature, strong in grace, restore such a one in the spirit
of meekness. considering thyself, lest thou
also be tried and tempted." Now, as I said, we are redeemed. We're
children of God. This is the family of God. We're
saved by His grace. We're indwelt by His Spirit.
But we're all human. There's a human preaching to
you, and there's a human listening to me. We're all human. We're
all flesh. And the motions of sin The motions
of sin and the desires of this flesh and the potential and the
possibility to err and fall is in every person here, without
exception. Isn't that true? Admittedly. Therefore, if a brother, if anybody
in this fellowship, in this family, if a brother or sister falls
into sin, And it doesn't matter whether it's an error of spirit,
attitude, or whether it's the sin of the flesh. We're to make
every attempt in the name of our God to recover him, not dismiss
him, not shun him, not cast him out, not exclude him, but he
said to restore him. recover him or her, restore him,
resettle him in his place of fellowship. And he says, you
which are strong, you which are spiritual, the attitude of those
who are strong. And spiritually mature is not
to be critical. We're not to be critical. We're
not to take a holier-than-thou attitude if a person strays or
errs or falls. You which are spiritual, restore
such a one how? In the spirit of meekness. In
the spirit of Christ. Not condemning. For if we know
ourselves, we know except for the grace of God, it wouldn't
have been him, it would have been us. Isn't that true? Except
for the grace of God, it would not have been him. It would have
been us. And so we're to restore such
a one, remembering what we are by nature, remembering what dwells
within us, remembering it's only the grace of God that keeps us
and sustains us and hedges us about, lest thou also be tempted. And then in the next verse he
said, bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. What is this, burdens? Well,
it goes back to verse 1. Here's a brother who's weak.
Here's a brother who has faults. Here's a brother who has infirmities.
So bear those infirmities, bear those weaknesses, bear those
faults. Love beareth all things. Recognize
them. You know, we make allowances
for physical handicaps. I have a hearing impairment. Others have certain handicaps.
Some don't see too well. Various things. We make allowances
for physical handicaps. We provide a special parking
place for people that are physically handicapped. So why not make
allowances for spiritual weaknesses? Isn't that what he's saying?
In other words, bear ye one another's burdens, infirmities, and faults,
and weaknesses, and failures. Sympathize with the fallen, forgive
them readily, and bear their infirmities, bear their weaknesses.
For, he said in verse 3, listen to this, if a man think himself
to be something, and we're talking about in the spiritual realm.
thinks himself to be talented, or knowledgeable, or gifted,
or powerful, or strong, or whatever. He thinks himself wise to be
something when he's nothing. When he's nothing, he deceiveth
himself. Now, you know, we all know these
scriptures. We quote them quite often. Paul
said, I'm less than the least of all the saints. Paul said,
I'm not worthy to be called an apostle. Paul the Apostle said,
Christ came into the world to save sinners of whom I'm the
chief. We know those in our heads, don't
we? We know that scripture says, in my flesh dwelleth no good
thing, and we talk a lot about that. And then we know he said
in Psalm 130, Lord, if thou shouldest mark iniquity, who, O Lord, would
stand? We know those in our head, don't
we? Well, I tell you, we need to learn them in our hearts. We need to learn them in our
hearts, and that would deliver us from this spiritual pride.
This is spiritual pride, if a man thinks himself to be something. Why would he think himself to
be something? Well, it goes back to that verse before. Here's
a man who's fallen, or a woman who's fallen, who's aired. who's
manifested some weakness, and this person who's spiritually
strong, not looking at God and His holiness, he's looking at
that person and his weakness, and that makes him think himself
to be something. See how it follows right along?
He thinks himself to be something in the light of this man's weakness,
whether that weakness is in any area. But take this next verse
along with it. But let every man prove his own
work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and
not rejoicing in the fall of another. I'm wiser than he. I'm stronger than this person.
I'm this, that, and the other in the light of this man. The
Pharisee in the temple said, Lord, I thank you I'm not like
that publican. I'm this in the light of what
he is. You see, you take these verses
together, verse 3 and 4. If a man think himself to be
something when he's nothing, he deceives himself. But let
every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing
in himself alone and not in another. The only reason a man will think
himself to be something when he's nothing is by comparing
himself to a weaker person. That's the only way. Because
he certainly can't think himself to be something in the light
of what God demands and commands and expects. But when he compares
himself to a less gifted person, then his gifts stand out to him. When he compares himself with
a weaker person, then his strength stands out. But we're not to
prove ourselves by ourselves or by another, we're to prove
ourselves by Almighty God's righteous, holy character. And then we'll
find out we're nothing. We're nothing. But now here's
something else he said, listen. In verse 4, let a man prove his
own work. In other words, if we can find
some measure of spiritual growth or spiritual gifts in God's sight
or some way that God has used us or blessed us, then we can
rejoice in the fact that God's been pleased to use us based
on how He used us, not based on how He didn't use someone
else. You understand what he's saying? Let every man prove his
own work, not comparing himself with someone else, but looking
to God. who has been pleased to take
a nothing and use it for his glory. Now look at verse 5. For every man shall bear his
own burden. That is, every man shall fulfill
his own calling. Every man shall do his own work
as unto the Lord. I'll show you an example of that.
Turn to John 21. This is what I'm talking about
right here. In John chapter 21, listen to
this. In John chapter 21, starting
with verse 18. Now our Lord's speaking to Peter
here. And he says to Peter, Verily,
verily, I say unto you, when you were young, you girded yourself,
and walked whether you would. But when you shall be old, you
will stretch forth your hands, and another shall gird thee,
and carry thee, whether thou wouldest not. Now this spake
he, signifying by what death Peter should glorify God. And
when he had spoken this, he said to Peter, follow me, you follow
me. And what our Lord is saying to
Peter is, they're going to crucify you. That's how Peter died. They
crucified him. Someone said they crucified him
upside down. I don't know. Is that tradition
or what? But he would not be crucified
like his Lord. But Peter, his hands were stretched
forth and he was crucified. And our Lord said, you follow
me. That's his assignment. That's God's purpose for him. The end of his ministry, that's
what our Lord said. Now this is what's going to happen.
Now you follow me. And then Peter turning about
and seeing the disciple whom Jesus loved following as John. When John writes about himself,
he doesn't call his name. He calls himself the disciple
whom Jesus loved and the disciple who leaned on the Master's breast.
Which also leaned on his breast at supper and he said, And said,
Lord, which is he that betrayeth thee? Now Peter, seeing him,
seeing John, said to Jesus, Lord, what'll this man do? You see
what he's asking? The lad just told him, said,
Peter, when you're young, you went where you wanted to, but
when you're old, you're gonna stretch forth your hand. And they're
gonna carry you where you would not. And this is a death you're
gonna die to glorify God. This is what you're gonna do.
Now, you follow me. You follow me even to this end.
And he turned and looked at John and said, what's he going to
do? Now listen. And Jesus said unto him, if I will that he tarry
till I come, what is that to thee? What business is that of
yours? You follow me. And how I use
John and where I use John and what I do with John is not your
affair. You follow me. And over here
in Galatians, that's exactly what he's saying here in verse
4 and 5. Let a man prove his own worth.
Let a man bear his own burden. Verse 5, perform his own task,
his own service, his own ministry. Let a man fulfill his own calling
as unto the Lord and base your judgment of what you're doing,
not compared to someone else, what they are doing or what they're
not doing. It's the gifts He's given me. It's what He's led
me to do. Some people can preach better
than I can, but I can preach with the gifts He gave me. Some
are better at prayer than I am, but I can pray out of a sincere
heart with the gifts He's given me. Some people have the financial
ability to give more than I have, but I'll give what he's enabled
me to give. I've gone to churches before,
and they said, well, we support the missionaries, but we can't
send what you fellas send. All we can send is $25 a month,
and I said, don't base it on that, what you fellas send. That's got nothing to do with
it. Not a thing to do with it. It's what God's put in my hands.
is what God's given me. And if you could be with the
missionaries and see them pull up to a gas pump and spend $25
or $30 for one tank of gas, that'll buy the gas to take them to preach.
And when several churches give $25, you've got $100 soon, and
you've got $200 soon, you've got enough to support the missionary
folk. Do what your hand finds to do and do it with all your
heart and all your strength and all your might as unto the Lord
regardless of what anybody else does. And that's what he's saying. Bear one another up. Love and
pray and care for one another. Restore one another. And bear
the weaknesses and failures and infirmities. But you've got a
job today. That's your burden and your service,
and you be about it. I must be about my Father's business.
Whatever my hand finds to do under the leadership of His Holy
Spirit, that I'll do. All right, verse 6. And let him
that's taught in the word of God communicate unto him that
teacheth in all good things. That's very simple. This verse
has to do with the support and the care of those who truly preach
the gospel of God's grace. Now I add that the care and support
of those who truly study and truly preach and whose lives
are truly dedicated to the gospel of God's grace. I don't say that
God's people are to support pastors and missionaries and evangelists
and television programs if they do not preach the gospel of God's
redeeming grace. Don't do it. But when God lays
upon your heart true pastors and true missionaries and true
evangelists and true servants, and everything that goes by the
name of God is not of God, and everybody that holds a Bible
in his hand is not sent of God, and everybody who uses the name
Jesus is not a servant of the Lord Jesus Christ. Let a man
first be tried. Let him be proven by the Word
of God. And when that's been done, support him. I'm not talking
about giving to those who use the Gospel for profit and for
vainglory and for their own gain. I'm talking about supporting
the true preachers of the Gospel. And you, verse 6, that are taught
in the Word, communicate unto those people that teach you in
all good things. Let's turn over to 1 Corinthians
9. 1 Corinthians chapter 9. Listen to this. Now, the apostle
Paul is dealing with this over here in 1 Corinthians 9 verse
8, verse 7. 1 Corinthians 9, 7. Verse 7, look
at it. Who goeth a warfare any time
it is on charge? In other words, soldiers go out
to fight in devilish storms, they didn't have to take up raise
money and buy from the bank to go, the government paid their
way. That's what he's saying. Who planteth a vineyard and does
not eat of the fruit thereof? Who feedeth a flock and eateth
not of the milk of the flock? Say all these things as a man,
or say it's not the law, the same thing, the Old Testament
law, the Mosaic law. Listen. It's written in the law,
verse 9, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth
out the corn. Let him have an ear of corn.
If you're going to take an ox out to tread out the corn, plow
the corn, and plow up the corn, don't put a muzzle on his mouth.
Let him stop and bite, take a bite of it once in a while, if he's
going to do the work. That's what he's saying. Does
God take care of the oxen? Or saith he it altogether for
our sakes, for our sakes no doubt this is written, that he that
plies should plow in hope, and he that thresheth in hope shall
be partaker of his hope. Now if we've sown unto you spiritual
things, is it a great thing that we reap your carnal things? If
the man's your teacher, taught you the gospel, these missionaries
go down and preach to the people in other nations, and give their
lives to preach the gospel, It's no great thing for us to provide
them with food, clothing, and shelter. That's the way it ought
to be. Now Paul, you'll notice this in this chapter, when he
went to Corinth, he didn't use this right. He didn't use this
power. He made tents to keep people
from thinking he's in the ministry for money. That's exactly right.
He said, I have this right. I have this power. But I didn't
use it because I didn't want anybody to get the idea I was
there for money. And so he wouldn't let them give
him anything. He made tents and supported even the people that
were with him. That's what he says. Verse 12, if others be
partaker of this right, this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless, I haven't used
this right, this power. But I suffer all things lest
we should hinder the gospel of Christ. And let us be oh so careful
in our dealings with people and with the public. That's the reason
on our television program we never ask for money. I don't
want anybody who listens to that television program to get the
slightest thought that we're asking them for anything. Just
don't want. You say, well you might get more
money. No question about it. But let's bend over the other
way to keep anybody from thinking we're doing this for any reason
but the glory of God. We'll lean the other way. And
that's what Paul did here in Christ. But he says in verse
13, Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things
live of the things of the temple? In other words, the priests that
ministered in the temple, the Levites, these people, that's
the reason they had a storehouse then. The tribe of Levi, in this
right time, owned no land. The other living tribes did.
They all paid a tenth of what they had. Even the food. And it went into a storehouse.
Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse. And the tithes
of herbs and meat and wheat and oats and corn and whatever went
to the storehouse to feed the tribe who ministered about the
things of God. And that's where that storehouse
thing is. This isn't a storehouse. But
he said in verse 13, do you not know, they which minister about
holy things live of the things of the temple, and they which
wait at the altars partake of the altar. Even so, what says,
hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should
live of the gospel. Now that hasn't got anything
to do there with how I conduct myself. I should conduct myself
in a holy fashion. and adorn the doctrine. When
you go and preach, when it talks about you living of the gospel,
you certainly do conduct yourself in such a way as to adorn the
gospel. This is talking about the care of that person and the
financial and material and physical needs of that person. They that
preach the gospel full-time, minister full-time, those missionaries
and Bill Clark and Walter Gruber and Milton Howard, Ken Wyman,
Dan Parks and these men, your pastor and several others I can
name, Paul Mahan, Joe Terrell, Todd and I, just keep naming
those men of which they're not supposed to work in the factory. They're supposed to live with
the gospel. They're supposed to live on what God supplies
them. If it's little or much, but they're
to live with the gospel. That's what they say. And we
who have taught the gospel and who participate in their ministry,
we're supposed to help them. Isn't that what he said? I want
to turn to 2 Corinthians 9. Let me show you this again. 2
Corinthians 9. 2 Corinthians 9. Now listen to
this. Stay with me now just a few minutes.
2 Corinthians 9. Now, as touching the ministering
to the saints, it's superfluous for me to write to you. I know
you already know this, and I know you already know this. I'm reminding
you. For I know the forwardness of
your mind. I know your generosity. I know
your graciousness. I've experienced it for all these
years. For which I boast of you. I brag about you. This is the
most generous church in America, without doubt, without question.
But I'll tell you this, this is the most blessed church
in America too. It ought to be generous. I ought
to be generous. I tell you, we ought to be. We've
got no right not to be because we're the most blessed people
in this world. We ought to be generous. And I boast about you
to them of Macedonia and Achaia was ready a year ago and your
zeal hath provoked very many. Your zeal and your generosity
has encouraged a whole lot more people. That's right, not provoked
them in the sense angered them, no, it encouraged them. See what
I'm saying Bob? Alright, yet have I sent the
brethren Lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this
behalf, that as I said, you may be ready. He's fixing to take
up an offering, that's what he's about to do. Lest happily, if
they of Macedonia come with me and find you unprepared to give,
we that we, say not ye, that we should be ashamed in this
same confident boasting. I bragged on you, you said, don't
let me down. Isn't that what he said? I said, don't let me
down. I bragged on you. Therefore I
thought it necessary to exhort the brethren that they would
go before unto you and make up beforehand your bounty, your
offering, your blessing, whereof you had noticed before that the
same might be ready as a matter of bounty and not of covetousness,
a matter of generosity, not something you had to do, not something
you were forced to do, not something you did to get a reward. Not
something you did because it was a duty, but something you
made up beforehand out of your heart of love. Now listen to
this, but this I say. See, why he's reading all that?
I'll tell you why in a minute. But this I say, he that soweth
sparingly shall reap also sparingly. And he that soweth bountifully
shall reap also bountifully. Every man according as he purposes
in his heart, so let him give. Not grudgingly or of necessity,
but God loves the cheerful giver. And God's able to make all grace
abound towards you. God's able to fill your barn
that you might share. God's able to bless you that
you might be a blessing. God's able to fill your hand
that you might give. Listen to what he said, that
you always having all sufficiency in all things may abound in every
good way. He's got to give it to you before
you can give it. But if you'll give it, he'll give it to you.
That's what he said in there. You know what he said in John?
Why, certainly it is. He says, God's able to make all
grace abound toward you. He's able to do that. That you,
verse 8, always having all sufficiency in all things may abound every
good work. Now, one moment, look back at
verse 6. This I say, he was so aspiringly
Shariff, the same way. What a man sows, he'll reap. If he sows nothing, he'll reap
nothing. Now go back to Galatians 6, and
you'll know why I read that. Verse 7 of my text, Galatians
6, 7. I left off at verse 6, didn't
I? Let's read verse 7. Be not deceived, God is not mocked. Whatsoever a man soweth, that
shall he also reap. How many times have you heard
that quote? Wrong. Wrong. You know what that's dealing
with? Giving. That's exactly the reason
I read 2 Corinthians. No, same subject. You see in
verse 6, let him that is taught in the word communicate unto
him that teacheth and all good things. Take care of your missionaries.
Take care of your preachers. Take care of these young men
and their families who are out there Preaching the gospel of
God's grace, take care of them, and don't you be deceived. Don't
you let anybody throw you a curve. God's not mocked. Whatsoever
man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to the
flesh, he takes everything he's got and puts it on his flesh.
He doesn't give to others, he doesn't share with others, he
doesn't support the missionaries, he doesn't support the tape ministry,
he doesn't support the gospel, he doesn't support those that
are laboring in the... He takes it, he's got to have another
boat, or he's got to have another farm, or he's got to have another
fine car, he's got to have another suit, he's got to have all this,
that, and the other. You sow the flesh, you shall
of the flesh reap corruption. What's going to happen to your
investment? It's going to wither and rot. and go to the ground.
That's right, keep, keep. I'll build me some more barns.
Well, you're going to die tonight and you won't need those barns.
When you sow to the flesh, what's this? He that soweth to the spirit. Lay not up for yourselves treasures
on this earth where moth and rust doth corrupt and thieves
break through and steal. Lay up for yourselves treasures
in the He that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap
life everlasting. Everlasting Christ is our reward. You see, that's what he's talking
about. If a man sows wheat, he's going
to reap wheat. If a man sows to the Spirit and
gives his life and what he has for the glory of God and to help
other people, nobody can ever take that away from him. That's
a treasure that God's given him that he'll never lose. He'll
never lose. And verse 9, and let us not be
weary in well-doing. You see why I went back and picked
all that up? Because verse 9 starts with Ann. All of this that's
gone before. Forgive that brother. See, there
are a lot of ways of giving besides giving money. You can give of
yourself. You can give of your heart. You can give encouragement. You can give a smile. You can
give a helping hand. You can give comfort. Giving
is not just paying the bill. That's right. You know, there
are a lot of dear wives that have plenty, but they're unhappy. They need a little smile. and
a word of love and comfort, they'd swap all the fine dresses in
the world for a little bit of graciousness and kindness. So
that's giving too, isn't it? That's giving. And let's not
be weary in this well-doing. Let's not grow discouraged. Let's
not become indifferent. Let's not be careless in what
God's called us to do. Now, we're going to experience
disappointments. You're going to be experiencing disappointments
with preachers. We've helped missionaries before and preachers
before. This church has helped them tremendously and then have
them disappoint you. I mean really disappoint you.
Leave the gospel. We're going to have that. Paul
had it, didn't he? He talked about Alexander, he
talked about Demas, he talked about Phagellus, he talked about
Homogenes, he talked about Diostrophes, all these fellas, that they used
to be with him, and he helped them, and then they quit. A fella
said to me one time, I'll never help another preacher. I said,
oh, don't let one bad egg, you know, rob you of your blessing,
because there's more than one bad egg, there's lots of them.
You're going to run into Samoa. You're going to run into Samoa.
We're going to have disappointments. We're going to experience failure.
We're going to experience persecution. Friends are going to become enemies.
But don't you quit. Let's don't be weary in well-doing. For in God's good pleasure and
due season, we're going to reap. There's going to be a bountiful
harvest. It's going to be that exceeding great reward who's
Christ our Lord. And you know God doesn't measure
your guilt by the results of it. He measures it in the spirit
in which it's given. That's right. You may help that
fellow. He may turn out to be a worthless
bum. You say, I wasted my money. Oh, you didn't either now. You
wasted it if you gave it in the wrong spirit. If you gave it
for gain, if you gave it for reward, if you gave it to show
off, you wasted it. You ought to have bought you
another boat. But if you gave it as unto the Lord out of sincerity,
what he does with it, it had to have any effect on him. A
man comes to my door hungry and I give him a ten dollar bill
and he goes and buys two pints of whiskey. How much does that
cost, ten dollars? Nobody's going to answer me either. He goes and buys two quarts of
whiskey. I lost my reward. Oh, no I didn't. No I didn't. I gave it out of my heart. That's right. Look at verse 10.
As we therefore have opportunity, let's do good to all, especially
those of the household of faith. God looks on the heart, the motive. Isn't that right? On the motive. And what they do with it, we
may help another preacher. He may turn out to be a dud.
But the only way I know a dud is wait till he duds. I don't
know beforehand. You just got to wait and you
got to do what you can do. What God leads you to do, what
he gives you to do, do it. In good faith and good conscience
and a good attitude as unto the Lord and let them do what they
want to. He'll keep his own. Let's don't get weary. I wrote
down just four or five things here and I'll quit. Let's don't
be weary in preaching the gospel of God's grace. It's the only
thing that will save a sinner. I've been preaching it now a
long time. By God's grace, I intend to keep preaching this same message.
One hundred percent. Don't try anything else. God will bless His Word. Preach
it. Secondly, let's be faithful in our worship and our witness. He'll bless our witness. He may
use it as a witness to condemnation. Let's be faithful in supporting
those who are out there preaching the gospel. Let's be faithful
in striving for the unity of fellowship, not only here, but
in other churches. Let's encourage them. Let's encourage them. Strive
for the unity of the church and the fellowship. Let's be faithful
in prayer and intercession. Don't ever quit praying for your
family or your friends. Brother Barnard had one daughter, Joanne. As far as I know, during
his whole lifetime, she had no interest in the gospel, none
whatsoever. About four or five years after
he died, she called me and said, do you have any tapes of my daddy
preaching? I'd like to listen to them. So
don't you quit praying for your children, your grandchildren.
You may never see them brought to Christ, and that'd be alright,
won't it? If he saves them after you're
dead and gone, I don't care. I don't care. I don't care. I just want him to save them. So don't quit praying for them.
Don't quit interceding for them. Old Samson destroying more Philistines
than he died than while he lived. So you just might have to pull
the roof of the temple in on yourself before God blesses you.
That'll be alright too, won't it? It'll be alright. Just don't
quit, though. And help the older people. And
help the weak. And help the needy. And don't
measure your gift or your work by the response or the appreciation
of anybody. We're all low on appreciation,
aren't we? We're all pretty low on that. But it's not unto men,
it's as unto the Lord, isn't it? So don't measure. And don't
even measure the appreciation by the appreciation shown. You
know, some folks don't know how to receive. Let's learn how to give and forget
about how they receive it. That's what he said. Let's don't
be weary in well-doing. I hope that's a blessing. I hope
God will use it for your benefit. All right, Mike, lead us in a
song.

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