Be Not Weary In Well Doing

Now in this chapter 6 of Galatians, now in this section of the Epistle, the Apostle Paul deals with several
areas in the believer's life that are
most important. These things are so important
to us who love Christ, who know the Savior. and we'll read the first 10 verses
of Galatians 6. Now the first two verses deal
with our attitude, our attitude toward those who stumble and
fall. And we have to deal with that
rather frequently because of our nature. The first two verses,
let's read them. Brethren, if a man be overtaken
in a fault, now we're redeemed by the Lord Jesus Christ. We're
his children. We love him. We love his word.
We're indwelt by his Holy Spirit. If any man have not the Spirit
of Christ, he's none of his. I believe I can say with the
Apostle Peter, Lord, you know that I love thee. I believe you
can say that. You know that I love you. I love
your word. I rest in Christ, trust in Christ. When John was reading Psalm 62, talking about resting in the
Lord and trusting in the Lord, he only is my rock. Could you
identify with that? I could, I could identify with
that. He is my refuge. I have no other hiding place,
I have no other refuge in Christ Jesus. He's my life, He's my
righteousness, my sanctification, my redemption, my all and then
all. Christ is. And we desire to walk
in grace and walk in righteousness and walk in honesty and beauty
and truth. We desire that. We hate sin. We hate it most in ourselves.
We hate it in others, but we hate it most in ourselves. And
we are redeemed. We know Christ. And by His grace,
we will persevere. He said, I'll not leave them
and they'll not leave me. I have a good hope in Christ
Jesus, a good hope of eternal life. But we're still human. There's not anybody in this auditorium
who's not human. Frail human beings. The scripture
says, the Lord knoweth our frame. He remembereth that we're dust.
And the man at his best state is nothing in the world but vanity
of vanities, all is vanity. We're still human, we're in the
flesh. And the motions of sin, the motions of sin, the movements
of sin, the presence of sin is with you, is it not? Don't you
feel it? Don't you feel the motions of
sin in your conscience and heart and mind and thoughts and imaginations? Somebody said the other day,
why don't we dream good dreams? I don't know, they're just nearly
all bad, aren't they? Because we're flesh. The motions of sin,
the desires of the flesh, the desires of the flesh and the
potential, the potential to fall is in every believer. I don't
care who he is or who she is, the potential is always there. In fact, when our Lord taught
us to pray, he said, you ask God to deliver you from the evil
one, because you're always subject to his attacks, and you're always
subject to fall in the potential. Somebody asked a friend of mine
one time, said, what will a saved man do? What will a saved woman
do? And the answer came back. anything
that anybody else would do, except by the grace of God. Is that
not true? Now don't you deny it, because
God just might give you a little shot at it sometime. Anything
that any other person would do, except we're kept by the grace
of God. Now that's so. We're still human. We reside in bodies of the flesh,
and therefore, he says, brethren, talking to believers, he's talking
to believers here. If a man, if a brother, if a
sister be overtaken in a fault, now I'm not talking about a pattern
of sin. I'm not talking about a life
of sin. I'm not talking about a tenor
of life that a person just won't repent and won't quit and won't,
he just stays in the rut all the time and in the gutter of
sin. He said if he'd be overtaken in a fault. If he'd be overtaken
in a fault. What are we going to do? What
kind of fault are we talking about? Well, we're talking about
any kind of fault. We're talking about a fault of
spirit, a fault of spirit, a fault of attitude. I tell you, sins
of attitude are bad. Pride, covetousness, envy, jealousy,
bigotry, hatred, prejudice, pouting, this is all attitude, you know.
In fact, a lot of times sins of attitude are worse than sins
of action. That's right. Attitude. And it
may be a sin of spirit, it may be a sin of attitude, it may
be a sin of the flesh. But if a brother be overtaken
in a fault, what are we to do? Well, in some churches, you call
a discipline committee and exclude them. Put them on probation. Isolate them. Don't speak to
them. No. He says, ye that are spiritual.
You that are mature, you that have been around a long time,
you that know God, who know his word, you who have grown in grace,
you that are spiritual. And I don't know any of us that
wouldn't like to claim that, wouldn't we? We'd like to be
among the spiritual, the people who love the word, love God,
want to please, you that want to please God, you that want
to do the right thing. Restore! That is the word. He
doesn't say exclude him. He doesn't say avoid him. He
doesn't say don't speak to him. He doesn't say put him on a shelf.
He doesn't say put him on probation. He doesn't say further wound
him. He says restore him. Don't avoid him. Restore him. You that are spiritual, recover
him. Recover the fallen. Restore the, resettle him in
his place of fellowship. Put him back where he belongs. Make it easy for him to come
back without being overly embarrassed. Is that a pretty good statement? I think the thing, whether it's
some error of spirit or error of attitude or flesh, don't build
a wall between you and that person. a wall that he will find it impossible
to get over without too much difficulty. Sometimes we can
build those walls so high that a fellow just can't get back
over it. We won't let him back over it. We'll just keep it down,
keep the wall down, and restore it. I told somebody not long ago,
I don't believe I have never, in 37 years of
pastoring, ever excluded anybody from the church. Never, never,
never. I can't recall ever having any
kind of meeting excluding any of the people who've left. But
no one has ever been voted out of this church. I think that's
a pretty good record. Because this is the way I feel.
If a person is overtaken in a fault and good gracious alive, anybody
got any confessions to make? I believe he's better off here
than he is outside. I believe he's better off here.
I believe he's better off here under the Word. And you know
something I've learned about people who claim to be Christians?
They're a whole lot easier on their kids than they are on their
brothers and sisters in Christ. Not many of them will run a son
or a daughter away from the table, will they? Not many. unless don't do it to our brothers
in Christ. That's what he's saying here.
And here's the next thing he says, and restore such a one
in the spirit of humility, in the spirit of meekness. The attitude
of a mature believer toward a fallen person, a weak person, is not
critical. Well, I'll let you back in, but
don't do it again. That's not the spirit. Restore
him in the spirit of what? meekness, humility, not threatening,
not warning, not on probation, restore him in the spirit of
meekness and humility, not in a critical spirit, not with a
holier-than-thou, well, you better be thankful we let you back in.
No, that's not the way to restore him. Restore him in the spirit
of meekness and humility, considering thyself. considering thyself,
lest thou also be tempted. Lest thou also be tempted. And
then he said in verse 2, bear ye one another's burdens. What's
that talking about, burdens? Bear ye one another's infirmities. Bear ye one another's frailties. Every one of us are plagued with
them. We all have the weaknesses. Bear one another's weaknesses.
Don't desert one another. Bear one another's weaknesses.
Understand them. Love covers a multitude of things. You can sit and think about ourselves
first, and then different ones, weaknesses, frailties, infirmities,
temperaments, and so forth, personalities, characteristics that we don't
Maybe liking someone else, we don't like it ourselves, but
we all have infirmities and weaknesses and frailties and temperaments
that could stand a whole lot of improvement. But don't condemn
one another and withdraw fellowship from one another, for true love
beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things,
endureth all things, and love never fails. Never fails. Now that's the attitude we have
toward those that fall. Now listen to the last part of
that verse. And so what you'll be doing when you do all this,
what you'll be doing when you are always ready to restore,
always ready to recover, always ready to resettle back in his
place of fellowship, unbroken fellowship. just like nothing
happened. You know, Christ said, I don't remember your sins, why
do we remember one another? But that's a bad spot in our
apples, is we can always say, well, I remember what you did.
I remember, I remember. Thank God he doesn't remember.
Thank God he's not like us. I wish we were more like him.
And when we sympathize with one another, and when we forgive
one another, and when we restore one another, and when we bear
the burden of the weak, and when we restore the fallen, what are
we doing? We're fulfilling the law of Christ. And you want to
talk about a law? Here's the law I'm under. Here's
the law that's the rule of my life. Or it ought to be the law
of Christ. What is the law of Christ? the
royal, what is the royal law of King Jesus, he's talking about
here. Turn to John 13, I'll show it to you. John 13, I'll show
you the royal law of King Jesus, John 13. Here's the royal law
of the kingdom. John 13, 34, a new commandment, I give unto you, that you love
one another as I have loved you, that you
love one another. That's my commandment. When you, when a brother be overtaken
in a fault, and they will tomorrow, you gonna fall out with somebody
next week, somebody gonna rub you, rub your fur backwards or
something, And when you restore that brother or sister in the
spirit of meekness, considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted,
and when you bear one another's infirmities and weaknesses and
frailties and all these things, you're fulfilling that law of
Christ, love one another. All right, the second part of
these ten verses begins with verse three. And here is our
attitude toward ourselves. Now, a man needs to work not
only on his attitude toward others, but he needs to work on his attitude
toward himself, and his attitude toward himself will determine,
in a large measure, his attitude toward others. He says in verse 3, here's our
attitude toward ourselves, who we are, what we have, what we
know, what we do. Verse 3, if a man, for if a man
think himself to be something, when he's nothing. He deceives
himself. Now, in Christ we have all things. In Christ we are something. In
Christ. In Christ we are sons of God.
Beloved, now are we sons of God. It does not yet appear what we
shall be, but when he shall appear we shall see him and be like
him. We are sons of God. We are heirs of all things. We
are children of the He said, all things are yours, in Christ
we are something. But I'll tell you this, in ourselves,
we're nothing. Now, we're nothing. And I want
you to follow some scriptures. I've jotted down several here.
If you'd like to, some of you don't like to turn rapidly, you
say you lose the flow of the message when you do, but 1 Corinthians
4, if you'd like to, verse 4. Now, listen to this. It's Paul talking about nothing.
And when a man thinks he's something, when he's nothing, he's nothing. We're nothing. We're deceived. I don't want to be deceived,
John, do you? I don't want to be deceived. I don't want to
deceive anybody. Paul says in 1 Corinthians 4
and 4, I know nothing by myself, nothing, absolutely nothing of
and by myself. Look at verse 7, 1 Corinthians
4. Who makes it you to differ? from another. What do you have
that you didn't receive? You didn't manufacture it, you
didn't produce it, you didn't deserve it. Well, if you didn't
receive it, why do you gloat as if you didn't receive it?
It's all the gift of God. If you've got a good mind, or
a good back, or body, or strength, or beauty, or talent, or gift,
or initiative, or education, or ability, You didn't earn or
deserve it, God gave it to you. If you got a talent, God gave
it to you. Who makes you different from
the babbling idiot? God's grace. God's grace, and
God's grace alone. Now turn to 1 Corinthians 8.
1 Corinthians 8, listen to this. 1 Corinthians 8, 2. And if a man thinks he knoweth
anything, if he thinks he knoweth anything, He knoweth nothing. Not like he ought to know. Isn't
that right? He knows nothing. Oh, I tell
you, pride. Isn't it a horrible thing, pride
of face, pride of race, pride of place? But the worst of all is pride
of grace. Oh, that's an abomination. If
a man thinks he knows anything, he doesn't know, he knows nothing,
like he ought to know it. Here's another one, 1 Corinthians
9, verse 16, right across the page. Paul said, though I preach
the gospel, I've nothing to glory in. I've got nothing to glory
of. I'm going to do a little talking
in a few moments about what this church is doing and has done
and doors God's opened, but let me tell you this. We've got nothing
to glory of. Our necessity is laid upon me.
God has blessed us and enabled us and gifted us. Woe is unto
me if I don't preach the gospel. If we've got a commitment, let's
fulfill it. Let's do what God led us to do. He opens the door,
let's go through it and don't back off. All right, 2 Corinthians
6, look at this one. I don't have any name to glory
out of Paul's head. 2 Corinthians 6, verse 10. Verse 9, 2 Corinthians 6, 9.
As unknown and yet well known, I'm unknown, but I'm known in
glory. Dying, I'm dying, but behold, I live. Chasing, but
I'm not killed. Sorrowful, but I'm always rejoicing.
I'm poor, yet making many rich, as having nothing, nothing, nothing. And yet I possess all things.
Isn't that something? I have nothing, and yet I possess
all things. Look at chapter 12 of 2 Corinthians. Paul uses this word, nothing,
frequently. Nothing. In 2 Corinthians 12, verse 11,
he had to defend his ministry, what he had to do. Some of these
people were claiming he wasn't an apostle, so he had to defend
his ministry. And in doing so, he said in 2
Corinthians 12, 11, I am become a fool in glory, but you've compelled
me to do it. You've compelled me to do it.
I ought to have been commended of you. You ought to have defended
me, he said. You, my heroes, you, my people,
my friends, ought to have defended me. For in nothing am I behind
the cheapest apostle, and here's the four words I want you to
see, Nothing. Nothing. Now, let's go back to our text.
In the light of all this, in the light of all this, verse
3, if a man thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing,
he deceives himself. Let's, above all things, let's
suppress in his self-glory, just suppress it, let the old flesh
be crucified. Now watch this next two verses,
read them together. But let every man prove his own
work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone and
not in another, for every man shall bear his own burden. Brother,
what is he talking about there? What's he talking about? If a
man thinks himself to be something when he's nothing, he deceives
himself, but let every man prove his own worth. His own worth. And then he'll have rejoicing
in himself alone and not in another. For every man shall bear his
own burden. Now, you have to leave these verses where they
are in the context. You with me? You have to leave
them where they are. He doesn't jump to another subject, still
on the same subject. And you consider these verses in the
light of the context. Now watch this. Paul has been
talking of weaker believers, those who follow, those who stumble,
those who are taken in the fall. He talks about us recognizing
one another's infirmities and burdens and frailties. And then he said, if you think
you're something special, you're somebody, you're something special,
you're deceived, for you're really yourself nothing. So why would a man entertain
such thoughts that he's something? Why would Paul talk about this
right here? That if a brother be overtaken in a fault, if this
brother's weak and frail and stumbling, and you that are spiritual,
restore him and bring him back and love him, that you be careful,
don't think you're something. Why would you think you're something?
You couldn't get that idea looking at God. You couldn't get that
idea looking at his braids, you couldn't get that idea looking
at his words, where'd you get the idea of yourself? Looking
at that fallen fellow. That's where you got it. I thank
you God, I'm not like that public. I thank you God, I'm not like
that man. That's where you got it. Comparing
yourselves with yourself. And that's what he's saying here.
We're not to judge our state in the light of other people,
in the light of other people's failures, in the light of other
people's weaknesses. Did you ever, maybe the lady,
man down the street got divorced and you kind of got puffed up
a little. I stayed with my wife. Maybe a fellow neglected his
family, he said, never neglected my children. Here's what you're
doing, you're watching him and you're building yourself up in
the light of his fall. And Paul says here, you prove
your own work. In the light of what? God's holiness. You prove yourself in the light
of God's holiness. You see where you stand in the
light of God's love, and God's truth, and God's holiness, and
then, if you see some measure of growth, you can rejoice. If
you see some measure of growth in that light. But don't you
compare, don't you start measuring your spirituality by another's
lack of it. Don't start measuring your strength
by another man's weakness. You examine yourself in the light
of his holiness, and then you'll have to do what in verse 5? You'll
have to bear your own burden. You'll have to recognize your
own infirmities. While you're bearing somebody
else's, and sympathizing, you're going to have to have a lot of
it for yourself. Oh, wretched man that I am. See that? Very clear, isn't it?
It's clear when you dig in. But that's what you have to do.
That's what I'm here for, to help you see that. That's what
he's saying there. But every man bears his own burden. Every man judge himself, examine
himself, and face his own infirmities and flesh in the light of truth.
For every man shall give an account of himself to God. Now, here's
the third part. Verse 6 through verse 8, now here's the
third attitude. He talked first about attitude
toward others and then toward ourselves. Now he talks about
our attitude toward those who preach the word and those who
teach the word of God. Verse 6 says, let him that is
taught, let him that is taught. That's just what I've been doing.
You see, you've gone out and worked all day, and you've taken
care of your responsibilities and your job. You've come here
tonight, you've come to worship God, you've come to praise God,
you've come to thank God, you've come to fellowship together,
but you've come to study the Word, to find out more about
the Word. Just like we were talking in
the study a minute ago, you wanted an answer and we found it in
the Word of God. And I've spent my time today preparing to teach
you Tonight I'm the teacher, by God's grace, that's what he's
given me to do, and you're the learner. Now he that's talking
the word, watch this, let him communicate unto him that teacheth
and all good things. That's the support of the ministry,
that's what he's talking about here. That's the support of the
ministry. I was talking to a church recently,
and they want some of our young men to come preach for them.
And I said, now, these young men study, and they drive all
these miles and come back. Take care of their expenses.
Give them a gift. Buy them a set of tires. Buy
them a suit. Do something for them, you know.
If they teach you in the Word, do something for them. Support
the ministry. Support God's preachers. Now,
let me say this. I realize that there are a lot
of phonies in the ministry. I would say to you, don't send
a dime to Oral Roberts, Jimmy Swigert, or any of these conmen
on television. They are conmen. They're luxury
living, Christ-denying, gospel-denying parasites. That's what they are. They're false prophets. They
don't preach the gospel. Don't you support them. And I
know there are a lot of ponies and conmen and wolves in sheep's
clothing who use people. There are a lot of preachers
who use people. They misuse the ministry. They're lazy, no count,
good for nothing, covetous, false prophets. God talks about them
all the way through the Old Testament. And Peter talks about them in
the New Testament. And our Lord warns us about false prophets.
And I do my best to protect this church from those kind of preachers.
I do my very best, and I tell you, sometimes it takes a while
to flush them out, did you know that? Sometimes it takes a while
to find them out, find out who these folks are. But this verse
is talking about those who truly preach the word of God, who truly
teach us the word of God. Now, God has given us some faithful
men to support. I've just come back from England. We've been supporting and helping
a preacher over there, Bill Clark, for 25 years, now 25 years or
more. This man is one of the most dedicated,
and I know in 25 years we've been together that long, we've
been many miles together. I know him, been in his home
and everywhere with him, all over Ireland and England and
Spain and France and Africa. This man loves God, loves the
gospel, preaches the gospel. I want to show you some work
that he's done. Now, this is that African preacher
school. And another is Ken Whammer. Ken Whammer is a faithful, God-loving,
God-honoring preacher of the gospel. And these men are establishing
what I believe to be the most effective missionary work that
can be done, and that's training native preachers to preach to
their own people. And this is not a fly-by-night
operation. Bill has two radio broadcasts
that reach the whole central part of Africa. He receives over
a hundred letters a week. This is from people, most of
them too poor to buy postage. When we were there, one stack
of letters, Paul, he brought in 120 letters that week. And
he said back at the office, there were two stacks higher than that,
requesting tapes, tracks, papers, or any kind of literature. Hundreds
of letters. They send out over 100 tapes
a week, messages to these people out there in Africa. And they've
established this preacher school, native preacher school, and already
have over 70 applications, men who are willing to spend 10 hours
a week studying the word of God. Now, what they're using is our
commentaries, our Bible Christ commentaries. We put them out
in English first, and then they translate them into French, Portuguese,
and Spanish. This is the French edition of
the Bible. Now, this is the package that
the preacher receives. This is the first lesson. It's
professional. It is 100 percent professional.
See, these fellows write in and say they want to take the course.
They tell who they are, their occupation, their age. Many of
them are already pastors, these native preachers. And if either
one of them wants to take the course, if they're willing to
spend ten hours a week studying the course, if they're willing
to send in their papers and go through, they're going to start
with Romans. And then 1 Corinthians, it's already out in French. And
in 2 Corinthians, in Galatians, verse by verse, these preachers
are going from Romans 1 to Revelation 1, verse by verse, under Brother
Clark's leadership. Now, when the pastor's accepted
for the school, this is the first package he gets. And it contains
the book, and it contains, I want you to watch this, that Bill
and Ken have written. And this is professional. This
is all in print. So, John, can you read print?
But this is a kitchen, whatever it says. And then here's his
first lesson. Lesson one. And in Roman. And then this is all Lesson 1
in a certain color, and then all the questions he has to answer,
and he has to prepare a message and preach to his church on that
particular hour. Here's Lesson 2, and all the questions they
have to answer and so forth. I'll lay it down in front and
let you look at it. Then, when he fills that out, he has to
sit down and listen to this cassette tape. This is Lesson 1 and 2,
taught by Bill Clark in print. He listens to the cassette. And
then he prepares the paper on the cassette. That's just less
than one. It's so professional. And I have in here this same
thing in English. These are already prepared. I'll
lay it down here. Some of you may be interested in looking
at it. But I was so thrilled over this and so happy to have
a part in it. Let me tell you this. And I know
this tape goes to other places, but I'm talking to this congregation
now. We're carrying the major support
of all of this. Bill is supported by several
churches, but you carry the major part of this support. Ken Wymer
is supported by many churches. Ted, you carry the major part. I'm talking about the major part.
Forty percent of it. And this school. I'll tell you,
I'm just grateful to God that we can, that we're able, that
he's enabled us, that he's blessed us, that he'll let us carry that
major support. That's Keir and Bill. Now, we've
got missionaries, Walter Groover and Milton Howard in Mexico.
Walter has a preacher school. We just ordered the $500 worth
of books to be sent there to that school, and then I'm going
to give him these English school preparation for history. That
school has been going on 20 years. And those men are faithful. And Dan Parks has a preacher
school in St. Lucia. You see, a missionary
goes to a place and preaches. That's effective. I wouldn't
discount that one bit. But if you train native preachers,
to stay where they are and minister the gospel, that's the effective
missionary work. In Chris Robinson, in Ireland,
in the Mexican Preacher School. And our young pastors, we're
helping several young pastors, Joe Terrell, Tim James, and others. Some of you designated some money
recently to a pastor in North Carolina. That's wonderful. If
these young men need help, And this is what he's saying here,
let him that's taught him to work. You know, a lot of times
people get a bulletin from a preacher and say, boy, that blessed me.
Well, we'll send him a dollar to help him put it out. We get
a tape, we say, that tape was great. Well, his recorder's going
to wear out someday. Give him a hand, you know, just
let that come to your mind, you know, when you're, if you're
blessed, if you talk, if you're, and you do, you do. And this
tape ministry. Martha's office where the letters
that come in here that they faithfully answer and send out books and
Our bookstore and these men who are going out for last week Charlie
was preaching down in Tennessee and Tom was preaching up in West
Virginia and God's given us for me and here to go out and preach
to God God's given this church a worldwide ministry And this
is exactly what he's saying right here in verse 6, help them, help
them. Now watch verse 7 and 8. And
you know I hear people quoting verse 7, Mark, be not deceived,
God is not mocked, but for a man served he will reap it. You know
what this got to do with? Giving. I'm not going to reap
everything I sow, thank God. Thank God, you know, my sins
are forgiven. God doesn't just stick around
chasing his children around and whip you for what you did last
week. You sow it. Somebody said you sow it in the
field, reap it behind the barn, you know, that sort of stuff.
I leave it where it is. Verse 6. Let him that is taught
in the word help, communicate, support him that teacheth in
all good things. And don't be deceived now. God's
not mocked. Whatsoever man soweth, that shall
he reap. For 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." What's that saying,
brother May? It's saying just this, that if I take, I'm a spirit
of God, His grace and also His gift. I take everything He sends
me and I spend it on my flesh. I spend it on my flesh. I buy
me a bigger car, I buy me finer clothes, I spend it on vacations,
I go here, I go there, I wastefully use it and all this thing. not
considering the spiritual ministry of the gospel, then I'm going
to, of the flesh, reap corruption. Everything that I'm, everything
that I'm building and everything that I'm contributing to is flesh,
and it's going to disappear. That old house going to burn
down, that old bigger barns are going to burn down, and all these
things are going to burn down. This old flesh, I spend it beautifying
this flesh, it's going to get old and wrinkle. If I send it
to preach the gospel, I sell it in spiritual places, and the
end of it, who knows? Nobody can ever take it away.
She shall in the spirit reap life. That's what that's talking
about. That's exactly what that's talking about. Alright, what's
the last thing? Now, that's our attitude toward
those that preach. And also this, I was talking
about the Tate ministry and the office ministry and the bookstore
and the young ministers that preach and all of you that pray
and give, and your posture has, God's just miraculous to know
that God's open for me. I just, I don't understand it.
These books have have just absolutely astounded me where they are now.
They're all over the world. There's a missionary, Brother
Miss Payton, that I stayed with in Susandra, Africa, that ordered
300 copies of everything we put out, and give it to the native
preachers and other native people. And I didn't know that they were
that impressed when I was there, you know. I just went and visited
with them, stayed with them a while, and now they're distributing
our books all over Ivory Coast. But I went to England, and where
I go, you go, because I couldn't go if you didn't send me. And
I preached. We got there on Friday. Saturday
night, I preached in a little church outside Whelan. There
were about 50 people present. An American is the pastor, Jerry
Kopstein. The next morning, I preached
in Bury St. Edmund, Bill Clark's brother.
is pastor of a pretty good-sized church, about the size of this
congregation right here now, about 150 people. Both services
just had a marvelous day preaching the gospel. Paul preached in
Welland Church twice that day. Monday we drove to Ireland, and
Tuesday night I preached to the Greater Victoria Street Baptist
Church, a large crowd of people. And let me tell you this, here
comes a man and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Agnew. Say, we've listened
to your tapes for ten years. Just so glad to meet you in person.
We have another couple here we've been sharing the tapes with.
Here's three young men I want you to meet. Been listening to
your tapes. One of them, the Lord saved. Keep mailing them. Keep mailing them. Keep mailing
them. And the next night I preached
in that church again and we went over to this man George Dorman's
house and twenty of us sat until nearly midnight. talking about
the gospel. They just have full of questions.
Full of questions. Most of their preaching is intellectual,
dry, theological, like Barnard said, straight as a gun barrel
and just as ifty. And they just, one, Paul preached
in Liverpool, England twice the next Sunday, and one person came
up to him and said, that's like a breath of fresh air. I haven't
heard preaching like that in years and years and years. One young man that ran the bookstore
at the conference came up to Evelyn Clark and he said, I'm
a simple man. I'm a simple man. And I need
to hear about Christ. I get so tired of these heavy
theological sermons. I wish everybody preached like
you all do. Isn't that thrilling though?
And I preached to that conference. I preached that Sunday three
times. Once at Leeds and twice at Darlington and then another
place in Ireland, and next week going to California. And then
somebody says, well, you've gone so much. I know, but you've taken
the gospel that God's given us the gospel, and he's given us
the open door to preach it, and we just got to go preach it.
And these men here, God's gifted them to preach when I'm gone. and to preach in other places.
You see, we can have here a local ministry to where, you know,
we just sit and congratulate one another, or we can keep going
worldwide. Television, tapes, the book ministry,
preacher traveling, other people traveling, we can go worldwide.
The birth of this California conference next week is because
I went to Oregon. Back two and a half, three years
ago, I went to Oregon and a preacher from California drove up there
and got a motel room and sat and listened to me for three
days. And one day he said, let's take a drive. So we went out
in his car and he said, you know, he said, I'd love to have a sovereign
grace Bible conference in my church. But he said, I just don't
know how to go about it. He said, would you come preach
in one if I had it? I said, I'll come in a minute.
Now, what would you have said? No, I got to stay home in case
somebody dies. No, sir. I said, I'll be there.
You set the date, I'll be there. You see what I'm talking about?
And I went, and they had that conference, next year had another,
now they're having the third one. In the meantime, the second
year, I wrote and told him Walter Gruber and Milton Howard would
be in the States, and I left him to hear them, and they went
out there, and they raised support. They're supporting Milton and
Walter now, some of those preachers in California. It just grows. And that's what I'm saying. Now
watch the next verse, and I'll quit. Verse 9. And let us not be weary
in well-doing. And I know some of you, let me
tell you, I love you. Some of you have been given for
years and years and years. You've given generously, you've
given sacrificially, you've given. Keep it up. Just don't be weary. And while you come over here
and make tape, and I know you get tired of it, I know you sit
in there, If y'all knew how much time they spent over here working
on this, some of you know, you know Tom, you know Esther. I
know you get tired, but don't be weary. I get tired, that trip
to England and Ireland, that got me. That was the hardest
trip I've ever taken. I came back dead, but I'd go
again, because we not, don't be weary. Don't be weary. And you fellas preach. I know
you work all day and then you have to go somewhere and preach
Sunday. That's tough. Work five days a week and try
to prepare messages. But don't quit, John. Don't quit. And you who give. That's what
he said. Don't quit. Don't faint. Let us not be weary in well-doing
for in due season, by God's grace, we'll reap if we don't quit. If we don't quit. John, you're
seventy-some-odd years old. Don't quit. Don't quit. Don't quit praying for one another.
Don't quit praying for me. Don't quit studying. Don't quit
giving. Don't quit, don't get a bad attitude. Don't say, well, I went to church
and the preacher wasn't there, son. Don't, don't, let's don't
get that at all. Let's just, let's stay keyed
up. We've got greater things ahead.
We've got greater things ahead. I get tired to think sometimes
I'll go fishing, but I'm not going to go fishing. He said,
I'll make you a fisher of men. Right around the bend is somebody
else. Right around the corner is somebody else. I'm just anxious
to find out who it is, aren't you? And what's going to happen.
What God's going to do. I'm anxious to find out what
he's going to do in California next week. Up there in West Virginia
in the mountains. I wonder what the Lord will be
pleased to do. All right, verse 10, as we have therefore opportunity,
I'm going to tell you a little story right here. I'm going to
call on you to do something. There's a church in Cape Girardeau,
Missouri. The pastor's been here, Brother
Russell Warner. He's a faithful, dear, beloved
man. His wife is very sick with cancer
right now. And he's been pastor out there
faithfully for a long time. I've preached for him, Don, Maurice,
Gary, everybody's known him, but he's been here in our conference. He called me Monday and he said,
and their little church has been meeting in a trailer in a mobile
home. for years. That's where they
meet in a mobile home. It's kind of rickety in there.
You've been there. You live there. You know Russell
Warner. Sure you do. John and Desi live there. Faithful
man, isn't he? Faithful bunch of people. He
called me Monday and he said, we got an opportunity to buy
a nice church building there in Cape Girardeau. It's got a
couple of acres of parking. Used to be a church of God. And
it seats about a hundred. Got classrooms, and a nursery,
and a pastor's study, and all the pews and everything for $39,000.
And he said, we gotta have about $7,500. We got $5,000, and we need $2,500
more. And I said, you got it. 13th
Street will send it. Won't you? Be glad to. Help somebody else. We'll send
it. I told him that. He called me
again this afternoon. He said, could we borrow it?
And I said, no, we won't lend it. We won't lend it. Give hoping for nothing in return.
We'll give it. That's what... Here he says,
if you therefore have opportunity, let us do good unto all, specially,
specially unto them who are of the household of payment. As we have opportunity, And I'll
tell you, I know that a man first be proved, but when they are,
and we have opportunity, God always supplies our need. Your
daddy used to say, take on another missionary, God will always supply
the need. Give a little more and God will
always, that's what he said, but God will always meet the
need. So what we'll do is we'll have Martha and Russell send
a check out there tomorrow and we'll all just give a dollar
or two more next Sunday. But I think we'll handle that
all right. Help them buy that church and
get it opened up. He said he could pay for it in
15 years. And let me tell you about that church out there.
They sent $800 to Ken Wymer's passage. Did you know that? That
little church that we're talking about helping. You know they
send $100 a month for Ken's support? They're faithful brethren, and
so we'll help them. Aren't you glad God's given us
so many opportunities, so many privileges, and such a blessed
fellowship? So, be not weary, be not weary,
in well-doing. Due season, we'll reap, if we
don't quit. By His grace, we won't quit.
He said, my grace is sufficient. All right, let's bow in prayer. Our Father, our cup runneth over.
Our cup runneth over. Your mercies and blessings have been so great and numerous
and marvelous and wonderful to this congregation, to this preacher. Lord, we know, we know in so
many ways we're nothing. We claim to be nothing. But you use nothings. You've
chosen the foolish, the despised, the weak things of this world
that you might have all the glory. And we pray that you would show
us more and more our nothingness. And God, by your grace, don't
let our hearts ever be lifted up with pride before thee or
before men. Let us wait before thee, like
John read, wait on the Lord. My soul waiteth upon God. And Lord, when you reveal your
will to us, when you open the door unto us, give us the grace
and the courage and the boldness and the will to believe and to trust you, knowing that
our God shall supply all of our needs through your riches in
glory in Christ Jesus. Bless this church. Bless every
home represented. I would praise and thank you
for these faithful, dear believers. And Lord, help us to grow in
grace and in the knowledge of our Redeemer. And bless our missionaries,
these faithful men. Bless these preachers you've
raised up here and those that have already gone out from this
place, Todd and and Bill, and David, and Joe Terrell, and Danny
Blair, and all of these fellows. We pray for them. God bless them,
strengthen them, give them wisdom. Bless the services on the Lord's
Day. We anticipate your presence. And bless our friends who are
sick, minister to them, our little ones who are sick, and these
faithful brothers and sisters who have great heavy hearts and
trials right now. They're thine, Lord, they're
thine. And we pray you'd strengthen and increase their faith. In
Christ's name we pray, amen.

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