Christ Himself lives and works within the Christian by the power of His Spirit.III. While I was doing it it was not pleasant, but after I had got through it was permanent refreshment. Sunday School teaching is sowing. 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. "We shall reap." Ye grow weary and give up sometimes on the eve of reaping, and lose the harvest. Clay Trumbull The pious Quesnel says that "God Edward M. BoundsThe Essentials of PrayerExcursus on the Use of the Word "Canon. III. The reward promised to patient labour. We all desire change, Monotony is irksome. 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. And then Satan rushes in, while the mind is thus exercised; and he says "What can such a wretch as you effect? "Everything is beautiful in its season." The PROSPECT OF REWARD. "Even the youths shall faint and be weary but they that wait on God shall renew their strength" (Isaiah 60:30).4. HAS ITS DIFFICULTIES.1. Does not every effort to help on the one hand, depress and deprave on the other? H. )Perseverance in well-doingJ. Watson.The husbandman doth not desire to reap till the season; he will not reap his corn while it is green, but when it is ripe; so we shall reap the reward of glory in due season; when our work is done, when our sins are purged out, when our graces are come to their full growth; then is the season of reaping; therefore let us not be weary of well-doing, but hold on in prayer, reading, and all the exercises of religion; we shall "reap in due season, if we faint not."(T. (2) But we must not exclude man as a responsible and immortal being. To give you an instance of the use which is always made of it, I may mention the place where we are told that the Jews found fault with Christ because He made Himself equal with God, saying that God was His Father: "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work." I might appeal on the ground of self-interest only in well-doing can we develop our own natures into the fulness of their powers. In the same passage he informs us that this treatise was undertaken during the years in which he was occupied with his great work on the Saint Augustineour lord's sermon on the mountAll that is Born of the Flesh must be Born of the Spirit. Thomas, D. D., J. F. Stevenson.I. They started off arm in arm, and were saved. I will call your attention, in the first place, to THE SPEAKER, or rather THE WRITER. One of my Sunday-school teachers came to me to resign her class, because she said she was doing them no good. 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." VII How to grow in Charles Grandison FinneyLectures on Revivals of ReligionPrincely Service. A. Increases our power for well-doing.2. AugustineOf the Work of Monks. The bestowment of rewards is a feature of God's government, as the doctrine which teaches it is a doctrine both of Scripture and of providence.(J. Could we get it all in a small compass, as Job had it (Job 29:11-17), we could put our hands to it with some hope of success. 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. Who are we, that the Lord of all should let us labour for Him? Burns, D. D.)Weariness in well-doingReuen Thomas.Well-doing may be of two kinds subjective, the doing well to ourselves simply; objective, the doing well towards others. At length his faith, his patience, and his submission received their rich reward: "behold, a certain man clothed in linen" appeared to him and said. (1)The flesh cries out for ease. Then, thirdly, this weariness springs from the trials, to which "well-doing" frequently exposes individuals.4. 'For neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.'--GAL. Cultivate the grace of forbearance.3. Love may be compared to the rod of myrtle in the traveller's hand, which refresheth him, and keeps him from being weary in his journey. Watson.It is a beautiful sight to see silver hairs crowned with golden virtue. F. Surely you will not be weary, when your salvation is so much nearer than when you first believed?(W. I reply something is to be attributed in this tendency to the love which the human mind has for novelty. Was it not love, to fill the universe with animated beings, and to pour the riches of beauty and happiness over creation? And surely there is disgrace. Let us inquire, what is THE NATURE OF THE EVIL AGAINST WHICH WE ARE GUARDED IN THE TEXT. "In Due Season we Shall Reap if we Faint Not" (Gal. Should it not excite us to perseverance, when we think that Christ our Master has entrusted His cause in our hands? I do not say that this help is the one evidence of a Christian calling, but it is essential, and never more so than in these days. The first principle of stedfast and abounding righteousness is a constant sense of the obligation of the Divine law. "I must work, said Jesus, the works of Him that sent Me while it is day. Hope animates the spirits: it is to the soul as cork to the net, which keeps it from sinking. Conditions of growth in grace. (2) But we must not exclude man as a responsible and immortal being. In every duty done for God, grace calls to the work, aids in the discharge of it, makes meet for and finally bestows the promised inheritance.2. M. She was quite confused at my question, but her answer was very striking: "Yes, sir, if I work long enough." The harvest will come in due season.4. (4) The measure in which the sorrow is mixed with sin. There is temptation to weariness in "well-doing" from the very number of methods by which it may be persued.IV. Place yourself amid its events. But if we walk in light, or righteousness, then we have communion with the Father and His Son; and, cherished by the rays of Divine light from the Sun of Righteousness, graces spring up, and virtues flourish in our lives, as the tender herb with the fostering warmth and dew of heaven.5. Then I might urge the exhortation by a reference to the self-discipline which is secured by perseverence especially perseverence in a course of self-denial.4. Hope breeds patience, and patience breeds perseverance. Does not every effort to help on the one hand, depress and deprave on the other? "Let us not be weary for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not." The apostle doubtless understood that while the end is the first in God's purpose, it is the last in manifestation. B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth October 20. Not only is a desire for novelty sometimes the occasion of weariness in well-doing something is to be attributed to the influence of sloth. The second principle of standing fast and growing in righteousness, so as not to weary in well-doing, is that of love. Weariness in well-doing is part of the universal weariness; the slow movement of the flesh under high compulsions; the deadness of the soul itself to truth, and Christ, and the eternal world. But Paul has a way of setting side by side two superficially contradictory clauses, in order that attention may be awakened, and that we may make an effort to apprehend the point of reconciliation between them. And if so, ought not a pastor believe that his message from this text may be the divinely appointed means of causing God's children to persevere to the end in well-doing and so inherit eternal life? Every good work is difficult; never was there a good work very easily done. ITS SPHERES.1. We learned from Numbers vi, GOD'S requirements of those who desire to take the privileged position of separation to Himself. (b)Particularly to children, for prevention is better than cure. While I was doing it it was not pleasant, but after I had got through it was permanent refreshment. )Perseverance in well-doingJ. "In due season we shall reap if we faint not" (Gal. A mass of useless lumber, in the shape of old instruments, may infest the Church of God, and we perhaps often feel that nothing can be done without removing such incumbrances.3. What the injunction "to grow in grace" does not mean. 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. I must deny myself.2. While I was doing it it was not pleasant, but after I had got through it was permanent refreshment. (Essex Congregational Remembrancer. There is a reward promised by Him who cannot lie, and preserved by Him who cannot be turned from His purpose. In the same passage he informs us that this treatise was undertaken during the years in which he was occupied with his great work on the Saint Augustineour lord's sermon on the mountAll that is Born of the Flesh must be Born of the Spirit. WHY WE SHOULD GUARD AGAINST BEING THUS WEARY IN WELL-DOING, AND PURSUE THE CONTRARY LINE OF CONDUCT.1. What the apostle means by his expression, "due season." And difficulties always rouse a generous mind. B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth Doing Good to All'As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all. )The reward of unwearied diligence in the work of the LordR. In these cases there is distress, indeed, but no disgrace; pity, but not scorn: but let a work be begun, and left through vacillation of purpose a great work be undertaken, and be unfulfilled through childish waywardness, and no wonder if they that go by "begin to mock," while the artificer is ashamed and distressed. By bearing the Cross.IV. (3)Want of order and discipline in the school.3. But don't be "disheartened" (see Greek). There are nine hindrances of mourning. The full harvest hereafter. And as the farmer has long patience, so ought we to have long patience. C) PAY DAY IS COMING. Kanon, as an ecclesiastical term, has a very interesting history. 10. The rivalry of other workers.II. They started off arm in arm, and were saved. HOW TO PREVENT WEARINESS IN WELL-DOING.1. "In due season ye shall reap if ye faint not." Sunday-school teachers may appropriate this.3. 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. Then there are the gates of unbelief, thicker and stronger than the gates of Gaza; which only the spiritual Samson can carry away. In usefulness to others.3. It may be found upon the mountain's top, amid the sweep of winds and the wrapt curtain of clouds; where two or three are met together in the name of Christ to worship God, and to believe in the work of His redemption. In the remarkable work known as his Retractations, Augustin makes a brief statement on the subject of this treatise on the Harmony of the Evangelists. The text speaks of "fainting." And to holy David indeed it might more justly be said, that he ought not to have been angry; no, not with one however ungrateful and rendering evil for good; yet if, as man, anger did steal over him, he ought not to have let it so prevail, that he should swear to do a thing which either by giving way to his rage he should do, or by breaking his oath leave undone. vii,--one of the longest in the Bible, and one full of repetition. You will be tempted to grow weary. Disgust.II. We often feel our unfitness and our unworthiness to be employed in doing good. Sunday-school teachers may appropriate this.3. But who can be sure? It may be found in the depths of the valley, amid streams and rocks, or in the city, amid lofty towers, temples, and palaces, where the "Te Deums" of thankful hearts may meet and swell into one of earth's loudest anthems before the throne of heaven.3. The path is as much the king's highway as ever; its banks as green, its turns as beautiful, its trees as picturesque: but you have become weary, and your footsteps have flagged. If Paul could only know the consolation and hope that he has ministered to the countless generations who have marched along the pathway from the cross to the Kingdom above, he would be willing to go through a thousand lives and a thousand deaths such as he endured for the blessing that has followed since his noble head rolled in the dust by the Ostian gate of Rome. I must deny myself.2. The text may be regarded, in the first place, as marking out the Christian man's vocation in the present world. 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.' Conditions of growth in grace. In this busy working world, the inactive, the disappointed, the weary, are soon trodden down and destroyed.2. And therefore he was content to say, "And let us not be weary in well-doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not." (2)Be proportionate to our well-doing. V. THE RESULT OF WELL-DOING WILL COME IN THE PROPER TIME. In this busy working world, the inactive, the disappointed, the weary, are soon trodden down and destroyed.2. There may be, of course, work left unfinished through necessity. Keep near to the Master. events were vitalized. 9). God has by this promise connected our diligence in well-doing with a harvest of blessedness and of honour. The earnest prayer, the sympathizing or reproving word, the self-denying and laborious effort little accounted of here, and perhaps unassociated with any thought of future recompense are all helping to form the material out of which will be woven the robe of unfading brightness and beauty which the Lord Himself shall cast upon His own, in the great harvest-time to come.2. Do he must and will. "We shall reap, if we faint not."2. D. L. Galton, M. A.I. vi. Have strong faith in the promises: "My word shall not return unto Me void it shall prosper" (Isaiah 55:11). (Admonition 28.) A Due Reaping. In the first place, it refers individually to ourselves doing well, or doing good, with regard to ourselves. What it does mean. A Christian will not be weary of service, that hath the crown in his eye. D. We learned from Numbers vi, GOD'S requirements of those who desire to take the privileged position of separation to Himself. "For, in due season, ye shall reap if ye faint not." (1)The seed you sow is the truth. Ye grow weary and give up sometimes on the eve of reaping, and lose the harvest. It is learned only by intense effort, by sorrowful failures, by many steps on the brink of despair. And therefore he was content to say, "And let us not be weary in well-doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not." Sunday-school teachers may appropriate this.3. What it does mean. See Westcott's account of it, On the New Testament Canon, p. 498 ff. Macknight, D. D.1. Paul bore the conditions of Christ on his body. He was thinking not only of the fickleness of the Galatian Church, but upon the general possibility of paralysis common to the whole family of man. underneath is the pure white of immortality. The apostle doubtless understood that while the end is the first in God's purpose, it is the last in manifestation. 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. I can hardly wonder that the best stand appalled before the mass of the misery and sin of society. 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 text may be regarded, in the first place, as marking out the Christian man's vocation in the present world. )The difficulty of well-doingH. )The cause and cure of weariness in Sabbath School teacherC. L. Galton, M. Now mark, brethren, what the text says, "Let us not be weary in well-doing." There is not a single relation we sustain to God, or to each other, but what is fruitful of a variety of these duties. Another cause of this weariness is the want of success.5. Nor is this all there is the spirit of self-complacency. The powerful antidote to the threatening evil "for in due season we shall reap if we faint not." Reflect that the work and weariness will soon be over in that land of rest where we shall be burdened no more.(H. underneath is the pure white of immortality. Cultivate the grace of forbearance.3. The mighty name of "Christian" combines many of the strongest arguments to unwearying service.1. THE MOTIVE THE TEXT ASSIGNS. . Another cause of this weariness is the want of success.5. underneath is the pure white of immortality. The sailor thinks it a tame voyage if he never has a storm; it is the storm that rouses him to action; and the battle that brings out the soldier's energies. Watson.It is a beautiful sight to see silver hairs crowned with golden virtue. 2 and 3.) Seek to understand the hidden laws of that outward and inward life. THE CAUSES OF WEARINESS IN WELL-DOING.1. But there is another consideration, which is III. 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