sermon on galatians 6:9

I will shut out the sob of sorrow, the wail of the woe-worn, the sigh of the suffering, the baying and babblement of the crowd; here, spending my sympathies on myself, I will enjoy all that is enjoyable. So in His "own season" that is, the season which is peculiarly adapted for the purpose; the season which God knows to be the most appropriate; the season that shall best fit in to all the other declarations which God shall make of His majesty, His justice, and His power, as well as His love, His mercy, and His grace: at that time "we shall reap, if we faint not." 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. 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. How much is there to induce this spirit, and to render the exhortation against it appropriate. )The beauty of a Christian is to hold on in pietyT. Will meet with its reward.1. (3)Mere duty.These will engender disappointment and therefore weariness.IV. 'As we have therefore'--that points a finger backwards to what has gone before. Being invited to tea by Madam de Vassenaar (one of the first quality in the Hague), I waited upon her in the afternoon. Rhys Jenkins.)WearinessH. and not weary of well-doing.12. Let me say to you, "Be not weary in well-doing," because YOU HAVE THE MOST NOBLE EXAMPLES TO CONSTANCY AND DILIGENCE. R. Reynolds, B. vii,--one of the longest in the Bible, and one full of repetition. But after a little while, difficulties begin to spring up, which they had never before seen; difficulties, which appear to them to be insurmountable. Direct you to the motive adverted to by the apostle. The energies of goodness never rest nor take their ease.II. Sunday-school teachers may appropriate this.3. 9. He does not always, alas, do right; but it is the object of religion of revelation to induce him to do so. No; his desire was to do that which Christ did; he desired so to follow Christ as he himself exhorts others to follow Christ.III. W. Beecher.When I dug my well, I knew that there were rocks below, and when I had thrust down the pick and spade through the easily yielding earth until they struck the rock I found no water. A Due Reaping. Let us consider it, secondly, As URGING HIM TO PERSEVERANCE IN THAT VOCATION BY THE PROMISE OF ULTIMATE REWARD. Brethren, it is true with regard to the world, "so long as thou doest well to thyself, men will speak good of thee;" it is true with regard to God, so long as you do well in His sight, shall you have His sanction and His smile.1. 1 The love of sin. Should it not excite us to perseverance, when we think that Christ our Master has entrusted His cause in our hands? All holy men have been acquainted practically with well-doing. vi. A Due Reaping. WE HAVE ABUNDANT ENCOURAGEMENT IN THE PROSPECT OF REWARD.1. NUMB. There are at least two reasons, unconnected with Holy Week, why the subject of the Cross of Christ should occupy our attention. ship: for thou mayest be no longer steward."III. Then he picked up his shovel, and marked off a square, and began to see how long it would take him to cast that aside; then another and another, until the whole was cleared away. Watson.It is a strange sight, to see a busy devil, and an idle Christian.2. The original sense, "a straight rod" or "line," determines all its religious applications, which begin with St. Paul's use of it for a prescribed sphere of apostolic work (2 Cor. The full harvest hereafter. True grace is a living principle, and wherever it is found in the heart, it always tends towards perfection.2. 17. We cannot calculate the hour nor the nature of our triumph, but we know that the Word of God standeth sure, and that the due season draweth nigh.(H. Bow to a higher will.3. M. )Soul cultureD. The wants of the world and the wants of the Church demand action. About that there is no doubt. Take heed of those things which will stop these channels of mourning; put yourselves upon the use of all means that will help forward holy mourning. It is a pronominal adjective, which signifies possession; which signifies a peculiar appropriateness when it is joined with any particular substantive. "Give an account of thy steward. The word here employed does not bear on beneficence exclusively. Often pray to God. Smyth. . Kanon, as an ecclesiastical term, has a very interesting history. Simple fatigue.2. Learn from the devotee of many a false god; from the worshipper of Siva, who, drunk with opium, swings on the flesh-hook at some horrid festival, or prostrates himself before the advancing car of Juggernaut, making this revolting self-sacrifice to pacify the raging of a guilty conscience, or to gain the ephemeral applause of an ignorant mob; even he is not weary with his work.(H. The human body, therefore, must be regarded. "I must work the works of Him that sent Me, while it is day; the night cometh, when no man can work/' So said He, who could do more work in a minute, than we can do in a whole life. Is there any pause in the intercession of the Son? There are at least two reasons, unconnected with Holy Week, why the subject of the Cross of Christ should occupy our attention. D. Horwood.In the earlier days of Christianity, when it had to contend against the prejudices and intolerance of ages; when the bigotry of the Jew fiercely opposed it, and the philosophy of the Greek and Roman despised it, and when the bitterness of persecution grew up into greater fierceness, it was then that the earlier and devoted Christians, exposed to all manner of trial and death on all sides, had need of encouragement.I. . Recollect that the time is short, and that you cannot afford to be weary.5. Text--But grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.--2 Pet. On account of the indolence of our nature.2. It is something more than attention to our personal condition.2. (2)If you don't sow the devil will. Forcing a way through it, and not resting in it, he finds sunshine and air and life more abundantly. As a sinful being the new-born infant is not in the Way of Salvation. From this post he was called to Central Congregational Church, Brooklyn, with but one exception the largest Congregational Church in the United States. Well-doing from right motives is the most difficult of all works. ITS NATURE.1. 10, 11, &c.--"Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom, give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah," &c. It is strange to think what mercy is mixed with the most wrath like strokes and threatenings. On account then of these either occupations of the servants of God, or bodily infirmities, which cannot be altogether wanting, not only doth the Apostle permit the needs of saints to be supplied by good believers, but also most wholesomely exhorteth. ship: for thou mayest be no longer steward."III. Let us inquire, what is THE NATURE OF THE EVIL AGAINST WHICH WE ARE GUARDED IN THE TEXT. Many of the houses are exceedingly grand and are finely intermixed with water and wood; yet are not too close, but so as to be sufficiently ventilated by the air. The first-fruits here. On account then of these either occupations of the servants of God, or bodily infirmities, which cannot be altogether wanting, not only doth the Apostle permit the needs of saints to be supplied by good believers, but also most wholesomely exhorteth. How soon does a spirit of weariness creep over us in our spiritual career. The man who is resolved to ruin himself has the evil propensities of his fallen nature to help him. Then, secondly, this weariness often arises from a sense of our own insufficiency. Not ours, but2. SOME PLACES WHERE WE ARE LIABLE TO GROW WEARY.1. Think of these three things. (3) Nor because we do not find enlargement in prayer. But the one is a fiend and the other a seraph. We find St. Paul praying thrice that the thorn in the flesh might be extracted, before he received that answer which caused his soul to thrill with holy joy. (Admonition 28.) There is a reward promised by Him who cannot lie, and preserved by Him who cannot be turned from His purpose. Help others. Viney, D. D.It is the part of religion to teach man to do well. )Motives to perseveranceT. HOW TO PREVENT WEARINESS IN WELL-DOING.1. Our weariness, unlike Christ's, may arise from misunderstanding of the ways of God. 10. M. We often feel our unfitness and our unworthiness to be employed in doing good. We must be eyes to see, ears to harken, mouths to plead, hands to labour, feet to walk, or shoulders to bear for the body the Church (1 Corinthians 12:12-27; Ephesians 4:11-13). This is what he is specially called to the business of his life his "being's end and aim."1. I have done so much that at least I may be satisfied. AugustineAgainst LyingOn Account Then of These Either Occupations of the Servants of God17. Hope animates the spirits: it is to the soul as cork to the net, which keeps it from sinking. Another cause of this weariness is the want of success.5. "Fear not, Daniel; for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard." Watson. "In due season we shall reap, if we faint not."--GAL. If you say a man is doing well, you mean to say that a man is increasing in his wealth, his influence, or his connections. I said to the child, "Do you expect to get all that coal in with that little shovel?" A day is hastening on, when works, and not wishes, or projects, will determine your eternal reward. Text--But grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.--2 Pet. Our ways of doing good may often be antiquated and cumbrous. 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." It was David's prayer, "hold Thou me up and I shall be safe;" and it was Beza's prayer, "Lord, perfect what Thou hast begun in me." The energies of goodness never rest nor take their ease.II. But to the other, set as he was amid the libidinous frenzy of the Sodomites, who would dare to say, "Although thy guests in thine own St. 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. So in His "own season" that is, the season which is peculiarly adapted for the purpose; the season which God knows to be the most appropriate; the season that shall best fit in to all the other declarations which God shall make of His majesty, His justice, and His power, as well as His love, His mercy, and His grace: at that time "we shall reap, if we faint not." Jesus Christ, to whom we are abandoned, and whom "we follow as the way, whom we hear as the truth, and who animates us as the life" (John xiv. The moral harvest comes all to perfection; not a grain is lost. 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. WE HAVE ABUNDANT ENCOURAGEMENT IN THE PROSPECT OF REWARD.1. I can hardly wonder that the best stand appalled before the mass of the misery and sin of society. What the injunction "to grow in grace" does not mean. An active creature as man is, there is still in him a love of ease, of repose, of luxurious rest. There is a glorious reward before us, if we do not grow weary in well-doing. Is there any pause in the intercession of the Son? You will reap eternal life, if you sow to the Spirit, that is, if you don't grow weary in well-doing. The words have not been taken in the same sense by all, a fact that obscures their sense. UNWEARINESS IN WELL-DOING.1. It was when Peter looked on the waves that he began to sink.2. 9). My Father worketh hitherto, and I work."3. 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. (John Rodgers, D. D.)A dissuasive from weariness in well-doingEssex Congregational Remembrancer.I. "I bear in my body," Jeanne Marie BouviresA Short Method Of Prayer And Spiritual TorrentsTranslator's Introductory Notice. VI. The Church is His body; His eye to see, His voice to cheer, His hand to lift and to heal the weakness and the misery of mankind. For see what the individual who has to instruct the human mind, has to contend with. Learn from the devotee of many a false god; from the worshipper of Siva, who, drunk with opium, swings on the flesh-hook at some horrid festival, or prostrates himself before the advancing car of Juggernaut, making this revolting self-sacrifice to pacify the raging of a guilty conscience, or to gain the ephemeral applause of an ignorant mob; even he is not weary with his work.(H. 1. But don't be "disheartened" (see Greek). THE CHRISTIAN MAN'S VOCATION IN THE PRESENT WORLD, II, THE MOTIVE TO PERSEVERANCE IN IT, ARISING FROM THE ASSURANCE OF FINAL REWARD.I. The confession of time will be the ascription of all eternity: "By the grace of God I am what I am!" TRUE WELL-DOING BRINGS WITH IT APPROPRIATE RESULTS.1. 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