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. Encouraging to know this. Viney, D. D.)The danger signalGeorge H. Smyth.I. The original means "loosened." A right apprehension of these will make the observations advanced respecting the canon and its formation plainer. 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. The sixteenth chapter of the second book of that memorable review of his literary career, contains corrections of certain points on which he believed that he had not been sufficiently accurate in these discussions. 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. Unreasonable expectations of an immediate harvest.4. Observe the spirit by which those. The painter may be paralyzed, and his unfinished canvas be the best expositor of his malady. Observe the spirit by which those. M. Punshon, D. D.I. In order to do this 1. Hugh BinningOf MysteriesOf Mysteries It may be objected, that, by this method, we shall have no mysteries imprinted on our minds: but it is quite the reverse; for it is the peculiar means of imparting them to the soul. The love of sin is like a stone in the pipe which hinders the current of water. L. Galton, M. 16). Christ Himself lives and works within the Christian by the power of His Spirit.III. 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. There is no prophet whose office and commission is only for judgment, nay, to speak the truth, it is mercy that premises threatenings. Christ Himself lives and works within the Christian by the power of His Spirit.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. The expression "due," is a word which is elsewhere translated "own." THERE IS WELL-DOING OR GOODNESS THAT IS INCUMBENT ON US, viz., sowing to the Spirit. B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth October 20. V. What is not proof of growth in grace. Jesus Christ, to whom it is abandoned, and whom it follows as the Way, whom it hears as the Truth, and who animates it as the Life, impressing Himself upon it, imparts to it His own condition. As introductory to the following dissertation, I shall explain and define certain terms that frequently occur in it, especially canon, apocryphal, ecclesiastical, and the like. And as the farmer has long patience, so ought we to have long patience. 16). He has VariousThe World's Great Sermons, Volume 10On Mysteries --God Gives them Here in Reality. Love makes a man that he is never weary. 14. The injunction in the former of these verses appears, at first sight, to be inconsistent with the statement in the latter. And here we see the importance, if we first consider what was the issue of the apostle's labours. Man's life progresses, and each age has its character. What was the issue of his labours amongst the Gentiles and Jews? Practically, we plan for this life and this only. .'--GAL. Get the love of God in your hearts, and you will run in His ways, and not be weary.(T. 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. Even here on earth, says Lord Jeffrey, "he will always see the most beauty in things whose affections are warmest and most exercised, whose imagination is the most powerful, and who has most accustomed himself to attend to the objects by which he is surrounded." (4)Saturating the whole population with religious truth.(C. Renew the fight, endure the strain. . A Christian will not be weary of service, that hath the crown in his eye. In the former chapter we have shown, from Scripture and from reason, that our Church teaches only the plain truth, when she confesses that: "After Adam's fall, all men, begotten after the common course of nature, are born with sin." 9). We know from experience, that perseverance, either with respect to earthly or heavenly things, is scarcely ever without success. This is the argument urged by the apostle in our text: "for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not." 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. What, however, we have to do is to be faithful, to endure patiently our burdens, and to press onward in the strength of faith and hope.2. It may perhaps be thought necessary that some guard be put to the doctrine, lest grace be dishonoured, and the worthless idol of human merit be exalted. IV. Action is at once the destiny and the lot of man. It will be objected that, by this way, mysteries will not be made known. 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. The expression "due," is a word which is elsewhere translated "own." The second persevering grace is hope. 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. HOW TO PREVENT WEARINESS IN WELL-DOING.1. 1 The love of sin. We all desire change, Monotony is irksome. They shall enter into the joy of their Lord. (4)The want of appreciation. that silken cocoon! The want of spirituality of mind.7. Take the most disagreeable task first: don't leave it until it becomes more burdensome than it is.2. Watson. The beauty of a thing is when it comes to be finished; the beauty of a picture is, when it is drawn out in its full lineaments, and laid in its orient colours; the beauty of a Christian is, when he hath finished his faith.(T. They toiled a good while and got nothing. Watson.It is a beautiful sight to see silver hairs crowned with golden virtue. AugustineOf the Work of Monks. One of my Sunday-school teachers came to me to resign her class, because she said she was doing them no good. JESUS SAYS, AND LO, I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS, EVEN TO THE END OF THE WORLD. A Due Reaping. v. 6. Faith keeps from fainting; faith gives a substance to things not seen, and makes them to be as it were present, As a perspective glass makes those things which are at a distance near to the eye, so doth faith: heaven and glory seem near. B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth Doing Good to All'As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all. As introductory to the following dissertation, I shall explain and define certain terms that frequently occur in it, especially canon, apocryphal, ecclesiastical, and the like. By its natural birth, from sinful parents, it is not in the kingdom of God, but in the realm and under the dominion of sin, death and the devil. )Reward of perseveranceIllustrations of Truth.A German musician whose sense of sound was remarkably acute, tells us that a day or two after he landed, he entered one of our churches. (3)Want of order and discipline in the school.3. Cultivate the grace of forbearance.3. (4)Saturating the whole population with religious truth.(C. 6) in imprinting Himself on the soul, impresses the characters of His different states; and to bear all the states of Jesus Christ is far more sublime, than merely Madame GuyonA Short and Easy Method of PrayerGrowth in Grace. Think of these three things. Viney, D. D.It is the part of religion to teach man to do well. We are too ready to suppose that our exertions for the present and future benefit of our fellow-creatures are utterly without success, because we do not see the success. Those who grow weary in well-doing, so as to forsake the ways of practical godliness, lose all their former labour and pains in religion. The special encouragement which the apostle presents. Further incentives to perseverance may be found in the peculiar and insidious character of the temptations to which well-doing is exposed.1. I pray you read them. M. Punshon, D. D.I. 16 (R.V.). THE CHARGE OF THE APOSTLE,.1. Early pastoral experiences.III. Then the assumption is, that we have begun "well-doing," because he who has not begun to do well, can never be said to be in any risk or danger of being weary in it.2. (4)Because it is always identified with our happiness. The great battle of life is with this heavy, weard, languid flesh, that ties us to the dust. The want of love to Christ.6. Now, from the sense of all this goodness, will not the man, who is not dead to every generous feeling in human nature, love the Lord his Maker and Saviour with all his heart, and soul, and strength? How much is there to induce this spirit, and to render the exhortation against it appropriate. A. The sixteenth chapter of the second book of that memorable review of his literary career, contains corrections of certain points on which he believed that he had not been sufficiently accurate in these discussions. (1) And in the first place, we are bound to regard the bodies of our fellow-creatures. 16 (R.V.). III. Hugh BinningOf MysteriesOf Mysteries It may be objected, that, by this method, we shall have no mysteries imprinted on our minds: but it is quite the reverse; for it is the peculiar means of imparting them to the soul. Sunday School teaching is well-doing, because 1. Never did the most plenteous harvest reward the labours of the husbandman more certainly or fully, than the joys and glories of the future world shall reward the faithful, persevering, and diligent disciples of Jesus. And so we sow only that which we can reap now or that which the children in our households can reap here on earth. )Perseverence in religious duties enforcedG. "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. Christ Himself lives and works within the Christian by the power of His Spirit.III. We find Jacob wrestling with the wondrous angel of God's covenant through the entire night, and prevailing not till the morning began to break. The weariness in well-doing, against which we are here guarded, ordinarily begins in the less of that relish for Divine things, and that pleasure in the ways of God, which the person may have had in days past.II. Thomas, D. D., J. F. Stevenson.I. Standing at that age in the field one day, he bethought himself of a sermon which he had heard eighty-five years before, and of the fact that when Mr. Flavel had finished the discourse and came to the close of the service, he said, "I shall not pronounce the benediction. Surely you will not be weary, when your salvation is so much nearer than when you first believed?(W. Let me say to you, "Be not weary in well-doing," because YOU HAVE THE MOST NOBLE EXAMPLES TO CONSTANCY AND DILIGENCE. .'--GAL. 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. But who can be sure? If we would not grow weary, let us pray for persevering grace. We find Jacob wrestling with the wondrous angel of God's covenant through the entire night, and prevailing not till the morning began to break. In the first place, it refers individually to ourselves doing well, or doing good, with regard to ourselves. The third persevering grace is love. "For, in due season, ye shall reap if ye faint not." When a Christian first enters upon this work, he thinks that all is easy; that to convert souls is no great difficulty: to draw other minds into the state in which he is, is but simply a pleasant exercise. (2) But we must not exclude man as a responsible and immortal being. Do two things. Coming to this country about 1895 he was appointed pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Metropolitan Tabernacle, New York. By its natural birth, from sinful parents, it is not in the kingdom of God, but in the realm and under the dominion of sin, death and the devil. Sunday School teaching is well-doing, because 1. We shall reap the growth effectuated by His Holy Spirit, though we may not always understand the nature of the gracious sheaves that we are bringing in our bosom. The beauty of a thing is when it comes to be finished; the beauty of a picture is, when it is drawn out in its full lineaments, and laid in its orient colours; the beauty of a Christian is, when he hath finished his faith.(T. 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. Nor is this all there is the spirit of self-complacency. "Let us not be weary for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not." 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. "Let us not be weary for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not." If, then, we say we have fellowship with Him while we walk in darkness, that is sin, "we deceive ourselves," says the apostle. The Christian owes his own salvation to unwearied love and infinite sacrifice.2. We learned from Numbers vi, GOD'S requirements of those who desire to take the privileged position of separation to Himself. 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. Study the history of Jesus of Nazareth. R. Reynolds, B. THE TEXT: THE ARTICULATE APOSTLE PAUL, WRITES THIS PASSAGE TO THE CHURCH AT GALATIA TO ENCOURAGE AND INSTRUCT THEM HOW THEY ARE TO TREAT THE MINISTERS OF THE GOSPEL WHO ARE LABORING FOR GOD. If, then, we say we have fellowship with Him while we walk in darkness, that is sin, "we deceive ourselves," says the apostle. underneath is the pure white of immortality. God acts not without a plan.3. 5. A. We are sowers of seed here. "Be not weary," FOR THE MOTIVES TO CONTINUANCE IN THE RIGHT COURSE ARE AS POWERFUL AS THE MOTIVES TO COMMENCEMENT. These duties are called well-doing, because in a conscientious observance of them we do well; we comply with the approving will of God. A) ONE, THERE IS STRENGTH FOR THE STRUGGLE. Would God that those of us who now preach the gospel of Jesus Christ might utter some word that will resound in helpfulness and in redemption long after we are dead!(Dr. Kanon, as an ecclesiastical term, has a very interesting history. We now propose to consider more fully why this James Hudson TaylorSeparation and ServiceConcerted Prayer"A tourist, in climbing an Alpine summit, finds himself tied by a strong rope to his trusty guide, and to three of his fellow-tourists. The reaping time will come.2. As ever you would desire not to be weary in well-doing, beware of sloth in the ways of God. Christian slept in the arbour after ascending the hill Difficulty.II. The waterman seizes the tide, the moment it turns; the sailor seizes the breeze, the moment it springs up; Christ, the day in which the Father sent Him to execute His will. Relative usefulness shall be another portion of your reaping: "we shall reap, if we faint not." all the glory of thy salvation belongs to Jesus,--none to thyself; every jewel in thine eternal crown is His,--purchased by His blood, and polished by His Spirit. Recollect that you are working together with a God who is unweariable.6. The absence of variety is painful, and transforms the period over which it extends into a desert a sandy plain; while, were there to be the entire negation of variety, life would be insupportable, and, like solitary confinement would soon become the harbinger of death. events were vitalized. The expression "due season," then, I conceive refers to a time which is known only to the Father, who hath put the times and seasons in His own power. Working from wrong impulses.(1)Praise.(2)Pride. 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. A Due Reaping. SOME PLACES WHERE WE ARE LIABLE TO GROW WEARY.1. )Unwearied in errorH. Nor is it merely for projecting schemes religious castle-building. vii,--one of the longest in the Bible, and one full of repetition. B. )Unweariedness in well-doingH. )Unweariedness in well-doingH. One lay down to die; the ether, seeing his awful condition, began to rub, chafe, and rouse him. Christians are the pledged disciples of the Great Worker in this field of holy exertion. 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. 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. The evil to which the Christian is exposed, and against which he is cautioned weariness in well-doing.III. By his conquest of temptation.2. Patience, industry, and perseverance: are the three great elements of success in life. They include all that the sacred oracles mean by piety towards God; by justice, benevolence and humanity towards our neighbour, and by sobriety and temperance in our conduce towards ourselves. )The beauty of a Christian is to hold on in pietyT. The sculptor may die, and his bust half finished be his most significant monument. Live in unseen communings.II. Remember the evil one never gets discouraged or weary.4. I have done so much that at least I may be satisfied. What was the issue of his labours amongst the Gentiles and Jews? What it does mean. My little nephew was out in the garden one evening with his father sowing peas; next morning he took a basket and was going out to gather the crop, and was greatly disappointed when told the peas were not yet grown. 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. A right apprehension of these will make the observations advanced respecting the canon and its formation plainer. Remember the evil one never gets discouraged or weary.4. )Motives to perseveranceT. Is there any pause in the intercession of the Son? It is quite true that we cannot very well separate these, for, as Seneca says, "He that does good to another man does good also unto himself, not only in the consequences, but in the very act of doing it, for the conscience of well-doing is an ample reward." fastened in it you are dead while you live. In the first place, your duty is, to be engaged "in well-doing;" that is to say, in doing well, in doing good, in doing that which is just and approved in the sight of God. We have many bright examples of patience and perseverence in well-doing, to encourage us not to be weary in it.5. And this brings me to a third source of weariness and discouragement in well-doing our narrow and inadequate views of life. 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. Such necessary business in life as does not minister pleasure.2. 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. The mighty name of "Christian" combines many of the strongest arguments to unwearying service.1. What, however, we have to do is to be faithful, to endure patiently our burdens, and to press onward in the strength of faith and hope.2. H. GerberdingThe Way of Salvation in the Lutheran ChurchAnd to Holy David Indeed it Might More Justly be Said22. 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. The sixteenth chapter of the second book of that memorable review of his literary career, contains corrections of certain points on which he believed that he had not been sufficiently accurate in these discussions. Let us consider it, secondly, As URGING HIM TO PERSEVERANCE IN THAT VOCATION BY THE PROMISE OF ULTIMATE REWARD. Do two things. The text speaks of "fainting." It may lead to the abandonment of our mission. It is nothing for Him to speak to that child that you cannot affect, and the work is done. 1 The love of sin. As they skirt a perilous precipice he cannot pray, Lord, hold up my goings in a safe path, that my footsteps slip not, but as to my guide and companions, they must look out for themselves.' WE HAVE ABUNDANT ENCOURAGEMENT IN THE PROSPECT OF REWARD.1. Besides, difficulties are just nothing to Omnipotence. Will meet with its reward.1. THE CHRISTIAN MAN'S VOCATION IN THE PRESENT WORLD, II, THE MOTIVE TO PERSEVERANCE IN IT, ARISING FROM THE ASSURANCE OF FINAL REWARD.I. x. (1) Because such words as these are written in the Bible (Matthew 18:21-35). I encouraged her to "labour and to wait." Christ Himself lives and works within the Christian by the power of His Spirit.III. The first thought which claims our attention here, is this: That the present life is not designed to be a merely contemplative thing.2. 18. The seasons revolve, and each appears clad in a different garb. "In due season ye shall reap if ye faint not." (2)Grace perhaps is at a low ebb. He was born in Shropshire, England, December 18, 1864, and graduated from Richmond College, London University, in 1889. 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. The human body is, as well as the soul, the purchase of the blood of Christ. 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." He came to this country. "I must work, said Jesus, the works of Him that sent Me while it is day. 9). I MUST conclude this Course of Lectures by giving converts instructions on the subject of growth in grace. She received us with that easy openness and affability which is almost peculiar to Christians John WesleyThe Journal of John Wesley"Hear the Word of the Lord, Ye Rulers of Sodom, Give Ear unto the Law of Our God, Ye People of Gomorrah,"Isaiah i. You must observe that it does not enjoin upon us well-scheming, but well-doing not the design, but the deed. The sixteenth chapter of the second book of that memorable review of his literary career, contains corrections of certain points on which he believed that he had not been sufficiently accurate in these discussions. Two men were digging for gold in California once. An active creature as man is, there is still in him a love of ease, of repose, of luxurious rest. A. events were vitalized. He began to shovel it away, but there seemed to be such a mountain of it he threw down his shovel in despair saying: "I can never clear away all that snow." 9). To enkindle the mind, to enlarge the heart, to awake the imagination, these will be spiritual results to ourselves, worth while surely. Two men were digging for gold in California once. The injunction in the former of these verses appears, at first sight, to be inconsistent with the statement in the latter. He shows what they intend that preach circumcision.14. Let us inquire, what is THE NATURE OF THE EVIL AGAINST WHICH WE ARE GUARDED IN THE TEXT. (2)Doing implies toil, and human nature is fond of ease. 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. (1)Some think their work less important than at first. 25. vi. Do two things. The want of love to Christ.6. We shall reap the growth effectuated by His Holy Spirit, though we may not always understand the nature of the gracious sheaves that we are bringing in our bosom. Two travellers crossing the Alps were freezing to death. Have strong faith in the promises: "My word shall not return unto Me void it shall prosper" (Isaiah 55:11). Renew the fight, endure the strain. Besides, difficulties are just nothing to Omnipotence. 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