The Laws Of Almighty God (5 Of 5)

For instance:

• I have a problem with a person leaving a perfectly good job!

• I have a problem with a person getting rid of a perfectly good car!

• I have a problem with a person leaving a perfectly good church!

• I have a problem with a person with going from one marriage to another!

WHY DO PEOPLE LIVE THEIR LIVES LIKE THIS?

Because they have the capacity for becoming tired of things.

Illus: There was a time:

• When a person would work on the same job their entire life.

• When a person would attend the same church their entire life.

• When a person would be married to the same person until the day they died.

• When a person would wear their clothes until they wore them out! And when they wore them out, they slapped some patches on the holes and wore them some more!

But it is true in America we have the capacity to get tired of things real fast.

Illus: Speaking of the word “Tired” one man said, “I hate that moment when you are “Tired” and cannot wait to go to sleep but as soon as you try to go to sleep, your body is like “Just Kidding”.

But this problem of getting TIRED of things seems to be a problem that begins in childhood for some folks.

For example:

• Some children wake up on Christmas day and they are excited about all the new toys they have, but before the week is over, they are so tired of them they no longer play with them.

• Then some adults will tell you they sold everything they had to move to the mountains, or beaches, but after six months of living there, they seldom ever notice the mountains and beaches.

• WHAT HAPPENED?

• WHY DID THE THRILL LEAVE?

They let the daily routine of life rob them of the excitement they once had.

Illus:I have often said, I hope when we get to heaven they will have strawberry ice cream.

But did you know you can love ice cream so much that you think you could eat it every day of your life, but if you ate it for every meal every day, after a while you would soon have to force it down.

Listen, if all these things are true in the NATURAL LIFE, they are also true in the SPIRITUAL REALM.

This was one of the reasons that the apostle Paul wrote to the Galatians.

In Galatians 6:9, he said, “And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season, we shall reap, if we faint not.”

Look at the word “reap.”

This is translated from the Greek word “therizo,” which means: “To harvest.”

That is, the farmer who wants to have a harvest can not become weary in carrying out his task. He might become tired of:

• Fighting insects.

• Fighting bad weather.

• Fighting the high prices of equipment.

• Fighting the high prices of fertilizer and insecticide.

• Struggling to keep good help.

But if he expects to have a GOOD HARVEST, he CAN NOT BECOME WEARY IN WELL DOING.

AND, if we expect to have any heavenly rewards, we cannot become WEARY IN WELL DOING!

Illus: All of us (If we are smart) know one day if the Lord allows us to live long enough, we make plans to put money aside for retirement. That money we set aside for retirement we do not touch it because we know when we can no longer work, we will be glad we did not become WEARY in putting that money aside.

But also, if we are smart, we will PERSEVERE in laying up treasures when we get to heaven. And once God REWARDS us for PERSERVERING IN SOWING GOOD SEEDS we will be glad we did not become WEARY in well doing.

The Word of God acknowledge that we can become WEARY even in SOWING GOOD SEEDS.

Illus: Throughout my ministry I have heard Christians say…

• I am tired of teaching a Sunday school class.

• I am tired of singing in the choir

• I am tired of driving a church bus to pick up children for Sunday school

• I am tired of being a deacon or usher

• I am tired of preaching week after week and year after year

These are very good things we can do with our life, but the book of Galatians tells us, BE NOT WEARY IN WELL DOING!!!

We can become weary at doing anything, and if we do something often most likely we will become tired of even DOING GOOD THINGS!

Let us make one thing very clear: THIS “GROWING WEARY” in doing good deeds that John talks about HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH OUR SALVATION.