Well-doing
Category: Obedience to God’s Will
Key Passage: Galatians 6:9
Speaker: Paul Chisgar
Date: June 19, 2022
You might say, “Well, my father’s in heaven,” or “I don’t have one, never really had a dad,” whatnot. If you’re a born-again Christian, you’ve got the best Dad in all the world—our Abba Father. Praise the Lord for that. He wants to be your Father, by the way. That’s very sacred to Him. If you’re a born-again Christian, He is your Dad, so make Him your Dad. He wants to be your Dad.
That’s great. Galatians chapter number six this morning, Galatians chapter number six in God’s Word. I felt like the Lord just wanted us to focus on one verse this morning because pecan pie is waiting, amen. But really just one verse, and in some ways, really one word.
That I think is often missed in this verse, and I think we miss a major part of the meaning of this verse by missing one word. That’s why every word in the Bible is important—every word. That’s why we just use the old King James Bible, because every word matters; even the order of the words matters. I think about this so often. You ever think about a fellow who grows up in church?
He learned it from, you know, the time he was in Vacation Bible School. Ms. Brenda made him learn Bible verses in Vacation Bible School. He didn’t have any choice in the matter. And in fact, his ear got a little bit longer because, you know, I’m teasing. Then he graduates high school, maybe from a Christian school, learned Bible all in that. Mom and Dad taught him Bible, Sunday school teacher, VBS taught him Bible—all that. Then he goes off to Bible college; he studies for four, sometimes six, eight years, that one book. He’s been to Greek class twenty times, the first class, but he failed it nineteen times, you know. Then he gets out and he preaches for forty, fifty years on this one book, and man, he still hasn’t even come close to getting it. I often say about the Bible, it’s so shallow, no one will drown in it, but it’s so deep, nobody will get to the bottom of it.
It is just an incredible book. It’s a living book. That’s why we don’t change it, amen. You say, “Well, we’ve got to understand it. We’ve got to kind of bring it down to our level.” Man, don’t do that. Let’s try to get up to its level, amen. I mean, the Bible, God’s holy Word. I’m glad we got the King James Bible. You can say amen there and praise the Lord for it. And Galatians chapter number six in one verse.
You say, “If you tell me the verse, I look at it.” I know you wouldn’t look at me anymore, though, you know. I’m not telling you for a bit, you know. But amen, verse number nine, verse number nine. See, I told you wouldn’t look at me after that. Verse number nine. Would you please stand as we read God’s Word together, if you’re able to? Galatians 6 and verse number nine. How many—and I know you’re not trying to be braggadocious—but how many of you say, “I think I could quote this verse”? How many of you could quote it?
All right, Brother Tim’s got his hand raised. Brother Tim, would you come up and quote that in front of him? No, I’m joking. I’m joking. Let’s read it. Let’s just read it. You read it quietly. I’ll read out loud. Then we’ll say it out loud together. How about that? Here we go. I’ll read out loud; you read quietly. “And let us not be weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap if we think not.” Would you read or say that out loud with me, please? Here we go. “And let us not be weary in well-doing, for in due season, we shall reap if we faint not.”
Would you pray with me that God would—oh, sometimes we just need a little reset in some areas of our Christian life—that God would kind of reset us a little bit? All of us, me too, in a couple areas of our Christian life. Would you pray that as I pray the same?
Father, Lord, we sure need you. And, Lord, I’m not prepared like I’d like to be. Lord, you know, I don’t have a lot of great illustrations of all those things today. And so always I need you, but see Him now more than ever. Lord, I do pray, would You take this truth and would You reset us? Father, help us to be all You want us to be for You, Lord. Lord, would You give me the heart and the mind’s attention of all the folk here, the young folk, all of them, Lord, please? And then turn our hearts to You, and we’ll thank You, Lord, for what You do in Jesus. Then we ask, amen.
How many of you say, “Well, I wonder what the one word He’s talking about is”? There’s one word we really want to focus on a little bit, especially in the beginning here. Anybody want to take a gander at the one word? Anybody want to take a gander? Somebody raise your hand and take a guess at it. Brother Anthony. “And?” That’s a good guess. That’s a good thought, and that’s probably a lot, too. Brother Ted. “Reap.” “Nonsense.” Those are all good words. Miss Tammy. What was it? “If?” No, these are all good. Brother Juan, all those are good words. Man, you know, I’m thinking maybe I ought to preach the words y’all are mentioning, you know, because they’re good words. Miss Stacy.
We’re just looking for one word. Man, you almost had it. You almost had it. Come on, that gives you—yeah, yeah, now you’re saying it. Miss Melanie. “Faint.” All those are good words. We’ve given it away. Come on, Brother Fake. You might as well reap now. “Shall”—all those are good words. Come on now. Y’all know what it is now. Brother Marlin back there. Well, yeah, well, yeah, that’s it.
Look at that verse. Look at it. I want you to see it. He could have very easily said this: “And let us not be weary in doing.” He didn’t say that. God Almighty, He said what He meant, meant what He said. He could put it however He wanted to. He says, “And let us not be weary in well-doing.” Can I put it this way: doing it first class? Can I put it this way: doing it to the best of your ability for the Lord? “Let us not be weary in well-doing.” Someone said it this way: doing it well.
Now wait a second, friend, think of me for a second. He could have made a way where He could have bought our salvation for $10. You say, “Well, it’s got to be a sinless, you know, perfect, spotless Lamb.” And I understand that’s why God made it. But I’m just saying, God, before all that, He could have made it a different system, if you will. He could have made it where it was very easy for Him to purchase Ryan down here. You say, “How do you remember that boy’s name?” Because my grandson’s name is Ryan, amen. Ryan, would you stand up for just a second here? I’m just going to use him. God could have said, “I want Ryan,” and God did say, “I want Ryan to go to heaven.” He did say that. But God could have made it where it had been very easy for God to purchase salvation for Ryan. But God said, “I want to show Ryan how much I love him.” God loves Ryan very much. And so God wanted to show Ryan how valuable Ryan is to God. And so God made it where God had to give His only begotten Son. You can’t find anything better than Jesus. And so God said, “I want to show this boy, this young man, and you two, how valuable you are to God.” And so God gave His very best for Ryan, and He gave His very best for you. Thank you, Ryan. I appreciate it. But God gave His very, very best. He could have given the gold and the jewelry, the pearl gates, and the streets of gold. He could have given all that for your salvation, but that’s not even close to being the best—the best of Jesus. Now, wait a second, since God gave His best for me and God gave His best for you, isn’t it just fitting that you and I give our best to Him?
Now, I’m not necessarily concerned with how good your best is. The key is that you’re giving your best to the Lord. And the promise here, He says, “Hey, don’t get weary if you don’t think you’ll reap.” It’s for well-doing. It’s for doing things well. Can I be honest with you? If we’re not careful in our day and time, it’s so easy to just give a half-hearted effort for the Lord. We’re so caught up in this day and time in making a buck and trying to keep up with the Joneses and life and social media and everything else that is going on out there. I’m not saying those things are bad, but we get so caught up on all those things. We give God our pocket change—not a pocket knife, our pocket change. I don’t have any on me. I need to take some of this change out here. And we don’t do well when it comes to the things of God. Friend, I’m telling you, across America, there are churches, there are Christians, there are Christian homes where we are not working at doing things well. And the promise here: “Let us not be weary in well-doing it.”
It’s a sad thing, and we’re just trying to drum up a little bit of effort. If all you’ve got, your best is a little shy half of a McDonald’s fry, if that’s your best, then praise the Lord. God’s very pleased with that. I’m not questioning how best—or how, excuse me, how good your best is. I’m questioning: Are you giving your best to the Lord? But we’re losing that in our day and time. In the Christian world, look, friend, you go down to McDonald’s—not McDonald’s, this is Tennessee, it’s McDonald’s. All right now. Brother Joel’s on board, amen. You know, man, you go to McDonald’s down there. We’ve been in this location since '05, so we’ve been here years and years. Look, seventeen years, man, I don’t know how many times I remodeled that McDonald’s. They’re always working at that thing. They just redid the outside, and they’ll close it down for a week or two and redo the whole thing. I don’t know how many times they’ve done that. They’re always trying to, and then they put those screens, those kiosks inside there. How many of you say those things were a failure? Man, I’m with you on that right there. Just give me somebody to talk to. I mean, I take my order, you know. But they’re always trying to update and keep up with everything, and they’re always working at this thing and cleaning here and painting it here, and they’re selling fast food. Very, very, very good tasting, but very unhealthy. I mean, they’re selling that stuff they call hamburgers. I’m not sure what it is. I eat it from time to time, unfortunately. But they’re selling fast food, and they work so hard at it. Look, I’m saying if they work that hard at fast food, how hard should we be working for the Lord Jesus Christ? Well-doing. Let’s not be weary in well-doing.
I’m always amazed when you go to Chick-fil-A. I was waiting for that, Brother Anthony. That’s Brother Anthony’s restaurant. Man, he likes it. Man, you go to Chick-fil-A, you know, and you get your order, whatever, you know. Let’s see, Ethan will know. Ethan will know the answer to this here. You go to Chick-fil-A, you get your order, whatever, and they hand it to you, and you say, “Thank you.” What do they always say? “You’re welcome.” That makes sense. They always say, “My pleasure.” How many of you know that? You know that? I’m like, and they seem like they’re always—they mean it. You think they must be playing a tape player back there, you know? But they always say, “My pleasure,” and they act like, you know, they’re pretty good actors. I’m not sure, but “My pleasure,” you know, “My pleasure to serve you.” You ever want to say, “What do you mean, ‘My pleasure?’ What do you mean by that?” you know? But they seem like that. Now look, if the world works that hard at serving fast food, we ought to be so busy working for—trying to do it the best we can.
It was convicting day for me one time when I heard another preacher say this. He said, “Hey, do you go home and spend time with your family and your kids? Do you have just as much passion there as you do when you come to the ministry and you work?” I’m saying, I’m not just talking about church work. When you’re passionate, you’re trying to do well in whatever God’s called you to do. And for me, that was when I had some young kids at the house and for me to be a dad to them. Boy, I tell you what, I was convicted. Am I just as passionate about going home and being a dad to them as I am about being a preacher here? I’m just saying well-doing in whatever arena, whatever God’s called you to do. You see, I’m concerned in our day and time; we just get so laxadaisical. You say, “What does that mean?” I don’t know, but it sounded good. Amen? In a Tennessee dictionary somewhere. But we do get so half-hearted that we’re never just passionate, trying to do something good and writing our best. That’s your shame. God says, “Let us not be weary in well-doing”—doing the best you can.
Hey, how about your prayer life? See, our prayer life is something very easy; we just kind of slide on a little bit because nobody really sees our prayer life besides the Lord. But He’s the one at the end of the day who gives a paycheck out, if you will. Promotion comes from Him.
And that thing that is so very, very—look, you’re going to either rise or fall in many ways to the level of your prayer life and your Christian life. And it’s so vital that you work at your prayer life. And I’ve got to work at my prayer life. But am I doing—am I well-doing in my prayer life? Oh, John Rice used to say, “Every failure is a prayer failure.” Are you well-doing in your prayer closing? Do you pray throughout the day?
Can I be honest with you? I’m going to be, as they say in our day and time, transparent—maybe a little bit more transparent than I should. But we, of course, we’ve been sick and all that, been out, and I was wanting to get some things done while I was sick. I had a couple days, and so I was going to work at the Bible Institute and then trying to get back in. I was only here one night in VBS. They did all the work in VBS. I slept in one night in VBS, did a little bit, you know. But I was trying to get back in here and then try to get ready for Sunday and all those things. And I kind of had the attitude, “Man, I want to get some things done.” I had the attitude, “I just have to do so much,” that I did not focus on: I don’t want to do it on my own. I can’t get the real job done on my own. I don’t want to get the job done. I don’t want God—I want Your blessing. I don’t want You to work. I want to be an instrument in Your hand. Boy, I’ve been convicted since last night. Boy, I need to just pray more throughout the day. Lord, I want You to work. Would You work? Pastor Paul can’t get anything done without the Lord, but God can do a whole lot. I always say, we don’t want around here what we can do; we want what God can do around here. Prayer. So how’s your prayer life? Are you well-doing in your prayer life? “And let us not be weary in well-doing.”
Here’s a little bit in our day and time. If we’re not careful, we’ll fall into this trap. We’re so busy. Whatever’s left over, I’ll give it to the Lord. Whatever’s left over, I’ll give it to my marriage. Oh, friends, you don’t have a good marriage like that. If you want a good marriage, you’re going to have to on purpose make that a big-time priority. You’re going to have to make that spouse of yours the most important person in all the world to you. You’re going to have to set aside some time just for your marriage. There are going to be times that you’re going to have to change your schedule because your marriage needs a little work. You need to focus on some things, and you’re going to have to say, “Hey, listen, I’m not just trying to kind of have a roommate here. I like to have a sweet, wonderful marriage.” In order to do that, you’re going to have to work at well-doing inside your marriage. That’s the promise: “Let us not be weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap if we faint not.” And your marriage is vital. Can I say this on that line? One of the best things you can give your kids is a good marriage. You can get so focused on spending every ounce of energy on the kids that you are not working on your marriage. One of the best things you can give your kids is a good marriage. Well-doing. Well-doing.
And this is Tennessee. I was born in Tennessee. I love Tennessee. I adore Tennessee. Amen. Come on now. You’re out there. Wait a second. Is it warm in here to y’all? Is it warm in here? Wow, we even have ladies shaking their hair. Can we turn it? We got one saying, “Can we turn it down just a touch here?” We’ll turn it down. We got a unit back there out, but these up here are working good. So we’re going to make it so cold we can hang meat in here just to show you it’s working here. No, I’m teasing. I’m teasing.
I love country churches. I love them. But here’s what can happen sometimes in little Tennessee country churches. You pull up in the driveway, and the church house looks like it has not been painted in about 40 years. And the parking lot has grass growing up through it, and there’s cobwebs everywhere. And you come in—and I’m saying all this right at a bad time, as we’re about to try to update some of our facilities. We just finished Vacation Bible School, we’re going to get our carpets clean, we’ve got some things coming up. We’re going to try to make our facilities look good, but this is why: because we don’t want to fall into this trap. Anyway, you go inside there, and look, the decorations on the wall, they’ve been there for 20 years. You know what I’m saying? And there’s dirt everywhere. There are wrappers from Johnny last summertime when he was chewing that gum, you know, that he put in that—I mean. And I’m saying, and the music—praise the Lord, we have good music here—but the music people, they’ll get up and they haven’t practiced a bit in the world. “Well, I didn’t have time to practice, so y’all pray for me out there.” Now, I don’t have a problem with someone saying, “Pray for me,” but if they haven’t practiced, I have a problem. You see what I’m coming from? And it’s kind of like, oh man, the pastor, oh man, I’ve got to study, well, I’ve got to have something to preach, and he hasn’t worked at it. And I’m saying, if we’re not careful, we will not be well-doing for the Lord. And the promise is, God says, “Let us not be weary in well-doing.”
Now, I love those churches. I grew up in a lot of churches like that, not all of them. And I’m not against those churches, but I’m saying, hey, woe be to us if we’re not giving our best for the Lord. We’re talking about souls going to hell or heaven forever. We’re talking about working for God and serving God. We ought to give our very best for Him. Work at that thing.
We were in—this is our fourth building—we were in a daycare, in two different storefronts. Did they look like a lot? No, but we tried real hard to keep them clean. We were constantly working at remodeling them. It seemed like every building we’d get kind of where we wanted it, God moved us somewhere else. Friend, look, if we don’t have any money, I understand, or whatever. But I’m just saying, whatever you have, are you giving it your best? If you’re like me, you can’t sing. When I sing, the birds stop singing outside. We have a dog next door that’s a Husky. When I start singing, that Husky starts to howl. But if I sing, I ought to do the best I can sing. Man, if I sing, I ought to just give it all for God. Praise the Lord, these ladies sing for us, and I know they were up there practicing before. That’s what I’m saying, just give it our best.
Solomon’s Temple, you remember Solomon’s Temple over there in the Old Testament? They say—and this is about seven months old; with inflation, it’s probably a lot greater—but seven months ago, they said that thing cost about $4 billion. And they took God’s Word pretty seriously. They thought they ought to give it their best. I remember old Curtis Hutchison saying, “Hey, great works aren’t built on spare time and pocket change.” That takes some work and some energy and money. It takes all that. We’re a great work for the Lord.
By the way, you say, “Well, how do y’all dress up when you come to church?” It’s not to impress each other; it’s to try to give our best to the Lord. Man, if I’m going to visit the President—I mean, okay, if I were to visit our past President, I’m teasing with y’all out there—I wouldn’t, because I respect the office. But if I visit the President, hey, listen, I’m going to do my best. I’m going to dress up. I’m even going to brush my teeth before I go see him. If I’m going to come see God, I want to dress up for Him.
I remember staying at my granny’s house many a time, and me and Uncle David would go to church. Uncle David, I don’t know that he owned a pair of slacks—we’ll call them dress pants. All he had was jeans. But I guarantee you, man, when he went to church, he’d be wearing his jeans. But they were back in the day when you wore jeans, he had a crease right down the front. How many of you know what I’m talking about? Man, they’ve been ironed. I mean, that crease—you could kind of cut your finger on that crease. It’s so sharp, man. That’s all he had. Praise the Lord. Man, I have to help him come to church no matter what. But that’s the philosophy: we’re trying to give our best to the Lord.
Someone said this—they were lying for me, and I appreciate it. Sometimes you were lying for me; I’ll take it. Oh, I’m joking about that. But they said, “Man, Pastor, you undersell yourself as a—as a—kind of you cheat yourself as far as a teacher. You’re a good teacher. We’re learning in Sunday School.” I appreciate him lying like that. Amen. That’s a good guy for sure. But I didn’t say anything, but I thought, “He doesn’t know how many hours I’ve been studying for that.” And I’m serious about the hours. Right. Am I good at all that? No, I’m not trying to say that. I’m just trying to give it your best. Whatever you’re doing, give it your best for the Lord.
Hey, if we’re not careful in our society, nobody loses, nobody wins, and all the rest of that, and we just kind of bring everybody down while we’re not working towards something. Well-doing, well-doing, well-doing. “Let us not be weary in well-doing.”
Now, let’s get another word in there very quickly here. We’re going to hurry along on this thing. He did say we’re going to look at another word. Somebody said this word. I can’t remember. It may be Brother Patterson. Somebody said it. But Brother Patterson says, no, I don’t know who it was. He said, “Let us not be…” Go back, go back to the verse. Would you look back at the verse, please? Verse number nine. Galatians 6, verse number nine. Let’s look at it. We’ll get another word out here. Galatians 6, verse number nine. He says, “And let us not be weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall”—here it is—“reap if we faint not.” Reaping. How many of you have ever grown a garden before? You’ve ever had a garden before? Wow, I’m impressed. I’m impressed. Well, those gardens—man, to have a good garden, it takes work. Brother Dumpur knows; he’s been there. I don’t hear him saying, “Amen.” I mean, you get out there in March, April, and you get that—hopefully you got a tiller, amen. How many of you ever worked with a work mule before? Anybody here work with a work mule before? I haven’t either. Workhorse, work, or anything like that? I have not either. But anyway, so nowadays we got those tillers, right? I mean, we used to have an old tiller we got from a yard sale. The one we got now is from a yard sale, but it’s a good one. Back in the day, we had this old tiller, and the tailpipe came out, and it blew right in your face, and I’d make my son till the garden. That’s why he has no brains today, you know—pretty close to it. He used to tell me that. But anyway, man, come around April or so, you start tilling that garden up. Hopefully, you can till it up when there’s still a frost at nighttime, because you turn that up and those roots get frost and they die, you know. And then you till it up a time or two. Then somebody’s got to come along with some kind of a rake, and they rake out all the grass and the weeds and everything else out. You get all that out. And it’s best if you till it up a couple times, make sure that soil got all the grass and everything else, all the weeds out of there. And then it comes planting time. Man, I like a—I mean, if I’m going to plant, I want to do it right, so I like a nice straight line. And boy, you get those stakes and you put a string in between, you pull that, and you get this straight line. Man, you go along, and it’s very important how you plant the seeds. Brother Frank, are okra seeds hard to grow from seed? Okra? No, you got to do something special to it, or what? There you go. That man knows. Man, if you just put it in the ground, you’ll probably get some seed, but if you soak it overnight or so… I mean, you got to know how to plant those seeds.
I used to tell a story about a boy whose dad had a big old sack of corn. He said, “Boy, I want you to plant that corn before I get home from work today.” Well, that boy went fishing and played and everything; he forgot all about it. The boy said, “Oh man, Dad’s about home,” and said, “Man, I better plant that corn.” So the boy got that old sack of corn out, and he—you know, a lot of times you just poke a hole or put the seed in the ground, just bury it a little bit in there. And that boy said, “Man, I’m going to poke a hole. I’m going to put two kernels on there.” He put four or five because he wanted to get rid of this corn quick because Dad was almost home. And he put all those seeds in each hole. And months later it came up, and boy, how kind of different stalks coming out of there. And then you’ve got to thin it out. A lot of times you uproot, and Dad was mad at that boy because he didn’t plant it right. Planting’s important. You’ve got to plant that seed just right. And then…
A couple weeks later, it’s always exciting. You plant that seed, you see it just pop up—that green bean, you know, that big old leaf popping up. “Hey, we got something coming up today,” you know. That’s just exciting. And then maybe a month or so later it’s been growing, and you’ve been trying to weed it, and finally you’re reaping. But you have to do it well in order to reap. If you’re going to have a good garden, you have to have good preparation, planning, and sowing.
My wife was just over this week at the Jones’s house, David Jones, and he’s got cancer, taking chemo, but he’s still working that garden. And my wife was just amazed how good their garden looks. She came home bragging. I got jealous over that garden. Man, she didn’t bring back on that garden too much, but she bragged on how well that garden looked. And I thought, he’s got a great garden because, man, he spends time and energy and work. He fertilizes, and he preps that ground, and he pulls those lines and plants those seeds. He’s been well-doing, and so he’s well-reaping. Well, I like to reap like that. All right, are you well-doing? Moms, dads, are you well-doing in raising those children? Your prayer life—how much time? And I say, “Hey, let me ask you: In the last 24 hours, how much time have you spent in prayer?” What would you say? Well-doing, well-doing. “Let us not be weary.” If I like to reap a good one, all right, are you sowing a good one? Well-doing, you reap well.
I told about marriage earlier. You know, the Bible says, “Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” Sometimes in marriage, we’re giving our treasure out everywhere else, and we’re never putting our treasure in our marriage, and our heart’s not there anymore for our spouse. Well, you do it because God told you to, but sometimes you need to keep investing, putting your treasure in your marriage so your heart stays there. Well-doing, so you reap well.
Going back, that child-rearing is so very, very important. You know, the Bible says, “A child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.” Hey, moms, dads, are you making time to spend with them? Vital. Well-doing, well-doing, well-doing.
Then this last thing—we will be done today. This last thing, would you go back over there? Would you go back over there? That verse number nine. Let’s get another word in there. We’ve got “well-doing.” We’ve got “well.” We’ve got “reap.” I want you to say one more thing here. We’re done for the day, and we’re going to go—okay, I’m going to go eat pecan pie. Let’s see. Cracker Barrel. Does Cracker Barrel have pecan pie? Thanksgiving time they do. My goodness. Who’s got good pecan pie? How big is that pie, Sarah? Who else has got pecan pie besides my house? All right, we’ve got to find pecan pies. Publix—say, have pecan pies? Somebody said, “Sure.” Okay, go to Publix. Don’t go to my house. Go to Publix.
Let’s get this last word in here. Verse number nine. “And let us not be weary in well-doing, for in”—what’s the next word?—“due season we shall reap.” Everything. It’s not going to be every season.
It’s hard. It’s hard when you’re working at well-doing and you’re not reaping. It really is. But that’s part of it. If I expect all the time to be reaping well because I’m sowing well, I will be very discouraged because there’s due season.
And it’s always hard. Man, I’m praying, I’m working, I’m doing this, and you’re not reaping. When it comes to child-rearing, I mean, we’re still praying that our kids would grow up and do right. I’m joking a little bit there, okay? Pray, Lord, they’re getting older. Sarah smokes a little bit. Besides that, she’s pretty good, though. I’m going to get in trouble for sure today, I’ll tell you. She doesn’t smoke. She just dips, that’s all, you know. Chews sometimes, too. That’s why she already has false teeth and she’s only 26. She’s a Tennessee girl. Come on. I’m teasing, of course. I’m thankful for good kids. But man, there’s going to be times you’re well-doing, and you’re going to think, “Man, I don’t know. I don’t know if my kids are getting it or not.” It seems like the harder they try, the more trouble they get in. You’re going to have that.
If you have a ministry for the Lord, whether it be in your neighborhood, you have a Vacation Bible time, you know, for your neighborhood, or you’re trying to win somebody to the Lord, there are going to be times you’re going to say, “Man, I’m well-doing. I’m praying over them. I’m fasting over them. I’m trying to be a good testament to them. I’m witnessing to them when the Lord leads me. I’m doing all that, but they’re not listening.” And you have to keep going until due season. And if I think due season is there all the time, I’m going to be so discouraged. But due season, due season. “Lord, I’m trying to put the work in like You tell me to, and I’m trying to do it right. I’m not just throwing things together. I’m giving my best to You, but Lord, I’m not reaping anything.” Due season, due season.
And there are some wonderful promises. Would you look over Psalm 126 real quickly here? This is a great promise. Psalm 126. Psalms, Proverbs, Psalms 126. Psalm 126, look at verse number six, would you please? Psalm 126, verse number six: “He that goeth forth…” Really, this can be applied a lot of different ways, but directly to witnessing, telling people about Jesus, trying to bring them into the fold for the Lord. “He that goeth forth and weepeth”—and I’m going, I’m going to my neighbor, I’m going to my coworker, I’m going wherever it is—“He that goeth forth and weepeth,” and I’m burdened for them, shedding tears for them. “He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed.” By the way, the precious seed is Jesus and His Word. “Bearing precious seed…” What’s the next thing? It’s amazing. I love this right here: “…shall doubtless”—without a doubt—“shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.” By the way, the ultimate of that is that crown of rejoicing in heaven. Just preach about that. If I go and I’m burdened—I’m not going cocky and trying to force it down their throat—I’m burdened about them. “He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless, without a doubt, God says, you’ll have some fruit in the due season. In the due season, you’ll come again rejoicing, bringing the sheaves with him.” The well-doing.
Friend, I think if you’re like me, I’m talking to some people that you need to get back to well-doing in your Bible reading. If you’re like me, I’m talking to some people, you need to get back to well-doing in your prayer life. If you’re like me, you’ve got to get back to well-doing, maybe in your marriage, your child-rearing, your church attendance. Oh, it’s so easy to put church on the back burner. Man, you’re faithful to work every time. You’ve got to church? Well, I’ll say what I can do. Well-doing. I don’t know the area that the Holy Spirit is applying to you, but well-doing. “Let us not be weary in well-doing.” It’s vital.
Hey, He gave His best. He’s planted, He’s sowed, He’s given, He did—He gave His Son, the most precious seed there is. Is He reaping in your life? Have you been saved before? Have you been baptized? Have you joined the church? Are you involved in the church? Is He reaping well off of you? Well-doing. Well-doing. It’s not a matter of how good you are I am. God’s not concerned about that. God brings the increase, but He is very concerned that I’m giving it my best.
I think one of the ones that made the most impact in my life, as far as specials in church, was at a country church in Live Oak, Florida. How many of you know where Live Oak, Florida is? A couple of you do. You pass by about a thousand cow pastures to get there, you know. And Live Oak. You go out there, and then you go down this dirt road—I can’t remember—it seemed like several miles down this dirt road. And then you take it right on this other dirt road, and there’s a little church.
My old pastor, Dr. Buffley, was preaching, and my wife and I went there years and years ago. Though it was way down this dirt road, way out in the country—I’m talking about just cow pastures everywhere, that’s all it was—but you could tell those little churches, they were working; they were giving it their best. Man, I loved just pulling up there. It was busy; people here and there and doing things, and people coming into the church, and the grass had been cut. They don’t even think they have a paid parking lot, but they kept things up around there. And you went inside the church, and man, people shaking hands, friendly and welcoming, and music playing. All that was going on, just a little country church.
I remember it was a mother and her son. He was maybe 10 years old. Now, can I be honest with you? As far as all the music elites would say, they couldn’t sing very good. But man, you could tell they had worked at that thing. And that mom and that little 10-year-old boy got up there in that old country church, and they had prepared, they had practiced. And they sang, “Thank You, Lord.” And I’ll tell you what, that song made such an impression. They were so thankful. “I got shoes on my feet, roof up above me.” Man, I got there singing. Man, you could tell they worked at it. They didn’t sing great, but man, it spoke to my heart because that mom and that boy were giving their best. Maybe the greatest impact has ever been from a special, just that mom and that boy giving their best for the Lord. And it spoke to my heart.
Are you giving your best? It’s easy in the summertime to just kind of let all the things that God—just kind of relax down. But He says, “Let us not be weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap if we faint not.”
Would you bow your heads and close your eyes, please? Heads bowed, eyes closed. Do you hear this morning and say, “Pastor, I need to get back to well-doing”? I don’t know what arena—maybe Bible reading, maybe prayer, maybe your marriage, maybe your child, maybe at work, maybe the house of God, maybe witnessing. Somewhere on the line, I need to get back to well-doing for God. I’ve just kind of dropped off the bandwagon in some ways. I need to get back to well-doing, give it my best to God. God spoke to my heart. If that’s you this morning, you slip your hand up. “Preacher, I need to get back to well-doing for God.” God bless you, God bless you… many, many hands. Thank you, thank you, thank you for letting the Lord speak to your heart. Maybe there’ll be one more: “I need to get back to well-doing, well-doing for God in a certain area.” God spoke to my heart about it. God bless you. That’s good. Thank you so very much. You can put your hands down.
Maybe you hear this morning and say, “As far as salvation, He’s not reaped in my life like He wants to. I’m not saved. He’s shed His Son’s blood. He’s offered salvation to me, and I’ve never received it. And I need to receive it. I need to get saved, preacher. I want Him to reap my salvation.” I need to get saved. God spoke to my heart. That’s you this morning. Just lift your head. Just slip it up. “I need to get saved this morning.” Anybody like this, just lift it up. “I need to get saved.” Anybody like that? Anybody like that? Hey, friend, let’s give our best to Him. Would you please stand? We’re going to have a word of prayer. Would you come? Would you come? You raised your hand. You raised your head. Would you come? “Lord, I want to well-do for You.” Would you tell Him that? Let Him know that. Would you come? Don’t wait for anybody else. As soon as I say, amen, would you come? “Help me to get back to well-doing for You.” Father, thank You. Lord, You’re not so concerned about how good our best is. Lord, You want us to give our best. Help us, Father, to be faithful to well-do for You. Bless the invitation, Father, please. We’ll thank You, Lord, for what You do in Jesus, and we pray, amen.
“Well-doing, well-doing, well-doing, well-doing.” Prayer calls a well-doing, yeah. Marriage well-doing, yeah. Witnessing well-doing? Yeah. Yesterday I was out to eat with someone and we were leaving, and I was just sharing it. You know how the honor of leading somebody to the Lord right on this front step here, this sidewalk. And I shared a little bit about it with them. And I thought, man, I didn’t even put a tract out. And I usually always put a tract out. I thought, man, I got to get back to well-doing and passing out tracts. By the way, you can’t pass out a tract unless you got one. Get you some gospel tracts on your way out. Just well-doing in every arena, trying to do our best for the Lord. That’s what matters. That’s what matters.
Original File: Well Doing - Pastor Paul Chisgar - Sunday AM 06192022