2 Thessalonians 3 and verse number 13. Look what the Bible says. But ye brethren, be not weary in well-doing. Be not weary. Forget that. Be not weary. in well-doing. Dear Heavenly Father, we love You. Thank You so much for loving us. I pray, Lord, that You would help me as I stand to preach Your Word. That you would encourage the saints, that you would strengthen us tonight. You would help us to understand a little bit more of what this verse is saying to all of us. And we'll thank you, and we'll praise you for all that you do. For it's in Jesus' name we pray, amen. Thank you so much for standing. When you study these words, be not weary in well-doing. At first, it makes you think, well, don't get tired now. Don't get tired, just keep doing what you're doing, keep doing good things, and just don't get tired doing it. And it means that to a certain extent. But what you and I need to realize is it's really deeper than just getting tired. It's that time in your life to when you begin to get weary. It's that time in life where it feels that you begin to fail in heart. What does that mean? That's the definition in the Greek, to fail in heart, to faint and to be weary. It's that time in life to where whatever you're doing, especially good things, doing in well-doing, it's when you're sitting in a service. Or you're in a Sunday school class. Or you're sitting in your own home. Or you're driving down the road, and this is what you need to see it as more than just, I'm tired. It's when spiritually you begin to question a little bit. It's spiritually when you begin to get discouraged. It's spiritually when you begin to say things to yourself like, I just don't get excited about that like I used to. Whatever that might be. It's spiritually in your life to when you begin to say, I just don't know that I want to do that another year. I don't think maybe that I need to go there anymore. And it's those things in life that God has placed there. It's those things in life that you and I has felt that God has allowed us to be able to do for a season or for years. And then all of a sudden now, you begin to get weary in that. To the point to it's almost like if you never did it again, it would be okay. If I never was involved with that again, it'll be okay. If I was to just kindly throw in the towel right here, I mean, I know I'm saved. I know the Lord loves me. I love the Lord. But I'm just gonna throw in the towel right here. I'm just done with it. Pretty much what you're saying is, is I think I'm gonna quit. I think it's time just to quit. And that's what we need to understand when we read this verse. But ye, brethren, be not weary in well-doing. Now there's some verses that leads to this that I wanna get into just a little bit and then I'll share some thoughts that I feel that the Lord wanted me to write down and then we'll go to one more verse and we'll finish up tonight. I notice in verse number 11 of our text, it says, we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all but are busybodies. And I began to study these verses and the Lord began to deal with me, not only is it just hard enough just to keep on keeping on and keeping the main thing the main thing, but it can also be exhausting and it can really begin to mess with you and I when others around us begin to get a little off track. Are you with me? You can be really doing good in an area, but then maybe some others around you get a little off track. And if I'm not careful and you're not careful, they can also cause you and I to grow weary. They can cause us to grow weary. I remember a time in my life specifically where I got so weary, and I'll share this with you and then we'll look at some of these verses and then see what God wants to show us tonight. I can remember when I was working with youth and doing what God had called me and Miss Tina to do and then the Lord opened up some doors for us to go and I started preaching at some different churches. And I can remember one church in particular asked me to be their associate pastor and work with their young people there, and the Lord just dealt with me and said, no, that's not my will for your life. And then I remember there's another church out in the Burnsville area that was looking for a pastor, and Autumn was just a little bitty thing. She'd get so car sick as we'd leave our house and go to Burnsville and I'd preach. And that church asked me, would you consider being our pastor? And I prayed about it and even met with them, and the Lord said no. And then it wasn't long after that that God opened up a door and I went there and started pastoring there. And right behind the church was the Western Carolina Rescue Mission. And boy, did I love going down there and speaking at the mission and working with those homeless people and drug addicts. And man, I went down there every single week. I would go and I would speak there. And I remember that they was, An opportunity come up for me, honestly, I'll just tell you, there's an opportunity for me to come up to be the director of that mission. And I actually put in for it. I said, yeah, I'll do that if they would have me. And I met with a board of directors, and when I sit down with that board of directors, the president of that board looked at me, and at that time, it was God's will, but I couldn't see that then, but looking back on it now, I know what God was doing. And he looked at me and he said, you're not the right man for this position. This is not for you. And it was like the rejection of someone telling me no to where I felt like that God was leading me into that. Man, I'm telling you, it just robbed me of every bit of the energy that I had. If you've ever been there in life, say amen. And not only did it wear me down, not only did it affect me spiritually and mentally, I noticed that it began to get me to a place to where I really began to really struggle with even doing anything for the Lord after that. That's what this verse means. If you feel yourself in this area or you feel that easing in on you or there's times in your life you begin to feel this weariness and this heaviness. I beg you tonight, before you leave this service, to come to this altar and ask God to restore the joy of thy salvation, and ask God to rekindle a fire down inside of you. Because I'm telling you, I don't think it's gonna be very long and we're gonna be checking out of here anyway, amen? And if there's anything I believe that the Lord is dealing with me about, and I believe He wants to speak to you about tonight, is in these last days, we need to finish as strong as we can. You with me? So, if you're weary tonight, ask God to give you strength. See, there was some that was living disorderly, there was no order. In other words, they was unruly, they was some here in 2 Thessalonians that was writing about that was being unruly, verse number 11. They was some that should have been quiet, they maybe shouldn't have said the things that they said, and the Bible calls them here busybodies. And, and, and we see in verse number 12, it speaks of such as command and exhort our Lord Jesus Christ with quietness that they should work. And, and, and let me just say this. When there are people around you and I that are unruly, and when there are people around you and I, and they're busy bodies, and they're meddling, and they're always talking, and they're always causing some kind of division, and whether you want to realize it or whether you want to admit it or not, that can also cause Christian people to begin to get weary. You're like, man, I don't want to go to work anymore because I don't want to keep hearing what my co-workers are saying. And sadly, it can even be like this. I pray it's not that way here, but it can be. I just don't want to go to church anymore because I just get so tired of people talking and I get so tired of hearing this and hearing that. And I'll be honest with you, it's getting me to the point in life, spiritually, that I almost feel like I'd be better just to stay at home. Now don't act like you ain't never been there, because it can happen to the best of us. You with me? And that's the verses leading to this verse. Some being unruly, there's disorderly, there's meddling, there's busybodies, and then it goes on in verse number 12, and it talks about eating their own bread. That speaks of honesty. And I'm telling you, man, it's just hard to find honest people anymore. There's someone that's honest, there's someone that is real, there's someone that says, look, this is how it was and this is what happened and I'm just being honest. And when you start to deal with people that are not honest, you begin to deal with people that meddle and busybodies and you begin to deal with people that are unruly, on your very best day, those things can, they can really begin to eat at you. To the point that you say, I just don't know, man. I just don't know if I can keep doing what I'm doing. That's the verses that leads up to this to give us a little idea of what's going on. These can cause us to be weary. But then I begin to study this. Be not weary in well-doing. And then I prayed and I read and I studied and you say, well, you shouldn't, I had to pray and read and studied over it, but I did because I'm asking the question, what is well-doing? Be not weary in well, what is well-doing? Doing well, well-doing, what is that? And one said, everything in life that you do for the Lord is well-doing. You with me? And if you're dependent upon the Lord to do what you're doing, then you can put that under the category of well-doing. If we have faith and we're doing what we're doing for the love of Christ, for the goodwill of others, and we're doing it under prayer and direction of the Holy Spirit, then we can put everything under that category under well-doing. Are you with me? Listen now, depending on the Lord, faith in His word, love for Christ, goodwill to others, and praying for direction, all of those things, well-doing can fall under that umbrella. So then I wrote down three categories as I was studying today. Under well-doing, there's God's work. Amen? Under well-doing is God's work, working for the Lord. Now we could go through a whole list of things here. We could say preaching. We could say teaching. We could say writing, Ms. Cox. We could say conversations. We could say our prayer time. We could say praise. All of those things are under God's work. And anything that we're doing for the Lord should be considered well-doing. Are you with me so far? But then there's other areas that the Lord helped me with. Not only is there God work, but there's people work. And that's taking care of the poor. Helping the widows, taking care of the sick, helping encourage those who are falling. There's so many different things. Your neighbors, your coworkers, church people. There's so many things that fall under the category of well-doing. Not just God work and people work, but what about this one? What about everyday work? That can fall under the category of well-doing. Our families, our jobs, Taking care of the kids, making sure there's baths and clothes and homework. I can look around at some of you mamas in here tonight, and you've done a lot of well-doing today. You've probably done had supper. You've got everything ready and you throw them youngins in the car and you brought them tonight, amen? That's a lot of well-doing under that category. And we need to see that. But then we need to be reminded, doing God's work, if I'm not careful and you're not careful, we can get weary. Doing work to help people if I'm not careful and you're not careful We can get weary and just doing everyday work if I'm not careful and you're not careful We can get weary doing all of those things Are you with me tonight? And I wrote down be not weary Don't don't Don't get this far into this thing and say I'm done man. I just can't do it anymore. I I was talking with Brother David, I appreciate him and his wife being with us tonight. And we was talking just the other day and he said, pastor, God's using him all over now. He's going everywhere and preaching. And I'm sure Brother David Williams could stand up right now and he could tell us of church after church after church, pastor after pastor after pastor. It's very weary right now. Would that be a true statement preacher? just weary, just really weary, just getting to the place to where they're like, I don't know, I just can't, I just don't know that I can keep going on where I'm at. Amen. Don't get weary. And then I begin to look down at the last and Verse number 16, now the Lord of peace himself give you peace. Always by all means the Lord be with you all. And isn't that really what we need when we get weary is peace, amen? We need peace, we need strength, and we need it from the Lord of peace or from the God of peace. We need the Lord to help us to have peace and to give us strength, especially when you feel yourself getting weary. Now, here's something that the Lord helped me with today. If you ask for help, Or if you open your heart up to someone that you can trust and love, and if you wait to come to the altar, when you're already at your wit's end, and when you're already wore out, and when you're already done with this stuff, I'm talking about the well-doing, when you wait to then, you've waited way too long. You've waited way too long. I don't know what it is about us. Maybe it's our pride. Maybe it's my pride. I can't speak about you, but maybe it could be my pride. You know, you begin to feel a little, you begin to feel a little tired. You begin to feel weary. You begin to have these thoughts of, man, I'm telling you, I just don't know how long I'm going to be able to keep doing this. Whatever this is, it could be God work. It could be people work. It can be family work. And you begin to say to yourself, I'm just, I'm just getting weary doing well, whatever that is. Please, child of God, please don't wait until you hit the wall before you say, I need some help from somewhere. I need you to pray for me. I need the Lord to do something for me. Because the person that can read you the best is you. But the hardest person to be honest with so many times is us. It's hard to be honest with ourselves. And even if, say it's a family thing. So many times, especially with you mamas. You mamas don't ever wanna say, I feel like I'm getting weary doing what I'm doing for my family. Because the last thing you want is for other mamas to think that you're failing doing what you're doing. But ain't a mama in here that at times in life hadn't got weary doing what you're doing for your families. Amen? So don't, don't, don't think that. And ain't a daddy in here that at times we feel like that we could have done so much better in so many different areas. And if I'm not careful and you're not careful, and ladies, if you're not careful, you'll begin to feel this presence of being weary. You'll begin to feel this thoughts of, Throwing in the towel and the enemy will begin to mess with your mind. And then the next thing, you know, you'll hold it in I'm not telling it. I can't talk about it. You can't trust nobody. No one wants to be honest No one's going through what I'm going through but I'm telling you every single person in the building gets weary at some areas in our lives and some in all three of those areas Amen God's work people work and every day work and It's well doing, all of that's under the category of well doing. But we need to pray. We need to pray tonight. Lord, I want to experience your peace. That's what I want to experience is your peace. Because you are the God of peace and you're the one that can give it. Are you with me? Galatians chapter number six. Turn to the book of Galatians chapter number six. I wanna look at one more verse tonight and we'll be finished up. Galatians chapter number six. I ran through this whole chapter, and I looked at several verses, which is not long at all. It's only 18 verses in its entirety. But when I was looking through Galatians chapter number six, I noticed some things. I noticed some things in Galatians chapter six that really zeroed me in on this thought of being weary. Verse number one in Galatians 6, it speaks of helping restore a brother that's overtaken in a fault. So it's, when you study that, it's the thought of, it's almost like putting a broken bone back in joint. I didn't realize that's what it's actually talking of. In verse number two, it speaks of help bearing one another's burdens. to comfort and to counsel and to be there for others. And verse number three speaks of when you are helping restore someone or when you are helping bear one another's burdens, don't get all lifted up within yourself and think you're better than they are. Amen? Then in verse number four, it speaks of examine our actions by God's word. And if we're gonna look at anything before we judge those that needs restored and those who carry in burdens, we need to look at our own homes and not into everyone else's in verse number five. And then there's some that can be taught and there's others that are to teach in verse number six. And then in verse number seven and eight, it speaks of the sowing and the reaping process. And when you study the first part of Galatians chapter number six, I just wrote this down. There's lots of work to be done for the Lord. And when we're doing this work for the Lord, if we're not careful, you can become very weary. helping restore those that are broken and fallen and out of joint and help carrying one another's burdens and examining yourself and teaching and realizing there's a sowing and a reaping process. Man, you can get so weary in that. You can, but look at verse number nine. It says the same thing that we just read. And let us not be weary in well-doing." It says it again, and let us not be weary in well-doing. But look, it adds something else to it. It says, for in due season we shall reap if we faint not. Man, I've been thinking about this all day. I've been praying about it. I've been thinking on it. I've been walking around. I've read. I've sought the Lord. prayed some more, I laid down, took me a few minutes of a nap, woke back up and prayed about it some more. And this thought of not being weary and well-doing, it's mentioned again, and we see the context in what it's mentioned in because we just covered what the first several verses spoke of. So there's no need to cover and let us not be weary and well-doing because we know what that means. But then it says, for in due season we shall reap if we faint not. This due season has really caught my attention. I wonder how many times in life that you and I, or how many times in life people has got very weary and they've thrown in the towel. And they've got weary and they said, I can't do it no more. And they've got, listen, I'm not talking about you woke up tired. I'm talking about it's been coming on for quite some time now. It's been sneaking up on you. It's like a shadow. The later it gets, the longer the shadow gets. And it's like it's beginning to eat away at you just little by little. And I truly believe there are a lot of people that has thrown in the towel on God's work because they got so weary. I believe there is a lot of people that's thrown in the towel on helping people. because they've just got so weary. And you know, when you help people, you can get the biggest blessings by helping people, but you want to get burnt really, really bad, you keep helping people. You're going to experience a lot of heartache at times. and people are not gonna be honest, and you're gonna help some people and you're gonna feel the best, and then there's gonna be those times that you're gonna reach out to help people and they're just gonna burn you to the ground, man. And before long, hear me now, before long, that will grow on you and wear on you, and the next thing you know, you are weary of it and you will say this, not out loud, I'm done with that man. I have helped the last person that I'm going to help. They're not gonna keep taking advantage of me, and advantage of me, and taking advantage of me, and taking, and taking, and taking, and taking. I'm done with it. And then there's that family issues. Hear this, men and women, there's a lot of good people that live for Jesus and are just as saved as you are, but they got so weary taking care of their families, they got done with it, and they waited till they had hit the very bottom of the barrel. They got down to the bare core of it, and they're like, I'm done. And when I'm studying this, I'm thinking of this due season. Let us not be weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap if we faint not. There's no other way to look at that than this. There's blessings that are coming. Zeb, there's blessings that are coming. Now, I don't know when the blessing's coming, and you don't know when the blessing's coming, but in due season, you will reap. Don't stop doing what God's give you to do. You say, yeah, man, I've been doing, and doing, and doing, and doing, and doing, and I'm not experiencing very many blessings right now. Please, child of God, please, I beg you, just keep doing what God has give you to do in your life, and just keep doing it at the very best of your ability, because according to the scriptures, there is coming a day of blessings. You say, yeah, there'll be a day of blessing when I get to heaven, maybe. Yeah, there'll be some blessings when you get to heaven. But I also believe there'll be some blessings along the way before we get to heaven. Due season, due season. I heard a preacher say this, and man, did it really convict me. This preacher that I was listening to today said this, he said, I wonder how many times in our lives we throwed in the towel right before the due season. And I wonder when we get to heaven, if the Lord will enlighten us so that we can see that just right around the next corner was the due season, where God was fixing to overflow you with blessings. You say, well, how do you know that? Well, I'll say this, we will never know it if we quit. We'll never know it if we quit. But if we'll just keep on keeping on doing what God's give us to do, you and I in due season, we'll get to see God's blessings. And it'll be worth it, my friends. You think it'll be worth it? It will be worth it. My grass, everyone's grass in my neighborhood was green and mine was still gray, Brother Steve, it was still dormant. I was gonna call you and I thought, no, I ain't gonna call Steve, I call him every time. So then they called for about a week of rain back early in the spring. He said it's gonna rain every day for a week. You know what I did, Brother Steve? I went and got the stuff. I got me some grass seed, I got me some fertilizer, and I got out there, and I didn't aerate it, don't be mad at me, I didn't aerate it, but I throw me out a little grass seed, I throw me out some good fertilizer, I got some good stuff, you've been proud of me now. And I throwed all that out, and it started raining. And then I looked, and it was still gray. It started raining some more, and I looked, and I was like, what's wrong with my yard? I told Tina, she probably thought, quit whining over the grass. I said, something's wrong with our yard, honey. I don't know about you, but I just like green grass. I enjoy mowing. And all of a sudden, it come time for us to go on our vacation. You know, we went on a vacation just here recently. Grass wasn't doing nothing. We stayed gone for one week, and when we pulled in my driveway after that week's vacation, I was like, would you, would you, would you, lookie there. I said, honey, didn't I? Weed just pouring in the driveway. I was like, would you look at that? I said, honey, would you look at that grass? I said, look at the yard, honey. She was like, I can't believe it. Then she said, you need to mow. I couldn't have timed it out. I couldn't have told you when it was gonna happen. All I know is, is I just know that I had to do what I needed to do. And it was gonna take God to send the rain. Are you with me? But I had to do what I needed to do. And then God sent the rain. And then I kept thinking, it's still not gonna do anything. But in due season, it come up. Now I've got some weeds in it, but it come up. and it come up green, and I've mowed it, and you can actually see the lines where I've mowed, that tickles me to death. Due season. You can't rush God. They don't need to try to rush God. God's timing's perfect. They don't need to try to rush Him. But we need to realize that in due season. When is that for you, Zeb? When's due season in your life? I don't know. When's due season in mine? I don't know, but I can tell you this. If you quit and I quit, I can go ahead and tell you, I can guarantee you this, we're not gonna know nothing about it. So you just keep doing it, I'll keep doing it, we'll keep doing it, and in due season, we'll get to see God's blessings. You ever get in a hurry? Me and the family was coming back from a trip to Tennessee the other day. Jackson was driving. We got over here on the interstate, and the traffic was backed up. It was awful. And in my mind, I thought, these cars are backing up on the interstate, and they're backing down the on-ramp. And in my mind, I'm thinking, Jackson, do it. And Jackson looks over and says, you ain't no hurry, are you, Dad? You ain't thinking about backing off this interstate, are you? And I was like, oh, no. No, no, we can sit here, I ain't in that big a hurry. And in my mind, I'm thinking, you just lied to him. because I wanted us to back out of that interstate and back down the on-ramp and take another way home. And he was like, we might as well just relax. And I'm like, yeah, just relax. I bet you it wasn't. I'd say it wasn't. Three more minutes. Couldn't have been no more than five. Interstate opened up. It just opened up. And if we would have backed off that on-ramp, it would have took about 75 back roads to get us home, we still wouldn't be home tonight. And I'm trying to tell you tonight, child of God, I don't know when the grass is gonna get green in your life. I don't know when the road's gonna open up and you're just gonna get to drive and just enjoy it. But I can tell you this, in due season, it'll happen. In due season, it'll happen. You'll get them kids raised. You will, in due season. And them grandkids will be on the way in due season. And that trouble that you're dealing with now, if you'll just keep being faithful, doing God's work, people work, family work, it'll turn around. But if you quit, if you quit this far down into this thing, and you throw in the towel now, it scares me you're gonna miss your season of blessings. You don't want to miss that. I don't want to get to heaven. I'm done. I don't want to get to heaven. And I don't know how it's going to be when we get there, but I don't want to get there." And the Lord say, geez, you got weary and you quit. Just right over the next hill was this. And me go, God, I can't believe it. I can't believe I missed it. I believe that's what that verse is teaching us. Do you seize it?