IN DUE SEASON WE SHALL REAP
Gal. 6:9

Why do you serve God? For the Earthly Blessings? Or is it more involved than that?
2. Satan accused Job of serving God for what he could get out of it and In Job 1:9, He stood in God’s face and cynically asked, “Does Job fear God for nothing?”
a. But God knew Job would be faithful to Him whether Job got anything out of it or not
and that is the story you find in Job 1:1-2:10.
(A) It is true that righteousness is always rewarded. Reward is not always
immediately recognizable — Not always Immediate. Reward may come at a later.
(1) The greatest reward does not come until death. When we get to heaven.
That’s why Gal. 6:9 , encourages us by saying, “Do not grow weary while doing
good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.”
The idea is, that we must learn to be patient.
The one quality Job is most famous for is the quality of being “Patient.”
He endured under pressure. Stood firm under intense fire.
That’s the quality of character we need most in our lives.
Patience, the ability to endure, hold out, bear up, persevere.
Patient people don’t look for short-term quick fixes. They know short-term fixes don’t work well.
Short-term fixes only avoid the enivitable.
(B) He is a person of trust. He trusts what he knows about the future enough to not lose his head in the present. That kind of level-headed thinking always pays off.
Job was blessed for his endurance Jas. 5:10-11,
Patience is one of the great biblical virtues. Many scriptures speak about virtue. Heb 6:12, “Imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised.” Heb 10:36, “You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.”
Jesus said, “In your patience possess your souls” Luke 21:19.
We have two great examples of patience & faith in our congregation. Farmers.
They really should know the most about patience and faith.
Patience: Farmers receive their reward at the harvest. (They must be willing
to wait for long-term results.)
He sows seed and gets nothing in return — until the harvest.
This very example is used by the brother of Jesus, James 5:7?9.
(3) Faith: Farmers harvest only what they plant — and only what they cultivate until
the growing season is over. (They must be people of faith).
Farmer must not lose confidence in what they have planted.
Imagine a farmer who, long before the harvest, gets impatient or worried that the crop he first planted is not producing anything. Gets anxious and plows up his field and plants a different crop. What happens if he does that every few weeks all summer long
What will he harvest? Gal. 6:7?10.
We need to “cultivate” the patience of the farmer.
b. We must cultivate confidence in some other things as well:
(A) God’s grace - 2 Cor. 12:9, “No matter what happens, God’s grace is sufficient.”
God’s faithfulness - Heb. 10:23. God can be trusted.
Confidence in God’s promises. Rom. 8:31?32.
God told Jesus if He would die for our sins He would raise Him from the dead and God did not lie to Him. You know He’s not going to break our promise to us.

Heaven is worth whatever hardships and sacrifices we may endure in this life
Rom 8:18?19, “I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed.”
The salvation that awaits us is so glorious that the whole creation is waiting, in great expectation, to see it and rejoice with us.
(B) If somehow, Satan could take away, one by one, the physical blessings God has
allowed you to have, “how many would have to be taken away before you quit serving
God?”
(1) What does God have to give you in this life to keep you on His side?
(1) Is the blessing of heaven enough to keep you faithful to God?
(2) God can deliver us from hardship in this life — but even if He does not, it is still worth it to serve Him. That one thing I know.
(2) Hear Paul’s words of encouragement in 1 Cor. 15:58.
(1) Gal. 6:9.
(2) Acts 20:32.

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