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By Pastor Glenn Pease
In the spring of 1897, Thomas Hanna, a 25 year old Baptist pastor fell out of his carriage and landed on his head.
When he woke up he was in a state of total amnesia.
Dr. Boris Sidis and his assistant Dr. Goodhert had to teach him to talk, to eat, and to go to the bathroom as if he were a child.
They took him to the theater, to the zoo, and to dinner with his family.
For two months they labored to jog his memory by recreating scenes from his pre-accident life.
One day Hanna experienced a moment of crisis, and the past and the present came together, and his memory was restored.
He recovered completely and Dr. Sidis became quit famous for his success with this patient.
The element of surprise in this true story is that Dr. Sidis was one of the most famous atheists of his day.
He was a genius who qualified to get into Harvard at age 9.
I have read his biography, and can testify that he had one of the most amazing brains in American history.
He wasted most of it, but the point is, as an atheist he did good for a Christian pastor, and on a mental level he saved his life, and he made it possible for him to go on to save lives for eternity.
God can use some of the most unlikely instruments for good in this world.
In Paul's life there were Roman soldiers that God used to do good for Him.
These pagans help Paul accomplish his ministry for God.
Atheists do good; pagans do good, and anybody can be an instrument for doing good in this world.
It is not limited to Christians, for they do not have a monopoly on doing good.
Doing good is universally accepted and encouraged.
The result is that the Christian often feels that doing good is such an anemic idea.
Anybody can do good, and even non-Christians can get so good at it that they get labeled do-gooders.
So with this negative label plus the universal possibility of doing good, the Christian tends to write it off as superficial and inconsequential.
The result is that Christians often miss the chance to communicate with the world on that level where all people understand the language of doing good.
The Christian often gets deceived into thinking that the Christian approach to people has to be more name brand, and not so generic.
We have to do the spectacular and unusual.
We are like the sports team that thinks that the only way to win is to be clever and tricky.
But the fact is, no team ever becomes great without getting back to the basics.
What Paul is saying in our text is that doing good is the ABC foundation for living the successful Christian life.
Paul says there are two kinds of seeds we sow in life.
There are the seeds of self-indulgence which please the sinful nature, and there are the seeds of doing good to others which please the Spirit.
Doing good then is not a mere side-line in the Christian life.
It is a basic principle of Christian living.
That is why Paul is stressing that Christians must not get weary in well doing.
It is the only hope for a harvest, and so he urges them to do good to all men whenever they have opportunity, and especially to a family of believers.
The only way you can please God is by doing good, and the only way you can please anyone else is by doing good.
All relationships in life revolve around doing good for one another.
If you are not doing good, you are not building any relationship you have.
When we say that you have to work at marriage, it simply means that you have to work at doing good for one another.
The same is true for friendships, and working relationships.
All relationships are dependent upon a mutual doing good for one another.
A relationship where no good is being done is a decaying an dying relationship.
Show me a person for whom you do no good, and I'll show you a person you do not love very much, for love on any level can only exist when doing good is part of the relationship.
God so loved the world that He gave His Son.
Had God not done good for the world it would be hard to define, or even to detect His love.
Love is only real when it is exhibited in the doing of good.
Love is not just something you feel.
Love is something you do.
If you do not do some good for another, it is not possible to give any meaning to the statement that you love them.
Love has no content without doing good.
Loving relationships are only kept alive by doing good.
If you do not maintain a relationship by the doing of good, it will soon look like your yard if you never mow it, or your hair if you never comb it.
You cannot just have good feelings about your yard or hair to keep them looking nice.
You have to do something, and so it is with relationships.
They only remain beautiful to the degree that you do some good.
You can get a battery that is maintenance free, at least for some time, but there is no such thing as a maintenance free relationship.
The idea of a maintenance free battery is so you don't have to relate to it at all.
You can neglect it, and forget it, and not have to bother with it.
Maintenance free means a non-relationship.
A relationship is not an event, it is a work of art that calls for continuous creation by adding to it the new life that comes by doing good.
This principle applies to all relationships, and so this text could take us in all kinds of directions, but our focus for this message is on our relationships in the work place.
The first thing we need to do is to honestly recognize that it can be a complex matter to figure out what doing good to all men means.
Doing good to a fellow employee by covering for them may be good for them, but bad for the company.
Doing good for one may lead to envy and jealously in another.
It is not always easy to know what doing good means.
The best choice for doing good is not always evident.
For example, here is the dilemma of one worker: "Suppose your company needs parts, and you are responsible for placing the order by Thursday of this week.
They can be purchased from a local firm, or for 38% less from a Latin American supplier.
Buying Latin American would mean better profits for your stockholders and lower expenses for the firm.
However, the local company may be facing layoffs and need the work.
But the Latin American might need work, too, and while laid-off American workers get unemployment checks, unemployed Latin Americans are often reduced to levels of extreme poverty.
The decision is troublesome and the answers aren't clear cut."
The complexities are endless.
Do you hire the person is less qualified, but who is most in need of a job?
Do you work harder to make up for a lazy employee, so they don't lose their job?
There are no end to questionable matters about what doing good means, and how can we know the results of doing good?
A psychiatrist helped a man get over his inferiority complex, and the next day he was fired for arguing with a cop.
We can get so confused by a thousand and one questions about doing good that we experience the paralysis of analysis, and just decide to forget it.
This is the very thing Paul is warning us not to do.
Do not get weary in well doing.
It can be tiring, and the pay off is not always evident, and so we tend to give up and try another approach, like waiting to see what will happen if we do nothing.
Paul says don't do this, and don't give up.
You cannot fail in doing good, for regardless of the results you are doing what pleases God, and this will always lead to a harvest of reward for you.
Did Jesus fail when people walked away from Him? Did He fail when He healed 10 lepers and only one came back to thank Him?
That is not much of a statistic to brag about-a 10% response for doing good.
It can be discouraging if you measure life by statistics.
That is the popular formula for success.
It is all a mathematical calculation.
If a man hits 320, he is more successful than the man who hits only 228.
If you get down the slope at the Olympics a hundredth of a second faster than anyone else, you are more successful than they are.
If you type 110 words a minute, you are more successful than one who only types 90.
If you sell a million dollars worth of insurance, you are more successful than the one who sells only 500,000.
Life is so simple when you measure by the mathematical formula for success.
But this whole scheme come apart at the seams when you begin to ask questions that are not measurable by math.
What is the man who sells 500,000 of insurance is a better father, husband, friend, and citizen, then the one who sells the million?
This really throws a monkey wrench into the machinery.
There is no way to calculate the value of love, joy, peace, and any of the fruits of the spirit.
Paul says that these are the elements of true success in life, and they are the elements of true success in the work place.
Jesus did good to all men, but not all men responded positively.
Some even sought to kill Him, and eventually they succeeded.
"For which of my good works do you stone me?" Jesus said on one occasion.
Doing good does not always succeed, but it never fails.
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