Do you number your days? Do you realize how important every single day is?
I want to speak night on the brevity of life.
Do you know in the days of Jesus as fast as a person could go, as as fast as a horse could run?
in night, and that happened all the way until
18:30
when we developed an engine faster than a horse.
You know, we’ve invented all of these modern things to save time, and we have less time than ever before.
We have a lot less time now than my father and mother
had in the horse and buggy days.
And yet, we have fast automobiles and past airplanes, and we’re running from place to place like mad people.
Time is collapsing almost. How much longer do we have? God will endure forever.
But on this earth, we’re like a shadow that’s declining. We’re all dying.
From the moment you were born, you started dying. You have so much time, but for what?
You have time to serve Christ. You have time to live according to his will.
You have time to obey him. Have you done like the psalmist
said in 3115 and put yourself at god’s disposal when
he said my time, so in your hands, And what are you gonna do with those years?
Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day.
Do you know how
many minutes they are on a day,
14:40.
Do you know how many hours they are on a week? A
168.
Now if you live to be 70, your 1st 15 is childhood or adolescent You spend 20 years in bed.
The last 5 years of physical limitations and you’re curtailing your activities,
That means you only have 30 years left for everything else. 30 years to live.
And part of that time has to be spent eating and working and figuring up your income tax.
The scripture asked this question, what is your life?
It even a vapor that appeareth for a little time and then vanish of the way.
Our time is already in god’s hand
God has a date already set for you, being taken from this world. It may be
an accident. whatever it is. It’s already set.
You will stand before the great judgment of god to give an account of how you spent this life
and what did about Jesus Christ because god gave his son to die for your sins because you see, we’re all sinners.
We all have the same disease. I don’t care what of your skin is.
God doesn’t look at the color of your skin.
God looks at your heart, and god sees that you have a spiritual heart disease.
And that spiritual heart disease is called sin.
It’s interesting to me that rich people cannot buy more hours. us cannot invent new minutes.
You cannot even save time to spend it on another day.
The scripture says that we’re to redeem the time. It’s a phrase out of the business world.
It means to buy the time. Take percent of your time
and say, lord, this is yours. For Bible study, for Prab.
Have you committed your whole life to Christ.
Has that ever happened? Oh, you say, yes. I’m
I’ve been baptized. I I’ve been confirmed.
I’ve I I go once in a while to church.
I think about God once in a while.
But have you really committed to it? Are you totally committed it to him.
Uh, now, you’re sure if you died at this moment, you’d go to heaven.
Are you certain your sins are forgiven?
That’s why Christ came and died on the cross and shed his blood, and god raised him from the dead.
And does the tyranny of time? It controls us,
and we become frustrated running from one thing to another because we don’t feel that we have enough time
to get everything done that needs to be done.
Jesus said, I must work the works of him that sent me while it is day.
The night cometh when no man can the night is going to come to you and you won’t have an opportunity to serve god.
Serve him while you can, serve him now. Put him first in your life.
Yet at the end
of his life, he said I’ve finished the work
that you gave me to do. God has a plan for your life. and you
can finish it with god’s health.
And he’ll give you a joy and a peace that you never dreamed existed
if you put your confidence in him.
Oh, yes. When Jesus left the earth, there were people that needed to be healed and lives that needed to be touched, but Jesus said he had finished the work that had been assigned to him by the father.
God has assigned a work that only you can fill are unique.
Nobody can take your place, and god needs you in his kingdom.
Time can be our
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but we can also be its slave. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving.
No matter how much time you’ve weighed it in the past,
you can still have tomorrow.
At last Stevenson, once said, it’s not the days of your life.
but the life in your days that count, you have to buy it.
What is the price you have to pay?
The price is that you have no time for certain things.
We shouldn’t drift along hap doing all the pleasures and all the drinking and all the other things that are wrong.
God wants us to love others.
The main thing that he wants us to do is to love your neighbor and love people of another race.
The one thing that distinguishes of belief from others is love that dominates your life.
Your life should be of time.
brethren, the apostle Paul said in 1st Corinthians, time is short.
In Revelation, it tells of time shall be no more.
Jesus and his disciples spent the 94 verses of Matthew
24
to the end of the chapter 25, talking about the end of the age.
As we approach the end
of the age, we read in Revelation 12, that the devil will be frantically active because he knows that his is a number.
Yes. There is a devil.
There is a Satan. He’s a real person,
and there are real demons. And going to battle for your soul tonight because Satan does not want to give you up.
He’ll battle to keep you
in his kingdom. because there are 2 kingdoms. There’s the devil’s kingdom
and there’s god’s kingdom, and you have the right to make a choice.
Which one you wanna in. In Romans
13,
the apostle says knowing the time that now it is high time to awake out of sleep for now is our salvation nearer than when we believe.
the night as far as spent the day is
at hand. Let us, therefore, cast off the works of darkness and let us put on the armor of light.
The Bible several times, uses the phrase, the time is at hand.
Jesus told us to discern the signs of the times.
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the signs is that iniquity shall abound.
Pick up your newspapers and watch your newscast. Iniquity is abounding everywhere.
not just in New York, not just in New Jersey, but throughout the world
is called in heaven, will you be there?
Is your name written on the book of life?
Because the scripture says if your name is not on the lamb’s book life, you’ll never enter heaven.
But when you come to Christ and present yourself whole me
to him as savior and lord.
He blocks out everything in those books and writes your name in another book, the book of life.
the Lambsburg. Is your
name written there? If my name was not written there and I didn’t know it,
I wouldn’t leave this building tonight until I was sure.
But they’ll never may never be another moment like this in your life. This is your hour with god.
And then the Brevitive time call for immediate action.
The fact that time is short calls for us to do something about it now, because the scripture says in 2nd Corinthians
62,
now is the accepted time, not tomorrow today. Things you ought to do. Do it now.
Money you ought to give give it now. People you ought to witness to witness now.
Every time the clock ticks, it seems to say now
today, if you will hear his voice hard and not your hearts, you can harden your heart.
You hear a message like this, and it can be very dangerous because you’ll harden your heart.
And the next time you hear the gospel, your heart will be harder. and harder and harder.
Come to Christ now if there’s even a whisper in your heart that you need to come, you come.
Then does the warning of time.
two opinions.
Foods say there’s plenty of time. The devil says there’s plenty of time.
Every more you have
86,400
seconds to spend and to invest.
Each day, the bank name time opens a new account with you. There may be no tomorrow.
Come now. When I tell you you need to come and make your commitment to Christ or at these 100 and 1000 that have already come, the devil will say wait another the time.
Another place.
This is not the time. This is the time.
The very fact you are here indicates it’s the time. Plus strange coincidence of providence.
God has brought you here tonight.
And before you came, you thought you were all right with god, but now you’re not sure, and you want to make sure.
You want to be certain. Yes.
The devil always says, yes, do it, but some of the time
and some of the place.
Go says here and now.