What is Your Life….. by Billy Graham Sermon….

“Prayer is for every moment of our lives, not just for times of suffering or joy. Prayer is really a place, a place where you meet God in genuine conversation.”
― Billy Graham, Billy graham in quotes

Now, if you live to be 70 your 1st 15 is childhood or adolescent.
You spent 20 years in bed the last five years of physical limitations and your 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 is even a vapor that appeared for a little time and then vanishes away the oldest of us.
You wanna live long.
Our time is already in God’s hands.
God has a day already set for you being taken from this world.
It may be in an accident, it may be a cancer, it may be a heart attack, whatever it is, it’s already set.
And the scripture says it is appointed and the man wants to die.
And after that, the judgment, you will stand before the great judgment of God to give an account of how you spent this life and what you 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 the color 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 and we’re all sinners, that means we’ve broken the laws of God.
We have disobeyed God. We’ve rebelled against God and because we’ve rebelled against him and we’re going to have to face a judgment and he’s going to say, depart from me.
I never knew you 10.
It’s interesting to me that rich people cannot buy more hours.
Scientists cannot invent new minutes. You cannot even save time to spend it on another day.
You’ve got a little time today. You say, well, I’d like to save it up for tomorrow.
You can’t do that. There’s an urgency at a time.
The Bible says, redeem the time because the days are evil, the days are very evil.
We look at our newspapers and we cannot believe all the murders and the rapes and the racial problems, all these things all over the world.
Yes. The days are evil and we’ve got a big task ahead of us if this earth is to be spared much longer.
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 I heard about people who tied their time.
We’re supposed to tie our money, 10% of our money belongs to God if you’re a Christian, but we can also tie their time, take 10% of your time and say, Lord, this is yours for bible study for prayer.
You said we spend too much time on freeways, going back and forth in interstates and stuck in traffic.
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 fast airplanes and we’re running from place to place like mad people.
And most of us don’t know what we’re going to do when we get there.
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 31 15 and put yourself at God’s disposal when he said my times are in your hands.
There’s a current movie showing in this area entitled The Commitments.
Have you committed your whole life to Christ? Has that ever happened to you?
Oh, you say yes, I’ve been baptized. 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 to Him?
Are you 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 then there’s 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 work, 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 finished the work that you gave me to do.
God has a plan for your life and you can finish it with God’s help 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 feel you are unique.
Nobody can take your place and God needs you in his kingdom.