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Open your Bibles to Psalm 90:12.
•This morning I’ll be preaching a sermon in light of the new year.
•I don’t usually title sermons.
But I did this one.
Here it is:
•Happy New Year: We’re All Going to Die.
That’s not a threat.
I’m not going to do anything wild.
•It’s not a threat.
It’s a fact.
We’re all going to die.
•And the sooner we reckon with that fact, the better off we’ll be, spiritually.
Question for you: How would you live today if you believed that you would die tomorrow?
•It would change things.
I know that for sure.
•You would live as if eternity was real because it would be breathing down your neck.
•Your head would become incredibly clear with regard to what does and does not matter.
•I hope that you would live as if you were about to stand face-to-face with the Lord Jesus Christ, as if you were about to take the step into eternity.
Because that’s what you would be getting ready to do.
•I hope that you would live wisely, focusing on what matters from an eternal perspective.
From God’s perspective.
But, really, tomorrow could be the day that you die.
•It could be today.
•And if not today or tomorrow, I promise you that the day of your death is coming at you much faster than you think.
•Much, much faster than you think.
•In general, you never hear of people saying, “I’ve had enough time.
And now I’m out of here.”
•You do, however, hear many stories of people near to death saying, “I thought I would have more time.”
Death waits for no man.
•Death comes as God wills it.
•Death must obey the Lord.
•And death is coming for each one of us sooner than we’d like to think.
Just in the last two weeks, through acquaintances, I have heard of no less than five people dying.
•And among them were:
•An old man in his seventies or eighties.
•A young man of the age of 22.
•A little girl of the age of 6.
•No man can know when he will die, only that he will die.
In 2022, there were about 141,000 deaths in the state of Ohio.
•In the United States there were about 3.3 million deaths.
•And worldwide, there were about 70 million deaths.
(That’s about two deaths every second.)
•I found a website that took averages and put them on a clock of sorts that counted it all.
•And the world clock made my stomach hurt.
The number just kept turning over and over and over.
And each number was another soul that had stepped into eternity.
•And most of them did so without Christ.
•Many of them did so having no idea that the day of death was coming so soon.
These are the things that are usually on my mind with the coming of a new year:
•I’ve lived another year.
And who knows how many more I have left?
•Maybe this year will be the year.
Maybe fifty years from now.
Only God knows.
•But I do know this: Death is coming for me and for you.
And it is bringing eternity with it.
Now some would call me grim and dark and morbid for thinking about these things.
•But the Word of God calls it wise.
•We would all do well to reflect on the truth that we will die sooner rather than later.
•And that is why I’ve chosen Psalm 90:12 for my text this morning.
I hope that, by God’s grace, He will teach us to number our days.
•And, teaching us, He would grant us wisdom to live for what matters in the coming year and in preparation for the day of our deaths.
•May God put His blessing on the preaching of His Word this morning.
If you would, and are able, please stand with me for the reading of the inspired, inerrant, and infallible Word of God.
Psalm 90:12
So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.
(PRAY)
Our God and Father,
We come before you now asking for help.
Please, grant us to receive your Word with faith this morning.
And make us wise.
Help us to believe your Word and live in light of it.
Help us to see.
But that will only happen if you teach us and grant us spiritual sight.
And so, we ask that you, by your Holy Spirit, would set your Word home to our hearts this morning.
Teach us.
Grant us faith to believe your Word.
Sanctify us by your truth.
We ask these things in Jesus’ Name and for His sake.
Amen.
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This verse is a prayer.
Really, as the superscription tells us at the beginning of Psalm 90, this whole Psalm is a prayer.
•But here Moses prays and asks God to “…teach us to number our days.”
•If nothing else, the first thing that this verse does is reminds us that our days are numbered, doesn’t it?
•If we are to number them, they are indeed numbered.
•We will not live forever.
At least, not in this body and this world as it currently is.
When I was a little boy, my grandfather would often tell me that we die a little more each day.
•He would say that every day brought us closer to death.
And that every baby is born to die.
•That’s a fact.
But, sadly, not a lot of people talk to children this way.
•I remember my niece talking to her dance instructor about her pet dying and saying, “I’ll die someday, too.”
And her instructor said, “No you won’t.”
And Natalee stood her ground and said, “Everyone has to die.”
•Amen.
This is just the way things are.
Brothers and sisters, we are passing away every day.
•We are for but a brief moment and then we vanish from the earth.
•We are here, as Moses tells us in v10, for seventy or maybe eighty years if God grants us a long life.
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