Sermon Tone Analysis

MY TIME IS VALUABLE

Greetings

Pastor and FL in there absence

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The Hope of the Resurrection

13 And now, dear brothers and sisters, we want you to know what will happen to the believers who have died so you will not grieve like people who have no hope.

14 For since we believe that Jesus died and was raised to life again, we also believe that when Jesus returns, God will bring back with him the believers who have died.

15 We tell you this directly from the Lord: We who are still living when the Lord returns will not meet him ahead of those who have died.

16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a commanding shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet call of God.

First, the believers who have died will rise from their graves.

17 Then, together with them, we who are still alive and remain on the earth will be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.

Then we will be with the Lord forever.

18 So encourage each other with these words.

Chapter 5

Now concerning how and when all this will happen, dear brothers and sisters, we don’t really need to write you. 2 For you know quite well that the day of the Lord’s return will come unexpectedly, like a thief in the night.

3 When people are saying, “Everything is peaceful and secure,” then disaster will fall on them as suddenly as a pregnant woman’s labor pains begin.

And there will be no escape.

The Hope of the Resurrection

13 And now, dear brothers and sisters, we want you to know what will happen to the believers who have died so you will not grieve like people who have no hope.

14 For since we believe that Jesus died and was raised to life again, we also believe that when Jesus returns, God will bring back with him the believers who have died.

15 We tell you this directly from the Lord: We who are still living when the Lord returns will not meet him ahead of those who have died.

16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a commanding shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet call of God.

First, the believers who have died will rise from their graves.

17 Then, together with them, we who are still alive and remain on the earth will be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.

Then we will be with the Lord forever.

18 So encourage each other with these words.

Chapter 5

Now concerning how and when all this will happen, dear brothers and sisters, we don’t really need to write you. 2 For you know quite well that the day of the Lord’s return will come unexpectedly, like a thief in the night.

3 When people are saying, “Everything is peaceful and secure,” then disaster will fall on them as suddenly as a pregnant woman’s labor pains begin.

And there will be no escape.

I don’t think, friends, that I need to deal with the question of when all this is going to happen.

You know as well as I that the day of the Master’s coming can’t be posted on our calendars.

He won’t call ahead and make an appointment any more than a burglar would.

About the time everybody’s walking around complacently, congratulating each other—“We’ve sure got it made!

Now we can take it easy!”—suddenly

everything will fall apart.

It’s going to come as suddenly and inescapably as birth pangs to a pregnant woman.

PRAY

If you had a bank that credited your account each morning with $86,000 that carried over no balance from day to day...Allowed you to keep no cash in your account, and every evening cancelled whatever part of the amount you failed to use during the day, what would you do?

Draw out every cent every day, of course, and use it to your advantage!

Well, you have such a bank, and its name is TIME!

Every morning it credits you with 86,400 seconds.

Every night it rules off as lost whatever of this you failed to invest to good purpose.

It carries over no balances, it allows no overdrafts.

Each day it opens a new account with you.

If you fail to use the day's deposits, the loss is yours.

There is no going back.

There is no drawing against tomorrow.

This year’s journey has us going “Deeper in Christ”, we have taken a stop on this journey in November to take a look at “Deeper Stewardship”.

As we have been taken this year’s journey of going “Deeper in Christ”, we have taken a stop in November to take a look at “Deeper Stewardship”.

This requires us to take a closer look into how we are spending our lives as Christians and how we are utilizing this blessing called “Salvation”.

As I was reflecting on this journey I’m reminded what Pastor Wilson preached on

1st Sunday “Inside Miracle on and outside Manifestation” if we are good stewards with our life Jesus will respond to our faith by restoring our inside before the outside

2nd Sunday he messed me up with “I’ll Do It” he helped us take a look into Isaiah’s life and how God moved obstacles like Uzziah just so he could refocus and confess his faults which led to his cleansing and his commitment to God

and last Sunday Rev. Andrews helped us with our “Blurred Lines” which helped us to understand that our disobedience gave a set back but, the struggle of our character is what makes us who we are today and it helped us move in the right direction even if it only took 40yrs.

Imagine what we could have done with that 40yrs?

However the Lord has led me to take a closer look today of how we steward our time.

Today’s Sermon is Titled

My Time is Valuable

If you had a bank that credited your account each morning with $86,000 that carried over no balance from day to day...Allowed you to keep no cash in your account, and every evening cancelled whatever part of the amount you failed to use during the day, what would you do?

Draw out every cent every day, of course, and use it to your advantage!

Well, you have such a bank, and its name is TIME!

Every morning it credits you with 86,400 seconds.

Every night it rules off as lost whatever of this you failed to invest to good purpose.

It carries over no balances, it allows no overdrafts.

Each day it opens a new account with you.

If you fail to use the day's deposits, the loss is yours.

Theres”s no going back.

There is no drawing against tomorrow.

Some of us, like how we value money, value our times differently

some are on time and calculate every time spent or you are attentive to how to use your time wisely and if anyone causes you to vere off from that time there will be a problem if this is you say...“MY TIME IS VALUABLE”

And there are those who over spend their time and always looking for the next re-up.

they say things like “it’s such and such time already” where did the time go… or for some of students, ” I just need a lil bit more time” or some of us who have to pay bills we want to know how the 1st comes so fast.

or like me who daily can’t figure out how i get up at 5:30am but still have to rush into my office doors for work at 10am

if this is you say “My Time is Valuable”

then there are those that spend their time before they even get by wishing a certain event was already here

the end of the work day

birthday

vacation

if this is you...

Come on and say with me “My Time is Valuable”

The Value of time also means something to us in stages

The younger people want you to hurry up I need it now and I want to do it now

The young adults or millenials think ahhh I got time

and those of us who are approaching the half century mark or who have crossed over on the other side of the half century mark wants time to slow down.

but whatever stage you’re in “My Time is Valuable”

How come when we’re at work or at a meeting time seems to drag on to eternity and when we’re on vacation it seems to only last but a minute.

How come it seems when we were young it seems like we will NEVER get there

seems like we will never get out of school

we will never get old enough to drive

we will never be old enough to buy our own drink

or to move out of our parents house

and those of us who are older seems like life has gone by too quick and we wish time would go back

so we can be in school

or in our parents house with no responsibilities

and now we value those times that are behind us

Some of us look back with regret and wonder why did i waste my time with that jerk or waste my time doing those things.

But nevertheless “My Time is Valuable”