One-Thousand Four-Hundred and Forty

INTRO:

1,440 = Minutes in a day

10,080 = Minutes in a week

43,200 = Minutes in a month

525,600 = Minutes in a year

All The Time in the World

If I had more time I would...

complete this or that

fix this thing

study more

read the bible more

do more for God

pray more

reach out more

etc.

God has given you more time, how are you spending it?

God has exposed your excuse

Not a matter of Time but a matter of importance…a matter of what you REALLY love

Parable of the Rich Fool:

wealth is overflowing

Luke 12:18–20 ESV

18 And he said, ‘I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. 19 And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.” ’ 20 But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’

I will spend my wealth on me

no desire to help anyone else

no desire to serve God

Rooted in selfishness and laziness

Boasted in what he was going to do

Proverbs 27:1 ESV

1 Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.

James 4:14 ESV

14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.

1,440 is all the minutes you have in a day - how have you spent them?

Don’t Waste Your Life

Hospice patient came to Christ at 70 years old…statement “I’ve wasted my life.”

Matthew 6:19–21 ESV

19 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

His life was spent on the things of this world

realized the waste that it was

Alix - died at 18, getting ready to go to college in the fall, car crash

ran her race well

glorified God with how she lived

Your life is a vapor…1,440 minutes in a day

not guaranteed tomorrow

as a believer:

you are not your own,

1 Corinthians 6:20 ESV

20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

Jesus Christ gave up His life so you might have life

DON’T WASTE IT!

James 4:17 ESV

17 So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

STOP

With more time available to us now (the absence of sports, gatherings, and other extracurricular activities) how has your spiritual walk changed or has it at all? What areas have or haven’t changed? Why has time NEVER been the real reason to our lack of spiritual growth?

Read Luke 12:18-20

Our ample goods are our time and our stuff, how have you used those this week? If they have been spent on yourself why is this sinful and what will you do to change this?

Read James 4:17

How will you use your 1,440 minutes to glorify God each day this week?