Doing New In 22! Pt.3
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Time is not on your side.
Time is not on your side.
18 “Do not remember the past events, pay no attention to things of old.
19 Look, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness, rivers in the desert.
1000 Illustrations for Preaching & Teaching Time: Not for Sale
Time: Not for Sale
The phenomenal philanthropist, Andrew Carnegie, desperately wanted more life. He felt he could make a lasting contribution to society if he had ten more years. He offered $200 million for another decade! That was $54,794 a day, thirty-eight dollars a minute. But no one could accommodate him.
Time is not on your side and you say wow Pastor that is just bleak, but in reality it isn’t. It’s beautiful because it’s what holds us accountable and keeps us out of trouble.
1 Don’t let the excitement of youth cause you to forget your Creator. Honor him in your youth before you grow old and say, “Life is not pleasant anymore.”
2 Remember him before the light of the sun, moon, and stars is dim to your old eyes, and rain clouds continually darken your sky.
3 Remember him before your legs—the guards of your house—start to tremble; and before your shoulders—the strong men—stoop. Remember him before your teeth—your few remaining servants—stop grinding; and before your eyes—the women looking through the windows—see dimly.
4 Remember him before the door to life’s opportunities is closed and the sound of work fades. Now you rise at the first chirping of the birds, but then all their sounds will grow faint.
5 Remember him before you become fearful of falling and worry about danger in the streets; before your hair turns white like an almond tree in bloom, and you drag along without energy like a dying grasshopper, and the caperberry no longer inspires sexual desire. Remember him before you near the grave, your everlasting home, when the mourners will weep at your funeral.
6 Yes, remember your Creator now while you are young, before the silver cord of life snaps and the golden bowl is broken. Don’t wait until the water jar is smashed at the spring and the pulley is broken at the well.
7 For then the dust will return to the earth, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.
8 “Everything is meaningless,” says the Teacher, “completely meaningless.”
One of the things that I try to express to the young people I meet with monthly is that God has blessed you with an amazing gift. Time. He has allotted so much of it for each of us and what we do with it. we will be held accountable for it.
14 God will judge us for everything we do, including every secret thing, whether good or bad.
Listen to me you will be held accountable for your time. What are you doing with your time?
Tell the story of when God Chastised me for wasting my time.
Show an illustration with a measuring tape of time.
14 How do you know what your life will be like tomorrow? Your life is like the morning fog—it’s here a little while, then it’s gone.
Live Each Day Like It’s Your Last Day
12 Teach us how short our lives really are so that we may be wise.
12 Teach us to use wisely all the time we have.
What are you trying to do. Then do it. Stop wasting time, stop making excuses, shut up and just do it.
Nike had a commercial some years back said just do it! The premise of the commercial was to stop making excuses and start putting in the work. This is what we all can do. Start putting in the work.
I’ve been fortunate enough that I’ve been around some great men and the one thing I see all of them do and or have done is put in the work. Not later but at that very moment. why because they understood how short life is.
Estee Lauder said in a quote I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.
1 Don’t brag about tomorrow, since you don’t know what the day will bring.
Ask God Each Day What He Would Have You To Do
Listen each day is full of surprises and there have been plenty of people who had the unexpected happen to them. somethings good, somethings bad, but at the end of the day it was there. Talk to God your father and allow Him to direct your steps.
But Dr. Martin L. King said you don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
In other words walk in faith.
15 So be careful how you live. Don’t live like fools, but like those who are wise.
16 Make the most of every opportunity in these evil days.
17 Don’t act thoughtlessly, but understand what the Lord wants you to do.
1000 Illustrations for Preaching & Teaching Wasted by Time
Wasted by Time
Herman Wouk, in The Caine Mutiny, told about Willie Keigh, who was aboard a minesweeper when he received word from his doctor-father that he had an incurable disease that would soon claim his life. In this letter the father offered his son three bits of advice:
There is nothing, nothing more precious than time.… Wasted hours destroy your life just as surely at the beginning as at the end.…
Religion. I am afraid we haven’t given you much, not having had much ourselves. But I think, after all, I will mail you a Bible before I go into the hospital.… get familiar with the words. You’ll never regret it. I came to the Bible as I did to everything in life, too late.…
Think of me and of what I might have been.… For my sake, for the sake of the father who took the wrong turns, take the right ones.… Good-bye, my son. Be a man.
Dad.
27 And just as each person is destined to die once and after that comes judgment,
The time is nearer for us all, the time will come when we all must lay our heads to rest in that final place. What are you doing with your time, are you maximizing it? Are you living as God has called you to live. Are you pressing towards those things that He has called you too. Don’t waste what is so precious as a gift from God, Time is more valuable then anything else outside of your salvation. Grab it and run with it. while you can. You’re never too old, it’s never too late to start working on what God has called you too. Start now.
Let’s pray.