Sermon Tone Analysis

What do I want them to know?

God’s ways with time

Why?

God’s ways of time lead to health, wisdom, fruit

What do I want them to do? Living in God’s rhythm, Living with God’s Priorities/Commands, Living by the Spirit.

Why? God’s ways of time lead to health, wisdom, and fruit

We are started a new series called “Moving to Wholeness” We are doing a series to help people from God’s Word and testimony of how we can move to “wholeness” or another Word you can use is PEACE/SHALOM because the meaning of the Word SHALOM which is the HEBREW word for peace means at it’s root “to make whole”

That when you are WHOLE you have SHALOM

This is the opposite of what the word anxiety means, which means to be torn apart, and that is great word description of what it means to have anxiety....is that not how we have felt when we have felt?? TORN APART

yeah

This series is also address the pandemic that existed before the Covid pandemic

What is the pandemic that existed before the pandemic?

We are in a pandemic of anxiety and depression.

In 2019 how many people do you think percentage wise say they struggle with anxiety?

36% of Americans said they struggle with anxiety on some level…that’s high! and now in 2021 where do you think the number is at of Americans struggling with anxiety?

42% we jumped 6% during Covid.

the biggest jump was amongst teenagers it doubled

1/10 people were unhappy in 2020, 1/4 happy in 2021

ONE OF THE WAYS WE ARE GOING TO MOVE TO WHOLENESS what we are going to learn today how we do manage our time, our schedule in God’s way....GOD HAS A VIEW ON HOW YOU MANAGE YOUR TIME AND SCHEDULE.

God wants to show us how to live with God’s view of schedule and time

Why this is so important is because to live in God’s way always leads to WHOLENESS and living not in God’s way always leads to anxiety, destruction, lack of peace

ME/WE

Have you ever had a time in your life when you said “YES” to something you should have said “NO” to?

You knew God said No, or your spouse said you shouldn’t do it…you knew it in your bones…and it wasn’t a bad thing, a sin thing, but it wasn’t good for you at the moment.

- Maybe it was a time that you said yes to getting together with a friend, but at this moment you needed to say because you had other things you needed to say yes to

Or it was a phone call or text message that someone sent you.

And you knew you should not have picked up the phone because you had other things or you needed to say yes to

Or maybe it was work, work said again, can you stay later today…and you knew you needed to say no because there was other things you needed to say yes to

ANYBODY BEEN THERE?

The inverse is true....we said NO WHEN WE SHOULD HAVE SAID YES.

We said no to getting together with our friends, when we should have said yes.

No to work, when we should have said yes

No to church or Bible study or church gathering, when you should have said.

HOW DO YOU FEEL WHEN YOU SAY YES when you should have said no? Or no when you should have said yes.

When we say yes to work when we should have said no or that phone call?....are we happy, I am so full of the Spirit, full of JOY, I am so glad I mad this decision!!

YOU FEEL ANGRY, MAD, BITTERNESS, RESENTMENT, REGRET (FOR NOT DOING THAT THING), BURNOUT “I can’t believe I am doing this, grrrr!!!” (we might not say it out loud) mad externally, mad internally, DUMB, STUPID “how can I be so stupid” “i wasted so much time”

Anybody with me?

Yah!

TENSION

What do we do with this?

How do we know when to say YES, when to say NO? Or for that matter what are we to do with our schedule?

Does God have something to say about this our time?

YES

Two scripture passages

Since we only live so long, God teach us to number our days, have a plan with our days so that we get a HEART WISDOM

WE ARE NOT TO LIVE DAY TO DAY, MOMENT TO MOMENT

We are to plan our days

We are to be intentional with our days

And not planning our time almost always leads to lack of peace, unplanned schedules almost leads to lack of peace, nothing planned for goodness

One of the reasons why is we do not plan our schedule someone else is often if we do not plan our time someone else will, work, family members (they mean well), friends, kids sports

We are a slave to them

NOT ONLY ARE WE TO NUMBER OUR DAYS WE ARE TO NUMBER THEM WITH WISDOM WHEN WE NUMBER OUR DAYS WE ARE TO MAKE THE BEST USE OF OUR TIME

The reality scripture points out for us is all have a commodity given to us and it is the commodity of time.

Each one of us is given the same amount daily, not life length

Each day we live

24 hours a day

168 hours in a week

What do we with our time, what are we to do with our time weekly that we live in God’s ways that leads us to a heart of wisdom, to wholeness, peace, health and we will see later FRUIT....because it is the whole ones, healthy people who produce fruit.

HOW DO WE NUMBER OUR DAYS, HOW DO WE WALK AND LIVE IN WISDOM?

Living according to God’s created weekly rhythm for our lives

Living according to God’s greatest commandments (greatest priorities)

Living/walking by the Spirit

Living according to God’s created weekly rhythm for our lives

this is a little review from last week

God says to us 6 days you shall work (vocationally, on house projects, run errands, etc.) but on the 7th day you are to SABBATH (which means stop working) , delight, glorify God, stop working, for how long? 2 hours at church?

No 24 hours

Sabbath is a day where we give glory to God, an act of liberation (I am not a slave to world), and where we get RENEWED (physically, emotionally, mentally, relationally)

God says to us work 6 days and rest the 7th.

God is saying you want wholeness, you want life, you want joy,

Work and rest for 24 hours.

let’s talk about work for a minute.

Does that mean that the other 6 days all we do is work, from morning to 11pm (I can’t say evening)....

Is this what God had in mind for us?

NO

In the ancient, before electricity especially in the winter time you could only work so long, because working by candle light is not supper easy.

Not only that, if we work from when we wake up to when we sleep we will have not time for GOD, FRIENDS, or FAMILY....is this what has in mind....sadly we have seen many pastors, Saints over WORK and as a result THEIR FAMILY GETS NEGLECTED AND THEY NEGLECT THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITHD GOD

So how many hours should we work?

There is no number given in scripture of how many hours we are to work in a week, but we can see from history and phycology and the medical field is that the amount of hours that we should work, this includes house work, errands, on average over 6 days (there are going to be busy seasons at vocationally work and home work) is at most 8-9 hours a day.

When we get over 55 hours a week.

It has destructive affects on our MENTAL, EMTIONAL, PHYSCIAL, SPIRITUAL LIVES and we actually start to become counter productive, we will end up doing double work because we did work past our limits.

What God says to us we are to work 6 days, 50-55 hours a week including household work, and take a rest for 24 hours, Sabbath is a gift

WHEN WE REALIZE OUR CREATED RYTHMN WE ARE STARTING TO KNOW WHAT WE CAN SAY YES AND NO TOO.

NO, I CANNOT WORK ON THAT HOUSE PROJECT OR WORK BY DOING YARD WORK OR HOUSE WORK, because today is my Sabbath

OR YES I CAN DO WORK TODAY, OR HELP A FRIEND OUT WITH SOMETHING THEY ARE WOKING ON

THIS IS THE BEGINNING

I ALSO WANT TO TALK ABOUT ANOTHER THING THAT AFFECTS OUR WHOLENESS, THAT is apart of our rythmn that MANY AMERICANS ARE INCREASING SAYING NO TO, THAT AFFECTS ALL OF LIFE IF WE DO NOT GET ENOUGH OF IT.

What gift is this?

Sleep

anybody get lack of sleep?

how do you feel?

Whole?

Peaceful?

No you are edgy, foggy brain, irritable, anxious, depressed

Lack of sleep alone will lead you into ANXIETY and DEPRESSION

Scripture says it is in vain that we rise up early and go to sleep late, working, working, working.

God gives us the gift of sleep

This again was no problem before electricity, Sun went down and people went to sleep.

People would sleep 8-9 hours a nigh, even in 1942, and medical experts say adults need 7-8 hours of sleep.

But how many people in America get 7 hours a sleep today?

Close to half…that means half of America is not getting enough sleep