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DON’T WASTE YOUR LIFE – INVEST
IT!
Part 2 of 3, Exodus 4
ANSWER GOD’S QUESTION
“Moses answered, "What if they do not
believe me or listen to me and say, 'The Lord did not appear to you'?"
Then the Lord said to him,
"What is that in your hand?"
"A staff," he replied.” (Exodus
4:1-2)
WHAT IS THAT IN YOUR HAND?
Part One Vision and Influence
Part Two Commitment and Time
KEEP THE
COMMITMENTS THAT KEEP YOU CLOSE TO CHRIST.
In America – there is always the danger of
making the wrong commitments
1. Commitment to Money
2. Commitment to Material Things
3. Commitment to Me
Martine
Go sell some frames – the school needs your
money
So do your kids
So does your better half
So does your church
What about me, where do I fit in?
Somewhere down on the list.
J esus
First,
O thers
Second
Y
ourself Last
“I thank my God every time I remember
you. 4In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy
5because of your partnership
in the gospel from the first day until now, 6being confident of this,
that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until
the day of Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 1:3-6 )
WHAT DO YOU HAVE IN YOUR HAND
Your Commitment to PEOPLE
It thank God every time I remember you
Your Commitment to PRAYER
In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray
with joy
Your Commitment to PRINCIPLES
Partnership in the gospel
Confident of this, that he who began a good
work in you…
Promise Keepers not Promise Makers
My commitments:
- God, I can’t, but you can. God, you can
make me the man you want me to be.
- God help me be the man you want me to be.
- Husband,
- Father,
- Friend
- Pastor,
- Preacher
- Teacher
- Worship
- Adminstrator
- Evangelist
SPEND YOUR TIME ON SPIRITUAL EFFECTIVENESS
INSTEAD OF PRACTICAL EFFICIENCY
WHAT DO YOU HAVE IN YOUR HAND?
TIME
Time is God’s idea
Genesis 1:14
And God said, "Let there be lights in the
expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as
signs to mark seasons and days and years,
School Year – Calendars, Dates, Commitments
Number our Days
PRAY THIS PRAYER
Psalm 90:12
Teach us to number our days aright,
that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
With regard to spending our time
Start with the end in mind.
What is the goal?
Term paper
Need to get research books
Take notes
Draw conclusions
Organize
Write paper
What is the goal?
Jesus would say: “Well Done, Good and faithful
Servant!”
Cost/Benefit Analysis of Your Time
Levies in New Orleans
Category 5 doesn’t happen often enough.
Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow
we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make
money." 14Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your
life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
15Instead, you ought to say, "If it
is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that." 16As it is, you
boast and brag. All such boasting is evil. 17Anyone, then, who knows the good he
ought to do and doesn't do it, sins. (James 4:13-17 )
Cost Benefit
Jesus might say, “Depart from me, I didn’t
know you”
“We must use our time creatively, forever
realizing that the time is always right to do right.” (Dr Martin Luther King
Jr.)
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