TIME

ECCL. 3.1-11

We talk a lot about time, or the lack thereof. God has given us the right amount that we need in each of our days.

Have you ever got involved in something and said, “Where’d the time go?”

“I would do that project if I only had time.” I’d read my Bible more if I had time. I would come to church more if I had time. I would pray if I had time. I would go visiting if I had time.

We blame the lack of doing things in our lives on the lack of time, yet it is not that we don’t have the time, we don’t take the time to do certain things.

Job 7:1  Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?

Job 8:9  (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)

Job 9:25  Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.

Job 14:1-2  Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.  He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

James 4:14  Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

Psalms 89:47  Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?

1 Peter 4:7  But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.

I.                  TIME OF THE SAVIOR. GAL. 4.4

A.   HIS BIRTH WAS FORETOLD:

1.     The lineage (2 Sa. 7:11,12; Ps. 132:11; Is. 9:6; 16:5; Je. 23:5).

2.     The time (Da. 9:25).

3.     The place (Mi. 5:2).

4.     The miracle (Is. 7:14; Mt. 1:22,23).

5.     The forerunner (Mal. 3:1; Mt. 3:1-3).

6.     The flight to Egypt (Ho. 11:1; Mt. 2:15).

7.     The massacre of infants (Je. 31:15; Mt. 2:17,18).

8.     Dwelling in Nazareth (Is. 11:1; Mt. 2:23).

II.              TIME OF SALVATION. 2 COR. 6.2

A.   People think they have forever to be saved.

B.   Because we cannot calculate on the future. We have no assurance, no evidence that we shall live another day or hour.

C.   The Holy Spirit strives and convicts a person of their need to repent and be saved.

D.   There is no better time to be saved than when grace and mercy is knocking at our heart.

1.     Hebrews 3:7  Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,

III.          TIME OF SERVICE. ROM. 13.11

A.   “High time” means of great importance.

1.     Matthew 16:3  And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?

2.     Matt. 24.22-24

3.     1 Thes. 5.1-3

B.   “Sleep” means inactivity.

1.      Matthew 26:40-41 

2.      1 Corinthians 15:34  Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.

3.     1 Thes. 5.5-8

IV.           TIME OF THE SECOND COMING. LUKE 21.8

A.   Christ could come back at any moment.

1.     1 Cor. 15.51-

2.     1 Tim. 4.1-

3.     2 Tim. 3.1-

B.   What is waiting for the Christian is beyond our greatest expectations

1.     Romans 8:18  For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.