First let us realize that…
I. We have but little time
left
Job 14: 14:1 Man that is born of a woman is of few
days, and full of trouble.
We often see small children make choices that
are totally wrong. Trading a nickel for a dime because it is bigger. Trading
one of their favorite toys for something they want at the moment, but not
something they really want to keep. Etc.
How much time is a day, month, year, decade?
How much time is an eternity? That is what people
are trading.
Many (including myself - at times) like to handle things by doing nothing, but…
II. We have to make a choice
Josh 24: 15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
16 And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;
Rev. 1: 3 Blessed is he that readeth, and they that
hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written
therein: for the time is at hand.
It is not a difficult choice for us to make
if we examine the options - In the "Lady and the Tiger," we see a man that
has a difficult choice ahead of him. He has to have at least some doubt
in his mind of what to do. Today, however our choice should be clear! Christ
directs us the right way. Choose Him and His way!
One thing we must understand, is…
III. We do NOT have "time" on our
side
There is a saying that "Time is on our side!" Is this really true?
Is it to our advantage to wait? Is time really friendly towards us? IS
your "hourglass" staying still or is it emptying?
I give to you that…
Use ILL. 39 - Creation
No matter what we think…
IV. We may not have "time" to burn
We need to…
5 Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth;
and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state
is altogether vanity.
We also need to…
It is for this reason, we know…
V. The time to serve is now
Rom. 13: 11 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make
not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
VI. The time to ask is now
ILL. - Share sale end date
Matt. 7: 7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth;
and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
Heb. 3: 7 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,
8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of
unbelief, in departing from the living God.
We cannot expect someone else to ask for us. You will choose today.
We need to make the right choice. Right now, the choice is yours. Do you
want to choose or reject Christ????? You are doing one or the other…….
Gary Marcum - East 38th Street Free
Will Baptist Church - 061100am