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502 | Throwback - There is Time · The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast

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  Music.
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  She's a happy girl. Hello, friends, and welcome back to another podcast of Woman
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  at the Well Ministries, where we believe that all of us have to come to Jesus
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  like the woman at the well in John chapter 4.
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  or on our website at watwm.org, we invite you to sit down with us as we look
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  to the scriptures to learn more about God and to strengthen your daily walk with Jesus Christ.
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  Living a life for Christ, she's a happy girl.
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  Music.
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  She's a happy girl.
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  In today's hectic world, it seems that there is just too much to do and too little time to do it.
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  This is a trick of the devil to keep us busy and out of God's word and out of God's will.
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  The truth of the matter is that there is a time to every purpose under the heaven.
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  Please join us in this broadcast of Woman at the Well Ministries,
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  as Kim explores the limitless opportunities we have when we give God our time.
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  Hello, and thank you for joining us in this broadcast of Woman at the Well Ministries.
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  I'm just really excited as we begin to embark on this lesson,
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  and we begin to take time to look at that all-important event in our life, which is time.
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  And time is an event, because what time is, is event management.
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  And we're going to watch hours and minutes of our day tick off and we need to
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  be investing them as opposed to just spending them.
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  And the Bible says that we need to lay up our treasures in heaven where moth
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  and rust doth not corrupt.
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  And that's how we invest our time by making sure that we spend our energies,
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  our efforts, and our time on heavenly things.
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  If you would, please turn to John chapter 15 and verse 5.
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  We're actually going to spend our lesson time, most of it, out of Ecclesiastes chapter 3.
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  But I want you to look at what he says in John chapter 15 and verse 5.
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  He says, I am the vine, ye are the branches.
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  He that abideth in me and I in him, the
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  same bringeth forth much fruit for without me ye can do nothing we could spend
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  probably an eternity discussing the truths in that little verse but what i want
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  you to see is that he says that he's the vine and we're the branches.
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  As children of God, we are offshoots of him.
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  We're called Christians because we are to be Christ-like.
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  We are followers of Christ. Therefore, we are not the main stem from which all the nourishment comes.
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  We're not the main stem from which we get our strength.
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  And we're not the main stem from which the roots go to give us position.
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  You see, he is because he's divine. vine and we're offshoots of that vine.
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  So we need to be looking to him for our strength.
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  We need to be looking to him for our position.
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  And friends, we need to look to him so that we realize that we are part of him
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  and that we're not giving the orders, but we are following.
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  And he says that he is the vine and we are the branches. And if we abide in him, he abides in us.
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  Then he says, look closely at what he said.
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  He says, when I abide in him, he abides in me, I bring forth much fruit.
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  Friends, you want to be a productive person. You want to be a productive Christian.
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  Do you want to be all you can be?
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  Do you want to be all that you were intended to be. Remember in Jeremiah 29,
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  11, he says that he knows the plans that he has for you.
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  He has an expected end.
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  And in order to find yourself at that place at the end of this journey that
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  he intended you to be, it's extremely important that you walk the life he intended for you.
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  And he says, if you're in me and I'm in you, you're going to bring forth much fruit.
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  And he follows that with this well
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  without me you can do nothing how interesting then is it that many of us plan
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  our days our weeks our months our years our life our careers our goals without
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  ever acknowledging or asking his help.
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  Without ever consulting the
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  creator of our being, the one with whom he purchased us with his blood.
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  I'm speaking to Christians who go about willy-nilly doing their thing day after
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  day, ignoring God, all in the name of being all that they can be.
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  Friends, at this very moment in time, we have the opportunity to stop.
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  Remember he said, be still and know that I am God. Remember that in Ephesians
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  6, he said, when you've done all that you can do to just stand,
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  we have the opportunity right now, this very moment, and over the next few moments of this lesson,
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  to stand in the presence of God and allow him to reveal to us that all important
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  concept of how do we manage our events.
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  He said, lay them at his feet and follow.
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  And we're going to talk about today how you can get the most out of your day,
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  how you can lay your head on your pillow at night in full assurance that you
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  got done exactly what he wanted you to do.
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  So often we plan our days and we plan God right out of it.
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  He doesn't have any time whatsoever to wiggle his way in for us to acknowledge his presence.
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  And then I think one of the most amazing things that I've found myself doing
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  at different stages of my life is planting him in in a box.
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  Okay, God, I'm going to study from 6 to 6.30.
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  Well, it's great that you have a scheduled time with God and you have a meeting time with God.
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  But I submit to you, ladies, gentlemen, young and old alike,
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  when is the last time that you scheduled a half an hour date with that significant
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  person you love? You don't.
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  You may schedule what you're going to do, but you don't schedule how much time
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  you're going to spend. You have a ballpark idea, perhaps. but you don't just
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  say, okay, we're going to dinner. Pick me up at 6.
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  I'll be back at 7.15. You certainly don't go, pick me up at 6. I'll be home at 6.30.
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  Yet, we do that with God. And we think we're doing something fantastic that
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  we've scheduled some time with Him.
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  So right now, as we're beginning to look at our lives and beginning to move
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  forward with how we want to spend our time investing in our heavenly future
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  and in being all that we can be for Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.
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  As we're beginning to do that, I want you to just plan on time with God and
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  allow Him to tell you when it's all said and done, when He's finished giving
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  you what you need for that day.
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  And as you're making your plans in order to make sure that you don't plan him
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  out do plan him in and do intend on spending time with him but when he knocks on your door,
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  unexpectedly in the form of a co-worker in need stop what you're doing trust.
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  Him to let you get your work done,
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  but don't ever put anything above that amazing opportunity he's just placed in front.
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  God knows what you need to get done. And you know what?
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  He created the night and he created the day and he places it on a 24-hour cycle
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  and he knows exactly how much sleep you need.
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  He knows how much exercise you need And he knows how many things you need to do,
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  Go to him in prayer early. The psalmist David said, early in the morning I rise.
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  Friends, the first thing we need to do as we begin to look at time is realize
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  that it all belongs to him.
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  And he is in control. And he knows what's best.
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  And he knows exactly what you need to get through the day. No other book you read can tell you that.
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  No other conversation that you have can give you all that you need for that day.
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  But a little talk with Jesus makes it right.
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  Will you pray with me, please? Our kind and most gracious, dear Heavenly Father,
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  I'm just so excited that I know that you are in this place.
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  And I'm so excited, Lord, that I know that you can open our hearts and our minds
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  and you can allow us to hear exactly what you have for us.
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  And Lord that you can just revolutionize how we spend our time and help us to
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  invest it in heavenly causes and in heavenly ways.
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  Lord teach us to hear you.
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  Discipline us to come to you asking you what you'd have for us.
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  Speak to us over the next few moments I pray.
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  Bless these lips of clay and all these
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  things we ask in Jesus name and all the God's people said amen
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  in ecclesiastes chapter
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  3 it begins with to everything
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  there is a season and a
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  time to every purpose under heaven
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  perhaps what we need to do is
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  really just park a little while in verse 1 perhaps we need to realize what purpose
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  we have in life jesus told us in luke chapter 19 and verse 10 that he came to
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  seek and to save those which were lost.
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  What's your purpose? What purpose has he come into your heart for?
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  No doubt that he come to seek and to save you.
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  And as your savior, he has redeemed you, a fallen man in a fallen race.
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  And when it's all said and done, he will take you to be with him.
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  But you know, my friends, he didn't save you to sit on the sideline.
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  No, he said, go ye into all the world and teach and preach the gospel.
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  He said, ye are the light of the world. And then he went further to say,
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  hey, don't hide it under a bushel, but set it out so all the house can see.
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  And he said, ye are the salt of the earth.
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  He said, ye are my witnesses.
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  Friends, his purpose was to save you so that you could show others the way.
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  He said in John chapter 14 and verse 6, I am the way, the truth, and the life.
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  And no man cometh unto the Father but by me.
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  He tells us in John chapter 15 and verse 5, as we were speaking about just a
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  little bit ago, that when he's in us and we're in him, that we bring forth much fruit.
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  His purpose is that you bring others to him.
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  Through the marvelous work of grace that he makes in your life every day,
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  through the incredible display of mercy that he gives you every moment of every day.
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  But we're so messed up as human beings that we seek a purpose.
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  We're constantly trying to figure out, why am I here?
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  What am I supposed to be doing? How can I make a difference?
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  These are all wonderful, wonderful, noble ideas.
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  But friends, that's sort of the world. Taking a piece of what God has said,
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  saying it a little differently, spinning it a little alternatively,
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  and getting you into other things as opposed to the word of God to find your purpose.
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  Huge popular book, The Purpose Driven Life.
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  He displayed for you. Rick Warren showed you exactly what he felt the word of God was saying.
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  And he was right in that he said there is a purpose and you should live your life to that purpose.
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  And that purpose is that God should be your center and your love and your devotion
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  to him should be your motivation.
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  And every act that you do, every response that you make, Every plan that you
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  have should be embodied by the Christ that lives inside of you.
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  And when you do that, you'll bring forth much fruit.
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  What's the problem? Many of us just feel we don't have time.
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  And that's why we're speaking as lovingly and as gentle as I know how,
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  that you need to spend time wisely.
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  It's a precious gift. Do you realize it can't be bought or sold?
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  You can't get any more, but it can be lost.
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  You can waste it, and you can't get it back.
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  And all of us have the same amount of time per day, but not all of us have the
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  same amount of time in our lifespan.
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  And you don't know how many days you've been allotted on this earth.
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  So I submit to you, you don't have any time to waste.
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  You've got a job to do, and that's to be God's ambassador.
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  What manner of love the father has bestowed upon
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  us to be called the sons of god he loves
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  us that much and the amazing miracles
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  that he performs in our life should make
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  such a change in us that
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  others can see in second corinthians 5 17 he says
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  that old things are passed away behold all things become new
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  we are new creatures in christ the work of love that he manifests upon us changes
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  us and though our sins were a scarlet they are white as snow though our works
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  of righteousness are as filthy rags he imputes his righteousness in us and when
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  he looks at us he sees our potential,
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  not our faults because he sees the blood his sinless perfect blood and so as
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  we begin to read in ecclesiastes chapter 3 beginning now in verse 2 he says
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  a time to be born and a time to die,
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  A time to plant and a time to pluck up that we just planned in A time to kill
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  and a time to heal A time to break down and a time to build up.
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  Time to weep and a time to laugh. A time to mourn and a time to dance.
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  A time to cast away stones and a time to gather stones together.
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  A time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing.
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  A time to get and a time to lose. A time to keep and a time to cast away.
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  A time to rend and a time to sow a
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  time to keep silence and a time
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  to speak a time to love and a
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  time to hate a time of war and a time of peace what
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  prophet has he that worketh in the wherein he laboreth
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  i have seen the travail which god has given to
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  the sons of men to be exercised in it he has
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  made everything beautiful in his
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  time also he has set the world in
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  their heart so that no man can find out the work
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  that god maketh from the beginning to the end i know that there is no good in
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  them but for a man to rejoice and to do good in his life and also that every
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  man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor it is the gift
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  of god i know that whatsoever god doeth it shall be forever.
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  Nothing can be put to it nor anything taken from it and god doeth it that men should fear before him.
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  That which hath been is now, and that which is to be hath already been.
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  You see that? God knows the past, and he knows the future simultaneously.
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  Oh, how he loves us. And God requires that which is past.
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  And moreover, I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was
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  there, and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
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  I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked,
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  for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.
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  You want to get it all done? Come to Calvary and get your orders for the day.
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  You want to end up in the very best place that you can possibly be for you?
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  Come to Calvary and allow him to set your course.
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  You want to succeed beyond everyone's expectation?
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  Come to Calvary and allow him to set your goals and objectives.
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  There is a way that seemeth right unto man, but the end thereof is destruction.
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  You see, you can labor all day and get nowhere.
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  You can spin your wheels. But God says that he knows the way.
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  And when he is directing your footsteps, the path you trod will be the one directed by God.
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  And you will be productive because he said that when I'm in you and you're in me,
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  you bring forth much fruit when
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  we talk about the purpose under heaven we need to work well you see because
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  he set us out there as an example he set us out there as a model for others
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  to follow in ecclesiastes 9 10 he says whatsoever thy hand findeth to do do it with thy might,
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  for there is no work nor device nor knowledge nor wisdom in the grave whither thou goest.
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  Everything you do due to his glory first corinthians
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  10 31 says whether therefore you eat or drink or whatsoever you do do all to
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  the glory of god colossians 3 23 says and whatsoever you do do it heartily as
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  to the lord and not to men set your purpose to please god not as men pleasers but pleasing God,
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  the creator of heaven and earth,
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  the maker of all things,
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  the one who bought you with a price.
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  You see, the only applause you need is that of Nelskaard Hands.
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  See, there's a purpose under heaven. And that purpose, my friend,
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  is found in Jesus Christ.
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  As you begin to make your plans and you're looking at how you spend your days,
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  I ask you this question, friend, what is your purpose?
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  And what is it that you're trying to accomplish?
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  And who is it that you're trying to please for you see he said go about doing good,
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  Galatians 6 10 says as we have therefore opportunity let us do good unto all
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  men especially unto them who are of the household of faith Acts 10 38 says how
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  God anointed Jesus of Nazareth the Holy Ghost and with power who went about
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  doing good and as you begin to look at your purpose.
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  Remember he said live righteously. He says good and upright is the Lord,
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  therefore will he teach sinners in the way.
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  He says in Proverbs 12 too that a good man obtain the favor of the Lord,
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  but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.
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  When you go about setting your purpose on how you're going to spend your time,
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  what dictates you and motivates you, take time to love.
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  For in Proverbs 10, 12, he says hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
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  1 Peter 4.8, he said, And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves,
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  for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
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  1 John 4.11, he said, Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
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  To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven.
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  My charge to you, my friend, is this. Who are you pleasing with your purpose?
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