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Give Your Time To God Pt. 2 · Time with God with John North

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  Speaker 1: Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: It's great to start the day the best way possible,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it, and that's by taking some time with God,
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  Speaker 1: reading something out of the Bible and saying, God.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to guide my life, I want you
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  Speaker 1: to shape it, and I want you to shape my
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  Speaker 1: perspective on life, so it matches your perspective, because I
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  Speaker 1: know you're the only one in this universe who sees
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  Speaker 1: things from the proper perspective.
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  Speaker 1: So let's do that. This week, we're spending this week
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  Speaker 1: talking about giving God our time. And wouldn't you say
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  Speaker 1: it's true that your time is one of your most
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  Speaker 1: treasured things in your life.
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  Speaker 1: It seems like there's so many things taking up our time,
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  Speaker 1: and any time we have control over is so precious
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  Speaker 1: to us. What are we going to do with it?
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  Speaker 1: And then on the bigger picture, if you're a young
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  Speaker 1: person and you're sort of charting the course of your life,
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  Speaker 1: what are you going to study? What kind of job
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  Speaker 1: do you want to get? Where do you want that
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  Speaker 1: to lead to? You're thinking about what you're going to
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  Speaker 1: put your time into. Well, uh, I want you today
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  Speaker 1: to recognise.
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  Speaker 1: That our time is in God's hands. He is in control,
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  Speaker 1: not we ourselves. Let me read you again the passage
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  Speaker 1: we're looking at this week, starting in James chapter 4,
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  Speaker 1: verse 13 in the Bible.
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  Speaker 1: Here's what God says to us. Come now, you who
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  Speaker 1: say today or tomorrow we will go to such and
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  Speaker 1: such a town and spend a year there and trade
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  Speaker 1: and make a profit. Yet you do not know what
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are
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  Speaker 1: a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: you ought to say, if the Lord wills, we will
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  Speaker 1: live and do this or that.
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  Speaker 1: As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such
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  Speaker 1: boasting is evil. So whoever knows the right thing to
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  Speaker 1: do and fails to do it.
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  Speaker 1: For him it is sin.
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  Speaker 1: While this passage definitely shows us the truth that our
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  Speaker 1: time is in God's hands, doesn't it?
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  Speaker 1: You do not know what tomorrow will bring.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know, uh, how many people a couple of
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  Speaker 1: years ago sat in their lives without concern, thinking their
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  Speaker 1: lives were in total control and, uh, all was good
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  Speaker 1: and nothing could shake that. And then the coronavirus appeared.
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  Speaker 1: And we all realised how little of our lives is
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  Speaker 1: in our control and how much we depend on God
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  Speaker 1: in life. Anything else.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says in this passage, anything else is arrogance.
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  Speaker 1: Thinking I am the master of my fate, I will
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  Speaker 1: chart my own course. Nothing, uh, nothing can take control
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  Speaker 1: away from me. Well, if you hold that view sooner
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  Speaker 1: or later, a crisis is going to come, and you're
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  Speaker 1: going to realise I am not in control.
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  Speaker 1: And at that point you need to recognise God is
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  Speaker 1: the one in control, and my desire for you is
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  Speaker 1: that before that time comes, before God has to send
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  Speaker 1: a crisis into your life to shake you up a
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  Speaker 1: bit and help you realise how much you need Him.
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  Speaker 1: I hope you will recognise that on your own.
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  Speaker 1: That your time is in God's hands, God is in control,
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  Speaker 1: and not you. When you realise that, then the significance
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  Speaker 1: of focusing time in your life on your relationship with
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  Speaker 1: God becomes much more important, right?
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  Speaker 1: So that when you get up, you want to open
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  Speaker 1: your Bible and let God speak into your life. You
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  Speaker 1: want to get God's perspective on life. You want to
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  Speaker 1: have a good relationship with God, dealing with those things
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  Speaker 1: in your life that you know offend Him, so that
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  Speaker 1: you know God is working with you in the time
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  Speaker 1: in your life to establish his plans for your life,
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  Speaker 1: which are always good.
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  Speaker 1: Right
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  Speaker 1: So as you go into this day to day.
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  Speaker 1: Just think about your time today.
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  Speaker 1: What part of your time, even if you start with
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  Speaker 1: a small amount, can you start giving to God, focusing
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  Speaker 1: on Him, listening to Him as you read the Bible, responding,
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  Speaker 1: talking to Him, interacting with what He's saying to you,
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  Speaker 1: and building your life around His purposes for your life.
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  Speaker 1: I'm John North.