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Do Not Delay. Delaying Our Good Works Carries A Huge Cost. Key Text: Proverbs 24:30-34 Will Cost Our Reputation ( vs 30) Will Cost Our Good Fruits ( vs 31) Will Cost Our Security ( vs 31) Will Cost Our Real Rest ( vs 33) We Must Recognize The COST ( vs 32).
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Delaying Our Good Works Carries A Huge Cost. • Key Text: Proverbs 24:30-34 • Will Cost Our Reputation (vs 30) • Will Cost Our Good Fruits (vs 31) • Will Cost Our Security (vs 31) • Will Cost Our Real Rest (vs 33) • We Must Recognize The COST (vs 32)
Delaying Our Salvation Carries An Eternal COST! • Don’t Postpone Decisions When You Already Know The Facts. • Acts 24:22-23 • Don’t Be Convicted In The Heart, But Reject The Truth Anyway. • Acts 24:24-25 • Don’t Be Blinded By Materialistic Desires. • Acts 24:26-27
Admitting The Temptation • There Is An Element of Laziness • Avoiding The Difficult Work Ahead • There Is An Element of Wastefulness • Spending Time on The Trivial Instead of the Vital • There Is An Element of Power & Pride • Asserting Our Sense of Control (Prov. 3:27-28) • Satan Is Laying A Trap To Reduce Our Effectiveness. (Proverbs 21:5, 29:20)
Getting Back On Task • What important task am I putting off? • What will fill the void left by my delay? • What is the most meaningful step I can take to make real progress? • What difficult habit do I need to develop to greatly bless those closest to me?
Will You Follow Jesus, Right Now? • 59 And He said to another, “Follow Me.” But he said, “Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father.” • 60 But He said to him, “Allow the dead to bury their own dead; but as for you, go and proclaim everywhere the kingdom of God.” • 61 Another also said, “I will follow You, Lord; but first permit me to say good-bye to those at home.” • 62 But Jesus said to him, “No one, after putting his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.”