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What would you do?

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What would you do?

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  1. "Imagine there is a bank that credits your account each morning with $1440 with one condition: Whatever part you failed to use that day would be erased from your account. Each day a new deposit is made for you. Each night the bank writes off, as lost, whatever amount you failed to invest to good purpose. There is no going back, there is no drawing against tomorrow, and, while the circumstances may seem secure, there is no real certainty the deposits will continue.” What would you do?

  2. There is a sense in which this hypothetical is a reality for each one: “The Time Bank” • Every day that we live, each one is allotted 24 hours which translates into 1440 minutes. • Do we view as equally precious the gift of time God gives us each day? Are careful to consider how we use it? Do we give thought as to how we can use it to bring glory and honor to Him? What would you do?

  3. Our time is important to God and should be important to us! • “See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.” Eph. 5:15-17 • Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time. Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.” Col. 4:5-6 • “I must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; the night is coming when no one can work.” John 9:4

  4. Our time is important to God and should be important to us! • “Man who is born of woman Is of few days and full of trouble. He comes forth like a flower and fades away; He flees like a shadow and does not continue. “ Job. 14:1-2 • “The days of our lives are seventy years; And if by reason of strength they are eighty years, Yet their boast is only labor and sorrow; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away… So teach us to number our days, That we may gain a heart of wisdom.” Psalm 90:10, 12

  5. Our time is important to God and should be important to us! • “Come now, you who say, Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit; whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. Instead you ought to say, If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that. James 4:13-15

  6. Parents need to invest time in their children. • Our children are precious gifts from God well deserving of our time and attention (Psalm 127:3-5). Redeeming Our Time

  7. Parents need to invest time in their children. • Our children are precious gifts from God well deserving of our time and attention (Psalm 127:3-5). • These gifts from God are only under our care for a brief time and soon they will be gone from us (Gen. 2:24). Redeeming Our Time

  8. Parents need to invest time in their children. • Our children are precious gifts from God well deserving of our time and attention (Psalm 127:3-5). • These gifts from God are only under our care for a brief time and soon they will be gone from us (Gen. 2:24). • The scriptures teach us to recognize the brevity of the circumstances and use our time wisely (Deut. 6:6-7, Eph. 6:4). Redeeming Our Time

  9. Parents need to invest time in their children. • One of these days, you'll shout, "Why don't you kids grow up and act your age!" And they will. Or, "You guys get outside and find yourselves something to do and don't slam the door!" And they won't… You'll straighten up the boys' bedroom neat and tidy... And you'll say out loud, "Now I want it to stay this way." And it will. You'll prepare a perfect dinner with a salad that hasn't been picked to death and a cake with no finger traces in the icing, And you'll eat it alone. You'll say, "I want complete privacy on the phone. No dancing around. No demolition crews. Silence! Do you hear?" And you'll have it. Redeeming Our Time

  10. Parents need to invest time in their children. • No more plastic tablecloths stained with spaghetti. No more bedspreads to protect the sofa from damp bottoms. No more gates to stumble over at the top of the steps. No more playpens to arrange a room around. No more anxious nights under a vaporizer tent. No more sand on the sheets. No more iron-on patches, rubber bands for ponytails, tight boots or wet knotted shoestrings. No more tooth fairy. No giggles in the dark. No knees to heal. Only a voice crying, "Why don't you grow up?" and the silence echoing, "I did." Redeeming Our Time

  11. Husbands and wives need to invest time in developing and maintaining a loving, peaceful relationship. • In order for harmony to exist, there must be time for communication (Amos 3:3). Redeeming Our Time

  12. Husbands and wives need to invest time in developing and maintaining a loving, peaceful relationship. • In order for harmony to exist, there must be time for communication (Amos 3:3). • “The number one reason most couples claim that caused their marriage to fail is poor communication. The second biggest cause according to divorced couples is martial conflicts or arguments.” (American Divorce Statistics citing results of survey from Forest Institute of Professional Psychology, March 2011) Redeeming Our Time

  13. Husbands and wives need to invest time in developing and maintaining a loving, peaceful relationship. • In order for harmony to exist, there must be time for communication (Amos 3:3). • Husbands must invest time in making sure their wives know they care and that they are precious to them (Eph. 5:28-29, 1 Pet. 3:7). Redeeming Our Time

  14. Husbands and wives need to invest time in developing and maintaining a loving, peaceful relationship. • In order for harmony to exist, there must be time for communication (Amos 3:3). • Husbands must invest time in making sure their wives know they care and that they are precious to them (Eph. 5:28-29, 1 Pet. 3:7). Redeeming Our Time

  15. Husbands and wives need to invest time in developing and maintaining a loving, peaceful relationship. • In order for harmony to exist, there must be time for communication (Amos 3:3). • Husbands must invest time in making sure their wives know they care and that they are precious to them (Eph. 5:28-29, 1 Pet. 3:7). • Wives must invest time in doing things that produce an affectionate bond in the relationship (Titus 2:4). Redeeming Our Time

  16. Brethren must invest time in promoting loving relationships with one another. • As Children of God, we are a family (1 Tim. 3:16, Eph. 4:6, Mt. 12:48-50). Redeeming Our Time

  17. Brethren must invest time in promoting loving relationships with one another. • As Children of God, we are a family (1 Tim. 3:16, Eph. 4:6, Mt. 12:48-50). • God desires warm, affectionate relationships to exist among us (Rom. 12:10, Heb. 13:1, 1 Thess. 1:9-10). Redeeming Our Time

  18. Brethren must invest time in promoting loving relationships with one another. • As Children of God, we are a family (1 Tim. 3:16, Eph. 4:6, Mt. 12:48-50). • God desires warm, affectionate relationships to exist among us (Rom. 12:10, Heb. 13:1, 1 Thess. 1:9-10). • This affection does not happen by accident but is the result of time and effort spent toward its development (2 Pet. 1:5-7, 1 Pet. 1:22) Redeeming Our Time

  19. Brethren must invest time in promoting loving relationships with one another. • As Children of God, we are a family (1 Tim. 3:16, Eph. 4:6, Mt. 12:48-50). • God desires warm, affectionate relationships to exist among us (Rom. 12:10, Heb. 13:1, 1 Thess. 1:9-10). • This affection does not happen by accident but is the result of time and effort spent toward its development (2 Pet. 1:5-7, 1 Pet. 1:22) Redeeming Our Time

  20. As Parents, are we investing time in the development of our children? • As husbands and wives, are we investing time in developing and maintaining loving, peaceful relationships? • As brethren, are we investing time in promoting loving relationships with one another. • “we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. Knowing, therefore, the terror of the Lord, we persuade men.” 2 Cor. 5:10-11 Redeeming Our Time

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