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THE BREVITY OF LIFE. A vapor.Fog forms and then burned off by the sun:Steam that rises quickly out of a boiling pot of water:So is the time we live on this earth.So is the duration of our physical life.. THE BREVITY OF LIFE. Psalm 90:10 ?The days of our lives are seventy years; And if by reason
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1. WHAT IS YOUR LIFE? JAMES 4:13-17
2. THE BREVITY OF LIFE A vapor.
Fog forms and then burned off by the sun:
Steam that rises quickly out of a boiling pot of water:
So is the time we live on this earth.
So is the duration of our physical life.
3. THE BREVITY OF LIFE Psalm 90:10 “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.”
If you are in your 40’s you have lived over half of your life.
4. THE BREVITY OF LIFE Job 7:6 “My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.”
Job 14:1 “Man who is born of woman is of few days and full of trouble.”
5. WHAT HAPPENS AT THE END OF THOSE DAYS? Hebrews 9:27 “And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment…”
2 Corinthians 5:10 “For 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.
6. HAVE YOU CONSIDERED? Everyone is born to die.
Everyone who is born again into the family of God dies to live.
1 Corinthians 15:22 “For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive.”
Christ came to make it possible for all of us who die physically to live forever in heaven.
7. “WHAT IS YOUR LIFE?” The past?
Satisfied with how you have lived?
Time wasted?
What have I done
For the Lord? For others? For my family?
Have I made things worse or better?
Have I neglected my duties to the Lord?
Kept my marriage vows?
Seen to the physical and spiritual needs of my children?
8. TWO GOLDEN HOURS “Lost, somewhere between sunrise and sunset
Two golden hours –
Each set with sixty diamond minutes.
No reward is offered for they are gone forever.”
9. “WHAT IS YOUR LIFE?” Now?
Am I what people think I am?
Am I big enough to face myself in the mirror of God’s word?
James 1:21-27
The past is gone.
But we have now.
10. “WHAT IS YOUR LIFE?” Philippians 3:8-14
Forgot the past
Reached forward to those things which are ahead.
Philippians 1:21 “For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain…”
11. “WHAT IS YOUR LIFE?” Revelation 14:13 “Then I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, ‘Write: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on. Yes,” says the Spirit, ‘that they may rest from their labors, and their works follow them.”
What is your life now?
12. “WHAT IS YOUR LIFE?” The Future?
“Well done, good and faithful servant…Enter into the joy of your Lord” (Matthew 25:21).
“…I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!” (Matthew 7:23).
Matthew 25:46 “And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
13. “WHAT IS YOUR LIFE?” Revelation 22:14 “Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city.”
Hebrews 5:8-9 “…though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered. And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him.”
14. “WHAT IS YOUR LIFE?” James 4:17 “Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.”
Begin where you are.
Forget the past.
Live for Christ in the present.
Look forward to the future.
15. OBEY HIM TONIGHT “And the Spirit and the bride say, ‘Come!’ And let him who hears say, ‘Come!’ And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely.” (Revelation 22:17).
Why not tonight?