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00:00:01 okay how many of you know what this word means all you need to do is just shout it out not not not yes was it sees the day not papadum I heard some people say papadum no no no no no no it's not capam is not Pap this is sees the day okay sees the day every moment counts okay let me give you example a long long time ago there were three Rascal girls very naughty the girl at the back is Al Clemens uh volleyball star you know really Tre little run around a church and then they grew up you know I tell you what's the word we use
00:00:40 for this it says what time flies and so today we want to talk about time a topic very close to my heart because I see myself as a busy person okay I I I church ministry I around my own business uh family and then I have a lot of personal things quite a lot that need lot specific attention so time is very important asset to me and I I I I would admit this is a topic very dear to me so I want to take this before you and then ask that at the end of today's sermon you will cerom not papadom let's pray Lord God we
00:01:21 come before you now and we give our time in your hands that's what David said in Psalm 31 do the enemy me and Crouch around though everything pushes he gets on his knees and he says my time is in your hands oh Lord that's how much he trusted you we ask by the end of this sermon you will so Enlighten us with this and we say this in jesus' name amen so I'm going to do something simple first before we go into the text all right um time we just talk a little bit about time management right the basic time
00:01:59 management that to-do l is what you call scheduling all right so for me every morning I wake up is robotic I have a schedule some of you put it in your handphone some of you do manual uh let me just see how uh this has uh expanded just bear with me a little bit out of this President Eisenhower once made a statement all right he said what's important to me may not be urgent what's urgent to me may not be important and Steven kovi in his Landmark book Seven Habits of Highly Successful People picked it up in bit number three and it
00:02:31 develop what is called as the Eisenhower metrix all right and this is the Eisenhower metrix it divides everything into four categories what is important and Urgent what is important but not urgent what's urgent but not important and not urgent and not important so let me ask you a question how does Dr Peter choose apples when shopping it was it going to do with this so let me give you a flaw with this thing this widely held criticism Al this is probably the most common time management metric it's quite
00:03:03 easy I have I have his book on this I I bought the book on time management from this and I think you John Lee our associate elder brother you see Peter in the supermarket compared to you if you and I choose apples you will look something like that correct man man Li fa Peter Apple correct or not so to Peter choosing apples is not important not urgent 2 seconds of my life for you is 5 minutes of your life or 3 minutes so it becomes arbitrary and it becomes highly personalized and type of personalities will decide this so go
00:03:51 to pinang for Holiday Andrew he CH already because he don't to go to G think Peter go oh there he's there the C is there jie where do you go 1 hour go e for them important go all P wait 1 hour important other people come to pining 1 hour waste your time other people even more hey the church camp you know Church camp you know you should be spending time H encouraging the congregation you know what kind Elder are you go eat one hour chak correct or not so this time because quite subjective out of this this one is quite
00:04:33 interesting okay just very quickly on this this is called a focus funnel is developed by a guy called Rory V this is actually very helpful if you're into time management techniques okay and what he does is that he says in a in a in a world which is saturated with so much thing you cannot you divide it into two sections a priority which you can dilute or what you call funnel and priority you concentrate and out of that you learn to automate you eliminate you delegate you strip it down and priori is only to things which are
00:05:06 important but you can Outsource okay out of that once you strip everything down it then becomes two things and that's important and that's urgent urgent is concentrate important procrastinate and then you Loop and he develop a very important principle which I want to pick up today as we go through scripture he calls it procrastinating on purpose or deeper word is called reflecting and you look so one day maybe Dr Peter will get diarrhea because he add an apple with a worm and then he will decide when he goes next time to
00:05:45 Village grer not to eat apple chose Apple like that he will look at Apple like this and then like that correct or the opposite you have decided that you are spending so much time looking at Apple Apple Apple you also look at orange orange orange my some also how much 1050 1150 you go and shopping how long this go to car cannot go to La say 50 Cents by you follow me or not so this two is quite interesting all right I mean and by the way if you guys want to have a talk on this I I have all the material I
00:06:26 I'm almost obsessed by time management okay anything like okay pomidoro effect the goil loss effect paristan principle of time management I I keep notes all right I can actually do a seminar on this okay but just on the side now what's interesting is the speaker you you can get this online at end of the talk he says a line which triggered me you know what he says multiply your time after giving entire talk on this entire system which is very technical he said multiplyer time and I got up he where have I heard that from and then he
00:07:04 doubles down he says in Genesis chapter two man is made in the image of God and they go forth to multiply yes I'm a Christian and that struck me you know and his proposition is that if God ask you to multiply everything why not your time I never forgot got that remark it was also a very subtle way to show his faith I don't know what kind of Christianity believes in but I comment him on that I want you to hold that thought if God can multiply disciples and everything why not your time of course to him is you going by by book
00:07:47 but I think scripture tells you more all right the text we're going to look at Ephesians 51 15-2 and if you've know efficient the gamma people will tell you it's got two and a half chapters of theology which ends with a very powerful prayer a prayer we all know how wide and deep and high low is the love of God and he is able to do exceedingly more than imagine and out of these two and a half sections he talks about a new Humanity the gospel brings about the cross brings about a new person this is the image of God and
00:08:18 then he explains what it is he starts with the church then he talks about do and don't do this don't do that old self new self and then we arrive at this be car careful then how you live not as unwise but wise making the most of every opportunity because the days are evil therefore do not be foolish understand what's the ls will list do not get drunk of wine we Leist to debout instead be filled the spirit speaking to one another with Psalms hymn songs from the spirit and what is interesting here is
00:08:48 speaking to who no speaking to one another that means when you sing he's telling you to sing to one another know right you pick this up the little details sing and make music from your heart to the lord always giving thanks to God the father for everything in the context here for good times and bad times in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ now the NIV says making the most of every opportunity this is sounds like any other secular time management talk you know carom sees the moment but the King James version says it better the
00:09:21 King James version doesn't use the word making the most of every opportunity he uses the word Redeeming the time that's gospel language you know is the the Greek word here is literally about Redemption as you multiply your time God wants to redeem buy back your time has been ransomed by the enemy and God is in the business of redeeming it back the days are evil now to double down on this Colossians says something very similar walk in wisdom that's the same thing again about wisdom towards those who are
00:10:06 outside non-christians the world the world where things are evil Redeeming the time so I want to Anchor this entire passage on three things which I think it emphasizes the first is wisdom which is something chapter four on what picks up when you talk about old self new self he's got a whole list of do this don't do that do this don't do this do this don't do this but he anchors the whole thing with wisdom the second is Holy Spirit that comes not only in here it comes in an earlier verse where he talks
00:10:43 about the fruit of the light don't do this in darkness do this be in the light the fruit of the light is goodness righteousness and Truth you'll come to that afterwards and one thing that Ephesians picks up very heavily is the will of the Lord he picks it up by talking about three mysteries chapter one has it chapter 2 and chapter 5 all right and we'll come to that in a while so let me just give you a simple story and he told him this Parable Luke the ground of certain rich man J AB Harvest he T to himself what should I do
00:11:15 I have no place to store my crops this is said this is what I would do I will t on my BNS and build bigger one there will store my serus grain I'll say to myself you have plenty of grain laid up for many years take life easy eat drink and be married let me read it to you again maybe you didn't hear carefully he told them this Parable a certain businessman in subang made a lot of money on the stock market he made so much money he said what do I do my house in USG is very small I'll go and buy some land in
00:11:49 Tropicana 3 acres build a beautiful house with a swimming pool Jacuzzi kok room and then I tell myself take life easy eat drink and be merry you see the context did he do anything sinful did he go out and do something bad no he want to be verse 20 but God said to him and what you fool you fool ha PowerPoint here when I did it it was okay this very night your life will be demand from you then you get what you prepared for yourself and this is the key verse this is how you be whoever who stores up
00:12:39 things for themselves but is not riched towards God here's a man who plan his time very well made money young you could say that made money rich and decided to take it easy and this is the dment there are two lessons you pick up from here the first point is of course time is not in our hands use it wisely in any time management metrics they will tell you to always have the long goal Elon Musk lithium batteries cannot work can you power a car using EV long drive I take my money from PayPal as seed
00:13:18 capital I invest Elon Musk have taken the money and gone to Caribbean he sunk it in took years separate fund Space X all of that and after after a long time the dividend show is a long game but scripture takes you to the longest game and the longest game is eternity now this is important it's important not just because it's a commandment we have to follow but because God is good he has your interest in heart let me let me take it a bit further step for you right first you got to ask yourself what do
00:13:54 you mean by God's Will and there two parts to it Ephesians 2 tells you created in Christ Jesus to do good works and so the rich man could say well I built my nice bangalow I invite life group over to Mak I give charity Ma I give money to build schools Ma I build up a trust fund the honor Lim trust fund Manara an liim the an liim Foundation ah give education out Yas thank you what's wrong with all of this me legy my bus huh Legacy my you know so the point is not that the point is that another part says this in the earlier verse in
00:14:48 Ephesians 5 understanding what the Lord will is parallel and find out what pleases the Lord and then fruit of the light is another way of saying fruit of the Holy Spirit and the Greek for goodness is the same word used in the galatian list of the fruits and he says three things goodness here is Charity kindness things that go out to the neighbors not in your name not in yayasan an's name but in yayasan yahweh's name righteousness is are you taking the righteousness that given to you and showing the world you are saved
00:15:22 by grace how are you in your righteousness with God and Truth in all matters as you walk I want you to just pick up these foundations all right now there is a very simple and practical reason for this the days are evil what does that mean right in Psalm 90 Moses says this teach us to number of days we may gain a heart of wisdom but what is Moses saying in context he saying this you know in earlier verse he says Ah Lord if we could only know your anger over our sins and Moses then says you know some of us
00:16:04 our lives will be maybe 80 maybe 90 Moses is saying sin is so far around your days are could be 30 years then you go 50 you have a heart attack some of you will go up to a sarian all the apostles died young you know in a sense before their time with you except John who died in Exile in Patmos and your days are numbered and so this is a point to pick up is a broken world you can plan whatever you want the common sense thing is unless you have that eternity view you never know what happens tomorrow and so he says the an giving
00:16:58 text thanks to God for everything all your seasons and easis tells us there's a time for everything a season for every activity under the heavens and all of us don't know our days but if you have set eternity in your heart he will make everything beautiful a while ago we lost one of our leaders in her prime and Peter described sister Suzanne as a shooting star now let me just pause a bit it is very difficult for parents to lose their children because children are not supposed to go before their
00:17:46 parents a lot of you are new I understand this personally I'm not going to say anything more than that it is difficult now it doesn't even need to be that you know you could be having your life season and then suddenly a disease happens and suddenly your life just shifts you know everything that you could do before you now cannot do so a good God tells you set your heart on eternity he will make everything beautiful in his time and so on this journey on Earth it isn't so difficult I want you to just pick up this actually
00:18:31 all of this padding I will give you what I think is the main point all right and which is actually point three these first two points are just icing on the cake now days are evil is repeated Ephesians 6:13 the last chapter therefore put on the full armor of God when the day of evil comes so we know the context here is what spiritual warfare meaning when the days are evil we know the devil's involved so here's the thing I want to spend a bit of time on the devil steals our time now he proceeds to talk about two
00:19:05 selves oh self don't get drunk on wine now what's interesting with the new self he doesn't say don't get drunk on wine new self be sober now he's been using that in chapter 4 he doesn't say don't lie be honest he say don't lie your members are one body he doesn't say don't still be honest he say don't Ste go and share with others you notice the par ing of the dos and the don'ts is very strange you know and this is the same thing don't get drunk don't here's a do be filled with the spirit and he's
00:19:39 using basically some poetry to tell you about self-control now you pick this up a bit old self lose control new self yield to his control let me explain I'll just show you these are these are just random images of casinos I just Googled the word Casino interior I got hit have you noticed the similarities of Casino designs whether it's gunting or whether it's maau or whether it's in Las Vegas number one uh have you noticed there no windows you can of course are gambling nobody want to see me put high level
00:20:16 Windows no windows have you noticed you can do oneway glass M number two you look at the carpet in can called you do find a calming effect the colors are a riot you know they're multiple colors you know you know what there is a psychology behind Casino design why no windows number one so you gamble like you don't know how long what the time is it's true there are research on it because can are day time really better go back or night time I better go for Maan why do you think they provide dinners for you at at at a
00:20:51 casino one my client was a high roller so we were in uh guango buying lights then he took everybody over to a place called The parison in maau he's a high roller they take you to a special room you know only for high rollers the minimum bid I won't even tell you you know what they provide for you in there we are what we call enta anything you want there was wine there was liquor there was food anything they want you to gamble and forget time I yeah eat e provide for you why is the floor such a rot of colors because it
00:21:25 does it so that your mind is so fuz up you don't calm down you know now Paul says do not get drunk on wine which leads to debout Tre so here the first obvious thing is uncontrolled indulgences let me give you something with Jordan Peterson picked up in his uh uh 12 rules for life he he used something which I think a lot of you if you're honest imit he say you spend four hours on a day La okay let's do something simple scrolling social media now I I'm guilty of this I I binge watch uh some shows you binge watch 45 minutes
00:22:06 only one episode I only watch one end four episod one correct or not before he finishes six yeah finish the whole series of season one corre or not we all have this problem he say say you spent 4 hours very Sun one 4 hours not much you average 4 hours then he said okay in one year it's 61 days now see you started this early in your 20s which a lot of them are doing the moment you do this I mentioned something about habits the brain rewies it it becomes your default mode you know if you keep doing this at
00:22:44 your 20s you will do this when you are in your 50s there was a report few days ago in the world of bus about a guy who to every day when he was young the problem was he was diabetic you know and he took every day T tar with ro chai every day and on one day he feel very good he'll take it with Coke guess what happened to him in 30 years you read it up he lost a leg is it's right just Google world of bus man loses a leg due to you'll get a hit don't do it now no in 10 years is 1.7 years of your life in 30 years
00:23:30 because if you 20 I put 30 is 50 very fine I 57 so it's it's fair now J Peterson doubles down or to give you a sense of it he see assuming you're worth is $20 an hour he give he see average of overd we we we put in inflation we a it's not it's a fair rate you know in one year 29,000 in 30 years you lose 876,00 that's how much you sign a check to the devil so all of you in bad habits both legal and legal you drinking watching things on the net you shouldn't binge watching think about that how much you lose now I
00:24:09 want to tell you what the text is telling you this is coupled with something else it's a pair which makes it even more deily so you pick this up the second one is this all right which activity you should be doing on Sunday morning or you good fellow Christians here say in church so all you here so let me ask you a question after this church are you staying back know too busy here after church do you know people no no no no no I come here 2 hours listen you very go back I'm doing my religious service
00:24:41 thank you very much I don't like all these Christian people put a wall but you see he come to church you you either do this be fill the spirit in a worship environment sing to one another that's something interesting sing to God give thanks and Paul is saying if you don't do this go play golf he's telling you that you don't do this go play golf because the devil will waste your time on religious ritualistic religious duties remember the context here is about wisdom you think you're doing right with God by
00:25:25 taking two hours your life and coming to ABC and tolerating all of us can I say in love to you you're being very stupid you know I remember I said this once few years ago and somebody was so offended with me he sent me a WhatsApp message you know I say I'm not saying this because I'm trying to be rude you're either in or you're out and two hours a week for God you're insulting God you're giving him left over time so I want you PA a bit about this all right now third one in the earlier verse he talks about immorality impurity
00:26:04 greedy is something he picks up chapter four he then uses the word which is interesting idolatry I want to pick up the word greed let me give you the third one do you know what's man's God do you you know what if you ask a man who's your God Jesus actually no you know what you know what's the God for most men work so let me ask you example let just see you're about to go off for work and your little daughter runs to you and says daddy don't go would you would you tell your daughter let just say it's a Saturday
00:26:37 and somebody say hey wants to meet you I think you better go for Bak go Bak got connection one you know get I want to go your daughter come and clean the lake daddy don't go play with me what do you tell your daughter Oh Daddy got to go Bak Gala that one you would tell your doctor Daddy got to go to work s a come back H daddy will play you and your daughter will look up you big and go yes and then when you come back after that you will forget and then you will make a habit of having bakut every Saturday
00:27:19 morning and your daughter will grow up without a father and when she gets older it'll be your time to ask your daughter a can we spend sity together and she be the one going for bakut without you now let me give you the last one right and then I'll give you what I call the main point and Ephesians the preceding chapter he talks about bitterness rage and anger and here's the word grieving the Holy Spirit we talking about Holy Spirit again and this coming from a context of anger you cannot control the duel l
00:27:59 don't let the anger your son go on anger instead do this all right but why the scripture spend so much thing what's what's the commonality but bitterness rage anger slander malice all this negativity Hebrew calls it it puts a root you know if you're angry with somebody very deeply what do you do you think about it if you have a business deal that goes bad and you feel very unfair you think about it you think your life is wrong you think about it you think about it and you think about it and you think
00:28:43 about it we call it rumination so let me give you the last point which I see quite often and because it's a Family Life Ministry is about call we call this emotional paralysis you know because you feel life has hammered you so badly you sit down on your couch and you say it's so unfair why is it this other brother in church he got everything his marriage he right he everything but my life hold Cen you know and you keep going on and on and on and before you know it one two hours your life has gone now here is the
00:29:21 pair this is the pair because you're in such a deep mood of depression or anxiety or bitterness you don't like the feeling because needless in your heart you know what you do you medicate what's the easiest way of medicating scrolling social media playing video games opening up your 21y year bottle of Glen livid and drinking alone whatever works for you going to the computer opening up to going to websites you shouldn't it makes you happy for 15 minutes then it brings you back to the emotional paralysis then you do it again
00:30:04 and this time not 15 minutes it's half an hour then it makes you again and it Loops you and it Loops you and it Loops you and after a while $876,000 life you wrote a check to the devil that is the point Paul is picking up now you sit there he say jalot man this speaker very depressing never mind now go hope this is my main point and and it came to me I was in discussion with a 23 about tele Pastor R I actually prepared the whole Ser on Wednesday I spoke to a I was online with a one of my mentors is
00:30:41 23 years old so young people never never say oh people I don't listen to you I'm 57 there was this I thought a person very anointed he was sharing with me clicked to me so I I deleted the rest of my sermons on Wednesday night and I put this all in this was few weeks of work time management threw everything away that I say you know what he's right you you see Paul has this idea of old self new self he carries it on from chapter 4 a lot of it know uh don't steal don't lie uh uh don't get angry in
00:31:12 a bad way uh don't be in darkness and then he's got host of Dos not the first impression it looks like dos and don'ts but when you look carefully it like I said the matching doesn't quite match you know it's quite strange it's not don't get get drunk be sober the do is something much deeper I I want you to pick up the train of thought because this is for me life changing it sort of said ah you know something I've been meaning to articulate for a long time but it sort of just got to me right now let me tell
00:31:44 you about religion why you here I mean how do you know God exist you don't know Ma so what is religion religious place on fear no you know you born in a like for me I was brought up in a in a Buddhist family how do I know know must pray to whatever Ain you're Hindu you brought you don't know you don't care but all you know you're brought up you need to go Temple there's some dos and don'ts dos and don'ts are you follow them you go to heaven your life will be blessed people don't even argue one they go
00:32:17 early morning you go to your coffee shop you find these people open the shop Hong bye bye bye bye bye you think they ever do a deep analysis whether their Idol exist no is is in need in human nature to go to idolatry why because we want to get to heaven now here's what I think is disturbing Christianity is simply an insertion of one point before that what passes off as mainstream Christianity believe that Jesus Christ died for your sins and if I bought up in a family that's ingraining me that I'll
00:32:49 just tell you that of course I believe Jesus died for me actually I don't really know what it means in the same way a person from another religion doesn't really understand what it is it's just that is is is is just that I've been conditioned but everything else is the same you know now that's here where all the here I'm going get controversial some of you don't agree me don't H me just be disagree the reformers will say ah we are not like that we understand Grace we understand forgiveness I show you what is right
00:33:21 what we call Gospel Center churches believe that Jesus Christ died for sins he knew to make him Lord and savior is right we all brought on this and then they tell you this which is right again in response to Salvation you obey God's Commandments in the Bible you are actually brought up on this I was brought up on this I'm not saying it's wrong I want to humbly tell you is incomplete it took me many years to come to this I tell you why and the reformers are right the reformers are trying to tell you you
00:33:54 cannot earn your salvation now let me tell you what happens after this and why do you think there's so many different churches of Pentecostal Baptist Anglican 7 Day Adventist Brethren LA because what they are really teaching you is this you know in response to Salvation do what is acceptable behavior to your respective Church culture so if your church teaches you this hey every Sunday must break bread you know you don't do that now you're not part of the in Crow if you're in a charismatic church and
00:34:31 you can't speak tongues you're not part The In Crowd if you're another church that believes in a certain doctrine of on on justification by faith you don't believe that you're not in In Crowd if you're another church you don't believe that Sabbath is from sunrise to sunset at 6:30 or Saturday you're not in the in Crow we can add many things you know we can say hey anol got conference coming up no are you going not going H what kind of leader are you hey so and so do you go out and talk to some visitor do
00:35:06 you take them out I didn't H not very good Christian hey are you in live group not in live group hey do you go out there and Mar up with some people didn't hey go and play golf now I want you pick this up I want to pick I want to to take some time because I think this is this is quite important you see in reality is dos and don'ts because after what you feel pressured my all the elders telling me that after see them Al very embarrassed so better tell I'm in a life group I'm a life group actually only go once in the
00:35:42 B but get off my back yeah better do something every can every Sunday can whack all these things feels so guilty I better go and serve something you see where we're going from we're coming from Duty we're coming because people like me for years have ramed down your throat and made you feel so bad about yourself you rotten despicable Sinners better get up from the church and do something for the Lord hallelujah yes Hallelujah so I tell you this what I think Ephesians is saying so bear with me is this really a list of dos and
00:36:22 don'ts yes but no because if you look at the new self list he's going deeper know he's going inside you know he's going to the heart so this what I think it took me a while to pick up and it came a lot with William preached last week and I thought about it and he say something very profound he said you know you can take a text like love is patient love is kind love hold no records around and you can turn that into a do and don't list and it's so click to it you know you're right I preached on that text and I did exactly
00:37:00 the same thing hey Christian love shows no records are wrong you better don't do it or you sit down there you squir I mean I got 101 list of what my wife did for me man every time we fight I use an ammo to go after her wow I'm a bad Christian you you follow no he he picked it up and then he gave the example of the prodigal son and he said you know what a lot of us are like the oldest son you come to church you do all of this but you're doing it out of what Duty so let me give you the text I want
00:37:36 you to pick on this the story isn't about the two sons the story is about the father because there are three Parables there the lost sheep the Lost coin and the lost son they all about the father while he was what a long way off his father saw him the Father the text is telling you sat there and saw a son at the distance he's been waiting for the son and F with compassion he ran to his son the son he met the son halfway you know you can almost say that the son had not arrived he went to the son the son said to him and this is
00:38:27 important on at ude and this is something I really hope you remember today because this is our posture before god father I've sinned against Heaven against you I'm no longer worthy to be caught your son Lord God I'm a sinner I'm not worthy to be called a child of God and Christ sees you in your pain and your sin and he comes to you that's the point of the text here's the second point the father said to the servants quick bring the best rope put it on him put a ring on his finger sandals the sickness is a
00:39:11 sign of what I have redeemed you back H we talking about Redemption bring the fat cup kill it let the F celebrate and the key the son of mine was dead is alive again he was lost and is found I listed down some of the points there do you know what this is is Ephesians 1 3 to 10 you go and read it everything in here is in there now if you think I'm forcing the point let me give it to you again this is God's will time is about God's will let me double down Ephesians 3 tells you that we prayer will know how wide and long and
00:40:03 high and deep is the love of Christ if the story of the prodigal son doesn't show it I don't know what does what are the biblical authors trying to tell you all the way from the pages of Genesis with the Patriarchs we Exodus we've got leading a stubborn people through the Wilderness through David and his sins what is what are the gospel authors trying to tell you are they trying to tell you do this and don't do this is not you know let me give you one last example we always talk about the Ten Commandments but we forget Exodus is in
00:40:44 three movements movement two is The Ten Commandments movement three is the Tabernacle movement one is the Wilderness God in the wilderness trains his people to what to trust him only then the Commandments come so there is a step before obedience so here's my big picture for you which I think a lot of churches Miss and I have missed in many years of preaching unless God changes your heart so you truly desire to love him more and more your faith will be series of dos and don'ts for many years I was a depressed
00:41:24 Christian I was in a church that taught all the theology right not this church but I felt to be accepted I needed to do a lot of things because I need to do it in response to my salvation I was still very unhappy I wasn't doing a good job fighting my sin I was wrecked with guilt I thought the more I do maybe God will forgive me is still do and don't so let me break this down for you and we'll get back to time one you cannot break down any meaningful relationship into a set of do and do is legality
00:41:58 ISM can you imagine doing that to your wife and again Willam was spot on is the the example of the Rose either the rose is done to bait the woman to love you or the rose is given as a response that you love him and the problem with our relationship with God and I want all of us to hear this we we tend to go into the dos and don'ts point two the to develop a relationship with God is centered on the gospel that's the two great prayers of Ephesians and he tells you salvation is not than just your sins he's bringing Heaven and Earth
00:42:39 together in a new Humanity you're part of it and here's the third point that really Sun now and I put in R each relationship is unique to each believer forcing a rigid man-made set of dones on every believer shifts the Focus From the relationship to task and objective so if I am being judged because do you go for this conference do you go for a mission trip do you do this hey tick tick tick tick okay good Elder but what if I'm doing it because it feel pressured better I don't do and get my heart right first so here's the
00:43:20 thing from what with wisdom and the Holy Spirit can God do to change your heart it starts first with whether you want it do you pray and say you know God I feel very far from you I want you to change my heart from inside so I really love you more okay and here is where the timing comes in each day is an opportunity to deepen our relationship with God so let me give you what I think is the main point spend time daily with God so that obedience is not burdensome to me this is life-changing and it differs from
00:44:10 everyone for me what helped me break out of sin was I woke up very early in the morning and I will walk in the darkness and I will tell God God I'm a sinner I got a lot of problems I got a lot worries here I am hear me Lord and I will weep and when I do that again and again I am comforted now am I going to impose that on you and says pastor Raymond you better wake up at 5:3 or your appraisal di bar we going to cut $100 for your salary you cannot do that right maybe someone else is he needs to take his guitar and play and raise his
00:44:55 hand say Lord another person has to be very quiet because he he's not that type maybe one person has to say this he has to go out and say Lord hallelujah who are you to tell the guy you're talking giberish what if he does that and he goes deeper into God and he's more obedient the opposite is true what if I don't do do that I come to worship I sing like that Hallelujah Hallelujah but my personality is not the who are you to judge me you find your own Rhythm but you must find that and an infinite god with infinite
00:45:48 time gives each one of you infinite possibilities that is wisdom and if you do that every day the song they sang Change My Heart oh Lord the poter will change the clay and one day you will wake up and you say Lord you told me I shouldn't do this although it's difficult I do it willingly in the same way you will love your children or your parents willingly even though it makes you suffer that is the key of time management you forget everything you don't forget this let me close with this the verse
00:46:42 ends with the word speaking to one another and in fishion three we have every family and together with all Lord's holy people so let me ask the question how do you multiply your time because Ephesians 3:20 tells you you can you can do imagur more than all we ask imagine how do you multiply your time you multiply your time with your family and I close with this few months ago my my wife went through a difficult surgery and the church red to me I multipli my time because they carried my burden and this morning God
00:47:27 God is asking you allow the church to carry your burden so let me close with this carom as I invite the worship theme up God is asking you to seize the moment make the most are you living a life where the devil is stealing your time or are you allowing the Lord to redeem it I want to close in the prayer as we get some keys going as we just go into some time of just quietness and we're going to do this we're going to procrastinate on purpose I want you to just maybe think about this one line I'm going to give
00:48:13 you and and I and and and I just want you to sit on this what you think about the most and what you spend time on the most this is in a nonjudge non-judgmental space what you think about the most and what you do the most that's where your heart is I'm going to repeat it what you think about the most what you do the most they could be different ratio your heart is there you know I want you to take a moment to sit on that and take that and bring it before God and then the Lord is going to tell you he wants to redeem that he
00:48:53 wants to multiply your time he wants to put eternity in your hearts and he saying spend every day with me and I will change your heart Lord we come before you now in just quietness to say Lord that what you desire from us is not just obedience you want our hearts if there's any big lesson today is that and we so often fall into dos and don'ts but you are the god that waited for us you ran to us and you met us Midway we just need to come and say father God we have sinned against you against our neighbor we are not worthy to be caught
00:49:46 your [Music] children but by Jesus who died for us who made us a new Humanity you have bestowed such riches upon us such love such Redemption fill us so that we know how high and low and long and wide is your love bring us to our knees we did not find you in the valley we did not find you on the hill here right now with the body of Christ we find you and I pray the spirit moves in you now and where you're seated you realize he loves you much much more then you realize and L God right now as we Ponder
00:50:33 we ask that that love shifts us and we move from obligation we move from Duty we move from guilt tripping to say Lord my heart is slowly being changed teach me daily to love you more give me wisdom to find a rhythm to love you more and by day by day I do that obedience will not be burdensome and I will walk in Victory for my time oh Lord is in your hands and God's people say amen all right tomorrow is Monday H everybody gets depressed by Monday so you're going to say something to me for Monday and we going to say
00:51:25 what this is the day this is the day what this is the day what the Lord has the Lord has made and so Andrew promised me a very hot number so over to you Andrew as you bring us to a hot number shall We rise and say to the Lord it is Monday we will not be blue we have victory in the Lord over to you and hallelujah [Music] hallelujah this is the day this is the day that the Lord has made that the Lord has we will rejoice we will rejoice and be glad and be glad for this is the day that the Lord has we will rejoice and
00:52:15 declare in this is the day this is the day that the Lord has this is the day this is the day this is the day that the Lord has that the Lord has made we will rejoice we will rejoice and be glad and be gladed for this is the day that the Lord has we will rejoice and be glad in it this is the day this is the day that the Lord has made [Music] this is the day this is the day that the Lord me that the Lord we will rejo we will rejoice and be gred and be gred for this is the day that the Lord has we will rejoice and declare in this
00:53:25 is the day this is the day that the Lord [Music] has this is the day this is the day that the Lord has that the Lord has we will REO we will rejoice and and for this is the day that the Lord has we will rejoice and be glad in this is the day this is the day that the Lord [Music] has you almost want to go this guy like a West man brothers and sisters tomorrow is Monday you can start off the day by going oh Monday or you can say this is the day and I'm really meaning it from the heart so receive this benediction because tomorrow is
00:54:22 another day and the Lord is with you amen and he will meet you halfway he who died for you on the cross will meet you halfway tomorrow wake up and don't let the devil take away your time wake up you could have a bad day horrible boss you could have worry but this is the day the Lord has made and Christ is your Corner Stone receive the Ben Lord Jesus right now we give our days to you we put our days in your hands oh Lord and we say one day you will make everything perfect and while we all on this Earth every day every
00:54:59 moment we will tell ourselves tomorrow we wake up this is the day the Lord has made we will rejoice and church what do we say we will be amen God's people God bless you all have a great wig ahead Hallelujah Give the Lord a clap hallelujah thank you and as usual please stay back the service is over please talk to us if you want to do over anything we are are here God bless all of you
