Making The Most Of Your Time

Never felt like you're just going in circles. Just that way, man. Just kind of going through archen-rioning circles, you know? And oh, Eustace on the mountain man.

Anybody know what I'm talking about? Eustace over in North Carolina. He said when it comes to nature, he says, nature doesn't do things in squares. Circles.

You think about circles and cycles. We're on this globe, and we take a 365-day journey around the sun. And then after 365 days, you're like, back where we started. Back spring, summer, fall, winter.

Just going in circles. Moon goes around the Earth, 29 and 1-1-1-2 days, roughly a month. And every month we're talking. First of the month again.

Here we are again. Seven days a week. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. Saturday time to make the donut.

I mean, we're just going through the circles. Right? Just traveling? Anything?

No. Go bed at night. What's the Earth do? One revolution.

One circle. Get up out of bed the next morning. Beat the floor. Heat three meals a day.

Kind of got my routine. Oh, there's that bed again. Back in it. Up the next day.

It seems almost as if we start somewhere on a circle and then we just mmm, right back where we are. But the truth of the matter is we're not right back where we are. Because if you think about the Earth, for example, going around the sun, one part of your model, you look at it and you say, hey, the Earth is going around the sun and it's making a circle. But the reality is that everything is kind of zooming through space.

And it's really not a circle. If you could look at it from the side, it's doing this. It's a helix, right? It's like a spiral.

It's like a spring. And so you turn one way. You're like, hey, it's just doing this, right? 2D, right?

You turn it 3D. You see, it was started here. And by the time it got back to the same point, right, it's done this. It's made a time, has it last?

Can I tell you this? The world, the Earth, never stands still. You don't stand still. Time does not stand still.

Never stops. Clock never stops. Time never stands still. What's interesting is the older you get, it seems like time's moving even faster.

You know, when you were a kid, or if you are a kid, you're like, when will Christmas ever come? Oh, it's so slow. When will Christmas come? Or even when you were a kid, and you got out of school, it seemed like the summers were so long.

And yet your mom and dad were like, oh, God, I'm just saying, I just yesterday, I was not just picking you up from school because you were getting out for summer break. But I was dropping you off, first grade. Now I'm dropping you off in its eighth grade. Now I'm dropping you off in its college.

And I'm driving away. Before long, just like the progressive commercial, we're like our parents, right? And we're saying like, where'd all that time go? Because it just goes.

Time is one of the great equalizers of life. Time levels the playing field for everyone. Because it doesn't matter how rich you are, how poor you are, how old, how young. It doesn't matter what race you are, it doesn't matter what country you live in, it doesn't matter how educated you are, it doesn't matter how uneducated, safe, or lost.

Everyone gets the same 24 hours in a day. Everyone. But there's a difference though, and the difference is how we use it. How do we use the 24 hours that we get in a day?

You see, because once a moment passes by, it is gone forever. Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives. Two weeks ago, I was preaching a message about making the wise choice. And I shared with you that message, I shared with you, I write a letter to our graduating seniors, and in that letter, I make three, or give three words of advice.

Number one, make the wise choice. Kind of give a little breakdown how we can do that. Number two, don't trade what you want most for what you want in the moment. And number three, use your time wisely.

Why? Because time has neither a pause nor rewind button. Therefore, you must make the most of your time. I wanna preach to you this morning, a message entitled Making the Most of your Time.

We're in Ephesians, chapter five. Ephesians, chapter five, we're looking versus 15, and 16, if you would, stand with me. We'll honor the reading of God's word. The Apostle Paul writing to the church, Ephesus says, see then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time, or making the most of your time, because the days are evil.

Let's pray, Father, we come to you today. Lord, I pray, would you help us today to truly consider the value of and the responsibility that we have with our time? Lord, the clock never stops ticking, the grains never stop falling until there are no more. Are we using our time today wisely?

Are we investing it? Are we stewarding our time well? Or are we just spending it recklessly, foolishly? Are we prepared, as Amos mentioned in our Sunday school lesson, this morning, are we prepared to meet our God?

We don't know how much time we have left, but for what time we do have, we can prepare. So what I'm praying, those who may hear me preaching today, whether it's in this sanctuary, maybe it's on YouTube, maybe it's on sub-slash, or that today, if they have not trusted you, or that they'll do that today. Or those who are saved, we can't just bother time, we can't just waste our time, what a precious gift you've given, we've got to steward it and do it well. Or help us to invest in the things that matter the most.

What matters the most in our relationship with you? What matters the most in our relationships with our family? Or help us to invest in the things that are eternal? Yeah, we're only here for a little while.

Got to make the most of it. Lord, I pray this in Jesus name. Amen, amen, this morning's three things, number one, time is a gift to steward. The Paul writes here and says, see then that you walk circumspectally, not his schools, but his wives, and he says, hey, and make the most of your time, redeem the time because the days are evil.

Now think about this, Paul's writing to Church City Planet, these are people that he loves, he's writing to him, and honestly there's problems within the Church, this is the Church that he will send Timothy back to, to pastor, to help them out, but he's writing back to them. And these are people who were once pagans, they've gotten saved, the life has become more difficult, they're being persecuted on some levels, and he says, hey listen, you're being relentlessly pursued by that which is evil, so just know this, that you've got to make the most of your time. Now I'll tell you this, that even in the world in which we live, even in the culture in which we live in, we are being relentlessly pursued by that which is evil. We are being persecuted, not like perhaps those at Ephesus, I don't think anyone in America today is being put in jail, or having their property confiscated, but it could happen.

I mean, I think that we're seeing things heat up and warm up, I think that perhaps in our lifetime we will see some difficult things come, but here's what Paul's saying though, but when those things come, make the most of your time. Now here's what he is pursuing us always, from a spiritual standpoint, there's always, we have a real enemy who's always seeking to attract us from our faith and from following Jesus. When the disciples said Lord, teach us how to pray, we gave the model prayer, he said, and pray this, Lord, lead us not into temptation but deliver us from the evil one. Can I tell you the evil one's always after us, the evil one's always trying to get us to be distracted, deterred, discouraged, doubting, moving away from, utilizing our time in what matters the most.

So Paul says, use your time, right, manage your time, redeem the time because the days are evil. Can I tell you this, I've never seen the church in faith in such a precarious position as it is now in America. Listen to me, there's a generation that hangs in the ballots, because the levers today put more time, effort, and energy into things that don't really matter in a lot of eternity. What are we doing that really matters?

How are we spending our time in light of eternity? So Paul says, hey, walk circumspect, well that means to walk accurately, diligently, hey, be intentional in how you walk. That is, don't drift through life, don't waste your life, don't live on autopilot, like be intentional. When you think about it, second sermon of the year when the book of Proverbs, when Proverbs chapter two, and Solomon is writing to his son and he says, I want you to walk looking straight ahead.

Do not depart to the right hand, do not depart to the left hand. And I don't know if you remember this, but I gave a little illustration and talked about how my dad taught me how to hunt, and when we go squirrel hunting, I'd be walking right behind him and he would say, shh, step where I step, right? He'd take the step toe to heel. Don't step on the sticks, don't step in the bushes, don't trip, don't fall right.

Be careful, walk circumspectly, walk wisely. That's the way we walk in this world. That is, we gotta be intentional, we gotta be diligent, we gotta be careful in how we walk. Paul says, you walk carefully, and here's one of the things that you'll do, you can redeem your time.

You can make the most of it. And Paul gives a contrast here about people who walk, right? He says, you walk circumspectly, but don't do it as fool, do it as a wise person. And the difference between wisdom and foolishness is often seen in how a person spends their time.

And Paul encourages us here to redeem the time. The phrase redeeming the time literally means buying up opportunities. Hey, buy up opportunities. Hey, picture someone recognizing value and taking advantage of it before the opportunity disappears.

Our car paid deal, man, seize the day, redeem the time, make the most of it. So think about this. All of the things that God, in terms of, in terms of an opportunity that God puts before us every day, do we seize them? For example, opportunities to worship God.

Amen, son, comes up. Opportunity to worship the Lord. To serve others. How many opportunities throughout the day do we have?

Hey, God's given me an opportunity to serve someone, as a parent, to disciple our children, as a husband or wife, to strengthen our marriage, as a believer, to share the gospel, to grow in our faith, to grow in our faith, to grow in our faith, to grow in our faith. God gives us opportunities every day, and the question is, but do we seize them? Do we redeem the time? Do we make the most of every opportunity?

And the tragedy is that most people spend most of their lives investing in things that will not matter 100 years from now. And we've got to ask ourselves that question. What will matter 100 years from now? What is it that I'm doing in my life that really going to matter 100 years from now?

Can I tell you the list is small? 100 years from now, here's what will matter, your relationship with God. That's going to matter. Make sure you have one.

100 years from now, your relationships with your children and family and offspring, your relationships with others, even in this room. 100 years from now are going to matter. So here's what we got to figure out. Hey, what really matters?

Let's invest in it. Let's redeem the time. Let's do the things that count. Jesus said lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven.

But can I tell you that applies to more than just giving financially, because we preach that whenever we're preaching on giving. Like, oh yeah, I mean, you give, you're laying up treasure in heaven, but I tell you something, God's giving us more than finances to steward. He's giving us our time to steward. So what are we doing with our time?

What are we doing in terms of investing in eternity? So for parents, are you investing enough time in your children that God's entrusted to you? Because your children are stewardship too. You know what I'm saying?

You didn't create that child. You know what God told Jeremiah? Before I formed you in your mother's womb, I knew you. So when it comes to Sabrin and Jade, I was like, hey, Susan, look what we did.

God says, before Sabrin, I formed you in your mother's womb. I knew you. God entrusted Sabrin to us. God entrusted, jade, unto us.

God has entrusted you something to steward. Are you as a parent investing the time that you need to invest? As husband and wife, are you investing in your marriage? Were you building a career?

As students, we just had graduation Sunday, hey, are you preparing for retirement? Is that what your thought is? Man, I got to go to college, I got to go to school, I got to get a job, I got to prepare for the future financially? Or are you preparing for eternity for believers?

If God audited our schedule, what do you find is priorities reflected there? Hey, if someone picked up your iPhone and there's that weekly screen time report, you might use that screen time report, you know, the screen time tell you, hey, this week or something where you used your time on Facebook, here's how much time you put the Google, here's how much time you put to the Bible app, here's how much time you put to the South Union app. If you had a screen time report in your life and people could read the screen time report of your life, would God's priorities be reflected in your life? Would they see God there?

Would they see God's priorities there? Would they see kingdom agenda stuff there? Would they see, you know, investing your time and your family or would they see your life consumed with lesser things? Because here's the truth, we always have time for what we make time for.

I heard Craig Groschael say that, it's my ass, that's true. We have time for what we prioritize. Here's the truth. We make time for what matters most to us.

Now here's the thing though, you got to figure out what that is. What is it that matters most to you? And listen, it can't be the, hey, here's the theoretical thing that should matter most to me. No, no, no.

What is the real thing that matters most? And can I tell you how you figured out? Read the screen time report of your life. Because wherever you're putting your time, that is what matters most to you.

And you may find out that what matters most to you is worthless. It means nothing in light of eternity. So back to it, what's going to matter in 100 years. Whatever that is, that should be what's most important.

Where are we investing our time? Paul says, man, the days are evil. We're being pursued. We're being relentlessly pursued.

We have an enemy who is against us, most to distract us, be tractless, keep us away from pursuing our faith and following Jesus. Time is a gift. Let's steward it well. You know why?

Because it's short. Time is too precious to waste. The Bible gives us several descriptions of time. What am I about to share with you if you've been in a funeral sermon, you may have heard me share these things because from time to time, I will put these things into a funeral message.

Here's why, because at a funeral, someone's time just ran out. The last grain of sand has fallen from the top of the hourglass to the bottom of the hourglass. And therefore, a funeral message is a good time for us to think about our time. Our brother, our sister's time just ran out.

But what about me? What about my time? Here are four things the Bible uses to describe time. Number one time is short.

James chapter four verse 14. James says, what is your life? It is even a vapor. It is here just for a moment.

And then it's gone. Time, my time, your time is short. Scares. Matter of fact, the scares or something is the more valuable ideas.

Diamonds would be worthless if you could go down the side of the road and just pick them up like the pebbles. Anybody go down the side of the road and pick up pebbles? No. Why?

They're worthless. But they're people who get down in a hole, dig, get after it, in order to find a diamond. Time wouldn't be so precious if we never died. But we're never more than one breath away from eternity.

Therefore, we need to consider our time. It's short. James says it's like a vapor. It's like the fog on an early morning.

No sooner has the sun arisen. It's gone. I noticed something here lately. When I get up and I go to the window, I got a bunch of condensation on the outside of my glass.

And I was like, can I just build this house? You know, it's a new. And I got all this stuff. When I opened the window, I can't see out these early mornings.

And so I googled it yesterday. Like, hey, what's the problem with condensation on your glasses is this. It means your windows are energy efficient. If your condensation is on the outside, it's called nighttime glass cooling.

This just so happens to do point, it's just right. In order for the glass to cool in such a way that condensation forms on it. And so in the morning, I get up and I raise my blinds up. And I'm looking.

I can't see nothing. I'm looking for deer. I'm looking for wildlife. I can't see nothing.

But I need no time flat. Right? Sun comes up. I turn around.

Boom, it's gone. It's the way life is. Like, remember when I was a kid, my mom, she was a beautician. And as is the case every now and then, you've got to go to work with your mom for whatever reason.

But she's got to go to work. And you're with her. And she's got to take you. She worked at the lively set on Robinson Road.

And I can remember going in there. And lots of mirrors in a beauty shop. Got all those chairs set up. Every station's got a mirror, mirror, mirror.

And then there was this other section that had all of those chairs that the lady's sitting in. They still got those. And that thing comes over your head. And you're sitting in that hair dryer at the chair.

And I can remember they had all these chairs in there with those hair dryers. You know, women, they're in there. But at the end up against the wall, though, was a mirror. When you go to a dressing store, a department store, you try something on.

There's the flat angle. And then there's the side angle where you can walk up. I guess ladies could go and stand at the mirror. And then they could look over in the little cocked mirror and see what their hair was doing.

And look over here and see what their hair was doing. My name's Kid. I'm out of the board, right? So I'm going through all the coked machines and the candy.

And then eventually I'm making my way to the mirror. And I can remember as a kid walking up to that mirror and going, you know what happened, right? There was that little fog that shows up. And then it goes, it's gone.

That's life. God breathes the breath of life. It's gone. Time is short.

No matter how long a person lives, it could be a hundred years. In a lot of eternity. It's nothing. It's nothing.

You know, again, when you're 13 years old, time's dragging. And you're like, I can't wait till I'm 18 and I get out of this house. It's just going to be forever. When you're 60, you're five years, man.

I was like, yesterday. It's nothing. Time moves quickly. It's short.

But now it's passing. First John 2 17 says, in the world, pass it away. It's time never stands still. And this is what I say in that letter to the graduates.

There is no pause button. You can't stop it. You can't pause it. You can't freeze time.

You can't store time. Never stops. Every second we're moving. Time is moving from the future to the past.

Reminds me of way back in 1989. I'm driving my 1989 pickup truck and I'm listening to the judge. Flow on, river of time. I mean, it's just flowing.

It's going right past us. The calendar never stops turning. The sand never stops flowing from the top to the bottom until you're out of sand. But it never stops.

We want to use our time wisely, but even the best use of our time cannot put pages back on the calendar. It's time. It's passing. It's short.

It's passing. But number three, it's uncertain. Solomon writes in Proverbs 27 1, both not that I said but tomorrow because you do not know what a day may bring forth. Can I tell you this, that everyone assumes that the sun's going to rise tomorrow?

And I know that because people say it and they say it with such authority. I know this. Sun's going to rise in the east tomorrow and it might. But we'll be here to see it.

We need to be more like Garth Brooks if tomorrow never comes because it may not. The Bible warns us, do not presume upon tomorrow. Don't boast about tomorrow. You don't even know what today holds in store.

And every day we can go to the pages of Horn or Reader Davis. We can read the obituaries and you will see that this bears out to be true. There will be people who have passed away who will be 91 years old. And there are people who have passed away tragically who were 17 this past week.

It doesn't matter. We don't know. We know our date of birth. We do not know our date of death.

It is uncertain. We have no idea. We have no clue but we know this. It's short.

It's passing. It's uncertain. And number three or four, it's irreplaceable. Jesus said in John 9 verse 4, he said, I must work the work of him to send me while it's day because the night's coming when no man can work.

Can I tell you there's a lot of things in your life that are replaceable? You can lose it. You can get it back. You can lose your keys.

You can find them. Replacable. You can make up the difference. You cannot replace yesterday.

It's gone. And when today is gone, you won't replace it either. We live in a world that's full of undo buttons. I remember the first time.

When I went after college, all I knew was type on a typewriter. I never had a computer. And then I go to college, not even at TC. When I went to college at the University of Arkansas, they put you in a lab.

And it's like, here's your computer lab. I own a computer. So I had to just go and write these reports. So back then for me, it was a word perfect.

I got out of school and started a job. Me and my business partner, we used Microsoft. And so it was like a different word. But I use word every day.

And so, you know, if you make a mistake, there's a button called the undo button. And it can undo anything. It can undo what you type. It can undo what you deleted.

You didn't mean to delete. You just hit the button. Boom. It's undone.

Today, I didn't mean to send that message on Facebook messenger. I can undo it. I didn't mean to send the text. I didn't mean to send the email.

I can undo it. There's a lot of undo buttons in life, but there is no undo button for time. Once it's gone, it's gone. There's no changing, there's no going back.

You can't undo it. You can't redo it. Therefore, we must use our time wisely. You know, this week, Elon Musk, who was already the richest man in the world, became the craziest richest man in the world.

Not here, right, but crazy rich. He became a trillionaire on Friday. I don't think we really know what that means. You know how I know?

Because I typed in the word, I typed in the word trillionaire. It's got a red line under it. There's no red line under millionaire. There's no red line under billionaire.

No one ever thought the word trillionaire would become a word. But he did on Friday. A trillionaire. You know, you think about back in the days you watched a movie where a guy was lighting a cigar with a $100 bill?

And you're like, dude, you're just so stinkin' rich. You can light his cigars with money. Listen, Elon Musk could light his cigars with $10,000 bills. Five times a day, every day.

He never run out of money. Hey, we be like, that's crazy, talk man. You literally are setting $10,000 on fire. It's like, doesn't mean anything.

It's a trillionaire. If I can tell you this, there are things that we waste that are far more valuable than money. You know what it is? It's your time.

You know how I know that time is infinitely more valuable than money? You just can't buy it. Elon Musk could not buy 24 hours with all the money that he has. Time is our most valuable asset.

Got to manage it. Got to be stewards of it and got to do it wisely. Time is easily lost. It is irreplaceable.

Let's use it wisely. Number three, time must be accounted for. Romans 4, verse 12, verse 12 says, so then every one of you or us shall give an account of himself to God. You know, one day every person's going to stand before God.

Every person in this room. We're all going to stand before the Lord. And not only that, every person on earth and every person in history is going to stand before God. The lost will one day stand before God and answer for rejecting Christ.

The saved, however, are going to stand before God and answer how they stewarded what God entrusted to the Lord. And if you don't know Jesus as your Savior, let me try to encourage you that if you get saved, if you will put your faith, your trust in Jesus, that he died for all of your sin, and all of your sin was judged in Christ. Which means the good news is that one day as a believer, when you stand before God, you're not standing before God to have your sins judged. That's already done.

I can remember when I was a kid and I don't know. Sometimes creatures, I'm just being honest, right? Sometimes creatures try to manipulate people. Let's be honest with God's word.

Have you ever heard someone say this? One day you're going to stand before God and there's going to be a great video screen like as if there's video screens in heaven. And all your lives will be flashed on the video screen and everyone's going to see it. Praise God, no one's going to see my sin.

Shudged in the cross. But we will stand before God one day though and we're going to give him an account for how he stewarded what was entrusted to us. Our talents, our treasures, our time. You see, God has entrusted each of us with a certain number of years.

What are we doing with it? A certain number of opportunities, a certain number of relationships, a certain number of resources. And one day he's going to ask, what did you do with what I gave you? He's not going to ask, hey, how much money did you make?

Hey, how many possessions did you accumulate? No, he's going to say, what did you do with the life? You know, that one that's as short as a vapor, that one. What did you do with your time in the life that I gave you?

Wednesday night, I'm teaching through the book of Hebrews and Wednesday we were in Hebrews chapter 10, verse 19 down through the end of the chapter. I'll tell you about some tough stuff in there. And the author talks about, we are not of those who draw back unto predition. And the word, predition means a wasted life.

I'll talk to my class about that. It's possible to waste our lives. The surest way to waste your life is a believer. Draw back from the Lord.

He's got all these let us in there. Let us draw near with a true heart, full confession, having our hearts sprinkled with blood. Our bodies washed. And then he says, and let us not forsake the assembling of ourselves together as the man of some of us.

Let us hold fast the confession of our faith. That is our testimony. I need to preach that someday. Because there's a lot of us who aren't doing the let us.

Here's what it leads to. It leads to us trampling under our feet and counting worthy. I'm sorry, counting common, the blood of Jesus. And we do despite to the spirit of grace, the very one who saved us because we don't draw near.

We draw back, right? We waste our time. And when we waste our time, we waste our life. When we waste our life, we actually just goofball.

Jesus said this, if a man will save his life, he'll lose it. But if he'll lose his life, for my sake, he'll surely find it. That is, when we sacrifice, when we say, I'm going to live for the things that matter the most. He says, you're going to find out what true life is all about.

But when we don't live for the things that matter the most, the things that truly mean the most, waste our life. One day he's going to ask us, did you waste it? Should you invest it well? If you discovered today that you have one year to live, maybe go to the doctor and the doctor says, hey man, you've been diagnosed with, here's your time.

You've got one year left. Would your life change? Would you all of a sudden change what you do and how you spend your time? Newsflash.

It would. And unfortunately it would change mine too. If all of a sudden we found out, we got one year left, you know what we do? You're like, whoa, I better use my time wisely.

I spend more time with my family. I spend more time in prayer. I read my Bible more. I'd share the Gospel more.

The garage I'm holding against someone, let go man. Reconcile. I finally surrender to the will of God. Listen, if you would say, hey, if I knew that in one year I'm done for the last reign of God, I'm done for the last reign of sin, it's falling through.

I would change. Why wait? Because the reality is this, we don't know how much time we have. Even if someone said, you got ten years.

It's irrelevant. No one knows. So life is short. It's fast.

It's fleeting. It's passing. The wise response is this, man. Forget whether I know I'm going to be living a year from now or not.

Just use my time wisely. Here's the bottom line of the message. Wise people invest their time in what matters most because time is short. Eternities long and opportunities do not last forever.

I want you to think for a moment. You know, when you're sitting in front of your computer screen and you've got that spinning wheel, remember the spinning wheel, you know, this thinking is doing something. Remember back when windows had the hourglass, this one? Remember that?

It was an hourglass. It was a moment. Every person in this room, there's an hourglass over the top of our heads. We cannot see how much sand is in the top or the bottom.

We just know that there's an hourglass over every person's head. And the question, oh, well, I mean, here's what we know. While we cannot see the actual amount of sand in the top or the bottom, we can pretty much figure out that it's probably true that there's for some people more sand in the top and for some people more sand in the bottom. But the question that we want to consider, though, is every second, regardless of how much I have in the top, every second more grains of sand are falling through.

So what's important is in terms of questions, it's not how much sand do I have left, the question is what am I doing with the sand that's still in the top part of my hourglass? Because for me, here's the truth. One day, the last grain of sand is going to fall. It is.

And if you know that, you might be thinking, yep, yep, I understand that. The last grain of sand is going to fall. So here's what I've done. I've got me some life insurance.

I've already bought my funeral. I've already paid for it. I've written a wheel. Hey, listen, man, you haven't prepared for the last sand to fall for you.

You've prepared for the last sand to fall for the people you look. And listen, that's good. That's wise. That's not my question.

My question is what have you done to prepare when the last grain of sand falls? Because it's what we heard today in our Sunday school lesson from Amos. Prepare to meet thy God. For in one day, the last grain of sand is going to fall.

Are you prepared to meet God? If you've never trusted Christ as your Savior, I'm begging you, let today be that day. Paul said, today is the acceptable day. Let today be the day of salvation.

You must prepare for eternity in time. And I don't mean like, hey, you got to do it in the nick of time. No, I mean, you got to do it while it's temporal. Right?

We're living in the temporal, but we're moving through the eternal. And the only time to prepare for the eternal is in the temporal. So prepare in time. For those of us who know Christ, let us determine today that we're no longer waste the most precious gift that God has given us.

Let's redeem the time. Let's invest our lives in what matters most. Why? Because time is short.

Eternity is long. And opportunities. Do not last forever. This altar is open to you.

Brother Randy's going to come. I'm going to have you stand. We're going to prepare for him in the invitation today. Are you prepared?

You don't know how much sand is there. You don't. You know this. Every second the grains are falling through.

Every second the grains are falling through. Are you prepared? As an unbeliever, are you prepared to meet God? Even as a believer.

If you never put your faith in trusting Jesus, I'm begging you today. Let the day be the day. Put your trust in Christ. He has paid for your sin.

He will save you. He will restore you. He will reconcile you to God. But you've got to confess that you're a sinner who needs a Savior.

You've got to trust it. What he did for you on the cross of Calvory was all sufficient. And when you do, he will save you from your sin. Today, as we sing the song of invitation, God speaks to your heart.

This altar is open to you. You come and do business with the Lord today. As we sing you come. .