But Not Without God

Matthew 5:13-16, Mark 6:31, & Isaiah 40:28-31

I: Liberty Has Its Restrictions.
1. A vacation is liberty from the same old routine.
2. Definite Prohibitions:
a. “Flee from idolatry.” verse 14. Placing anything before God.
b. “I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.” No sacrifice to pagan gods.
c. The buying of meat that was a sacrifice to heathen gods.
d. All this that others might not stumble at our way of life.

II: A Vacation That Will Glorify God.
1. Means to make spiritual preparations:
a. A family prayer and discussion.
b. Bibles and periodicals.
c. Don’t use Sunday completely for travel.
d. Have a daily time of prayer and bible reading.
2. Don’t rob god. Financial plans:
  a. A vacation with money for bills due is bound to bring trouble.
b. We remember to make the cap payment.
c. Provisions are usually made for bills that are due.
d. Don’t take a vacation with God’s tithe.
The Lord’s business suffers every summer because one out of three use God’s money to take a vacation, etc…
3. Secure your position:
a. We make provisions for the dog, cat, bird, fish, lawn, milk man, paper man, etc…
b. Better than 50% make no provisions for the job God holds them responsible for.
c. A class without a teacher, a Training Union without a program, a W.M.U. or Brotherhood without leaders does not glorify God. and the
d. “Remember that God’s work is never on sin.” Peter 2 2:14.

Vacation and the church should not close her doors in summer. (Delano churches with no right services, and many churches dismiss prayer night).

III: But Not Without God.
1. Jonah took a vacation without God.
2. Lot took a vacation from God.
3. Abraham traveled much but always pitched his tent and built an altar.
4. Summer is a good time to find God and a good time to make Him known to others. We  dare not go without Him.

“Come ye yourselves apart write a desert place, and rest a while.”
Summer 1959, Jehazel.

I want to be a better Christian after vacation.
I want to have helped someone else to know him better.