{"id":1268,"date":"2012-05-01T13:59:12","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T18:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1268"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:20:45","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:20:45","slug":"stewardship-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1268","title":{"rendered":"Stewardship of Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

John 4:31-38<\/strong>
\nThe Disciples went after food. He leads an outcast Samaritan women to saving faith while the Disciples were gone.<\/p>\n

I: “I have meat to eat that you know not of.” Vs. 32.<\/strong>
\n1. The Disciples misunderstood him.
\n2. They thought he meant physical food.
\n3. “My meat is to do the will of Him that sent me.” Vs. 34<\/strong>.
\na. This was as important as food.
\nb. To do the Father’s will was refreshing as meat.
\nc. A new height will be reached when the followers of Jesus put God’s will on equal footing with food!
\n4. “To finish His work.” Vs. 34<\/strong>.
\na. No half-hearted efforts that stopped while the job was unfinished.
\nb. Paul’s great joy at the close of his Ministry was that he had finished the course.
\n5. Spiritual work isn’t optional for God’s people; it is a command.
\n6. Jesus never counted it a drudgery, but a joy.<\/p>\n

II: “There are yet 4 months.”
\n<\/strong>1. “Four months from seed time to harvest.”
\nThis isn’t the right time; the seed has just been sown.
\n2. “There is yet 4 months before the harvest.”
\nPleanty of time, no hurry.
\n3. “The fields are already white.”
\na. Time marches on!
\nb. Harvest will not wait.<\/p>\n

III: Procrastination is a Thief of time and souls.<\/strong>
\n1. Some harvest wasn’t gathered last year.
\n2. Some classes were untaught.
\n3. Some homes were never visited.
\n4. Some precious grain was lost eternally.
\n5. Some workers rejoice, some sorrow.<\/p>\n

IV: Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow is ever in the future.<\/strong>
\n1. The harvest is ripe as our Valley.
\n2. The workers are few.
\n3. Harvest time means preparation and work.<\/p>\n

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Eccl. 3:1-8, Rev. 10:5-6, Hosea 10:12, & John 4:35
\n<\/strong>(70 times) “The string of beads” Dr. Faller<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Time is one of the most valuable things in the world. A dying man would give a fortune for 24 hrs. The engineer that races along the track, with a sense of danger, would give his wages for a little time. Grouchy was two hours late in starting to Napoleons aid, and Waterloo was Napoleon’s last battle. A watch was five minutes slow, and a prisoner died before the pardon arrives. Proper use of time would solve many of our social evils.<\/p>\n

Drummer “It was Friday night & we teachers had nothing to do.” S.A.P. <\/strong>10\/10\/1964.<\/p>\n

I: What Is Time?
\n<\/strong>1. It is but a fleeting moment swung between two eternities, the eternal past and the eternal future.
\n2. Not one moment of yesterday can we call back.
\n3. Tomorrow is forever in the future.
\n4. Time stood still for one man while he fought a battle for god; it rolled back as we know it has waited on no other man.
\n5. Time had a beginning and some day it shall end.<\/p>\n

II: Apollo Eight Ran on Man’s Appointed Time. Is God Concerned with Time? Time is No Respecter. All Have the Same Day.
\n<\/strong>1. “Pick your feet up on time & set them down in Eternity.”
\n2. God brought time into existence for His own purpose.
\n3. God made man for eternity, but sin made Him a creature of time.
\n4. The universe has a time limit. There shall be a new Heaven, and a new earth, the sun shall refuse to shine, and the moon shall turn to blood.
\n5. Every star, every planet, moves on a time table and they are never behind time or ahead of time.
\n6. God has set an hour when time shall stop and be no more.
\n7. We ought to budget our time wisely.<\/p>\n

III: Does God Reckon Time with Man? Time Is Everything for God.
\n<\/strong>1. From the minute sin came into the heart of Adam, man’s days have been numbered.
\n2. Sin has robbed man of eternity and cut down his years to three score and ten.
\n3. God reckoned time with Israel for 40 days spying the land for 40 yrs. in the wilderness.
\n4. For 490 yrs. He counted the time they robbed Him of and he sent them into captivity for 70 yrs.
\n5. God demanded one-seventh of their time, and one-tenth of their increase.
\n6. Wherever man robs God of time, there is a debt to pay.<\/p>\n

IV: Are You Robbing God of Your Time?
\n<\/strong>1. Procrastination is a thief of time.
\n2. Today is the wise man’s day.
\n3. Father, you will never have another day like today in which to teach your son.
\n4. Mother, the day will never come again with the opportunity to teach your daughter the ways she should know now.
\n5. Opportunities of yesterday are gone forever.
\n6. Your heart will harden by robbing God of time.
\n7. When your time has run out, what will you say to God?
\n8. Would I be happy for Jesus to inspect my time table of activity?<\/p>\n

The kings business requires haste.
\nHow many souls will never see flavor because Christians robbed God of time?
\nThe rich fool thought he had time.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Do we hope to give God the few fleeting moments? “We were late in reaching Peron.”
\nReaching people is not a question of convenience, but of divine compulsion!<\/strong><\/p>\n

10\/07\/1962: Perris Valley – Good: One joined, one saved.
\n11\/13\/1966: Perris Valley<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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