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Speaker: We're gonna kick off a year
together, opening our Bibles of Psalm 90.

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So as I begin to open up the text,
I'd love for you to be there.

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We're gonna spend some time in Psalm
90 this morning as we kick off 2026.

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This is gonna be a year
of, of good things.

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You know, when I was younger.

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I thought I had a superpower.

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At least that's the way
my mom made me feel.

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We were looking at, I don't know, it must
have been a photo on the wall, an image

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at least, and the image was something
that you, you may not know the name of

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it, but I promise you you've seen it.

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It's a stereogram.

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We were looking at a stereogram, and I
looked at it maybe for the first time,

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I'm not sure, but I saw the image and
I was quickly able to see what it was.

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And people around me were
struggling, my mom included.

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And she looked at me and she
says, you're able to see that?

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And I said, yeah, can't you?

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I see exactly what's there.

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And she says, how are you seeing it?

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I don't know.

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I'm just looking at it.

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What are you looking at?

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Anyway, she, you know, gave me
some praise and probably motherly

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love and affection, but it was, I
didn't have a lot to boast about.

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So maybe she was like, alright, we'll
just try to help him out with this.

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You.

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You could see that?

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Yes, I can.

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That's fantastic, son.

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I'm glad you, that's incredible.

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Can you guys see this?

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And everyone around, at least
the few people that were there

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were saying, I can't see it.

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How are you doing it?

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I'm like, I don't know.

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I'm just looking at the image.

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Secret to the image is that you have
to kind of soften your focus and they,

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they encourage you if you wanna see it
for the first time, you get your nose

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really close to it, and then you kinda
slowly back away and then you can start

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to see the image pop out of the center.

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Uh, it turned out that
I'm not all that unique.

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Apparently 80% of you in
this room can see this image.

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Is that about right?

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No.

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About, no.

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Can you see, oh, you can't see that?

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I promise you.

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There is an image there, looking
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different from from looking at life.

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You look at the stereogram, it
takes a little, it takes a second

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or two to really see what's there
and, and it takes a bit of patience

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if you're not quick at the draw.

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But as you give time looking at
the image and you soften your

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focus, you back up a little bit.

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You start to see the image more
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the, the theory behind it.

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When you look at your life, one
of the challenges is that you

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only see it from one perspective.

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You're looking at your life
from the perspective of, I

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gotta go to work tomorrow.

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I show up to church on
Sunday, they start at 10.

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They're fairly prompt.

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I've got this thing to do on Thursday.

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I've got this meeting or this
doctor's appointment on Friday.

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And so it goes with the whole
of your life as a young person.

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You think about life and
time in terms of school.

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When is summer break?

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When is winter break?

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When is Christmas break?

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All those things.

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As adults, you suddenly absorb a lot
of responsibilities and you start

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to take on new, uh, things that you
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family and jobs and schedules and
family dynamics and all the like.

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The problem with this is that we get
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such that we forget what's happening.

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We lose sight of the context of
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the things that have to get done.

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We have these wonderful things
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which help us slice the day into
seconds and hours, which is good.

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It's good that we're all on the same time.

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That's how we can do church pretty
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But again, the problem with that is
that we begin to conceive of time

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only in our temporary understanding.

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What God wants us to see in this text that
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telling has to be looked at in both ways.

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We have to be able to look at the clock
chronologically and say, okay, this

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takes an hour, or this takes 20 minutes.

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But also to step back and look at the
clock seasonally and to say, how much

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time do I have with my life to spend
it the way God wants me to spend it?

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Some people call this big picture
thinking, looking at your life from the

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whole of it, and not just the slices
of time that you presently have In

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Psalm chapter 90, Moses is concerned
that we see life rightly, and of course

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rightly in Moses' mind is eternally.

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We have to see life from the
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perspective of what time of day is it.

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The challenge for most of us is
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a way to to do that very thing.

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We get sidetracked, we get distracted.

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The pace of life keeps us from spending
a lot of time in reflection, and what

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that ends up doing is causing us to just
go through life almost on autopilot.

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You're cruising, you're getting
things done, but you might be missing

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out on what's really happening.

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It's like looking at the stereogram.

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Yeah, there's a few people who can see
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but they have to take time to do that.

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They have to readjust their focus and
say, okay, what am I looking at here?

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Well, lots of people can look at
the image and and miss what's really

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there, and that's my concern for you
this morning, that you look at your

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life and miss what's really there.

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Miss the significance of what
happens day by day, hour by hour.

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Moses is gonna say in our psalm today,
verse 12 in particular, he's gonna say

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this remarkable phrase that I really
hope sticks with you not only today in

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this week, but the rest of this year.

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Should God Terry, and should he
give you the time to do this?

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If we get this right, we
live life really well.

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If we understand what the Bible teaches
us this morning about how to steward

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our time, we will make good choices.

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With the time that we have, we'll
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we're here to do and what we're
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a holy sense of urgency about it.

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We'll do life not hurried, but busy,
but we'll do life with a holy ambition.

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Not casually, not pa, not haphazardly,
but with a sense of awareness

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that we know what season it is.

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We know the picture
Christ is gonna return.

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He's gonna establish his kingdom.

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We just sang about it.

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He's the king of kings.

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He will establish his throne.

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And our job is to know what time
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no matter what the time of the
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We get a lot of life right?

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We get this wrong.

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We may find ourselves floating.

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Shifting through hour after hour
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the hours are and how fleeting and
temporary and transient they are as well.

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Psalm chapter nine is gonna help
us with that this morning, open

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your Bible, take a look with me.

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You'll see first of all, that
this psalm is called a Psalm,

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a Prayer rather of Moses.

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And so that would make this Psalm one
of the oldest Psalms in our salter.

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The book of Psalms is
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This Psalm begins book four, and what
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Moses' reflections after God had issued
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God to stay in the desert for 40 years.

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Numbers Chapter 13 and 14
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Very likely at least, and probably numbers
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Enter into the promised land,
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tribe to stake out the territory.

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The spies come back after 40 days and they
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milk and honey, you guys won't believe it.

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It's amazing, but we shouldn't go

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because there's scary things there.

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There's scary people.

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The villages are strong.

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The people are big.

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Let's not do this.

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And those 12 spies infect the
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And so they tell Moses and
Aaron, we're not gonna do it.

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We're gonna stay here.

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Far better for us to be destroyed in the
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Promised Land and be destroyed there.

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God is unhappy with this
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And numbers Chapter 14, he says, if in the
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In the wilderness, you will die.

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For any of you who are 20 years and
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of your life wandering aimlessly in the
desert until you die and die, you will.

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No one over 20 will step foot into
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And so Moses is now responsible for
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he will wander the desert with them.

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And approximately a million people,
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conservative here, a million people
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And if you take a million and
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looking at about 70 people a day.

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So Moses will see death after death.

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It will become a common, a common
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everybody else around Moses, Penn.

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Psalm 90 some point after that.

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Likely thinking about the brevity of life
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going to encourage us to do is to count
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That really is a summation
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But let me show you starting at
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and why it's important for us as
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Well, he starts in verse one saying
this, Lord, you have been our

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dwelling place in all generations.

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Before the mountains were brought
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earth and the world from everlasting
to everlasting, you are God.

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And so Moses now pauses and starts
by saying, look, in the midst

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of life and death from before,
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Lord, you are God.

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You are in fact the place
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You are a dwelling place.

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And this is fascinating because
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They had recently left Egypt because
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and they wandered the desert only
for a brief time by God's design.

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They were meant to go under the
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to make that their habitation.

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It was a land flowing with milk and honey.

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And Moses says, even though we were
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you who is our dwelling place.

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God, you are God.

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And we are not.

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You are our dwelling
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Uh, from the beginning of time
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at least on the earthly clock.

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You are our dwelling place.

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You are our God.

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It's a little akin to a, a statement
you might have heard in church history.

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Our souls are restless until
they find their rest in God.

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And this is what Moses is pointing out.

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No matter where we live, whether
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between, our home is not where we live.

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Our home is the Lord.

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He is our dwelling place.

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He is the one who our
souls take satisfaction in.

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That markedly points us away
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Even if you have a really nice home
and you have your dream place with

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all the cool accoutrements in your
home, Moses is pointing our attention

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to the durability of God himself.

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The only one for whom we
can say he is eternal.

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You and I are immortal,
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You know the difference?

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Immortal means you have a beginning,
but you do not have an ending.

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Eternal means you have no
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And so it makes perfect sense that Moses
would begin to anchor the Psalm and

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saying, look, you have to put your hope
in your help and your home in God himself.

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That's where you must start and
not in you, not in something else.

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So many times we make our dwelling
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Our dwelling place can be
our financial standing.

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Our dwelling place might
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Our dwelling place
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We put stock and trust in people.

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Our dwelling place could
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And yet, for Moses, he would
encourage us, encourage us.

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Your dwelling place should be the Lord.

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That is in fact what
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The Lord he says in verse two is timeless.

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He transcends time before the
mountains were brought forth.

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Think about the largest mountains
you can ponder in your mind.

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God is bigger.

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He is more reliable.

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He's more durable.

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He is more permanent than the most
permanent things we can often imagine,

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which in this case would've been
mountains before he had formed the world.

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He is God.

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We begin our time thinking
about time by recognizing the

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God who is outside of time.

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If you're going to live your life well
and make your days count, you have to

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start with God, and that starts with
recognizing your humble position.

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You are not God.

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You're not meant to be God,
and that is honestly freeing.

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God has given you limits a start
date and an expiration date.

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He's given you limits in terms
of what you're responsible

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for, and it's not everything.

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It is the things that he's given you.

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You're given limits by God's good design.

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This is a feature and not a bug as
software engineers often say, so

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point number one, I'm just gonna
put it like this, and know that your

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limits glorify our limitless God.

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Your limits are by his design.

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You're limited.

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You're not meant to find your
home anywhere else but the Lord.

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You're limited.

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You're not given a million years to live.

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Praise God for that.

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You're given a short life that is meant
to be highlighting his eternal life.

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Your home is God.

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Your help is God.

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Your limits point to
his limitless capacity.

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I've been working really hard
to get stronger physically.

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I go to the gym trying to lift heavy
weights, putting on all the calories.

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You know what I can to get stronger.

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It's not working.

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I, I've been trying really hard
ever since I was a teenager.

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I was, I was trying to do the
thing that all the guys were doing.

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There was this one guy named Ey, it
was his last name, not his first name.

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Toy was really strong and I thought,
someday I'm gonna be like toy.

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Two E in high school is still
stronger than me in middle adult life.

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I'm trying, and every time I try
to lift a heavy weight and I don't

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make it, I think, man, I'm just
gonna, it's gonna keep at it.

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I don't know if I'm ever gonna
get to where I want to be.

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Hopefully lifting two plates someday.

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For now, I'm gonna be happy
with my plate in a half.

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My limits remind me that
I'm mortal, not as strong.

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I don't.

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I may not even have the genes
to do what I want to do.

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I have limits, and those limits
are God defined and those are good.

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I have a limit I can't
see without glasses.

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At least not very well.

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That limit is a good thing.

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I praise God that I have glasses
'cause that surely helps my limits.

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Remind me I am not God.

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I can see partially he can see
fully and completely without trying.

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And God has vision, he has strength,
he has capacity that I don't

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have, and that's a good thing.

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Or sometimes we go wrong is that we
try to be responsible for things that

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God has not made us responsible for.

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We spend our time fretting and
worrying and being anxious for

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things that we have no control over.

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Isn't that true?

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We waste our time fretting over things
that God does not want us to fret over.

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We lose precious moments to
things that we ought not to lose.

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Time over.

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If you're gonna look at the stereogram
of your life and look at it rightly,

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you have to start by recognizing,
okay, the framing of this whole

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image is, I'm not enough, but God
is, I can't do it all, but God can.

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I'm not sufficient.

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He is sufficient.

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So I'm 90 reminds us that he is the
Lord and he alone is sufficient.

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What this should do for us is
help us to embrace our limits.

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It should help us to recognize,
I, I can't go all day, all night.

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I need sleep.

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I need rest.

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I need good food.

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I'm a creature and out to
honor my creatureliness.

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I need to take vacations.

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I need to do things that help my physical
constitution and my spiritual constitution

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do what I'm designed to do, which is
to enjoy God, to have him be my home.

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Jesus says in John 15.

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He says, look you, you can't do
anything in your own strength and power.

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He says, if you're going to be
fruitful, you must abide in me.

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If you abide in me and I in you,
he, it is that bears much fruit.

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Jesus says, God is our dwelling place.

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He must be the way that we think about
our time and our place in human history.

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Honor your creatureliness,
steward yourself.

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Stewarding your time means honoring that
you have a short time and your opportunity

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is to use that time for God's glory.

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By honoring your needs.

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I was reading a book about Dick Van Dyke.

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Uh, just one of those random books
that I just thought, this looks fun.

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I'll pick it up.

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It's a hundred lessons
from a hundred years.

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Do you know Dick Van Dyke's
gonna turn a hundred?

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He's already a hundred, I
think he's a hundred years old.

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He's incredible.

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And in the beginning of the
book, he talks about one of the.

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Experiences that he had in,
in one of the movies that he

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played, he played an old man.

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He was actually in his early or late
thirties at that time, but he put on

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makeup and he pretended to be an old man.

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He says, I took inspiration
from old people that I saw.

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So he moved in a certain way.

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He, he looked like an old man.

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He talked like an old man and he
was grouchy as sometimes old men

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are stereotyped, and he says,
I learned that there are some

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things I got right about that.

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He says, I'm not grouchy.

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He says, but my body does betray me.

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The things I used to be able to do
with great ease, I can no longer

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do, and two things stood out to me.

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One of the things he said is he said, I
can only spend about an hour with people

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before I'm exhausted and I have to go.

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I thought, well, why?

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That's terrified.

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Like I, I wanna be around people.

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I wanna love people, and he
can't spend more than an hour

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without losing his marbles.

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That's also another thing he talks
about too, says he can't remember

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anything in the short term.

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He says he really struggles to remember
things and then he said, I will as often

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as I can throughout the day try to steal
a nap because I'm tired all the time.

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He says Being a hundred is hard.

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You know, learning to manage your
body, which at one point used to

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be sprightly and energetic, is
now so incredibly challenging.

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And so he begins to reflect on
his whole life and some of the

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lessons that he walks away with.

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And I haven't finished
the book, so I can't.

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Recommend it to you, but at least
that part was really helpful for

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me to hear because you often don't
remember that time is wasting away

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and that we are limited creatures,
and this is again, by God's design.

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All of these features are meant
to point us to God himself,

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which speaks to the point the
features point us to God himself.

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Sometimes we, we can go about
our lives, thinking about us

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as being the, the center stage.

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Some of you know this, but I'm
just gonna tell you anyway.

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Uh, in high school, I
was in the drama club.

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That was my thing.

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I did football, so I, I I wasn't picked
on, but I did do the drama club, and

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one of the things I learned is that the,
the, the B players are really important,

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you know, the people that are on the
side of the stage, there's, they're

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doing a job to help the center player
look what they're supposed to look like.

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And so there's always the kid or several
kids who wanna be part of the team.

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And the best that they're gonna
get is you're gonna be a tree.

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We're gonna put you over here,
Johnny, and you're gonna be a tree.

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Just don't move.

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Right?

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Stay there.

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And a lot of us have a hard time
being okay with being the tree.

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Jesus is the star of our show, is he not?

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He's the star of our show.

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He's the one that should get
the glory, honor and praise.

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He's the one that the spotlight of
all human history points to our job

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might be to be a very good tree.

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Like you're not the point.

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From everlasting to
everlasting, he is God, not us.

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Now, our job is to contribute to
the star player getting all the

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glory and honor that he deserves.

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My limit as a tree is to glorify
the limitless star of the show.

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Jesus himself.

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Gotta be okay with that and recognize that
my life, I'm not gonna be able to do all

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the daring things that I hope I should
dare to do good things for God's sake.

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But I'm gonna do it with the eye tort.

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I wanna do this to make Christ look great.

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Be a good tree.

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Honor your limits.

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You are not God.

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God is God.

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And be okay with that.

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Take a nap.

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Recognizing God's God under control.

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Your life's not gonna fall apart.

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Honor your time by starting with the
perspective that this is about God,

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everything about your life is about God.

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And if we could start with that,
we we're in a really good place.

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Okay, these next several verses
are not gonna go that slow.

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I needed to give you the frame, the
context and point of reference, but

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now I want to, I wanna show you some
of the meat of where Moses goes.

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Verses one and two are really
the introduction to the Psalm.

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He starts with framing it.

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God is God, I am not.

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God can do what he wants to do, and
I'm here to support that, that show.

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But then he moves into the, the,
really, the meat of the Psalm, and this

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is where it can be a bit difficult.

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Follow along with me.

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Verses three through 12 will stop
at different points to take a breath

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and, and notice what we're looking at.

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He says, you return man to the dust
and say, return o children of man.

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That's a reference to
Genesis chapter three.

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The curse of sin is death, right?

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The wages of sin is death.

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Pulse says, and so he's saying about God,
you return us to the dust, you return us

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back to where we started, which is dust
death for a thousand years in your sight.

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Our, but as yesterday, when it
is passed or as a watch in the

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night, does God experience time?

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Well, yes and no.

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In one sense, he experienced that
he enters human history with us.

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Jesus, uh, we just celebrated a month
ago, became a man entering human

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history in a real, tangible way.

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Jesus experienced time from
the perspective of a human, but

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God himself transcends time.

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And that's what this verse is saying.

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God doesn't experience time
the way that you and I do.

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He interacts with it, but he is above it.

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He transcends it.

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And so as God, we're looking at
time, Moses imagines a thousand

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years in God's eyes is not a lot.

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It's kind of a drop in the bucket.

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Speaking of lots of people,
Moses says, are like a drop in

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the bucket in God's economy.

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That's Isaiah chapter 40.

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When God looks at time, it's short.

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When God looks at our lives,
those are also similarly short.

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Verse five, how short you sweep them away.

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That is humanity.

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You sweep man away as with a flood.

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They are like a dream, like grass
that is renewed in the morning and the

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morning it flourishes and is renewed
and in the evening it fades and with.

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Moses uses three images for
you to think about your life.

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Your life is like a flood and not a flood.

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Like a think of flash flood.

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A flash flood that moves swiftly, quickly,
reach, destruction, and goes along.

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That's kind of what Moses is saying here.

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Your life is quick like a flood.

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He says, your life is also like a dream.

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It's vivid, it's real.

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It's exciting.

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I had a dream recently
where I was arrested.

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And my L for me, I was in, it
was real like this was happening.

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I thought about like, what's
my church gonna think?

468
00:22:00,035 --> 00:22:01,205
Who's gonna take care of my fa?

469
00:22:01,865 --> 00:22:02,705
I was just, I was losing it.

470
00:22:03,275 --> 00:22:04,145
I was so upset.

471
00:22:04,145 --> 00:22:04,865
I was crying.

472
00:22:04,895 --> 00:22:05,825
It was one of those dreams.

473
00:22:06,155 --> 00:22:09,425
I was crying and then I woke up
from the dream and I realized

474
00:22:11,675 --> 00:22:15,065
it was a dream and I thank
the Lord that it actually, I

475
00:22:15,065 --> 00:22:15,815
don't even know what happened.

476
00:22:15,815 --> 00:22:16,865
I can't tell you what I did.

477
00:22:16,895 --> 00:22:21,035
I don't know, but it was terrifying
and I thank God that it was over.

478
00:22:22,055 --> 00:22:23,765
Our lives, Moses says are like that.

479
00:22:24,155 --> 00:22:27,575
They're fleeting, they're ephemeral,
they're quick, and, and if you're

480
00:22:27,575 --> 00:22:31,415
older than a few in your teenage years,
you, you know what this feels like?

481
00:22:31,745 --> 00:22:35,255
Life goes very quickly and it feels
to accelerate as you get older.

482
00:22:35,945 --> 00:22:36,845
Your life is like a flood.

483
00:22:36,845 --> 00:22:37,625
Your life is like a dream.

484
00:22:37,625 --> 00:22:38,975
Your life is like grass.

485
00:22:39,875 --> 00:22:42,935
Your life is short in that
it's fleeting like grass.

486
00:22:42,935 --> 00:22:44,075
It grows up in the morning.

487
00:22:44,315 --> 00:22:45,485
It goes away in the evening.

488
00:22:46,805 --> 00:22:51,125
Moses recognizes here that the transient
of your life ought to be noticed.

489
00:22:52,100 --> 00:22:54,590
It'll be noticed because he's
saying, and this is not accidental.

490
00:22:54,590 --> 00:22:57,110
This is what God is doing among humanity.

491
00:22:57,110 --> 00:23:01,250
Verse seven, we're brought to an
end by your anger, by your wrath.

492
00:23:01,250 --> 00:23:02,180
We are dismayed.

493
00:23:02,780 --> 00:23:06,200
You have set our iniquities
before you, our secret sins,

494
00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:07,190
and the light of your presence.

495
00:23:07,190 --> 00:23:11,180
Moses is pointing out the fact that
everybody dies because of our sin.

496
00:23:11,540 --> 00:23:12,980
It may not be your direct sin.

497
00:23:13,670 --> 00:23:16,550
That is to say that it's not because
you, you know, took the chocolate

498
00:23:16,820 --> 00:23:20,630
from the store shelf and hid
that and left that God kills you.

499
00:23:20,630 --> 00:23:24,440
It's not necessarily that,
but the wages of sin is death.

500
00:23:24,770 --> 00:23:29,570
And consequently, because all of us
have sin, both secret and open, God will

501
00:23:29,570 --> 00:23:31,460
deal with that by taking our lives away.

502
00:23:32,660 --> 00:23:36,080
Verse nine, for all of our days,
all our days pass under your wrath.

503
00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:38,990
We bring our years to an end like a sigh.

504
00:23:39,740 --> 00:23:43,610
The years of our life are 70, or even by
strength of, uh, by reason of strength,

505
00:23:43,670 --> 00:23:46,100
80, live 70 or 80 years at the most.

506
00:23:47,330 --> 00:23:51,800
Yet their span is, but toil and
trouble might live a long life, but

507
00:23:51,805 --> 00:23:54,800
the, but the longer you live, the
more you realize life is painful.

508
00:23:55,610 --> 00:23:59,240
Sin makes a big mess of things
If you live long enough.

509
00:23:59,975 --> 00:24:01,445
I always think about John MacArthur.

510
00:24:01,925 --> 00:24:04,200
He said once, and this there's
a lot of things that John

511
00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:05,460
MacArthur says that stick with me.

512
00:24:05,730 --> 00:24:08,430
But this is one thing that for the rest of
my life, I don't think I'll ever forget.

513
00:24:09,360 --> 00:24:13,860
He was asked in an interview, why are
you not as funny as he used to be?

514
00:24:14,190 --> 00:24:15,205
One of those, okay.

515
00:24:15,945 --> 00:24:16,165
Um.

516
00:24:17,925 --> 00:24:18,855
He answered it honestly.

517
00:24:18,855 --> 00:24:19,575
What a sincere man.

518
00:24:19,605 --> 00:24:20,235
He answers it on.

519
00:24:20,235 --> 00:24:22,935
He says, you know, it's interesting
because, because the guy was saying like,

520
00:24:22,935 --> 00:24:27,135
when you were young in ministry, you were
just so energetic and so humorous, and you

521
00:24:27,135 --> 00:24:30,525
just, you just so much fun what happened?

522
00:24:31,395 --> 00:24:32,385
And he answers,

523
00:24:34,665 --> 00:24:36,345
life isn't as funny as it used to be.

524
00:24:38,685 --> 00:24:40,275
And the older I get, the
more I recognize that.

525
00:24:41,625 --> 00:24:46,575
Life is full of pain and heartache and
sin and cancer and tragedy and accidents.

526
00:24:46,580 --> 00:24:49,725
You, you live to see a
lot of painful things.

527
00:24:49,725 --> 00:24:52,935
If you live long enough and that's
Moses' Point here, you live long enough,

528
00:24:52,935 --> 00:24:56,255
you're gonna see you might live 80 years,
but they're full of toil and trouble.

529
00:24:56,435 --> 00:24:59,315
Another thing Dick dang Dyke
says, he says, I've outlived

530
00:24:59,465 --> 00:25:00,755
all of my closest friends.

531
00:25:02,375 --> 00:25:04,955
He says, and it is as lonely as you think.

532
00:25:06,035 --> 00:25:09,545
Oh, I thought Dick needs to be in church.

533
00:25:09,825 --> 00:25:10,605
He's a church family.

534
00:25:11,325 --> 00:25:11,535
Okay.

535
00:25:11,715 --> 00:25:15,045
Side note, Moses is saying life is short.

536
00:25:15,105 --> 00:25:15,855
It's full of trouble.

537
00:25:16,785 --> 00:25:18,975
And then he says, our years are gone.

538
00:25:19,185 --> 00:25:20,415
We soon fly away.

539
00:25:20,955 --> 00:25:23,325
Uh, your life is so fleeting and lights.

540
00:25:23,325 --> 00:25:24,315
You're here, you're gone.

541
00:25:24,345 --> 00:25:26,475
And it, and people probably
won't remember you.

542
00:25:27,045 --> 00:25:27,675
Just think about that.

543
00:25:27,675 --> 00:25:30,525
You, you don't know the name of
your great, great grandparents.

544
00:25:32,550 --> 00:25:34,860
We spend a lot of time thinking
about what other people think about

545
00:25:34,860 --> 00:25:35,820
us, and that's not always wrong.

546
00:25:35,820 --> 00:25:39,240
You should think about the way
that you impact people, but often

547
00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:41,970
we let that weight influence our
decision making, and yet Moses

548
00:25:41,970 --> 00:25:43,200
saying, look, you're gonna fly away.

549
00:25:44,550 --> 00:25:47,190
And a lot of what makes you, you,
the things that you count very

550
00:25:47,190 --> 00:25:49,860
significant are are not gonna be
as important as you might imagine.

551
00:25:51,255 --> 00:25:52,815
This is why we gotta think
about what he says here.

552
00:25:52,935 --> 00:25:56,595
Verse 11, who considers the power
of your anger and your wrath

553
00:25:56,625 --> 00:25:57,855
according to the fear of you?

554
00:25:58,125 --> 00:26:00,255
Who considers the fear of God?

555
00:26:00,525 --> 00:26:02,505
Who's thinking about God as they should?

556
00:26:02,565 --> 00:26:06,390
Who's spending time concentrating
on what God has put us to do here?

557
00:26:07,165 --> 00:26:09,205
And what it means for us
when we stand before him.

558
00:26:09,445 --> 00:26:11,425
I don't think Moses is saying,
Hey, no one thinks about this.

559
00:26:11,425 --> 00:26:12,985
We don't ever spend
time talking about God.

560
00:26:12,985 --> 00:26:13,105
No.

561
00:26:13,105 --> 00:26:13,855
We come every week.

562
00:26:13,855 --> 00:26:15,385
We talk about God, we sing about God.

563
00:26:15,565 --> 00:26:16,885
He's not saying that we never do it.

564
00:26:16,945 --> 00:26:20,905
He's saying, really, who's spending
sufficient time adequately feeling

565
00:26:20,905 --> 00:26:23,095
the weight of my life is short.

566
00:26:23,305 --> 00:26:24,235
I'm gonna meet God.

567
00:26:24,295 --> 00:26:25,285
Am I ready for that?

568
00:26:26,590 --> 00:26:27,295
Am I ready?

569
00:26:27,865 --> 00:26:32,065
And I guess a question that you might
ask yourself is, if I knew I had

570
00:26:32,065 --> 00:26:35,935
a week left to live, what would be
different about my life this week?

571
00:26:37,110 --> 00:26:40,320
It is that kind of mental clarity
that gives us the ability to make

572
00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:45,810
decisions about what's most important
with our lives, and you'll find that

573
00:26:45,810 --> 00:26:49,980
that kind of clarity is enormously
helpful in making decisions daily.

574
00:26:50,550 --> 00:26:55,260
If I thought I knew I had a week
left, suddenly things are clear.

575
00:26:56,010 --> 00:26:58,290
The bills matter and I'm
gonna pay the bills, but my

576
00:26:58,290 --> 00:26:59,910
relationships matter far more.

577
00:27:01,470 --> 00:27:03,450
Getting to work on time
matters and I'm gonna do that.

578
00:27:03,450 --> 00:27:04,350
I may still go to work.

579
00:27:04,710 --> 00:27:05,280
I love my job.

580
00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:08,070
If I had a week left, I'd still
come to church, obviously,

581
00:27:09,120 --> 00:27:10,710
but now I have a different mo.

582
00:27:10,860 --> 00:27:13,140
Now I know with a fleeting
amount of time I'm gonna say

583
00:27:13,140 --> 00:27:14,580
things I may not ordinarily say.

584
00:27:15,300 --> 00:27:17,190
I'm not gonna be rude, but I'm
gonna say like, I care about you.

585
00:27:17,190 --> 00:27:18,540
Thank you for the
privilege of serving you.

586
00:27:18,540 --> 00:27:21,090
I mean, I'm gonna bear my heart to
people because I've got a little bit

587
00:27:21,090 --> 00:27:23,970
of time and I think this is one of
the points here that Moses is saying,

588
00:27:23,970 --> 00:27:25,530
who considers you're gonna face?

589
00:27:25,530 --> 00:27:26,940
God, are you ready for this?

590
00:27:26,940 --> 00:27:28,860
Are you ready to see your maker?

591
00:27:29,625 --> 00:27:32,415
Are you confident that your trust is
in Christ and not in something else?

592
00:27:32,415 --> 00:27:36,825
Is your dwelling place the Lord or is
it some other ephemeral manufactured

593
00:27:36,825 --> 00:27:38,265
thing that ultimately will fail you?

594
00:27:38,415 --> 00:27:41,535
Make sure your hope and your help
is in the Lord who considers the

595
00:27:41,535 --> 00:27:45,075
power of your anger or your wrath
according to the fear of you.

596
00:27:45,855 --> 00:27:46,845
Now, it gets really heavy.

597
00:27:46,845 --> 00:27:47,865
I'm not gonna lie to you here.

598
00:27:48,105 --> 00:27:49,185
This is a heavy section.

599
00:27:49,815 --> 00:27:51,945
Well stay with me though,
because this does turn and

600
00:27:51,945 --> 00:27:53,295
it turns in a surprising way.

601
00:27:53,685 --> 00:27:57,045
But before it turns, he says in verse
12, this is the one of the verses that

602
00:27:57,045 --> 00:27:58,875
I really wanted you to feel and hear.

603
00:27:58,905 --> 00:28:03,945
He says in verse 12, all of these
thoughts, all of these percolations,

604
00:28:03,975 --> 00:28:05,625
all the way he's thinking about God.

605
00:28:05,715 --> 00:28:06,195
Amen.

606
00:28:06,225 --> 00:28:12,135
And he says in verse 12, so concluding,
so teach us to number our days that

607
00:28:12,135 --> 00:28:15,435
we may get possess a heart of wisdom.

608
00:28:17,625 --> 00:28:22,035
One author says We number our years,
but it is wiser to number our days

609
00:28:22,035 --> 00:28:24,045
where we live one day at a time.

610
00:28:25,125 --> 00:28:26,295
Psalm 39, 4.

611
00:28:26,595 --> 00:28:27,465
David echoes this.

612
00:28:27,465 --> 00:28:31,995
He says, oh, Lord, make me to know my
end and what is the measure of my days.

613
00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:34,800
Let me know how fleeting I am.

614
00:28:34,860 --> 00:28:37,920
And when we think in these ways and
we recognize I have to do business

615
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:41,160
with God and my life is short, however
short, I don't know, but this creates

616
00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:43,830
a heart of wisdom, and I think what
he's getting at is that it gives you

617
00:28:43,860 --> 00:28:45,360
urgency and it gives you clarity.

618
00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:49,900
I now know my life is urgently
lived, not hurriedly, but urgently.

619
00:28:49,900 --> 00:28:52,840
There is a sense of awareness
that my life really matters.

620
00:28:53,260 --> 00:28:55,720
The insignificant decisions
that I make are actually far

621
00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:57,160
more significant than I realize.

622
00:28:57,520 --> 00:28:59,050
There's urgency and there's clarity.

623
00:28:59,920 --> 00:29:00,909
I know what I'm here to do.

624
00:29:01,450 --> 00:29:03,220
I wanna get that done,
and I don't wanna wait.

625
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:06,879
I wanna wait to reconcile
with my family or friends.

626
00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:10,690
I don't want to hold back in caring
for people that I really care

627
00:29:10,690 --> 00:29:13,930
about, my neighbors that have yet
to hear the gospel from my lips.

628
00:29:13,930 --> 00:29:15,159
Man, I'm not gonna wait anymore.

629
00:29:15,610 --> 00:29:16,570
I gotta week left.

630
00:29:16,870 --> 00:29:17,710
I got a short time.

631
00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:22,659
Point number two, I'd love for you to
feel this verse and live like you're

632
00:29:22,659 --> 00:29:24,940
running outta time because you are.

633
00:29:27,835 --> 00:29:30,985
What's challenging about passages
like this is that I can't tell

634
00:29:30,985 --> 00:29:32,245
you how much time you have left.

635
00:29:34,045 --> 00:29:38,545
You ever played one of those board games
where they have those hourglass timers?

636
00:29:38,845 --> 00:29:39,355
Those are fun.

637
00:29:41,365 --> 00:29:45,805
I've always wanted to get a really
obnoxiously large one or Nate's and

638
00:29:45,805 --> 00:29:47,070
Big, and then put it on my desk.

639
00:29:48,025 --> 00:29:49,945
If you come to my office,
you'll see that I have a skull.

640
00:29:50,125 --> 00:29:55,135
It's not a real one, but it's a skull
and it sits there somewhere in my office.

641
00:29:55,135 --> 00:29:55,705
I often move it.

642
00:29:55,705 --> 00:29:59,365
'cause if I don't, if I don't move
it, it just becomes background noise.

643
00:29:59,754 --> 00:30:04,585
I often will move it just to remind
myself, time is short, I'm gonna die.

644
00:30:05,215 --> 00:30:06,475
People at my church are gonna die.

645
00:30:07,014 --> 00:30:08,485
I need to take every day seriously.

646
00:30:08,605 --> 00:30:11,004
I can't afford to just
let another day go past.

647
00:30:11,845 --> 00:30:15,175
When you play a board game and you
pull out that sand timer, I want

648
00:30:15,175 --> 00:30:16,675
you to think about that sand timer.

649
00:30:17,409 --> 00:30:21,550
Like the duration of your life, you turn
the timer upside down, of course, and the

650
00:30:21,550 --> 00:30:23,230
sands begin to move from top to bottom.

651
00:30:23,500 --> 00:30:26,620
But the interesting thing about your
life's timer is that it's not that clear.

652
00:30:27,159 --> 00:30:29,500
In fact, it's totally not transparent.

653
00:30:29,980 --> 00:30:33,879
You can't see how much sand is
left on the top of your timer.

654
00:30:34,510 --> 00:30:35,590
You know that time has passed.

655
00:30:35,620 --> 00:30:37,840
You see the effects of it every
time you look in the mirror.

656
00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:42,340
But you don't know how much time you
have left, and that's Moses' point here.

657
00:30:42,430 --> 00:30:45,940
You, you don't know, 70 years,
maybe 80 by reason of strength.

658
00:30:46,390 --> 00:30:47,920
Teach us to number our days, Lord.

659
00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:49,210
Let us count each day.

660
00:30:49,210 --> 00:30:51,880
As it as though it really matters
because I, I just don't know when

661
00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:53,500
my last opportunity will come.

662
00:30:53,710 --> 00:30:57,370
I do know that someday it's gonna
be my last, and for most of us death

663
00:30:57,370 --> 00:31:00,340
doesn't make an appointment with
you to say, can, next Tuesday is

664
00:31:00,490 --> 00:31:02,020
gonna slot you in for two o'clock.

665
00:31:03,220 --> 00:31:04,240
Death just shows up.

666
00:31:06,190 --> 00:31:07,270
And we, we know that.

667
00:31:07,420 --> 00:31:11,530
We know that it used to be back in
the day that churches, when they had

668
00:31:11,530 --> 00:31:14,020
their buildings, in fact, some churches
around Texas, you could still see this.

669
00:31:14,050 --> 00:31:14,800
And I like this.

670
00:31:15,340 --> 00:31:17,230
I don't know that I can promise
we're gonna do it, but I do like

671
00:31:17,230 --> 00:31:23,170
the idea the church would be
parked behind a massive garden.

672
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:27,430
It's not really a garden,
actually be a massive graveyard.

673
00:31:28,450 --> 00:31:33,580
So you would walk to church between
Aunt Sally and Uncle John over there.

674
00:31:33,580 --> 00:31:35,800
You'd be walking past them every
day you went to church as you

675
00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:36,730
walk through the church doors.

676
00:31:36,910 --> 00:31:40,030
That's good because it tells
us, man, life is short.

677
00:31:40,300 --> 00:31:44,410
These saints that have gone before us
who have lived faithfully, I want them

678
00:31:44,410 --> 00:31:46,420
to remind me that my life matters.

679
00:31:46,420 --> 00:31:47,410
Every day counts.

680
00:31:47,410 --> 00:31:48,520
Every hour counts.

681
00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:49,210
I don't wanna waste it.

682
00:31:49,210 --> 00:31:50,650
I wanna live like I'm running outta time.

683
00:31:51,250 --> 00:31:52,870
I want the Lord to remind
me about these things.

684
00:31:55,150 --> 00:31:58,090
Remember your life is an
hourglass turned upside down.

685
00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:00,670
You don't know how much sand is left.

686
00:32:01,030 --> 00:32:03,100
If God gives you several years, fantastic.

687
00:32:03,100 --> 00:32:03,490
Praise God.

688
00:32:03,490 --> 00:32:04,480
Make those days count.

689
00:32:05,050 --> 00:32:07,090
But don't, don't bank on that.

690
00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:10,780
Don't bank on the 80 years Plan for it.

691
00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:11,770
Be wise about it.

692
00:32:11,770 --> 00:32:15,940
But James, the brother of Jesus
in the flesh reminds us you

693
00:32:15,940 --> 00:32:17,290
shouldn't make business plans.

694
00:32:17,290 --> 00:32:18,190
I say, I'm gonna go here.

695
00:32:18,190 --> 00:32:19,150
I'm gonna make a prophet.

696
00:32:19,150 --> 00:32:20,290
I'm gonna go over here and do this.

697
00:32:20,290 --> 00:32:22,060
He says, yet you do not know.

698
00:32:22,825 --> 00:32:24,235
What will happen tomorrow?

699
00:32:24,235 --> 00:32:25,375
He says, what is your life?

700
00:32:25,975 --> 00:32:27,055
Think about who you are.

701
00:32:27,415 --> 00:32:31,945
You are a mist that appears for
a little time and then vanishes.

702
00:32:33,145 --> 00:32:37,225
Instead, you ought to say, James says,
if the Lord wills we'll do this or that.

703
00:32:37,225 --> 00:32:37,765
We'll go over here.

704
00:32:37,765 --> 00:32:38,155
We'll do this.

705
00:32:38,155 --> 00:32:41,515
If the Lord wills, if he wants me to
live and do this or that, we'll do that.

706
00:32:41,515 --> 00:32:45,115
But otherwise, man, I'm trusting
the Lord to make provision for me.

707
00:32:45,115 --> 00:32:46,015
I'm gonna let him lead.

708
00:32:46,135 --> 00:32:47,185
I'm gonna make good plans.

709
00:32:47,185 --> 00:32:48,085
I'm gonna trust him to do it.

710
00:32:48,085 --> 00:32:49,135
But if it happens, it happens.

711
00:32:49,135 --> 00:32:49,730
And if it doesn't, it doesn't.

712
00:32:50,395 --> 00:32:52,710
I let him live, let him
teach me how to live.

713
00:32:53,210 --> 00:32:55,130
I guess, again, heavy sermon.

714
00:32:55,130 --> 00:32:57,050
I know I'm not trying to come down heavy.

715
00:32:57,050 --> 00:33:00,080
I want you to feel the, the,
the holy urgency and the

716
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:01,130
clarity that comes from this.

717
00:33:01,670 --> 00:33:02,930
A simple thing that you might wanna do.

718
00:33:02,930 --> 00:33:04,730
Just a, just a suggestion, just an idea.

719
00:33:05,210 --> 00:33:07,910
One way to think about this is to start,
okay, you probably can't see this.

720
00:33:07,910 --> 00:33:09,050
It doesn't matter that you can't see it.

721
00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:12,050
What is important here is that you have
some way of reflecting on your life.

722
00:33:12,795 --> 00:33:16,155
If you know that time is of the
essence and that life is fleeting

723
00:33:16,155 --> 00:33:18,105
and your time is short, then I wanna
make sure that I'm living well.

724
00:33:18,105 --> 00:33:18,975
Well, how do I do that?

725
00:33:19,155 --> 00:33:22,455
I have to find time throughout
my week to say, how am I doing?

726
00:33:22,995 --> 00:33:23,595
What's happening?

727
00:33:23,625 --> 00:33:24,615
What's working in my life?

728
00:33:24,615 --> 00:33:25,335
What's not working?

729
00:33:25,485 --> 00:33:28,335
How's my relationship with my
kids, my spouse, my employer?

730
00:33:28,455 --> 00:33:29,625
How's my life going?

731
00:33:30,315 --> 00:33:32,595
Am I doing well behind,
uh, with my neighbors?

732
00:33:32,775 --> 00:33:33,645
Am I serving them well?

733
00:33:33,735 --> 00:33:36,735
You have to find time to ask
yourself questions, and you have

734
00:33:36,735 --> 00:33:37,755
to know what you're aiming at.

735
00:33:37,995 --> 00:33:40,155
Uh, I, I got from a, you
can't see this either.

736
00:33:40,155 --> 00:33:40,784
Again, not important.

737
00:33:41,285 --> 00:33:44,615
You gotta have a vision for your life
that says, I know what I'm here to do.

738
00:33:45,005 --> 00:33:47,435
Death clarifies what you're
here and what you're about.

739
00:33:47,915 --> 00:33:51,515
If my life is ephemeral and fleeting
and yet the next life is permanent and

740
00:33:51,515 --> 00:33:55,175
enduring, I wanna be ready for that by
asking myself, what's my life about?

741
00:33:55,925 --> 00:33:56,705
What am I here for?

742
00:33:57,260 --> 00:33:59,750
And I'm not saying you need to
become a pastor or a missionary.

743
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:01,610
Certainly that's not everybody's call.

744
00:34:01,639 --> 00:34:04,580
God has called some of you to be
accountants and lawyers and doctors

745
00:34:04,580 --> 00:34:06,200
and fast food counter employee.

746
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:09,080
Whatever you're doing, God has
called you to do your vocation,

747
00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:10,400
to his glory and his honor.

748
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:10,909
Praise God.

749
00:34:10,909 --> 00:34:15,080
Do those things, but at least in
your understanding of what God

750
00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:17,600
has given you to do, you have to
think about, what am I here to do?

751
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:18,440
What's my life about?

752
00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:19,310
What's the target?

753
00:34:20,179 --> 00:34:24,020
I've read books where business type
books where they say, make sure that

754
00:34:24,020 --> 00:34:25,820
when you climb the corporate ladder.

755
00:34:26,375 --> 00:34:30,395
That the ladder is leaning against the
right building and don't live your whole

756
00:34:30,395 --> 00:34:36,034
life pursuing the whatever it is, only
to realize, oh, I didn't wanna get here.

757
00:34:36,185 --> 00:34:36,935
It's not what I wanted.

758
00:34:37,655 --> 00:34:39,395
What I really want is
to live for God's glory.

759
00:34:39,784 --> 00:34:43,534
I wanna do this in the in, in the right
way possible and the best way possible.

760
00:34:43,534 --> 00:34:45,605
And that means I have to
feel my sense of urgency.

761
00:34:46,175 --> 00:34:48,485
I don't wanna put off till
tomorrow what can be done today.

762
00:34:49,175 --> 00:34:51,905
Ephesians chapter five, Paul
says, look carefully then how you

763
00:34:51,905 --> 00:34:54,034
walk, not as unwise, but as wise.

764
00:34:55,100 --> 00:34:59,540
Making the best use of the
time because the days are evil.

765
00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:03,440
Think about the way that he phrases
that making the best use of the

766
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:08,240
time the best use best puts us in
the realm, not of right and wrong.

767
00:35:09,110 --> 00:35:12,320
Right best tells us good, better, best.

768
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:15,140
So we're not talking anymore about
saying, is this sin or righteousness?

769
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:17,660
Paul is saying, make the best use
of the time, which tells us it's

770
00:35:17,660 --> 00:35:19,190
a matter of wisdom and judgment.

771
00:35:19,190 --> 00:35:23,180
Now, whether you go to this party
or whether you go and move over to

772
00:35:23,180 --> 00:35:26,960
California or something else, it's
a matter of making a godly decision.

773
00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:30,290
You make the best decision according
to what God has put in his word.

774
00:35:30,530 --> 00:35:34,040
Your job is to discern the best
use of your time according to

775
00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:36,230
how God has given you your life.

776
00:35:36,230 --> 00:35:36,950
So here's what I mean by that.

777
00:35:36,980 --> 00:35:37,700
Let's say for instance.

778
00:35:38,315 --> 00:35:39,095
You're a new mom.

779
00:35:39,335 --> 00:35:40,085
You had a baby.

780
00:35:40,265 --> 00:35:42,545
You're, you're in month
three of that new baby.

781
00:35:42,665 --> 00:35:43,955
You're probably not sleeping a lot.

782
00:35:43,955 --> 00:35:45,245
You're probably doing all sorts of things.

783
00:35:45,245 --> 00:35:47,495
Your, your, your hair
is not put away anymore.

784
00:35:47,735 --> 00:35:48,665
You're barely eating.

785
00:35:48,665 --> 00:35:49,865
You're eating when your child eats.

786
00:35:50,015 --> 00:35:52,205
You're just, you're
frantic all over the place.

787
00:35:53,795 --> 00:35:55,895
I'm not talking to that mom and
saying, Hey, you should be reading

788
00:35:55,895 --> 00:35:57,155
your Bible every three hours.

789
00:35:57,155 --> 00:35:58,235
You should be memorizing scripture.

790
00:35:58,235 --> 00:35:58,805
You should be praying.

791
00:35:58,805 --> 00:36:00,095
I mean, I'm gonna say, Hey, do what?

792
00:36:00,125 --> 00:36:03,005
Do what God gives you the ability
to do, but honor the season.

793
00:36:03,005 --> 00:36:04,325
Make the best use of the time.

794
00:36:04,775 --> 00:36:06,100
Can you listen to the
Bible instead of read it?

795
00:36:06,980 --> 00:36:07,490
That's good.

796
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:08,270
That's fine.

797
00:36:08,910 --> 00:36:09,990
Can, can you make it to church?

798
00:36:09,990 --> 00:36:10,920
I'd like, would like to see you there.

799
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:12,600
Your church family would
like for you to be there.

800
00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:13,710
That's a good thing.

801
00:36:13,710 --> 00:36:14,670
You should prioritize that.

802
00:36:16,065 --> 00:36:18,525
But I think we, you also, when you're
making the best use of the time,

803
00:36:18,555 --> 00:36:21,045
it does mean that you have to think
about, well, what season am I in?

804
00:36:21,765 --> 00:36:23,085
What's happening in my life?

805
00:36:23,415 --> 00:36:26,385
Am I an empty nester where I have
a lot more opportunity to serve?

806
00:36:26,475 --> 00:36:30,825
Or am I a, a growing family with three
kids and I have kids to look after?

807
00:36:31,245 --> 00:36:34,095
Am I in graduate school and now
I'm having to study more things?

808
00:36:34,095 --> 00:36:35,415
Am I running a business?

809
00:36:35,415 --> 00:36:38,025
If I'm running a business, my
time is less my own than if I were

810
00:36:38,025 --> 00:36:39,285
just employed in the business.

811
00:36:39,315 --> 00:36:41,445
If I'm employed in the business, I
have a little more free time after

812
00:36:41,445 --> 00:36:42,975
work, I have more opportunity.

813
00:36:43,215 --> 00:36:46,875
You gotta look at your season of life and
make decisions as to what is the best use.

814
00:36:47,025 --> 00:36:48,945
So when I say live, like
you're running at a time.

815
00:36:49,065 --> 00:36:52,215
When I say teach us to number our days
that we may get a heart of wisdom.

816
00:36:52,395 --> 00:36:55,365
Wisdom is not a matter of right
and wrong so much as it is a, a

817
00:36:55,365 --> 00:36:56,925
question of good, better, and best.

818
00:36:57,495 --> 00:36:58,545
And you have to decide that.

819
00:36:58,815 --> 00:37:01,605
You have to know what am I aiming
for and how do I get there.

820
00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:04,799
If my, my goal is to, I
wanna raise a godly family.

821
00:37:04,799 --> 00:37:06,210
I wanna be godly in my business.

822
00:37:06,210 --> 00:37:09,060
I want people to know that my
business is to glorify God.

823
00:37:09,180 --> 00:37:10,500
Well then I, those are my targets.

824
00:37:10,500 --> 00:37:13,140
I have to aim for that with shrewd wisdom.

825
00:37:14,069 --> 00:37:15,359
Can't just assume that it's gonna happen.

826
00:37:15,359 --> 00:37:17,310
I have to trust that God's
gonna use me for those things,

827
00:37:17,310 --> 00:37:18,210
and I'm gonna aim at that.

828
00:37:18,710 --> 00:37:20,600
This requires you to
constantly review your life.

829
00:37:20,630 --> 00:37:21,590
There's just no way around it.

830
00:37:21,620 --> 00:37:22,850
You have to think about your life.

831
00:37:23,720 --> 00:37:27,320
That's why the words that we're
memorizing together as a church is.

832
00:37:27,980 --> 00:37:30,830
Let us consider how to
stir up one another.

833
00:37:31,220 --> 00:37:32,780
That word consider is important.

834
00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:34,940
It means I'm actively thinking about it.

835
00:37:34,940 --> 00:37:37,070
I'm not just going like
a bull in a China shop.

836
00:37:37,070 --> 00:37:40,640
I am considering how to stir up
all of us to love and good deeds.

837
00:37:41,240 --> 00:37:42,860
That's not just the pastor's job.

838
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:46,250
It is certainly his job,
but it's also yours.

839
00:37:46,430 --> 00:37:49,160
It is our shared responsibility
to consider how to stir up one

840
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:50,270
another to loving good deeds.

841
00:37:50,390 --> 00:37:54,800
And when we do that well, we provoke one
another in all the best ways possible.

842
00:37:56,615 --> 00:37:57,785
Live like you're running outta time.

843
00:37:57,965 --> 00:38:00,065
Think about the way that
you're using your time audit.

844
00:38:01,115 --> 00:38:07,025
Consider it and when you do this,
this helps us to, in some ways defy

845
00:38:07,205 --> 00:38:11,285
the temporary nature of our lives
because it shows the Lord, I'm

846
00:38:11,285 --> 00:38:12,425
ready if you come and take me this.

847
00:38:12,425 --> 00:38:17,765
Become ready, living to the best of
my ability by faith in Christ and

848
00:38:17,765 --> 00:38:18,875
let the chips fall where they will.

849
00:38:19,775 --> 00:38:21,035
He might bless my business.

850
00:38:21,305 --> 00:38:22,445
He might bankrupt us.

851
00:38:23,255 --> 00:38:25,415
He might give us a long and healthy life.

852
00:38:25,415 --> 00:38:29,825
He might give one of us
paralysis quadriplegia.

853
00:38:30,065 --> 00:38:32,285
Before I came out to Texas, I
was making these grand plans

854
00:38:32,285 --> 00:38:33,155
about what I was gonna do here.

855
00:38:33,875 --> 00:38:36,815
Lord, thank you for giving me an
opportunity to work planting a church.

856
00:38:36,815 --> 00:38:37,865
I can't wait to do this.

857
00:38:38,165 --> 00:38:39,395
I'm gonna be the worship leader.

858
00:38:39,395 --> 00:38:40,295
It's gonna be so good.

859
00:38:40,715 --> 00:38:44,045
The Lord paralyzed half
a V accord in my life.

860
00:38:44,525 --> 00:38:45,305
He paralyzed me.

861
00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:47,480
Literally paralyzed my vocal cord.

862
00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:51,590
I lost my voice after getting sick and I
thought, okay, this will kind of go away.

863
00:38:51,830 --> 00:38:53,090
And the Lord said, no, it's not.

864
00:38:53,780 --> 00:38:57,680
You can't quite hear it probably,
but I partial, my left vocal

865
00:38:57,680 --> 00:38:59,000
cord is partially paralyzed.

866
00:38:59,570 --> 00:39:01,220
Which doesn't affect me a whole lot.

867
00:39:01,250 --> 00:39:05,210
I don't, I can't park in the
handicap spot, but it does bother me.

868
00:39:05,210 --> 00:39:06,920
And I thought, oh Lord, I
was doing this for your sake.

869
00:39:07,220 --> 00:39:08,390
What do you slow me down?

870
00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:11,120
And the Lord does what the Lord does,
and our job is to say, okay, whatever

871
00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:14,120
you want, Lord, I'll use whatever you
give me to honor the to honor you.

872
00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:17,390
The only way that I can make
the best use of the time.

873
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:18,260
Audit your time.

874
00:39:18,260 --> 00:39:21,230
Think about the way that God has
gifted you, your season, your

875
00:39:21,230 --> 00:39:26,750
time, and let him lead you as as
he sees fit, because time is short.

876
00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:33,860
And when you kill time, a w Towser said,
remember that it has no resurrection.

877
00:39:34,820 --> 00:39:36,320
Time is of the essence.

878
00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:37,340
Okay.

879
00:39:37,970 --> 00:39:40,460
I wanna show you these last few
verses because it really turns.

880
00:39:41,915 --> 00:39:43,535
We need the right perspective about time.

881
00:39:43,535 --> 00:39:44,825
That's where God enters the picture.

882
00:39:45,125 --> 00:39:48,515
He helps us define the right priorities,
which is to tell us number our

883
00:39:48,515 --> 00:39:51,725
days, examine your time, and then
now we move to the right response.

884
00:39:51,725 --> 00:39:54,245
Okay, I have the right priorities,
I have the right perspective.

885
00:39:54,245 --> 00:39:55,865
Now I'm gonna have the
right response to God.

886
00:39:56,165 --> 00:39:59,885
And what this, what this prayer of
Moses has led us to so far might lead

887
00:39:59,885 --> 00:40:01,235
you to feeling a bit of resignation.

888
00:40:01,235 --> 00:40:02,285
Well, if that's all life is'.

889
00:40:02,795 --> 00:40:03,815
I, what am I gonna do then?

890
00:40:03,815 --> 00:40:05,915
I can't define, God's gonna
do what God's gonna do.

891
00:40:06,095 --> 00:40:07,115
I'm just gonna go through life.

892
00:40:07,235 --> 00:40:08,375
And whatever he does is what he does.

893
00:40:08,825 --> 00:40:14,285
But Moses interestingly turns the, the
Psalm into almost a celebratory psalm.

894
00:40:14,615 --> 00:40:17,165
He's petitioning God now for
saying, uh, saying to God,

895
00:40:17,165 --> 00:40:18,245
please help me with these things.

896
00:40:18,245 --> 00:40:19,325
Help us.

897
00:40:19,805 --> 00:40:22,205
But there's, there's something of,
as one preacher put in a note of

898
00:40:22,205 --> 00:40:24,065
triumph here it's not resignation.

899
00:40:24,500 --> 00:40:25,070
There's more here.

900
00:40:25,070 --> 00:40:25,610
Take a look.

901
00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:28,910
Starting at verse 13,
he says, return to us.

902
00:40:28,910 --> 00:40:32,060
Oh Lord, how long have
pity on your servants?

903
00:40:32,300 --> 00:40:35,120
He's asking God to show up with favor.

904
00:40:35,150 --> 00:40:36,560
He's not saying God disappeared on them.

905
00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:41,660
He's saying, please show, uh, show
mercy relent relent against us.

906
00:40:41,720 --> 00:40:47,300
Help us to love you well, verse
14, satisfy us in the morning with

907
00:40:47,300 --> 00:40:52,430
your steadfast love that we may
rejoice and be glad all our days.

908
00:40:53,945 --> 00:40:57,185
You, this almost doesn't make sense.

909
00:40:58,415 --> 00:40:59,135
It almost doesn't make sense.

910
00:40:59,135 --> 00:41:01,505
Satisfies in the morning with
your steadfast love doesn't feel

911
00:41:01,505 --> 00:41:04,175
like it fits in all the thrust
that Moses just went through.

912
00:41:04,175 --> 00:41:06,755
But what what it, what it does
tell us here is that in Moses'

913
00:41:06,755 --> 00:41:09,695
perspective, God's steadfast love
and his judgment are not at odds.

914
00:41:10,805 --> 00:41:13,775
They're not different in the sense
that they come from a different deity.

915
00:41:13,925 --> 00:41:15,845
You have an angry God and
then you have a loving God.

916
00:41:15,995 --> 00:41:18,035
You have the Old Testament God, and
then you have the New Testament.

917
00:41:18,035 --> 00:41:21,095
Jesus who is gentle, meek, and
mild, he's saying no, God's love

918
00:41:21,095 --> 00:41:24,875
and his justice all work together
in one singular person called God.

919
00:41:24,995 --> 00:41:27,575
And so he says, show
us your steadfast love.

920
00:41:27,575 --> 00:41:28,805
Satisfy us.

921
00:41:28,865 --> 00:41:31,175
And that honestly is part of the
problem of our human condition.

922
00:41:31,295 --> 00:41:34,535
We are far too often satisfied
with things that are not bred.

923
00:41:35,180 --> 00:41:39,710
We feast on things that empty our
soul as opposed to satisfy our soul.

924
00:41:39,860 --> 00:41:43,400
And so Moses says, Lord, in the
morning, beginning of my day, maybe

925
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:46,880
even the, the early hours of my
life, satisfy me with your love.

926
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:48,560
Let me understand who you are.

927
00:41:48,710 --> 00:41:51,380
Feast on Christ and let
him be my all in all.

928
00:41:52,055 --> 00:41:53,195
Let him be my dwelling place.

929
00:41:53,345 --> 00:41:55,655
Satisfy me with your steadfast love.

930
00:41:56,345 --> 00:41:57,275
And then he goes further.

931
00:41:57,545 --> 00:42:00,905
Even though life is full of pain and
heartache and sin, he says that we

932
00:42:00,905 --> 00:42:03,035
may rejoice and be glad all our days.

933
00:42:03,155 --> 00:42:05,495
This is a direct defiance
against the curse of sin.

934
00:42:05,495 --> 00:42:08,405
He's saying, God, be gracious,
and even though life is hard,

935
00:42:08,585 --> 00:42:10,295
let us rejoice in your goodness.

936
00:42:10,505 --> 00:42:12,725
Let us love what you are doing.

937
00:42:13,835 --> 00:42:14,585
Let us trust you.

938
00:42:15,335 --> 00:42:18,040
Verse 15, make us glad for as many
days as you have afflicted us.

939
00:42:18,830 --> 00:42:20,360
There's no denial of reality.

940
00:42:20,690 --> 00:42:22,790
He's saying, we know
you're, you afflict us.

941
00:42:22,790 --> 00:42:26,900
You bring difficulty into our lives,
but make us glad for as many days and

942
00:42:26,900 --> 00:42:30,980
as many years as we have seen evil,
help us to rejoice even at the dark

943
00:42:31,010 --> 00:42:33,020
providences that you bring into our lives.

944
00:42:33,650 --> 00:42:35,750
Help us to love you even
though things don't go well.

945
00:42:37,370 --> 00:42:42,170
Verse 16, let your work be shown to
your servants and let your glorious

946
00:42:42,170 --> 00:42:43,700
power be shown to their children.

947
00:42:43,970 --> 00:42:47,570
This is so provocative because it
tells us that we're often blind.

948
00:42:47,775 --> 00:42:49,155
I, I like the way one preacher put it.

949
00:42:49,155 --> 00:42:53,265
He says, God is often doing
10,000 things in your life, which

950
00:42:53,265 --> 00:42:57,675
of course is an understatement,
and you're aware of maybe three.

951
00:42:58,755 --> 00:43:01,065
You see the activity of God in your life.

952
00:43:01,065 --> 00:43:04,395
You see some of the things that
he's doing, but you miss all of the

953
00:43:04,395 --> 00:43:07,425
billions upon billions of things
that he's doing at any moment.

954
00:43:07,455 --> 00:43:09,165
And so Moses prays, let us see that.

955
00:43:09,945 --> 00:43:12,285
Let your work be shown to your servants.

956
00:43:12,285 --> 00:43:15,440
Help us to be spectators to
the work that you're doing.

957
00:43:17,985 --> 00:43:20,235
Let your glorious power be
shown to their children.

958
00:43:21,015 --> 00:43:22,965
Moses is preying on behalf of his people.

959
00:43:23,265 --> 00:43:24,820
Let the children see God's faithfulness.

960
00:43:26,985 --> 00:43:27,615
Verse 17.

961
00:43:27,615 --> 00:43:30,465
Let the favor of the the
Lord our God be upon us and

962
00:43:30,465 --> 00:43:31,905
establish the work of our hands.

963
00:43:31,935 --> 00:43:33,615
Yes, establish the work of our hands.

964
00:43:33,615 --> 00:43:35,865
He's asking God, let
your grace be upon us.

965
00:43:36,015 --> 00:43:37,575
Help us to make life successful.

966
00:43:37,785 --> 00:43:40,755
Let us intend to do the right
things, but we rely on you.

967
00:43:40,755 --> 00:43:41,385
We can't do it.

968
00:43:41,385 --> 00:43:43,665
We can't even see what needs
to be seen apart from your.

969
00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:46,630
Your care and concern, and so
he's asking God for the, for

970
00:43:46,630 --> 00:43:47,740
the people, a man of prayer.

971
00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:49,060
Please bless my people.

972
00:43:49,180 --> 00:43:51,280
Help my people know you,
love you, trust you.

973
00:43:51,370 --> 00:43:54,790
Help them be satisfied in your
love, not in the sinful things that

974
00:43:54,790 --> 00:43:56,200
are, are ephemeral and fleeting.

975
00:43:56,290 --> 00:43:58,240
Let us love and trust and honor you.

976
00:43:59,310 --> 00:44:01,470
This is the heart of Moses for his people.

977
00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:04,590
And this ought to help us
recognize what our job is.

978
00:44:04,590 --> 00:44:07,020
Now, the perspective God's
eternal my life is short.

979
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:10,710
The priorities I need to set my life on,
doing the, the things that I can while

980
00:44:10,710 --> 00:44:12,360
I still have time, number, my days.

981
00:44:12,690 --> 00:44:13,380
Time is short.

982
00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:14,220
I want a wise heart.

983
00:44:14,250 --> 00:44:17,580
And now Moses shows us what it looks
like to go to the Lord and see here's my

984
00:44:17,580 --> 00:44:20,310
life, Lord I I long to do good with it.

985
00:44:20,310 --> 00:44:21,420
Please make it count.

986
00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:22,950
I want you to point number three.

987
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:25,920
I like Moses de independently resolve.

988
00:44:26,505 --> 00:44:28,305
So not defiantly dependently.

989
00:44:28,365 --> 00:44:29,085
I trusting him.

990
00:44:29,235 --> 00:44:30,285
I'm not doing it apart from him.

991
00:44:30,405 --> 00:44:34,275
Dependently resolve to make
your life count for Christ

992
00:44:36,675 --> 00:44:38,655
dependent dependency.

993
00:44:40,575 --> 00:44:42,795
I couldn't think of a better.

994
00:44:44,310 --> 00:44:46,950
A better illustration of dependency
than my caffeine dependency.

995
00:44:49,310 --> 00:44:50,510
I used to be pretty good at this actually.

996
00:44:50,750 --> 00:44:53,240
And in fact, recently I, I
did a season of less caffeine.

997
00:44:53,930 --> 00:44:59,360
But Jordan Lowe introduced me to Monster
Drinks, and it was so wise 'cause

998
00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:00,710
he gave us several cases for free.

999
00:45:01,430 --> 00:45:02,420
And now I buy them,

1000
00:45:04,580 --> 00:45:05,300
I buy them with joy.

1001
00:45:06,140 --> 00:45:08,390
I love, I love monsters and, and
they're really a part of my day.

1002
00:45:08,420 --> 00:45:09,380
I love, I love caffeine.

1003
00:45:09,380 --> 00:45:10,040
That's part of my day.

1004
00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:11,690
I, I usually have it multiple times a day.

1005
00:45:12,305 --> 00:45:12,905
I measured it.

1006
00:45:13,385 --> 00:45:15,665
Uh, I, I'm usually around
600 milligrams a day.

1007
00:45:16,175 --> 00:45:16,835
I know it's a lot.

1008
00:45:16,865 --> 00:45:17,225
It's a lot.

1009
00:45:17,615 --> 00:45:19,535
When I hit the 800, I start getting tired.

1010
00:45:19,565 --> 00:45:20,405
That's when I back off.

1011
00:45:21,425 --> 00:45:25,235
But I make decisions around my dependency
because my dependency drives my behavior.

1012
00:45:25,655 --> 00:45:28,535
In the morning, one of the first things
I'll do is I'll make myself some caffeine.

1013
00:45:28,775 --> 00:45:30,065
That's part of my morning routine.

1014
00:45:30,365 --> 00:45:32,255
I depend upon it to get
into the, to the groove.

1015
00:45:32,255 --> 00:45:34,025
It helps me with my Bible
study and all those things.

1016
00:45:34,535 --> 00:45:36,065
Dependency drives my behavior.

1017
00:45:36,335 --> 00:45:39,575
Yeah, if you're, if you're
driving a car, dependency on

1018
00:45:39,575 --> 00:45:40,715
the fuel drives your behavior.

1019
00:45:40,715 --> 00:45:43,915
If you're driving a smart car or a a,
an electric car, you can't just drive

1020
00:45:43,915 --> 00:45:45,415
across the country any way you want to.

1021
00:45:45,625 --> 00:45:48,595
Your dependency upon battery
power determines your route.

1022
00:45:49,015 --> 00:45:52,015
You have to stop at certain places, which
is gonna change your destination, change

1023
00:45:52,015 --> 00:45:53,425
your, your, your pattern to get there.

1024
00:45:53,905 --> 00:45:56,785
So all of these dependencies
fuel our motivation.

1025
00:45:56,875 --> 00:45:59,155
And what I wanna point out to you
is that you are fully dependent

1026
00:45:59,155 --> 00:46:00,070
upon God, and if you knew it.

1027
00:46:00,850 --> 00:46:01,840
That will change your behavior.

1028
00:46:02,740 --> 00:46:05,440
Satisfy us in the morning with
your steadfast love tells us.

1029
00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:08,650
I need to make sure that I recognize
I am fully dependent upon the Lord.

1030
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:10,600
I can't live, I can't think.

1031
00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:11,380
I can't serve.

1032
00:46:11,470 --> 00:46:12,400
I can't do anything.

1033
00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:15,760
Well, apart from his enabling
grace, I depend upon him far more

1034
00:46:15,940 --> 00:46:17,320
than I depend upon my caffeine.

1035
00:46:17,950 --> 00:46:23,290
Remember, the devil came to Jesus and
he tempts Jesus, and Jesus responds back

1036
00:46:23,290 --> 00:46:26,680
with three incredibly powerful responses.

1037
00:46:27,100 --> 00:46:27,910
What does Jesus say?

1038
00:46:27,940 --> 00:46:28,840
Does anyone remember He says.

1039
00:46:29,455 --> 00:46:31,615
It is written.

1040
00:46:31,615 --> 00:46:31,625
Written.

1041
00:46:32,605 --> 00:46:35,725
So he doesn't even argue with the
devil as though as he was the equal.

1042
00:46:35,725 --> 00:46:37,045
He just says, here's what God's word says.

1043
00:46:37,165 --> 00:46:38,035
Here's what God's word says.

1044
00:46:38,095 --> 00:46:40,645
Here's what God's word says, and
then the devil flees, and then

1045
00:46:40,645 --> 00:46:41,935
Jesus is ministered to by angels.

1046
00:46:42,175 --> 00:46:46,315
Jesus says It is, is written man does
not live by bread alone, but by every

1047
00:46:46,315 --> 00:46:47,590
word that comes from the mouth of God.

1048
00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:52,735
How good would it be for you to
prioritize your bread in the word

1049
00:46:52,795 --> 00:46:53,700
over your bread for your belly?

1050
00:46:55,135 --> 00:46:56,215
And how good would that be?

1051
00:46:56,485 --> 00:46:58,645
When I was a teenager, I,
I, I made myself rules.

1052
00:46:58,645 --> 00:47:01,045
I was a little legalist at that
time, but nevertheless, here,

1053
00:47:01,045 --> 00:47:02,095
here's what God led me to do.

1054
00:47:02,095 --> 00:47:03,625
And I thought it was helpful,
at least for the season.

1055
00:47:04,765 --> 00:47:05,455
It was a dangerous one.

1056
00:47:05,725 --> 00:47:08,635
I made a commitment that I would read
my Bible before I brushed my teeth.

1057
00:47:09,505 --> 00:47:12,865
I had to do it, I'm sorry,
to all the people that I had

1058
00:47:12,865 --> 00:47:14,725
to let down several days.

1059
00:47:15,415 --> 00:47:19,405
'cause sometimes the, the, the teeth
brushing never came 'cause I was too busy.

1060
00:47:20,575 --> 00:47:21,745
I'm better at that today, I promise.

1061
00:47:23,425 --> 00:47:24,355
I do it all the time today.

1062
00:47:25,765 --> 00:47:29,095
I di I knew my dependency though,
and I needed to force it to make

1063
00:47:29,095 --> 00:47:31,315
sure that I didn't skip it because
I knew how important it was.

1064
00:47:31,555 --> 00:47:34,765
I would love for you to re resolve this
year to not only count your days, but to

1065
00:47:34,765 --> 00:47:38,185
make sure that you make your days count
by saying, I'm gonna do what I need to do.

1066
00:47:38,185 --> 00:47:38,785
I'm not gonna wait.

1067
00:47:38,795 --> 00:47:40,745
I can't say I'm gonna do it
next week or tomorrow 'cause I

1068
00:47:40,745 --> 00:47:41,765
don't know if I have tomorrow.

1069
00:47:42,035 --> 00:47:44,675
I'm gonna make the day count so
I will dependently, resolve to

1070
00:47:44,675 --> 00:47:45,605
make my life count for Christ.

1071
00:47:45,605 --> 00:47:48,095
I'm gonna do what God calls me to
do because he calls me to do that.

1072
00:47:49,160 --> 00:47:51,170
Satisfy me in the morning
with your steadfast love.

1073
00:47:51,170 --> 00:47:52,430
Oh Lord, what a good
thing for you to pray.

1074
00:47:53,810 --> 00:47:57,560
Finally, as he says here in this
last verse, he says, let the

1075
00:47:57,560 --> 00:48:00,530
favor of our Lord be upon us and
establish the work of our hands.

1076
00:48:00,560 --> 00:48:01,910
Yes, establish the work of our hands.

1077
00:48:02,690 --> 00:48:06,770
Moses is praying that God will allow
them to be productive in their lives,

1078
00:48:06,890 --> 00:48:09,830
and I don't mean productive in a business
sense, like, oh, let's get profits to

1079
00:48:09,830 --> 00:48:11,570
this much, this many pennies or whatever.

1080
00:48:11,780 --> 00:48:12,290
That's fine.

1081
00:48:13,730 --> 00:48:16,040
Moses is, is saying,
Lord, help us to do good.

1082
00:48:16,670 --> 00:48:18,860
Help us to be effective with
the life you've given us.

1083
00:48:19,490 --> 00:48:21,590
It sounds a little bit like Paul,
where he says, at the Thessalonians,

1084
00:48:22,010 --> 00:48:24,260
he says, man, you guys have learned
how, how you ought to walk in,

1085
00:48:24,260 --> 00:48:25,580
please God, just as you're doing.

1086
00:48:25,580 --> 00:48:27,020
He says, but do it more and more.

1087
00:48:27,560 --> 00:48:29,150
Don't be satisfied with
just doing a little bit.

1088
00:48:29,150 --> 00:48:31,100
Keep going the furthest degree.

1089
00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:31,400
How?

1090
00:48:31,400 --> 00:48:33,230
How good would it be for your life to be?

1091
00:48:33,500 --> 00:48:35,900
I'm gonna live to the maximal glory
of God, whatever that looks like.

1092
00:48:39,410 --> 00:48:39,920
Pray for that.

1093
00:48:40,520 --> 00:48:41,660
Establish the work of our hands.

1094
00:48:42,160 --> 00:48:43,610
I need to, I need to
qualify something, man.

1095
00:48:43,610 --> 00:48:46,340
I got so in my mind, I think I can
think of like 10 qualifications here.

1096
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:49,130
Things that you're probably thinking
and things I need to clarify.

1097
00:48:49,190 --> 00:48:50,840
Uh, let me just, let me just address one.

1098
00:48:52,040 --> 00:48:55,460
A sermon like this can have one effect
on you that you say, oh man, I, I better

1099
00:48:55,460 --> 00:48:59,540
get on my calendar and my, my planning
list and make sure that I make, I, I

1100
00:48:59,540 --> 00:49:00,860
have all these things that I gotta do.

1101
00:49:00,860 --> 00:49:02,030
I need to make sure I write it down.

1102
00:49:02,090 --> 00:49:03,860
And if I fail in these,
man, I'm a failure.

1103
00:49:04,025 --> 00:49:04,565
I'm a worm.

1104
00:49:04,565 --> 00:49:05,105
All those things.

1105
00:49:05,605 --> 00:49:07,495
I'm not talking about
efficiency, you understand?

1106
00:49:07,975 --> 00:49:09,595
But I am talking about effectiveness.

1107
00:49:10,045 --> 00:49:12,535
I am saying you, you should be efficient
as you can, you know, make time,

1108
00:49:12,535 --> 00:49:13,705
plan, schedule, all those things.

1109
00:49:13,705 --> 00:49:16,675
That's, IM, that's important, but I'm
talking less about efficiency more

1110
00:49:16,675 --> 00:49:18,295
than I'm talking about effectiveness.

1111
00:49:18,325 --> 00:49:21,835
And what I mean by that is that you are
hitting the target that you're aiming at,

1112
00:49:22,795 --> 00:49:24,715
and that requires you to be intentional.

1113
00:49:24,835 --> 00:49:27,085
So I'm not talking about
efficiency going by your calendar.

1114
00:49:27,085 --> 00:49:29,515
I'm talking about effectiveness,
aiming at the right target.

1115
00:49:29,515 --> 00:49:32,365
I want to live to glorify God,
and here's what that means.

1116
00:49:33,265 --> 00:49:36,205
Often if you're, if you're aiming at
that target, I can promise you your

1117
00:49:36,205 --> 00:49:40,795
schedule will often be put to the side
and be inefficient because God has

1118
00:49:40,795 --> 00:49:42,025
better things for you planned that day.

1119
00:49:43,135 --> 00:49:45,295
You have people show up to your
doorstep, you get a phone call.

1120
00:49:45,535 --> 00:49:48,235
Now you're, your whole schedule that
you planned is disrupted because God

1121
00:49:48,235 --> 00:49:49,885
has a better plan for you that day.

1122
00:49:50,395 --> 00:49:53,035
You're not efficient that day
for sure, but you are effective.

1123
00:49:54,235 --> 00:49:56,155
You praying to the Lord
to say, Lord, help me.

1124
00:49:56,845 --> 00:49:58,555
Help me establish the work in my hands.

1125
00:49:58,825 --> 00:50:00,805
Doesn't say, Lord, and I've got plans.

1126
00:50:00,895 --> 00:50:02,515
Let me have you bless my plans.

1127
00:50:03,115 --> 00:50:07,105
Proverbs 16, three says, commit your
work to the Lord and your plans will be

1128
00:50:07,105 --> 00:50:09,145
established, but they'll be his plans.

1129
00:50:09,745 --> 00:50:11,815
So I'm, again, I'm not saying
efficiency, not a bad thing,

1130
00:50:12,025 --> 00:50:13,075
but I'm saying effectiveness.

1131
00:50:13,255 --> 00:50:15,385
Living your life for what
it's worth, being intentional

1132
00:50:15,385 --> 00:50:18,805
with your time and letting God
dictate the terms of your life.

1133
00:50:19,525 --> 00:50:22,105
For many of us this year
is gonna be a hard year.

1134
00:50:22,765 --> 00:50:24,745
I'm not a prophet, but I know this.

1135
00:50:25,285 --> 00:50:28,045
'cause they know how life works
For many of us, this is gonna be a

1136
00:50:28,045 --> 00:50:30,295
hard year for, for a lot of reasons
that you don't even know yet.

1137
00:50:30,775 --> 00:50:32,665
God's gonna introduce
difficult things in your life.

1138
00:50:32,995 --> 00:50:35,605
For some of us, God's gonna
introduce great things to us.

1139
00:50:35,665 --> 00:50:37,615
You're gonna have stuff show
up in your life that you, oh

1140
00:50:37,615 --> 00:50:38,725
man, what a blessing this is.

1141
00:50:38,725 --> 00:50:39,445
Thank you God.

1142
00:50:39,955 --> 00:50:42,565
And when you expect that God's gonna
do what God's gonna do, you can be

1143
00:50:42,565 --> 00:50:46,015
thankful and every season and say,
Lord, I accept what you're doing.

1144
00:50:46,105 --> 00:50:48,025
I'm gonna count my days
and make this day count.

1145
00:50:48,025 --> 00:50:51,175
By trusting that you're doing all
the things, you are God everlasting

1146
00:50:51,175 --> 00:50:52,195
from the end of the beginning.

1147
00:50:52,345 --> 00:50:53,815
I trust what you're doing.

1148
00:50:55,255 --> 00:50:57,235
Radical perspective change.

1149
00:51:00,775 --> 00:51:03,585
Resolve dependently, resolve to
make your life count for Christ.

1150
00:51:03,585 --> 00:51:04,455
That's, that's the goal here.

1151
00:51:05,295 --> 00:51:06,645
Not efficiency, but effectiveness.

1152
00:51:08,475 --> 00:51:12,435
When you look at the picture of your
life, I, I really hope that you see what's

1153
00:51:12,435 --> 00:51:16,155
there, not just the calendar seven days
on the week and you're nine to five.

1154
00:51:16,560 --> 00:51:19,260
Not just the events that you've planned
and committed to, not just the bills

1155
00:51:19,260 --> 00:51:22,770
that you have to pay the HOA fees
or you know, whatever the tax is.

1156
00:51:23,250 --> 00:51:26,580
I want you to see what's really
there, eternity on the precipice.

1157
00:51:26,880 --> 00:51:30,480
Your foot stands one step away
from whatever that life looks

1158
00:51:30,480 --> 00:51:35,220
like, which introduces and
bursts incredible significance in

1159
00:51:35,220 --> 00:51:36,510
every single day that you live.

1160
00:51:37,230 --> 00:51:38,850
Things like this suddenly
become so important.

1161
00:51:38,850 --> 00:51:42,990
I'm never gonna get 1116 on
Sunday, January 4th, 2026 back.

1162
00:51:43,875 --> 00:51:45,225
We are spending it together.

1163
00:51:45,495 --> 00:51:46,485
Thank you for that, by the way.

1164
00:51:46,485 --> 00:51:47,325
What an incredible honor.

1165
00:51:48,075 --> 00:51:49,245
But we don't get those minutes back.

1166
00:51:49,245 --> 00:51:50,235
We don't get the 50 minutes back.

1167
00:51:50,265 --> 00:51:53,085
We spent it, we've
invested it better said.

1168
00:51:53,775 --> 00:51:55,515
And so I want you to think
about this throughout your year.

1169
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I'd love for you as a, as a, as a
member of this church, as a part of

1170
00:51:58,545 --> 00:52:00,375
this body, to say, Lord, how, how?

1171
00:52:00,375 --> 00:52:01,665
How will you have me use my time?

1172
00:52:02,115 --> 00:52:03,225
Where would you have me invested?

1173
00:52:03,915 --> 00:52:05,115
That's a good question to ask the Lord.

1174
00:52:05,325 --> 00:52:06,495
See the picture of your life.

1175
00:52:06,705 --> 00:52:08,115
Eternity is soon.

1176
00:52:08,645 --> 00:52:10,475
The sands of your life
are turned upside down.

1177
00:52:10,475 --> 00:52:12,695
They're already going, and I don't
know what time is left for you.

1178
00:52:12,845 --> 00:52:13,805
Dunno what time is left for me.

1179
00:52:14,195 --> 00:52:15,185
So let's make it count this year.

1180
00:52:15,725 --> 00:52:18,215
Let's, as Moses prays,
let's pray together.