What is First in Your Life?

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What is First in Your Life?

• What is really first in your life?

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What is First in Your Life?

• What is really first in your life?
• Many people have learned to live a contradiction,
  they confess one thing but live another.

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What is First in Your Life?

• What is really first in your life?
• Many people have learned to live a contradiction,
  they confess one thing but live another.
• How many Christians say they put the Lord first?
  (Matt 633)

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What is First in Your Life?

• Matthew 633 (NKJV) 33But seek first the kingdom
  of God and His righteousness, and all these
  things shall be added to you.

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What is First in Your Life?

• You come to know what a Christian believes by
  what he does! (Jas 218)

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What is First in Your Life?

• James 218 (NKJV) 18But someone will say, You
  have faith, and I have works. Show me your faith
  without your works, and I will show you my faith
  by my works.

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What is First in Your Life?

• What happens when there is conflict, what do we
  choose?

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What is First in Your Life?

• Children see it in their parents. But we have
  been members of the church!

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What is First in Your Life?

• Children see it in their parents. But we have
  been members of the church!
• In order to live this life as we should, we must
  have a clear view of the end of life. (Rom
  1311-14)

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What is First in Your Life?

• Romans 1311-14 (NKJV) 11And do this, knowing the
  time, that now it is high time to awake out of
  sleep for now our salvation is nearer than when
  we first believed. 12The night is far spent, the
  day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the
  works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of
  light.

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What is First in Your Life?

• 13Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in
  revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and
  lust, not in strife and envy. 14But put on the
  Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the
  flesh, to fulfill its lusts.

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24 Hours to Live

• There would be some things you would consider
  very unimportant.

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24 Hours to Live

• There would be some things you would consider
  very unimportant.
• Your Job - No going to work on this day. Not a
  second thought about it.

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24 Hours to Live

• There would be some things you would consider
  very unimportant.
• Your Job - No going to work on this day. Not a
  second thought about it.
• Your entertainment - No football on TV, no sports
  leagues, etc.

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24 Hours to Live

• There would be some things you would consider
  very unimportant.
• Your Job - No going to work on this day. Not a
  second thought about it.
• Your entertainment - No football on TV, no sports
  leagues, etc.
• Resting and Eating - No, I am dying. My time must
  count.

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24 Hours to Live

• Other things you would consider as very important.

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24 Hours to Live

• Other things you would consider as very
  important.
• Some may pray more on this day than in the last
  month. If you are not a Christian, you would
  become one and have this privilege. (Acts 237-38)

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24 Hours to Live

• Acts 237-238 (NKJV) 37 Now when they heard
  this, they were cut to the heart, and said to
  Peter and the rest of the apostles, Men and
  brethren, what shall we do? 38 Then Peter said
  to them, Repent, and let every one of you be
  baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the
  remission of sins and you shall receive the gift
  of the Holy Spirit.

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24 Hours to Live

• What would you pray for? Bad habits? Missed
  opportunities?

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24 Hours to Live

• What would you pray for? Bad habits? Missed
  opportunities?
• No one will say I do not know how to pray!

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24 Hours to Live

• Worship services take on a very deep meaning.

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24 Hours to Live

• Worship services take on a very deep meaning.
• You will not miss services on this day! In fact
  you may not go home.

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24 Hours to Live

• What meaning will you get out of Singing (Eph
  519)

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24 Hours to Live

• Ephesians 519 (NKJV) 19 speaking to one another
  in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing
  and making melody in your heart to the Lord,

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24 Hours to Live

• The Lords Supper (Matt 2626-28)

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24 Hours to Live

• Matthew 2626 -28 (NKJV) 26And as they were
  eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it,
  and gave it to the disciples and said, Take,
  eat this is My body. 27 Then He took the cup,
  and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying,
  Drink from it, all of you. 28 For this is My
  blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many
  for the remission of sins.

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24 Hours to Live

• Preaching (2 Cor 413-14)

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24 Hours to Live

• 2 Corinthians 413-14 (NKJV) 13And since we have
  the same spirit of faith, according to what is
  written, I believed and therefore I spoke, we
  also believe and therefore speak, 14knowing that
  He who raised up the Lord Jesus will also raise
  us up with Jesus, and will present us with you.

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24 Hours to Live

• Giving (1 Cor 162)

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24 Hours to Live

• 1 Corinthians 162 (NKJV) 2On the first day of
  the week let each one of you lay something aside,
  storing up as he may prosper, that there be no
  collections when I come.

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24 Hours to Live

• No clock watching on this day, no daydreaming or
  playing with children.

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24 Hours to Live

• Personal work will have a tremendous urgency.

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24 Hours to Live

• Personal work will have a tremendous urgency.
• You want to work with family and friends, but
  there is not enough time!

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24 Hours to Live

• Personal work will have a tremendous urgency.
• You want to work with family and friends, but
  there is not enough time!
• You deal with those grudges that you have nursed.
  (Matt 614-15)

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24 Hours to Live

• Matthew 614-15 (NKJV) 14For if you forgive men
  their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also
  forgive you. 15But if you do not forgive men
  their trespasses, neither will your Father
  forgive your trespasses.

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24 Hours to Live

• Bible study is important, but not as important.

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24 Hours to Live

• Bible study is important, but not as important.
• This takes something that you do not have ----
  time!

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24 Hours to Live

• You likely will be rushing to others to find out
  what you never tried to before.

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24 Hours to Live

• Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you
  are. Let me learn from you, love you, savor you,
  bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you
  by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.
  Let me hold you while I may for it will not
  always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into
  the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or
  stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the
  sky, and want, more than all the world, your
  return.

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7 Days to Live

• More time will make a difference. The same things
  are unimportant.

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7 Days to Live

• More time will make a difference. The same things
  are unimportant.
• You priorities will change in those things that
  are very important.

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7 Days to Live

• More time will make a difference. The same things
  are unimportant.
• You priorities will change in those things that
  are very important.
• Bible Study move to the top. You now have time
  for application.

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7 Days to Live

• You are active in personal work as never before.
  You no longer sit on the sidelines with the lost
  or with church problems. You will find great joy
  in this work. Why have I not done this before?

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7 Days to Live

• You will not fail to worship with Christians on
  Wednesday night. In fact you will meet with
  Christians in the homes to study and pray. Your
  life has never been richer and closer to God

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1 Year to Live

• Now you have time for radical changes in those
  very important areas.

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1 Year to Live

• Now you have time for radical changes in those
  very important areas.
• Worship now moves to the top of the list. Those
  who worship in time become like God. You will
  have perfect attendance, no more hit and miss.

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1 Year to Live

• When a person is renewed from day to day by
  growing in the knowledge of God, in
  righteousness, and in the sanctity of truth, that
  person transfers its love from things temporal to
  things eternal, from things visible to things
  intelligible, from things carnal to things
  spiritual.

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1 Year to Live

• In personal work you truly will have influenced
  many in 1 year.

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1 Year to Live

• In personal work you truly will have influenced
  many in 1 year.
• In Bible study you will have gained tremendously.
  You may have qualified to be an elder or
  deacon. You may be reaching or teaching classes.
  Other will be coming to you for answers!

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1 Year to Live

• In personal work you truly will have influenced
  many in 1 year.
• In Bible study you will have gained tremendously.
  You may have qualified to be an elder or
  deacon. You may be reaching or teaching classes.
  Other will be coming to you for answers!
• In your prayer life, you will have influenced
  many.

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1 Year to Live

• There will be things that become mildly important.

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1 Year to Live

• There will be things that become mildly
  important.
• In your job you work faithfully. (Col 322-23)

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1 Year to Live

• Colossians 322-323 (NKJV) 22 Bondservants, obey
  in all things your masters according to the
  flesh, not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but
  in sincerity of heart, fearing God. 23 And
  whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord
  and not to men,

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1 Year to Live

• The other areas remain unimportant.

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1 Year to Live

• 'Tis not for man to trifle life is brief, And
  sin is here. Our age is but the falling of a
  leaf, A dropping tear. We have no time to sport
  away the hours All must be earnest in the world
  like ours. Not many lives, but only one have we,
  Only, only one. How earnest should that one life
  be, That narrow span Day after day spent in
  blessed toil.

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1 Year to Live

• What is your life about? Why do men let these
  unimportant things get in their way?

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1 Year to Live

• What is your life about? Why do men let these
  unimportant things get in their way?
• Let us consider one more situation.

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What if You had 20 Years to Live

• How would a worldly person reason?

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What if You had 20 Years to Live

• How would a worldly person reason?
• The worldly man will think Thats a long time,
  2026!

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What if You had 20 Years to Live

• How would a worldly person reason?
• The worldly man will think Thats a long time,
  2026!
• Here are the priorities of the worldly

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What if You had 20 Years to Live

• How would a worldly person reason?
• The worldly man will think Thats a long time,
  2026!
• Here are the priorities of the worldly
• I must keep seeking to make the most money in my
  job.

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What if You had 20 Years to Live

• I need time for entertainment. Weekends are all
  I have.

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What if You had 20 Years to Live

• I need time for entertainment. Weekends are all
  I have.
• Look I need time for resting and eating. I am
  only human!

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What if You had 20 Years to Live

• I need time for entertainment. Weekends are all
  I have.
• Look I need time for resting and eating. I am
  only human!
• One prayer a day is plenty. Thats over 20,000
  times in 20 years!

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What if You had 20 Years to Live

• I need time for entertainment. Weekends are all
  I have.
• Look I need time for resting and eating. I am
  only human!
• One prayer a day is plenty. Thats over 20,000
  times in 20 years!
• Bible study, worship and giving have little
  meaning. I love Jesus as much as the next man!

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What if You had 20 Years to Live

• Personal work is for someone else.

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What if You had 20 Years to Live

• Personal work is for someone else.
• Be about your Father's business. There will
  always be plenty of other people occupied with
  the affairs of the world.

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Consider some mistakes of this series.

• We do not know the time we have. (1 Thess 51-7)

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Consider some mistakes of this series.

• 1 Thessalonians 51-7 (NKJV) But concerning the
  times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need
  that I should write to you. 2 For you yourselves
  know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes
  as a thief in the night. 3 For when they say,
  Peace and safety! then sudden destruction comes
  upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman.
  And they shall not escape.

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Consider some mistakes of this series.

• 4 But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that
  this Day should overtake you as a thief. 5 You
  are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are
  not of the night nor of darkness. 6 Therefore let
  us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and
  be sober. 7 For those who sleep, sleep at night,
  and those who get drunk are drunk at night.

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Consider some mistakes of this series.

• We must live each day as our last.

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Consider some mistakes of this series.

• It's up to me to use it.I must suffer if I lose
  it.Give account if I abuse it.Just a tiny
  little minute,But eternity is in it.Learn from
  yesterdayLive for todayHope for
  tomorrow.Lost time is never found
  again.Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

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Consider some mistakes of this series.

• Revelation 2012-14 (NKJV) 12And I saw the dead,
  small and great, standing before God, and books
  were opened. And another book was opened, which
  is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged
  according to their works, by the things which
  were written in the books. 13The sea gave up the
  dead who were in it, and Death and Hades
  delivered up the dead who were in them. And they
  were judged, each one according to his works.

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Consider some mistakes of this series.

• 14 Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake
  of fire. This is the second death.

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Consider some mistakes of this series.

• OpportunityI held a bit of heaven today, that
  priceless jewel called opportunityYet, such
  like a fool I teased it so, till it slipped
  through my fingers and into the past.Carefully I
  tried to recover this stone only to find it
  secured by another.

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Consider some mistakes of this series.

• But by this I am made wise and am settled that it
  shall not happen again.I will keep vigil for
  another jewel, and soon it will come.But alas
  not as precious as the one I let slip away.