The Seasons of Life

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2 Timothy 41

• I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ
  Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead,
  and by his appearing and his kingdom 2 preach
  the word be ready in season and out of season
  reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete
  patience and teaching. 

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Ecclesiates 31-8

• For everything there is a season, and a time for
  every matter under heaven
• 2 a time to be born, and a time to diea time to
  plant, and a time to pluck up what is
  planted3 a time to kill, and a time to heala
  time to break down, and a time to build up4 a
  time to weep, and a time to laugha time to
  mourn, and a time to dance5 a time to cast away
  stones, and a time to gather stones togethera
  time to embrace, and a time to refrain from
  embracing6 a time to seek, and a time to
  losea time to keep, and a time to cast
  away7 a time to tear, and a time to sewa time
  to keep silence, and a time to speak8 a time to
  love, and a time to hatea time for war, and a
  time for peace.

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The Seasons of Life
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Spring Time for Planting

• Seed
• Water
• Sun
• Time
• Ecclesiastes 121
• Remember also your Creator in the days of your
  youth, before the evil days come and the years
  draw near of which you will say, I have no
  pleasure in them

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Ephesians 61-3

• Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this
  is right. 2 Honor your father and mother (this
  is the first commandment with a promise), 3 that
  it may go well with you and that you may live
  long in the land.
• How are obedience and honor learned?

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• Whoever spares the rod hates his son,but he who
  loves him is diligent to discipline him.
• Proverbs 1324
• Discipline your son, for there is hopedo not
  set your heart on putting him to death.
• Proverbs 1918
• Folly is bound up in the heart of a child,but
  the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
• Proverbs 2215

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• Discipline your son, and he will give you
  resthe will give delight to your heart.
• Proverbs 2917
• By mere words a servant is not disciplined,for
  though he understands, he will not respond.
• Proverbs 2919

1. Plant the word
2. Set boundaries
3. Teach kindness
4. Teach humility
5. Teach service

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• It doesnt get any better than this!

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Summer Time for heat growth

• Ecclesiastes 119-10
• Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your
  heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk
  in the ways of your heart and the sight of your
  eyes. But know that for all these things God will
  bring you into judgment.
• 10 Remove vexation from your heart, and put away
  pain from your body, for youth and the dawn of
  life are vanity.
• The message is to enjoy life, but remember

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Summer Time for heat growth

• Ephesians 522-25
• Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the
  Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife
  even as Christ is the head of the church, his
  body, and is himself its Savior.24 Now as the
  church submits to Christ, so also wives should
  submit in everything to their husbands.
• 25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the
  church and gave himself up for her,
• It is a mistake to trade love for work at this
  time

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Summer Time for heat growth

• Ephesians 64
• Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger,
  but bring them up in the discipline and
  instruction of the Lord.
• NOW is the time/season to train your children
•  Folly is bound up in the heart of a child,but
  the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
• Proverbs 2215

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Summer Time for heat growth

• Be consistent
• Encourage as well as punish
• Shepherd their heart

NOW is also the time to work for and serve the
Lord
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• It doesnt get any better than this!

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Fall A Time for Harvest

• Galatians 67
• Do not be deceived God is not mocked, for
  whatever one sows, that will he also reap.
• We will begin reaping what we have sown
• We will reap the children we have sown
• We will reap the character we have sown

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We will reap the character that we have sown

• Prideful or humble
• Lawyer or servant
• Babe or worker
• Cranky or kind
• Harsh or gentle
• Warhorse or peacemaker

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• It doesnt get any better than this!

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Winter the end of seasons

• 2 Timothy 46-8
• For I am already being poured out as a drink
  offering, and the time of my departure has
  come. 7 I have fought the good fight, I have
  finished the race, I have kept the faith.
  8 Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of
  righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous
  judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only
  to me but also to all who have loved his
  appearing.

A crown waiting for those who keep the faith
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Winter the end of seasons

• Ecclesiastes 121-4
• Remember also your Creator in the days of your
  youth, before the evil days come and the years
  draw near of which you will say, I have no
  pleasure in them 2 before the sun and the light
  and the moon and the stars are darkened and the
  clouds return after the rain, 3 in the day when
  the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong
  men are bent, and the grinders cease because they
  are few, and those who look through the windows
  are dimmed, 4 and the doors on the street are
  shutwhen the sound of the grinding is low, and
  one rises up at the sound of a bird, and all the
  daughters of song are brought low  

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Winter the end of seasons

• Ecclesiastes 125-7
• 5 they are afraid also of what is high, and
  terrors are in the way the almond tree blossoms,
  the grasshopper drags itself along, and desire
  fails, because man is going to his eternal home,
  and the mourners go about the streets 6 before
  the silver cord is snapped, or the golden bowl is
  broken, or the pitcher is shattered at the
  fountain, or the wheel broken at the
  cistern, 7 and the dust returns to the earth as
  it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave
  it. 

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In winter it may seem like theres no life left
Proverbs 2029 The glory of young men is their
strength,but the splendor of old men is their
gray hair.

• Many will still have
• Influence
• Ability
• Wisdom
• Love

Not all, but some will have splendor
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• It doesnt get any better than this!

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Trust GodObey His wordHe can help
Whatever season of life you are in, make it your
best.