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• Be still, and know that I am God I will be
  exalted in the earth
• (Psalm 4610)

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Too young

• How many times I have heard, Im still young.
  Ill make time for God when Im older.
• Parents sometimes aid and abet this thinking
• There are some serious problems with such thinking

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Too young

• 1. The crop failure may not come
• (Galatians 67-8) Be not deceived God is not
  mocked for whatsoever a man sows, that shall he
  also reap. For he that sows unto his own flesh
  shall of the flesh reap corruption but he that
  sows unto the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap
  eternal life.

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Too young

• 2. Some of these young people will never grow old
• (Ecc. 119-121) Rejoice, O young man, in your
  youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days
  of your youth, and walk in the ways of your
  heart, and in the sight of your eyes but know,
  that for all these things God will bring you into
  judgment. Therefore remove sorrow from your
  heart, and put away evil from your flesh for
  youth and the dawn of life are vanity. Remember
  also your Creator in the days of your youth,
  before the evil days come, and the years draw
  nigh, when you shall say, I have no pleasure in
  them

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• (Prov. 41-10) Hear, my sons, the instruction of
  a father, And attend to know understanding For I
  give you good doctrine Forsake you not my law.
  For I was a son unto my father, Tender and only
  beloved in the sight of my mother. And he taught
  me, and said unto me Let your heart retain my
  words Keep my commandments, and live Get
  wisdom, get understanding Forget not, neither
  decline from the words of my mouth

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• Forsake her not, and she will preserve you
  Love her, and she will keep you. Wisdom is the
  principal thing therefore get wisdom Yea, with
  all your getting get understanding. Exalt her,
  and she will promote you She will bring you to
  honor, when you do embrace her. She will give to
  your head a chaplet of grace A crown of beauty
  will she deliver to you. Hear, O my son, and
  receive my sayings And the years of your life
  shall be many.

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Too busy

• Life is full of responsibilities job, family,
  education, recreation, home maintenance,
  friendships, social life, entertainment

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Too busy

• Our Lord told the story of some who were too
  busy with the affairs of this world
• (Luke 1416-20) But he said unto him, A certain
  man made a great supper and he bade many and he
  sent forth his servant at supper time to say to
  them that were bidden, Come for all things are
  now ready. And they all with one consent began to
  make excuse. The first said unto him, I have
  bought a field, and I must needs go out and see
  it I pray thee have me excused. And another
  said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go
  to prove them I pray thee have me excused. And
  another said, I have married a wife, and
  therefore I cannot come.

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Too busy

• The Lords teaching about the things of this life
  is very clear and precise
• (Matt. 619-21) Lay not up for yourselves
  treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust
  consume, and where thieves break through and
  steal but lay up for yourselves treasures in
  heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume,
  and where thieves do not break through nor steal
  for where your treasure is, there will your heart
  be also.

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• (Matt. 624, 25) No man can serve two masters
  for either he will hate the one, and love the
  other or else he will hold to one, and despise
  the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
  Therefore I say unto you, be not anxious for your
  life, what you shall eat, or what you shall
  drink nor yet for your body, what you shall put
  on. Is not the life more than the food, and the
  body than the raiment?
• (vv. 31-34) Be not therefore anxious, saying,
  What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or,
  Wherewithal shall we be clothed? For after all
  these things do the Gentiles seek for your
  heavenly Father knows that you have need of all
  these things. But seek you first his kingdom, and
  his righteousness and all these things shall be
  added unto you. Be not therefore anxious for the
  morrow for the morrow will be anxious for
  itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil
  thereof.

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Too happy

• The good life presents its own dangers
• (Luke 1215-21) And he said unto them, Take
  heed, and keep yourselves from all covetousness
  for a man's life consists not in the abundance of
  the things which he possesses. And he spoke a
  parable unto them, saying, The ground of a
  certain rich man brought forth plentifully and
  he reasoned within himself, saying, What shall I
  do, because I have not where to bestow my fruits?
  And he said, This will I do I will pull down my
  barns, and build greater and there will I bestow
  all my grain and my goods.

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Too happy

• And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have
  much goods laid up for many years take your
  ease, eat, drink, be merry. But God said unto
  him, You fool, this night is your soul required
  of you and the things which you have prepared,
  whose shall they be? So is he that lays up
  treasure for himself, and is not rich toward
  God.
• Does this have a modern ring to it?

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Too happy

• Moses had a good understanding of this long ago
• (Heb. 1124-27) By faith Moses, when he was
  grown up, refused to be called the son of
  Pharaoh's daughter choosing rather to share ill
  treatment with the people of God, than to enjoy
  the pleasures of sin for a season accounting the
  reproach of Christ greater riches than the
  treasures of Egypt for he looked unto the
  recompense of reward. By faith he forsook Egypt,
  not fearing the wrath of the king for he
  endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
• (Prov. 313) Happy is the man that finds wisdom,
  And the man that gets understanding.

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Too tired

• Retirement often on the minds of those who work
  for a living
• Consider the award certificates hung on the walls
  of Pauls prison cell
• (II Cor. 1121-30) I speak by way of
  disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet
  whereinsoever any is bold (I speak in
  foolishness), I am bold also. Are they Hebrews?
  so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they
  the seed of Abraham? so am I. Are they ministers
  of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I
  more in labors more abundantly, in prisons more
  abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths
  oft.

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• Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes
  save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was
  I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night
  and a day have I been in the deep in journeyings
  often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers,
  in perils from my countrymen, in perils from the
  Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the
  wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among
  false brethren in labor and travail, in
  watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in
  fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Besides
  those things that are without, there is that
  which presses upon me daily, anxiety for all the
  churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is
  caused to stumble, and I burn not? If I must
  needs glory, I will glory of the things that
  concern my weakness.

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Too tired

• (II Cor. 128-10) Concerning this thing I
  besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart
  from me. And he hath said unto me, My grace is
  sufficient for thee for my power is made perfect
  in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather
  glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ
  may rest upon me. Wherefore I take pleasure in
  weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in
  persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake
  for when I am weak, then am I strong.
• What about our retirement? It is in the future.

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• (II Tim. 45-8) But be thou sober in all things,
  suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist,
  fulfil thy ministry. For I am already being
  offered, and the time of my departure is come. I
  have fought the good fight, I have finished the
  course, I have kept the faith henceforth there
  is laid up for me the crown of righteousness,
  which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give
  to me at that day and not to me only, but also
  to all them that have loved his appearing.

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• (Gal. 69) And let us not be weary in
  well-doing for in due season we shall reap, if
  we faint not.
• (I Cor. 1558) Wherefore, my beloved brethren,
  be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in
  the work of the Lord, forasmuch as you know that
  your labor is not vain in the Lord.
• (Heb. 314) for we are become partakers of
  Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our
  confidence firm unto the end
• (Rev. 210) Fear not the things which you are
  about to suffer behold, the devil is about to
  cast some of you into prison, that you may be
  tried and you shall have tribulation ten days.
  Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the
  crown of life.

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Too smart

• We live in an information age
• But our new-found knowledge has not brought
  mankind any closer to God

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• (Rom. 118-22) For the wrath of God is revealed
  from heaven against all ungodliness and
  unrighteousness of men, who hinder the truth in
  unrighteousness because that which is known of
  God is manifest in them for God manifested it
  unto them. For the invisible things of him since
  the creation of the world are clearly seen, being
  perceived through the things that are made, even
  his everlasting power and divinity that they may
  be without excuse because that, knowing God,
  they glorified him not as God, neither gave
  thanks but became vain in their reasonings, and
  their senseless heart was darkened. Professing
  themselves to be wise, they became fools

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• How Religion Originated. Among the non-scholarly
  populations of at least the civilized world,
  surely the most common idea is that religion, if
  it be true, has been divinely revealed. Divine
  revelation as an explanation of religious genesis
  has no place in this book, and under ordinary
  circumstances all theological interpretations of
  the origins of religion would be dismissed from
  consideration as irrelevant or prejudicial
  (INTRODUCTION TO RELIGION, Richard Norbeck).

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• How Religion Originated. Among the non-scholarly
  populations of at least the civilized world,
  surely the most common idea is that religion, if
  it be true, has been divinely revealed. Divine
  revelation as an explanation of religious genesis
  has no place in this book, and under ordinary
  circumstances all theological interpretations of
  the origins of religion would be dismissed from
  consideration as irrelevant or prejudicial
  (INTRODUCTION TO RELIGION, Richard Norbeck).

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The fool has said in his heart, There is no God
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Too late

• There is nothing more tragic than to die without
  God
• (Luke 1619-26) Now there was a certain rich
  man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen,
  faring sumptuously every day and a certain
  beggar named Lazarus was laid at his gate, full
  of sores, and desiring to be fed with the crumbs
  that fell from the rich man's table yea, even
  the dogs come and licked his sores. And it came
  to pass, that the beggar died, and that he was
  carried away by the angels into Abraham's bosom

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• and the rich man also died, and was buried. And
  in Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in
  torments, and sees Abraham afar off, and Lazarus
  in his bosom. And he cried and said, Father
  Abraham, have mer-cy on me, and send Lazarus,
  that he may dip the tip of his finger in water,
  and cool my tongue for I am in anguish in this
  flame. But Abraham said, Son, remember that you
  in your lifetime received your good things, and
  Lazarus in like manner evil things but now here
  he is comforted and you are in anguish. And
  besides all this, between us and you there is a
  great gulf fixed, that they that would pass from
  here to you may not be able, and that none may
  cross over from there to us.

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Too late

• Will a man rob God?
• (Malachi 38) Will a man rob God? yet you rob
  me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed you? In
  tithes and offerings.

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• (Acts 1724-28) The God that made the world and
  all things therein, he, being Lord of heaven and
  earth, dwells not in temples made with hands
  neither is he served by men's hands, as though he
  needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all
  life, and breath, and all things and he made of
  one every nation of men to dwell on all the face
  of the earth, having determined their appointed
  seasons, and the bounds of their habitation that
  they should seek God, if haply they might feel
  after him and find him, though he is not far from
  each one of us for in him we live, and move, and
  have our being as certain even of your own poets
  have said, For we are also his offspring.

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Too late

• What do we owe God in return?
• We owe it all!
• (Gal. 220) I have been crucified with Christ
  and it is no longer I that live, but Christ
  living in me and that life which I now live in
  the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in
  the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up
  for me.

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How do you view your life?

• Too young
• Too busy
• Too happy
• Too tired
• Too smart
• Too late

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How do you view your life?

• Too young Will
• Too busy God
• Too happy accept
• Too tired my
• Too smart excuse
• Too late ?

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How do you view your life?

• Too young Will
• Too busy God
• Too happy accept
• Too tired my
• Too smart excuse
• Too late ?

Too late
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Dont let your tombstone have these words on it
DIED WITHOUT GOD
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The time is right the Lord is
calling

• (II Cor. 61-2) We then, as workers together
  with Him also plead with you not to receive the
  grace of God in vain. For He says In an
  acceptable time I have heard you, And in the day
  of salvation I have helped you. Behold, now is
  the accepted time behold, now is the day of
  salvation.

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Will you hear?

• He that believes and is baptized shall be
  saved, but he that does not believe will be
  condemned. (Mark 1616)