Life is Short | Billy Graham

do you number your days do you realize how important every single day [Music] is I want to speak tonight on the brevity of life do you know in the days of Jesus as fast as a person could go was as fast as a horse could run in n and that happened all the way until 1830 when we developed an engine faster than a horse think of that those hundreds and thousands of years all as fast as you could go was on Horseback then in 1910 we developed a military aircraft that went 42 M an hour

and then I remember very well just like it was yesterday when Lindberg took off for Paris and in 33 hours he was in Paris and we thought that was really something today we get on a Concord or some people do and they're there in 3 and 1 half hours you know we've invented all of these modern things to save time and we have less time than ever before we have a lot less time now than my father and mother had in the horse and buggy days and yet we have fast Automobiles and fast airplanes and

we're running from place to place like mad people and most of us don't know what we're going to do when we get there time is collapsing on us how much longer do we have you have so much time but for what you have time to serve Christ you have time to live according to his will you have time to obey him have you done like the psalmist said in 31:15 and put yourself at God's disposal when he said my time are in your hands and what are you going to do with those years each human

being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day do you know how many minutes there are in a day 1,440 do you know how many hours there are in a week 168 now if you live to be 70 your first 15 is childhood or adolescent you spend 20 years in in bed The Last 5 Years of physical limitations and you're curtailing your activities that means you only have 30 years left for everything else 30 years to live and part of that time has to be spent eating and working and figuring up your

income tax the scripture ask this question what is your life it is even a vapor that appear it for a little time and then vanishes away our time is already in God's hands God has a day already set for your being taken from this world it may be an accident it may be a cancer it may be heart attack whatever it is it's already set you will stand before the great Judgment of God to give an account of how you spent this life and what you did about Jesus Christ because God gave his son to

die for your sins because you see we're all Sinners we all have the same disease I don't care what the color of your skin is God doesn't look at the color of your skin God looks at your heart and God sees that you have a spiritual heart disease and that spiritual heart disease is called sin and we're all Sinners it's interesting to me that rich people cannot buy more hours scientists cannot invent new minute you cannot even save time to spend it on another day the scripture says that we're to redeem the time it's a

phrase out of the business World it means to buy the time take 10% of your time and say Lord this is yours for Bible study for prayer have you committed your whole life to Christ as that ever happened to you oh you say yes I'm I've been baptized i' I've been confirmed I've I I go once in a while to church I think about God once in a while but have you really committed to it are you totally committed to him and are you sure if you died at this moment you'd go to heaven are

you certain your sins are forgiven that's why Christ came and died on the cross and shed his blood and God raised him from the dead and God raised him from the dead and then there's the tyranny of time it controls us and we become frustrated running from one thing to another because we don't feel that we have enough time to get everything done that needs to be done Jesus said I must work the works of him that sent me while it is day the night cometh when no man can work the night is going to

come to you and you won't have an opportunity to serve God serve him while you can serve him now put him first in your life yet at the end of his life he said I finished the work that you gave me to do God has a plan for your life and you can finish it with God's help and he'll give you a joy and a peace that you never dreamed existed if you put your confidence in him oh yes when Jesus left the Earth there were people that needed to be healed and lives that needed

to be touched but Jesus said he had finished the work that had been assigned to him by the father God has assigned a work that only you can fill you are unique nobody can take your place and God needs you in his [Music] kingdom time can be our tool but we can also be its slave even so time is amazingly fair and forgiving no matter how much time you've wasted in the past you can still have tomorrow adli Stevenson once said it's not the days of your life but the life in your days that count

you have to buy it what is the price you have to pay the price is that you have no time for certain things we shouldn't drift along haphazardly doing all the pleasures and all the drinking and all the other things that are wrong God wants us to love others the main thing that he wants us to do is to love your neighbor and love people of another race the one thing that distinguishes a Believer from others is love that dominates your life your life should be carefully planned then there's the termination of time bre the

Apostle Paul said in 1 Corinthians time is short in Revelation it tells us that time shall be no more Jesus and his disciples spent the 94 verses of Matthew 24 to the end of the chapter 25 talking about the end of the age as we approach the End of the Age we read in Revelation 12 that the devil will be frantically active because he knows that his days numbered yes there is a devil there is a Satan he's a real person and they're real demons and they're going to battle for your soul tonight because Satan

does not want to give you up he'll battle to keep you in his kingdom because there are two kingdoms there's the devil's kingdom and there's God's kingdom and you have the right to make a choice which one you want to be in in Romans 13 the Apostle says knowing the time that now it is high time to awake out of sleep for now is our Salvation nearer than when we believe the night is far spent the day is at hand let us therefore cast off the works of darkness and let us put on the armor

of light the Bible several times uses the phrase the time is at hand Jesus told us to discern the signs of the times one of the signs is that iniquity shall abound pick up your newspapers and watch your newscast iniquity is abounding everywhere not just in New York not just in New Jersey but throughout the world when the role is called in heaven will you be there is your name written on the book of life because the scripture says if your name is not on the Lamb's Book of Life you'll never enter Heaven your name

right now is on what is called in the Bible the books and under your name are all the sins that you ever committed all the things that you've ever thought that are wrong all of your intents that are wrong it's all there recorded and will face you at the Judgment but when you come to Christ and present yourself wholly and completely to him as Savior and Lord he blots out everything in those books and write your name in another book The Book of Life the Lamb's Book is your name written there if my name was

not written there and I didn't know it I wouldn't leave this building tonight until I was sure because there never may never be another Moment Like This in your life this is your hour with God and then the brevity of time calls for immediate action the fact that time is short calls for us to do something about it now because the scripture says in 2 Corinthians 6:2 now is the accepted time not tomorrow today things you ought to do do it now money you ought to give give it now people you ought to witness to

witness now every time the clock ticks it seems to say now today if you will hear his voice Harden not your hearts you can Harden your heart you hear a message like this and it can be very dangerous because you'll Harden your heart and the next time you hear the gospel your heart will be harder and harder and harder come to Christ now if there's even a whisper in your heart that you need to come you come then there's the warning of time it will someday be too late for your soul time is too short

for indecision and vacillation don't halt between two opinions fools say there's plenty of time the devil says there's plenty of time every morning you have 86,400 seconds to spend and to invest each day the bank name time opens a new account with you there may be no tomorrow come now when I tell you you need to come and make you a commitment to Christ with these hundreds and thousands that have already come in this Crusade the devil will say wait another time another place this is not the time this is the time the very fact

you are here indicates it's the time by some strange coincidence or Providence God has brought you here tonight and before you came you thought you were all right with God but now you're not sure and you want to make sure you want to be certain yes the devil always says yes do it but some other time and some other place God says here and now [Music]