Life Is Short: BILLY GRAHAM - Make The Best Use Of Your Time

do you number your days do you realize how important every single day 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 can run in night and that happened all the way until 1830 when we developed an engine faster than a horse 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 time is collapsing on us how much longer do we have God will endure forever but on this Earth we're like a shadow that's declining we're all dying from the moment you were born you started dying 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 3115 and

put yourself at God's disposal when he said my times 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 they are in a day 1440. 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 bed the last five years of physical limitations in your 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 asks this question what is your life it is even a vapor that appeared for a little time and then vanishes away our time is already in God's hands God has a day already set for you and taken from this world it may be in an accident 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 it's interesting to me that rich people cannot buy more hours scientists cannot invent new minutes 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 percent of your time and say Lord this is yours for Bible study for prayer have you committed your whole life to Christ has that ever happened to you oh you say yes I'm I've been baptized I've I've been confirmed 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 uh now 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 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 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 Adlai 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 Brethren the Apostle Paul said in First 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 are 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 wake 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

will never enter Heaven but when you come to Christ and present yourself whole in completely to him as Savior and Lord he blots out everything in those books and writes 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 second 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 down 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 heart 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 your commitment to Christ with these hundreds and thousands that have already come 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 of Providence God has brought you here tonight and before you came you thought you were all right with God but now you are 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 in some other place God says here and now foreign [Music]