SERMON ON TIME
ROMANS 13:11
INTRODUCTION
PAUL ADMONISHED THE ROMAN CHRISTIANS TO AWAKE TO THE BLESSINGS
AND PRIVILEGES OF THE GOSPEL AGE, AND TO LIVE WORTHY OF THEM.
A. MANY ARE UNAWARE OF THEIR TIME
B. TIME TO SOME IS WORK AND PLEASURE
C. SOME BELIEVE TIME IS JUST WHILE YOU BREATHE
D. SOME BELIEVE TIME NEVER ENDS..IT IS ETERNAL......
I. IT IS TIME TO WAKE OUT OF SLEEP
A. REALIZE THE REVELATION OF GOD IS FOUND IN CHRIST
B. ACCEPT THE REVELATION TO ITS FULLEST
C. AWARE OF GOD’S TIME CLOCK
TIME: IT IS A CRITICAL PLACE IN WORKING OUT GOD’S DESIGNS, NOW, FOR YOU
SLEEP: LETHARGIC, NON-AGGRESSIVE, LAZY CHRISTIAN LIFE, SATISFIED
LAODICIA: BUILDING, DRESSED NICE, TITHERS, BIBLE READERS, DID SOME PRAYING, A LITTLE WITNESSING, GOOD HONEST FOLK..........BUT THEY WERE
SLEEPING IN THE COMMUNITY...THE MOOSE LODGE WAS MORE EXITING AND
GAINING MORE MEMBERSHIP THAN THE CHURCH
II. IT IS TIME TO FACE THE TRUTH
A. SALVATION IS NEARER THAN WE THINK (3 ASPECTS)
1. PAST...SAVED FROM THE PENALTY OF SIN
2. PRESENT..BEING SAVED FROM THE DOMINION OF SIN
3. FUTURE..WILL BE SAVED IN PERFECT CONFORMITY TO CHRIST
PAUL IS SPEAKING OF 3, “NOW IS THE COMPLETION OF OUR SALVATION NEAR”
B. AT HAND...TO APPROACH, DRAW NEAR
III. IT IS TIME TO TURN FROM EVIL
A. FROM THE WORKS OF DARKNESS...STRIFE, MALICE, ANGER, ENVYING
B. FROM JEALOUS ATTITUDES THAT DISHONOR CHRIST
C. FROM THE OLD LIFE, TO NEWNESS OF CHRIST
IV. IT IS TIME TO DRESS FOR THE DAY
A. EPH 6:13
B. 2 CORIN. 6:1-10
C. PUT ON THE WHOLE ARMOUR OF GOD
D. PUT ON THE CHRISTIAN CHARACTER, AND KEEP IT ON
E. DRESSED UP AND SOME PLACE TO GO.
V. IT IS TIME TO WALK HONESTLY
A. LIVE AS IF CHRIST MAY COME AT ANY MOMENT
B. LIVE ABOVE SINFUL AND WORLDLY PEOPLE
C. LIVE IN A RIGHT RELATIONSHIP TO GOD, CHURCH, OTHERS
D. LIVE IN AN INFLUENTIAL MANNER, CHANGE THE WORLD FOR CHRIST
VI. IT IS TIME TO LIVE
A. LIVE GODLY, FOR GOD, IN THE LIGHT
B. LIVE WISELY HE THAT WINNETH SOULS IS WISE
C. LIVE FAITHFULLY FULL OF FAITH AND GOOD WORKS
D. LIVE HEALTHY FEASTING ON THE RICHES OF GOD
E. LIVE HOLY WHO SHALL ASCEND TO THE HOLY HILL OF GOD?
HE THAT HATH CLEAN HANDS AND A PURE HEART
SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES
JOHN 5:39.... “.SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES, FOR IN THEM YOU THINK YOU
HAVE ETERNAL LIFE.”
ACTS 17:11... “THE CHRISTIANS OF BEREA RECIEVED THE WORD WITH ALL
READINESS OF MIND AND SEARCHED THE SCRIPTURES DAILY
WHETHER THINGS WERE SO”
II TIM. 2:15... “STUDY TO SHOW THYSELF APPROVED UNTO GOD, A WORK-
MAN THAT NEEDETH NOT TO BE ASHAMED, RIGHTLY DIVIDING
THE WORD OF TRUTH”
II TIM. 3:15.. “THAT FROM A CHILD, THOU HAS KNOWN THE HOLY
SCRIPTURES, THAT ALL SCRIPTURE IS GIVEN BY INSPIRATION
OF THE HOLY SPIRIT”
PSALM 119:9.. “ WHEREWITHAL SHALL A YOUNG MAN CLEANSE HIS WAY?
BY TAKING HEED THERETO ACCORDING TO THY WORD”
I CORIN 3:1,2...PAUL TELLS PEOPLE IN A CHURCH TO LAUNCH OUT INTO
THE DEEP. THEY HAVE BEEN ON MILK LONG ENOUGH. TANTRUMS,
SULKING, FOOT STOMPING, CRYING, SELF-CENTERED, AND IT
IS ENOUGH!! GET SOME MEAT AND STRONG Will power.
NOT ONLY ONCE, AND LONG AGO,
THERE ON GOLGOTHA’S RUGGED SIDE
HAS CHRIST THE LORD BEEN CRUCIFIED
BECAUSE HE LOVED A LOST WORLD SO,
BUT HOURLY SOULS, SIN SATISFIED,
MOCK HIS GREAT LOVE, FLOUT HIS COMMANDS,
AND DRIVE NAILS DEEP INTO HIS HANDS,
AND THRUST THE SPEAR WITHIN HIS SIDE.
SEE THERE! GOD’S SIGNPOST, STANDING AT THE WAYS
WHICH EVERY MAN OF HIS FREE WILL MUST GO
UP THE STEEP HILL, OR DOWN THE WINDING WAYS,
ONE OR THE OTHER, EVERY MAN MUST GO.
HE FORCES NO MAN, EACH MUST CHOOSE HIS WAY,
AND AS HE CHOOSES SO THE END WILL BE,
ONE WENT IN FRONT TO POINT THE PERFECT WAY,
WHO FOLLOWS FEARS NOT WHERE THE END WILL BE.
