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This sermon explores the concept of time management in accordance with Jesus's example, emphasizing the importance of prioritizing tasks without hurry and understanding that our worth is not determined by our productivity.
Today is the last day of a series called, Redeeming Your Time. A quick recap: In Ephesians 5:15-17, God commands us to “redeem the time.” Why? So that we can do “the will of the Lord.” Over the past few weeks, we have explored six timeless time management principles from the life of Christ as portrayed in the gospels: Principle #1: Start with the Word Principle #2: Let Your Yes Be Yes Principle #3: Dissent From the Kingdom of Noise Principle #4: Prioritize Your Yeses Principle #5: Accept Your Unipresence Principle #6: Embrace Productive Rest Today, we’re going to unpack the seventh and final principle: Eliminate All Hurry: To redeem our time in the model of our Redeemer, we must embrace productive business while ruthlessly eliminating hurry from our lives.
To redeem our time in the model of our Redeemer, we must embrace productive business while ruthlessly eliminating hurry from our lives.
Throughout this series, we have talked about how although life is drastically different now than in the first century, Jesus did have many of the same time management challenges we face today. One of the most common words used in the Gospel of Mark is “immediately.” No less than forty times does Mark employ this word to make an inescapable point: The life of Jesus and his disciples was busy.
One time, Jesus was too busy to eat and his family thought he was “out of his mind” (Mark 3:20-21). Another time, Jesus’ disciples tried to convince him to call it a day when Jesus replied, “Are there not twelve hours in the day?” (John 11:9 ESV). The Cambridge Bible commentary translates Jesus’s words as follows: “Are there not twelve working-hours in which a man may labour without fear of stumbling? I have not yet reached the end of my working-day, and so can safely continue the work I came to do. The night cometh, when I can no longer work; but it has not yet come.”
When that night did come, Jesus prayed to the Father saying, “I have brought you glory on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do” (John 17:4). As we have seen over the past four weeks, Jesus was highly motivated to finish his work as a means of glorifying the Father, and that led him to be wildly productive and busy.
But while Jesus was certainly busy, the gospels never show him hurried ... View this full sermon with PRO Premium
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