How We Use Our Time and Energy

Providence Church of Christ

August 12, 2007

Many waste time and energy

• Worry over things we have no control over• Weather• Accidents• Health• Other people’s lives

• Worry over things we do have control over that aren’t important

• Burning the biscuits• Dirty car/house• Yard• Vanity ‘O Vanity• Greed/Money/the desire to have more and more

What should we be spending our time and energy on?

• James 4:13-17– James tells us that our lives are but a vapor

and that our time on earth is very short

• Psalm 90:10-12– David taught that we should number our days

• How would our lives be different if we lived with a sense of our own mortality?

Live like you were dying

I. Love deeper and speak sweeterI. Ephesians 5:22-33

II. Ephesians 4:31-32

II. Give forgiveness I had been denyingI. Matthew 18:21-35

II. Matthew 5:23-24

III. James 2:13

Live like you were dying

III. Be a friend a friend would like to haveI. Proverbs 27:6

II. Proverbs 18:24

III. Proverbs 17:17

IV. Communication

IV. Read the Good BookI. 2 Timothy 2:15

II. 2 Timothy 3:15-17

III. Romans 10:17

Live like you were dying

V. Take a good long hard look at what I’d do if I could do it all againI. Revelation 3:3

II. Romans 1:14

Conclusion

• I Timothy Chapter 6

• Proverbs 3:5,6

Plan of Salvation

Hear the Gospel of Christ, Acts 18:8 Believe in Jesus Christ, Rom. 1:16 Repent and Turn to God, Luke 13:3 Confess Jesus Before Men, Acts 8:37 Baptized into Christ, Mark 16:16

Grow and Be Faithful, Matthew 10:22 If Err From The Faith: Repent and Pray God, Acts

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