you would and turn to two places, Luke Chapter 12 and James Chapter 4. Luke Chapter 12 and James Chapter 4. We didn't fire Walter. He is still recovering from the crud. I guess the best way to describe it would be the crud, the creeping crud. That's the worst. And hopefully he'll be back with it. And Cindy, Cindy sounded better than you, brother. She seemed to recover okay. So pray for each other, pray for that the Lord would just keep a hedge about us and keep that sickness away from us. Luke chapter 12, James chapter 4, we're all there. Let's pray. Father, we come to this morning, we thank you again so much for the opportunity to be in church, the freedom that we have to assemble without fear of government intervention or any kind of persecution. Lord, we thank you for spoiling us in that way. Lord, I pray this morning that you would take this piece of dirt, stand behind this pulpit, that in me and my flesh dwells no good thing, and without you I can't do anything. And Lord, I believe that. Lord, take this clay vessel and fill it with your Spirit. We need to hear from you, not from me. Lord, we need to hear your words and pray, Father, that you would stand behind this pulpit, sit next to each and every one of us in the pew, walk up and down these aisles. Lord, I pray that you would minister to us this morning. and impress upon our hearts what we need to get. And Lord, I pray if anybody here has never trusted Christ as their Savior, you convict them this morning in a great way that they would come and receive Christ as their Savior. Lord, help us now, minister to us. We need your help. Lord, we're very weak, we're very frail, we're physical beings trying to comprehend spiritual things. Lord, we need help. Give us understanding, give us wisdom, but help us. Thank you in Christ's name. Amen. Luke chapter 12, the Bible says in verse 16, And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully. And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do? because I have no room where to bestow my fruits. And he said, This will I do. I will pull down my barns, build greater, and here will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, Thou hast much goods laid up for many years. Take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee. Then whose shall these things be which thou hast provided? So is he that layeth up treasure for himself is not rich toward God. Now go to James chapter 4. James chapter 4 and verse 13. Starting at verse 13, He says, "...go to now ye that say, Today or tomorrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy, and sell, and get gain. Whereas ye know not what shall be in the morrow, for what is your life? It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. That ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, and do that." In both of these accounts of Scripture there was a misunderstanding of time. The rich man thought he had plenty of time. And there are some people that James addresses that thinks they had plenty of time. And so this morning I'd like to preach a little bit about the briefness of time and the incomprehensibility, I guess you could say, of time. Many times when we think of time, we think there's always been time, there always will be time, and that's not true. Time began in Genesis 1 and verse 1. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, and with that, excuse me, the heaven and the earth, and with that was the beginning of time. And time will end as we know it in Revelation. Revelation chapter 21, they seize a new heaven and a new earth. The first heaven and the first earth are passed away. There is no more sea. Revelation 21 verse 23 says there's neither no more sun or a moon. God's glory will lighten everything up. So we won't be living the 24-hour day. We won't be living the eight-hour workday or the 40-hour workweek or whatever. Things are going to change. But there was a time when time did not exist. And God created time. And yet we really have a hard time understanding time. I know that based on the fact that many of you get here late. I'm just saying, just saying. But do you realize that if you take a clock and you put a clock on a mountaintop and you put a clock in a valley, they're going to read differently? Same basic location, but up, up, one's up here, one's up. They call that the well of gravity. Gravity affects time. So a lack of gravity would probably affect time. I don't know if you've talked to any eggheads, those are the educated people, they're educated beyond God. They always will bring up the problem with the distant starlight. So you creationists, you believe in a 6,000, and I do, I believe a 6,000 year Earth, I believe it was created no later than what we would say is 4,000, 4,500 BC. So how in the world can you believe that the world's only 6,000 years old and yet there are galaxies out there that they're telling us are only from 47.8 billion light years across and 100 billion light years across. How can you explain that? To which my response is, how do you explain it if you're an evolutionist and you believe in the Big Bang? Because the Big Bang according to them is only 13.8 billion years, not light years, just billion years. And yet we have this vast amount of time. How do you explain it? The Big Bang Theory doesn't give you time for the vast distant starlight and the 6,000 year creation doesn't give time for the vast, so there's something we don't understand. There's something we just don't understand about light and about time and about time travel, light travel, something we just don't get. For the creationists, it's kind of easy. We can look at it and say, you know, creation was a one-time event. It can't be repeated. We don't know what conditions were like at that time when God did the creating. So billions of light years away could be no problem for Him because it is a supernatural event. He said, what are you saying, Peter? I'm saying God was involved in this thing. And of course, the atheists will say, well, you Christians, every time you get in a hump, you say, well, you know, God must have did it. To the evolutionists, I say, and every time you get in trouble, it's time that you run to, to try to say if there's enough time, anything can happen. Everybody has their little things. But we just don't get this thing, you know. Time is just unique. I have flown into the Frankfurt airport a few times and I hate the Frankfurt airport because of my situation is that from flying in from the United States, you go into Frankfurt, you go through the people that look at your luggage and give you mean looks. What is that again? Customs, yeah, you go through customs all that. Then you go through passport control one or two times, they're checking your passport and all this and that. And then I have to catch a flight on a GN Airlines, which takes me Frankfurt to Thessaloniki to see my son-in-law and my daughter. And it's on the total other opposite side of Frankfurt Airport. And if you have an hour and a half, you may make it. But what's interesting is they have the moving walkways in the airport. And a lot of people get on there and just lean on it and just let it go. I get on there and I walk. So here's the thing. I'm on this thing. I'm walking. It starts there, it ends there, and I have quite a few of them. It starts there and ends down there. I'm walking. I walk the same rate when I get on it. I'm walking the same distance as the people over here, the same distance, and yet I'm going faster than they are. So I'm walking the same distance. I'm walking the same rate. but there's a difference, because what I'm walking on is moving, what they're walking on isn't. Here's an interesting thought, and I'm gonna just touch this this morning and then get off of it pretty quick, but this thing of distant starlight, how can there be billions of light years of starlight and all this and that? God gives us a clue. Take your Bible and turn to Job chapter 26. Job chapter 26, God gives us a clue as to why this is the way it is. And by the way, anybody that says they know everything about time and light, probably a used car salesman. No offense if you're a used car salesman. And let me say something else this morning as we're talking about outer space. I do not believe in aliens. I believe that demons, devils can appear as aliens. I did make that clear this morning when I was talking about the Antichrist. If the sightings and all that stuff are true, those are devils or not, there is not life anywhere else out there. I didn't make that clear, I probably should have made it clear. But let's look at this thing about our universe. Job 26 and verse 7, look what he says, he stretches out the north. over the empty place, that's the northern part of the universe, and hangeth the earth upon nothing. He's talking about outer space. He says he stretcheth out the north. Go to Psalm 104 and verse 2. Psalm 104 and verse 2. And you're going to see this phrase occur again. Psalm 104 and verse 2, it says, who covers thyself with light as with a garment, so we know God is light, who stretcheth out the heaven like a curtain. He says that phrase again. Go to Isaiah chapter 40 and look at verse 22. Isaiah chapter 40 verse 22, is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, so the worth is round, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain. Third time He said it, stretcheth out the heavens. Go to Isaiah 42 and verse 5. Thus saith the Lord God that created the heavens and stretched them out. Look at Isaiah 44. Isaiah 44, look at verse 24. Thus saith the Lord thy Redeemer, and He that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things, that stretcheth forth the heavens alone. Look at Isaiah 45, look at verse 12, I have made the earth, created man upon it, I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded. Look at Isaiah 51, Isaiah 51 and verse 13, and forget us the Lord thy maker that stretched forth the heavens. I can give you two more references, nine total in your Bible that tell you God stretched out the heavens. Think about this. Think about having a balloon and maybe the balloon is just partially inflated, maybe it's not inflated at all. You take a sharpie and put two black dots on it. Now at that point those two black dots are this far away and this far away from the source. Then you start to blow that balloon up. What happens to those black dots? Not only do they spread out, but they spread this way. God tells us that the universe, in fact when He created it, began to stretch the thing out. And as He stretched it out, everything stretched out with it. In fact, the scientists tell us today that the universe is still expanding. We call it stretching. It's still stretching out. How do you explain the distant starlight? We live in a universe that is constantly being stretched out. Maybe that explains it. We don't know a lot about what's going on, but that's a possibility. Anyway, I said all this to say this, that time has value. We don't really understand it. It is different. It is relative, as some would say, but it has value. It's a tool that helps us measure things. How many of you watch the Olympics or part of the Olympics? And they're skating and they're skiing down the hills and all that stuff. And I think somebody won by one one-hundredth of a second. One one-hundredth of a second, what is that? I mean, because we can measure time, because time has that value, it's that kind of a tool, we can do that kind of stuff. We measure world records and stuff like that. It's amazing. It's a great tool. Time helps us chart our course. A calendar is simply a time map. You know, some of you are used to reading maps. If you want to get to here or there or what have you, I'm reading the map, north, south, east, and west. When it comes to time, you put a calendar on the wall or in your computer or what have you, and there's the calendar. And there's your map on what you're going to do this day and then that day and this month and when is this and when is that. It's a time map. That's what a calendar is. And another thing about time is time warns us. Time warns us of trouble coming. It warns us of an end of something. It's a warning device. Go back to Luke chapter 12. Let's look at this rich guy in Luke chapter 12 that had a little problem with time. Luke chapter 12, starting in verse 16. And again, this is a parable. Luke chapter 12 and verse 16, they speak a parable and I'm saying, the ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully. Now is there anything wrong with that? No. It's not wrong to be prosperous in your business. Verse 17, and he thought within himself, that's the problem. That's the problem. He saw all this profit coming in and he thought within himself. Well, I'm hoping that while he thought within himself, maybe he thought without himself and realized it's God that gives me this ability, it's God that gives me these blessings. How many of you understand that? You know, you've got this idea, well, I've got to get up at work every morning and go into work, work my eight hours, ten hours, come home, you know, and that's my drudgery and what have you. I've had people say to me, boy, I wish I was in full-time ministry so I didn't have to get up and go to work every day. And there's an interesting, take your Bible and turn to Deuteronomy chapter 8. My response to that is everyone in that sense is full-time ministry because every one of us that goes to work, we go to work because God gave us the ability to do that. Deuteronomy 8, verse 17, it says, and thou say in thine heart, my power and my might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth. Do you believe that? Boy, I'm a carpenter, I'm a welder, I'm an electrician, I'm a floor layer and I can take these hands and I can do what I need to do. but thou shalt remember the Lord thy God, for it is He that giveth thee power to get wealth, that He may establish this covenant, and so on and so forth. It's God that gives you power. You know why you can wire an electric box? Because God gave you that ability. You know why you can weld a pipe? Because God gave you the ability. You know why you can build a house? God gave you the ability. You don't think that's true, say to Him sometime, let me go to work today without your help. Try that sometime. It's God that gives us that ability. So this rich man, he didn't get that part of it. You know, he saw all the blessings coming in. He should have said, man, look what God has done for me. Man, God has blessed me. No, he's thinking within himself. And as he's thinking within himself, he begins to talk to himself. How many here talk to themselves? Listen, don't answer yourself. It'll be okay. And don't do it in public or around other people. It'll be okay. but he begins to talk to himself and he says, I will say to my soul, soul that has much goods laid up for many years, that's his mistake. He's talking to himself, he's looking at all this stuff coming in, he's making plans, nothing wrong with planning. Somebody said one time, a failure to plan is a plan to fail. That's true, you have to plan. But his mistake was, he said, I've got goods laid up for many years. Really? Many years. I've preached on the street quite a bit, and one of the things I always like to bring up, especially in a bigger city, is to make this statement. That in every major newspaper, there's an obituary column. And how do you know your name's not going to be in the obituary column in the next day or two? You say, that's morbid. That's reality. Can you prove to me your name's not going to be in the obituary column in the next day or two? You talk to the kids down in Florida at that high school and they'll tell you, you know what, that's true. In fact, our friends, 17 friends of ours were in that, not mine, but I'm speaking as they would speak, 17 schoolmates. found their names in the obituary column. How do you know that's not going to be you tomorrow? We all plan on living a long life. When you're young, you're thinking, I got all this time to live. I imagine the 17 young people in Florida thought the same thing. This rich man said, you know, eat, drink, and be merry. Take that ease. I've got stuff laid up for plenty of years. If the stock market doesn't crash, how many said that in the 1900s, early 1900s? I got it made, end up jumping out of the window of a building to their death because they lost it all in one day. Proverbs 27 verse 1 says this, boast not thyself of tomorrow. I'm going to do this and I'm going to do that. When I retire, baby, it's leisure world, leisure land, whatever that place is called, Sun City, it's the golf course, it's this, it's that. You may never make it. Boasts not thyself of tomorrow, the Bible says, for thou knowest not what a day shall bring forth. Boy, is that true. Thou knowest not what a day shall bring forth. I think about my wife's two parents who are both in good health. And in a matter of a year and a half, they both died. My father-in-law was in Punta Gorda, Florida, put the suitcases, walked down the flight of steps, put the suitcases in the car, ready to head back up to Toledo for the spring. Came in, said, I feel funny, laid on the couch. Fire department was right across the street. A year and a half later, my mother-in-law was riding with someone who made a driving mistake and T-boned and she died on the site. Boast not thyself of tomorrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring. And that's why this guy made a mistake. And the Lord responded to his, eat, drink, and be merry, I've got plenty of time. The Lord responded, said, thou fool, this night, this night, thy soul shall be required of thee. This night. So who's in control? Not us. You know, Frank Sinatra could sing, I did it my way, but he wasn't in control of his life. He thought he was. God's in control. That was the first mistake he made. God controls our schedule. God controls your heart rate. Boy, I can do anything. Can you keep your heart beating? You know, it's interesting about our lives that we can… We can circumvent God's schedule. In other words, if God says, you know what, you're going to live to be 85, and we get stupid and say, you know what, I'm going to take my life at 55 or 65, we can circumvent the will of God by cutting it short. We cannot circumvent the will of God by making it longer. God says you're dying at 85, you're not going to say, no, no, I'm going to live until I'm 90. No, you're going to die at 85. Now let's go to James chapter 4 because some people in James chapter 4 are making the same mistake. James chapter 4 and look at verse 13. James 4.13, he says, Go to now ye that say today, or tomorrow, we will go into such a city, continue there a year, buy and sell, and get gain. So they were going to go, they were going to continue, they were going to get. And again, there's nothing wrong with making plans. Nothing wrong with making a schedule. When I was on the road, we had an itinerary set up. I had to make the calls. And listen, I understand the the grief that missionaries go through who are on deputation that have to make the calls. you call a hundred pastors, you're probably going to get five that will even return the call. You might get one or two meetings out of calling a hundred pastors. A missionary on deputation has to get in as many churches as he can to try to raise his support, and it usually takes anywhere from two to three years to raise his support so he can go to the foreign field God has called him to go to. So he can try to lead people to Christ, and he's got to go through this process called deputation. Some have said that that's Baptist purgatory, is to try to go through that. But you have to plan it. You have to do that. You have to have your itinerary. I've got to travel here, and here, and here, and here. And then you have to set it up in such a way that I can't travel here, there, there, and there. I remember one time, we were down in Florida before diesel prices went up. And I had a meeting in Englewood, Florida, which is on the west coast, and I got a meeting in Virginia. And because I needed meetings, and the diesel prices hadn't gone up that much yet, we drove from Englewood, Florida, which is south of Tampa, south of St. Petersburg in that area, all the way up to Virginia, and then I had to drive all the way back because I had another meeting set up. And it was like this, you know. And after a while, when the diesel prices went up, he said, you know what? I've got to schedule meetings in the locations, you know, if I'm going to survive this thing. And so there's nothing wrong with doing that. We have to do that. We have to live a life like that. We have to live on a schedule. You have to be at work at such and such a time. You have to be at church at such and such a time. But anyway, you have to be at work at such and such a time. You know, you have an appointment. You have to be there. There's nothing wrong with that. The problem is, verse 14 of James. He says, "'Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow.'" So as Christians, we kind of live a double life. On one hand, we have to live like we're going to be here for a long time. We have to do that. We have to plan. And on the other hand, we need to live like there is no tomorrow and balance that thing. And that's the trick. And neither one is more spiritual than the other. I believe Jesus Christ could come back right now. You're saying, hopefully before He preaches any longer. He can come back right now. I believe He could. I believe it could be another 30, 40, 50, maybe 100 years before He comes back. So I have to live that way. I remember back in the 70s, I think it was the 70s, late 70s, the Social Security Department chose to allow ministers, preachers, to opt out of Social Security. You had the option of opting out, there was like a two or three year window on that thing, you could opt out of Social Security. And the thought at that time was, might as well opt out, I can get more money, more income, and the Lord's gonna be back before the year 2000, right? And a lot of these guys opted out. I never did, thankfully. But a lot of these guys opted out. Certainly, the Lord is going to be back in the year 2018. It's 2018, they have no retirement, and they're knocking on church doors saying, hey, I need help. The Southern Baptist Convention has decided to take them back into the fold, if they'd like to, because the Southern Baptists have a retirement program. So either you have to swallow your conviction and join back up with the Southern Baptist Convention to get the retirement or you have nothing. They were thinking the Lord could come back at any time but failed to balance that with the possibility maybe He's not. That's the balance there. And then in James it says this, what is your life? What is your life? It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time and then vanishes away. Have we ever a kid, you were all kids at one time. We all were way, way back. In the Jurassic age we were children. And you lay on the ground on one of those nice summer days, well that wouldn't be around here, but one of those nice days, you know. You lay on the back, you're laying in the grass, you're looking up and there's a few clouds in the sky, which wouldn't be around here. Anyway, back in Ohio. You could lay on the ground, look up, and you see clouds come and you watch them. And they'd kind of form and change a little bit, and then they're gone. And here come another, and you try to say, well, that one looks like marshmallows and that, you know, and try to make something out of it. But James says that's what your life is. It's like a vapor. Vapor's a cloud. A little cloud that comes up, it's gone. In Ohio, there used to be some real foggy mornings. You wake up in the morning, just fog. As the sun comes up, it's gone. It appears for a little while and then vanishes away. And God says that's what your life is like. It's like a cloud that vanishes away. And we don't look at it that way. Turn to Psalm 90. For some of us, life seems to be a drudgery, it's day after day after day, dragging on. Psalm chapter 19, verse 10, says, "...the days of our years are threescore years and ten," that's 70, "...and if by reason of strength they be fourscore," 80, "...yet is there strength, labor, and sorrow, for it soon shall be cut off, and we fly away." So God says, on the average, I'm going to give you 70 to 80 years in this life. If you're over 80 years, you are living on the icing on the cake. But God says the average is 70 to 80 years. In fact, I checked into this thing and as of 2015, the average life expectancy in the United States was 78.74 years. Men living on the average of 76 years, women living on the average of 81 years. And we've always said that, you women are driving us into the grave. So you live longer than we do. That's as of 2015 in the United States. In 1919 in the United States, men lived on an average of 53 years, women 56 years. So we've come a long way. We have good medical system here as long as the government stays out of it. We're improving, but still 70 to 80 years. The Brits in England, 81.6 as their average. The Japanese, 83.84. Say why? They eat a lot of fish. Eat more fish, you'll live longer. But listen to what Jacob said to Pharaoh. I'm going to quote Genesis 47 verse 9, or read it I should say. Listen to what Jacob said to Pharaoh. The days of the years of my pilgrimage are 130 years. Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been. 130 years. And he said, few have the days of my life been. He said, I've not attained unto the days and years of the life of my fathers. They lived 175, 180 years. But he looked at 130 years as being few. Think about this. When you look back on your life, it's few. Really, when you think about all the years back, it's tiny. You think about the time ahead, that's the long time. When we look into the future, that's when it gets long. You look in the future, okay, I've got to go to work on Monday, Wednesday is hump day, Friday at the weekend, and it's back to Monday. And that's how we look at our life. I remember when I was in school, I hated school. Get their money, oh, when will Friday come? And it's in the future, it's so long. Ever had a gallbladder attack? You talk about time stopping? or a kidney stone, time stops, it seems like. But when you look back, it's like yesterday. I mean, see the difference. And it's interesting when we think about the number of days that we live. I'm 62 years old, so I've lived 22,645 and a half days. The octogenarians, those are people 80 and older if you're from Apache Junction, Their average day is 31,000 or 32,000 days. If you're in your 90s, over 34,000 days. That's a lot of days to live. We think about something happening two months from now, 60 days. When you've lived over 25,000, 30,000, 35,000 days, that's a long time. Teenagers have lived about 6,000 days. So when you teenagers want to give us some of your wisdom, You know, we kind of smirk a little bit because you've only been around 5,000 or 6,000 days. We've been around 25,000, 30,000, 35,000 days. But the Lord, His timing is different. And bear with me because I'm getting to a point here, but just bear with me. 2 Peter 3 in verse 8, one of the most abused verses in the Bible. But still, we're going to look at it. In 2 Peter 3 and verse 8 he says this, But beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord a thousand years, a thousand years is one day. Now you want to do the math? One thousand years is 24 hours with Him. 500 years, 12 hours. 250 years, 6 hours. 125 years, 3 hours or 180 minutes. 62 and a half years, 90 minutes, 31.25 or 31 and a quarter years, 45 minutes. One year with God is about 90 seconds. So His timing is a little different than ours. So if you're in your prayer closet and you're asking the Lord for something and He looks at you and says, just a minute, say, no, no, no. With you that's eight months. But our days, days are in God's timing. are based on Scripture. Listen to what Scripture says and then I'm going to get to my point here. And don't turn there but just listen. Job chapter 7 verse 6, in fact three of these verses will be out of Job because he was going through such a hard time. Job chapter 7 verse 6 says, My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle. How many know what a weaver's shuttle is? When you look at how they weave cloth in one of those old-fashioned machines, there's this thing, they slide through with the thread on it, and you slide it back, slide it back, and while you're doing all this other stuff. He said, my days are just like that, swifter than a weaver's shuttle, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. Job chapter 9 verse 25, he says, my days are swifter than a post. They flee away, they see no good, so what's he talking about? He's talking about somebody that, a post is not a pole in the ground, he's talking about a post as somebody that came and gave the news, the town crier. Here's the post, he comes running in, he gives the news, he's gone. He said, my days are like that. They start, they end. They start, they end. They start, they end. And Job 14 verse 1 he says, man that is born of a woman is a few days and full of trouble. A few days. Psalm 39 and verse 5 says this, behold thou hast made my days as a hand breath. A hand breath. A hand breath is like this. Now think about this. If I could make a timeline here. to infinity past, infinity future, eternity past, eternity future, a timeline. Our lives would be this segment of that infinite timeline, just that much. See why God says a few days? Our days are few. He went on to say, the psalmist went on to say, my age is nothing before you. Well, yeah. I mean our age is nothing before So here's my point. Go to Psalm 90. Psalm 90 and verse 12. Here's how everything I just said, here's how it applies to you and I. Psalm 90, look at verse 12. So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Teach us to number our days. You've got this much. In fact, let's expand it a little bit. Let's move in a little bit and expand it. Okay, this is my 70 or 80 years, maybe. Here's my time span. On the timeline of eternity past and eternity future, I've got this much. What am I going to do with this? What am I going to do with this? Well, the smartest thing you can do is to trust Jesus Christ as your Savior. That's the smartest thing you can do because when you trust Christ as your Savior, and I believe I told you this before, the moment you trust Jesus Christ as your Savior, that is a point in time, but it's divorced or separated from time and perpetuated on for eternity. So once you trust Christ as your Savior, that point is taken into eternity. You've got that. Nothing can take that away. What about the rest? What about the rest? Somebody said one time, you go to the cemetery and it's got the day they were born, the day they died, and a dash between it. That dash represents your life. Our pastor said one time down south, That dash actually is translated, especially in Georgia, that dash is translated as this. Hey, y'all, watch this. Some of you will get that. The dash led to the, okay. But you have this much. You have this much. Now I can do some things here that can help me here. I didn't opt out of Social Security, that's gonna help me here. I eat right and exercise, that's gonna help me here. I have a savings account that should become due, that should help me. I don't, I'm just hypothetically speaking. Savings account that'll come due here. I have a 401, 401, there's another, okay, it was a 201 for a while, but then Trump got back in. 401K, it's gonna help me here. I've got a CD, that's gonna help me here. I've got property, that's gonna help me. All that stuff helps me here. What's helping you there? See that rich man we read about earlier in Luke, his failure was, in fact I'll read the statement that he said. In fact, Jesus said at the end of that parable, he said this, after he said, thou fool, this night my soul shall be acquired of thee and whose all this stuff is going to be, he said this, so is he that layeth up treasure for himself that is not rich toward God. He laid up treasure in here. He laid nothing up there. So what are you doing with this time? What are you doing with this? I understand there's things we have to do here to get to here. I understand that. But that's not all there is to life. That's not all this is about. There's things we can do here that can go there. We talk about giving. All that church ever talks about is money. Not this one. We don't have enough to talk about. Well, we do now that the superior property is sold. But anyway, you take your money. There's missionaries on the wall over there. We support those missionaries. And that money that you give to missionaries here goes here. The money you give to keep your church going goes here. To use an old worn-out cliche, When you take your time, your talent, and your treasure here and use it for Jesus Christ, the reward is here. Well, let me ask you again, what are you doing with your time? What are you doing with this time right here? Somebody said one time, you know, there's only two things you can take to heaven. If you lead your children to Christ, you can take them to heaven. And any soul you lead to Jesus Christ, you can take to heaven. So if you've led your children to Christ here, they're going to make it here. Any soul you lead to Jesus Christ here is going to be here. Nothing else is. What are you doing with this? Teach us to number our days. You have to make decisions right in here where you decide what is more important. Do I take something here and put it here or do I take that and work here? And again, there's a balance there. You can't abandon your family and quit your job and all that stuff. You have to live in here. But your priority should be living for here and giving for here. What are you doing with this? And when the Lord Jesus comes back and we stand before Him at the judgment seat of Christ, He's going to be looking over here. Our rewards will be judged based on what's over here. Our treasures in heaven will be based on what we did here to find them over there. What do you do with this? Say, preacher, my life is just about going to work every day. Get up on Monday, get my paycheck on Friday. Get up on Monday, get my paycheck on Friday. Monday, Friday. Monday, Friday. Monday. Is that your life? Is the high point of your life Sunday? I'm working Monday through Friday to support my family, to support missionaries, to help God's work out. I can't wait for Sunday. I love being in church. Is that where your priority is? I can't wait for Saturday morning so I can go hang bags on doors or knock on doors and pass tracks out and try to lead people to Jesus Christ. Is that your priority? What are you doing with this? I mentioned last week, I'll say it again, God gave you a new life. You were lost part of this time. You got saved, perpetuated to eternity. Now you're a child of God. What are you going to do with your life? You ruined it the first time. Why do you think you're going to be able to take care of it the second time? And maybe you didn't ruin it, but don't you think God has a better plan for your life than you do? I think the best thing to do with this slot of time right here is to give it to Jesus Christ. Say, Lord, take it. And then say, Lord, help me to make the decisions, not just for this life, but for eternity. Help me with this section of time. Time. Never seems like you have enough of it. Seems like it's fleeting. But you are responsible for the time that God has given you and I am responsible for the time that God has given me. What are we doing with it? The Lord teach us to number our days.