The Time Is Short
Minister: | Rev. Ronald Van Overloop |
Date: | 12/31/2012 PM (New Year's Eve) |
Text: | I Corinthians 7:29-31 |
Psalters: | 345, 246, 106, 105 |
- This earthly time is like the set of a play.
- Time in this life consists of many good, lawful activities.
- “They that have wives.”
- “They that weep” refers to the difficult times of affliction and tribulation (death or economic loss).
- “They that rejoice” are those with the joy given through many wonderful circumstances.
- “They that buy” are those who make a good life buying and accumulating.
- “They that use this world” are those who enjoy the comforts which wealth can give.
- The curtain will soon fall on these things, bringing them all to an end, for time is short.
- While time is short, it is absolutely sure that there is an end.
- We must “consider your ways” (Haggai 1:5,7); “set your house in order” (II Kings 20:1).
- Let us leave the theater of this life and grasp that which abideth forever.
- Time in this life consists of many good, lawful activities.
- The Christian’s view of this drama whose fashion is the vanishing splendid pageantry of a scene.
- The value of this short time is great to the Christian when it is activity of God, when it is seen as a responsibility to God, and is gratitude and love we owe to God.
- It teaches the Christian that has a wife to view her as one who does not have one. “Be as though they had none.”
- Marriage is wonderful, but we are not to seek our heaven in it by making it an end in itself (as if it will last “forever”).
- It is right to value this blessing, but wrong to make it my all, everything.
- We weep (God means us to), learningfrom Him because the time is short.
- Our joys are good, but they all pass away as a dream, and often are forgotten (viewed as though they were not).
- Buy and trade, but remember that it is not the real way to be rich.
- Use this world without “abusing it” holding it with a loose hand.