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"What Is Your
Life?"
James 4:13-17
James ask, what is your life? Life is a Diary, where we record the events
of our stay on earth. Life is Days, we have our Present day and Life's day.
Life is a Duty, to do things not because they had better be done, but because
they ought to be done. James ask the most profound question of the Bible,
"What Is Your Life". The Bible gives life as the time between birth and death.
Life is so uncertain, our days on earth are like a vapour, that appeareth
for a little time, and then vanished away. I Chronicles 29:15 Speaking of
David's life and death says, "For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners,
as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there
is none abiding". Job 7:6 Job said, "My days are swifter than a weaver's
shuttle, and are spent without hope. Job 7:7 ..."Oh, remember that my life
is a wind (breath)..". Job 8:9 "For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing,
because our days upon earth are a shadow". Job 9:25-26 "..."My days are swifter
than a post: .... they are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that
hasteth to the prey". Job 14:1-2 "Man that is born of a woman is of few days,
and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth
also as a shadow, and continueth not.
James 4:14 ..."Life ...It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time,
and then vanishes away.
As we think of LIFE let us LOOK at four things pertaining to our LIFE.
I. THE LANGUAGE OF OUR LIFE.
Verse 11-12
There is somewhere a heart that is broken today
A soul that is crushed along life's way;
What is the cause of that, you say?
it's GOSSIP.
Someone has spoken an unkind word,
Perhaps repeated something they've heard
Until some life is deeply disturbed
By GOSSIP.
Have you stopped to ask, "Is it true; is it kind"
Until the source of the rumor you find"
If you have, I'm sure you will leave behind
All GOSSIP.
We will not say much about the language of our life tonight because we covered
that last Wednesday Night in our Bible study.
II. THE LENGTH OF OUR LIVES.
Verse 14
Vr #14 For what is your LIFE? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little
time, and then vanished away.
Psalms 90:10-12 God tells us to Number our Days and apply our hearts to wisdom.
How old are you today? The average life span for a man is 72.06 Years, for
a woman is 77.01 Years. Our time on this earth is from 70 to 80 years, and
then like all others before us, life on earth "vanishes away".
When we think of "The Length Of Our Lives" We Know.
(a). Life Is Very
Short.
Verse #14 "appeareth for a little while and then is vanished away".
VANISHED AWAY = Morning Mist, Story Soon Told, Weavers Shuttle, (life
is short no matter how we gage it). You can think of someone this moment
that has recently went to meet God.
(b). Life Is
Significant.
Verse #14 "for what is your life?" (You are no accident, life is for something,
life has meaning, it is important. (Three things we should use LIFE For)
1. We Should Use Life For Reaching God's World.
2. We Should Use Life For Proclaiming God's Word.
3. We Should Use Life For Learning God's Wisdom.
As We Look At Life, Let Us Consider
III. THE LORD OF OUR
LIFE.
Verse #15 "For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and
do this, or that".
There are three ways we can know God's will. The first is through our Prayer
Life, The Written Word, and through Circumstances In Our Life.
If life is a vapour we need to seek God's will. Vr#15 "If the Lord will,"
(a). We Can Know God's Will In
Salvation.
II Peter 3:9 "The Lord .... Is longsuffering to us-ward, not WILLING that
any should PERISH, but that all should come to REPENTANCE. (See Romans
10:9-13).
(b). We Can Know God's Will In
Sanctification.
II Thessalonians 4:3-4 "For this is THE WILL OF GOD, even your SANCTIFICATION,
that you should abstain from fornication: That every one of you SHOULD KNOW
how to possess his vessel in SANCTIFICATION and honor;".
SANCTIFICATION = "set apart for God's use"
(c). We Can Know God's Will In
Service.
Romans 12:2 "And be not CONFORMED to this WORLD: but be ye TRANSFORMED by
the RENEWING of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable,
and perfect, will of God.
CHARLES G. FINNEY = Law School. (God said, Charles what are you going to
do now?)
IV. THE LAW OF OUR
LIFE.
Verse #17 "Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to
him it is sin".
There Is Risk In Life, if you leave God out of it. The risk is that you may
live selffishley, and sinfully.
(a). There Are Sins Of Commission.
"Sins we commit, the bad things we do."
(b). There Are Sins Of Omission.
"The Good Things We ought to DO, but we DO NOT DO THEM (We Omit Them) and
when we do they become SIN".
(1). TITHING = Mat 23, Mal 3:7-12.
(2). TOTAL SURRENDER = "total commitment"
(3). PRAYER = Luke 18:1 "men ought"
(4). WITNESSING = Matt 28:19 "follow me"
5). TRUST = Prov 3:5-6 "trust in the lord with all your heart"
(6).
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