Time passes quickly James 4:14 life is like a vapor.
Things hurt us that we do not expect to hurt us Billy Joe telling me it
didnt hurt him to watch horror movies it did me. It did him too,
according to his brother, Jimmy.
10 years passes quickly compare Sarah and Katie, then compare Katie to
Becky. In ten years, I probably wont be your pastor. In ten years some of the
people here will probably have passed on. In ten years, Jesus Christ might have
come back. Where will you be in ten years?
Working. So busy the family believes work is more important than they are.
Playing. Busy with watching sports, playing Play Station games, computer
stuff.
I. Scriptures to show the short time man has upon this earth.
A. Proverbs 27:1, Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not
what a day may bring forth.
B. David's prayer to God before Israel shortly before he died. 1 Chronicles
29:15, 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.
C. Job 7:6, My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent
without hope.
D. Psalms 39:4-6 - LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my
days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. {5} Behold, thou hast made
my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily
every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah. {6} Surely every man
walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up
riches and knoweth not who shall gather them.
E. Psalms 90:12 - So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our
hearts unto wisdom. (entire chapter, especially verses 1-12)
F. Psalms 102:3, For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are
burned as an hearth. (Because of the present trouble that has come upon
David.)
G. Psalms 102:11, My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am
withered like grass. (Because of the present trouble that has come upon
David.)
H. Psalms 103:15-18 - As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of
the field, so he flourisheth. {16} for the wind passeth over it, and it is
gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more. {17} But the mercy of the
LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear Him, and His
righteousness unto children's children, {18} To such as keep His covenant, and
to those that remember His commandments to do them (Mankind should praise
and bless God because He has blessed us, who are nothing but vanity and that
which quickly fades away.)
Genesis 6:3 God limited mans years to 120. "And the LORD
said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh:
yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years."
Psalms 90:10 "The days of our years are threescore years and
ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their
strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away."
Ecclesiastes 11:9-12:7 Remember your creator in the days of your youth,
before the evil days come when you will say you have no pleasure in them.
Revelation 12:14 Israel is protected for 3 ½ years "And to the
woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the
wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times,
and half a time, from the face of the serpent."
Revelation 10:6 "And sware by him that liveth for ever and
ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and
the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein,
that there should be time no longer:"