Rocks, Hills, and the sounding joy. Repeat the sounding joy. Repeat the sounding joy. No, sin, song, sin, fountains, fountains.
And sing everybody, Brother Rhymes, please open us up with a word of prayer.
Singing in service to come, Lord, in Jesus' name, amen.
Amen. All right, if you want to take your hymnals, turn to page number 421.
Page number 421, the First Noel. Page number 421.
Though handing out the bulletins, we are having a little bit of technical difficulties on the printer.
Just follow along with me, if you would, in spirit.
Our verse of the week is Romans 8 verse 18, where the Bible says,
"For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us."
That's Romans 8 verse 18.
Obviously we're at our first week's service for the 10.30 a.m.
And then tonight we're going to be having actually something a little bit different.
We're having our men's preaching night.
So I think that there are three men that are signed up to preach for that.
So that'll be exciting to see.
I'll go over the rules a little bit more in depth for that when we get to it.
But just the standard rules of obviously no heresy, please.
Make sure you're preaching out of the King James for sure, okay?
And make sure you're wearing a shirt and tie and everything else that goes with that.
But we'll go over the rules again when we go to preach.
And it'll be a random draw for who gets paid for preaching.
And then Wednesday, we're going to have a service.
We're going to have our Bible study.
It'll be 1 Corinthians 7, part number two.
So we'll be talking about not defrauding each other and those kinds of things.
And then our soul winning times, we have the soul winning after the service, obviously.
That'll be at 1 p.m.
And then we have our Saturday soul winning at 10.30 a.m.
For the salvation total, did this get updated, Kylie?
Yes, it did.
Okay, so we have seven salvations for October,
and we had six in November.
So that brings our total to 90, 20, 25.
So praise God for that.
Closing in on 100, which would be pretty awesome.
Like I said, we're having the men's preaching night.
Oh, and tonight also we're having the pie social.
So we have a couple pies that we're bringing to everybody else.
I'm sure bringing a couple pies.
So we're doing that kind of to replace Thanksgiving per se,
but that'll be kind of the theme for the men's preaching night.
Be a good time.
So at least if you preach a bad sermon,
you get some pie afterwards.
A little consolation pie afterwards, okay?
The sermon was bad, but I got some pumpkin pie, right?
But I'm sure you guys will do good.
Last time the sermons were all great,
so I'm excited to hear what the men have tonight as well.
And then also this morning we have Brother Paul preaching the sermon,
and I'm thankful for that because with the driving back up and down from Vancouver,
I could have rode in a sermon, but I figured it'd be better.
Someone else would have more time to study it out,
so Brother Paul already had a sermon ready.
So that worked out.
So he'll be preaching the morning service.
So if you haven't heard him before, better buckle up, OK?
So we got those.
Sorry, this is a little hard to read on this.
Oh, the Christmas party we have.
Oh, the ladies' Christmas party.
The ladies get their own Christmas party?
What is up with that?
There's two Christmas parties?
There's no men's Christmas party?
OK.
I don't know what's up with that.
OK, we might have to talk to Kylie after the service.
But on December 13, we have the ladies' Christmas party.
So that'll be at 1 PM.
Our house is where we're doing that at?
OK, yeah.
So you can RSVP with my wife, and then we're
going to have food and fellowship there.
Or y'all will have food and fellowship.
I don't know.
I'll leave the house or something like that.
So it could be a true ladies' Christmas party.
And then December 20, we have the everybody
included Christmas party at the church at 4 PM.
That'll be at the building.
So we're going to have pizza and drinks.
And oh, the second annual Christmas Olympics.
That'll be super fun.
So we'll come up with some games for that.
And then I'll make a Bible trivia again.
It'll be pretty gnarly like last time.
So make sure you're reading the Bible-- sledding.
No, they're all like in the building kind of Olympics, OK?
We can't do it too crazy now.
And then for the 21st, we have our Christmas Sunday Christmas
message.
Then we're going to have the kids choir singing.
So I'm excited to hear all the little kids
and what they got planned for that.
And we have our verse of the week, lastly,
before we move into birthdays, which is
John 14 six for the kids.
Remember your verse, excuse me.
It's Jesus say them to him.
I'm the way, the truth and the life.
No man cometh unto the father.
But by me, that's John 14 six.
That's an easy one to get some candy for all
you kiddos.
And it's a great verse as well that shows
that Jesus is the only way to get to heaven.
And Jesus is the only God that there is and the
only God there ever will be.
And the only way that we can, you know,
meet God the Father, right?
It's through His Son, Jesus Christ.
I'm sure you guys are kind of already familiar
with all the stuff on, as far as the family
integrated stuff goes.
So we're not really going to go over that.
But lastly, we have the prayer request.
But my wife informed me that it's actually
Brother Daniel's birthday, December 2nd.
So we're going to sing Happy Birthday to Brother Daniel.
They tried to get out of it with the bulletin,
but not so fast, okay?
And we got the piano, and Paul's in the crowd
so he can still do the "hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo."
So we're in good luck.
So we'll sing Happy Birthday to Brother Daniel.
Okay, are you guys ready?
Happy birthday, let's sing it on the first.
♪ Happy birthday to you ♪
Birthdays are not the same without the "hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo."
So we definitely need that.
But with that being said, we'll get into our prayer requests,
and then we'll do our next song.
All right, if you want to take your bibles
and turn to Psalm number 15.
Psalm number 15.
As you get your grade reports handed out.
Psalm number 15.
Sing it out on the first.
♪ Who shall dwell ♪
♪ This whereeth his own ♪
♪ Heard and chained ♪
Everybody, pray for the offering.
Thank you so much for everything you do for us as a church, God.
Thank you so much with everything that you bless us, God.
And thank you so much that we live in such a prosperous country, God.
In such good and safe times.
I just pray that you would help us to realize what a privilege it is to give back to you, God.
The fact that we can give anything to you at all is such a privilege and such a blessing, God.
I just pray that we always have that attitude in our heart.
Do you just want to pray? Amen. Amen.
Good morning, everybody. Welcome to Sure Foundation Baptist Church.
If you could take your Bibles and turn to Proverbs chapter 31.
Proverbs chapter 31.
And as our custom is, we read the entire chapter before the preaching.
Proverbs chapter 31.
The Bible reads the words of King Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him.
What, my son, and what the son of my womb and what the son of my vows.
Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroy the kings.
It is not for kings, O Lemuel.
It is not for kings to drink wine, nor for princes strong drink.
Lest they drink and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.
Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of a heavy heart.
Let him drink and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.
Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies.
The heart of her husband does safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.
She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.
She seeketh wool and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.
She is like the merchant's ships, and she bringeth her food from afar.
She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.
She considereth a field, and buyeth it.
With the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.
She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.
She perceiveth that her merchandise is good; her candle goeth not out by night.
She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.
She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.
She is not afraid of the snow for her household, for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple.
Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.
She maketh fine linen and selleth it, and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.
Strength and honor are her clothing, and she shall rejoice in time to come.
She openeth her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue is the law of kindness.
She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
Her children arise up and call her blessed.
Her husband also, and he praiseth her.
Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excelest them all.
Favor is deceitful and beauty is vain, but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her own works praise her in the gates.
Brother Daniel, could you pray?
I'm going to read one out of Psalms 90, starting in verse 9, it says, For all our days are passed away in thy wrath.
We spend our years as a tale that is told.
These days of our years are three score years and ten, and by reason of strength they may be four score years.
Yet their strength and labor are in sorrow, for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Who knoweth the power of thy anger? Even according to thy fear so is thy wrath.
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
And this is what I hope to do for you today, is to help you number your days.
Help you manage your time. I handed out a sheet, if you don't have it let me know.
You will see that it is basically your week broken down into 15 minute increments.
Because I want to help you manage your time, number your days.
Use this light because your life is fleeting and it is disappearing a moment at a time.
I was going to start with a ticking of the clock, but I figured anyone younger than me
doesn't even know what that sound means.
Because we used to have these machines that told us the time, now it's all your phones.
But I will tell you this, you have three resources you have.
You have your health, you have whatever wealth or items you have, and you have your time.
You know what's interesting about time? You can't fix it.
It's going one way and it is gone forever once it is gone.
It is important that we number our days and Lord's saying,
"I've given you a gift of this much life, you should use it. You should go. You should be active."
And today I want to help you do that.
Whether young or old, we all have our time that we can manage.
Let me tell you this. You see the one person who has never done anything,
they're sitting on the corner, have never done anything,
they're just lazing around doing nothing.
And a person who's running 15 businesses, they have their family,
they see their grandchildren, they invest, they're active, they go to church.
You know what they have in common? The exact to the second, same amount of time.
The difference is what they do with it.
So today I want to hand it to you. You're like,
I know many of the long hair members are like,
"Why are we in Proverbs 31? Why are we there?"
It isn't today I'm talking about being a good wife.
I'm talking about being a productive person. Let me tell you this.
I think the most active, best example in the Bible I could find
of someone detailing how they use their time was Proverbs 31.
And isn't that true?
A woman that managed a household of kids, servants and that,
make sure their husband's ready to go and be a leader in their area,
be a judge out in the town.
That is the woman who is using her time. And let me tell you this,
it's not just about the women today. Men, I'm a visual learner,
that's why I made these printouts. But let me tell you this,
let me give you a math question. They say sleep eight hours.
Okay, you slept eight hours. You went to work for eight hours. Great.
How much of the day do you have left?
You have eight more hours if you go to work. You have eight more hours.
Now many of you, no dude, I get done from work, I'm done.
No, no, no, you got time. You have time to do things.
And that's what I'm really kind of go over this.
In 1 Corinthians 14, it says, in 4 verse 4, it says,
"Let all things be done decently and in order."
And whether you take any of this, I'm a very visual learner.
So I love things like this. All I want to say is, I'm here to help.
Whether this works for you, just take the things I'm teaching.
But if you look down this, I'll explain really quick.
At the top, you can write what you think you want to do.
And then you have, basically, I've listed 18 hours.
Because, excuse me, basically, I don't know along how you sleep.
I know we're supposed to sleep eight hours.
I have almost never done that unless it's a day off for me.
So there's 18. Now, if you do sleep eight hours,
you just put the first one to sleep and the last one to sleep, you're good.
But then it's 15-minute breakdowns.
And here's the thing is, you might want to do this multiple times.
Maybe you want to spend a week.
And I didn't put times because I don't know when you sleep.
And if I put down the hours, I'm awake, some of you will be, "Ugh, that's gross."
I didn't know that time existed.
That's when I go to bed.
So I didn't put the time, but you can list this if you want.
And maybe you do it over two weeks.
You do one, "How do I actually spend my time?"
And you're just honest with you and God.
What do you actually do with your time?
And then maybe do another one that says,
"Could I be doing with my time?"
And you might see that there's a difference.
And one thing that I thought was really interesting when I was looking at this,
you know, because we always say like,
"Man, maybe we should read our Bible 15 minutes a day, right?"
And you finish the Bible in a year.
You're like, "I just don't have time."
Well, if you took one of these little lines
and you just wrote seven times, "Bible, Bible, Bible,"
and go, "Yeah, there's just no way I could fit that in my day."
It's a little harder, I think, when it's visual.
So this is why I gave you a little visual thing.
But hey, just while you're looking, when I'm going through these points,
look at your time, because there's way you can manage your time,
because here's the thing is, it's your one resource.
It is totally equal.
No person has one more moment than you in a day,
but I tell you, you have a limit.
And we don't know when that day and hour of our personal end is,
but we know it's approaching at the same speed.
So this is the point.
Learn to manage your time, because the clock is ticking away,
and there's nothing we can do to stop it.
You go ahead and stay there.
I'm going to go through a few more Proverbs before we get back to Proverbs 31.
But in Galatians 6 and verse 3, it says,
"For if a man thinks of himself to be something,
when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
But let every man prove his own work,
and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone,
and not another; for every man shall bear his own burdens."
Why I want you to start doing this is,
hey, one reason why I have this, and if you actually fill it out and use it,
be honest to yourself.
Don't joke about it.
You're like, "Well, what could I mean?"
You know, whether you're a man or woman, you're like,
"Well, you know, frankly, laundry takes like two and a half hours."
No, it does not.
It takes like two minutes to put in, dump it.
You're not doing anything for an hour.
The machine's working, all right?
That's kind of the way, like, and here's the thing is,
you know you can get a lot more done.
Now, here's the thing is, so laundry probably takes about 15,
it's like when you fold and put away, I think it would be the longest.
Now, there's many tips I want to give.
Whether laundry, cleaning, work,
there's this idea that it seems backwards, I think, for many people.
Do you know if you do something more often, it's easier?
Do you know if you're like, "You know,
I just don't got the time to do the dishes,
so I'm going to use every single dish that I have,
including the Tupperware as plates,
and then I'll run out of literally everything,
and then I'll do dishes."
Dishes are hard.
Yeah, because you've got like two and a half, three hours of work.
But if you actually did the dishes after every single meal,
it's like five minutes.
And now here's the thing is, it's not just, well, you know, that's a lot.
Well, here's the thing is, imagine when you run into problems.
So you miss a day.
If you miss a day where you do it every single day,
you know, you got 15 extra minutes the next day.
If it's your once a week or once every two weeks you do laundry and you miss that day,
you've got critical issues.
Major issues are arising.
Tomorrow I got to spend eight hours doing this task that if we did it every day, it's, you know, so.
And here's the thing is, you can take what I'm saying.
I know some of you have got to do laundry day because you've got to travel to a laundromat.
That makes sense.
But I'm saying take the principles of this, that there are certain things you can do every single day that make it easier.
And a lot of us think it's a little bit backwards.
What if I just put this off, save me time, save me time, save me time, and I'll just spend a whole day just doing this one task?
Well, you know and I both know it's easier to do 30 minutes than it is to do three hours.
And if you have a 30 minute task that would take you every single day, but you're like, on Saturday, I'll get to it.
You know, Saturday gets filled up and it's really hard to cram in three hours of something repeatedly.
It's a way we have to manage and every man needs to bear his own burden and figure out how you can carry it.
I'm not telling you you have to do this, but I'm just saying you may want to look at the way you can break up your time
and it may be easier to do a task that you get more things done throughout the time.
Because let me tell you this, smaller things done more regularly are easier than large tasks done every now and then.
Now here's the thing is, we want to plan our day.
Let me tell you, a lot of people do this.
Well, if I got to get more done, I'll just sleep less.
You can do that for a day or two.
I get about one day and anymore. I used to be like four or five days I could do that. Not anymore.
I got about one day I can take away from my sleep and then taxes come back on me and my body says, "No, you're done."
I don't have the army anymore. I'm too gray-headed, too hoary-head, I guess, to do that.
So I have to manage my wake hours and that's why I didn't even add sleeping hours really on this chart.
Minus, you know, you sleep, I know some people do nine hours.
Some of you probably only do four hours. I don't know. That's why I don't even care how long you sleep.
Hey, Proverbs 3 verse 24, it says, "When thou layest down, thou shalt not be afraid, yea, thou shalt lie down, and the sleep shall be sweet."
You know, if you're just doing what you're needing to do, and also another place that says the laboring man, there's no sleep more sweeter.
If you go out and you work on his day, you've done what you could, you can lay down and sleep well.
But it says, you know, Richmond, he can't even find sleep. If you're just worried and constant, I've got to do this, do this, do this,
then those few hours when you can rest and recover, you don't get that, do you?
I know many times in my life I've had insomnia. I don't really anymore.
It's like, it's always concerns, it's worries, it's this and that. You know, the only thing you could possibly do is you go out and work more.
Go do that. And when I say work, I mean all the tasks and stress of our lives, you just do something to address that.
That's the best you can do. And once your body and your mind and your spirit all know, all I could do today, you know, you can sleep.
There are people going through troubles and dramas and stresses and chaos and crises, but they still are able to sleep.
Because some way they're able to say, "I've done what I could for the day."
And let me tell you, I'm not talking about those one days. Hey, you know what? You're driving home, you're getting a crash, your life's turned upside down.
Maybe that day you ain't sleeping, but understand when you manage your time, it's not about a single day.
The Lord says, "Learn to number my days." I'm talking about days, and I've given you a week, but let's think of months and years even.
You know, Brother Thompson back there, I bet every morning he doesn't say, "I'll see if I feel like learning Greek at 2 a.m." or whatever he says he gets up for this.
That's something he pre-planned. He's like, "You know what? I want this." But to do this, he's not like, "Well, I'm just going to block off Saturday, not go to the park, not do anything with my kids, and for six hours I'm just going to study Greek."
No. He takes it in, I hope, bite-sized pieces. I forget if it's a half an hour, an hour, but he's pre-planned in the future what he's going to do.
So when that time comes, and this is how you use your plan, you don't make a decision that day how you feel.
Your heart is deceivable above all things. And guess what? When I wake up on Saturday, you know my first audience is...
I'm telling you my faults. It's all within the cold, isn't it? Like, "Yes!"
But I've already settled in my heart. That's what I'm doing. That's my schedule. You know what I do?
I go. That is how I make my decisions. He is learning Greek so he can edify us
with the knowledge of the original languages that the Bible came in doing that.
He's dedicated, I'm sure, not a day. He's not doing this for a week.
I imagine year, if not years, he's already said, "That's what I'm going to do."
That's how you schedule. That's how you use your time.
Because here's the thing is, you make a plan, you stick to it, you'll be amazed
how much more gets done than when you just let your heart lead the way.
Follow your heart. Well amazingly, my heart at almost every time says, "Sit down and pick up your phone."
And I ain't talking about doing taxes. We're talking about cat videos.
So we ain't getting nothing done, alright?
Don't let the heart tell you what your time should be doing, okay?
Ecclesiastes 5.12, it says, "The sleep of a layering man is sweet,
whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of rich man will suffer him not to sleep."
I just kind of covered that. Like, look, be a worker. Be a worker.
Excuse me, in Proverbs, you're in Proverbs 31. Look down at verse 13.
We'll start here why I think this woman is such an excellent example on how we all can manage time,
not just ladies, men, children. Here's the key thing of why you know she can use her time wisely.
It says, "She seeketh wool and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands."
You know why things are hard and you're stressed out and why you have, like,
a gathering two weeks from now and you're stressed out today about it?
You don't willingly work with your hands.
Right away, you're like, "The least thing I want to do is work."
You know, if you change that one point of your attitude, that one point,
not, "Oh, gosh, I just really don't want," no, if you're just like,
"I just want to work. I just want to do. I just want to get things done.
I want to be active," planning becomes way easier.
Planning for your future, accomplishing stuff becomes way easier
because if I go from, "I want to see how little I can do in a day,"
which is the normal American attitude that we all say, we all hope,
"Man, I can't wait until I retire. I could sit down on the side of the golf course.
I've got my AI robot cleaning my dishes. I've got like, you know,
I don't know, like a Roomba bringing me drinks on the beach or something,
and I don't have to move," and then you die within five years.
That's the American dream right now, but you know what's interesting?
I like my neighbors, and some of those that meet her, I think she's a sweet old lady.
She's 80-something years old.
She is going on another year. Why?
She was able to get her hands back so she could garden.
Most of you would fight to their life to not have to weed.
She is willing to give up her life if she can't go out and work,
because she can't be productive anymore.
You know what? She plans her life around doing stuff, and you know what?
That's why they're probably going to see their 90s.
They're actually going to live life.
Be willing to work willingly with your hands.
And my goodness, that one attitude change, your time all of a sudden opens,
because you're no longer fighting like, "Well, I've got to do this as quick as possible
and be done so I can have me time."
You'll get me time, I promise you.
No matter how busy you are, you will get your time.
But let me tell you this, be willing to work.
In Proverbs 6, Proverbs 6 verse 6, it says,
"Go to the aunt thou slugger, consider his ways, and be wise,
which having no guide, or overseer, or ruler, provide of her meat
in the summer, and gather the food in the harvest."
Wouldn't it be a blessing to your own life
if you did not need to be watched over to get things done?
What a great worker you would be, your boss would love you,
your husband, your wife would like,
does your wife need to always hound you to get your stuff done?
And let me tell you, I'm getting pretty close
to getting the clothes into the basket.
I'm getting closer every year, alright?
She's shaking her head, I could get a ruler.
We're getting closer.
But what I'm telling you is this.
Without a guide or a ruler,
the ant is literally planning for the next year
and gathering today what they need in the future.
Most people can't figure out what they need today.
And they're like, "Well, I'll do it tomorrow."
"I'll do it tomorrow."
And hey, what does that happen?
"How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard?"
"Wilt thou rise out of thy sleep?"
"Yet a little sleep?"
"Yet a little slumber?"
"A little folding of the hands to sleep?"
"How the poverty come as thou wilt the travailest."
"It wants as an armed man."
"A naughty person, a wicked man walketh with a forward mouth."
Probably one too many verses.
But, here's the point.
God literally says, "Look at this creature."
"Look at this ant."
"Without master, without ruler, they're already working for what they need in the future."
"Today."
"They're working today what they need in the future."
"This is how we should be."
"You work today."
"If you have time today."
There's this saying that literally, I mean, I heard all the time in the military, when
you apply it to your life, it really changes.
Do nothing tomorrow that can be done today.
Do nothing tomorrow what can be done today.
Now let me tell you this, you get things done.
You know, just a personal example, like, do you believe I waited until the morning of
Thanksgiving to get ready to host the church?
I am not one who's like, "I'll just wake up at 2 a.m. and I'll just get it all done."
No, it was like four days before I cleaned out a room, it was three days before I set
up.
It was three days before I bought food and the day of I cooked.
You're like, "Oh, bite-sized pieces all in line and I planned because I'm seeing this
thing coming.
So when things arise, problems come, I have to do other things.
I have the time to do it, but yet everything comes through."
That is how you plan to use your time and here's the thing is you're like, "Oh, that's
so much work."
Here's the interesting thing I have found with people that manage time and people that
let time push them.
The people that perhaps don't get as many things done always are busy, they're always
stressed out, they're always like, "I just don't know how to get anything done."
Well, yeah, if it takes you 25 minutes to get ready to go to church and you start 15
minutes until you need to leave, you're stressed out and you're busy, you're going, you're
like, "Ugh!"
But if you started two hours before, "Man, I'm ready, oh, you're not ready?
I'll have another cup of coffee.
Oh, we got 10 minutes until you're ready?
Okay, I'll do my cat videos now."
See, if you do the cat videos after the car's packed, after everything's ready, you're
not stressed out.
You actually have time, and you're not losing your hair over stress because you're already
ready to go.
Now, are you not getting the cat videos in?
No, you're getting it in, but you're not stressed out when you stop.
When you're like, "Look at the clock," go, "Oh, shoot, I got to get dressed, we got to
get going," and people get stressed out.
I'm like, "What was the other eight hours of your day after work being done?"
This is why we need to look, and here's the thing, the Proverbs 31 woman, if you read
through this, I mean, she's buying, she's selling, she's making clothes, she's making
food, she's getting the servants going, she's doing all this, she's making sure her family's
taken care of, I mean, she's doing all these things.
She's not waking up and be like, "How do I feel today?"
No, she has a plan on what she's going to do.
In Proverbs 31 and verse 15 it says, "She rises up, also why it is yet night, and giving
meat to her household and a portion to her maidens."
This is what I'm saying, she knew she needed to wake up early to get things done, why?
She has maidens, she has servants, she has workers basically under her.
She needs to make sure they're taken care of so they can get to work.
Which means she needed to get up earlier to make sure that happened.
What this is called is back planning.
But I just kind of mentioned, hey, when we go, church is at 10.30.
You probably don't start church at 10.30.
What do you mean by that?
Well, I hope minimally you plan to be here at that time, but you have to travel.
For me, I live the closest, not that much time, so church at minimum would have to start
at, you know, 15 after.
Some of you, you got like 30 minutes, so church starts at, what, 10?
Well, shoot.
Oh, thank goodness.
Most of you showered.
So now we say church started at 9.30.
Well, maybe some of you were hungry.
Maybe you got to be ready.
You got to feed your kids.
You got to get other things up.
No, church started at 9.
Wait, don't forsake the fellowship.
We should be here before.
Maybe actually say hello to each other, and if you're part of the ministries, maybe get
ready.
Okay.
Church starts at 8.30.
See, this is how people that plan and are not always stressed out, and when you ask,
like, here's the thing.
Here's the truth of it.
This is a proven thing throughout, like, people that study human resources.
80% of the work gets done by 20% of the people.
There's always a beast of burden within an agency, no how big, no how small.
Somebody's taking on the majority of the work, and how do they do that?
Why do they do that?
How do they continue to do that?
It's because they manage the time.
And there's some people, no matter how soon you kill them, and how much warning you give
them, and no matter what you ask of them, it's, "Ugh, maybe I'll see."
And other people that are just, "Yeah, I'll do the best I can.
I'll see how I can fit that in."
That's really the only two mindsets.
And how it starts is, are you willing to work with your hands, and then are you willing
to actually take some of your time and plan, because let me tell you, you'll save a lot
of time by spending time planning, because then you'll know what you need.
You aren't left.
Well, the times that you just run out and you're just confused with what's going on
is so less.
And hey, sometimes it's just, "I think I need to start working here."
You just do that before.
And if you run out, like you actually are done way ahead of schedule, well watch your
cat videos.
Then, when you're ready to go, it's done.
You can watch cat videos without the stress coming, like when you look at the clock, go,
"I gotta start running now."
And here's the thing, Proverbs 31, I believe is that way, in Proverbs 20 and verse 13,
it says, "Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty, open thy eyes, and thou shalt be
set aside with bread."
It's like, hey, we shouldn't love just sleeping.
Now here's the thing, I'm telling you, go sleep.
You need an eight hours day, go sleep.
Go do that regularly.
What I believe this is saying is, you know, the other 16 hours of your day probably shouldn't
just be break time.
Now here's the thing is, we had a holiday, I had you all over, I hope you had fun, we
played games, you did all that.
I'm not saying there aren't days like that, but I'm just saying if that is when you look
at your whole week, you're like, um, TV, Instagram, Xbox, whatever it is, you know, like if it
is just all this time and you go, wow, that's more than when I'm at work, all I'm saying,
you might think, maybe I could change a few other things, maybe I could fit a few other
things in there.
In verse 16 of Proverbs 31, and just stay there, I'm going to keep going back to it.
Verse 16, she considered the field and buyeth it, and with her fruit of her hands she planteth
a vineyard.
And this is what I'm saying, not only people that back plan, they're like, well, I'm going
to start this task, so I actually need to get up this soon before I get everything done,
so I'm sure to be early and done and ready.
She's looking to the future and going, you know, I can't do this all in one day.
You're not going to go view all the farmland.
You're not going to then plant the farmland, you're not going to get the fruit of it all
in today.
Are you?
She's looking out months, if not years of what she needs to do and what does she need
to do today, this week?
Maybe it's just, let me go see what's available.
What is the farmland available?
What is that?
And then with my own, with her own labors, she planted the vineyard either.
It's literally saying, I've heard this taken two different ways.
It's just a labor that she actually, she has little plants and then she goes to the farm
and spreads it out or it's literally from the fruit of her own labors because she's sowing,
she's selling, she's trading, she buys this land herself.
Whichever one you say, it is work planning and management.
And let me tell you that if you can't manage your time, you're not going to be able to
manage what wealth, what assets, what resources you have because time is just a resource and
it's the one that you cannot fix in the past.
You lose your car in a wreck, guess what?
You can regain it.
If your house burns down, you can build another.
But let me tell you this, once your time has been burnt, you are never getting that back.
And the older you get, the quicker it seems to go.
It is a true statement and I'm just telling you this, it becomes more and more critical.
But here's the thing is, as a young child, you know, whether they look at it or not,
I gave them the sheet, it's probably too many numbers, but I'll tell you this, if a child
can learn to manage their time, what could they not get done in their lifetime?
She literally plans out for years and that's how you should be.
In Ephesians 4 and verse 14, it says, "See then that ye walk circumspect, not as fools,
but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Wherefore, be ye not unwise, but understanding what will the Lord is.
And be not drunk with wine wherein there is excess, but be filled with the Spirit, speaking
to yourselves in Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your hearts
to the Lord."
What it is saying is understand, redeem your time, take the time that the Lord has given
you today, this week, this month, this coming year and redeem it.
Look, do things to the Lord, amen.
Hey, why don't you do things for your, you know, maybe your work, your occupation, do
it for your household, do it for your family.
But let me tell you this, you mark off time and if you have the time and you pre-planned,
you know how much easier it is to go, you know what, we're going to go to the park,
you know, Tuesdays, Thursdays, not when you just wake up and you get home from a busy
work day and all of a sudden you're like, "I guess we'll go to the park."
No, you had it pre-planned.
You're like, "This is what I do at this time."
I'm going to tell you right now, mentally, spiritually, it is so much easier if that
decision has been made before that time.
I am not making a decision how I feel at that time because let me tell you, the flesh tells
me no.
Go sit down, go do something else.
You did it last week, you did it that time before, I don't need to today, okay?
But amazingly, when you go by your feelings, it's never the day you feel like doing it.
Or it certainly drops down by like 80%.
So you make a plan of what you're going to do before you get to that and then you will
see that you get more things done.
And that's in all areas of your life.
And here's the thing is, why I left in so many other parts to like be not drunk with
wine with success, but be filled with the spirit.
I work with a lot of people, you know what they plan in the future?
Maybe I'll get drunk on the beach.
Maybe I'll go to this bar because I usually go to this bar, but man, next month I'm going
to go to this bar.
Man, you just live in life to the fullest, aren't you?
Oh man, maybe you won't remember where you went at this place.
Good job.
Like, and the Lord says, why don't you just be filled with the spirit?
And it literally says, speaking of yourselves, Psalms, hymns and spiritual songs, which I
think if we're taking this in the context of planning, and I know in this part, it's
just to refresh your mind, sing Psalms under this.
Hey, I want a good example of this is actually Brother Kutzer here.
Do you know what's interesting?
You know why this church is a little bit different?
And now I see our home church is changing.
We actually sing the Psalms.
Do you know why this church did that?
Is because it fell upon Daniel's heart years ago.
You know what?
We should be doing this.
He went home and practiced and learned and sought and found music and then had us learn
it and sing it.
And now other churches are doing it.
Why?
Because there's this practice where he says, you know, speaking of yourselves, Psalms and
hymns and spiritual songs.
So we now have this tradition that now is spreading.
And hey, isn't that what the Bible says to do?
Why?
Because somebody decided I'm going to sacrifice work, time and all this for one purpose.
I'm going to learn these songs.
That is how things get done.
That is how things change.
That is how the world moves by people that take time to do and focus on little things.
And here's the thing is, many years ago, it seemed like a little simple thing.
Let's just learn one song.
Now it's a tradition and it's spreading and isn't that a good thing?
It takes people that set all others aside.
Now, I didn't just pull out anyone, but hey, a person that has many kids or all that, doesn't
he have time to do, like he has his time being pulled in every other way, right?
All of us do.
But sometimes you have to step aside and say, I am going to do this.
Learning a new language, learning songs, learning this thing that my dyslexic mind, like it's
confusing.
I don't know how people make this sound good, but they do.
I have no, like you all know, my musical skills, if we're thinking like RPG games, all my
character skills did not get put into music.
All right?
Woo hoo hoo hoo is about the only thing I add to this church during songs.
Okay?
That's it.
So I take my time and I try to do other things to the church.
But what I'm saying is this, people set their time aside and focus can do things that even
change people that are around us is what I'm saying.
Why?
People took the time, maybe not in this, you know, you could say OCD level of organization,
but they said, I'm going to take time out of my day and do this to better not just myself,
but I think it'll be good for the church.
In verse 18 of Proverbs 31 it says, she perceiveth that her merchandise is good.
Her candle go not out by night.
She layeth her hand to the spindle and her hand hoth not the distil.
She just works.
Hey, it gets dark at like four now.
Can you not accomplish anything after four?
I mean, how many years, centuries, millennia ago, amazing this person was able to find
how to do a little bit of work after dark.
Now, we just have lights everywhere.
Technically, you can work on your roof if you really want it in the dark.
I'm not recommending it, but headlights, lights, we can brighten the sky now.
All it's saying is why I want you to look at your work day.
And here's the thing is, man, whether you, you know, I know you have varying hours, but
just the standard, we work 40 hours.
Well then you got more than 40 hours off of work because you got the other eight hours
Monday through Friday, and then you got Saturday and Sunday.
So you can almost can get two more full time jobs in there and still sleep eight hours
a day.
I'm not telling you to do that, but I will tell you this is that the military, you know,
the standard hours was 12 hours a day, seven days a week for a year.
All right.
So when somebody will says it's impossible to do 50 hours, I'm like, what that bad?
You get used to it.
And I'm not telling you to do that.
None of this is my telling you specifically what I'm saying is open your mind to think
I could probably fit, let's just say 15 minutes of operating in there somewhere.
And if you do a fit, like I said, I'm a very visual person.
So when I write out my time so I can see it and where it's really going, and I go, man,
15 minutes of dish cleaning day, 15 minutes of yard work, you know, maybe 30 minutes,
even 30 minutes an hour.
If you look at the time in a week that it takes to do certain of these tasks, when you
look at it visually, you're going to be like, it's really hard for me to say I can't fit
that in.
Is it?
It's just a different way to look at it.
And that's why I wrote this out.
In verse 20, it says, she stretches out her hands to the poor.
She reaches forth her hands to the needy.
You know, what's interesting is I see a lot of people that work and they go and they do
a lot of things.
They also somehow just have time to help others.
I see some people that are just so stressed out and busy and they're just, I just can't
get anything else done.
And it's like, amazingly, other people can.
Like, it doesn't always need to be this, but it's like, you know, simple things.
Like it's, it's interesting to me, like, man, you do events, you do, you know, special events.
It's like the same people over and over again that kind of handle all of this.
And that's like, I don't know, sometimes I think to myself, like, man, this church, man,
I seem like it's like ordered my life.
I feel like it's done so much for me.
I just feel thankful to have a place to come and gather and worship God.
And then sometimes I'm here on a special event or a little bit early,
and I go, where are the nine?
Has nothing been done for this church?
Has this church not done anything in your life?
Like, is an extra hour that bad?
Is it so much in your week?
Where are the nine?
But hey, other people, they're like, dude, I just can't even get five more minutes in.
I just, I mean, I just don't know what to do.
It's like, well, maybe sometimes we just need to self-reflect to see what we're doing.
But hey, here's the thing is, the proverb is 31 person.
And I'm saying person.
I'm not trying to go gender neutral, but today it's for both of you.
It's not just for ladies.
Men, you know, you can help others too.
And hey, I've seen people do this, man.
I've seen other people drive across town, drive across state to help people with car
issues, you know, learning to drive, you know, helping each other, remodel houses.
I mean, it happens and that's great.
Let us never forget, like, man, sometimes our week seems busy and it's like someone
asks for help.
I bet you can fit it in there.
You maybe rest next week because sometimes the people that need help need it now, not
a week from now when it's convenient.
And if you manage your time so you're not behind in every part of your life, it's not
as stressful when things go awry and you have to fit other things in.
But if you're just always, ah, you know, this task, I can start 10 minutes before it starts
and that's three days from now, I will not even do anything until then.
You get behind, you get stressed out, you get worked out from that.
And then you're not able to stretch out your hand to the poor.
You're not able to, you know, give your hands to the needy nearly as easily as someone that
manages their time.
In verse 21 it says, "She is not afraid of the snow for her household.
For all her household are clothed with scarlet."
You know, here's just another thing.
I just see planning throughout this.
Do you think it's the snow has fallen, you're like, "Oh, shoot, we need coats."
That is not what this says.
She is not afraid of the future, things that will happen, because she's already taken the
time to plan and done work now, literally with her hands.
She has made the clothes for her family before the snow comes.
Now, the snow is here, so if you're not ready, I'm sorry, but take this as a principle, "Hey,
that weird sound in your vehicle, you might want to dress it before it falls off."
That still turns on, it's good, and I'm that way a lot.
What I'm saying is, can you not sensibly think of reoccurring problems that are coming up,
and can you not solve those long before they come up?
How less stressful are you if it's the summer time and you see Coles is having a sign for
snow wear because, you know, they're in the summer, that's the time to buy winter gear?
Then it's cold outside, my fingers are numb, and now I got to buy the overpriced stuff
right now.
It's a lot less stressful to take care of problems before the problems are absolutely
upon you.
That's what I'm saying.
And I believe that's clearly shown here in the Bible is what they're saying, "Man, this
is a virtuous woman.
And if that's what a virtuous woman would do, man, can't you do that in your own household?"
Look, I know the tarp that's keeping the sun out during the summer on the roof.
You might want to fix that before the rain comes.
I think that's just the principle taught here.
You can identify, and here's the thing, if you look at this sheet, you can maybe put
a few problems up on top here that you're like, "I don't know where to fit this in,
but I know I need to get through this."
There's a lot on here, and I know it's really small, but hey, it's a lot of hours in the
week, a lot of 15-minute blocks, but hey, you can use this to visualize, "I know I need
to address this in the future," and don't put off what could be done in the future,
what you could possibly do today, because you'd be amazed what 30 extra minutes of
work leads to in the future, because I say, like, if you do 30 minutes of work, but you
take Sunday off, that's three hours, and you're like, "Three hours I could fit on
Saturday?
If it came up, you're behind. Next Saturday, oh, well, shoot, it's this party, can't go
to that.
You're six, nine, it builds up a lot faster.
But if you're doing a little bit of work, just come home, or before you go to work,
you just do a little.
You miss a couple days, you're already far, far, far further along than you would be in
that mystical future date.
I love my grandfather had this.
It was this little thing that said, "To it," and it was round.
And anytime I say, "I'll get around to it," he's like, "Oh, here, you have that, now
go do it."
He had a collection of these little coin-like things made out of clay that said, "To it."
And he literally gave that, because he ran a shop of workers, and people were like, "Yeah,
I'll get around to it."
He's like, "Oh, here you go.
I don't know why that was stopping you.
Get doing it now."
I thought that was beautiful.
He's like, "Don't do later what you can do now.
Go do it, and you'll be happy.
Here's the thing is, there's another way you can read this, and here's the thing, Christian.
Why don't you live for your future self?"
Now, spiritually, we're talking about eternity, but for your life?
Man, do you ever now then get into a situation where you're like, "My past self screwed me.
I really could have had this done before now."
And all the time you spent in this comfy seat, and the mindless memes, and I'm calling myself
out here, it's like, "Boy, that doesn't do anything in the day of diversity for you."
As much relaxation and sleep as I had in my past, man, right now, that means absolutely
nothing to me.
But having things done does.
In verse 22 of Proverbs 31, it says, "She maketh thirself a covering, a task-freeze,
her clothes silk and purple."
Here's the interesting.
So she's planning all this, she's going all this, you know what she also has time for?
Little bit of me time.
You read that verse?
What's she doing?
I've taken care of the family, I've planned for the future, I've got problems solved.
How about me?
It's there.
I'm not saying to be a sparge and self-sacrificing person 24 hours a day, you can't do anything
for yourself.
Proverbs 31 can stop and be like, you know what, I need a little cute dress.
You know what?
I need a little of this.
Hey, you're like, man, I'm just going to go, man, I got my nice car, I got to go buff it,
whatever it is.
And literally, here's the problem, this is a wise woman, this is what you're looking
for.
She can take a little time to make something really nice for herself.
Does God want you to just never do anything for yourself?
No, go have your time.
And hey, despite people who don't realize this, I'm probably one of the most introverted
people in this church, and if I do not spend a couple hours by myself with no one around,
I go insane.
You know how I fit that in?
I plan for that.
And it helps me now, because hey, if you're another introvert, you're like, I get really
social anxiety if I'm around people all the time.
Well, if I know, hey, at the end of the day, my last hour, I'm just spinning in a closed
room door, hey, for me, that works.
But you know how I manage that?
I have to plan for that, because hey, that's maybe a fault I have.
If I'm just constantly around people continuously, hey, I can pretty much go insane.
But people are like, I didn't know you were introverted.
I'm not socially inept.
Look, to be successful, you've got to know how to engage with people, you've got to be
around people.
And let me tell you this, when you go to work, or you go to a party, that's not the time
for me time, all right?
You got to plan that around, you got to go do it other times.
Like you're going to go have a family activity, that's not the time to run away and then hide,
okay?
But many of us need certain things.
The Proverbs 31 woman needs to know that she's beautiful and has nice things.
She is literally making stuff for herself.
You have things that you need and things you may need to take care of so you can feel like
life is worth living and going.
What I am saying though is notice that this is framed between serving others and taking
care of problems of your family.
You have priorities.
You are a priority in your life.
It's not a bad thing to do some things for yourself that are for you so you feel the
joy of God in your life and you can share that with others.
But here's the thing is notice that this is a verse in between serving others and family
and strangers and hey she's still working to do these things for herself.
It is a thing and here's the thing is why it's so interesting to me and I'm going to
tell you this.
Now it is not fair to this person I'm going to tell a story from because I just came back
from a deployment from Afghanistan where literally 12 hours a day seven days a week is the minimum
I worked.
There are times things happen in the military that's the minimum that is the minimum hours
I work.
What was it like 70 I forget the number of hours a week that is but it's like so I did
that show what you do seven days a week you just work so when I came and I joined I went
to college I was so bored taking over full-time amount of courses I didn't know what to do
myself so I literally took a job with the college and then I took over like a social
club with a couple hundred people I'll tell you about that later and then I'm like taking
over these things like so I'm running social events I'm running the only in the veterans
program I took over so I'm leading like this other group this other group and then I just
took on a job not even for the money just because I was bored and I'm doing over the
amount of work and why I'm telling you this is sitting in my one of my classes you know
I walked in I'm sure a nice young lady she's in college and you can tell in public she's
having a silent panic attack and I'm like now if you think I'm rough around the edges
now you should have met me unsaved and right out of the military so it's very unnatural
but I was like are you okay and she's like I'm just so overburdened I was like okay well
what's going on she's like man I'm taking I forget I forget in college now is it 25
is full time for I don't know she's taking half time full time so like whatever like
12 credits she's like hey the class like okay you're taking two classes they're two hours
a week for four over two days yeah whatever she's going to school twice a week half time
I was like man okay college stressful how's your family she's like oh my family's really
supportive helping I was like oh are you behind on rent she's like no I live with my parents
they take care of everything they even make my food for me when I go I was like okay I
know me and probably like is your relationship life going okay he's like oh no my fiance he
he just makes sure when I'm home everything's done and it's just so sweet everything's great
I was like so the only thing going on is half-time like freshman or sophomore year college like we
ain't talking like postgraduate and things like that where you got to read like five books or
something she's like yeah I just never had to work so much my life I was like oh life's going
to get way harder for you she's like excuse me I'm like I'm not trying to be mean at all
life is going to get really hard for you and this is nothing like you probably want to do more stuff
now so life is a little easier in the future because I'm gonna tell you right now I take three
times more classes than you and I'm bored now and I told her like hey I was in the army I've done
stuff I know you're right out of high school I take it you weren't in sports and you didn't have
hobbies you didn't do she's like no I just kind of went home right after school I was like yeah
you're not ready for life and you could have seen the professor go hey you know you're doing the
best you can this or that I was like I'm not trying to be mean but hey life is about getting
stuff done let me tell you this if you have so much me time that the thought of working I mean
this is like less than six hours a week is bringing you down it might be time to change your attitude
to be willing to work with your hands all right and I'm just saying and let me tell you this
during all the things I was doing and managing groups and going to work doing full-time school
you know what I also did way too many video games I didn't have church yet I wasn't saved
but you know what's interesting is despite people like man how are you managing these
groups going to work doing school all the time I was like I don't know I'm just used to working
12 hours a day seven days a week so when I went back into civilian society and you're all lazy
like no but I'm just saying the requirements of time is so much less in an American culture that
when I got thrown back into it I'm like I'll just do a little bit more and then I was still like I
was like I don't know what else to do so I'll play a lot of video games on top of all that
and I was like what do people do with their time I think a lot of veterans think that to be honest
but and that's just the thing I know we're running out of time so I'll move through but in Proverbs
uh 31 and verse 23 it says her husband is known of the gate when she sit of them when he sitteth
among the elders of the land hey she takes care like she's like hey I'm gonna manage this household
and what's my responsibility so much I don't need the other people to look over this they can go get
other things done and hey man you manage everything outside of the house so well that they can just
focus on that that's been dividing a task but you know what when one party fails you know the other
one has to step in right and then that takes their time out of other things let me tell you this
no matter who does something if things get done you have more time and there's just saying she
manages so well her husband can go become greater outside and hey you know what that probably
benefits the household more she can probably buy more that fancy silk she can probably more provide
that food that seems like it's coming from afar which was mentioned versus earlier she has this
why her husband succeeds she succeeds the husband succeeds the wife should succeed the kids should
succeed the more you do the more other people can do and let me tell you even in a church if one
person does a lot and that leaves a lot of other time for other people to do a lot and if everyone
does a lot a lot gets done now when i say a lot people like oh man i just don't know about that
it's like you know at times i wonder like i'm just gonna be honest like sometimes like man i feel
like i do a lot myself and then sometimes i feel like i need to do more but when i really calculate
it out i think about it i do about two more hours than anyone else and i'm not trying to blow anyone
else out and obviously the thompsons have come in and do more than that but i'm just saying two hours
two hours and i mean that could be helping teach you a drive they'd be cleaning the church there
could be other things but when i look at this if i mark out two more hours just dedicated to church
and how much more gets done i'm like i could probably fit more to be honest i just can't be
comfortable where i'm at i'm not telling you all to do that but all i'm saying is when you think of
doing more and you actually visualize the time you have you might actually find that you go it's
really not that much whether or not it's the church because i'm going to tell you this hey
you know like who blows us away we all do this in different ways we all have different interests
like hey i have never came and set up a photo booth that is literally photo worthy
but i know someone who has she's really good at it you know what there are times where like things
come up i'm just feeling lazy man if we relied on me to get slowly done on saturday probably
wouldn't go out that much but i know the gents they take that on it's hours a week and let me
tell you they're probably the most dedicated people specifically to that time it's unquestioned
so i'm not saying people aren't doing things what i'm saying is when you look at your time and where
you think and like i said do one week where i'm being honest with my time and then draw
you whether you do it or not what could i be doing with my time you might find that you can
learn skills and do other things and what other things could you do and hey in verse 24 it says
she make it find linen and sell it and develop uh delivered the girdles and the merchant strength
and honor are her clothing and she shall rejoice in time to come hey she has side hustles if a lot
of you are like man i don't know what to do with my time well if it's not church it's not that you
feel it doing are you ever going to regret if you get a side hustle as long as you break even i'm
not telling you to put all your money to crypto because man i'm going to be rich i'm going for
elon must rich because you're probably going to be broke but here's the thing is it's already
told her all the work she's done to make clothes she's done all this she's got a skill and she's
like you know what i do this for my family a few things on the side and here's the thing is do
you really need a lot to be a life-changing thing can you imagine if like because a lot of people
like do you do all this work and you make like 50 a week a lot of families i mean that's more
than you'll need in christmas you got 52 weeks 50 i mean that's a few thousand extra dollars i'm
not saying that's life-changing but i'm going to tell you that are cat videos at the end of the
year which one is better let me tell you this if you do something regularly over time that you're
making money you know what's going to happen this is a force of thing hey all labor there's profit
all labor and that's the key thing i'm telling you about if you replace some idleness with labor
no matter what it is because hey in this it's uh semen you know sewing tapestry imagine the other
skills you get you learn how to manage you learn how to develop you learn to see what needs to
come in the future just by this hobby she has this side hustle let me tell you that it manages money
it manages time manages you make connections she has to go talk to them and deliver to the merchants
she has to learn how to talk to people how to find people how to have people with better deals
it's like man this would actually improve all areas of life why because you took a productive
hobby and you got rid of the cat videos or limit it i'm gonna tell you get rid of it it's so cute
and funny but does it need to be all your time when you get home no problems 14 in all labor
there's profit but the talk of lips tended to own it appearing same the time i'll leave you on this
thought this whole thing when you look at this and you visually look at how you spend your time and
you visually look how your time could be used i bet you can find a few things that can be changed
and understand this if you just change a little bit of time it could be you know 15 20 you know
30 minutes an hour maybe a day and you just like i'm just going to learn this skill because in all
labor there's profit you're going to gain other skills by one skill hey maybe you actually choose
something you're bad at or you've never done before you're like once a week i'm going to do
something i have never done before why it's going to be hard yeah but a lot of people don't do
things because they think it's hard and if you're not scared to learn because here's the thing is
you know if you're homeschooling don't you need to know how you need to learn hopefully you're
learning faster than the kids you know you got to stay like i mean i hope a couple weeks but
maybe a couple years ahead of them right so you're going to have to keep learning and men one of the
things that bothered me the most because i've seen people do this they're like i don't need to learn
anything more in my life i think i'm good i'm in my job i don't think i'll ever do anything so i
don't i'm good like that's like a botherable to me like dude you got the rest of your life
let me tell you this you're going to change with your knowledge and learn stuff here's the thing
is learn general knowledge because it's amazing to me how many people don't have a clue how
anything works like i'm not expecting you to be able to wire your entire house but shouldn't you
know where power comes from because some people don't like i'm not telling you you should be able
to rebuild an engine but you should probably know that sound bad right watching general knowledge
things outside of your interest and here's the thing you're like well you know don't divide
things in your head hey we had a pie social every man was welcome to build a pie so you're like
probably not that hard you cut some butter into flour you might realize this is the messiest
nastiest thing i've ever done and if you haven't seen the aftermath of cutting butter into flour
you might learn whoa i gotta take a shower after every pie i make but it might be good for you to
not be sad when you have to work with your hands and it might be good for you to actually learn
like my mother raised me at a different most i learned like she forced every child she had to
cook she's like it's an abomination so it's weird to me when i find other people that boil water
hard can i forgot to open put on the stove blew up like how did you survive so long what i'm
saying is this i'm getting off the track what i'm saying is this all labor is profit it might be
good for each one of us to go you know what as a kid i was really bad at that so i was fearful of
doing that maybe go play roundabout you know basketball or you know whatever it is it could
be a skill it'd be cooking it could be a sport it'd be like man i hate hiking up a hill but i'm
going to go do it because well it's hard i got to learn something different you know what i hate i
i'm really fearful of talking to people but you know what i'm going to try to do some training
i'm going to go try to do this why learn to talk to people learn to do something hard get out of
your shell and you know what in a couple years you might be thankful you did it now because think
about your future self and work for your future self not for the comfort of today that's basically
the main point i hope this useful if you actually want it i'll email it to you and if not well i
hope you got something other sermon with that let's pray heavenly father thank you so much today
thank you for reminding me to preach this i hope people found edifying because lord you've given us
the time to be on this earth you've given us a set amount of seconds that as the clock is ticking
away let us use that let's use it to glorify you let's use it to better ourselves let's use that
to edify our families and to drive them forward into your will in jesus name amen take your
hymnals we're going to turn to page number 433 page number 433 page number 433 can be found in
a reasonable amount of time ready brother ryan should please close us an order prayer