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ever heard of the term time is money why do people say that well because the bible says redeeming the time because the days are evil because time is valuable you say why is time valuable here's why time is finite time is finite it's limited you don't have a lot of it on this earth now one day in eternity in heaven you'll have it forever but on this earth time is finite and when things are finite they are valuable when things are limited they are values valuable so the bible says redeeming the time go to colossians 4 you're there in ethessians go past philippians into colossians colossians chapter number four colossians chapter four look at verse five colossians 4 5 the bible says walk in wisdom toward them that are without notice the words redeeming the time redeeming the time it's a financial term it's a valuable term time is is valuable because of the fact that it is limited time is finite is what we need to understand but not only is time finite but i want you to understand this go to john if you would do me a favor keep your place there in ethessians we're going to come back to ethessians or colossians ethessians or colossians keep your finger there we're going to come right back to it but go to john matthew mark luke john john chapter nine not only is time finite which makes it valuable but know this time is fleeting time is finite and time is fleeting john 9 4 the bible says i must work notice what jesus says here's jesus philosophy on work i must work the works of him that sent me notice what he says while it is day the night cometh when no man can work notice what the bible says the bible says there comes a time where you can no longer work there are times when you can work and there are times when you cannot work and jesus says because of that because time is fleeting he says i must work jesus says i have to work right now the works of him that sent me while it is day while i am able to while i have the opportunity why because the night cometh when no man can work you gotta stop asking the question i think it's interesting young people always ask this question i don't know if you've noticed this young people love to ask a question you know what kids and teens they here's a question they love to ask what time is it what time is it i always hear young people i don't know i don't know why maybe because they don't have phones or i don't know they don't have watches or they don't know how to tell the time i'm not sure but they're always asking the question what time is it what time is it and even adults are what time is it what time is it you know instead of asking the question what time is it you have to be asking this question what am i doing with my time don't worry about what time it is ask yourself what am i doing with my time when we live with the realization that we are running out of time do you realize that in your life you are running out of time listen mother with those children you've had all those kids and you're overwhelmed and i get that it's difficult and and it's time consuming and it's hard but let me help you understand something you are running out of time the biggest mistake parents make is they get this idea that they're gonna be raising their kids forever their kids they're just gonna have their kids forever so they can go ahead and mess up and do all sorts of stupid things and it's no big deal because these kids are gonna be with me forever but the truth is they're not gonna be with you forever they're gonna be 18 one day or 19 one day or 21 day or 31 day they're not gonna be in your house and you're not gonna be able to go back and teach them the things you should have taught them you're running out of time you're running out of time time is finite time is fleeting so you know what productive people do people who get things done they learn to manage their time why because time is the most limited and valuable resource that you have so stop worrying about what time it is and start worrying about what you're doing with your time go to philippines chapter three if you kept your place in ephesians it's right after ephesians philippians or if you kept your place in colossians because i told you too late maybe right before colossians you have philippians between ephesians and colossians you have philippians philippians chapter three if you're going to be a productive person you must manage your time but let me say this as well you must also manage your attention you have to manage your attention and let me tell you something we have never lived in a time like today where there there are just systems put in place everywhere in this world to take your time to distract you to waste your time because of technology because of screens because of the internet because everywhere you go there's a screen you you you you have one in your car you've got one in your back pocket you've got seven of them in your house everywhere you turn and they and these companies have created these statistic algorithms to make sure they can get your attention because you clicked on one thing you liked and then they went and found all everything that could pertain to that one thing because you watched one video about shooting and then they found the gun you like and everything that goes with that gun and they're just constantly putting that in front of you and putting all these shiny things in front of you get you distracted and then you wonder why you don't get anything done let me tell you something some of you are gonna like this but somebody needs to just quit social media and just get rid of it be done with it how would i live i don't know how did people live like for a thousands of years amen but then i won't know what my best friend from kindergarten was doing you don't need to know what your best friend from kindergarten was that's weird that's you don't need to know all that you don't need to know what your best friend's cousin's neighbor had for lunch that doesn't matter philippians 3 13 and look and if you don't you said why are you understand better i'm an influencer do me a favor get off of social media for one month and see if anybody even notices or if anybody even cares philippians 3 13 brethren here's what paul says i count not myself to have apprehended notice what he says here's here's a productive man i labored more abundantly than they all i've accomplished a lot i've gotten a lot done he says but this one thing i do notice paul doesn't say these four things i dabble in he says this one thing i do forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth into those things which are before he says i press toward the mark notice it's purpose it's focus he's got a mark he's got a target he's got a goal he's got something he's trying to get done i press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of god in christ jesus you don't have to turn there in luke 962 the bible says and jesus said unto them no man having put his hand to the plow and looking back is fit for the kingdom of god the bible tells us prophetically in isaiah about the lord jesus christ he says i set my face like a flint referring to calvary into jerusalem he was focused on what he was supposed to do he was going to finish his word and i'm here to tell you something you say what makes up productivity how do you make up productivity here's how you make it up you manage your time and you manage your attention you manage there's this realm called your time and there's this other realm called your attention and when you properly manage your time and when you properly manage your attention where these two things overlap that's productivity where you can take your time and take your attention and line them up and focus them in a direction where you're actually doing things that matter and watching cats dance on youtube doesn't matter and you think i'm joking but there's all sorts of studies of people how much time americans waste watching animals dance on youtube and then they wonder why they don't have a good marriage and then they wonder why their kids hate them then they wonder why they're failing at their jobs i'm just here to tell you something success and productivity is not something that happens it's something that you create we talked about the meaning of productivity and we talked about the makeup of productivity look we've got to be people who get to work let me just quickly deal with this i wrote in my notes here as the question that haunts me this is a question that i was asked years ago to be very honest with you i'll just tell you i've been asked this same question two different times in my life two different times by two different people in two different seasons of life they didn't ask the question word for word these individuals that not even know each other but they asked the same kind of question and it's it's it's haunted me to be honest with you because i'm afraid that people think this and it has to do with young ladies and when i'm talking about young ladies i'm talking about young ladies who are maybe still living at home who've graduated high school they're done with high school they're done with their schoolwork and maybe they're not married but they're still living at home or even young ladies who have recently gotten married so they're now living in within their marriage but they don't have children yet i was asked this question by a mother who had a young lady who's done with high school had not married yet and was concerned about her and i was asked this question by a young man who's recently married and he had a wife didn't have children yet was at home and the the question is this because the bible says in first timothy 514 i will therefore that the younger women marry bear children guide the house give none occasion to the adversary to speak approachfully and i believe that and i believe and i teach that the bible says that that the god's will i will therefore for the younger women god's will is for them to marry to bear children to guide the house i don't believe it's god's will for women to go off to work and have careers if you disagree with that that's between you and god i'm just telling you what the bible says and if you find yourself in this you're a single mom or something like that you find yourself in a situation where you don't have a choice i'm not beating up on you i'm just telling you in god's perfect will women would stay home and raise their children have children guide the house here's the question that haunts me because both of these questions were worded in this way my fill in the blank says pastor Jimenez that because you teach that women are not supposed to go to work then my teenage daughter who's done with high school wants to just sleep all day and do nothing because she's not supposed to work or my new bride pastor Jimenez wants to roll out of bed at 11 every day and do nothing all day because you said she's not supposed to go to work and and this question haunts me because here's the answer to the question i never said that right you say what did you say here's what i said young ladies don't need to go to a secular job that does not equate young ladies need to be sleeping to noon all day doing nothing and getting nothing done all day those are two different things you say well what what do you what do you think that young ladies you know if they're done with school they don't have children they they they they you're saying they can't go get a secular job hey let me explain something to you there's lots of ways you can work and not have a secular job you need some examples i've got a list you can sign up for i mean there's all all sorts of things you can do but let me help you understand something never ever ever has this guy said that it's appropriate for some young person who doesn't have a job to just do nothing all day sleep all day be watching youtube videos of cats dancing all day you didn't get that from me and if you think you got that from me then let me know because i can find i can find a monday cleaning crew a saturday cleaning crew a sunday cleaning crew i can find mailing lists and mailers i can find all sorts of things that will keep you busy all day because the bible says that we're supposed to work now if you want to let your wife be lazy you go ahead and let your wife be lazy but don't put that on me don't say i taught that or i said that or i gave you that idea i didn't give you that idea let me tell you something we believe in work around here when i was 18 years old i got married and i don't recommend that i'm just telling you that's the reality of our lives we got married i got married two weeks after i graduated high school my wife and i were 18 years old we did not have our first child so we were in 21 and i don't recommend that either i'm just telling you that's what we were taught and that's what we were told but let me explain something to you when when we were 18 and 19 and 20 and 21 years old before we had children my wife and i and this was a different church with different philosophies and i understand that but our church had a bus ministry we were bus captains we ran a bus that brought 70 people to church every week and most people try to bring children to church we brought adults and teenagers and children to church every week 70 people we had the bus that went the furthest away which means that we got to the church building at 6 a.m before anyone else before anyone else before full-time staff and paid staff and the pastor we got to the church building at 6 a.m get our bus started get our bus warmed up so we could be on the road at 6 15 with our bus driver we brought 70 people to church we came back after sunday after dropping everybody off i would preach a sermon on the bus that i would prepare every week we'd get back around 2 30 or 3 my wife and i would go and have uh literally three dollar lunch at taco bell back in those days when you could do that and we'd be back at the church building at 5 p.m for choir practice we were in choir we ran a bus we led the children's ministries on wednesday night we led the soul winning ministry i printed all the maps for the soul winning uh and and and did all of the soul winning training my wife taught as a kindergarten teacher in the christian school while working a part-time job at target so please let me explain something to you no i don't think some 19 and 20 year old needs to just be sleeping all day doing nothing all day i don't believe that i think you should be working i think everyone should be working i think we should be productive with our lives now you let your teenage daughters do whatever you want them to do that's between you and god i'm just telling you don't put that on me i didn't say that you said what are your daughters going to do when they're teenagers working i don't want them going to some secular college and getting brainwashed but that doesn't mean they can't take appropriate classes online that doesn't mean they can't be a virtuous woman and run a business a legitimate business from their home that's the other thing people everybody wants to oh i want to start my business and and what that means is they sit at the computer and watch cats dance all day and they call it a business you know my son started a fire delivery business it's a legitimate business business they have a business license they have all the things that are needed to have this business i mean they just got a five thousand flyer contract for five weeks because of their advertisement i mean it's it's a legitimate so please understand this because sometimes oh work from home and people think oh i work from home and it's like no you don't you don't do anything get jobs make sales make money learn learn a language go soul winning you know we have three soul winning times around here now i don't expect a mom with five kids that she's homeschooling to show up to thursday soul winning and friday soul winning and saturday soul winning i didn't say that if people show up for sony once a week and they're living in that season of life praise god for them but if you're just like i have nothing to do we can find something for you to do we're talking about the meaning of productivity what does it mean productivity has to has to do with getting things done which requires getting work done but it doesn't have to do with being busy all day it has to do with what you're actually getting done we talked about the makeup of productivity what's the makeup of productivity it's managing your time and managing your attention time is finite and time is fleeting your attention is finite and your attention is fleeting and if you can focus these two things on a regular basis you'll get a lot done and then number three let's talk about the motivation for productivity the motivation for productivity go back to proverbs if you would proverbs chapter 12 it already laziness just in general pisses me off and then when people try to put it on me like everyone you talked no i did not no i did not i did not teach that the motivation for productivity letter a let's talk to two groups if you're not busy and if you are what should motivate you let's talk to two groups because here's the truth some there are some people in their lives and i'm not i'm not saying this in a in a in a critical way or a cynical way there are some people who are just not that busy and then there are other people who are super busy now you may not be busy and that's not your fault it's just your season of life you know maybe you did just get married you don't have children you just have a lot of time okay praise the lord let's not waste it maybe you've raised your children your children are grown and out of the house you've retired and you just find yourself having a lot of time on your hands hey praise god let's not waste it but you know other people are super busy and i'll just be honest with you you know my wife and i we are busy sometimes people want to act like and please don't i'm not trying to offend you and i'm not and i'm talking to anybody specifically right now i'm not thinking about anybody but sometimes people act like they want to be like our best friends or something and just spend all this time with us just realize i'm a pastor and she's a pastor's wife of a growing church we have six children that are being homeschooled we don't just have all this free time we're just bored and trying to figure out what to do now we appreciate you invite us over for dinner we appreciate that and we like that and i'm not i'm not talking about that i'm i'm just saying we the state in life we're in right now we're just treading water i mean can i just be honest with you we're just trying to keep our heads above water there's just so much to do and so much to get accomplished we just don't have hobbies we don't have time to just waste a bunch of time now one day our kids will be growing and out of the house and we'll have probably lots of time to do a lot of stuff i'm just telling you different people find themselves in different seasons of life so let's meet let me talk real quickly to those of you they're just not that busy you just don't have a lot going on no problem but here's what should motivate you to be productive what should motivate you is the realization that being productive is the key difference between highly successful people and those who are not are you there in proverbs proverbs 12 24 the hand of the diligent shall bear rule look this isn't always the case this is not always true i understand this but by and large your boss is your boss because he works harder than you okay by and large that guy you keep criticizing oh i see the manager why did he get the promotion why probably because he picks up the phone when you don't pick up the phone probably because he stays late when you don't stay late probably because he shows up early when you don't show up early probably because he's just a better worker than you are can we just be honest being productive is the key difference between highly successful people and those who work for them and those who are not the bible says the hand of the diligent shall bear rule don't don't miss it but the slothful shall be under tribute the slothful will be the ones that are being the the slothful will be the ones that are being the rule is being bore upon go to proverbs 22 look at verse 29 proverbs 22 verse 29 proverbs 22 29 notice what the bible says see is thou a man diligent in his business that word diligent means a hard worker effective efficient productive see is thou a man diligent in his business notice what the bible says he shall stand before kings he shall not stand before mean men now when the bible says he shall stand before kings it's talking about he's gonna he's gonna stand before a certain category of individuals leaders people with authority kings and then the bible says he shall not stand before mean men now you might if you're not aware of the word mean the meaning of the word mean there you might think mean like someone who's not nice that's not what the word mean there means the word mean is actually a mathematical term which means average it is the mathematical term or the arithmetic definition of the word mean like when somebody says the the mean number is the average number when the bible says here that he shall not stand before mean men it says see is thou a man diligent in his business he shall stand before kings he shall not stand before average men why because productive people are not average because being productive is the key difference between highly successful people and those who aren't average and those who are not go to proverbs 18 proverbs 18 look at verse 9 proverbs 18 and verse 9 proverbs 18 and verse 9 the bible says he also that is slothful in his work slothful means lazy he also that is slothful in his work is a brother to him that is a great waster why don't you notice the bible says that being a sloth or lazy and being a great waster they go hand in hand they're siblings he also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster you say why because lazy people waste time because lazy people waste opportunity because lazy people waste energy obviously i don't do this because i'm a pastor and and and i'm good at it i'm not going to walk up to people and tell them everything sometimes i want to walk up to people and just ask them like what do you do all day i mean you barely show up to church you don't go so when you don't serve in any area what do you what do you do all day here's what i know slothful people are great wasters he also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster and look i'm not going to ask you that but you should ask yourself this question what do i do all day so if you're not busy you're just not in that season of life you don't have a lot going on great praise the lord i'm not mad at you i'm just telling you don't waste your opportunity don't waste your time and your energy and your resources and your youth and and the opportunities that god has given you sometimes young people they you know you said why do you tell these stories about the things you did when you were 18 years old here's why because young people walk up to me and they're like pastor i want to be like you i want to be able to preach at the rat-hot preaching conference i want to be able to teach this whole winning seminar i want to be able to do this and do that okay great but you know years and years and years and years and years before i ever got up and filmed a soul winning seminar i was training soul winners for free for nothing just for the love of soul winning years and years and years and years before i got paid to lead a church i was showing up to church and helping a pastor at 6 a.m on sunday mornings to 3 p.m and and and and going sunday night church and going to wednesday night church and we were just serving even when i was in the air force and we were at a different church my wife and i started a spanish ministry that brought in 30 and sometimes 40 people i'm just telling we we weren't just sitting around doing nothing we were working we were laboring so don't waste your time because part of me wonders if god has allowed us and blessed us in this season of our lives when we're super busy because we gave him our time when we weren't busy but don't we talk to you who are busy maybe you're like me and you're like i've got seven kids and i'm overwhelmed and i've got look i get that you got little kids just give it give it five seven years and you know give it 10 years it'll get better if you're busy here's the motivation for you you say i'm too busy to be productive i always think it's funny when people tell me i'm too i'm too poor to have a budget look when you don't have a lot of money you really need a budget because you don't have a lot of money so you need to make every dollar count well when you don't have a lot of time you need to make every minute count but rj preached about working in in our saturday morning uh rally and he quoted the the song give every flying minute something to keep in store so if you're busy what's the motivation here's the motivation being productive will help you accomplish everything you have to do in less time so that you can focus more on what you what really matters yeah i i got too much going on okay then learn to be highly productive learn to manage your time well manage your focus well get off of all these things that are going to distract you and focus on the things that matter the most and get them done and you can go to bed and you can go to bed every day realizing that i accomplished what i needed to get done and i produce what needed to get done in maybe even less time than was expected and i can focus on the things that matter the most psalm 90 if you would you're there in proverbs go we're gonna go to psalms and then we'll go to james and we'll be done okay we'll be done in five minutes psalm 90 psalm 90 if you want to find james towards the end of the new testament you go backwards from revelation you have jude 30 second first john second first peter james james 4 psalm 90 you learn proverbs just flip back psalm 90 in verse 9 for all our days are passed away in thy wrath don't miss this little phrase sometimes there's these statements that i feel like they just jump out at me we spend our years as a tale that is told let me ask you something what story is your life telling what will people say about you when your life is done see we spend our years writing a story people don't realize this we spend our years writing a story and here's what dads do they spend all their time doing selfish things and then they wonder why their adult children are just resentful towards them or say oh my dad wasn't very good dad hey you spent your years as a tale that is told you say what do you want people to say say about you when you're gone well i want my kids to say that that i love them and i spend time with them okay well then you better love them and spend time with them if that's what you want them to say i want people to say that i love souls and i got people saved and i and i help them get baptized and i disciple them okay then show up for soul winning and do that but wanting that and not doing that is never going to accomplish it we spend our years as a tale that is told the days of our years are three score years and ten here's what he's saying you're only going to live a limited amount of time maybe to 70 and if by reason of strength maybe four score years if you live to 80 and with modern medicine you know maybe you live live to 90 or 100 here's the point you're not going to live for 500 years you're going to die at some point yet is there strength labor and sorrow for it is no matter how healthy you are no matter how long you live it is soon cut off and if you're saved and we fly away who knows the power of that anger even according to thy fear so is thy wrath verse 12 here's what he's saying he's saying because our time is limited and because our time is it's finite and it's fleeting we don't have a lot of it even if you live for a long time it's still going to be soon cut off there's not a lot of it so here the psalmist says in verse 12 so teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom and remember the bible says see then that you walk circumspectly not as fools but as wise redeeming the time because the days are even so here's a question on your deathbed what will you regret not doing on your deathbed what will you regret that you wanted to do you should have done what you didn't do or what will you regret that you did too much of and you probably should have done less of it because death is this great clarifier when we stare down death and if people stare down that perspective comes in and the realization of what i should have done and should have done becomes very clear but the thing is when you get that realization at death it's too late we're soon cut off so you know what a wise person does a wise person looks ahead before death realizing time is limited realizing time is fleeing realizing time is finite and they say what will i do with my time how will i focus my attention how will i manage my time go to james chapter 4 we'll be done james 4 13 we're talking about productivity here's a question are you a productive person so while i think okay answer this question what have you gotten done i mean some of you should go home pull out this paper and say and and i say i'm gonna jot down everything that i've gotten done this week did you read your bible this week no i mean i meant to but you show up for so many well i wasn't feeling well did you show up for church well i was tired let me let you know a little secret we're all tired let me let you know a little secret none of us are feeling well let me let you know a little secret nobody wants to do nobody wants to go to work we go to work we do what we do because we want to focus on something more than just ourselves because if you only live for yourself at the end of your life all you will have is yourself and that's a sad way to end your life james 4 13 go to now ye that say because because nobody says i want to be lazy nobody says that you know what they say they say today or tomorrow i will do go into such a city and continue there a year buy and sell and get gay you know how you know someone's lazy is when they're constantly telling you what they're going to do don't tell me what you're going to do tell me what you're doing they don't tell you what they're doing you know why because they're not doing anything telling you what you're going to do so here's what james 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 game he says here's the truth whereas ye know not what shall be on tomorrow you don't know that you're going to have the health you don't know that you're going to have the life you don't know that you're going to have the resources so you better just do it now whereas you know not what shall be on tomorrow and then here's the question brother rj brought up in his sermon as well for what is your life that's a great question i mean think about that what is your life what is life is it the stuff you'll leave behind is that what life is when you die we'll go and look at the cars and the clothes and the jewelry and say well this is their life is that what life is i mean honestly answer the question what is life and if you ask the question what is life you know what you'll come to inevitably it's time and energy attention opportunities resources so we've got to ask the question what is your life what are you doing with your life for what is your life it is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away i hope you make a decision to be productive hey you homeschool moms i hope you homeschool your children but here's what i mean by that i don't hope you run around all day like a chicken with your head cut off busy all day but not accomplishing anything i actually teach those kids something i hope you go to work men and i just be running from here to there shifting papers from there to there busy all day no no get something done look at your time look at the time you have off of work look at the days you have off of work and ask yourself what am i doing with my time what is your life it is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away let's fire heads and have a word of prayer how many father lord i pray you'd help us to be productive people the problem with a sermon like this is that the people who are already productive get it and the ones who aren't just goes over their head just goes over their head i pray you'd help us to be productive help us to be able to get to the end of our lives like the apostle paul and say i have finished my course with joy thank you for the opportunity thank you for the time the strength the resources the ability help us to put it to work in the matchless name of christ we pray amen we're gonna have brother matt come up and lead us in a final song just want to remind you that of course this uh wednesday is our pie social so we'd love for you to come for pie on wednesday after the service if you can bring a pie you can bake a pie or buy a pie that'd be great of course want to encourage you to be with us next week and i want to encourage you to invite a friend bring somebody with you and then on thursdays a turkey bowl if you guys want to sign up there's sign-up sheets in the foyer and there's a clipboard you can sign up it's at 7 a.m on thanksgiving morning and then i want to encourage you to be back tonight at 6 p.m for the evening service and tonight i just want i want to just let you know this i'll talk about it tonight as well but tonight i'm preaching a very specific sermon it's probably going to be two sermons a part one or a part two called seven biblicals seven biblical principles for recovery and what i'm doing is i'm producing a video series that is going to be used in a recovery ministry recovery program and i'm going to be preaching a sermon two sermons over the next couple of weeks that's going to be recorded for that video series my wife and i over the last 12 years have helped many people get victory over drugs and alcohol and what we've done is we've taught them these seven biblical principles and help them apply them in their lives we haven't been 100 successful of course no one's 100 successful we've had a lot of success and so we want to document these things and put them in a video format that can be used in a structured ministry so i want to encourage you to be back tonight because so first of all some of you we've helped and it'd be good for you to be box just so you can get a refresher course some of you struggled with things like that before you even came to our church and you got victory in different ways and praise god for it but it'd be good for you to hear those things some of you are struggling and you're keeping it to yourself and not telling anybody which is a mistake but it'd be good for you to hear these things and some of you know someone who's struggling and it'd be good for you to hear these things so just like every time whenever the word of god is open it's good for all of us and i encourage you to be back some of you have never touched drugs or alcohol and you'll find that these seven biblical principles will still help you so i want to encourage you to come back tonight but i i do want to say this we're going to be recording so you'll notice that there'll be cameras set up throughout the auditorium please help us with that make sure the kids aren't messing with them or touching them if you can help us sit up front that'd be great i'm giving you this warning so you put your makeup on and do whatever you got to do to help us with all of those things but i'll be preaching on the subjects of seven biblical principles for recovery and i'd love you to join us tonight at 6 p.m if there's anything we can do for you please let us know we'll have brother matt come up and lead us in a final song turn to song 416 416 as a volunteer 416 sing it out on the first just comes to one and all soldiers for that conflict as a good on the second yes others jesus he calls you he loves you with the heart others good on the last is amen good singing before we leave here if anybody has questions about salvation church members you amen so so