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*A Flying Start to 2007*
*Shoot For the Moon!*
*Moving from average to extra-ordinary*
*Sunday 14th of January 2007*
*9am Service*
This is the second week of 2007.
Today is the 14th of January 2007.
Already 13 days have come and gone.
Today by this time of the day 9.40am there have been 4,759,713 births worldwide and today alone 143,291 92 93 4 5 6 7 have been born worldwide.
There have also been 1,975,109 deaths this year worldwide and today this 14th of January already 58,885 people have died today.
There are 351 days left in this year and the days remaining in your time on this earth are only known by God.
What will you do with the time you have left?
What will you make of the one life you have?
Most people will spend this year busier than last.
Most people will try and squeeze more into this year, more activities, more shopping, more study, more work, more, more, more.
Many people will look back at the end of the year and will feel like they have more things, will feel tireder, but will deep down wonder whether they feel like they’ve achieved anything at all.
A sociologist did a survey some time ago and asked people, "If you could have one more hour in the day to do anything that you wanted to, what would it be?"
Do you want to guess what the number one answer was?
Sleep.
An hour a day to do anything–climb mountains, dream great dreams, do great deeds, live life to its fullest.
Sleep was number one.
A father would come home from work every day, and always bring his briefcase home.
Every day come home and every day have his briefcase.
The son is kind of troubled by this, and a little confused.
And he finally says to his father, "Dad, how come you bring home your briefcase every day?"
And the dad says, "Well, son, it's because I can't get all that work done at the office."
And his son said, "Well, dad, couldn't they put you in a slower group?"
I once saw a car sticker that read, “He who dies with most toys, wins!”
Many people live life at a frantic pace trying to acquire more things with the hope that one day things will settle down and they’ll have enough.
And the tv constantly enforces the idea that we need more.
Stockstake sales after Christmas!
While we were watching Carols by Candlelight ads for Boxing Day Sales were on the TV.
We could even get to enjoy Christmas before we needed to know the next sale time.
No deposit, No Lay-by needed, you can take it away today with nothing to pay until 2008!
There are ads with people telling us with all sincerity that this product will change our life.
And in the mean time…our lives get more and more hurried as we try often to meet the needs of a deep inner voice saying more, more, more.
Soon it will be enough.
Selfish Ambition
One day Jesus was teaching and Luke 12 says that,
*/13“Then Someone called from the crowd, “Teacher, please tell my brother to divide our father’s estate with me.” /*
*/14 Jesus replied, “Friend, who made me a judge over you to decide such things as that?” 15 Then he said, “Beware!
Don’t be greedy for what you don’t have.
Real life is not measured by how much we own.”
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*/16 And he gave an illustration: “A rich man had a fertile farm that produced fine crops.
In fact, his barns were full to overflowing.
18 So he said, “I know!
I’ll tear down my barns and build bigger ones.
Then I’ll have room enough to store everything.
19 And I’ll sit back and say to myself, “My friend, you have enough stored away for years to come.
Now take it easy!
Eat drink, and be merry!”
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*/20 “But God said to him, ‘You fool!
You will die this very night.
Then who will get it all?’
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*/21 “Yes, a person is a fool to store up earthly wealth but not have a rich relationship with God.”/*
Luke 12:13-21 NLT
Jesus uses the word – “fool!” to describe this man.
Why would he use such a harsh word?
I think it’s because this man spent all his life preparing and planning for his life on earth, the riches that he would own, without giving any though to his death.
He worked hard for the one day when more would be enough only discover that it wasn’t – he would die and not get to enjoy the things he thought were most important.
You see life is more than what we acquire, the status we receive, the achievements we make.
Before God, what is far more important is who we become.
A fool Jesus says is someone who lives at a hurried frantic pace trying to acquire stuff that you can’t take with you when you die.
John Ortberg, well known Christian author writes, My grandmother taught me how to play the game monopoly.
Now, my grandmother was a wonderful person.
She raised six children.
She was a widow by the time I knew her well.
She lived in our house for many, many years.
And she was a lovely woman, but she was the most ruthless Monopoly player I have ever known in my life.
Imagine what would have happened if Donald Trump had married Leona Helmsley and they would have had a child.
Then, you have some picture of what my grandmother was like when she played Monopoly.
She understood that the name of the game is to acquire.
When we would play when I was a little kid and I got my money from the bank, I would always want to save it, hang on to it, because it was just so much fun to have money.
She spent on everything she landed on.
And then, when she bought it, she would mortgage it as much as she could and buy everything else she landed on.
She would accumulate everything she could.
And eventually, she became the master of the board.
And every time I landed, I would have to pay her money.
And eventually, every time she would take my last dollar, I would quit in utter defeat.
And then she would always say the same thing to me.
She'd look at me and she'd say, "One day, you'll learn to play the game."
I hated it when she said that to me.
But one summer, I played Monopoly with a neighbor kid–a friend of mine–almost every day, all day long.
We'd play Monopoly for hours.
And that summer, I learned to play the game.
I came to understand the only way to win is to make a total commitment to acquisition.
I came to understand that money and possessions, that's the way that you keep score.
And by the end of that summer, I was more ruthless than my grandmother.
I was ready to bend the rules, if I had to, to win that game.
And I sat down with her to play that fall.
Slowly, cunningly, I exposed my grandmother's vulnerability.
Relentlessly, inexorably, I drove her off the board.
The game does strange things to you.
I can still remember.
It happened at Marvin Gardens.
I looked at my grandmother.
She taught me how to play the game.
She was an old lady by now.
She was a widow.
She had raised my mom.
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