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today - series Redeeming your time.
What does the term redeeming your time even mean?
Does God really care how we spend our time today and every day?
Let’s look at the Bible to see what it says.
The term Redeeming Your Time comes from the book of Ephesians.
After teaching about the Gospel of Grace in chapters 1-4, Paul reminds us of our status as dearly loved children of God in Eph 5:1
What should our response be to our status as dearly loved children of God? Paul will answer the question a few verses later.
Make the most of every opportunity = redeem the time.
Paul is saying that part of our response to the Gospel is to make the most of every opportunity or to redeem our time which means that
We are to manage our time as carefully and wisely as possible.
The Greek word for Redeem or “make the most of every opportunity is
Redeem - exagorazo means to buy up or ransom
If you ever said I wish I could by more time … that’s the idea here.
As Christians we are called to buy up as much time as we can.
Why?
Not so we can spend more time on selfish or self centered pursuits.
We are told to redeem our time because the days are evil and we are running out of time to do what the Lord wants us to do. he is coming back soon.
So, how do we redeem or make the best use of our time?
We will look at different aspects to that over the coming weeks by studying how Jesus used his time.
As you read and study the Gospels, Jesus was the most productive person to ever walk the earth.
We will look at his life and what he did to manage his time, as counter culture as he was, and see how we can apply those principles to our own lives.
Let’s look at our passage of the day.
The disciples are out on the Sea of Galilee with Jesus… just out for a nice afternoon boat ride.
The water is nice, the wind is calm and Jesus falls asleep.
The all o f a sudden things got crazy and the wind picked up and soon they were in a storm and the boat was taking on water.
Can you imagine being out in the middle of the lake, and you are bailing out water as fast as you can? That’s what they were doing and it wasn’t working.
Kind of like a never ending to do list.
Recognizing that they cold not fix it, they could not calm the storm and they were sinking, the woke up Jesus and begged him to help.
Here is the point.
Jesus offers peace before you do anything
That’s radical.
Culture says that we are to work… work… work.
We live in a works based culture.
It says if you do x+y+z you will find peace.
But thats opposite of what Jesus taught.
Jesus taught a grace based productivity.
Here is what that means.
Jesus gives us peace and we do the time management work out of worship.
Look at the disciples in the boat.
They didn’t do anything to calm the storm or fix the situation.
They trusted Jesus to calm the storm.
And you and I can do the same.
By trusting Jesus for the forgiveness of our sins, we have peace with God.
We are no longe enemies of God.
here is the good news.
That peace with God is because of what Jesus did not because of what you or I did.
someone said,
Peace comes first, not second.
The mistake we too often make is thinking that peace is a result of the things we do instead of the source of the things we do.
Good time management tactics will never be the source of your peace.
As Christians, our ultimate source of peace, our ultimate solution to being swamped, if found in Jesus, the SOG, sleeping in the back of the boat.
Like Paul said in Eph 2:14
So now since we have established that we are part of God’s family, if we have received Jesus, we want to manage our time better.
Let’s look
How to manage Your Time Better
1.
Our longing for productivity is good and God given.
We don’t just want to live forever, we want to be productive forever.
We may not feel that way every day because sin made work difficult.
But something inside us and Gods word shows us that work was mean tot be very good.
Tend or work - Avodah is also translated worship.
Work pre0dated sin.
So work was meant to be good.
Work was actually meant to be worship.
I believe that the desire to live and be productive forever was placed in us by God.
Look at what Solomon said in Ecc 3:11
Something in our God given DNA tells us that we were made for something more.
We work with time that our minds tell us is finite, but our souls tell us is infinite.
So why is time finite?
Glad you asked.
2. Sin has ensured that we will all die with unfinished work.
When sin entered the world, death came in with it.
You can also see it in 1 CO 15:21
Humans were created to be immortal but became mortal because of sin.
work was created to be good, but became difficult because of sin.
Time which was originally created to be infinite, became finite because of sin.
Sin has fixed it to where none of us will completely feel like we have completed everything we dreamed of doing.
Are you depressed yet?
Our to-do list will never be completed.
Wow.
There will be a gap between what we imagined getting done and what we actually get done… because of sin.
Thankfully, sin doesn’t win… sin doesn’t have the final say.
3. God will finish the work that he wants finished.
God created us to live forever, but sin made us mortal, time-bound and finite.
Where is our hope?
Our hope is in Jesus, who walked out of a tomb on that first Easter with a redeemed body that could not be destroyed again.
The resurrection was Jesus declaring that the longing to live forever we have in us, was put there by him.
He restored immortality.
Easter is not just the beginning of eternal life, but the beginning of God’s eternal kingdom.
What does that have to do with time management?
God created us to live and work with him in a perfect garden.
Sin messed everything up, but God promised to send a King to set everything right.
With his defeat of death on Easter, Jesus proved emphatically that He is that promised King.
And everything from that moment to the end of Revelation is about the building of God’s kingdom until Jesus returns to finish what he inaugurated at the resurrection and make “all things new”
What does this mean today?
Look at 1 CO 15:58
We are God’s co-workers.
God created a lot in six days, but what’s equally remarkable is what He did not create.
The first few days of creation was God setting up a canvas.
The sixth day is when He passed the baton of creation to us—His image-bearers—and called us to continue the work… (literally, to “fill the earth”) with things that point to his glory.
The same thing happened on Easter Sunday morning.
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