Psalm 90 – Time.. The Stuff Life’s made of…

Introduction

It says this, a fence lasts three years. A dog lasts three fences. A horse lasts three dogs. And man lasts three horses. Time on earth is temporary. Practice gratitude daily. Make every moment count. If a fence lasts three years and a dog lives to nine and a horse lives to 27, that means man lives to 81. You might say, “Where do you get that?” Psalm 90. Let’s go there. In Psalm chapter 90, we have our first scripture text for the morning. And we look together at Psalm chapter 90 together for its preeminent point to us, the eternity of God and man’s frailty.

And it says, “Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth or you ever had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting thou art God. You turn man to destruction and say, ‘Return, oh children of men.’ For a thousand years in your sight are like yesterday. In you In when it is past, and like a watch in the night. You carry them away like a flood, they are like a sleep. In the morning they are like grass which grows up.

In the morning they are like grass which flourishes. In the evening it is cut down and withers. For we have been consumed by your anger. And by your wrath we are terrified. You have set our iniquities before you. Our secret sins are in light of your countenance. For all of our days have passed away in wrath. We finish our years like a sigh. The days of our life are 70 years. And if by reason of strength they are 80 years, yet their boast is only labor and sorrow.

For it is soon cut off and we fly away. When we see those words, we recognize that there are sometimes we are privileged to have some of thus regarding those of us in this globe that live beyond the 70 or 80. But he’s basically saying the general tenor of mankind is they live 70 or 80 years and then they pass away. Psalm chapter 90 tells us the reality is that we all should learn how to number our days. We should learn how to do that. And so this morning we want to talk about time, the stuff that life is made of.

When we recognize that we are ones that need to learn how to number our days, we need to recognize what are we going to do and how are we going to plan accordingly. We need to be the type of people that have vision and that recognize when we are here on this earth, we are not granted centuries and centuries and centuries. We may be blessed to be granted one and I know we’re all looking forward to John turning a hundred. That’s really cool, just right around the corner. One of our centurion type men here in the congregation.

That’s great. That’s something to look forward to. But most people in the world aren’t blessed with a hundred years. They’re not. He’s here with us this morning and we’re glad you’re here, John. You’re a great example to us. You’re here at services Sunday morning, Wednesday night. You’re here. We are the type of people that we have challenges in our life and sometimes we may say, “Should I prioritize worship? Should I prioritize that or should I prioritize something I want to do?” We need to be the type of people that say when it comes to our life, we focus on building our mind in spiritual building, in spiritual strength, that fill our mind with spiritual concepts and so we develop our mind by being here every time the doors open that we have an opportunity to be here so that we might grow and learn.

Our life is a very special thing. And we need to recognize that it is special in the sight of God. We need to recognize that as we are here, we have but a little bit of time. And so we need to learn what we’re working with and plan accordingly. Young people, I’ve said throughout this past summer, if you’re in the high school class, and I’ve got to have the privilege of teaching the high school class with one of our elders, brother Klein, and then now co-teaching with Terrence, who led singing this morning.

Good job, Terrence. And good job with your first go-around this this August season here with the teens. But I want to tell you what I told you what I’ll tell the congregation what I told the teens. I said, “Summer time is the one time you have to focus focus focus on planning to read the scriptures as much as you can. You have so much more time to read the scriptures now than you ever will as an adult in the working world. You have to squeeze that time as things get more busy.”

And I was talking to Shawn Jeffries. We were talking just this past week about lesson planning, who’s going to preach what, when we’re going to preach that, and kind of coordinating our schedules. And he said, “J.R., I’ll make a pun. This is timely.” I thanked Shawn. He goes, “No, it’s timely. We need this lesson right now.” I said, “That’s right. We’ve got to be the type of people that recognize we have to capitalize on every moment of time we have.

We’ve got to look at the the moment we have and focus on that. We have to realize that just 1 minute 1 1 uh 1% of a day is 14 minutes and 21 seconds. 1%. You’ve already spent 1% of your whole day in 14 minutes and 21 seconds. Remember that. Keep that in the back of your mind and say, “How much percentage of the day have I spent reading the Bible?” If you spent an hour, you’re building on that percentage. If you spent 2 hours, you’re building on that percentage. Do that. Recognize that.

1. Life Is Short; None Know Their Last Earth Day

Learn what you’re working with and plan accordingly. James 4 chapter 4 and verse 13 through 17 says this. Let’s turn to the New Testament now and look at a passage of scripture in James. James chapter 2 Excuse me, James chapter 4 verses 13 through 17. Does this. Uh come on, you now who say, “Today or tomorrow we’ll go to such and such a city. We’re going to spend a year there, buy and sell and make a profit.” Whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow.

For what is your life? It is even a vapor. The English Standard Version, I believe, uses the word mist. It’s even a mist that is here for a little while and then vanishes away. Reading from the New King James Version, he says, “Instead you ought to say, ‘If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.’ But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.”

In James chapter 4 verses 13 through 17, we learn a special lesson for us all, and that is that life is short. We do not know how long we’ll have. We do not know what we’ll do tomorrow. Like the guy in the book of Luke who said, “Oh, say to myself, self, I’ll tear down my barns and build bigger. And then I’ll take my ease, eat, drink, and be merry.” And God said unto him, “Fool, tonight your soul will be required of thee.” You didn’t know what the future would hold.

You didn’t know what would happen. Life is short. None of us know our last day on Earth. We’re never given that privilege to know that. Very few men in the Bible were told how long they would have to live and know the exact day that they would pass away. There are a few exceptions with Hezekiah. We’re familiar with him and the turning of the sundial and such. But there are very few people that know the very last day they’re going to have. And so that behooves us ask ourselves the question with James chapter 4 verses 13 through 17 is if life is short, what are we going to do?

I like what Hebrews says, let us fix our eyes on Jesus. The author and perfecter of our faith who for the joy set before him endured the cross and despising the shame has sat down at the right hand of the power of God. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus. I think that is a good thing that we should do recognizing that our life is short that we don’t have the privilege of knowing what we will do today or tomorrow. Some people say that man’s most dangerous habit is saying tomorrow I’ll do this, tomorrow I’ll do this.

Well, in James 4:13, he even said today. You say today I’m going to do this. Well, today that might not happen. Today that might not He said, “Come now you who say today or tomorrow I will do this or that going to such and such a city.” We don’t know what’s going to happen. So one of the things I love right now that encourages me, that builds me up, that makes me smile both internally and externally, have the countenance of the Lord upon my face, is to know that you are here.

You have chosen to be here worshiping with those of like precious faith. I heard you singing. I could hear voices from different places in the in the assembly this morning. I heard Jay. I heard your voice, nice voice. I heard Gene. I heard his deep voice, his bass voice. I heard my mom. I heard different ones singing. I could hear the voices and it encourages me. And you know what? God has blessed us each with individual voices. It doesn’t matter if you sound like a perfect singer or not.

God just wants you to blend your voices together. And he focuses on the words. And he he tells us speaking to one another in songs and hymns and spiritual songs singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord. We quote that verse all the time, but do you realize what the context is about? Life is short and none know their last Earth day. He says, “Instead of doing one thing, you should be singing and speaking to one another in songs and hymns and spiritual songs.”

He says, um “Be ye not” Listen carefully, the verse right before that. “Be ye not drunk with wine in which is dissipation.” Some versions say, “Be not drunk with wine in which is excess.” Other versions say, “Be not drunk with wine in which is riot.” “Be not drunk with wine in which is riot, but be filled with the spirit, singing to one another.” So, he’s telling the world, he’s telling people, “Instead of going out on a Sunday and getting drunk, be with God’s people and sing.

Do something righteous. Do something noble. Make a decision to not do evil, but do what is right. Life is short. Choose to do the things in life that will be wise and that will build you up in the most holy faith. You do not know your last Earth day. You’d rather the Lord to come back and hear you singing wherever you are than for the Lord to come back and see you drinking wherever you are. Amen? When we look at the passages of scripture, they’re powerful. They lead us to help us understand so many good principles.

2. This Is the Day the Lord Has Made

Here’s another thing I want us to mention. Psalm 118:24. Psalm 118:24. We know that our our life appeareth quickly and then soon vanisheth away, but look at Psalm 118:24. I love hearing pages turning. I know some of you have digital Bibles, my wife included. She’s scrolling through her digital Bible with a big smile on her face. She and Vicky have a competition who can who can read the most. So, they do a good job, but I still like to turn pages in a physical Bible.

It lets me know that I I’m holding something tactile that I can I can read and study and focus on. I’m not I’m not uh opposed to a digital Bible, but it’s still nice to hear the pages. If you’re there now, Psalm 118:24, it says this. This is the day the Lord has made. When you arose this morning and yawned and wiped your eyes from the grogginess of Saturday night, when you turned off the alarm clock with either a slamming hand or just waking up, or maybe you’re a morning person like my son Robert and my mother and you just get up jubilant in the morning, the day is a day God has made.

Let’s what? Rejoice and be glad in it. Whether you’re a morning person or not and it takes you a little time to get up. I am one of those that takes me a little time to get my my my wheels are going. There’s a statement in my family and some of you know it already because you’ve learned my family a little bit and know the JR statement. There’s JR and then there’s JRBC. Before coffee, you got it. There’s JR and then there’s JRBC. I have to get myself going, get something going to get going.

But then when we look at the day as a day, we are blessed with the Lord. Every day should be a day that we say, “This is a day of Thanksgiving. This is a day the Lord has blessed us with. Let us rejoice and be glad. Today is a day for rejoicing.” If we have a new day, we’re given the blessing of starting a new day with the Lord. No matter what happened yesterday, yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift. That is why we call it the present.

That’s right. So, we need to focus on that. Let’s look a little bit more at this. The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone. This was the Lord’s doing. It’s marvelous in our eyes. This is the day the Lord has made and we rejoice. Did you recognize that the old time psalmist way back in Psalm 118 connected the day to rejoice with Jesus before Jesus was ever there. The context of the verse isn’t just applying to oh let’s just rejoice God’s made us.

I love God. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I believe in God. No, he gives it to the man of doctrine. He gives it to the man of of of Jesus to the teacher who told the Pharisees you’re not doing right. To the Jews that we’re wanting to do do right lean on the Lord eternal to the Lord who was the one who is the chief cornerstone whom they rejected who they put on the cross. Whom they spat upon as we read about in our scripture reading today from the book of Mark to the one that they ridiculed and twisted a crown of thorns upon his head and they rejected him even though he was the cornerstone building of the of the kingdom of God.

We rejoice in him. We rejoice in the power of his sufferings by in wherein we find not only this this sense of pain but it also a sense of joy. That he went to the cross knowing that if I die, I can save the world. If I put my life on the line for everybody else, hopefully they’ll turn towards the cross and say yes, I need to follow Jesus. Yes, I need to serve the risen savior. Yes, I need to trust in the Lord almighty. Robert stepped out of the room so I can tell a joke.

3. Our Words Are Important

Robert is my son and I’m very proud of him. He’s doing really well. He’s going to give his first sermon next week. At another small congregation around town. I’ll have to listen to this. But I’m I’m excited for him. I hope he does a good job. But as you know with Robert, he is a diplomat. He likes to walk around and socialize and visit with people. He said, “Dad.” He said, I said, “Yes, son.” He said, “There’s two ways you can look at things.” He goes, “What’s that?” He goes, “Positive or negative.” I said, “Yes, that’s true.” He said, “Yeah, but even in the way you say things, it can be positive or negative.”

I said, “Yes, and so what exactly do you mean?” He said, “You can say, ‘Hey, have a great day’ or ‘Enjoy the next 24 hours.’” He says, “It’s all in how you say it.” And our words mean something. Our words are important. The way we say things really does matter. And when you use your time, recognize the way you use your words can either construct, build someone up, make them feel good, encourage, be uplifting, be kind and nice and friendly, or else it can make them feel like “I guess I got to enjoy the next 24 hours.”

It’s It can It can really make or break somebody based on how we speak. If we look to the words of Paul, he said in the scriptures, help my words. Over and over he talked about his words. In the book of Philippians, we hear about the words that are spoken over and over. In In Ephesians, the last chapter, “May the words of the utterance be given to me that I may be able to speak boldly as I ought to proclaim the word of the Lord.” And so we need to remember that.

4. Neither Overly Gloomy Nor Overly Giddy

I was thinking at this particular point in the lesson that I might say something, and in my notes I had it written one way, and then I scratched it out and wrote it another way. I thought, “Well, I’m going to give both of them and see if anybody knows.” I said, “Our life should neither be neither Puddle-Glum nor Pollyanna.” Some of you are looking like you know those names of literature. And then I thought, “Well, maybe people don’t know Puddle-Glum, the character from C.

S. Lewis, and maybe people don’t know Pollyanna, the rose-colored glasses girl from years and years ago from a different book.” So I wrote it this way. As we are aiming to not leave for tomorrow what we can do today, let our today be neither gloomy, overly gloomy, and let not today be overly giddy. The first half of this lesson might have seemed a little giddy or a little bit uplifting. You need to recognize with life, you don’t want to be overly giddy.

Yet at the same time, you don’t want to be overly gloomy. When we recognize who we are as God’s people, God stands forth and tells us things in the scriptures, and he tells us things for a reason. We need to be positive. We need to have a good attitude, but we also need to stand firm for those things which are doctrinally true. We need to stand forth and proclaim boldly the truths that are found within the scriptures. There are some people you will meet, young people on the road of life, as the young ones listen to this, that will say, “Well, we’re all on just this different roads, but leading to heaven.”

They’ll take passages of scripture such as the vine and the branches and say, “Jesus said, ‘I am the vine, you are the branches.’” And they will take that verse, they will take that scripture, and they will say, “See, Jesus is the vine, and each one of those branches are unique denominations, and they’re all just different roads leading to heaven.” Not so. If you were to look particularly at the verbiage of that particular passage and look at what it says, it uses nouns and pronouns and verbs and nouns and all sorts of things that show that the individual is the branch.

And the individual is the one that is of a branch, and Jesus is the vine. He says, “I am the vine and you are the branches. Bear precious fruit,” we sometimes sing. We are the ones that are commanded to bear fruit in the Lord. And so we stand up for doctrine, we stand true for that which is right, and we make sure we teach and proclaim boldly those things which Jesus which is wishes for us to say. We need to realize that when we have an opportunity to tell someone about the gospel message, whether it’s at work for the adults or whether it’s at the school for young people, we need to be the type of people that say boldly, “I am going to say just what Jesus says.

I’m not going to sugarcoat it. I’m not going to say it meanly. I’m not going to say it grumpily. I’m not going to say it gloomily. I’m I’m a Christian just the Christian, but I’m glad to be a Christian. Let me share with you about the gospel what we can share about the gospel. It’s good news into salvation. It’s the power of God Romans 1:16 to everyone who believes to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it salvation gives a wonderful story for us and we understand through that scripture that we have faith built upon that.”

Want to commend you all again. On the bulletin board in the hallway, throughout last year we had all sorts of different things on the bulletin board. I would change them out periodically, you know, I’d put a little, you know, I don’t know, a 3×5 card or business card on there that would say something like for our servers at restaurants, “Thank you for serving a meal to us. I’d like you to meet one who serves us spiritually, Jesus. Come visit us at Bumby.” I’d change it out to another one that would be a door hanger.

You could go to your next door neighbor and it would have a you’d hang it up on the door and you could put a little note there. This is some of the things we’ve got going on at church. We’d love for you to uh uh be with us and worship with us. Thank you. Uh have a good day.” And a different ones. But the last one we had was unique. I didn’t have it up there just a week or two. I had it up there a long time and we revised it three times. And if I counted right, and I may be wrong on my numbers, I think I might be off by 20 or 30 depending on how many were given out, but I think we have about 180 to 140 tracks given to Uber drivers.

So, there’s 140 Uber drivers with a track that says, “Thank you for driving us. We would We appreciate that. We want you to know that Jesus will lead you and guide you through life if you follow his salvation plan.” And it has the plan of salvation. It has steps. It has a way for them to understand and study with us here. You guys have had a lot of those handed out, not just by me. I’ve handed out maybe 20, 30, but you guys have handed out like 80 or 90 to other Uber drivers.

And sometimes I will get some that will even return back a business card or various things to me saying, “Thank you. I really appreciate this.” And so, that’s really good. That’s something you are doing using your time wisely. You’re having the right attitude about time. You’re not saying, “Oh, this guy gave me a pizza at my door. He’s a driver. Okay, I just care about the pizza.” You’re giving him a track that shows him about the gospel. Or maybe getting picked up from the airport to go somewhere and you need the actual Uber or Lyft. You’re taking that to that person. That’s great. Keep that up. This morning I put a new one out.

This one says, “Thank you for teaching me this year. The greatest gift I can give back to you is sharing Jesus. He teaches us all and I love to have you as my teacher. Worship with me at church services. We meet on Sundays at 9:30 a.m. to noon. Also Wednesdays for a 7:00 p.m. study. And you can take one of these off the board, write your personal note in the back.” And while teachers are reading through forms, filling out forms, doing this, they can have something that leads them to Jesus. It shows them something spiritual in the time that you’re doing your forms and your various paperwork as the school’s getting ready to get back in session.

Here in Orlando, we start our school on Tuesday. And so, we parents are rushing through the process of getting everything together, all the things lined up that try to get ready for that. And so, we need to recognize that when we do this, we need to rejoice in our time. We need to have a positive attitude with this. I would say if there is a recognition from the scriptures on doctrine versus delivery, the delivery that we give forth the message of God is so vital.

5. See That You Walk Circumspectly, Redeeming the Time

It needs to be happy and joyous. The doctrine can’t change though. We cannot concede 1 in doctrine. We must stand firm for those things which are true and hold to those things accurately. We as individuals and as families serving God must choose wisely in every moment what we’re going to do with our time. We just never know when will be our final hour. Want us to turn to Ephesians 5:15-16 for a moment and study a little further. In Ephesians chapter 5:15-16, these words are written.

Let’s turn there together. Ephesians chapter 5:16-17, 15-16. See then that you walk. The word walk is used uh profusely, prolifically. I think prolific’s probably a better word, but it’s used a lot. That’s the synonym in the Bible. Walk is used throughout the scripture to talk about a unison or an accord with which one is enjoined with God. Enoch walked with God and he was not for God took him. In other words, Enoch was parallel doing the things that God wanted him to do and so God rewarded him with heaven before his earth life ended.

He was able to go to heaven before he died. Uh see that you walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise redeeming the time because the days are evil. Therefore, do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is. We discussed the context in the passages that go after that in verse 18, 19. But in verse 20, what bookends that is giving thanks always for the things for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, submitting to one another in the fear of God.

We need to be the type of people that recognize we are standing before God. We are standing before almighty God. Says in Hebrews chapter 12 and verse 28, “Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear, for our God is an all-consuming fire. We need to remember that.” And especially verse 29. But back in verse 15, what bookends the verses that we studied, he says, “See then that you walk circumspectly.”

That’s a word we don’t often use, but it simply means carefully. See then that you walk very careful. Don’t be foolish, but be wise. Wisdom is not just knowledge. Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know. And so he tells us, “Walk in such a way that’s careful. Don’t be foolish, but be wise. The days before you are evil.” The people that we will meet sometimes are making choices that are not in accordance with the will of the Lord. Does that mean we hate them? Oh, no.

It means we would love to see them change. We would love to see them reform, and we would love to see them utilize the scriptures in such a way that would help them walk alongside the Lord. The school season is about to pick up. Where will you be utilizing your time? Parents, you might say, “I’m going to be rushing. I already know.” I understand that. I have three kids. They’re going to be 18, 14, and 11 this upcoming year. Uh that’s that’s something. They’re going to be all over. I’m going to have to rush here and rush there and go here and go there.

I get that. I’m in the same situation as you all. But, please recognize something. In years gone by, I have documents in my office, if you want to see them, of meetings wherein people would assemble in buildings about this size, sometimes even outdoors, with no fans, no air conditioner, maybe 1,500 people for 2 weeks long listening to a gospel meeting. The elders here are not asking you to work and worship alongside them for two week long gospel meetings.

They’re not. But, we do need to recognize that the presence of our own family and our own people here local to those types of services helps uplift and helps encourage and helps build up and helps edify and encourages the youngest of the young and the oldest of the old. I still remember one singing years ago. We remember the Trimbles, right? Shake your head if you do. Yeah, a lot of you remember the Trimbles. Harold Trimble had led a singing in Fort Pierce, Florida.

It was almost standing room only. Everybody was totally filled in the building. Came night after night after night and there was no air conditioner. It had gone out. They had little box fans all set up all around the thing and everybody was gathered together singing. I was a little kid. I didn’t care that it was hot. I like to sing songs. I got to hear some new songs I hadn’t heard before. Some which were in our books, some which were not. It was an encouraging time and we need to recognize we have times to encourage one another.

That’s what this is about. Being a Christian is not only about just obeying law. Law is good. Law is vital. Jesus came to establish law. I’m not denying that. But, we need to build one another up in the most holy faith and our opportunities here at Bobby are a plenty. We have tons of opportunities for you to worship and study and grow and develop. We’ve got 3:00 p.m. classes or 2:30 p.m. classes on the parables once a month. We’ve got uh training for the young men every couple of weeks.

We’ve got a fifth Sunday singing that’s coming up. Let’s fill the building with as many people as we can to lift our voices for that. And we’ve got a gospel meeting coming up around the corner. Let’s all be here for that. But also let’s realize that the regular moments the regular moments are when it really matters to consolidate the teachings of the Lord to the next generation. He says in Deuteronomy, as you wake up, when you lie down, when you walk by the way, as you go hither and thither around the world, we need to take those small moments to focus on utilizing our time for the Lord.

6. Be Still and Know That I Am God

We need to do that and be careful to do that. I’m familiar with a verse that I hope you all will become familiar with soon. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Sometimes it’s difficult, but God is there. Therefore, we will not fear even though the earth be removed and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea. Though the waters roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with its swelling. There is a point and premise into our teaching to those that we might meet from day to day that we want to be saved.

That maybe aren’t. We recognize that God will be with us in our challenges to teach the lost. He says in verse 4, “There is a river, Psalm 46, whose streams shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacle of the most high. God is in the middle of her and she shall not be moved. God shall help her just as the break of dawn. The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved. He uttered his voice and the earth melted. The Lord of hosts is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge.

Come behold and see the works of the Lord, who has made desolations in the earth. He has made wars to cease to the ends of the earth. He breaks the bow and cuts the spear in two. He burns the chariot in the fire. Be still and know that I am God. Sometimes in our life we’re going to be busy, busy, busy. But realize God has told us through his scriptures there are sometimes just to pause, take a moment, breathe, and be still. And know that God’s got it. He’s in charge. He’ll help you.

Conclusion

And we should lean on him. But what if you’re here this morning you’re not a Christian? And say this is an interesting talk about time. Interesting to know I should make the most use to my time. I’ll tell you this, if you’re not a Christian, there’s something vital that we’re going to talk about now. And that is an invitation along with a plea. The invitation is that if you want to become a Christian, we have water behind me. We have a baptistery behind me. We can baptize you. We have the way for you to become a Christian.

Uh and that’s all prepared. We have garments and all those types of things. But we want to make this plea to you as well. In 2 Corinthians chapter 5 it says this. It says, “We make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to him. Because we’ve all got to appear before the judgment seat of Christ. That each one may receive the things done in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad. Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men.

But are well known to God and I also trust are well known in your consciences. And then from our scripture reading that Robert read so aptly this morning, he said, and we will reply with a amen and also with a continued reading of the same scripture in the 13th chapter of Romans verses 11 and 12, where he says, “Do this, know the time.” Know the time. It is high time to awake out of sleep. For now our salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.

The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore, let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. Let us walk properly. Hear the word of God. Believe the word of God. Believe Jesus is God’s son. Confess the name of Christ. Repent of your sins. Be baptized for the forgiveness of sins. Walk properly. Do the things you need to do. Put off sin and put on Christ. The time is now. Now is the day of salvation. We don’t know that we’ll have tomorrow, but we do know we have now.

Hear the word of God, Romans 10:17. Believe he’s God’s son, John 3:16. Confess the name of Christ, Romans 10:10. And repent. Let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins. And you shall receive the gift of the Spirit. For the promise is to you and to those who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call. We can help you become a Christian this morning. Please come forward as we stand and sing. [clears throat]