Remember Your Creator: Act Decisively While You Can

If Christ doesn't come and he doesn't take you prematurely, that day is coming. There's gonna be a brokenness. There's gonna be a shattering. Now is the day. No matter how old you are, before you get to then, now remember your creator. Act decisively on his behalf. [00:33:24] (22 seconds)  #RememberYourCreatorNow

There are too many believers that are no more than a flash in the pan. Too many believers that are what we might call a a fair weather follower of Christ. Too many that are when the going gets tough, I'm done kind of follower. But I want you to think about Daniel and I want you to think about being a a lifer, being a long termer. Think about if you're younger, spending seventy years of your life taking a stand and honoring god. [00:09:10] (34 seconds)  #FaithForLife

You see, at the age of 70, he remembered his creator. He decided to act decisively on his behalf. And he served Christ with the time and the effort and the energy and the strength that he had left. No matter what your age today, I wanna challenge you to do the same. [00:41:04] (22 seconds)  #ServeAtAnyAge

And so don't misunderstand, Solomon. He's not saying wait till that day. Wait till just before you face death as a senile and trembling and weak knee, toothless, blind, deaf, gray haired, slow moving death ball who's about to return to the dust of the ground from which he came. No. He's saying, no matter how old you are, no matter how old you are, that day is coming. [00:32:58] (27 seconds)  #NowIsTheDay

Now, we joke and we say, well, you know, the the lights are on but nobody's home. Okay? It's the idea that you're just not quite still there. You're just not at home anymore. Solomon is saying, look at this at verse two. He's kinda saying before the lights get dim, while your mind is still working, while you still have mental capacity, you need to take action. [00:21:25] (28 seconds)  #BeforeTheLightsDim

This passage is a graphic description of the progressive deterioration of the human body. It describes aging through the use of a number of metaphors. Now the main point of the passage is for each and every one of us, before we are physically or mentally incapable of doing so, to do what? Verse one, the challenge is to remember now your creator. In the days of your youth or in whatever shape or what what you have [00:17:41] (38 seconds)  #RememberInYourYouth

In the days of your youth or in whatever shape or what what you have in the way of mental capacity, in the way of physical strength, it's now before the difficult days come or the final days come and the years draw nigh or near when you say I have no pleasure in them. Now, you may be thinking this morning, you know, this old gray mare just ain't what she used to be. In fact, she's already been put out to pasture. [00:18:14] (28 seconds)  #UseYourStrengthNow

Well, again, this is talking about before you completely fall apart, before you're gone, while your spirit is still within you, you are to do what? You are to remember your creator. So this passage describes the the notice the days of trouble. In that sense, in that regard, everybody here, you have to kinda put yourself in the young category. [00:18:42] (33 seconds)  #RememberWhileYouCan