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 Rocks, Hills, and the sounding joy. Repeat the sounding joy. Repeat the sounding joy. No, sin, song, sin, fountains, fountains.

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 And sing everybody, Brother Rhymes, please open us up with a word of prayer.

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 Singing in service to come, Lord, in Jesus' name, amen.

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 Amen. All right, if you want to take your hymnals, turn to page number 421.

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 Page number 421, the First Noel. Page number 421.

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 Though handing out the bulletins, we are having a little bit of technical difficulties on the printer.

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 Just follow along with me, if you would, in spirit.

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 Our verse of the week is Romans 8 verse 18, where the Bible says,

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 "For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us."

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 That's Romans 8 verse 18.

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 Obviously we're at our first week's service for the 10.30 a.m.

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 And then tonight we're going to be having actually something a little bit different.

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 We're having our men's preaching night.

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 So I think that there are three men that are signed up to preach for that.

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 So that'll be exciting to see.

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 I'll go over the rules a little bit more in depth for that when we get to it.

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 But just the standard rules of obviously no heresy, please.

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 Make sure you're preaching out of the King James for sure, okay?

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 And make sure you're wearing a shirt and tie and everything else that goes with that.

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 But we'll go over the rules again when we go to preach.

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 And it'll be a random draw for who gets paid for preaching.

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 And then Wednesday, we're going to have a service.

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 We're going to have our Bible study.

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 It'll be 1 Corinthians 7, part number two.

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 So we'll be talking about not defrauding each other and those kinds of things.

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 And then our soul winning times, we have the soul winning after the service, obviously.

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 That'll be at 1 p.m.

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 And then we have our Saturday soul winning at 10.30 a.m.

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 For the salvation total, did this get updated, Kylie?

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 Yes, it did.

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 Okay, so we have seven salvations for October,

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 and we had six in November.

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 So that brings our total to 90, 20, 25.

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 So praise God for that.

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 Closing in on 100, which would be pretty awesome.

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 Like I said, we're having the men's preaching night.

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 Oh, and tonight also we're having the pie social.

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 So we have a couple pies that we're bringing to everybody else.

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 I'm sure bringing a couple pies.

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 So we're doing that kind of to replace Thanksgiving per se,

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 but that'll be kind of the theme for the men's preaching night.

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 Be a good time.

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 So at least if you preach a bad sermon,

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 you get some pie afterwards.

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 A little consolation pie afterwards, okay?

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 The sermon was bad, but I got some pumpkin pie, right?

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 But I'm sure you guys will do good.

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 Last time the sermons were all great,

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 so I'm excited to hear what the men have tonight as well.

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 And then also this morning we have Brother Paul preaching the sermon,

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 and I'm thankful for that because with the driving back up and down from Vancouver,

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 I could have rode in a sermon, but I figured it'd be better.

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 Someone else would have more time to study it out,

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 so Brother Paul already had a sermon ready.

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 So that worked out.

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 So he'll be preaching the morning service.

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 So if you haven't heard him before, better buckle up, OK?

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 So we got those.

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 Sorry, this is a little hard to read on this.

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 Oh, the Christmas party we have.

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 Oh, the ladies' Christmas party.

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 The ladies get their own Christmas party?

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 What is up with that?

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 There's two Christmas parties?

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 There's no men's Christmas party?

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 OK.

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 I don't know what's up with that.

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 OK, we might have to talk to Kylie after the service.

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 But on December 13, we have the ladies' Christmas party.

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 So that'll be at 1 PM.

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 Our house is where we're doing that at?

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 OK, yeah.

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 So you can RSVP with my wife, and then we're

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 going to have food and fellowship there.

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 Or y'all will have food and fellowship.

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 I don't know.

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 I'll leave the house or something like that.

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 So it could be a true ladies' Christmas party.

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 And then December 20, we have the everybody

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 included Christmas party at the church at 4 PM.

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 That'll be at the building.

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 So we're going to have pizza and drinks.

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 And oh, the second annual Christmas Olympics.

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 That'll be super fun.

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 So we'll come up with some games for that.

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 And then I'll make a Bible trivia again.

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 It'll be pretty gnarly like last time.

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 So make sure you're reading the Bible-- sledding.

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 No, they're all like in the building kind of Olympics, OK?

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 We can't do it too crazy now.

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 And then for the 21st, we have our Christmas Sunday Christmas

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 message.

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 Then we're going to have the kids choir singing.

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 So I'm excited to hear all the little kids

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 and what they got planned for that.

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 And we have our verse of the week, lastly,

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 before we move into birthdays, which is

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 John 14 six for the kids.

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 Remember your verse, excuse me.

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 It's Jesus say them to him.

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 I'm the way, the truth and the life.

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 No man cometh unto the father.

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 But by me, that's John 14 six.

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 That's an easy one to get some candy for all

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 you kiddos.

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 And it's a great verse as well that shows

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 that Jesus is the only way to get to heaven.

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 And Jesus is the only God that there is and the

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 only God there ever will be.

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 And the only way that we can, you know,

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 meet God the Father, right?

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 It's through His Son, Jesus Christ.

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 I'm sure you guys are kind of already familiar

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 with all the stuff on, as far as the family

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 integrated stuff goes.

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 So we're not really going to go over that.

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 But lastly, we have the prayer request.

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 But my wife informed me that it's actually

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 Brother Daniel's birthday, December 2nd.

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 So we're going to sing Happy Birthday to Brother Daniel.

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 They tried to get out of it with the bulletin,

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 but not so fast, okay?

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 And we got the piano, and Paul's in the crowd

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 so he can still do the "hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo."

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 So we're in good luck.

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 So we'll sing Happy Birthday to Brother Daniel.

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 Okay, are you guys ready?

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 Happy birthday, let's sing it on the first.

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 ♪ Happy birthday to you ♪

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 Birthdays are not the same without the "hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo."

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 So we definitely need that.

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 But with that being said, we'll get into our prayer requests,

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 and then we'll do our next song.

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 All right, if you want to take your bibles

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 and turn to Psalm number 15.

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 Psalm number 15.

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 As you get your grade reports handed out.

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 Psalm number 15.

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 Sing it out on the first.

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 ♪ Who shall dwell ♪

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 ♪ This whereeth his own ♪

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 ♪ Heard and chained ♪

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 Everybody, pray for the offering.

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 Thank you so much for everything you do for us as a church, God.

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 Thank you so much with everything that you bless us, God.

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 And thank you so much that we live in such a prosperous country, God.

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 In such good and safe times.

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 I just pray that you would help us to realize what a privilege it is to give back to you, God.

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 The fact that we can give anything to you at all is such a privilege and such a blessing, God.

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 I just pray that we always have that attitude in our heart.

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 Do you just want to pray? Amen. Amen.

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 Good morning, everybody. Welcome to Sure Foundation Baptist Church.

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 If you could take your Bibles and turn to Proverbs chapter 31.

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 Proverbs chapter 31.

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 And as our custom is, we read the entire chapter before the preaching.

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 Proverbs chapter 31.

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 The Bible reads the words of King Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him.

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 What, my son, and what the son of my womb and what the son of my vows.

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 Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroy the kings.

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 It is not for kings, O Lemuel.

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 It is not for kings to drink wine, nor for princes strong drink.

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 Lest they drink and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.

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 Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of a heavy heart.

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 Let him drink and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

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 Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.

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 Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

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 Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies.

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 The heart of her husband does safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.

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 She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.

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 She seeketh wool and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.

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 She is like the merchant's ships, and she bringeth her food from afar.

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 She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.

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 She considereth a field, and buyeth it.

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 With the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.

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 She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.

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 She perceiveth that her merchandise is good; her candle goeth not out by night.

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 She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.

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 She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.

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 She is not afraid of the snow for her household, for all her household are clothed with scarlet.

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 She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple.

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 Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.

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 She maketh fine linen and selleth it, and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.

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 Strength and honor are her clothing, and she shall rejoice in time to come.

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 She openeth her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue is the law of kindness.

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 She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.

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 Her children arise up and call her blessed.

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 Her husband also, and he praiseth her.

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 Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excelest them all.

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 Favor is deceitful and beauty is vain, but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.

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 Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her own works praise her in the gates.

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 Brother Daniel, could you pray?

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 I'm going to read one out of Psalms 90, starting in verse 9, it says, For all our days are passed away in thy wrath.

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 We spend our years as a tale that is told.

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 These days of our years are three score years and ten, and by reason of strength they may be four score years.

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 Yet their strength and labor are in sorrow, for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

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 Who knoweth the power of thy anger? Even according to thy fear so is thy wrath.

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 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

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 And this is what I hope to do for you today, is to help you number your days.

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 Help you manage your time. I handed out a sheet, if you don't have it let me know.

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 You will see that it is basically your week broken down into 15 minute increments.

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 Because I want to help you manage your time, number your days.

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 Use this light because your life is fleeting and it is disappearing a moment at a time.

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 I was going to start with a ticking of the clock, but I figured anyone younger than me

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 doesn't even know what that sound means.

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 Because we used to have these machines that told us the time, now it's all your phones.

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 But I will tell you this, you have three resources you have.

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 You have your health, you have whatever wealth or items you have, and you have your time.

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 You know what's interesting about time? You can't fix it.

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 It's going one way and it is gone forever once it is gone.

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 It is important that we number our days and Lord's saying,

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 "I've given you a gift of this much life, you should use it. You should go. You should be active."

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 And today I want to help you do that.

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 Whether young or old, we all have our time that we can manage.

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 Let me tell you this. You see the one person who has never done anything,

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 they're sitting on the corner, have never done anything,

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 they're just lazing around doing nothing.

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 And a person who's running 15 businesses, they have their family,

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 they see their grandchildren, they invest, they're active, they go to church.

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 You know what they have in common? The exact to the second, same amount of time.

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 The difference is what they do with it.

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 So today I want to hand it to you. You're like,

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 I know many of the long hair members are like,

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 "Why are we in Proverbs 31? Why are we there?"

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 It isn't today I'm talking about being a good wife.

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 I'm talking about being a productive person. Let me tell you this.

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 I think the most active, best example in the Bible I could find

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 of someone detailing how they use their time was Proverbs 31.

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 And isn't that true?

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 A woman that managed a household of kids, servants and that,

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 make sure their husband's ready to go and be a leader in their area,

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 be a judge out in the town.

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 That is the woman who is using her time. And let me tell you this,

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 it's not just about the women today. Men, I'm a visual learner,

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 that's why I made these printouts. But let me tell you this,

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 let me give you a math question. They say sleep eight hours.

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 Okay, you slept eight hours. You went to work for eight hours. Great.

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 How much of the day do you have left?

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 You have eight more hours if you go to work. You have eight more hours.

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 Now many of you, no dude, I get done from work, I'm done.

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 No, no, no, you got time. You have time to do things.

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 And that's what I'm really kind of go over this.

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 In 1 Corinthians 14, it says, in 4 verse 4, it says,

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 "Let all things be done decently and in order."

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 And whether you take any of this, I'm a very visual learner.

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 So I love things like this. All I want to say is, I'm here to help.

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 Whether this works for you, just take the things I'm teaching.

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 But if you look down this, I'll explain really quick.

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 At the top, you can write what you think you want to do.

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 And then you have, basically, I've listed 18 hours.

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 Because, excuse me, basically, I don't know along how you sleep.

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 I know we're supposed to sleep eight hours.

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 I have almost never done that unless it's a day off for me.

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 So there's 18. Now, if you do sleep eight hours,

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 you just put the first one to sleep and the last one to sleep, you're good.

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 But then it's 15-minute breakdowns.

00:26:44.020 --> 00:26:45.990
 And here's the thing is, you might want to do this multiple times.

00:26:45.990 --> 00:26:47.960
 Maybe you want to spend a week.

00:26:47.960 --> 00:26:50.040
 And I didn't put times because I don't know when you sleep.

00:26:50.040 --> 00:26:54.440
 And if I put down the hours, I'm awake, some of you will be, "Ugh, that's gross."

00:26:54.440 --> 00:26:56.370
 I didn't know that time existed.

00:26:56.370 --> 00:26:59.270
 That's when I go to bed.

00:26:59.270 --> 00:27:01.230
 So I didn't put the time, but you can list this if you want.

00:27:01.230 --> 00:27:03.190
 And maybe you do it over two weeks.

00:27:03.190 --> 00:27:05.270
 You do one, "How do I actually spend my time?"

00:27:05.270 --> 00:27:07.630
 And you're just honest with you and God.

00:27:07.630 --> 00:27:10.250
 What do you actually do with your time?

00:27:10.250 --> 00:27:12.200
 And then maybe do another one that says,

00:27:12.200 --> 00:27:15.250
 "Could I be doing with my time?"

00:27:15.250 --> 00:27:18.020
 And you might see that there's a difference.

00:27:18.020 --> 00:27:20.410
 And one thing that I thought was really interesting when I was looking at this,

00:27:20.410 --> 00:27:22.360
 you know, because we always say like,

00:27:22.360 --> 00:27:25.370
 "Man, maybe we should read our Bible 15 minutes a day, right?"

00:27:25.370 --> 00:27:27.320
 And you finish the Bible in a year.

00:27:27.320 --> 00:27:29.520
 You're like, "I just don't have time."

00:27:29.520 --> 00:27:34.090
 Well, if you took one of these little lines

00:27:34.090 --> 00:27:38.040
 and you just wrote seven times, "Bible, Bible, Bible,"

00:27:38.040 --> 00:27:41.420
 and go, "Yeah, there's just no way I could fit that in my day."

00:27:41.420 --> 00:27:44.110
 It's a little harder, I think, when it's visual.

00:27:44.110 --> 00:27:46.030
 So this is why I gave you a little visual thing.

00:27:46.030 --> 00:27:50.520
 But hey, just while you're looking, when I'm going through these points,

00:27:50.520 --> 00:27:53.490
 look at your time, because there's way you can manage your time,

00:27:53.490 --> 00:27:55.470
 because here's the thing is, it's your one resource.

00:27:55.470 --> 00:27:57.450
 It is totally equal.

00:27:57.450 --> 00:28:02.620
 No person has one more moment than you in a day,

00:28:02.620 --> 00:28:05.010
 but I tell you, you have a limit.

00:28:05.010 --> 00:28:08.080
 And we don't know when that day and hour of our personal end is,

00:28:08.080 --> 00:28:10.040
 but we know it's approaching at the same speed.

00:28:10.040 --> 00:28:12.580
 So this is the point.

00:28:12.580 --> 00:28:17.070
 Learn to manage your time, because the clock is ticking away,

00:28:17.070 --> 00:28:21.060
 and there's nothing we can do to stop it.

00:28:21.060 --> 00:28:23.040
 You go ahead and stay there.

00:28:23.040 --> 00:28:26.020
 I'm going to go through a few more Proverbs before we get back to Proverbs 31.

00:28:26.020 --> 00:28:28.000
 But in Galatians 6 and verse 3, it says,

00:28:28.000 --> 00:28:29.990
 "For if a man thinks of himself to be something,

00:28:29.990 --> 00:28:31.970
 when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

00:28:31.970 --> 00:28:34.240
 But let every man prove his own work,

00:28:34.240 --> 00:28:37.220
 and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone,

00:28:37.220 --> 00:28:40.200
 and not another; for every man shall bear his own burdens."

00:28:40.200 --> 00:28:42.190
 Why I want you to start doing this is,

00:28:42.190 --> 00:28:45.160
 hey, one reason why I have this, and if you actually fill it out and use it,

00:28:45.160 --> 00:28:46.160
 be honest to yourself.

00:28:46.160 --> 00:28:48.750
 Don't joke about it.

00:28:48.750 --> 00:28:49.680
 You're like, "Well, what could I mean?"

00:28:49.680 --> 00:28:51.970
 You know, whether you're a man or woman, you're like,

00:28:51.970 --> 00:28:57.230
 "Well, you know, frankly, laundry takes like two and a half hours."

00:28:57.230 --> 00:28:59.120
 No, it does not.

00:28:59.120 --> 00:29:03.830
 It takes like two minutes to put in, dump it.

00:29:03.830 --> 00:29:06.060
 You're not doing anything for an hour.

00:29:06.060 --> 00:29:07.490
 The machine's working, all right?

00:29:07.490 --> 00:29:09.740
 That's kind of the way, like, and here's the thing is,

00:29:09.740 --> 00:29:11.750
 you know you can get a lot more done.

00:29:11.750 --> 00:29:14.930
 Now, here's the thing is, so laundry probably takes about 15,

00:29:14.930 --> 00:29:16.900
 it's like when you fold and put away, I think it would be the longest.

00:29:16.900 --> 00:29:21.990
 Now, there's many tips I want to give.

00:29:21.990 --> 00:29:24.170
 Whether laundry, cleaning, work,

00:29:24.170 --> 00:29:30.270
 there's this idea that it seems backwards, I think, for many people.

00:29:30.270 --> 00:29:32.180
 Do you know if you do something more often, it's easier?

00:29:32.180 --> 00:29:35.680
 Do you know if you're like, "You know,

00:29:35.680 --> 00:29:37.810
 I just don't got the time to do the dishes,

00:29:37.810 --> 00:29:40.780
 so I'm going to use every single dish that I have,

00:29:40.780 --> 00:29:42.770
 including the Tupperware as plates,

00:29:42.770 --> 00:29:44.750
 and then I'll run out of literally everything,

00:29:44.750 --> 00:29:46.730
 and then I'll do dishes."

00:29:46.730 --> 00:29:49.080
 Dishes are hard.

00:29:49.080 --> 00:29:52.630
 Yeah, because you've got like two and a half, three hours of work.

00:29:52.630 --> 00:29:56.770
 But if you actually did the dishes after every single meal,

00:29:56.770 --> 00:29:58.730
 it's like five minutes.

00:29:58.730 --> 00:30:04.280
 And now here's the thing is, it's not just, well, you know, that's a lot.

00:30:04.280 --> 00:30:07.200
 Well, here's the thing is, imagine when you run into problems.

00:30:07.200 --> 00:30:11.370
 So you miss a day.

00:30:11.370 --> 00:30:15.280
 If you miss a day where you do it every single day,

00:30:15.280 --> 00:30:18.520
 you know, you got 15 extra minutes the next day.

00:30:18.520 --> 00:30:24.570
 If it's your once a week or once every two weeks you do laundry and you miss that day,

00:30:24.570 --> 00:30:27.520
 you've got critical issues.

00:30:27.520 --> 00:30:30.550
 Major issues are arising.

00:30:30.550 --> 00:30:35.530
 Tomorrow I got to spend eight hours doing this task that if we did it every day, it's, you know, so.

00:30:35.530 --> 00:30:37.520
 And here's the thing is, you can take what I'm saying.

00:30:37.520 --> 00:30:40.510
 I know some of you have got to do laundry day because you've got to travel to a laundromat.

00:30:40.510 --> 00:30:41.500
 That makes sense.

00:30:41.500 --> 00:30:45.490
 But I'm saying take the principles of this, that there are certain things you can do every single day that make it easier.

00:30:45.490 --> 00:30:47.480
 And a lot of us think it's a little bit backwards.

00:30:47.480 --> 00:30:53.460
 What if I just put this off, save me time, save me time, save me time, and I'll just spend a whole day just doing this one task?

00:30:53.460 --> 00:31:00.050
 Well, you know and I both know it's easier to do 30 minutes than it is to do three hours.

00:31:00.050 --> 00:31:06.470
 And if you have a 30 minute task that would take you every single day, but you're like, on Saturday, I'll get to it.

00:31:06.470 --> 00:31:13.300
 You know, Saturday gets filled up and it's really hard to cram in three hours of something repeatedly.

00:31:13.300 --> 00:31:19.260
 It's a way we have to manage and every man needs to bear his own burden and figure out how you can carry it.

00:31:19.260 --> 00:31:24.240
 I'm not telling you you have to do this, but I'm just saying you may want to look at the way you can break up your time

00:31:24.240 --> 00:31:27.220
 and it may be easier to do a task that you get more things done throughout the time.

00:31:27.220 --> 00:31:33.190
 Because let me tell you this, smaller things done more regularly are easier than large tasks done every now and then.

00:31:33.190 --> 00:31:39.270
 Now here's the thing is, we want to plan our day.

00:31:39.270 --> 00:31:42.180
 Let me tell you, a lot of people do this.

00:31:42.180 --> 00:31:45.100
 Well, if I got to get more done, I'll just sleep less.

00:31:45.100 --> 00:31:48.570
 You can do that for a day or two.

00:31:48.570 --> 00:31:53.120
 I get about one day and anymore. I used to be like four or five days I could do that. Not anymore.

00:31:53.120 --> 00:32:00.530
 I got about one day I can take away from my sleep and then taxes come back on me and my body says, "No, you're done."

00:32:00.530 --> 00:32:06.610
 I don't have the army anymore. I'm too gray-headed, too hoary-head, I guess, to do that.

00:32:06.610 --> 00:32:11.570
 So I have to manage my wake hours and that's why I didn't even add sleeping hours really on this chart.

00:32:11.570 --> 00:32:14.540
 Minus, you know, you sleep, I know some people do nine hours.

00:32:14.540 --> 00:32:19.510
 Some of you probably only do four hours. I don't know. That's why I don't even care how long you sleep.

00:32:19.510 --> 00:32:27.590
 Hey, Proverbs 3 verse 24, it says, "When thou layest down, thou shalt not be afraid, yea, thou shalt lie down, and the sleep shall be sweet."

00:32:27.590 --> 00:32:33.570
 You know, if you're just doing what you're needing to do, and also another place that says the laboring man, there's no sleep more sweeter.

00:32:33.570 --> 00:32:38.550
 If you go out and you work on his day, you've done what you could, you can lay down and sleep well.

00:32:38.550 --> 00:32:43.530
 But it says, you know, Richmond, he can't even find sleep. If you're just worried and constant, I've got to do this, do this, do this,

00:32:43.530 --> 00:32:47.720
 then those few hours when you can rest and recover, you don't get that, do you?

00:32:47.720 --> 00:32:52.520
 I know many times in my life I've had insomnia. I don't really anymore.

00:32:52.520 --> 00:32:57.530
 It's like, it's always concerns, it's worries, it's this and that. You know, the only thing you could possibly do is you go out and work more.

00:32:57.530 --> 00:33:02.500
 Go do that. And when I say work, I mean all the tasks and stress of our lives, you just do something to address that.

00:33:02.500 --> 00:33:09.750
 That's the best you can do. And once your body and your mind and your spirit all know, all I could do today, you know, you can sleep.

00:33:09.750 --> 00:33:16.690
 There are people going through troubles and dramas and stresses and chaos and crises, but they still are able to sleep.

00:33:16.690 --> 00:33:20.120
 Because some way they're able to say, "I've done what I could for the day."

00:33:20.120 --> 00:33:29.100
 And let me tell you, I'm not talking about those one days. Hey, you know what? You're driving home, you're getting a crash, your life's turned upside down.

00:33:29.100 --> 00:33:34.110
 Maybe that day you ain't sleeping, but understand when you manage your time, it's not about a single day.

00:33:34.110 --> 00:33:40.060
 The Lord says, "Learn to number my days." I'm talking about days, and I've given you a week, but let's think of months and years even.

00:33:40.060 --> 00:33:49.790
 You know, Brother Thompson back there, I bet every morning he doesn't say, "I'll see if I feel like learning Greek at 2 a.m." or whatever he says he gets up for this.

00:33:49.790 --> 00:34:04.170
 That's something he pre-planned. He's like, "You know what? I want this." But to do this, he's not like, "Well, I'm just going to block off Saturday, not go to the park, not do anything with my kids, and for six hours I'm just going to study Greek."

00:34:04.170 --> 00:34:13.140
 No. He takes it in, I hope, bite-sized pieces. I forget if it's a half an hour, an hour, but he's pre-planned in the future what he's going to do.

00:34:13.140 --> 00:34:18.520
 So when that time comes, and this is how you use your plan, you don't make a decision that day how you feel.

00:34:18.520 --> 00:34:25.350
 Your heart is deceivable above all things. And guess what? When I wake up on Saturday, you know my first audience is...

00:34:25.350 --> 00:34:32.710
 I'm telling you my faults. It's all within the cold, isn't it? Like, "Yes!"

00:34:32.710 --> 00:34:37.950
 But I've already settled in my heart. That's what I'm doing. That's my schedule. You know what I do?

00:34:37.950 --> 00:34:43.810
 I go. That is how I make my decisions. He is learning Greek so he can edify us

00:34:43.810 --> 00:34:46.800
 with the knowledge of the original languages that the Bible came in doing that.

00:34:46.800 --> 00:34:50.780
 He's dedicated, I'm sure, not a day. He's not doing this for a week.

00:34:50.780 --> 00:34:53.770
 I imagine year, if not years, he's already said, "That's what I'm going to do."

00:34:53.770 --> 00:34:56.750
 That's how you schedule. That's how you use your time.

00:34:56.750 --> 00:35:00.740
 Because here's the thing is, you make a plan, you stick to it, you'll be amazed

00:35:00.740 --> 00:35:04.750
 how much more gets done than when you just let your heart lead the way.

00:35:04.750 --> 00:35:10.320
 Follow your heart. Well amazingly, my heart at almost every time says, "Sit down and pick up your phone."

00:35:10.320 --> 00:35:15.550
 And I ain't talking about doing taxes. We're talking about cat videos.

00:35:15.550 --> 00:35:17.490
 So we ain't getting nothing done, alright?

00:35:17.490 --> 00:35:21.510
 Don't let the heart tell you what your time should be doing, okay?

00:35:21.510 --> 00:35:28.960
 Ecclesiastes 5.12, it says, "The sleep of a layering man is sweet,

00:35:28.960 --> 00:35:32.920
 whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of rich man will suffer him not to sleep."

00:35:32.920 --> 00:35:37.560
 I just kind of covered that. Like, look, be a worker. Be a worker.

00:35:37.560 --> 00:35:47.360
 Excuse me, in Proverbs, you're in Proverbs 31. Look down at verse 13.

00:35:47.360 --> 00:35:53.550
 We'll start here why I think this woman is such an excellent example on how we all can manage time,

00:35:53.550 --> 00:36:00.580
 not just ladies, men, children. Here's the key thing of why you know she can use her time wisely.

00:36:00.580 --> 00:36:06.500
 It says, "She seeketh wool and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands."

00:36:06.500 --> 00:36:10.700
 You know why things are hard and you're stressed out and why you have, like,

00:36:10.700 --> 00:36:13.650
 a gathering two weeks from now and you're stressed out today about it?

00:36:13.650 --> 00:36:16.320
 You don't willingly work with your hands.

00:36:16.320 --> 00:36:20.890
 Right away, you're like, "The least thing I want to do is work."

00:36:20.890 --> 00:36:26.320
 You know, if you change that one point of your attitude, that one point,

00:36:26.320 --> 00:36:29.700
 not, "Oh, gosh, I just really don't want," no, if you're just like,

00:36:29.700 --> 00:36:34.400
 "I just want to work. I just want to do. I just want to get things done.

00:36:34.400 --> 00:36:39.000
 I want to be active," planning becomes way easier.

00:36:39.000 --> 00:36:43.530
 Planning for your future, accomplishing stuff becomes way easier

00:36:43.530 --> 00:36:47.510
 because if I go from, "I want to see how little I can do in a day,"

00:36:47.510 --> 00:36:51.500
 which is the normal American attitude that we all say, we all hope,

00:36:51.500 --> 00:36:55.490
 "Man, I can't wait until I retire. I could sit down on the side of the golf course.

00:36:55.490 --> 00:36:59.480
 I've got my AI robot cleaning my dishes. I've got like, you know,

00:36:59.480 --> 00:37:03.470
 I don't know, like a Roomba bringing me drinks on the beach or something,

00:37:03.470 --> 00:37:06.460
 and I don't have to move," and then you die within five years.

00:37:06.460 --> 00:37:09.450
 That's the American dream right now, but you know what's interesting?

00:37:09.450 --> 00:37:13.440
 I like my neighbors, and some of those that meet her, I think she's a sweet old lady.

00:37:13.440 --> 00:37:15.780
 She's 80-something years old.

00:37:15.780 --> 00:37:17.740
 She is going on another year. Why?

00:37:17.740 --> 00:37:21.130
 She was able to get her hands back so she could garden.

00:37:21.130 --> 00:37:24.040
 Most of you would fight to their life to not have to weed.

00:37:24.040 --> 00:37:27.670
 She is willing to give up her life if she can't go out and work,

00:37:27.670 --> 00:37:31.320
 because she can't be productive anymore.

00:37:31.320 --> 00:37:34.260
 You know what? She plans her life around doing stuff, and you know what?

00:37:34.260 --> 00:37:36.230
 That's why they're probably going to see their 90s.

00:37:36.230 --> 00:37:39.180
 They're actually going to live life.

00:37:39.180 --> 00:37:42.090
 Be willing to work willingly with your hands.

00:37:42.090 --> 00:37:46.690
 And my goodness, that one attitude change, your time all of a sudden opens,

00:37:46.690 --> 00:37:49.640
 because you're no longer fighting like, "Well, I've got to do this as quick as possible

00:37:49.640 --> 00:37:52.020
 and be done so I can have me time."

00:37:52.020 --> 00:37:54.570
 You'll get me time, I promise you.

00:37:54.570 --> 00:37:57.510
 No matter how busy you are, you will get your time.

00:37:57.510 --> 00:38:00.830
 But let me tell you this, be willing to work.

00:38:00.830 --> 00:38:04.010
 In Proverbs 6, Proverbs 6 verse 6, it says,

00:38:04.010 --> 00:38:07.980
 "Go to the aunt thou slugger, consider his ways, and be wise,

00:38:07.980 --> 00:38:11.960
 which having no guide, or overseer, or ruler, provide of her meat

00:38:11.960 --> 00:38:13.940
 in the summer, and gather the food in the harvest."

00:38:13.940 --> 00:38:17.140
 Wouldn't it be a blessing to your own life

00:38:17.140 --> 00:38:20.060
 if you did not need to be watched over to get things done?

00:38:20.060 --> 00:38:24.790
 What a great worker you would be, your boss would love you,

00:38:24.790 --> 00:38:29.240
 your husband, your wife would like,

00:38:29.240 --> 00:38:31.200
 does your wife need to always hound you to get your stuff done?

00:38:31.200 --> 00:38:33.870
 And let me tell you, I'm getting pretty close

00:38:33.870 --> 00:38:34.850
 to getting the clothes into the basket.

00:38:34.850 --> 00:38:36.810
 I'm getting closer every year, alright?

00:38:36.810 --> 00:38:40.300
 She's shaking her head, I could get a ruler.

00:38:40.300 --> 00:38:41.280
 We're getting closer.

00:38:41.280 --> 00:38:43.400
 But what I'm telling you is this.

00:38:43.400 --> 00:38:45.390
 Without a guide or a ruler,

00:38:45.390 --> 00:38:48.360
 the ant is literally planning for the next year

00:38:48.360 --> 00:38:50.350
 and gathering today what they need in the future.

00:38:50.350 --> 00:38:53.320
 Most people can't figure out what they need today.

00:38:53.320 --> 00:38:55.310
 And they're like, "Well, I'll do it tomorrow."

00:38:55.310 --> 00:38:57.720
 "I'll do it tomorrow."

00:38:57.720 --> 00:38:58.750
 "I'll do it tomorrow."

00:38:58.750 --> 00:39:01.090
 And hey, what does that happen?

00:39:01.090 --> 00:39:03.080
 "How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard?"

00:39:03.080 --> 00:39:05.070
 "Wilt thou rise out of thy sleep?"

00:39:05.070 --> 00:39:06.060
 "Yet a little sleep?"

00:39:06.060 --> 00:39:07.060
 "Yet a little slumber?"

00:39:07.060 --> 00:39:09.040
 "A little folding of the hands to sleep?"

00:39:09.040 --> 00:39:11.030
 "How the poverty come as thou wilt the travailest."

00:39:11.030 --> 00:39:13.020
 "It wants as an armed man."

00:39:13.020 --> 00:39:17.000
 "A naughty person, a wicked man walketh with a forward mouth."

00:39:17.000 --> 00:39:20.130
 Probably one too many verses.

00:39:20.130 --> 00:39:23.870
 But, here's the point.

00:39:23.870 --> 00:39:26.420
 God literally says, "Look at this creature."

00:39:26.420 --> 00:39:27.380
 "Look at this ant."

00:39:27.380 --> 00:39:31.650
 "Without master, without ruler, they're already working for what they need in the future."

00:39:31.650 --> 00:39:33.240
 "Today."

00:39:33.240 --> 00:39:35.200
 "They're working today what they need in the future."

00:39:35.200 --> 00:39:37.160
 "This is how we should be."

00:39:37.160 --> 00:39:38.740
 "You work today."

00:39:38.740 --> 00:39:40.720
 "If you have time today."

00:39:40.720 --> 00:39:43.840
 There's this saying that literally, I mean, I heard all the time in the military, when

00:39:43.840 --> 00:39:45.690
 you apply it to your life, it really changes.

00:39:45.690 --> 00:39:48.670
 Do nothing tomorrow that can be done today.

00:39:48.670 --> 00:39:51.610
 Do nothing tomorrow what can be done today.

00:39:51.610 --> 00:39:55.470
 Now let me tell you this, you get things done.

00:39:55.470 --> 00:39:59.570
 You know, just a personal example, like, do you believe I waited until the morning of

00:39:59.570 --> 00:40:03.830
 Thanksgiving to get ready to host the church?

00:40:03.830 --> 00:40:08.690
 I am not one who's like, "I'll just wake up at 2 a.m. and I'll just get it all done."

00:40:08.690 --> 00:40:13.040
 No, it was like four days before I cleaned out a room, it was three days before I set

00:40:13.040 --> 00:40:14.030
 up.

00:40:14.030 --> 00:40:15.800
 It was three days before I bought food and the day of I cooked.

00:40:15.800 --> 00:40:20.180
 You're like, "Oh, bite-sized pieces all in line and I planned because I'm seeing this

00:40:20.180 --> 00:40:21.250
 thing coming.

00:40:21.250 --> 00:40:24.060
 So when things arise, problems come, I have to do other things.

00:40:24.060 --> 00:40:27.540
 I have the time to do it, but yet everything comes through."

00:40:27.540 --> 00:40:30.380
 That is how you plan to use your time and here's the thing is you're like, "Oh, that's

00:40:30.380 --> 00:40:32.090
 so much work."

00:40:32.090 --> 00:40:35.820
 Here's the interesting thing I have found with people that manage time and people that

00:40:35.820 --> 00:40:38.630
 let time push them.

00:40:38.630 --> 00:40:42.530
 The people that perhaps don't get as many things done always are busy, they're always

00:40:42.530 --> 00:40:46.060
 stressed out, they're always like, "I just don't know how to get anything done."

00:40:46.060 --> 00:40:49.680
 Well, yeah, if it takes you 25 minutes to get ready to go to church and you start 15

00:40:49.680 --> 00:40:52.820
 minutes until you need to leave, you're stressed out and you're busy, you're going, you're

00:40:52.820 --> 00:40:54.550
 like, "Ugh!"

00:40:54.550 --> 00:41:00.070
 But if you started two hours before, "Man, I'm ready, oh, you're not ready?

00:41:00.070 --> 00:41:01.540
 I'll have another cup of coffee.

00:41:01.540 --> 00:41:04.130
 Oh, we got 10 minutes until you're ready?

00:41:04.130 --> 00:41:06.170
 Okay, I'll do my cat videos now."

00:41:06.170 --> 00:41:15.160
 See, if you do the cat videos after the car's packed, after everything's ready, you're

00:41:15.160 --> 00:41:18.200
 not stressed out.

00:41:18.200 --> 00:41:23.670
 You actually have time, and you're not losing your hair over stress because you're already

00:41:23.670 --> 00:41:26.150
 ready to go.

00:41:26.150 --> 00:41:28.870
 Now, are you not getting the cat videos in?

00:41:28.870 --> 00:41:33.730
 No, you're getting it in, but you're not stressed out when you stop.

00:41:33.730 --> 00:41:38.100
 When you're like, "Look at the clock," go, "Oh, shoot, I got to get dressed, we got to

00:41:38.100 --> 00:41:41.500
 get going," and people get stressed out.

00:41:41.500 --> 00:41:47.660
 I'm like, "What was the other eight hours of your day after work being done?"

00:41:47.660 --> 00:41:51.430
 This is why we need to look, and here's the thing, the Proverbs 31 woman, if you read

00:41:51.430 --> 00:41:54.920
 through this, I mean, she's buying, she's selling, she's making clothes, she's making

00:41:54.920 --> 00:41:58.220
 food, she's getting the servants going, she's doing all this, she's making sure her family's

00:41:58.220 --> 00:42:01.960
 taken care of, I mean, she's doing all these things.

00:42:01.960 --> 00:42:03.920
 She's not waking up and be like, "How do I feel today?"

00:42:03.920 --> 00:42:10.450
 No, she has a plan on what she's going to do.

00:42:10.450 --> 00:42:15.470
 In Proverbs 31 and verse 15 it says, "She rises up, also why it is yet night, and giving

00:42:15.470 --> 00:42:17.920
 meat to her household and a portion to her maidens."

00:42:17.920 --> 00:42:23.540
 This is what I'm saying, she knew she needed to wake up early to get things done, why?

00:42:23.540 --> 00:42:27.150
 She has maidens, she has servants, she has workers basically under her.

00:42:27.150 --> 00:42:30.260
 She needs to make sure they're taken care of so they can get to work.

00:42:30.260 --> 00:42:33.800
 Which means she needed to get up earlier to make sure that happened.

00:42:33.800 --> 00:42:36.380
 What this is called is back planning.

00:42:36.380 --> 00:42:43.690
 But I just kind of mentioned, hey, when we go, church is at 10.30.

00:42:43.690 --> 00:42:46.740
 You probably don't start church at 10.30.

00:42:46.740 --> 00:42:47.650
 What do you mean by that?

00:42:47.650 --> 00:42:54.260
 Well, I hope minimally you plan to be here at that time, but you have to travel.

00:42:54.260 --> 00:42:58.980
 For me, I live the closest, not that much time, so church at minimum would have to start

00:42:58.980 --> 00:43:01.130
 at, you know, 15 after.

00:43:01.130 --> 00:43:06.160
 Some of you, you got like 30 minutes, so church starts at, what, 10?

00:43:06.160 --> 00:43:07.940
 Well, shoot.

00:43:07.940 --> 00:43:10.420
 Oh, thank goodness.

00:43:10.420 --> 00:43:13.280
 Most of you showered.

00:43:13.280 --> 00:43:15.190
 So now we say church started at 9.30.

00:43:15.190 --> 00:43:18.250
 Well, maybe some of you were hungry.

00:43:18.250 --> 00:43:19.230
 Maybe you got to be ready.

00:43:19.230 --> 00:43:20.220
 You got to feed your kids.

00:43:20.220 --> 00:43:21.200
 You got to get other things up.

00:43:21.200 --> 00:43:23.240
 No, church started at 9.

00:43:23.240 --> 00:43:25.080
 Wait, don't forsake the fellowship.

00:43:25.080 --> 00:43:26.200
 We should be here before.

00:43:26.200 --> 00:43:29.280
 Maybe actually say hello to each other, and if you're part of the ministries, maybe get

00:43:29.280 --> 00:43:30.270
 ready.

00:43:30.270 --> 00:43:31.390
 Okay.

00:43:31.390 --> 00:43:32.530
 Church starts at 8.30.

00:43:32.530 --> 00:43:39.880
 See, this is how people that plan and are not always stressed out, and when you ask,

00:43:39.880 --> 00:43:40.870
 like, here's the thing.

00:43:40.870 --> 00:43:41.860
 Here's the truth of it.

00:43:41.860 --> 00:43:45.470
 This is a proven thing throughout, like, people that study human resources.

00:43:45.470 --> 00:43:51.050
 80% of the work gets done by 20% of the people.

00:43:51.050 --> 00:43:57.680
 There's always a beast of burden within an agency, no how big, no how small.

00:43:57.680 --> 00:44:00.200
 Somebody's taking on the majority of the work, and how do they do that?

00:44:00.200 --> 00:44:01.190
 Why do they do that?

00:44:01.190 --> 00:44:02.570
 How do they continue to do that?

00:44:02.570 --> 00:44:05.060
 It's because they manage the time.

00:44:05.060 --> 00:44:09.340
 And there's some people, no matter how soon you kill them, and how much warning you give

00:44:09.340 --> 00:44:15.110
 them, and no matter what you ask of them, it's, "Ugh, maybe I'll see."

00:44:15.110 --> 00:44:19.220
 And other people that are just, "Yeah, I'll do the best I can.

00:44:19.220 --> 00:44:22.470
 I'll see how I can fit that in."

00:44:22.470 --> 00:44:24.300
 That's really the only two mindsets.

00:44:24.300 --> 00:44:28.050
 And how it starts is, are you willing to work with your hands, and then are you willing

00:44:28.050 --> 00:44:31.560
 to actually take some of your time and plan, because let me tell you, you'll save a lot

00:44:31.560 --> 00:44:35.150
 of time by spending time planning, because then you'll know what you need.

00:44:35.150 --> 00:44:36.140
 You aren't left.

00:44:36.140 --> 00:44:39.090
 Well, the times that you just run out and you're just confused with what's going on

00:44:39.090 --> 00:44:40.080
 is so less.

00:44:40.080 --> 00:44:44.330
 And hey, sometimes it's just, "I think I need to start working here."

00:44:44.330 --> 00:44:46.340
 You just do that before.

00:44:46.340 --> 00:44:52.330
 And if you run out, like you actually are done way ahead of schedule, well watch your

00:44:52.330 --> 00:44:53.260
 cat videos.

00:44:53.260 --> 00:44:57.590
 Then, when you're ready to go, it's done.

00:44:57.590 --> 00:45:02.160
 You can watch cat videos without the stress coming, like when you look at the clock, go,

00:45:02.160 --> 00:45:05.240
 "I gotta start running now."

00:45:05.240 --> 00:45:08.770
 And here's the thing, Proverbs 31, I believe is that way, in Proverbs 20 and verse 13,

00:45:08.770 --> 00:45:13.100
 it says, "Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty, open thy eyes, and thou shalt be

00:45:13.100 --> 00:45:17.780
 set aside with bread."

00:45:17.780 --> 00:45:20.620
 It's like, hey, we shouldn't love just sleeping.

00:45:20.620 --> 00:45:22.200
 Now here's the thing, I'm telling you, go sleep.

00:45:22.200 --> 00:45:23.770
 You need an eight hours day, go sleep.

00:45:23.770 --> 00:45:24.750
 Go do that regularly.

00:45:24.750 --> 00:45:32.990
 What I believe this is saying is, you know, the other 16 hours of your day probably shouldn't

00:45:32.990 --> 00:45:35.630
 just be break time.

00:45:35.630 --> 00:45:39.550
 Now here's the thing is, we had a holiday, I had you all over, I hope you had fun, we

00:45:39.550 --> 00:45:41.130
 played games, you did all that.

00:45:41.130 --> 00:45:44.610
 I'm not saying there aren't days like that, but I'm just saying if that is when you look

00:45:44.610 --> 00:45:53.940
 at your whole week, you're like, um, TV, Instagram, Xbox, whatever it is, you know, like if it

00:45:53.940 --> 00:46:02.730
 is just all this time and you go, wow, that's more than when I'm at work, all I'm saying,

00:46:02.730 --> 00:46:08.320
 you might think, maybe I could change a few other things, maybe I could fit a few other

00:46:08.320 --> 00:46:11.990
 things in there.

00:46:11.990 --> 00:46:16.090
 In verse 16 of Proverbs 31, and just stay there, I'm going to keep going back to it.

00:46:16.090 --> 00:46:22.220
 Verse 16, she considered the field and buyeth it, and with her fruit of her hands she planteth

00:46:22.220 --> 00:46:23.220
 a vineyard.

00:46:23.220 --> 00:46:27.580
 And this is what I'm saying, not only people that back plan, they're like, well, I'm going

00:46:27.580 --> 00:46:32.260
 to start this task, so I actually need to get up this soon before I get everything done,

00:46:32.260 --> 00:46:35.490
 so I'm sure to be early and done and ready.

00:46:35.490 --> 00:46:40.100
 She's looking to the future and going, you know, I can't do this all in one day.

00:46:40.100 --> 00:46:44.240
 You're not going to go view all the farmland.

00:46:44.240 --> 00:46:48.350
 You're not going to then plant the farmland, you're not going to get the fruit of it all

00:46:48.350 --> 00:46:49.270
 in today.

00:46:49.270 --> 00:46:50.840
 Are you?

00:46:50.840 --> 00:46:55.730
 She's looking out months, if not years of what she needs to do and what does she need

00:46:55.730 --> 00:46:58.390
 to do today, this week?

00:46:58.390 --> 00:47:01.140
 Maybe it's just, let me go see what's available.

00:47:01.140 --> 00:47:02.960
 What is the farmland available?

00:47:02.960 --> 00:47:03.950
 What is that?

00:47:03.950 --> 00:47:08.530
 And then with my own, with her own labors, she planted the vineyard either.

00:47:08.530 --> 00:47:11.830
 It's literally saying, I've heard this taken two different ways.

00:47:11.830 --> 00:47:15.190
 It's just a labor that she actually, she has little plants and then she goes to the farm

00:47:15.190 --> 00:47:20.070
 and spreads it out or it's literally from the fruit of her own labors because she's sowing,

00:47:20.070 --> 00:47:24.520
 she's selling, she's trading, she buys this land herself.

00:47:24.520 --> 00:47:27.440
 Whichever one you say, it is work planning and management.

00:47:27.440 --> 00:47:31.000
 And let me tell you that if you can't manage your time, you're not going to be able to

00:47:31.000 --> 00:47:37.500
 manage what wealth, what assets, what resources you have because time is just a resource and

00:47:37.500 --> 00:47:42.500
 it's the one that you cannot fix in the past.

00:47:42.500 --> 00:47:44.100
 You lose your car in a wreck, guess what?

00:47:44.100 --> 00:47:46.300
 You can regain it.

00:47:46.300 --> 00:47:48.660
 If your house burns down, you can build another.

00:47:48.660 --> 00:47:55.090
 But let me tell you this, once your time has been burnt, you are never getting that back.

00:47:55.090 --> 00:47:57.470
 And the older you get, the quicker it seems to go.

00:47:57.470 --> 00:48:01.600
 It is a true statement and I'm just telling you this, it becomes more and more critical.

00:48:01.600 --> 00:48:05.510
 But here's the thing is, as a young child, you know, whether they look at it or not,

00:48:05.510 --> 00:48:08.980
 I gave them the sheet, it's probably too many numbers, but I'll tell you this, if a child

00:48:08.980 --> 00:48:14.910
 can learn to manage their time, what could they not get done in their lifetime?

00:48:14.910 --> 00:48:19.700
 She literally plans out for years and that's how you should be.

00:48:19.700 --> 00:48:25.550
 In Ephesians 4 and verse 14, it says, "See then that ye walk circumspect, not as fools,

00:48:25.550 --> 00:48:30.490
 but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

00:48:30.490 --> 00:48:34.500
 Wherefore, be ye not unwise, but understanding what will the Lord is.

00:48:34.500 --> 00:48:40.740
 And be not drunk with wine wherein there is excess, but be filled with the Spirit, speaking

00:48:40.740 --> 00:48:45.040
 to yourselves in Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your hearts

00:48:45.040 --> 00:48:46.720
 to the Lord."

00:48:46.720 --> 00:48:52.840
 What it is saying is understand, redeem your time, take the time that the Lord has given

00:48:52.840 --> 00:48:57.730
 you today, this week, this month, this coming year and redeem it.

00:48:57.730 --> 00:48:59.980
 Look, do things to the Lord, amen.

00:48:59.980 --> 00:49:04.430
 Hey, why don't you do things for your, you know, maybe your work, your occupation, do

00:49:04.430 --> 00:49:06.300
 it for your household, do it for your family.

00:49:06.300 --> 00:49:10.870
 But let me tell you this, you mark off time and if you have the time and you pre-planned,

00:49:10.870 --> 00:49:14.900
 you know how much easier it is to go, you know what, we're going to go to the park,

00:49:14.900 --> 00:49:19.800
 you know, Tuesdays, Thursdays, not when you just wake up and you get home from a busy

00:49:19.800 --> 00:49:23.270
 work day and all of a sudden you're like, "I guess we'll go to the park."

00:49:23.270 --> 00:49:25.200
 No, you had it pre-planned.

00:49:25.200 --> 00:49:28.370
 You're like, "This is what I do at this time."

00:49:28.370 --> 00:49:33.400
 I'm going to tell you right now, mentally, spiritually, it is so much easier if that

00:49:33.400 --> 00:49:36.350
 decision has been made before that time.

00:49:36.350 --> 00:49:39.990
 I am not making a decision how I feel at that time because let me tell you, the flesh tells

00:49:39.990 --> 00:49:41.770
 me no.

00:49:41.770 --> 00:49:44.100
 Go sit down, go do something else.

00:49:44.100 --> 00:49:49.380
 You did it last week, you did it that time before, I don't need to today, okay?

00:49:49.380 --> 00:49:54.750
 But amazingly, when you go by your feelings, it's never the day you feel like doing it.

00:49:54.750 --> 00:49:58.740
 Or it certainly drops down by like 80%.

00:49:58.740 --> 00:50:02.090
 So you make a plan of what you're going to do before you get to that and then you will

00:50:02.090 --> 00:50:06.010
 see that you get more things done.

00:50:06.010 --> 00:50:08.300
 And that's in all areas of your life.

00:50:08.300 --> 00:50:11.940
 And here's the thing is, why I left in so many other parts to like be not drunk with

00:50:11.940 --> 00:50:15.160
 wine with success, but be filled with the spirit.

00:50:15.160 --> 00:50:19.290
 I work with a lot of people, you know what they plan in the future?

00:50:19.290 --> 00:50:21.490
 Maybe I'll get drunk on the beach.

00:50:21.490 --> 00:50:24.800
 Maybe I'll go to this bar because I usually go to this bar, but man, next month I'm going

00:50:24.800 --> 00:50:25.780
 to go to this bar.

00:50:25.780 --> 00:50:30.790
 Man, you just live in life to the fullest, aren't you?

00:50:30.790 --> 00:50:34.150
 Oh man, maybe you won't remember where you went at this place.

00:50:34.150 --> 00:50:35.640
 Good job.

00:50:35.640 --> 00:50:39.820
 Like, and the Lord says, why don't you just be filled with the spirit?

00:50:39.820 --> 00:50:43.950
 And it literally says, speaking of yourselves, Psalms, hymns and spiritual songs, which I

00:50:43.950 --> 00:50:47.250
 think if we're taking this in the context of planning, and I know in this part, it's

00:50:47.250 --> 00:50:50.190
 just to refresh your mind, sing Psalms under this.

00:50:50.190 --> 00:50:54.010
 Hey, I want a good example of this is actually Brother Kutzer here.

00:50:54.010 --> 00:50:55.010
 Do you know what's interesting?

00:50:55.010 --> 00:50:56.600
 You know why this church is a little bit different?

00:50:56.600 --> 00:50:59.880
 And now I see our home church is changing.

00:50:59.880 --> 00:51:02.690
 We actually sing the Psalms.

00:51:02.690 --> 00:51:04.370
 Do you know why this church did that?

00:51:04.370 --> 00:51:07.400
 Is because it fell upon Daniel's heart years ago.

00:51:07.400 --> 00:51:08.400
 You know what?

00:51:08.400 --> 00:51:09.390
 We should be doing this.

00:51:09.390 --> 00:51:13.220
 He went home and practiced and learned and sought and found music and then had us learn

00:51:13.220 --> 00:51:14.500
 it and sing it.

00:51:14.500 --> 00:51:15.970
 And now other churches are doing it.

00:51:15.970 --> 00:51:16.970
 Why?

00:51:16.970 --> 00:51:20.320
 Because there's this practice where he says, you know, speaking of yourselves, Psalms and

00:51:20.320 --> 00:51:21.890
 hymns and spiritual songs.

00:51:21.890 --> 00:51:24.280
 So we now have this tradition that now is spreading.

00:51:24.280 --> 00:51:26.220
 And hey, isn't that what the Bible says to do?

00:51:26.220 --> 00:51:27.210
 Why?

00:51:27.210 --> 00:51:32.040
 Because somebody decided I'm going to sacrifice work, time and all this for one purpose.

00:51:32.040 --> 00:51:34.850
 I'm going to learn these songs.

00:51:34.850 --> 00:51:36.920
 That is how things get done.

00:51:36.920 --> 00:51:38.630
 That is how things change.

00:51:38.630 --> 00:51:43.180
 That is how the world moves by people that take time to do and focus on little things.

00:51:43.180 --> 00:51:46.160
 And here's the thing is, many years ago, it seemed like a little simple thing.

00:51:46.160 --> 00:51:48.880
 Let's just learn one song.

00:51:48.880 --> 00:51:52.950
 Now it's a tradition and it's spreading and isn't that a good thing?

00:51:52.950 --> 00:51:55.340
 It takes people that set all others aside.

00:51:55.340 --> 00:52:00.370
 Now, I didn't just pull out anyone, but hey, a person that has many kids or all that, doesn't

00:52:00.370 --> 00:52:04.460
 he have time to do, like he has his time being pulled in every other way, right?

00:52:04.460 --> 00:52:05.890
 All of us do.

00:52:05.890 --> 00:52:09.260
 But sometimes you have to step aside and say, I am going to do this.

00:52:09.260 --> 00:52:14.780
 Learning a new language, learning songs, learning this thing that my dyslexic mind, like it's

00:52:14.780 --> 00:52:15.770
 confusing.

00:52:15.770 --> 00:52:18.430
 I don't know how people make this sound good, but they do.

00:52:18.430 --> 00:52:26.790
 I have no, like you all know, my musical skills, if we're thinking like RPG games, all my

00:52:26.790 --> 00:52:29.010
 character skills did not get put into music.

00:52:29.010 --> 00:52:30.560
 All right?

00:52:30.560 --> 00:52:33.900
 Woo hoo hoo hoo is about the only thing I add to this church during songs.

00:52:33.900 --> 00:52:35.200
 Okay?

00:52:35.200 --> 00:52:38.560
 That's it.

00:52:38.560 --> 00:52:41.520
 So I take my time and I try to do other things to the church.

00:52:41.520 --> 00:52:47.590
 But what I'm saying is this, people set their time aside and focus can do things that even

00:52:47.590 --> 00:52:51.060
 change people that are around us is what I'm saying.

00:52:51.060 --> 00:52:52.090
 Why?

00:52:52.090 --> 00:52:57.280
 People took the time, maybe not in this, you know, you could say OCD level of organization,

00:52:57.280 --> 00:53:01.550
 but they said, I'm going to take time out of my day and do this to better not just myself,

00:53:01.550 --> 00:53:05.420
 but I think it'll be good for the church.

00:53:05.420 --> 00:53:09.740
 In verse 18 of Proverbs 31 it says, she perceiveth that her merchandise is good.

00:53:09.740 --> 00:53:12.150
 Her candle go not out by night.

00:53:12.150 --> 00:53:18.920
 She layeth her hand to the spindle and her hand hoth not the distil.

00:53:18.920 --> 00:53:19.830
 She just works.

00:53:19.830 --> 00:53:25.350
 Hey, it gets dark at like four now.

00:53:25.350 --> 00:53:30.620
 Can you not accomplish anything after four?

00:53:30.620 --> 00:53:37.130
 I mean, how many years, centuries, millennia ago, amazing this person was able to find

00:53:37.130 --> 00:53:39.350
 how to do a little bit of work after dark.

00:53:39.350 --> 00:53:43.210
 Now, we just have lights everywhere.

00:53:43.210 --> 00:53:46.430
 Technically, you can work on your roof if you really want it in the dark.

00:53:46.430 --> 00:53:51.820
 I'm not recommending it, but headlights, lights, we can brighten the sky now.

00:53:51.820 --> 00:53:54.230
 All it's saying is why I want you to look at your work day.

00:53:54.230 --> 00:53:58.900
 And here's the thing is, man, whether you, you know, I know you have varying hours, but

00:53:58.900 --> 00:54:02.760
 just the standard, we work 40 hours.

00:54:02.760 --> 00:54:07.260
 Well then you got more than 40 hours off of work because you got the other eight hours

00:54:07.260 --> 00:54:10.900
 Monday through Friday, and then you got Saturday and Sunday.

00:54:10.900 --> 00:54:15.120
 So you can almost can get two more full time jobs in there and still sleep eight hours

00:54:15.120 --> 00:54:16.100
 a day.

00:54:16.100 --> 00:54:20.900
 I'm not telling you to do that, but I will tell you this is that the military, you know,

00:54:20.900 --> 00:54:25.350
 the standard hours was 12 hours a day, seven days a week for a year.

00:54:25.350 --> 00:54:26.620
 All right.

00:54:26.620 --> 00:54:33.520
 So when somebody will says it's impossible to do 50 hours, I'm like, what that bad?

00:54:33.520 --> 00:54:34.620
 You get used to it.

00:54:34.620 --> 00:54:36.490
 And I'm not telling you to do that.

00:54:36.490 --> 00:54:41.130
 None of this is my telling you specifically what I'm saying is open your mind to think

00:54:41.130 --> 00:54:46.130
 I could probably fit, let's just say 15 minutes of operating in there somewhere.

00:54:46.130 --> 00:54:49.170
 And if you do a fit, like I said, I'm a very visual person.

00:54:49.170 --> 00:54:55.510
 So when I write out my time so I can see it and where it's really going, and I go, man,

00:54:55.510 --> 00:55:02.850
 15 minutes of dish cleaning day, 15 minutes of yard work, you know, maybe 30 minutes,

00:55:02.850 --> 00:55:03.840
 even 30 minutes an hour.

00:55:03.840 --> 00:55:07.510
 If you look at the time in a week that it takes to do certain of these tasks, when you

00:55:07.510 --> 00:55:13.290
 look at it visually, you're going to be like, it's really hard for me to say I can't fit

00:55:13.290 --> 00:55:14.260
 that in.

00:55:14.260 --> 00:55:15.570
 Is it?

00:55:15.570 --> 00:55:16.540
 It's just a different way to look at it.

00:55:16.540 --> 00:55:21.070
 And that's why I wrote this out.

00:55:21.070 --> 00:55:24.420
 In verse 20, it says, she stretches out her hands to the poor.

00:55:24.420 --> 00:55:27.800
 She reaches forth her hands to the needy.

00:55:27.800 --> 00:55:30.770
 You know, what's interesting is I see a lot of people that work and they go and they do

00:55:30.770 --> 00:55:32.130
 a lot of things.

00:55:32.130 --> 00:55:35.800
 They also somehow just have time to help others.

00:55:35.800 --> 00:55:40.260
 I see some people that are just so stressed out and busy and they're just, I just can't

00:55:40.260 --> 00:55:41.240
 get anything else done.

00:55:41.240 --> 00:55:45.890
 And it's like, amazingly, other people can.

00:55:45.890 --> 00:55:51.470
 Like, it doesn't always need to be this, but it's like, you know, simple things.

00:55:51.470 --> 00:55:57.840
 Like it's, it's interesting to me, like, man, you do events, you do, you know, special events.

00:55:57.840 --> 00:56:01.720
 It's like the same people over and over again that kind of handle all of this.

00:56:01.720 --> 00:56:06.180
 And that's like, I don't know, sometimes I think to myself, like, man, this church, man,

00:56:06.180 --> 00:56:08.520
 I seem like it's like ordered my life.

00:56:08.520 --> 00:56:10.380
 I feel like it's done so much for me.

00:56:10.380 --> 00:56:13.920
 I just feel thankful to have a place to come and gather and worship God.

00:56:13.920 --> 00:56:16.700
 And then sometimes I'm here on a special event or a little bit early,

00:56:16.700 --> 00:56:20.420
 and I go, where are the nine?

00:56:20.420 --> 00:56:22.060
 Has nothing been done for this church?

00:56:22.060 --> 00:56:25.220
 Has this church not done anything in your life?

00:56:25.220 --> 00:56:28.400
 Like, is an extra hour that bad?

00:56:28.400 --> 00:56:31.180
 Is it so much in your week?

00:56:31.180 --> 00:56:34.540
 Where are the nine?

00:56:34.540 --> 00:56:38.740
 But hey, other people, they're like, dude, I just can't even get five more minutes in.

00:56:38.740 --> 00:56:40.940
 I just, I mean, I just don't know what to do.

00:56:40.940 --> 00:56:45.650
 It's like, well, maybe sometimes we just need to self-reflect to see what we're doing.

00:56:45.650 --> 00:56:48.600
 But hey, here's the thing is, the proverb is 31 person.

00:56:48.600 --> 00:56:49.960
 And I'm saying person.

00:56:49.960 --> 00:56:52.420
 I'm not trying to go gender neutral, but today it's for both of you.

00:56:52.420 --> 00:56:54.560
 It's not just for ladies.

00:56:54.560 --> 00:56:58.660
 Men, you know, you can help others too.

00:56:58.660 --> 00:57:00.210
 And hey, I've seen people do this, man.

00:57:00.210 --> 00:57:05.130
 I've seen other people drive across town, drive across state to help people with car

00:57:05.130 --> 00:57:10.010
 issues, you know, learning to drive, you know, helping each other, remodel houses.

00:57:10.010 --> 00:57:13.730
 I mean, it happens and that's great.

00:57:13.730 --> 00:57:17.010
 Let us never forget, like, man, sometimes our week seems busy and it's like someone

00:57:17.010 --> 00:57:19.100
 asks for help.

00:57:19.100 --> 00:57:21.300
 I bet you can fit it in there.

00:57:21.300 --> 00:57:25.360
 You maybe rest next week because sometimes the people that need help need it now, not

00:57:25.360 --> 00:57:28.780
 a week from now when it's convenient.

00:57:28.780 --> 00:57:33.100
 And if you manage your time so you're not behind in every part of your life, it's not

00:57:33.100 --> 00:57:36.890
 as stressful when things go awry and you have to fit other things in.

00:57:36.890 --> 00:57:42.400
 But if you're just always, ah, you know, this task, I can start 10 minutes before it starts

00:57:42.400 --> 00:57:47.530
 and that's three days from now, I will not even do anything until then.

00:57:47.530 --> 00:57:51.670
 You get behind, you get stressed out, you get worked out from that.

00:57:51.670 --> 00:57:55.100
 And then you're not able to stretch out your hand to the poor.

00:57:55.100 --> 00:57:59.570
 You're not able to, you know, give your hands to the needy nearly as easily as someone that

00:57:59.570 --> 00:58:02.990
 manages their time.

00:58:02.990 --> 00:58:08.020
 In verse 21 it says, "She is not afraid of the snow for her household.

00:58:08.020 --> 00:58:10.920
 For all her household are clothed with scarlet."

00:58:10.920 --> 00:58:12.360
 You know, here's just another thing.

00:58:12.360 --> 00:58:15.000
 I just see planning throughout this.

00:58:15.000 --> 00:58:20.590
 Do you think it's the snow has fallen, you're like, "Oh, shoot, we need coats."

00:58:20.590 --> 00:58:22.940
 That is not what this says.

00:58:22.940 --> 00:58:28.360
 She is not afraid of the future, things that will happen, because she's already taken the

00:58:28.360 --> 00:58:32.080
 time to plan and done work now, literally with her hands.

00:58:32.080 --> 00:58:35.820
 She has made the clothes for her family before the snow comes.

00:58:35.820 --> 00:58:43.760
 Now, the snow is here, so if you're not ready, I'm sorry, but take this as a principle, "Hey,

00:58:43.760 --> 00:58:51.360
 that weird sound in your vehicle, you might want to dress it before it falls off."

00:58:51.360 --> 00:58:56.570
 That still turns on, it's good, and I'm that way a lot.

00:58:56.570 --> 00:59:01.990
 What I'm saying is, can you not sensibly think of reoccurring problems that are coming up,

00:59:01.990 --> 00:59:08.300
 and can you not solve those long before they come up?

00:59:08.300 --> 00:59:13.720
 How less stressful are you if it's the summer time and you see Coles is having a sign for

00:59:13.720 --> 00:59:17.810
 snow wear because, you know, they're in the summer, that's the time to buy winter gear?

00:59:17.810 --> 00:59:21.930
 Then it's cold outside, my fingers are numb, and now I got to buy the overpriced stuff

00:59:21.930 --> 00:59:24.350
 right now.

00:59:24.350 --> 00:59:28.040
 It's a lot less stressful to take care of problems before the problems are absolutely

00:59:28.040 --> 00:59:29.240
 upon you.

00:59:29.240 --> 00:59:30.230
 That's what I'm saying.

00:59:30.230 --> 00:59:33.060
 And I believe that's clearly shown here in the Bible is what they're saying, "Man, this

00:59:33.060 --> 00:59:34.050
 is a virtuous woman.

00:59:34.050 --> 00:59:38.330
 And if that's what a virtuous woman would do, man, can't you do that in your own household?"

00:59:38.330 --> 00:59:42.730
 Look, I know the tarp that's keeping the sun out during the summer on the roof.

00:59:42.730 --> 00:59:46.600
 You might want to fix that before the rain comes.

00:59:46.600 --> 00:59:48.730
 I think that's just the principle taught here.

00:59:48.730 --> 00:59:52.280
 You can identify, and here's the thing, if you look at this sheet, you can maybe put

00:59:52.280 --> 00:59:55.620
 a few problems up on top here that you're like, "I don't know where to fit this in,

00:59:55.620 --> 00:59:58.430
 but I know I need to get through this."

00:59:58.430 --> 01:00:02.690
 There's a lot on here, and I know it's really small, but hey, it's a lot of hours in the

01:00:02.690 --> 01:00:07.500
 week, a lot of 15-minute blocks, but hey, you can use this to visualize, "I know I need

01:00:07.500 --> 01:00:11.220
 to address this in the future," and don't put off what could be done in the future,

01:00:11.220 --> 01:00:15.770
 what you could possibly do today, because you'd be amazed what 30 extra minutes of

01:00:15.770 --> 01:00:21.690
 work leads to in the future, because I say, like, if you do 30 minutes of work, but you

01:00:21.690 --> 01:00:25.650
 take Sunday off, that's three hours, and you're like, "Three hours I could fit on

01:00:25.650 --> 01:00:26.620
 Saturday?

01:00:26.620 --> 01:00:30.450
 If it came up, you're behind. Next Saturday, oh, well, shoot, it's this party, can't go

01:00:30.450 --> 01:00:31.440
 to that.

01:00:31.440 --> 01:00:34.660
 You're six, nine, it builds up a lot faster.

01:00:34.660 --> 01:00:39.880
 But if you're doing a little bit of work, just come home, or before you go to work,

01:00:39.880 --> 01:00:42.400
 you just do a little.

01:00:42.400 --> 01:00:49.070
 You miss a couple days, you're already far, far, far further along than you would be in

01:00:49.070 --> 01:00:51.330
 that mystical future date.

01:00:51.330 --> 01:00:54.540
 I love my grandfather had this.

01:00:54.540 --> 01:00:59.820
 It was this little thing that said, "To it," and it was round.

01:00:59.820 --> 01:01:02.740
 And anytime I say, "I'll get around to it," he's like, "Oh, here, you have that, now

01:01:02.740 --> 01:01:04.800
 go do it."

01:01:04.800 --> 01:01:10.650
 He had a collection of these little coin-like things made out of clay that said, "To it."

01:01:10.650 --> 01:01:14.690
 And he literally gave that, because he ran a shop of workers, and people were like, "Yeah,

01:01:14.690 --> 01:01:15.680
 I'll get around to it."

01:01:15.680 --> 01:01:16.790
 He's like, "Oh, here you go.

01:01:16.790 --> 01:01:18.450
 I don't know why that was stopping you.

01:01:18.450 --> 01:01:19.440
 Get doing it now."

01:01:19.440 --> 01:01:21.750
 I thought that was beautiful.

01:01:21.750 --> 01:01:24.450
 He's like, "Don't do later what you can do now.

01:01:24.450 --> 01:01:27.130
 Go do it, and you'll be happy.

01:01:27.130 --> 01:01:31.610
 Here's the thing is, there's another way you can read this, and here's the thing, Christian.

01:01:31.610 --> 01:01:33.790
 Why don't you live for your future self?"

01:01:33.790 --> 01:01:37.280
 Now, spiritually, we're talking about eternity, but for your life?

01:01:37.280 --> 01:01:43.930
 Man, do you ever now then get into a situation where you're like, "My past self screwed me.

01:01:43.930 --> 01:01:48.830
 I really could have had this done before now."

01:01:48.830 --> 01:01:54.350
 And all the time you spent in this comfy seat, and the mindless memes, and I'm calling myself

01:01:54.350 --> 01:01:59.680
 out here, it's like, "Boy, that doesn't do anything in the day of diversity for you."

01:01:59.680 --> 01:02:03.920
 As much relaxation and sleep as I had in my past, man, right now, that means absolutely

01:02:03.920 --> 01:02:06.010
 nothing to me.

01:02:06.010 --> 01:02:11.750
 But having things done does.

01:02:11.750 --> 01:02:16.580
 In verse 22 of Proverbs 31, it says, "She maketh thirself a covering, a task-freeze,

01:02:16.580 --> 01:02:19.190
 her clothes silk and purple."

01:02:19.190 --> 01:02:20.780
 Here's the interesting.

01:02:20.780 --> 01:02:25.310
 So she's planning all this, she's going all this, you know what she also has time for?

01:02:25.310 --> 01:02:28.140
 Little bit of me time.

01:02:28.140 --> 01:02:29.450
 You read that verse?

01:02:29.450 --> 01:02:30.430
 What's she doing?

01:02:30.430 --> 01:02:35.220
 I've taken care of the family, I've planned for the future, I've got problems solved.

01:02:35.220 --> 01:02:36.850
 How about me?

01:02:36.850 --> 01:02:38.810
 It's there.

01:02:38.810 --> 01:02:42.880
 I'm not saying to be a sparge and self-sacrificing person 24 hours a day, you can't do anything

01:02:42.880 --> 01:02:43.870
 for yourself.

01:02:43.870 --> 01:02:49.900
 Proverbs 31 can stop and be like, you know what, I need a little cute dress.

01:02:49.900 --> 01:02:51.000
 You know what?

01:02:51.000 --> 01:02:52.300
 I need a little of this.

01:02:52.300 --> 01:02:57.620
 Hey, you're like, man, I'm just going to go, man, I got my nice car, I got to go buff it,

01:02:57.620 --> 01:02:59.170
 whatever it is.

01:02:59.170 --> 01:03:02.550
 And literally, here's the problem, this is a wise woman, this is what you're looking

01:03:02.550 --> 01:03:03.540
 for.

01:03:03.540 --> 01:03:06.110
 She can take a little time to make something really nice for herself.

01:03:06.110 --> 01:03:08.610
 Does God want you to just never do anything for yourself?

01:03:08.610 --> 01:03:10.970
 No, go have your time.

01:03:10.970 --> 01:03:14.660
 And hey, despite people who don't realize this, I'm probably one of the most introverted

01:03:14.660 --> 01:03:19.050
 people in this church, and if I do not spend a couple hours by myself with no one around,

01:03:19.050 --> 01:03:21.260
 I go insane.

01:03:21.260 --> 01:03:23.820
 You know how I fit that in?

01:03:23.820 --> 01:03:24.930
 I plan for that.

01:03:24.930 --> 01:03:29.660
 And it helps me now, because hey, if you're another introvert, you're like, I get really

01:03:29.660 --> 01:03:31.730
 social anxiety if I'm around people all the time.

01:03:31.730 --> 01:03:36.740
 Well, if I know, hey, at the end of the day, my last hour, I'm just spinning in a closed

01:03:36.740 --> 01:03:38.790
 room door, hey, for me, that works.

01:03:38.790 --> 01:03:39.870
 But you know how I manage that?

01:03:39.870 --> 01:03:45.030
 I have to plan for that, because hey, that's maybe a fault I have.

01:03:45.030 --> 01:03:50.800
 If I'm just constantly around people continuously, hey, I can pretty much go insane.

01:03:50.800 --> 01:03:52.900
 But people are like, I didn't know you were introverted.

01:03:52.900 --> 01:03:54.450
 I'm not socially inept.

01:03:54.450 --> 01:03:58.530
 Look, to be successful, you've got to know how to engage with people, you've got to be

01:03:58.530 --> 01:03:59.510
 around people.

01:03:59.510 --> 01:04:03.270
 And let me tell you this, when you go to work, or you go to a party, that's not the time

01:04:03.270 --> 01:04:05.600
 for me time, all right?

01:04:05.600 --> 01:04:08.720
 You got to plan that around, you got to go do it other times.

01:04:08.720 --> 01:04:13.730
 Like you're going to go have a family activity, that's not the time to run away and then hide,

01:04:13.730 --> 01:04:16.120
 okay?

01:04:16.120 --> 01:04:18.040
 But many of us need certain things.

01:04:18.040 --> 01:04:21.830
 The Proverbs 31 woman needs to know that she's beautiful and has nice things.

01:04:21.830 --> 01:04:24.280
 She is literally making stuff for herself.

01:04:24.280 --> 01:04:28.890
 You have things that you need and things you may need to take care of so you can feel like

01:04:28.890 --> 01:04:31.360
 life is worth living and going.

01:04:31.360 --> 01:04:35.230
 What I am saying though is notice that this is framed between serving others and taking

01:04:35.230 --> 01:04:36.940
 care of problems of your family.

01:04:36.940 --> 01:04:38.460
 You have priorities.

01:04:38.460 --> 01:04:40.250
 You are a priority in your life.

01:04:40.250 --> 01:04:44.140
 It's not a bad thing to do some things for yourself that are for you so you feel the

01:04:44.140 --> 01:04:47.950
 joy of God in your life and you can share that with others.

01:04:47.950 --> 01:04:53.440
 But here's the thing is notice that this is a verse in between serving others and family

01:04:53.440 --> 01:05:01.800
 and strangers and hey she's still working to do these things for herself.

01:05:01.800 --> 01:05:06.190
 It is a thing and here's the thing is why it's so interesting to me and I'm going to

01:05:06.190 --> 01:05:07.240
 tell you this.

01:05:07.240 --> 01:05:10.970
 Now it is not fair to this person I'm going to tell a story from because I just came back

01:05:10.970 --> 01:05:16.090
 from a deployment from Afghanistan where literally 12 hours a day seven days a week is the minimum

01:05:16.090 --> 01:05:17.360
 I worked.

01:05:17.360 --> 01:05:22.680
 There are times things happen in the military that's the minimum that is the minimum hours

01:05:22.680 --> 01:05:23.670
 I work.

01:05:23.670 --> 01:05:28.680
 What was it like 70 I forget the number of hours a week that is but it's like so I did

01:05:28.680 --> 01:05:32.330
 that show what you do seven days a week you just work so when I came and I joined I went

01:05:32.330 --> 01:05:38.350
 to college I was so bored taking over full-time amount of courses I didn't know what to do

01:05:38.350 --> 01:05:42.930
 myself so I literally took a job with the college and then I took over like a social

01:05:42.930 --> 01:05:46.830
 club with a couple hundred people I'll tell you about that later and then I'm like taking

01:05:46.830 --> 01:05:52.790
 over these things like so I'm running social events I'm running the only in the veterans

01:05:52.790 --> 01:05:57.110
 program I took over so I'm leading like this other group this other group and then I just

01:05:57.110 --> 01:06:03.250
 took on a job not even for the money just because I was bored and I'm doing over the

01:06:03.250 --> 01:06:08.920
 amount of work and why I'm telling you this is sitting in my one of my classes you know

01:06:08.920 --> 01:06:16.170
 I walked in I'm sure a nice young lady she's in college and you can tell in public she's

01:06:16.170 --> 01:06:26.570
 having a silent panic attack and I'm like now if you think I'm rough around the edges

01:06:26.570 --> 01:06:31.250
 now you should have met me unsaved and right out of the military so it's very unnatural

01:06:31.250 --> 01:06:39.750
 but I was like are you okay and she's like I'm just so overburdened I was like okay well

01:06:39.750 --> 01:06:47.680
 what's going on she's like man I'm taking I forget I forget in college now is it 25

01:06:47.680 --> 01:06:52.140
 is full time for I don't know she's taking half time full time so like whatever like

01:06:52.140 --> 01:06:58.510
 12 credits she's like hey the class like okay you're taking two classes they're two hours

01:06:58.510 --> 01:07:06.240
 a week for four over two days yeah whatever she's going to school twice a week half time

01:07:06.240 --> 01:07:11.430
 I was like man okay college stressful how's your family she's like oh my family's really

01:07:11.430 --> 01:07:15.000
 supportive helping I was like oh are you behind on rent she's like no I live with my parents

01:07:15.000 --> 01:07:20.000
 they take care of everything they even make my food for me when I go I was like okay I

01:07:20.000 --> 01:07:25.290
 know me and probably like is your relationship life going okay he's like oh no my fiance he

01:07:25.290 --> 01:07:29.380
 he just makes sure when I'm home everything's done and it's just so sweet everything's great

01:07:29.380 --> 01:07:38.770
 I was like so the only thing going on is half-time like freshman or sophomore year college like we

01:07:38.770 --> 01:07:42.180
 ain't talking like postgraduate and things like that where you got to read like five books or

01:07:42.180 --> 01:07:48.510
 something she's like yeah I just never had to work so much my life I was like oh life's going

01:07:48.510 --> 01:07:54.880
 to get way harder for you she's like excuse me I'm like I'm not trying to be mean at all

01:07:54.880 --> 01:08:01.670
 life is going to get really hard for you and this is nothing like you probably want to do more stuff

01:08:01.670 --> 01:08:06.110
 now so life is a little easier in the future because I'm gonna tell you right now I take three

01:08:06.110 --> 01:08:11.740
 times more classes than you and I'm bored now and I told her like hey I was in the army I've done

01:08:11.740 --> 01:08:15.780
 stuff I know you're right out of high school I take it you weren't in sports and you didn't have

01:08:15.780 --> 01:08:21.090
 hobbies you didn't do she's like no I just kind of went home right after school I was like yeah

01:08:21.090 --> 01:08:28.380
 you're not ready for life and you could have seen the professor go hey you know you're doing the

01:08:28.380 --> 01:08:36.420
 best you can this or that I was like I'm not trying to be mean but hey life is about getting

01:08:36.420 --> 01:08:43.140
 stuff done let me tell you this if you have so much me time that the thought of working I mean

01:08:43.140 --> 01:08:51.010
 this is like less than six hours a week is bringing you down it might be time to change your attitude

01:08:51.010 --> 01:08:57.010
 to be willing to work with your hands all right and I'm just saying and let me tell you this

01:08:57.010 --> 01:09:00.790
 during all the things I was doing and managing groups and going to work doing full-time school

01:09:00.790 --> 01:09:07.070
 you know what I also did way too many video games I didn't have church yet I wasn't saved

01:09:07.070 --> 01:09:11.520
 but you know what's interesting is despite people like man how are you managing these

01:09:11.520 --> 01:09:15.590
 groups going to work doing school all the time I was like I don't know I'm just used to working

01:09:15.590 --> 01:09:20.080
 12 hours a day seven days a week so when I went back into civilian society and you're all lazy

01:09:20.080 --> 01:09:26.280
 like no but I'm just saying the requirements of time is so much less in an American culture that

01:09:26.280 --> 01:09:32.090
 when I got thrown back into it I'm like I'll just do a little bit more and then I was still like I

01:09:32.090 --> 01:09:35.790
 was like I don't know what else to do so I'll play a lot of video games on top of all that

01:09:35.790 --> 01:09:42.200
 and I was like what do people do with their time I think a lot of veterans think that to be honest

01:09:42.200 --> 01:09:51.480
 but and that's just the thing I know we're running out of time so I'll move through but in Proverbs

01:09:51.480 --> 01:09:57.510
 uh 31 and verse 23 it says her husband is known of the gate when she sit of them when he sitteth

01:09:57.510 --> 01:10:04.690
 among the elders of the land hey she takes care like she's like hey I'm gonna manage this household

01:10:04.690 --> 01:10:09.530
 and what's my responsibility so much I don't need the other people to look over this they can go get

01:10:09.530 --> 01:10:15.260
 other things done and hey man you manage everything outside of the house so well that they can just

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 focus on that that's been dividing a task but you know what when one party fails you know the other

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 one has to step in right and then that takes their time out of other things let me tell you this

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 no matter who does something if things get done you have more time and there's just saying she

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 manages so well her husband can go become greater outside and hey you know what that probably

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 benefits the household more she can probably buy more that fancy silk she can probably more provide

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 that food that seems like it's coming from afar which was mentioned versus earlier she has this

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 why her husband succeeds she succeeds the husband succeeds the wife should succeed the kids should

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 succeed the more you do the more other people can do and let me tell you even in a church if one

01:10:58.580 --> 01:11:03.280
 person does a lot and that leaves a lot of other time for other people to do a lot and if everyone

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 does a lot a lot gets done now when i say a lot people like oh man i just don't know about that

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 it's like you know at times i wonder like i'm just gonna be honest like sometimes like man i feel

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 like i do a lot myself and then sometimes i feel like i need to do more but when i really calculate

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 it out i think about it i do about two more hours than anyone else and i'm not trying to blow anyone

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 else out and obviously the thompsons have come in and do more than that but i'm just saying two hours

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 two hours and i mean that could be helping teach you a drive they'd be cleaning the church there

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 could be other things but when i look at this if i mark out two more hours just dedicated to church

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 and how much more gets done i'm like i could probably fit more to be honest i just can't be

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 comfortable where i'm at i'm not telling you all to do that but all i'm saying is when you think of

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 doing more and you actually visualize the time you have you might actually find that you go it's

01:11:57.510 --> 01:12:02.610
 really not that much whether or not it's the church because i'm going to tell you this hey

01:12:02.610 --> 01:12:08.060
 you know like who blows us away we all do this in different ways we all have different interests

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 like hey i have never came and set up a photo booth that is literally photo worthy

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 but i know someone who has she's really good at it you know what there are times where like things

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 come up i'm just feeling lazy man if we relied on me to get slowly done on saturday probably

01:12:25.640 --> 01:12:30.220
 wouldn't go out that much but i know the gents they take that on it's hours a week and let me

01:12:30.220 --> 01:12:34.400
 tell you they're probably the most dedicated people specifically to that time it's unquestioned

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 so i'm not saying people aren't doing things what i'm saying is when you look at your time and where

01:12:39.930 --> 01:12:44.590
 you think and like i said do one week where i'm being honest with my time and then draw

01:12:44.590 --> 01:12:48.860
 you whether you do it or not what could i be doing with my time you might find that you can

01:12:48.860 --> 01:12:54.600
 learn skills and do other things and what other things could you do and hey in verse 24 it says

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 she make it find linen and sell it and develop uh delivered the girdles and the merchant strength

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 and honor are her clothing and she shall rejoice in time to come hey she has side hustles if a lot

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 of you are like man i don't know what to do with my time well if it's not church it's not that you

01:13:14.610 --> 01:13:20.610
 feel it doing are you ever going to regret if you get a side hustle as long as you break even i'm

01:13:20.610 --> 01:13:24.440
 not telling you to put all your money to crypto because man i'm going to be rich i'm going for

01:13:24.440 --> 01:13:29.940
 elon must rich because you're probably going to be broke but here's the thing is it's already

01:13:29.940 --> 01:13:33.720
 told her all the work she's done to make clothes she's done all this she's got a skill and she's

01:13:33.720 --> 01:13:39.570
 like you know what i do this for my family a few things on the side and here's the thing is do

01:13:39.570 --> 01:13:44.610
 you really need a lot to be a life-changing thing can you imagine if like because a lot of people

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 like do you do all this work and you make like 50 a week a lot of families i mean that's more

01:13:52.250 --> 01:13:57.150
 than you'll need in christmas you got 52 weeks 50 i mean that's a few thousand extra dollars i'm

01:13:57.150 --> 01:14:03.310
 not saying that's life-changing but i'm going to tell you that are cat videos at the end of the

01:14:03.310 --> 01:14:07.970
 year which one is better let me tell you this if you do something regularly over time that you're

01:14:07.970 --> 01:14:13.180
 making money you know what's going to happen this is a force of thing hey all labor there's profit

01:14:13.180 --> 01:14:18.960
 all labor and that's the key thing i'm telling you about if you replace some idleness with labor

01:14:18.960 --> 01:14:25.720
 no matter what it is because hey in this it's uh semen you know sewing tapestry imagine the other

01:14:25.720 --> 01:14:29.890
 skills you get you learn how to manage you learn how to develop you learn to see what needs to

01:14:29.890 --> 01:14:34.620
 come in the future just by this hobby she has this side hustle let me tell you that it manages money

01:14:34.620 --> 01:14:38.830
 it manages time manages you make connections she has to go talk to them and deliver to the merchants

01:14:38.830 --> 01:14:43.350
 she has to learn how to talk to people how to find people how to have people with better deals

01:14:43.350 --> 01:14:48.110
 it's like man this would actually improve all areas of life why because you took a productive

01:14:48.110 --> 01:14:53.350
 hobby and you got rid of the cat videos or limit it i'm gonna tell you get rid of it it's so cute

01:14:53.350 --> 01:15:07.760
 and funny but does it need to be all your time when you get home no problems 14 in all labor

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 there's profit but the talk of lips tended to own it appearing same the time i'll leave you on this

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 thought this whole thing when you look at this and you visually look at how you spend your time and

01:15:19.250 --> 01:15:24.810
 you visually look how your time could be used i bet you can find a few things that can be changed

01:15:24.810 --> 01:15:31.210
 and understand this if you just change a little bit of time it could be you know 15 20 you know

01:15:31.210 --> 01:15:37.600
 30 minutes an hour maybe a day and you just like i'm just going to learn this skill because in all

01:15:37.600 --> 01:15:45.370
 labor there's profit you're going to gain other skills by one skill hey maybe you actually choose

01:15:45.370 --> 01:15:50.880
 something you're bad at or you've never done before you're like once a week i'm going to do

01:15:50.880 --> 01:15:56.850
 something i have never done before why it's going to be hard yeah but a lot of people don't do

01:15:56.850 --> 01:16:01.560
 things because they think it's hard and if you're not scared to learn because here's the thing is

01:16:01.560 --> 01:16:07.350
 you know if you're homeschooling don't you need to know how you need to learn hopefully you're

01:16:07.350 --> 01:16:11.280
 learning faster than the kids you know you got to stay like i mean i hope a couple weeks but

01:16:11.280 --> 01:16:16.850
 maybe a couple years ahead of them right so you're going to have to keep learning and men one of the

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 things that bothered me the most because i've seen people do this they're like i don't need to learn

01:16:21.300 --> 01:16:26.280
 anything more in my life i think i'm good i'm in my job i don't think i'll ever do anything so i

01:16:26.280 --> 01:16:34.610
 don't i'm good like that's like a botherable to me like dude you got the rest of your life

01:16:34.610 --> 01:16:39.860
 let me tell you this you're going to change with your knowledge and learn stuff here's the thing

01:16:39.860 --> 01:16:43.410
 is learn general knowledge because it's amazing to me how many people don't have a clue how

01:16:43.410 --> 01:16:49.690
 anything works like i'm not expecting you to be able to wire your entire house but shouldn't you

01:16:49.690 --> 01:16:55.450
 know where power comes from because some people don't like i'm not telling you you should be able

01:16:55.450 --> 01:17:01.630
 to rebuild an engine but you should probably know that sound bad right watching general knowledge

01:17:01.630 --> 01:17:07.050
 things outside of your interest and here's the thing you're like well you know don't divide

01:17:07.050 --> 01:17:13.580
 things in your head hey we had a pie social every man was welcome to build a pie so you're like

01:17:13.580 --> 01:17:17.280
 probably not that hard you cut some butter into flour you might realize this is the messiest

01:17:17.280 --> 01:17:23.070
 nastiest thing i've ever done and if you haven't seen the aftermath of cutting butter into flour

01:17:23.070 --> 01:17:29.460
 you might learn whoa i gotta take a shower after every pie i make but it might be good for you to

01:17:29.460 --> 01:17:34.790
 not be sad when you have to work with your hands and it might be good for you to actually learn

01:17:34.790 --> 01:17:39.880
 like my mother raised me at a different most i learned like she forced every child she had to

01:17:39.880 --> 01:17:45.990
 cook she's like it's an abomination so it's weird to me when i find other people that boil water

01:17:45.990 --> 01:17:54.180
 hard can i forgot to open put on the stove blew up like how did you survive so long what i'm

01:17:54.180 --> 01:18:00.850
 saying is this i'm getting off the track what i'm saying is this all labor is profit it might be

01:18:00.850 --> 01:18:06.150
 good for each one of us to go you know what as a kid i was really bad at that so i was fearful of

01:18:06.150 --> 01:18:11.320
 doing that maybe go play roundabout you know basketball or you know whatever it is it could

01:18:11.320 --> 01:18:16.170
 be a skill it'd be cooking it could be a sport it'd be like man i hate hiking up a hill but i'm

01:18:16.170 --> 01:18:20.550
 going to go do it because well it's hard i got to learn something different you know what i hate i

01:18:20.550 --> 01:18:24.730
 i'm really fearful of talking to people but you know what i'm going to try to do some training

01:18:24.730 --> 01:18:28.970
 i'm going to go try to do this why learn to talk to people learn to do something hard get out of

01:18:28.970 --> 01:18:33.520
 your shell and you know what in a couple years you might be thankful you did it now because think

01:18:33.520 --> 01:18:38.390
 about your future self and work for your future self not for the comfort of today that's basically

01:18:38.390 --> 01:18:43.660
 the main point i hope this useful if you actually want it i'll email it to you and if not well i

01:18:43.660 --> 01:18:47.250
 hope you got something other sermon with that let's pray heavenly father thank you so much today

01:18:47.250 --> 01:18:51.160
 thank you for reminding me to preach this i hope people found edifying because lord you've given us

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 the time to be on this earth you've given us a set amount of seconds that as the clock is ticking

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 away let us use that let's use it to glorify you let's use it to better ourselves let's use that

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 to edify our families and to drive them forward into your will in jesus name amen take your

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 hymnals we're going to turn to page number 433 page number 433 page number 433 can be found in

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 a reasonable amount of time ready brother ryan should please close us an order prayer