2. JESUS’LIFE,
YOURLIFE

3. JAMES 4: 13 - 17
13Come now, you who say, "Today or
tomorrow we will go into such and such a
town and spend a year there and trade
and make a profit"—
14yet you do not know what tomorrow
will bring. What is your life? For you are a
mist that appears for a little time and
then vanishes.

4. JAMES 4: 13 - 17
15Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord
wills, we will live and do this or that.“
16As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All
such boasting is evil.
17So whoever knows the right thing to do
and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

5. HOPESAND
DREAMS

6. • We get a vision, a dream, a
longing, a hope, and then we start
to plan for it. And this is how you
can know what’s really important in
your life, the things that are most
important are the things that get a
plan. And if you want to figure out
how to put together a plan, you
start considering your options for
counsel.

7. • Some of the counsel you’ll get is
“Godless,” meaning it doesn’t say
anything negative about God. It
just doesn’t say anything about
God; it’s your life, your dreams,
your hopes, your goals, your vision
for your destiny. No reference to
God at all.

8. • Some of the counsel you’ll get is
“God-light.” It’s sort of best
business practices, tips, and tricks
with vague, general, spiritual
references like, “Don’t overlook
your soul. Make sure to include
your spiritual life.”

9. LIFEIS
UNCERTAIN

10. JAMES 4: 13 & 14
13Come now, you who say, "Today or
tomorrow we will go into such and such a
town and spend a year there and trade
and make a profit"—
14yet you do not know what tomorrow
will bring. What is your life? For you are a
mist that appears for a little time and
then vanishes.

11. The Bible talks a lot about
planning. Proverbs talks a ton
about how wise it is to seek good
counsel and make a wise plan. It’s
not a sin to have a vision. It’s not
a sin to make a plan. It’s not a sin
to be organized.

12. “Be careful. You
need to
remember if the
Lord wills.”

13. SOVEREIGNTY &
SEPARATION

14. What he’s really attacking here are
two awful assumptions and
presumptions. One is in regards to
sovereignty; the other is in
regards to separation. The
problem here is that it is easy for us
to behave or believe as if we were
sovereign over our lives and our
future.

15. IF THE LORD WILLS

16. You don’t need to say it all the time for
everything. The goal is not to have this,
“the Lord wills,” “if the Lord wills,”
“Lord willing” be a cliché but a
conviction. Therefore, the Lord is
welcome to change our plans because
his will overrides our will, and trust
that his will is glorious for him and
good for us.

17. LIFE IS
BRIEF

18. JAMES 4: 14
14yet you do not know what tomorrow
will bring. What is your life? For you are a
mist that appears for a little time and
then vanishes.

19. “HEBEL”

20. In the book of Ecclesiastes, it starts with
this word Hebel. It’s a Hebrew word. Life is
Hebel. He boils life down to one word.
Some of your translations will say
“meaningless.” “Meaningless, meaningless,
says the teacher, everything is
meaningless.” Life doesn’t have to be
meaningless, but it can. Some of your
translations will say, “vanity.” “Vanity,
vanity, life is vanity.”

21. LIFE MOVES FASTER
WHEN YOU’RE OLDER

22. Then as you get older, you’re
looking for the break in life. Slow it
down. Slow it down. It’s going too
fast because life is a mist. That’s
what Ecclesiastes is declaring.
That’s what the Holy Spirit wants us
to be remembering, that our life is
like that.

23. DEATH

24. Life gets very clear when time is
very short. It’s ultimately people
and memories that matter, and we
take those with us to the kingdom
of God.

25. LIFE SHOULD BE
URGENT

26. We make our plans and we seek to
make our plans his plans for our
life. Life is uncertain. Life is brief.

27. If you know you’re supposed to be
doing something and you’re not
doing that, that’s sin. And if you
know you’re not supposed to be
doing something and you’re doing
that, that’s sin. Some sins are clear.
They’re for everybody.

28. LIFE’S PRIORITIES

29. We start with Scripture. The Bible is
very clear, don’t do these things,
and here are some other things you
need to do.

30. WHATTODOWITH
YOURTIME?

31. DON’TBE
ARROGANT

32. GOTO
SCRIPTURE

33. Don’t just make a plan for your
life and then find people who
agree with you and declare them
to be wise counsel.

34. SEEKWISE
COUNSEL

35. Seek wise counsel, godly people
whom you will invite into your life
and entrust to your decision-
making.

36. ASKTHE
HOLYSPIRIT
TOEMPOWER
YOU

37. The Holy Spirit is God come to take up
residence in you to inform and
empower your life as he did Jesus.
And Paul declares that the Holy Spirit is
the Spirit of wisdom. What we’re talking
about here is wisdom and folly.

38. PLAN
ACCORDINGLY

39. Then plan
accordingly,
openhanded, if the
Lord wills.

40. THREE THINGS TO
KNOW ABOUT
YOUR PLATE

41. KNOWTHESIZE
OFYOURPLATE

42. There are limitations, and we have
greater limitations than he. When
we’re talking about your plate size,
we’re talking about your life
capacity.
Do you realize that some people
can’t get as much done as other
people, and that doesn’t mean that
they’re ungodly or less spiritual or
less valuable.

43. KNOWWHAT
TOTAKEOFF
YOURPLATE

44. So you have got to take some stuff
off your plate. Whatever the case
may be. Maybe there were things
that you had time and energy for,
and now you don’t and they have to
come off your plate.

45. KNOWWHAT
TOPUTON
YOURPLATE

46. But it never comes, so we need to
start with our priorities and God’s
priorities for me. And we need to
put the most important things in
our life, in our energy, in our
budget, in our schedule first, the
people and things that matter the
most. And then entrust God to help
us discern what else we can handle
and what we can’t.

47. FAITHWORKS CHRISTIAN CHURCH GLOBAL
Presented By:
Ptr. Joven C. Soro
FCC Main, San Mateo Rizal, PH
6:30PM Evening Service
May 29, 2016
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