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Advent HOPE Sabbath School

Carlos Moretta

Out of Time

Father God, we come to you this morning, I come to you this morning asking that you would empty me of self, Lord.

This is an issue that I've been struggling with for some time and I just pray that you would use my mouth and speak to your people this morning.

I thank you for the high privilege and honor of doing this.

I ask that you would send your Holy Spirit at this time.

We serve a God who exists outside of our timeline.

Unfortunately, I love to hear rustling Bibles going, turning, but for the sake of time I'm glad that I put these on slide.

It says, but beloved be not ignorant of this 1 thing, that 1 day is with the Lord as a thousand years and a thousand years as a day.

Is there a more mind-boggling scripture than this?

He didn't have this idea, this fact that he has to live or exist outside of our timeline, he didn't have that in mind at creation.

But he does exist outside of our timeline.

Revelation 1.8 Says, I am the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, sayeth the Lord, which is and which was and which is to come, the Almighty.

He loved us enough to step into our timeline briefly, to be able to offer us infinity once again, which in and of itself is a hard concept to wrap our heads around, right?

He did this because He's a relational God.

It's important for him that we are able to relate to him.

So let's briefly look at the shortening lifespan of man after the fall.

And if Moses lived In Loma Linda, he would be possibly the most celebrated centenarian living in our blue zone.

We're impressed when we see these centenarians at the Dresden Center working the treadmill or the weights or in the pool.

A month ago I had the privilege of extracting a wisdom tooth on a hundred-year-old lady patient and I thought, oh I got her last bit of wisdom.

She got up and walked out of there like nothing happened.

But only because we've made today's average lifespan the standard.

And as Adventists, we're so proud that we live an average of 7 to 10 years longer than our American counterparts according to our own Adventist health study, but again, it was never God's plan Our construct was for eternity even Adam Seth Methuselah Noah the real millennials, these guys died in their youth.

Even if we live to 100, We're dying right at birth.

Or at least we don't live like we know this.

Scholars postulate that Job lived to the ripe old age of 210.

He says, Now my days are swifter than a post.

Cease then and let me alone that I might take comfort a little.

Before I go, whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death.

Keep going a couple chapters over to 17, verse 1.

My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

Now granted, Job was going through some stuff.

Most scholars suggest that Job was around the age of 70 when he began his woes.

And he thought it was over with right then and there, but His faithfulness bought him another 140 years, and yet Job still died in his youth.

Actually, I'm just gonna go to 11 and 12.

I returned and saw unto the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill, but time and chance happeneth to them all.

As the fishes that are caught, that are taken in an evil net, And as the birds that are caught in the snare, so are the sons of men snared in an evil time when it falleth suddenly upon them.

How many people, How many of you know how long David lived, approximately?

So now we're all kind of dying at the same time.

David says, remember how short my time is.

Wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?

What man is he that liveth and shall not see death?

Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave?

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

Let's go to Ephesians chapter 5, verses 15 and 16.

See then that ye walk circumspectly not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are what?

And don't be surprised, I was a big boy, but I could still flip.

In my youth, It's like you're not thinking about anything serious, just having a good time.

In our youth, it's easy to forget or just to avoid the thought of death and danger and how it surrounds us on every side.

Instead, we carry this facade of immortality not because we really believe that we're immortal, right?

But simply because we don't stop to think about just how mortal we are or how we should cherish every heartbeat, every breath, every bird singing in the morning, every opportunity to enlarge God's kingdom.

It's a good reality check to remember that were it not for grace, the grace of God, our life's candle could be snuffed out at any second.

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