The Promise & Peril of Summer.  A Season of Promise  Divine Order  Divine Opportunity  A Season of Danger  Neglected Worship  Immodest Clothing.

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The Promise & Peril of Summer

 A Season of Promise  Divine Order  Divine Opportunity  A Season of Danger  Neglected Worship  Immodest Clothing

SEASON OF PROMISE: Divine Order  Summer is a season of divine order.  God established the orderly routines of nature (Gen. 1:14-19).

SEASON OF PROMISE: Divine Order  Promising to never again destroy the earth by water, the Lord said unto Noah, “While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease” (Gen. 8:20- 22).

SEASON OF PROMISE: Divine Order  The Psalmist Asaph recognized God’s preeminence: “Yours is the day, Yours also is the night; You have prepared the light and the sun. You have established all the boundaries of the earth; You have made summer and winter” (Psa. 74:16-17).

SEASON OF PROMISE: Divine Order  The Maker of the world and all things in it, the Ruler of heaven and earth, having created an orderly universe, would govern our hearts as well (Acts 17:24-31).

SEASON OF PROMISE: Divine Opportunity  Summer is a season of divine opportunity.  As ants prepare their food in the summer and gather provision in the harvest, so we must be diligent and industrious (Prov. 6:6-11; cf. also 30:24-28).

SEASON OF PROMISE: Divine Opportunity  He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during the harvest acts shamefully (Prov. 10:4-5).

SEASON OF PROMISE: Divine Opportunity  Let us redeem the time, making the most of our opportunities (Eph. 5:15- 16; Col. 4:2-6), courageously embracing even those that are disguised as danger (Luke 21:12-13; Phil. 1:12-14).

SEASON OF PROMISE: Divine Opportunity  Possessors of the mind of Christ will say, “We must work the works of Him who sent Me as long as it is day; night is coming when no one can work” (John 9:4; cf. also 4:34-35).

SEASON OF PROMISE: Divine Opportunity  Heed not the deceitfulness of sin, which invariably counsels delay (cf. Acts 24:24-25), but hear His voice, while it is called “Today” (Heb. 3:7- 15).

SEASON OF PROMISE: Divine Opportunity  Seek the Lord while He may be found, and call upon Him while He is near (Isa. 55:6-7; cf. Psa. 32:1-7).

SEASON OF DANGER: Neglected Worship  Summer is a season of neglected worship.  The beach beckons, the mountains call, theme parks are full, but God’s house is empty.

SEASON OF DANGER: Neglected Worship  Faithful attendance is not a seasonal obligation.  New Testament disciples continually devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer (Acts 2:41-47).

SEASON OF DANGER: Neglected Worship  Though hastening on a long journey, Paul tarried seven days in Troas so as to assemble with the saints, observe the Lord’s Supper, and share the comfort of spiritual association (Acts 20:6-12).

SEASON OF DANGER: Neglected Worship  Therefore, while at home or on the road, let us hold fast our confession without wavering.  Assembling with the saints offers great encouragement, both to ourselves and to others (Heb. 10:23-25).

SEASON OF DANGER: Immodest Clothing  Summer is a season of immodest clothing.  Modesty seems inversely proportional to temperature: as the thermometer rises, modesty falls.

SEASON OF DANGER: Immodest Clothing  However, in both the Old and New Testaments, public nakedness has always been counted as shameful.  This remains constant, through the Patriarchal Age (Gen. 3:6-11, 21), the Mosaic Age (Exod. 20:22-26; 28:40-43), and the Christian Age (Rev. 3:18; 16:15).

SEASON OF DANGER: Immodest Clothing  From a Biblical standpoint, nakedness involves the public exposure of the thighs, the buttocks and the breasts (Isa. 47:1-3; 20:1-4; Lam. 1:8-9; Ezek. 16:6-14, 35-43).

SEASON OF DANGER: Immodest Clothing  Sexuality is a precious gift reserved for marriage, the private and personal possession of husband and wife (Prov. 5:15-19; 1 Cor. 7:1-5; Heb. 13:4).

SEASON OF DANGER: Immodest Clothing  Therefore, Christians must adorn themselves with proper clothing, modestly and discreetly (1 Tim. 2:9- 10).  Our dress and demeanor must be chaste and respectful (1 Pet. 3:1-4).

CONCLUSION  The oppressive heat of summer symbolizes the burden of unacknowledged sin (Psa. 32:3-7).  The harvest of summer also symbolizes the day of reckoning when we must give account of ourselves to God (Amos 8:1-2; Matt. 24:32-35; 2 Cor. 5:9-11).

CHALLENGE  Procrastination is perilous: “Harvest is past, summer is ended, and we are not saved” (Jer. 8:18-22).  Now is the acceptable time, behold, now is “the day of salvation” (2 Cor. 6:1-2).