2. One Thing James 4:13-17

3. One last thing…

4. For me The most important thing

5. Whatever you're going to do For the Lord Do it now

6. Whatever you're going to do In the Lord Do it now

7. Principle Based on Scripture

8. Come 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”

9. …yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring

10. Point: Bragging about plans

11. Point: Bragging about plans Principle: Uncertainty of your future In this world

12. Whatever you're going to do For the Lord Do it now

13. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes

14. Ok, then what…?

15. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that”

16. Time is short Seek God before planning And follow as he leads

17. Action rather than dreaming Seeking instead of Self- Planning Redeeming, not wasting

18. As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin - James 4:13-17

19. I'm busy: Building a business Raising a family Making plans for kids But I'll get around to it…

20. Whatever you're going to do For the Lord Do it now

21. Whatever you're going to do In the Lord Do it now

22. What has he Put in your heart?

23. What has he Put in your heart? What's your excuse?

24. If you wait Until conditions are perfect You'll never do anything

25. If you wait Until conditions are perfect You'll never do anything (Hint: Faith is a risk…)

26. Pray! Read! Seek! Make sure it's from God…

27. God is never Obligated to bless Where God has not led

28. 7 Sons get the snot Beat of them

29. We'll help God out!

30. “I adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul proclaims…”

31. …But the evil spirit answered them, “Jesus I know, and Paul I recognize, but who are you?”

32. Then the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, overpowered them, and prevailed against them

33. …so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded - Acts 19:15-16

34. What you do… Make sure it's from God And then get busy

35. Whatever you're going to do For the Lord Do it now

36. I got 99 excuses…

37. Excuses aren't reasons

38. Not settled yet… Just got married… When I get a good job

39. I work too much right now When the kids get older When they leave the house

40. I'm too old now

41. “A man once gave a great banquet and invited many…

42. And at the time for the banquet he sent his servant to say to those who had been invited, ‘Come, for everything is now ready’

43. But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it. Please have me excused’

44. And another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to examine them. Please have me excused’ And another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to examine them. Please have me excused’

45. And another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come’

46. So the servant came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house became angry and said to his servant,

47. ‘Go out quickly to the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor and crippled and blind and lame’

48. And the servant said, ‘Sir, what you commanded has been done, and still there is room.’ And the master said to the servant,

49. ‘Go out to the highways and hedges and compel people to come in, that my house may be filled…

50. For I tell you, none of those men who were invited shall taste my banquet’” - Luke 14:16-24

51. When God calls That's God's time Don't miss it!

52. What you're going to do For the Lord Do it now

53. What you're going to do In the Lord Do it now

54. God will redeem But why miss opportunities We'll never get back…?

55. Beau Dugan

56. Beau Dugan Tiffany and painting Beau's House

57. God puts it in her heart And it makes no sense It's courting disaster

58. Let her alone. She has done a beautiful thing…She did what she could. She poured perfume on my body beforehand to prepare for my burial - Mark 14

59. What she could When she could As much as she could

60. She didn't know it, but… And she'd never Get that opportunity again

61. I might miss out On lots of fun… We plow with eyes forward

62. The indicative precedes The imperative "Remember what I've done You can trust me…"

63. Whatever you're Going to do for the Lord Do it now

64. Even if it's Simply being faithful Where you are While God prepares you "King" David (in 15 years)

65. Be careful of letting your Talent take you where Your character Can't keep you

66. Waiting on the Lord Is following the Lord - It's not passive - When you're faithful

67. Whatever you're Going to do for the Lord Do it now

68. Begin with growth in the Disciplines of godliness No one stumbles into Maturity in Christ

69. Whatever you're Going to do in the Lord Do it now

70. Outsmarting God With our plans To travel and enjoy life "One day…"

72. What has God put In your heart That you've been Excusing away?

73. Will you act? Commit…now

75. Next Week New Summer Schedule: 1 Unified Service at 10:30 AM

76. Cookout Waterslide Friends…

77. 2 Weeks: