Preparing for Your Future

Getting Ready for the Future
Preparing for Your Future

I. Introduction

A. Joshua 7:13a (NLT) “Get up! Command the people to purify themselves in preparation for tomorrow.”

II. False Approaches to the Future

A. Useless about the future

1. Matthew 6:27 (NLT) “Can all your worries add a single moment to your life?”

B. Arrogant

1. Proverbs 27:1 (NAS) Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth.

2. Isaiah 56:12 (NAS) “Come,” they say, “let us get wine, and let us drink heavily of strong drink; and tomorrow will be like today, only more so.”

3. James 4:14-16 (NAS) ¹⁴Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away. ¹⁵Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that.” ¹⁶But as it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.

4. Two reasons you should never presume to know the future:

a. Life is .

b. Life is .

5. Whatever you’re going to do with your life, !

C. Faulty

1. James 4:13 (NAS) Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.”

2. What’s wrong is that there’s no of in this verse!

3. You are without !

4. James 4:15 (NAS) Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that.”

D. Lazy

1. James 4:17 (NAS) Therefore, to one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, to him it is sin.

III. The Wise Way to Deal With the Future

A. !

1. I John 2:3-4 (NLT) ³And we can be sure that we know him if we obey his commandments. ⁴If someone claims, “I know God,” but doesn’t obey God’s commandments, that person is a liar and is not living in the truth.

2. II Corinthians 6:2c (NLT) Indeed, the “right time” is now. Today is the day of salvation.

a. Our next Water Baptism is February 27-28, 2021.

3. What is it that you’ve been in, and now getting ready for your future, you want to start God in?

IV. Conclusion