I MUST WORK… WHILE IT IS DAY,…

SUNDAY, 22ND OCTOBER, 2023.

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE

TOPIC: I MUST WORK… WHILE IT IS DAY,…

MEMORIZE: "I must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; the night is coming when no one can work.” John 9:4.

SCRIPTURE READING: John 4:34-35.

“Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work. "Do you not say, 'There are still four months and then comes the harvest'? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest!”

EXPOSITION:

The Father, when he sent his Son into the world, gave him work to do; he did not come into the world to take state, but to do business; whom God sends he employs, for he sends none to be idle. The works Christ had to do were the works of him that sent him, not only appointed by him, but done for him; he was a worker together with God. He was pleased to lay himself under the strongest obligations to do the business he was sent about: I must work. He engaged his heart, in the covenant of redemption, to draw near, and approach to God as Mediator, Jer 30:21. Shall we be willing to be loose, when Christ was willing to be bound? 

Christ, having laid himself under obligations to do his work, laid out himself with the utmost vigour and industry in his work. He worked the works he had to do. I must work while it is day, while the time lasts which is appointed to work in, and while the light lasts which is given to work by. Christ himself had his day. The consideration of our death approaching should quicken us to improve all the opportunities of life, both for doing and getting good. The night comes, it will come certainly, may come suddenly, is coming nearer and nearer.

Take note of these facts:

1. All the business of the mediatorial kingdom was to be done within the limits of time, and in this world; for at the end of the world, when time shall be no more, the kingdom shall be delivered up to God, even the Father, and the mystery of God finished. So also we should preach to the perishing souls while we are agile (active).

2. All the work he had to do in his own person here on earth was to be done before his death; the time of his living in this world is the day here spoken of. Note, The time of our life is our day, in which it concerns us to do the work of the day. Day-time is the proper season for work Ps 104:22-23; during the day of life we must be busy, not waste day-time, nor play by day-light

PRAYER POINT:  Lord, help me to be fruitful and fulfilled in your work in Jesus name.

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR –  Mark 4 - 6.

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ANCHOR OF LIFE is the daily devotional guide written by PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE, General Overseer, Anchor of Life & Redemption Ministry Int’l. It is an extraction of God’s word designed to draw the sincere seekers closer to God on a daily basis through an insightful exposition and analysis of God’s Word. 

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