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Let's take our Bibles, turn to Ephesians chapter number five. Ephesians chapter number five. And I love the book of Ephesians. I mean, it's such a power-packed book, and uh so much within six little chapters. And it's uh, you know, it's actually one of the first books I ever preached verse by verse through. And we're not gonna do that today, but I want us to look at three verses in Ephesians chapter five and verse number 15, and more specifically, we're gonna look at three words in three verses, in one verse, all right? We're gonna focus on three words in this in this book that are so powerful and so much behind it. But Ephesians chapter five, let's go ahead and read it, verse number 15. The Bible says, see then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise. And here's the three words right here: Redeeming the time because the days are evil. Let's say redeeming the time. One, two, three, redeeming the time because the days are evil. Therefore, do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is. Now, some of you are wondering why I have this hourglass. I come up here with this hourglass. It's actually not an hourglass, it's about a 30-minute glass. Uh it's around about 30 minutes from what I can tell. And I'm gonna try to preach this message within 30 minutes. All right, so let me flip it over. All right. By the way, I try to preach within 30 minutes, but how many of y'all know it doesn't really always work out that way? But we're gonna try. We're gonna do our best. Uh, but this hourglass it represents time, right? It represents that our time is always passing by. It represents that our time is limited, right? There's only a certain amount of sand in this hourglass, just like there's only a certain amount of time in your life. And it also represents that time only goes one way. We can't flip back the clocks, right? We we can't we can't undo and recover time. And we're gonna focus the next 30 minutes of time preaching on the importance of time. All right, we're gonna how we're gonna invest our time. And once these 30 minutes are up, once these 30 minutes are up, or 40 minutes, or we'll see how it goes, once they're up, we cannot go back and undo or unsay anything that was said. All we have is the memory of what was. That's why it's so important for us to make the most of our time that we have here on earth. That's why it's so important for us to, like Paul says, to redeem the time. You are living your life one moment at a time, one second at a time, one minute at a time, one day, one month, one year at a time, and it's constantly passing by. You can't go back. It's it's it's a nonstop, just constant thing that time is passing in your life. So it matters how we spend our time. Now, let's say hypothetically, somebody decided that they were gonna deposit 86,400 pennies in your account each and every day. 86,400. Y'all know that pennies, they're getting away with pennies. Y'all know that? We're about to live in a place with no pennies. So let's just say, to make it easier, we'll get with 2026. Let's say they deposit $864 every day into your account. That'd be nice, wouldn't it? That'd pay off some debt. That's a pretty good chunk of change. You start adding that up. But every day they deposit $864. But here's the catch. If you do not spend it by midnight, you lose it. You would be foolish to not use every penny, right? I mean, I'm gonna be doing something with every cent that that person gives to me, investing it, spending it on something. Well, listen, we have something that God has given us that's more valuable than money. He has given us 86,400 seconds every single day to spend, to use, to invest in whatever we want. 86,400 seconds you have every single day. God has gifted you with that to use however you want. And listen, we have to remember that time is a gift, it's a gift from God. And your time is it equates your life, right? Your life is but the sum of the time that God has gifted you with in this world. And and and he has called us to use our time to make the most of it to redeem it. And whatever we don't use, we lose. Why would we waste something so precious? We are called to redeem the time. Now, moving on, let's let's break this word down. Redeem. That's a good Bible word, ain't it? What the what does the word redeem mean? It means to set free by paying a price. Right? We're redeemed, the Bible Peter says, not with corruptible things, but but of incorruptible, by the blood of Christ, right? We're redeemed, purchased. Jesus hung on the cross, he said to telestih, paid in full. So the word redeemed, the root of that word means to purchase or to buy. So what is Paul saying here? He is telling the church of Ephesus, we're to purchase, we're to buy every moment of time that God has given us. We're to convert time into value. We're to take the time that God has given us and not waste it. We're called to recover it, to purchase it, not waste it. You know, Jonathan Edwards, a great pastor, theologian, preacher of the past, he had he had a whole bunch of resolutions that he would live his life by. I think it was like 200 or something. I don't know, maybe that number's off. It might be a hundred, but he he would write out, he wrote out all these resolutions that he would live his life by. And one of these resolutions was this resolved never to lose one moment of time, but to recover it or but to improve it in the most profitable way, to live with all of my might while I do live. That's what Jonathan Edwards decided that he was not going to waste the time that God had given him. Why? Because look, your time is your life. And if you waste your time, you're wasting your life. Now I don't expect to get a whole lot of amens because this is uh this is something that's gonna hit all of us because we all have time. And I believe, I believe if we're honest, a lot of us waste time that we could be using for the glory of God. Listen to me. Every single purpose, uh person in here, you have a purpose. You were created by God for a purpose, and your purpose is to glorify God with your life and with your time. Revelation tells us that thou art worthy, oh God, to receive glory and honor and praise. And we are to live our life to glorify Him, not lift up ourselves, not just do our own thing, but to live our life for the glory of God, to use the time that He has given us for the most profitable way. Let's see how I'm doing. Oh, we got plenty of time. All right. Now, I want to make this real simple, straightforward. I want to give you three questions as we think about redeeming the time. First off, why should we redeem the time? Why should we redeem the time? And the answer is that is that time is in short supply. Maybe time is kind of like our our financial situation. It's in short supply. Amen. Amen. We got a couple people on board. Time, just like money, sometimes is in short supply. And the Bible says in James 4:14, it says, our life is but a vapor. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then it vanishes. Your life, even if you live 80, 90, 100 years in the scope of time, it is just a puff in the wind and you're gone. It's in short supply. It's not something that should be wasted. It is a gift of God that should not be wasted because it is in short supply. It's precious, it's priceless, and once it's gone, it is gone forever, and all you have is the memory. You cannot recover time. Listen, you can make more money, but you can't make more time. You can you can spend your life on possessions, focusing on material things, but you cannot recover wasted time. Lost money can be found or can be earned again, but you cannot recover lost time. There's no turning back the clocks, it's no going back. That's why it's so precious. And I think in this world that we live in, you know, in our minds we don't grasp the the weight of how important this is. And it's proven by how we use our time. It's in short supply and we waste it. Right? I mean, it's in short supply, it's also in high demand. How many can say my time is in high demand? There's always somebody or something clawing for my time. There's always something trying to suck my time. There are time thieves that's trying to make me spend my time on things that I shouldn't do. Your time is in high demand. And look, there has never been a more busier, fast-paced time of life that we've lived in than right now. I mean, we live in the a time where it just flies by, right? Can y'all believe how fast time flies by? The days are short and the or the days are long and the years are short, right? I mean, it just flies by. We are already halfway through this year. Can y'all believe that? We're starting summer, and I remember when I was a kid, summer used to seem like it lasted forever. Now it's like summer's like a few weeks and it's gone. I think they shortened summer. Did they shorten it, teachers? Do y'all know? I feel like we used to get like an extra month. But even then, even still, like it's still too short. It time just flies by, and and you can't control that, but you can control being sucked into a rushed, hurried life. Now, look, I'm not telling you that being busy is wrong. Being busy is part of life, but we shouldn't let a busy life turn into a rushed life. A hurried life. Why? Because that affects your soul and your heart. And many of us are experts at planning our schedules, but we're starving our souls. We're so busy and so consumed with everything, we don't have time for things that matter because everything's picking away at our time, and before you know it, it's it's it's it's nothing left. And and here's the problem: we give God or things that matter the leftovers of our time. It's like you nickel and diamond things away without even paying attention, and you're leaving the things that matter, the leftovers of your life. Um, and then what happens? You live a life of frustration because you're always exhausted. Am I preaching to anybody but myself this morning? You're always overwhelmed, you're always tired, you're always on the verge of burnout. Somebody says something to you and you snap on them, right? Somebody, somebody looks at you the wrong way, and because you're so worried, so rushed and so worried and so hurried, you you you blow up on them. You know how you can show a visible demonstration of how fast-paced this life is? You just go out on the road and you drive the speed limit. I'm not saying drive under the speed limit, I'm saying drive the speed limit. You will get cussed out, flipped off, and the horn blown at you. And I may be the one doing one of them, all right? I'm not gonna cuss you and I'm not gonna flip you off, but I may toot the horn at somebody. Brittany knows, oh, she ain't in here, I can talk about her, but she knows, she knows how frustrated I can get. Y'all, I'm a recovering road rage person. Like, believe it or not, like I may seem gentle and you know, all this stuff, patient. When I get on the road, when I get to a roundabout, the Lord has got to intervene in my life. I was the other day, I promise you, this happened just a few weeks ago. I was driving, me and Britney were driving in Walker. People don't know how to drive in Walker. Some of y'all know what I'm talking about. Some of y'all might be that person. Sorry if I blew the horn at you, but I was going to the roundabout and I was just so happy. And I was, me and Britney were talking about, honestly, we were talking about how much we love this church. We were like, we have some of the most loving, just real, wonderful people at Lake Church. And then somebody was stomped at the roundabout. And I blew the horn. I was like, I'm like, what are you doing? Get out of the way, you idiots. Move. You have the right of way. And Brittany looks at me like the pastor, just talking about how much you love, how much this church is loving. I didn't cuss them out though. All right. But that's what happens in a rushed life, right? That's what happens in a hurried life. That's what happens when you are packing on too much that you can't handle, and you're you're overloaded, and your time is being dispensed out to everybody, and you're leaving nothing for yourself. Time is in such short supply and it's in such high demand. You have to be careful with it. You have to be real about it, you have to be intentional about it. Paul doesn't just say redeem the time because life is short, it's in high demand. He also says, Redeem the time. Why? Because the days are evil. And look here, listen. If you are not buying and using your time for the glory of God, the evilness of this world will draw you into the darkness of this world. The days are evil. You will, you will, you will gravitate towards darkness and sin if you are not purchasing every moment for the glory of God. The Bible says, abstain from any appearance of evil. And here's what we need to do. Y'all, as Christians, we are called to be peculiar people, right? You want to be peculiar, slow your life down and live at a pace that God has called you to live. I'll say that again. If you want to be different, I'll say it this way: don't live at culture's fast-paced lifestyle where you think you have to keep up with everybody and everything. Sometimes we need to slow down and spend more time with God. Spend more time investing in things that matter. And I'm gonna get to that in a second. I want to get ahead of myself. The days are evil, and then and then also we see we should uh redeem our time. Why? Because Jesus redeemed every single moment, and he is our example. Jesus redeemed every moment. We follow the example of Jesus. Listen, Jesus was never late, but he was never in a hurry. Ain't that something? I picture Jesus walking with calmness, steadiness, uh just patiently walking in the Father's will. He said, I come not to do my own will, but the Father's will. He says, My will is not, you know, it's not about me, it's about me doing my father's will. He walked at a heavenly pace, according to the Father's will. He he was busy, but he was not rushed. And that's the fine line that we as Christians have to try to balance right there. He was busy, but he was not rushed, and he did not abide by cultures and society's pace of life. In fact, whenever Lazarus died, right, what'd they say? Jesus, if you'd have been here, they were calling for Jesus, they were saying, Jesus, come, our brother's sick. Mary and Martha said, Our brother is sick. Jesus just hung out at the house. And they said, if you'd have been here, my brother wouldn't have died. But Jesus was at his own pace. And even, I like the song, even when he was four days late, he was still on time. Amen. He was still on time. He was not on their time, he was on God's time. And some of y'all need some of us need to say, We're gonna walk according to the pace that God has given us, not culture and society. Jesus redeemed every moment, and people will pressure you to live by their crazy busy schedules. When I want to give you an easy answer one sentence, one word and two letters. Anybody guess what it is? No. Sometimes you can say no. And it's not to be mean, and it's not to it's not to be selfish. The thing is, is when you say yes to someone or something, you are indirectly saying no to something else. And you have got to make sure you're spending your time doing what God has called you to do, living according to his will and not your own will. What did Jesus say? He said no indirectly. I mean, he didn't he didn't he didn't follow what they wanted him to do, but he did it according to the Father's will. So Jesus redeemed every moment. I want to give you the second question. How do we redeem the time? How do we redeem the time? Now look, there are three ways that you can uh handle time, all right? You can waste it, you can spend it, or you can invest it. Which one's the best way? Investing it, right? You can waste it, you can spend it, you can invest it. And I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna uh go too deep into this, but it's a great parable of the of the talents where the master gave three uh men some money to do whatever they wanted with it, and some of two of them went and they spent it, they invested it, and then one of it, one of them buried it in the ground. And when the master came back, he said, You wicked and evil servant, you didn't, he basically said, You didn't take what I'd given you and invest it. He didn't, he didn't spend it on nonsense, he just didn't do anything with it. And here's the thing, I believe some of us, we're not using our time. Maybe sometimes we do, but I think most of the time we're not using our time for bad things. We're just not investing it in the best things. We're not using our time for, it's not that we're, you know, doing bad things. It may be good things, but it's not God things. He's called us to invest our time in things that matter, not waste it on things that don't matter. And a good thing can become a bad thing when it replaces the best thing. There, there, this kind of goes back to what I was talking about last week with priorities. It's not that that's a bad thing, but it's an idol if you put it above Jesus. A good thing becomes a bad thing when it replaces the best thing. And we spend our time on things that are not the best things. And we're all guilty of it. Let's just let's just get real. And I believe probably one of the worst ways we waste our time is on this little thing right here in your pocket or in your purse. I challenge you to go on your phone and see how much time you spend on it each day. Don't look, don't do it if you ain't gonna be real and and be willing to change it because it will humiliate you. How much time we waste on social media or on the phone or on the internet or on YouTube or watching something, or maybe it's not a phone, maybe it's a TV or it's uh you know, uh whatever. Some kind of device, some kind of gaming thing, a computer, whatever. We waste so much time on things that don't matter. They're thieves that are robbing our life, robbing our time, and we get nothing in return but anxiety and depression. Y'all know whenever the smartphones came out, anxiety and depression spiked in kids. You look at the studies, 2007, they were right here. Oh, what's his name? Come out with the iPhone, and anxiety and depression. And teens rose dramatically from that point forward. Why? Because you are not meant to be connected to a screen. You're meant to be connected to people. Relationships. We live in the social world, social media world, and we're the least social in the history of this age. But we waste it and we get nothing good in return. Maybe it's not a device. By the way, some of you need to repent about, let's just say all of us need to repent about how much time we waste on our device. All right? I don't want to accuse anyone because we're all guilty of it. Maybe it's not the device. Maybe it's you're wasting time being angry and upset and bitter and holding unforgiveness. And you're wasting the time that God has given you and not making things right with someone that you know you need to make things right with. And you're wasting time that God has blessed you with. And one day you're gonna look back, and there's all this time where you could have been living and experiencing the joy and the peace that Jesus has for your life, and you wasted it with anger, bitterness, and and and nursing that wound and that anger and that hurt. And you're holding all of that in, and it's affecting your relationship with God, it's affecting your relationship with people, your spouse, your children. Look, let's just get real. This is the real, this is life. Why would we waste a second of it holding on to something that Jesus died to set you free from? We waste it on things like that. But what does Paul tell us to do? He says in verse number 15, he says, walk circumspectly. And that word circumspectly is it means it means carefully. Walk carefully, walk accurately, walk exactly, walk diligently. Here's a good word: walk intentionally. Don't just wander around life with no plan. Make sure you are seeking God and walking in his will one step at a time, like you're walking on stepping stones where you have to be very intentional about where you walk. You're walking according to his will, and you're not gonna get it perfect all of the time. But you need to keep in your mind that you are not called to just wander, you're called to walk with diligence, walk intentionally because you have such a precious thing called time, and you don't want to waste it. Because it's a vapor and it's gone before you know it. You only have a certain amount of time to invest in what God has called you to invest in. Look, I heard this statement the other day. The quality of your future is being determined by what you're investing in today. The quality of your future is being determined by what you're investing in today. So the question is, is what are you investing in? Now look, I'm not a big investor. I think it's great the people that do, and you have that knowledge and you know how to do it. If I try to do it, I'd probably, you know, I'd probably lose money. I'll put money in my 401k, and that's about the only uh thing I feel comfortable with. But but let me give you some sure guaranteed investments that will always return well. When you invest in your relationship with God, you always have a successful return. When you invest with in your marriage and you invest in your relationship with your kids, and you invest in people, they may turn on you, or they may you might not feel like you got a good return on your investment, but God is pleased with that. And that's all that matters. And let me say this it is good to invest in yourself. You are the best investment that you can make. And that doesn't come out of selfishness, it actually comes from unselfishness. It's not selfish to take care of yourself. Because everybody around you, God has placed you in the life of everybody around you, and and and you need to invest in yourself so you can be the best for them to invest in them. Right? Invest in your spiritual life, even invest in your emotional and mental health, invest in your physical life. That's not a selfish thing. We're called to invest in things that matter. You matter. Your relationship with God matters, your spouse and your marriage matters, your kids matter, your grandkids matter, your friends, your family, they matter. Invest in those things. Because a life without direction and diligence will become a life of regret if you're not careful. People say, look, and I probably made this statement before we all do, well, I just don't have the time. By the way, how are we doing? Oh, we good. I don't have the time. Listen, 86,400 seconds. You do not have more time than me, and I don't have more time than you. God has gifted us all with the same amount of time every single day to do what God has called us to do. And here's here's a sobering thought. God has given you enough time to do what he's called you to do. What it comes down to is where are your priorities? You make time for things that matter. You make time for things that matter. You make time for things that matter. God has given you the time to make time for things that matter. What are you making time for? Are you letting your time slip away? Are you being intentional and diligent about how you spend it? Right? So we talk about uh the greatest investment, listen, that you can make. Talk about investing. The greatest investment you can make is one that produces fruit beyond your life. Make eternal investments, not physical investments. Look, make physical investments, okay? I'm not knocking that, but I'm saying something that's way more important is the eternal investments. Jesus said, don't lay up treasures for yourself here on earth, but in heaven, where moth and rust and thieves don't uh rob, you know, steal. Make eternal investments. What are you investing in when it comes to eternity? Are you just living for the here and now? I'm gonna give you one more question, then we're gonna close. Number three, when should we redeem the time? When should we redeem the time? That word redeem, he says, redeeming, which that word redeeming is a present tense word. So when should we redeem the time now and continually? We should redeem the time now and continually. Don't waste another second of your life outside of the will of God. Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and then all these things will be added. Seek him with all of your heart, and he shall be found by you. Draw near to him, and he will draw near unto you. Why would we waste another second far from him in living a life outside of what he has called us to live? Redeeming the time. That word time is the word keros. The Greek had two words for time. One was chronos, and it speaks of a continual timeline. The word keros is a word that means and speaks of moments of time. It speaks of opportunities of time, it speaks of a season or a time like fall or summer or spring. You only have a fixed season and then it is gone. It's passed away. You only have a certain opportunity before that door is closed, before that season ends. It refers to a fixed season that will one day expire. Listen, you will never have this moment of life to live again. This is your time. If you're a parent here this morning, you will only have a time, a season where your kids are young and you are raising your children in your home. Right? And before you know it, you go from changing diapers to teaching them to ride a bike, to teaching them to drive a car, to watching them start college, and then eventually moving out and starting a family of their own. Right, parents, am I right? And here's the thing there was a time where you held your baby for the last time and you didn't even realize it. And I know I just hit every mama's heart right now, dude. And you go through this time where they're where they're teenagers and they're they're adults, and then you go through this time where you're aging and you have aging parents that you're taking care of. Some of you may be there right now, and you go through time where you are where you you and your spouse are growing older and dealing with uh you know uh health problems, and and you you you're you're at the bedside of the one that you love for your whole life, and you go through these times of life, and and where you have grandkids and family and friends and people pass away and death strikes near, and you know, it's this fixed season that it's here now, but it's not gonna stay that way. It's going to expire one day, and once it's gone, it's gone forever. And all you have left are the memories and the results of your actions, your words, and your decisions. What a shame to miss out on these beautiful stages of life because we spent our time, we wasted it on things that don't matter. What a shame to waste a precious gift like time. What a shame to let things steal my attention from what matters most. I don't want to look back at a life, and I'm preaching to myself, I don't want to look back at a life of blur, of exhaustion, and just trying to make money and focus on a career and focusing on things that may not be bad things, but they weren't the best things. I don't want to live a life where I'm just stressed and exhausted all of the time. God has not called us to that. He's called us to live a life of abundance, to live a life of victory, to live a life for eternity. Another thought is this there's only a short period of time to tell people that's in your life right now about Jesus. Because one day, how are we doing? I didn't make it, y'all. One day that time's up. That time's up. And you can't do this. I knew I wasn't gonna make it. I've heard people, I'll end with this. I've heard people say time is a thief. Maybe you've said that, maybe I've said it. Listen, time is not a thief. Time is a gift. Satan's a thief. Time is a gift, Satan's a thief. And he wants you. He wants to distract you, he wants to make you busy on things that don't matter. He wants you to focus on all of the wrong things and not the best thing. And he wants to steal, kill, and destroy. He wants to steal your time, cause you to waste it on things that do not benefit the kingdom of God. He wants you, he wants to kill your relationships and cause you to spend your time selfishly and foolishly. He wants to destroy your life, your witness, your testimony, and your legacy by causing you to miss the potential that God has for your life. And he wants you to live it up right now, but then at the end of your life, have shame and regret and unfruitfulness in your life. What a shame that would be to get to the end of our life and see we wasted the most important thing. Now, I know there's somebody, there may be somebody in here right now that you're feeling shame right now. You're feeling regret. Listen, if you were here and you are still breathing, guess what? You still have time. You still have time to seek God, you still have time to invest in things that matter. God has gifted you another day. Don't waste another day living for things that do not matter or aren't beneficial to the kingdom of God. God has given you breath in your lungs. He's given you more time today to live for the things that matter. If you're still alive, and I believe everybody in here is still alive, you have the time to live for God starting right now. Why waste another second? Because one day the hourglass of your life is going to end. And all that matters is what you did for Jesus. Listen, the greatest way to waste your life is to spend it without Christ. The greatest way to waste your life is to spend it without Jesus. When that last grain falls, you're going to spend an eternity somewhere. Your time in this life will be up, and you will spend an eternity in either heaven or hell, and there will be no more time to make things right. But the good news is today there is still time to give your heart to Jesus. There's still time to give your life to him, there's still time to trust in Christ, there's still time to invest in things that matter, there's still time to invest in eternity. If you're here this morning, the Bible says, seek him while he may be found. Seek the Lord while he may be found. Call upon him while he is near. Paul said in 2 Corinthians, for he says, in a favorable time I listen to you, and in a day of salvation I've helped you. And then he says, Behold, listen, now is the time. Behold, now is the day of salvation. And I want you to, I want that to hit you in the heart that now is the time to live, to live your life for Christ, to make him the Lord and Savior of your life. And if you haven't done that, one day your time will run out and it won't be too late. Will you do that today? As we have our worship team come forward this morning. I don't want everybody to let's bow our heads. Let's spend some time in prayer, in reflection. And I want to ask you a question. Let's bow our heads. Let's close our eyes this morning. And I want to ask you two questions this morning. Say, Jarrett, I have not been using my time living for Jesus like I should. And I need to start today by taking this precious gift that he's given me for time, this precious gift of time and using it for him. Today I'm I'm I'm gonna make up my mind that today I'm going to start living my life for him, using the gift of time that he's given me for him. If that's you this morning, will you slip your hand up? Amen. I want to ask you another question this morning. You say, Pastor, I'm not sure if I'm truly a Christian. I'm not sure if I'm really born again. I'm not sure if Jesus is my Savior. I'm not sure that if today if I died, when that hourglass runs out of my life, I'm not sure if that if I died, I would go to heaven. If that's you this morning, will you slip your hand up so I can pray for you? Anyone here? See that hand? See those hands? Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, amen, amen. There's no greater decision. There's no greater decision. There's nothing more important than that. And I want to ask you one more thing. Those of you that raised your hand, if you say, Pastor, I would like to talk to someone today. I'm not gonna make you do anything you don't want to do, but I just want to give you an opportunity to talk to somebody. We have people that would love to talk to you. We have council rooms, we'll find a place where we can just talk. If you want to talk to someone about your salvation, if you are truly a Christian, would you raise your hand up so I can see you? Anyone here? I want to pray for you. Father, we come before you in Jesus' name. We know that our life is but a vapor. We know that you have gifted us with this time. The most important thing we can do is give our life to Jesus while we have breath here in this world. Because there'll come a time where we won't. Father, I pray that the ones that aren't sure about their salvation, God, that you will let the Holy Spirit do a powerful work in their life. God, we know that it's something supernatural, it's not something we can force, it's not something we can make happen. We know the heart has to be receptive, the ground must be good. But God, we pray that you will do a work in their heart and draw them to you. Make it unmistakable, the voice that they hear of your calling them to salvation. Father, I pray for the ones that's here that have wasted years, wasted time. God, I pray, Father, that today that we will decide that we will not waste another second, but to use it for your glory. In Jesus' name. Amen.