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Ceres SDA Church

Anil Kanda

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It's very interesting, just sort of the way today's message really began to develop.

God had been leading and impressing upon my heart over the course of the last 2 weeks that a Sabbath like this was necessary.

And as I was talking with various people and going to different places to see our church members minister, there just seemed to be an affirmation that it was time.

In addition to the sermonette that I'm going to be giving today, we're going to be hearing various testimonies of church members, our church members, who are involved in the work of spreading the gospel.

And you're going to learn through the various experiences that there are many ways to share the love of God with this world, right?

I was looking at some numbers and I was looking at the average lifespan of a human being in America, a male American.

Do you know what the average lifespan is?

What is the average lifespan of an American male?

And I'm not sure where they're doing this kind of survey, but I checked multiple sources, and the average lifespan of an American male is 78 years old.

Now what is so interesting is if you just think about life in general, 78 years, We'll just round it off to 80 years.

80 years is the average lifespan of an American male.

For all the men here, 80 years is what's presented before you.

Now I know you're Adventists and some of you may live a little bit longer, but I want you to understand something.

Now if you were to take 80 years, how many days are in a year, ladies and gentlemen?

How many days would an average male have from the time he was born to the time he died?

Now let's take those days, let's compute them into hours.

How many hours would an average male American have in his entire existence?

Some of you just need to turn the iPhone app off and go to the calculator app, right?

If you've already lived half your life, say you're 40 years old, okay?

And if that was spent, if you were to even cut that in half, sleeping hours, How many hours would you actually have of consciousness?

When we think about life and we think about the measurement of life, We'll think about hours, days, minutes, years.

But ladies and gentlemen, the Bible is teaching us essentially a powerful principle that we're going to discover today, that life is not a measurement of minutes.

Moments are opportunities God is giving to us each and every day.

And in that short span of that, whatever that opportunity is, whether it's a few seconds, a few minutes, or a few hours, in those opportunities that are presented to us each and every day, there are decisive, I should say, decisions that are being made that will determine, oftentimes, whether you will be a hero or a villain, whether you will be rich or rather you will be poor.

Decisions that could potentially guide you in a completely different direction.

In a matter of seconds, people's eternity has been changed.

Their eternal destination has been changed.

So, when you think about life, life is a series of moments.

And in these moments, Every person is called to make decisions that are in accordance with God's will.

What we're going to discover from the scripture is that there was a young woman by the name of Esther and there was presented before Esther an opportunity.

And in this short opportunity that she had, the decision she would make would affect all of eternity.

Everybody take your Bible, let's go to Esther chapter 4.

Because the word God or Lord is not mentioned at all in the book of Esther.

In a book about God, you would think every book would be about God.

But what is so interesting is when you examine the book of Esther, the word God or the word Lord is not mentioned in there.

The Holy Spirit wants us to recognize that in what appears to be the ordinary occurrences and situations in the book of Esther, when you examine it closer, there are extraordinary things taking place, very extraordinary things.

I'm going to give you a phrase, and I want you to give me 1 word that describes that phrase.

Give me 1 word That describes that, that encapsulates that whole thought.

So when you read the book of Esther, do you know what you find in the book of Esther over and over and over and over and over again?

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