Sunday Worship Service | 1st Service | Perspective 2021
(What do you expect for this year.)
Santiago 4:13-15
14]Ni hindi nga ninyo alam kung ano ang mangyayari sa inyo sa araw ng bukas! Ang buhay ninyo'y parang usok lamang, sandaling lumilitaw at agad nawawala.
15]Sa halip ay sabihin ninyo, “Kung loloobin ng Panginoon at nabubuhay pa kami, gagawin namin ito o iyon.”
It is that time of the year when people are making their annual New Year resolutions.
The types of resolutions people They break down as follows:
• 22% of resolutions involve health and fitness
• 18% career
• 15% personal growth and interests
• 11% personal finance
• 11% time management and organization
• 8% family and relationships
• 6% education and training
• 5% home improvement and real estate
• 3% recreation and leisure
We began a New Year by saying,
“I’m going loose weight,”
We say, “I’m going to start exercising”
There is nothing wrong with resolutions, but as we approach the beginning of a New Year,
I would like to suggest that it is not resolutions we need,
but perspectives.
(Our word “perspective” is from the Latin word “perspectus” meaning “to look through, see clearly.”)
When I talk about New Year Perspectives, I am talking about having a proper view of the New Year that is ahead.
James speaks to us of:
A) The Scope of Life
James asks the question, “What is your life?”
This is not a question about the origin or essence of our lives.
He is talking about the number of our days and years, the length and duration of our life.
James is talking about how long we will live.
Life expectancy :
Matthew 6:30-32 NIV
30] If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you---you of little faith?
31] So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?'
32] For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
This kind of expectancy ought to characterize every area of the believer’s life.
I. You Can Expect God to Direct Your Life.
II. You Can Expect God to Save You out of Dire Circumstances.
III. You Can Expect God to Provide.
IV. You Can Expect God to Heal.
(EXPECT GREAT THINGS FROM GOD!")
James not only speaks of the scope of life, but also:
B) The Shortness of Life
Santiago 4:14
14]Ni hindi nga ninyo alam kung ano ang mangyayari sa inyo sa araw ng bukas! Ang buhay ninyo'y parang usok lamang, sandaling lumilitaw at agad nawawala.
James describes
The word “vapour” means a “mist” and is descriptive of the morning mist that quickly burns away and disappears.
“Here today, gone tomorrow.” He is reminding us of the brevity of life.
Someone has put it, “Between the womb and the tomb there’s little room.”
An unknown poet has put it this way:
The Bible repeatedly reminds us of the (shortness)
brevity of life:
• 1 Chronicles 29:15 “Our days on the earth are as a shadow.”
• Job 7:6 “My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle.”
• Job 14:1-2 “Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. [2] He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.”
• Psalm 102:11 “My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.”
James 4:13 NIV
Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.”
Santiago 4:13
Makinig kayo sa akin, kayong nagsasabi, “Ngayon o bukas ay pupunta kami sa ganito at ganoong bayan at isang taon kaming titigil doon, mangangalakal kami at kikita nang malaki.”
1. The plan is constructed – “today or tomorrow.”
2. The place is chosen – “we will go into such a city.”
3. The period is calculated – “continue there a year there.”
4. The purpose is considered – “buy and sell.”
5. The profit is computed – “and get gain.”
When we come to the end of our life and we are facing e
