Spend THIS Wisely! | Liberty at Home

How you spend this is more important than how you spend

your money. What is it?

I'll explain on today's edition of Liberty at Home.

Hello, friends. Welcome to our latest episode of

Liberty at Home, the weekly devotional series brought to you

by the Liberty Baptist Church, a congregation that was started

here in Easton 12 years ago. I'm your host, Adam Rivera, and

I've been the pastor of Liberty all the way back since we met at

Parkview School back in 2013 and make Parkview School rest in

peace. Today, as always, we're

broadcasting for me Cat Studios in beautiful Easton, MA, home of

four Duncans, three Starbucks and Aroma Joe's and the Beanery,

all for 25,000 people. And with all that caffeine, no

wonder everyone's on edge around here.

On this episode, we're going to continue our chapter by chapter

study of the book of Proverbs by stopping in chapter 27.

And I'll admit we've got several places that would be easy for us

to study and talk about for a while.

But I can't get past the first verse, so read it along with me.

If you have your Bible and Proverbs 27 verse one says boast

not thyself of tomorrow, for thou knowest not what a day may

bring forth. How we spend our money is one of

the most important issues of life.

Having a budget and living within your means are all, well,

part of being an adult, right? That doesn't mean that we always

do it well, but I would dare say that the issue of how we spend

our money is never far from our mind, and with good reason.

Right? But remember during the intro I

mentioned that how you spend this is more important than how

you spend your money. What on earth could I possibly

be talking about? Well, according to the verse we

just read, how we spend our time is more important than how we

spend your money. Why?

Well, think about time as a currency for a moment, and

perhaps you'll understand better.

Our verse tells us to boast not thyself of tomorrow, for thou

knowest not what a day may bring forth.

When it comes to your life. The only currency you can spend

is today. Yesterday has already been

spent, and tomorrow hasn't been placed into your account yet,

and we have no guarantee that it will be.

Yes friend, King Solomon is begging us to make today count.

It was Ben Franklin who said don't put off until tomorrow

what you can do today. So what's the best thing you can

do with today you may ask? Well, I'd argue that the best

thing you can do with today is to call upon Jesus Christ to

save you. Second Corinthians chapter 6

2 Corinthians 6:2

verse 2 says behold, now is the accepted time.

Behold, now is the day of salvation.

The Apostle Paul says that when it comes the issues of salvation

and your eternity, don't wait until tomorrow for what should

be done today. James put it this way in his

epistle and James chapter 4 verses 13 and 14 go to now.

James 4:13

You either say today or tomorrow we will go into such a city and

continue their year and buy and sell and get gain, whereas you

know not what shall be on the Morrow.

For what is your life? It is even a vapor that

appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away.

Friend, the Bible is clear. All have sinned and come short

of the glory of God. This sin has a cost according to

the scriptures and that's death and hell.

But thanks be to God, that cost has already been paid by Jesus

Christ. Which is why Romans chapter 5

Romans 5:8

verse 8 says, But God commendeth his love toward us in that while

we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

The next chapter further continues that the wages of sin

is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus

Christ our Lord. Then in chapter 10 of Romans,

Paul sums up what you must do by saying in verses 9 and 10 that

if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt

believe in thine heart, that God hath raised him from the dead,

thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth

unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto

salvation. Do not wait tomorrow.

It's a currency you can't spend today, and to be honest, you may

never get to spend it. I urge you to call upon Jesus

and Jesus alone to save you today.

I promise you, it will make today the best day you've ever

spent. As we draw to a close for this

week's episode of Liberty at Home, I want to remind you that

we'd love to have you visit us at one of our services at 800

Washington St. here in Easton. You can join us at 10 AM, 11 AM

or 5:00 PM on Sundays, and we also meet at 7:00 PM on

Wednesdays. To learn more, visit us on

social media, watch a service on YouTube or visit us at

mylibertybaptist.org. Speaking of time, time's up for

today. So I'll leave you by reminding

you that we're the spirit of the Lord is there is liberty.

This is Pastor Adam Rivero signing off.

Until next time, on liberty at home.