What excuses might we be making to not be pouring it out, all of it, in pursuit of His glory, His righteousness, with complete understanding that soon we’ll be standing before Him and answering, “What did you do with the gifts that I gave you?  I’ve given you talents, what have you done with them?”  We have time left.  Each of us has time left to dig up that talent that we put into the ground and get it invested; amen?  Each and every one of us has an opportunity to multiply what God has entrusted to us, and be those good and faithful servants to whom He can speak, “Come on in. You’ve done a good job.”

So, Paul is speaking from his heart, in his latter days, admonishing Timothy to preach the Word, to cut right through with this great message of the kingdom of God.  Remember, this gospel of the kingdom emphasizes not what the kingdom is, but who the King is; amen?  Everything outside of that is counted trivial compared to His glory, to His excellency.  Though He has blessed us with oxen, and He has blessed us with a wife, and He has blessed us with new land and property, when He calls us to the party, we’d better be ready to go; amen?  That call that is upon us, right now.  Let’s not allow our hearts for a moment to rise up and say, “Let me be excused.”  Can you imagine?  “Just tell the Master I would like to be excused.  I have other investments to be about.”

He’s called us and He’s ordained us that we would go forth and bring forth fruit and that fruit would remain.  There is not a lot of time left.  Listen, “What’s that voice I just heard?”  Men have been saying that for ages.  Hopefully none of us have heard that in our hearts.  Now, I’ve heard that.  I’ve been hearing that.  In a moment, the trumpet of God will sound, and in a moment, in a moment, no more time to go get oil.  In a moment, we’ll be changed, hallelujah!  Corruption will take on incorruption and mortality immortality.  Can you say, “Praise God!”?  In a moment, all those hours you spent trying to get that Gucci will fall to the ground and be no more and we’ll be clothed in a new garment of righteousness and true holiness.

What are we laboring for in these last hours that we have, with this last strength that we have?  Paul is admonishing the young preacher here, “Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.  For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine…”    That day is here; amen?  People will talk religion with you all day, but let’s bring sound doctrine.  “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me”  and see how the conversation begins to change immediately.  Confront the professed Christian on their statements of “My Jesus” and challenge them with the Jesus of the Bible and see whether or not they are truly grafted in.  It is by this that we know them, by their fruit.  There is one fruit that’s expected in every believer, the fruit that is to manifest out of the heart of every true believer that echo’s the apostle’s cry “Not I, but Christ liveth in me.”  One fruit, and that’s the willingness to take up our cross and follow Him, praise God!  Denying the self.

When opportunity arises to choose the eternal versus the temporal, to die to ourselves and invest in this little time that we have left for the glory of God; amen?  The zeal, the zeal of the house of God, for the house of God, the house of prayer should be eating us up in this last hour.  When we have choices between running and playing—men shall be “lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God.”  Let’s cast it down and choose the house of prayer and choose to go into our prayer closets and battle for our lost children, and battle for the souls at work, and have no fear of what men would think of us on the job or in the highways or byways of life as we compel them to come.