Redeem the time
In order to this, redeem the time (Ephesians 5:16). Improve the present moment. Buy up every opportunity of growing in grace, or of doing good. Let not the thought of receiving more grace tomorrow make you negligent of today. You have one talent now. If you expect five more, so much the rather improve what you have. And the more you expect to receive hereafter, the more labor for God now. Sufficient for the day is the grace of it. God is now pouring his benefits upon you. Now prove yourself a faithful steward of the present grace of God. Whatever tomorrow may bring, give all diligence today to add to your faith courage, temperance, patience, brotherly kindness, and the fear of God (2 Peter 1:5-7), till you attain that pure and perfect love. Let these things be now in you and abound. Do not be slothful or unfruitful now. So shall an entrance be ministered to you into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ (2 Peter 1:8, 11).
1771 text
6. *In order to this, redeem the time, improve the present moment. Buy up every opportunity of growing in grace, or of doing good. Let not the thought of receiving more grace to-morrow, make you negligent of to-day. You have one talent now. If you expect five more, so much the rather improve that you have. And the more you expect to receive hereafter, the more labour for God now. Sufficient for the day is the grace thereof. God is now pouring his benefits upon you. Now approve yourself a faithful steward, of the present grace of God. Whatever may be to-morrow, give all diligence to-day, to add to your faith, courage, temperance, patience, brotherly kindness and the fear of God, ’till you attain that pure and perfect love. Let these things be now in you and abound. Be not now slothful or unfruitful. So shall an entrance be ministred into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Sermon 42 in the 1771 Works. Second Corinthians 2:11.
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