Walking Through the Shadow of Death Your Days are Numbered

Walking Through the Shadow of Death

Your Days are Numbered

It is clear we do not know the number of days we will live

What is clear, is

God determined that each of our days is to be filled with His glory

Sadly, we do not live in the heavenly wisdom

We do not live each day in harmony with God’s design

So we suffer in ways God never intended

There is a way that seems right to a man but the end is destruction

Proverbs 16

"Whoever would love life and see good days must ….”

1 Peter 3:10

Live in harmony with God every day

Your Days are Numbered

What does it mean…

“Your days are numbered”

Is this figurative or literal?

A question arises…

“Has God given each one of us “X” number of days?”

In the time between the fall of Adam

and Eve, the curse of death…

“If you eat of the tree you shall surely die”

And the time of the flood, we are told…

Then the LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend

with man forever, for he is mortal;

his days will be a hundred and twenty years."

Genesis 6:3

Moses says after seeing the

Children of Israel die in the wilderness…

  

The length of our days is seventy years —

or eighty, if we have the strength

Psalm 90:10

Job says our days are determined…

Man's days are determined;

 you have decreed the number of his months

and have set limits he cannot exceed

Job 14:5

Our days are written in God’s Book before birth…

 Your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me

were written in your book before one of them came to be.

Psalm 139:16

Whatever our days are…

 Whether limited, we cannot exceed

125 year as we see in Genesis 6:3

Or, God predetermined each

one of us with “X” number of days

  

Our days are written in a Book.

Let’s consider what God has

put in the Book of our days…

For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD,

"plans to prosper you and not to harm you,

plans to give you hope and a future.

Jeremiah 29:11

Although God seems to number our days, and His

plans for our days are filled with prosperity and blessing.

There seem to be conditions…

 

And if you walk in my ways and obey my statutes and

commands as David your father did, I will give you a long life.

1 Kings 3:14-15

 Honor your father and your mother,

so that you may live long in the land

 the LORD your God is giving you.

Exodus 20:12

Just as man is destined to die once,

and after that to face judgment

 Hebrews 9:27

Deuteronomy 30:15-20, tells us we have a choice…

See, I set before you today life and

prosperity, death and destruction.

The Book and the Book of Revelation 20…

God’s Word tells us there is “a Book of Life”.

This Book is “The Lamb’s Book of Life”.

The Book of Life has the names of those

who will be allowed to enter heaven.

The Books are our lives each one of us,

the story of what we did with our days.

Those Books will be judged to see if our lives,

our days, were in harmony with God’s plan for us.

Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. Earth and sky fled from his presence, and there was no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books.

Revelation 20:11-13

It is not God’s will that any should perish.

God created us to enjoy Him to live in

harmony with Him and His design.

It is clear that God’s plan for our days

whatever the number they are determined to be,

God’s plan and desire is to see us blessed.

The blessings of God can only be

obtained as we live by faith in His truth.

Moses after seeing the children of Israel die

in the wilderness because of disobedience said…

Teach us to number our days aright,

that we may gain a heart of wisdom. 

Psalm 90:12

All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

All of us fall short of what God has

planned or written about our days.

James tells us how to get the

daily wisdom Moses asked for…

 If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God,

who gives generously to all without finding fault,

and it will be given to him.

James 1:5

James also tells us to get

Heavenly wisdom and what it is…

Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show it by his good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom  But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth. Such "wisdom " does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, of the devil. For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.

James 3:13-ff

It is clear we do not know the

number of days we will live.

What is clear, is…

God determined that each of our

days is to be filled with His glory.

Sadly, we do not live in the heavenly wisdom.

We do not live each day in harmony with God’s design.

So we suffer in ways God never intended.

There is a way that seems right to a

man but the end is destruction

Proverbs 16

"Whoever would love life and see good days must ….”

1 Peter 3:10

Live in harmony with God every day.

Scripture Reading

Deuteronomy 30:15-20 NIV

15 See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction. 16 For I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.

17 But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them, 18 I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.

19 This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live 20 and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the LORD is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

1 Peter 3:8-12NIV

8 Finally, all of you, live in harmony with one another; be sympathetic, love as brothers, be compassionate and humble. 9 Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing. 10 For,

"Whoever would love life

and see good days

must keep his tongue from evil

and his lips from deceitful speech.

11 He must turn from evil and do good;

he must seek peace and pursue it.

12 For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous

and his ears are attentive to their prayer,

but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil."