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TIME MANAGEMENT
Introduction: Definition of Time ManagementPart One: Time management: A Stewardship from GodA Biblical principle. God’s time keeping.Luke textPart Two: Time Management and The Believer’s Life SystemMechanicsApplicationConclusion
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IntroductionDefinition.
What is a "Time Management System" ?
"Time"
I know what it is until you ask me to define it. "A little gap between two eternities."There are 1440 minutes or 86,400 seconds in a day. We need to use each for the Glory of God.
"Management"
= control for a purpose
"System"
= a blend of methods and equipment.Progress is achieved by linear not circular action. We need to use our time to our best good andGod’s glory."Tis only one life twill soon be past, only what is done for Christ will last."
 Part One:Time management A Stewardship from GodWhat is time?
 Carl Henry in
 Dictionary of Theology
says the Bible "Instead of viewing time abstractly as a problem, it regards time as a created sphere in which God’s redemptive plan is actualized." "Historyhas a beginning in God, it has its center in Christ and its end in the final consummation and the LastJudgment." Augustine said—"I know what time is until you ask me.""Eternity is infinity in relation to time." Strong"Time is duration measured by successions." Strong "Dante speaks of God as him in whom ‘every where and every when are focused in a point,’ that is,to whom ever season is now and every place here." Strong "…Time ands space are fragments of the Infinite for the use of finite creatures, God permits themthat he may not be alone. They are the mode under which creatures are possible and conceivable."Strong Time is the opportunity that He gives us to experience and know Him. 
1 Kings 6:1
"1 And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israelwere come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the monthZif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD." The temple was begun in the 4
th
year, 2 month (Zif) of Solomon’s reign. 1
 
480 year from Egypt to building of Temple or 476 years to the beginning of Solomon’s reign. Paul in his sermon on recorded in Ac 13 gives a chronology of Israel
Acts 13:17-22
"16 Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, Men of Israel, and ye thatfear God, give audience. 17 The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them outof it. 18 And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness. 19 And whenhe had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot. 20 Andafter that he gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet. 21 And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a manof the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years. 22 And when he had removed him, he raisedup unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found Davidthe son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will. " Paul states 530 years and omits 64 years The wilderness period 40The seven year’s war 7Division of the land to1st servitude 13Period of Judges 450Kingship of Saul 40Kingship of David 40Solomon, to his 4
th
year 4530 64Total 594 
Ac 13 differs with 1 Kings 6 by 114 years.
 Does the Bible contradict itself? Is the Bible always reliable? Are the original manuscripts accurate?Are there any exceptions to our trusting the Word of God? Reasons for this kind of study.
1.
To be faithful to the whole Word of God. To limit ourselves to choice portions of Scriptures and pet doctrines is to cripple our understanding of God and to limit the Word’s effect upon us. Subtledetails in the Word of God sometimes reveal sublime truths about God.
2.
To refute any Bible critics.
1 Peter 3:15
"But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be readyalways to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you withmeekness and fear:"
3.
To show that all Scripture has practical value.
1 Tim 3:16
"And without controversy great is themystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preachedunto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory." Study and spirituality are notcontradictory but complimentary.The answer to our apparent problem is hinted at in
Hosea1:9
where God is naming Hosea’s child."Call his name
 Lo-ammi
; for ye are not My People, and I will not be your God."
 LoAmmi
means notmy people."When Israel was regarded by Jehovah as ‘
 Lo Ammi
,’ i.e. Not My People (Hos 9; 2;1) then, Jehovahdelt with them on a different principle in recording time. During these periods their national historyyears are omitted from the years of the world’s time. When they were
 Lo Ammi
, the events recordedin Scriptures, were recorded according to a reckoning we have termed
 Anno Dei
(in God’s year) andnot according to
 Anno numdi
(in the year of the world) reckoning…" (
Companion Bible
, Appendix p 56)2
 
 Between the entry into the land of Cannan and the end of Samuel’s judgeship, the beginning of thekingdom there were 7
 Lo Ammi
periods during which God delivered his people into the hands of their enemies. These seven period are recorded in Judges3:8-8 8 years servitude to Mesopotania3:14 18 years servitude to Moab4:3 20 years servitude to Cannan6:1 7 years servitude to Midian9:22 3 years servitude to Abimelech10:8 18 years servitude to Ammon13:1 40 years servitude to Philistines114 
Chronology of the Old Testament 
 by Martin Anstey--In 1 Kings 6:1 "The writer is not computing the Chronology of the world. He is computing theChronology of Isra-El, i.e. of the chosen people as
Governed-byGod 
, in other words, he iscomputing the years of the Theocracy that lie between these two crucial epochs, the Exodus atwhich it began and the commencement of the building of the Temple; at the dedication of which, just 10 years later, the full cycle of seventy-sevens of these Theocratic years was completed. Thededication of the Temple is manifestly an event of the first rate importance in the history of thereligion of Israel, and in the relation of Israel to the government of Jehovah." Why, then are these 114 years of servitude and usurpation omitted? Because the author iscomputing the years of the Theocracy, of the government of God, of Isra-El, and during those yearsIsrael was not Isra-El, not governed by God, but under the heel of the oppressor and the usurper.Hence they are not included in the Theocratic years of the reckoning of God, though they arereckoned in the computation of the years of the age of the World." "The monarchs of Assyria, and other nations of antiquity, left copious records of their conquests andtheir victories, but they did not chronicle their disasters and their defeats. The nations of the Eastwere accustomed to treat their history in this way. They kept account of the years of prosperity, butthey omitted from their Chronology altogether the years of national humiliation and disgrace." "Now the writer of 1 Kings 6:1 is computing the years of the Theocracy, the years of God’s rule, theyears of Isra-El, when she was herself, when she was isra-El, when she was
Governed-by-God,
andthe sum total of these years is correctly given." Anno Dei = God’s Year = A.D. as opposed to B.C.Anno Mundi = World’s Year  
Doctrine:
When God providentially allows His people not to serve Him but to serve themselves or sin. Hedoes not recognize the "time" spent out of His Will, in disobedience. He does not register it on Hiscalendar. May we be spiritual Isra-El "governed by God." All history is hinged upon our Lord’s presence. His first coming divide time and His second comingagain divide time and ultimately end time.3
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