1. Series: Learning From The Master
– A Plan to Live By
Taking Time Out For God

2. Taking Time Out For God
Luke 14:15-24(NKJV) 15Now when one of those who sat at the table with Him heard these things, he said to Him, “Blessed is he who shall eat bread in the kingdom of God!” 16Then He said to him, “A certain man gave a great supper and invited many, 17and sent his servant at supper time to say to those who were invited, ‘Come, for all things are now ready.’ 18But they all with one accord began to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a piece of ground, and I must go and see it. I ask you to have me excused.’ 19And another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to test them. I ask you to have me excused.’

3. Taking Time Out For God
20Still another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.’ 21So that servant came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in here the poor and the maimed and the lame and the blind.’ 22And the servant said, ‘Master, it is done as you commanded, and still there is room.’ 23Then the master said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. 24For I say to you that none of those men who were invited shall taste my supper.’”

4. Taking Time Out For God Being with God is good – vs. 15c
Well known and understood

5. Taking Time Out For God Being with God is good – vs. 15c
Well known and understood
Blessings greater than we can imagine

6. Taking Time Out For God Being with God is good – vs. 15c
Well known and understood
Blessings greater than we can imagine
Blessings are real, not imaginary

7. Taking Time Out For God God wants us in His presence - 16
To share in the blessing

8. Taking Time Out For God God wants us in His presence - 16
To share in the blessing
To know the Real Blessing

9. Taking Time Out For God God wants us in His presence - 16
To share in the blessing
To know the Real Blessing
To share the Blessing (with others)

10. Taking Time Out For God
God actively seeks us to enjoy His Blessing - 17
Not an “empty” or casual invitation

11. Taking Time Out For God
God actively seeks us to enjoy His Blessing - 17
Not an “empty” or casual invitation
He has planned for our attendance

12. Taking Time Out For God
God actively seeks us to enjoy His Blessing - 17
Not an “empty” or casual invitation
He has planned for our attendance
He is anxious for our attendance

13. Taking Time Out For God
God actively seeks us to enjoy His Blessing - 17
Not an “empty” or casual invitation
He has planned for our attendance
He is anxious for our attendance
He is ready for our attendance

14. Taking Time Out For God God asks and invites – we answer – 18-20
Excuses were given

15. Taking Time Out For God God asks and invites – we answer – 18-20
Excuses were given
Excuses were recognized (by God and usually by others as well)

16. Taking Time Out For God God asks and invites – we answer – 18-20
Excuses were given
Excuses were recognized (by God and usually by others as well)
Invitation was extended to others

17. Taking Time Out For God God asks and invites – we answer – 18-20
Excuses were given
Excuses were recognized (by God and usually by others as well)
Invitation was extended to others
He will find others who will attend

18. Taking Time Out For God
Those who do not find time for God will not find God in time – 21

19. Taking Time Out For God In the Lord’s presence
They were all invited in to the supper

20. Taking Time Out For God In the Lord’s presence
They were all invited in to the supper
In His presence

21. Taking Time Out For God In the Lord’s presence
They were all invited in to the supper
In His presence
Enjoy and benefit in His presence

22. Taking Time Out For God In the Lord’s presence
They were all invited in to the supper
In His presence
Enjoy and benefit in His presence
In worship
In His Word
In service

23. Taking Time Out For God
In the presence of others
Together

24. Taking Time Out For God In the presence of others Together
Help and support

25. Taking Time Out For God In the presence of others Together
Help and support
Mutual prayer and assistance

26. Taking Time Out For God In His service – disciples
Serving the Lord became their lives

27. Taking Time Out For God In His service – disciples
Serving the Lord became their lives
Serving God should be our goal and practice

28. Taking Time Out For God In His absence – Gadarean
Mark 5:18-20(NKJV) 18And when He got into the boat, he who had been demon-possessed begged Him that he might be with Him. 19However, Jesus did not permit him, but said to him, “Go home to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how He has had compassion on you.” 20And he departed and began to proclaim in Decapolis all that Jesus had done for him; and all marveled.

29. Taking Time Out For God In His absence – Gadarean
He wants us to do His work at home

30. Taking Time Out For God In His absence – Gadarean
He wants us to do His work at home
He wants us to do his work “alone” (when He is not here)

31. Taking Time Out For God In His absence – Gadarean
He wants us to do His work at home
He wants us to do his work “alone” (when He is not here)
(But we all know He sent the Holy Spirit to help us)

32. Taking Time Out For God In His sight – Zacchaeus
Luke 19:1-10(NKJV) 1Then Jesus entered and passed through Jericho. 2Now behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus who was a chief tax collector, and he was rich. 3And he sought to see who Jesus was, but could not because of the crowd, for he was of short stature. 4So he ran ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see Him, for He was going to pass that way. 5And when Jesus came to the place, He looked up and saw him, and said to him, “Zacchaeus, make haste and come down, for today I must stay at your house.”

33. Taking Time Out For God
6So he made haste and came down, and received Him joyfully. 7But when they saw it, they all complained, saying, “He has gone to be a guest with a man who is a sinner.” 8Then Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord, I give half of my goods to the poor; and if I have taken anything from anyone by false accusation, I restore fourfold.” 9And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham; 10for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”

34. Taking Time Out For God In His sight – Zacchaeus
Zacchaeus did not appear to have a need (rich)

35. Taking Time Out For God In His sight – Zacchaeus
Zacchaeus did not appear to have a need (rich)
Yet he had a great need

36. Taking Time Out For God In His sight – Zacchaeus
Zacchaeus did not appear to have a need (rich)
Yet he had a great need
He made time for the Lord

37. Taking Time Out For God In His sight – Zacchaeus
Zacchaeus did not appear to have a need (rich)
Yet he had a great need
He made time for the Lord
The Lord made time for Him

38. Taking Time Out For God In His plans – Samaritan woman
John 4:3-10(NKJV) 3He left Judea and departed again to Galilee. 4But He needed to go through Samaria. 5So He came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. 6Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from His journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

39. Taking Time Out For God
7A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.” 8For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. 9Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. 10Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”

40. Taking Time Out For God In His plans – Samaritan woman
Jesus knows our need

41. Taking Time Out For God In His plans – Samaritan woman
Jesus knows our need
Jesus sees our struggle

42. Taking Time Out For God In His plans – Samaritan woman
Jesus knows our need
Jesus sees our struggle
Jesus calls to each of us

43. Taking Time Out For God In His plans – Samaritan woman
Jesus knows our need
Jesus sees our struggle
Jesus calls to each of us
She took time out for Jesus

44. Taking Time Out For God In our life
Luke 12:16-21(NKJV) 16Then He spoke a parable to them, saying: “The ground of a certain rich man yielded plentifully. 17And he thought within himself, saying, ‘What shall I do, since I have no room to store my crops?’ 18So he said, ‘I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build greater, and there I will store all my crops and my goods. 19And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; take your ease; eat, drink, and be merry.”’

45. Taking Time Out For God In our life
20But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have provided?’ 21“So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”

46. Taking Time Out For God
In our life
What ties us up in life?

47. Taking Time Out For God In our life What ties us up in life?
Do we have room for Him?

48. Taking Time Out For God In our life What ties us up in life?
Do we have room for Him?
Are we taking time out for God?

49. Taking Time Out For God In His return
Luke 12:37-44(NKJV) 37Blessed are those servants whom the master, when he comes, will find watching. Assuredly, I say to you that he will gird himself and have them sit down to eat, and will come and serve them. 38And if he should come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants. 39But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.

50. Taking Time Out For God
40Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.” 41Then Peter said to Him, “Lord, do You speak this parable only to us, or to all people?” 42And the Lord said, “Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his master will make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of food in due season? 43Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes. 44Truly, I say to you that he will make him ruler over all that he has.

51. Taking Time Out For God In His return
He wants us to take time out for Jesus

52. Taking Time Out For God In His return
He wants us to take time out for Jesus
He wants us watching and ready for His return

53. Taking Time Out For God In His return
He wants us to take time out for Jesus
He wants us watching and ready for His return
He will bless us

54. Ready? Taking Time Out For God In His return
He wants us to take time out for Jesus
He wants us watching and ready for His return
He will bless us
Ready?