A Day

TEXT: Genesis 1:1-5, v. 5 — And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

Introduction -

What does God say about our days and how they should be spent? Simple child’s prayer: “Thank you, Jesus, for this day.”

 

I. Potential of a Day

 

2Co 6:2 …behold, now is the day of salvation.

WEBSTER’s—Time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis; A period of opportunity; "he deserves his day in court";

Daybrightness, light, living, anticipation

 

II. Prominence of a Day

 

Eccl. 7:1 A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.

 Ex. 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

Rom. 14:5 One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike.

Rev. 1:10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,

Job 3:1Job cursed his day (birthday).

Why do we ‘remember a day’? (Birthday, Holiday, Today)

III. Problems of a Day

 

STRONG’s – from a root meaning hot; the warm hours from sunrise to sunset

1Co 3:13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.

Ps 32:3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.

“I having a bad day.” Or “Today is a good day.”

 

IV. Promise of a Day

 

S.O.S 4:6 Until the day break, and the shadows flee away…

Prov. 4:18 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

 

V. Purpose of a Day

 

1. Production

 

John 9:4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.

Isa 28:10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

 

2. Praise

 

Psalm 119:164 Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments.

Prov. 23:17 Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.

Ps 55:17 Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.

Psalm 103:1,2 middle two verses of the Bible.