• One of the ways you can tell the character of a person is by what they do with their free time.
• David was very wealthy - residual income exceeded his living expenses.
• What would he do with is time?
• His mind drifted toward God - spending time with Him and thinking about what He could do for Him.
• He wasn't perfect - Bathsheba (he should have been at the battle).
• Two types of free time:
• 1) Free time as a reward for hard work - business owner, retired army ranger, author of a completed manuscript, parents who's kid just left home for college, etc.
• This type of free time is a REWARD for hard work.
• 2) Free time as a result of laziness - employee who calls in sick who's not sick, student procrastinating on a paper, dad watching TV instead of being with kids, etc.
• This type of free time is a ROUTINE as a part of being lazy.
• Hard comes before Easy, Work comes before Play - live by these and you'll be like the David who built God a house and not the David who stole another man's wife.
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2 Samuel 7:1-2 (5/12/16)
Free Time
May 12, 2016 • Benham Brothers
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