Title: 13
Author: JBG
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© 2000  Joe Griffin

00-10-01-B.JSH-384 /

The Inscrutable Question: Retroactive Progressive Present of Exagorazo: Time Management Options, Eph 5:16a

	4)	The impact of the present tense is that the action begins in the past and continues to the present hence both the past and the present are gathered together in one single affirmation.
	5)	In other words the action of this verb is a way of life, a lifestyle, a behavior pattern, a character trait.  It denotes what we have come to know as facilitated wheel-tracks of righteousness.
	6)	The past and present brought together denotes the entire process of spiritual growth from rebound to spiritual maturity.  It speaks of incremental slugging it out in order to understand difficult principles and concepts so that doctrine might be facilitated.
	7)	It speaks of the underlying and simultaneous motivation that enables you to execute the due diligence required to get back to Bible class and maintain the advance.
	8)	It speaks of doctrine applied from an inventory of wisdom rather then being involved in distractions that cause deviation into wheel-tracks of wickedness.
	9)	Instead you have taken advantage of the equal privilege and equal opportunity afforded every believer in the Church Age: you use rebound to acquire spirituality and you maintain that status quo in order to reach spiritual maturity where the light of Christ shines on you.
	10)	And all the while you are redeeming time.  You have just so much of it available but for it to be of benefit to you it must be bought out from slavery.
	11)	Look at it this way.  When you were born you had an x amount of time available to you in your lifetime.  The omniscience of God knew in eternity past, to the exact billionth of a second, how long you would live.
	12)	When he created your soul and selected you for human life by imputing the soul to your biological life he placed you into the only environment in which human life can survive: space and time. 
	13)	Space is a part of our logistical grace support.  It is the interstellar universe with its laws of physics, chemistry, and biology that support the earth, its resources, and life upon it.
	14)	As central figures in the angelic conflict, we were not created simultaneously as was the angelic creation nor were we imputed maximum wisdom to our streams of consciousness.
	15)	Instead our original parents were created with perfect bodies to which was imputed perfect life and placed in a perfect environment.
	16)	Sustenance of human life requires space and the matter within it.  In Eden its ecosystem supplied Adam and Ishah their every requirement.
	17)	Also, they were not placed in the same environment as the angels.  The angels were imputed eternal life and thus were qualified to live in the eternal state.
	18)	Man was imputed perfect life and was qualified to live only in time.  Our original parents could still be using this time to fulfill the duties assigned to them by Jesus Christ in the Garden.  But due to arrogance and self-absorption, they each sinned against God and fell.
	19)	Recovery required that they respond positively to the presentation of the Gospel.  But in order to get from the fall to the moment of salvation they needed time.
	21)	Once saved they then had the option to use their remaining time on this earth to maximize their knowledge of God’s plan in preparation for eternity.
	22)	Principle: Time is the logistical grace provision given to believers in Jesus Christ to diligently prepare for life in the eternal state.

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