HASTE-DELAY
HASTE-DELAY
(A) HASTE
The King’s Business Requires
1Sa 21:8
Salutations Hinder
2Ki4:29
The Urgency of the Work Demands
2Ch 24:5
The Rashness of Delaying God’s Messengers
2Ch 35:21; Psa 119:60
Hastening to the Place of Prayer
Zec 8:21
Haste in Delivering the Message
Mat 28:7; Luk 10:4
Haste in Giving the Invitation
Luk 14:21
–SEE Redeeming the Time, SPECIAL
Zeal Enjoined, EARNESTNESS
(2) In Making Escape
Gen 19:22; Exo 12:11; 2Sa 15:14
(B) PROCRASTINATION, causes of
Worldly Entanglements
Gen 19:16
Family Cares
Mat 8:21; Luk 9:61
Unbelief
Act 17:32
Personal Convenience
Act 24:25
–SEE Excuses, SELF-JUSTIFICATION
& SELF-JUSTIFICATION
(C) DELAY, examples of fatal
The Egyptians, in Attempting to Escape God’s Judgments
Exo 14:24; Exo 14:25
Israel, in Seeking to Enter the Promised Land
Num 14:40; Num 14:41; Num 14:44; Num 14:45
Saul, in Repenting his Disobedience
1Sa 15:24; 1Sa 15:25; 1Sa 15:26
Israel, in Repenting of Sin
Jer 8:20
The Foolish Virgins, in Preparing for the Coming of the Bridegroom
Mat 25:11; Mat 25:12
Judas, in Repenting his Betrayal of Christ
Mat 27:3
Those Knocking at the Closed Door
Luk 13:25
Esau, in Repenting the Sale of his Birthright
Heb 12:17
–SEE Lost Opportunity, OPPORTUNITY