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THE MIDDLE YEARS

by Jim Henry

Scripture: I SAMUEL 11:1


The Middle Years
Jim Henry
I Samuel 11:1-7


I first discovered life's most dangerous years several years ago. I had never been taught it, or I just didn't hear it. But, I discovered it in another place in another time. There was a man who had been married to his wife several years. In fact, they were grandparents. One day he walked in and announced to her that he was leaving her. She said, "Why?" He said, "Well, I've fallen in love with a younger woman." She said, "W1hat do you mean by that?" He really couldn't explain it.

I went to see him and I talked to her and did everything I could to try to pull that marriage together, and people prayed. It was one of those situations I have found a lot of times, where two folks are disagreeing, there's sometimes 50/50, sometimes 60/40, 70/30 maybe, but this was one of the times I believe that it was about 90/10. He was about 90% wrong.

He went on through with it and divorced her. He left her and started living with this other woman. It wasn't very long until he died suddenly and I think, prematurely. He said he was saved and born again, but he wouldn't repent, wouldn't do what God told him to do in the Book. I believe, (and I'm not being a judge, it's just an opinion, so don't say I'm judging peoplel I don't know that, but it's my opinion,) that God just took him on out. But I recognize that that man, (and this was the first case I believe that had I insight into,) was going through the most dangerous time of his life, and he floundered on the reefs and he sunk.

Life's middle years are life's toughest years. F. W. Boyle 'as talking about some people who were on a trip. Some men were discussing, "Nhen is the most difficult part of a journey?" One man said it's the beginning because when you begin there's a tremendous enthusiasm and exhilaration of people all around you, and it's the kind that can get you down if there's too much of that, so I think that's the most dangerous part." The guy said, "No, the last of ...

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