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0:20 Tick. 0:22 Tick. 0:24 Tick. 0:26 Now, if you're across the room, you can't hear a mechanical watch working. 0:31 You have to lean in. 0:33 You have to be close enough to notice the sound of time actually passing by. 0:38 It's like a heartbeat made of metal. 0:40 And that's what I'm handing down to my sons. 0:43 Not just watches, but time in a form they can wear. 0:48 So I remember recording a Bible study roundtable episode on my main show on Daunted Life of Man's Podcast. 0:53 It's called The Forging Table. 0:55 And I looked over at my buddy Russell's wrist and saw this kind of old-timey watch. 0:59 It was just kind of out of place with the rest of the things that he was wearing. 1:02 Now, I was about to begin the process of kind of joking around about his old watch, and he immediately stopped me and said, Don't do that, dude. 1:11 This is my grandfather's watch. 1:13 And I remember my exact feeling. 1:16 In an instant, I could feel the power of what he was wearing. 1:20 Because every time my buddy Russ looked at his wrist, he got to think of his grandfather. 1:25 He got to think of all the memories they had made together, and he also got to think of the legacy of his family. 1:30 So I don't have any watches from the men in my family. 1:34 So I just decided really to start that tradition. 1:37 So I just recently got a couple of nice watches that my boys will see me wearing throughout their entire upbringing. 1:43 So these are the kinds of watches that you can buy once and wear for decades. 1:47 It's not the kind that you just, you know, toss out when the battery dies. 1:50 There will come a day when one of them, one of those watches, will go onto my oldest son's wrist, and the other will go onto my youngest son's wrist. 2:03 And here's the plan. 2:04 One day, decades from now, Lord willing, those exact same watches will go on their son's wrists. 2:11 And watches are strange that way because they are the only objects designed from the start to outlive the man that brought that bought them, right? 2:20 So there's not a well-adjusted man out there that buys a serious, well-made, solid watch thinking about themselves in isolation. 2:26 So you buy it thinking about who's going to wear it long after you're gone. 2:30 Now, if we go to Psalm 90, we see a prayer from Moses there, and it's aimed right at this, right at what we're talking about. 2:35 So Psalm 90, verse 12. 2:37 So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom. 2:42 So here's what Moses is not doing. 2:45 He's not asking God for more days. 2:47 He is asking for the wisdom to understand the days that he already has. 2:52 He wants to count those days like they are valuable because they are, and they are valuable because they will run out someday. 2:59 A watch on your wrist is a small, constant sermon on that verse. 3:04 Every tick, tick, tick is a second that you don't get back. 3:09 Now, if you go to Second Timothy, we have Paul here, so Paul is near the end of his life, and he is writing to his mentee Timothy, a man that he has discipled for a very long time. 3:18 And he says this in chapter two, verse two, and what you have learned from me in the presence of many witnesses, entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. 3:30 So there's a lot here, even in this one sentence. 3:33 There's a chain that runs right through the middle of what he's saying here. 3:38 The intent is that Paul is giving to Timothy who will give to other faithful men who will give to others. 3:46 So that's four generations named in a single verse. 3:50 So Paul isn't just handing Timothy truth that he should keep to himself and for himself. 3:54 He's handing him truth that is built to keep moving. 3:58 Timothy is a link, not the endpoint. 4:01 And that's what I want my sons to think someday when they're wearing my watch. 4:04 I want them to be proud of it, but to know that the entire plan is that it will one day belong to a boy who's not even born yet, whose father, you know, my son, will explain where the watch came from and why it still matters. 4:17 Because every generation is supposed to be a link, not an endpoint, right? 4:21 That's the whole design of a godly legacy. 4:23 From Paul to Timothy to faithful men to others. 4:26 So no one is to hoard their inheritance for themselves, they are to pass it on. 4:31 And here's one of the main things that I will teach my sons as it pertains to the watches. 4:36 Time is not yours to waste. 4:39 You didn't earn the time you have, the time was given to you by God, and you are going to be held accountable for how you use it. 4:46 So, men, your children are watching how you spend your time right now. 4:51 They're watching how you spend your money, sure, but they're really going to notice how you spend your hours. 4:56 Are you present or are you distracted? 5:00 Are you working hard to build something that will outlast you or something that will degrade considerably in short order? 5:06 Are you focused on building temporary things or eternal things? 5:11 You see, I will give my boys those watches someday. 5:14 And when I do, I'm not just giving them a nice piece of engineering, I'm giving them a visible, wearable reminder. 5:21 So even if I'm gone, it's as if I'm saying, look, son, your days are numbered, so make them count for something bigger than yourself. 5:29 And when they look at their watch to get the time or the date, I want them to be reminded that they are just the next link in the chain of the gospel of Jesus Christ that has been passed down through 2,000 years worth of generations. 5:41 I want my boys to look at their risks and be reminded that their life will come to an end someday and that they should maximize their time on earth right now to spread the gospel. 5:51 And I plan to do everything in my power during their lives to prepare them to be watchmen on the wall, as we see described in Isaiah 62. 5:58 And I want the watches to be a daily reminder of the responsibility they have to be watchmen for the benefit of others. 6:06 And I know a lot of people are fearful about the limited time that they have left, but if you're in Christ, you should not fear that your time is running out. 6:15 You should fear that you did not do enough with that time to bring more people with you into eternity. 6:22 So wear the watch, number your days, but point your sons, point your children past the clock to the one who holds all of time in his hand, to the one that lives outside of time and is calling us to himself.