In his sermon, Steve Hopkins emphasizes the importance of remembering one's Creator during youth, drawing from biblical imagery to illustrate the inevitability of aging and life's transience. He describes the symbolic decline of physical abilities, such as vision, strength, and hearing, as metaphors for the aging process. Hopkins stresses that young people often overlook the brevity of life and are tempted by the vanities of youth, which yield no lasting satisfaction. He encourages young people to focus on God and spiritual matters, as these provide true fulfillment and guard against youthful misdirections. Drawing on Matthew Henry's perspective, the sermon advises against the indulgence in youthful pleasures and urges a commitment to serving God. Hopkins concludes with an anecdote about D.L. Moody, who aspired to dedicate his youth to God, illustrating the potential for impactful living even at a young age.

Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth. Remember your Creator in the days of your youth while or before the evil days come. That's days of affliction, days of great trial, and they will come for you young people. They will. Nor the years draw nigh when you'll say, I have no pleasure in them.

It's remembering your creator in the days of your youth and realizing guess what you're going to get old and your body's going to fail. While the Sun, the light, the moon, the stars beat not darkened. Right now your eyes are good. 2020 vision. The days are coming when your eyes will fail.

Hit me about 40, age 43. Now I'm wearing 275s, readers. No other clouds return after the rain. In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, these are all images of growing old, and strong men shall bow themselves. You see the shoulders of once very strong youth, Now their shoulders are beginning to bow.

And the grinders cease, that's your teeth start to decay. Because they're few. And those that look out of the windows be darkened. Sight becomes more and more darkened. And the doors shall be shut in the streets when the sound of the grinding is low.

All these are depictions of the hearing loss. You'll rise at the voice of the bird. The daughters of music shall be brought low. You'll be afraid of that which is high to climb up a ladder. The almond tree shall flourish or hair grows white.

The grasshopper becomes a burden. Desire fails. A man goes to his long home and the mourners go about the streets. He dies. Wherever the silver cord be loosed, the golden bowl be broken, the pitcher be broken at the fountain, the wheel broken at the cistern, then shall the dust return to earth as it was.

Remember your creator in the days of your youth, young people. It's a short life, very, very short. I can remember being William's age. Hey William, I can remember being your age in Tempe, Arizona. And I can remember when I was a little boy, you know, that birthdays were like 100 years apart as was Christmas.

And, you know, as I got older, then it starts going faster and faster. And you might ask your mother or your father, is time flying faster now? Yes, it's flying faster now than it ever was, and guess what, it doesn't stop, it goes faster and faster. But the spirit is gonna return to God who gave it. And so the call here is, while you're young, and there are so few young people who remember their Creator in the days of their youth, remember your Creator, bring your thoughts back to God and the things of God, and remember the day is coming when all of your strength, all of your vitality, it's all going to diminish, and then you'll see yourself heading towards that end of life period.

Oh, remember your Creator in the days of your youth. Remember your creator in the days of your youth. Remember your creator in the days of your youth. I've just picked up here on Matthew Henry And he says, you that are young, flatter yourselves with expectations of great things from your youth, but believe those that have tried it. It yields no solid satisfaction to the soul.

Therefore, that you may not be deceived by this vanity, nor too much disturbed by it. Remember your Creator in the days of your youth. And so guard yourselves against the mischiefs that arise from the vanity of the creature. It is an antidote against the diseases of youth, talking about the tendencies of young people to go in the wrong direction, the love of mirth, the indulgence of sensual pleasures, the vanity which childhood and youth are subject to. To prevent and to cure this, remember your Creator, remember your God that he made you and not you yourselves, that he is your rightful Lord and that you must engage, we must engage ourselves to him with considerations of him, pay the honor and duty which we owe unto him as our creator.

Bring your thoughts back to God continually, young people. Remember your creator in the days of your youth. How few serve him in their youth. How very few young people, even Christian professing young people, truly have a mindset, I just want to serve the one and true living God who saved me from my sins and will one day bring me to himself. How many live that way?

How many just want to live for God and how many are carried away by the things of this life in this world even at a young age you can be different. I remember a pastor who was responsible, God used to save, used to bring the gospel to many people around the world and he was greatly used. Dio Moody and he said that when he was young that he had heard a sermon and the sermon was by a pastor that said oh what could could happen I'm paraphrasing from memory what would What would happen if there were just a young person, a young man who would just completely abandon himself to God in his youth? And he said, I will be that man. I will be that man.

I'm gonna be the one that stands out in the crowd I'm going to abandon myself to God in my youth completely abandon myself to God as a young man. And then after leading many people to the Lord and around the world, he comes to his death bed, like we just read about here. And the golden bowl is broken, and the pitcher is broken at the fountain and the wheel is broken at the cistern and the dust is about to return to the earth as it was and the spirit returned into God who gave it. And on his deathbed he said, I was not that man. Remember your creator in the days of your youth.