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Praise God in the seasons of life.

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After everything he has said about the vanity of our existence, we probably expect the

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Solomon of Ecclesiastes to say something discouraging about time.

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That time is short and thus we never have enough time to do all of the things

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that we want to do. Or he might mention the tyranny of time, the way time

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controls our lives right down to the millisecond. Solomon might remind us that

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time is fleeting and that we are running out of time and once gone time can

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never be recovered. The French philosopher Blaise Pascal wrote, when I consider the

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short duration of my life swallowed up in the eternity that lies before it and

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after it, when I consider the little space I feel and see engulfed in the

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infinite immensity of space of which I am ignorant and which know me not, I rest

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frightened and astonished. But there is no reason why I should be here rather

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than there. Who put me here? Pascal asks, why now rather than then? Stephen F.

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Olford, the man Billy Graham said most influenced his ministry, said that time is

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a fragment of eternity given by God to men as a solemn stewardship. Solomon

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celebrated the orderliness of God by writing the world's most famous words

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on the subject of time. Nothing happens outside the will of God. He rules all of

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our moments. He rules all of our days and there is a definite orderliness what to

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what he does and his sovereignty has a chronology. In the divine economy there

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is a season for everything. A suitable occasion. There's always a suitable

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occasion. There's always an appropriate opportunity for everything that happens.

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The initiation, the duration and determination of our earthly existence

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are all under God's divine authority. There is a time to matriculate and there's

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a time to graduate. Let me run that by you one more time. You don't want your

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students to become eternal in college. You don't want them to be in high school

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until they're 27. There's a time to matriculate and a time to graduate. There's

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a time to get a job and a time to retire from a job. Amen. There's a time to visit

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somebody's house and there's a time to go home.

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My daddy said if you stay at somebody's house long enough to use the restroom

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it's time for you to go home. There are times in life to start something but

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there are times when something is supposed to come to an end. Be it a

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project or a relationship or even a ministry. Knowing the difference brothers

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and sisters takes wisdom because these are some of the hardest decisions in

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your life. Solomon emphasizes the scope of God's sovereignty with pairs of

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related opposites. Each pair forms what is called rhetorically a merism. A

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merism is an rhetorical term for a pair of contrasting words or phrases used to

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express totality or completeness. Perhaps I may best get it across to you by

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asking you to envision a corn maze. You've seen a maze of corn. These corn

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fields where they where they draw or make or a furrow a maze inside a corn field.

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If you consider the maze from the outside it looks like a harmless corn field. The

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view is very different from the inside trying to discover a way out. And of

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course an aerial view from a drone or a helicopter gives one a much broader view

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with the unique perspective of seeing the beginning to the end. So one's

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perspective in life is an aphorism from real estate location location location

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where you stand determines how you see life. Look with me in verse 2 and 3 at

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life the view of life from the outside looking in. A time to be born and a time

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to die. Time to plant and a time to pluck up what is planted. A time to kill and a

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time to heal. A time to break down and a time to build up. If you look carefully

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you will see that these eight opening verses gather around three major

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divisions that correspond amazingly enough to the three divisions of our

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humanity. Body, soul and spirit. From the outside looking in as it relates to our

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body or the physical world none of us asked to be born. It was something done

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to and for us apart from us. None of us asks to die. It is something that God

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determines. But as sure as you had a cradle you will have a grave. As sure as

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you had an entrance you will have an exit. God is not holding you responsible

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for your birthday and you have nothing at all to do with your dying day but

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between your womb and your tomb you ought to redeem the time. Brothers and

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sisters this matter of time as it relates to God is not either or. God is both and.

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God is both at our birth and at our death. God is with us when we plant and when we

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pluck up what is planted. There are some things in our life God wants to kill and

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then there are some things God wants to heal. There's a time in life when things

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break down and then there's a time in life when you have to build up. Looking

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at life from the outside looking in when you look at it from the outside looking

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in it's positive because life starts with everybody being young. But then you get

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in your 40s and then your 50s and then your 60s and I'm not going any further

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than that. And you start breaking down because everything will eventually run

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down and you need to know what time it is in your life. What season you are in

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determines how you live your life because there's nothing more unsightly

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than somebody trying to live out of their season.

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When you when you start having children it's time out for you to find

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yourself. You should have found yourself 30 years ago. As over you have a family

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now you have responsibilities now you got to go to work now you can't find

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yourself now you got to find a job you got to find a house you got to find a

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way to pay your bills you've got to find a destiny you've got to find find your

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niche find your happy place find where God wants you to be and listen it

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doesn't matter who likes you or who does not like you who's on your side who's

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not on your side put some blinders on and have tunnel vision for your life and

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watch God move on your behalf.

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Because if God is on your side and if you are on God's side if God be far off I

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wish I had a witness here when you know who you are and who's you are you don't

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need no likes on Facebook. Take yourself to the movies take yourself to dinner

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I wish I had somebody to help me preach it be satisfied with how God made you

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with what God gave you shout over God's blessings in your life you don't have to

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have what somebody else has God will bring you to your season

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to everything there is a season there's a time for every matter every purpose

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under heaven that's outside looking in but let's get a view of life from the

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inside looking out look with me in verse four and five a time to weep and a time

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to laugh a time to mourn and a time to dance a time to throw away stones a time

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together stones together a time to embrace and a time to refrain from

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embracing now we walk deeper into this text and surround ourselves with the

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context and we discover that the world once you get on the inside of the maze

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we find out that the world is not so neat it's not so positive the searcher

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who is none other than Solomon himself wants to know as the author Peter

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Creft puts it Solomon wants to know how to avoid getting all A's in every

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subject but flunking life

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he moves into the realm of the soul now leaving the body moving into the realm

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of the soul with its functions of thinking feeling choosing the social

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areas of life and all the interrelationships of life that flow from our

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soul he explores every pleasure every bit of wealth and power work and leisure

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even he explores a basic kind of religion he hints that the he hints at

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the truth that it is possible to spend a great deal of time climbing the ladder

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of success only to discover that is leaning against the wrong building as

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one of my favorite actors Jim Carrey said in an interview for Reader's

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Digest Jim Carrey said I think everybody should get rich and famous and do

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everything they ever dreamed of so that they can see that it is not the answer

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without Christ Shakespeare is correct life is a tale told by an idiot full of

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sound and fury signifying nothing without Christ I would have to chime in

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with the philosopher Schopenhauer that life is an endless pain with a painful

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end without Christ I would have to go in with Paul Lawrence Dunbar who said a

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crust of bread in the corner to sleep in a minute to smile and an hour to weep in

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a pint of joy to a peck of trouble and never to laugh but the moans come

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double and that is life if that was the end of this sermon we would all get in

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line to commit suicide but thank God we don't have to be on the outside looking

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in we don't have to be on the inside looking out we can be up above looking

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around look with me in verse 6 and 7 and 8 a time to seek and a time to lose a

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time to keep and a time to throw away a time to tear and a time to sow a time to

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keep silence and a time to speak a time to love and a time to hate a time for war

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and a time for peace the last of these opposites relate to the spirit of each

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individual here to the inner decisions the deep commitments that you and I

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daily have to make the view of life from the outside is positive the view of

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life from the inside is negative but the view from above is ultimate in Jesus

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incarnation and resurrection we see one who meets us on the outside walks with

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us through the inside and transforms and makes life beautiful inside and outside

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Dallas Willard the author Dallas Willard purports that the greatest danger

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listen to this the greatest danger for people who come to church may not be

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blatant rebellion but they're living such busy lives such overcrowded lives that

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we practically guarantee we will never realize how beautiful life is because

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it's passing us by the devil does not care how busy you are the question is

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what are you busy being because you are not a human doing you are a human being

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how much time are you spending being something I don't help me preach it I'm

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not talking about being a preacher or being a church member or being a husband

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or being a daughter or being a caretaker how much time you spend being with God walk

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with me talk with me sit down with God and just say father I don't need nothing

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this morning I just want to tell you how much I appreciate what you've already

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done God I don't have any problems I'm not complaining I'm not sick I don't

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have no trouble I just want to get in your presence and let you know I'm glad

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I am that you brought me all the way now let us have a little talk with Jesus let

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us tell him all about our trouble he will hear your faintest cry he'll answer

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by and by and if you stay that long enough you'll feel a little prayer wheel

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turning then you'll know a little fire is is burning I need somebody here who

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shout even when it ain't Sunday you you just praise God in the car by

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yourself because you remember when you didn't have a car I wish I had

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one or two more showers here you just walking around in the house giving God

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glory and giving God praise and the people riding alongside of you on the

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highway thinks something wrong with you put your window down and say God it

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ain't nothing wrong with me I'm just grateful God let me live one more day I

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should have been dead sleeping in my grave but he had mercy the steadfast

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love of the Lord never cease his mercy never comes to an end

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hallelujah there are new every moment the reason why they are new every morning

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because I messed up yesterday's grace I messed up yesterday's mercy I messed up

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yesterday's goodness thank God when I got up this morning before my feet touched

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the floor he decided to give me one more thank you for your grace I'm through

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choir taking all my time singing two songs we ain't gonna pay y'all but for

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one the place where we see God's timeless most clearly is in the person of

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Jesus Christ relations chapter 4 and verse number 4 says but when the fullness

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of time was come somebody ought to help me preach it God sent forth his son made

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of a woman made under the law adjust the right time when the Gentiles were tired

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of serving pagan gods when the Jews were weary of trying to keep God's law when

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the Greeks had given the world a common language and the Romans had established

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safe and easy travel across the Mediterranean Jesus came with a message

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of salvation at the right time he wasn't born before time he was born in the

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fullness of time when when time was ready for him to come he was born into

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the world not only was he born on time but he was crucified on time that was a

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day appointed for him to be crucified and those of us who read the Bible we

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remember that Jesus upset the Pharisees and the Sadducees and the scribes so

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much that on several occasions they tried to take his life and Jesus just

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walked through the crowd as though he were invisible because his time had not

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yet come somebody ought to help me preach it Jesus decided to die they

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didn't kill him he decided to die because on the cross a thief said if you are

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a Christ save yourself and us but the other thief said leave this man alone

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he's done nothing wrong he said to him when you come in your kingdom remember

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me Jesus postponed dying Jesus put death on hold Jesus stop dying to tell a

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thief today you shall be with me in paradise Jesus went to Calvary to save

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a wreck like you and me that's love that's love they hung him high they

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stretched him wide he hung his head for me he died that's love he had a time to

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be born he had a time to die but he had a time to be resurrected from the grave

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because that's not how the story three days later hey he rose again he got up

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from the grave on time and listen one day he's coming back on time and so since

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he was born on time died on time got up from the grave on time coming back at

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God's time it's time for you to make up your mind I said it's time for you to

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make up your mind I've decided to follow Jesus somebody help me close here I'm

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not gonna let no preacher do all my Bible reading for me I want to know God

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for myself I'm not gonna let the deacons do all the praying for me I'm not gonna

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let the choir do all the worship and singing for me I sing because I'm happy

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I sing because I'm I'm free his eye is on the sparrow and I know I'm not guessing

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about it I'm not I'm not maybe so about it I know this morning at 10 59 in

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Houston Texas at Lily Grove Baptist Church he's watching over me and when I

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leave here and go home he's gonna be watching over me when I go to lunch

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he's gonna be watching over me when I drive on 6 10 and 59 he's gonna be

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watching over me when I go to bed tonight he's gonna keep the robbers and

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the thieves away from my house while I slept last night somebody could have

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broken on me but the Lord had his angels camped around my house I wish I

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had a witness here I need somebody knows who knows that you're not here

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because your alarm clock woke you up you are not here because you've been so

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good or so kind you're not here because you have a large print Bible you're not

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here because you teach Sunday school or singing the choir you're here because the

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Lord has been merciful to you you're here because he looked beyond your

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faults he looked beyond my faults he looked beyond my sinful disposition he

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looked beyond my mean and stubborn ways he looked beyond my wicked and evil

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deeds and he gave me one more opportunity to come up to his house to

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give his name worship and praise I'm not gonna let you out do me praising God if

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you don't want to praise him just stay right there in your seat but I made up my

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mind that every time I get a chance I'm gonna praise God because I don't know

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how much time I have left I want to thank God for Monday I don't know if I'm

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gonna live till Tuesday and then when I get in Tuesday I want to thank God for

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Tuesday because I don't know if I'll get a chance to shout on Wednesday and when

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Wednesday comes I want to raise my hand because it's almost time for Sunday and

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if God lets me live till Thursday I want to praise him all day Thursday and if

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God gives me strength on Friday I want to open my mouth on Friday if God lets

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me live on Saturday I want to tell him thank you that I made it through Monday

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I made it through Tuesday I made it through Wednesday I made it through

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Thursday I made it through Friday and here it is Saturday and I'm getting

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primed I'm getting all pumped up because I know Sunday is coming and when I get

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the Sunday morning and get with my brothers and sisters who knows how good

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God is who knows how many doors God has opened who knows how many ways God has

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made who knows how kind God has been we will get together and tell God thank you

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you got my permission right now if you're in a dead section if you're around

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some people who don't know what time it is you got my permission to find you

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another section find you some people who look like they came to praise God find

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you some believers who look like they know what time it is it's time to praise

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the Lord it's time to shout hallelujah it's time to give God glory it's time to

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tell God thank you it's time to live glad hands it's time to open your mouth

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it's time to let the world know that Jesus he died didn't he die but Sunday

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morning I said Sunday morning he got up from the grave with all power in his

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hand you're gonna help me praise him won't you

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all hail the power of Jesus name let angels cross

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straight full bring forth the royal die at him

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crown him crown him he's worthy he's worthy he's able he's a weight maker he's

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He's a problem solver.

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He's a rock in a weary land.

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He's a shelter in a time of storm.

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Do you know him?

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Have you tried him?

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Won't he make a way?

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Say yes!

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Yes!

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Yes!

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Ah!

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Ah! I know you know him!

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Yeah!

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He kept me.

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He never left me.

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He's been good to me.

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He's been merciful.

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Tell him thank you for all you've done for.

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Thank you for giving me some more time.

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Thank you that you let me live.

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Thank you for my mother.

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Thank you for my father.

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Thank you for my church family.

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Thank you.

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I know he's alright.

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I'm trying to quit here now.

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I'm trying to quit here now.

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But you saw on television,

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these people got in this vessel

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and went down to the bottom of the Atlantic.

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They spent $250,000 to get in a little minivan

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and go to the bottom of the Atlantic

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to take a look at a failure.

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The Titanic is a failure.

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It's a wreck at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

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They got in this little minivan,

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went down to the bottom.

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It imploded on them.

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Every life was lost.

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There is no mechanism to raise the debris.

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There is no pulley.

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There is no device

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to raise that vessel.

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But I was seeking deep insight.

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Far, far from the peaceful shore.

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Very deeply, stayed within.

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I was seeking to rise normal.

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But the master...

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Hey!

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But the master of the sea,

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he heard my despairing cry.

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From the water.

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Hey!

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From the water.

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He lifted me.

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I said,

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said,

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said,

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said,

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said,

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I know he's alright.

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I almost died at MD Anderson Hospital.

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But God gave me some more time.

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And while I have a chance,

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I'm gonna tell God, thank you.

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I'm gonna give God glory.

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And if you don't want to praise Him,

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don't hinder me.

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If you around here talking about it, don't take all that.

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Speak for yourself.

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It don't take all that for you.

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But you don't know what God has done for me.

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You don't know how many doors God has opened.

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You don't know how many tears God has brought.

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Hallelujah.

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Hallelujah.

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Hallelujah.