welcome to southside church of christ sermon: andy chavarrilla, youth & family minister

Making TimeEcclesiastes 3:1-8

Welcome to Southside Church of Christ

Sermon: Andy Chavarrilla, Youth & Family Minister

Time for Everything

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 There is a time for everything, and a season for every

activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.

What is Time?• Time is both friend and foe:– It gives us structure.– It gives us limits.Some allow time to:

limit their faithat times it kills faith

Where Does Your Time Go?

• The Average American (Age 25+)– 8.7 Working– 2.6 Leisure and Sports– 1.1 Household Activities– 1.1 Eating– 1.7 Caring for Others– 1.2 Driving– 7.6 Sleeping

Where does God fit in your 24hr day?

Do You Spend Time With

God?

Time in Prayer

• Pray without ceasing. (I Thess. 5:17)• All men everywhere pray (I Tim. 2:8)• Jesus taught us how to pray (Matt. 6:9ff)• Jesus made time to pray (Mark 1:35)

Time in His Word

• Delight in His word. (Psalm 1:2)• Is it engrafted on our heart? (Psalm 119:11)• Do we search it daily? (Acts 17)• Do we study it constantly? (II Timothy 2:15)

Time in His Word

• Can we speak to God like David?

“Search me, Oh God, know myheart; try me and know mythoughts (Psalm 139:23).”

Time Spreading His Word

• Is it worth telling?– Mark 16:16– Mark 5:19• We all want to follow!• But all of us need to share!

God spent time

for you?

God Spent Time For You

• He Planned from the first…– From the first transgression God

planned to send a Savior.

• Genesis 3:15“And I will put enmity between you

and the woman, and between your off spring and hers; He will crush your head and you will strike His heel.”

Time was Important to God• 300 Years between the

testaments…• God again would choose

to speak to the people.• Galatians 4:4“But when the time had fully

come, God sent His Son to be born of a woman, born under the law.”

The Time Had Come

• Established Salvation Through– An Established Savior• Matthew 16:13-18• Matthew 17:5• Romans 5:6

“For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.”

The Time Had Come

• Established Salvation In His church– Daniel 2 -“Those Kings”– Mark 9:2 – apostolic time

frame– Matthew 16:18- His church

“…And on this rock I will build My church…”

Time is in Your Favor…

Time is in Your Favor

• We await His return– Time will eventually run out• You think you have one

more day –Matthew 24:36• Why do the innocent

suffer- Revelation 6• Why Obey the Gospel? • –II Thessalonians 1:9,10

There is Still Time..

• Time to put on Christ…• Time to be added to

His Church…• Time to make things

right with God…

The Time is NOW!!!