Eccs 3 Time: Chronos Or Kairos

4/26 – Eccs 3Time: Chronos or Kairos

Hello I'm pastor Greg of Calvary

Reformed Church and Chaplain Greg of the

110th wing in Battle Creek Michigan.

We're outdoors today for worship + I will get to the “Why” shortly, but I want to ask you all a

Question. Could you imagine if somebody came up to you and said they wanted to give you a penny for every second. A penny for every second, we know within a minute that would be 60 pennies within a day that would be 68 thousand four hundred pennies that's 864 dollars or six thousand dollars a week, or three hundred and fourteen thousand dollars four hundred ninety six cents per year for a penny a second.

Think about that that if somebody wanted to

give you that money, but you did not take it-- we would lose it. I want us to think today about the seasons of time and time so why are we outdoors here behind our house in the woods.

We found with the grandkids recently --Oh a wonderful old vehicle. Now some of you might be able to look at the vehicle and say what year it

was made or what what model it is. I don't know, but imagine at one point in time the people that bought this they--bought it with hopes and dreams for the future. It was brand-new maybe it was a

family--- maybe it was a single person we don't know ---but they had dreams they had hopes and it was brand new---- but with the seasons of time that roll on what is brand-new changes and it rusts

The seasons of time you know we tend to with in American life we tend to look at life in one way with time and that's the Greek word Chronos. Chronos we tend to see time as we look at the calendar and we say ---okay we have January through December and we have every month has

certain days and we have so many hours and minutes in each day.

We look at the quarantine now as it's been extended till May 15 for the stay-at-home order and we think about as a time period—Cronos.

Runners races they will win a race with what what is like one one-hundredth or one one thousandth of a second. We can get so close to that time--- but there's another way to look at time and that's through the through the Biblical word Kairos.

Kairos, simply means an appointed time an opportunity a season a time. The best place we see the whole idea of Kairos time comes from

Ecclesiastes chapter 3.

I love the fact of Kairos of the Ecclesiastes

chapter 3 back in the 60s ----there was a group called the Birds + they did the song called turn turn turn--- to every season there is a time turn.

I'm gonna read from Ecclesiastes chapter

3 for there is a time for everything a season for every activity under heaven ---a time to be born at a time to die…. if

all we keep going--- I got to point out right here in this first verse in 2nd verse there is a time for everything that that first part of that verse there

is time the word Chronos meaning that that there is a limited amount of time---there is a schedule there is a measured time ---about a time within our lives---- measured amount of time for this car but then the rest of the chapter with the word time

is using the word Kairos season opportunity

There is a time- measured - time

for everything and a season for every

activity under heaven’

- there is a season or a time or an opportunity I love that

- opportunity to be born and a time to die

- there is a time to plant and a time to uproot a time to kill and a time to heal

- there is a time to tear down and a time to build back up

- there is a time to weep and a time to laugh

- there is a time to mourn and a time to dance

- there is a time to scatter stones and a time to gather the stones in

- there's a time to embrace and we're in the time right now to refrain from embracing

- there's a time to search and a time to give up

- there's a time to keep and a time to throw away

- there's 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 of war any time of peace