WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:00.800 You may be seated. 00:00:00.959 --> 00:00:01.360 Good morning. 00:00:01.520 --> 00:00:02.160 Good to see you. 00:00:02.319 --> 00:00:06.240 So we are going to be continuing our way through Genesis 1 through 3. 00:00:06.320 --> 00:00:10.000 And this morning, we're going to be looking at a couple different concepts in Genesis. 00:00:10.160 --> 00:00:13.039 Last week we really picked apart Genesis 1. 00:00:13.199 --> 00:00:14.480 We really dissected it. 00:00:14.560 --> 00:00:20.800 And this morning we're going to look at a couple of two different concepts that sort of surface in Genesis chapter 1. 00:00:20.960 --> 00:00:28.559 So the past eight days have given those of us who follow the national news a good bit to be concerned about. 00:00:28.879 --> 00:00:30.399 There's a lot to be concerned about. 00:00:30.640 --> 00:00:32.079 I watch the news every night. 00:00:32.159 --> 00:00:34.240 I listen to the news every morning. 00:00:34.399 --> 00:00:41.520 And I found myself every night as I watched the news being incredibly judgmental towards someone. 00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:44.560 And I could pick a different person every night of the week. 00:00:44.799 --> 00:00:48.640 Someone or some group of people about something. 00:00:49.759 --> 00:00:54.399 And the name or the person of the group, I could find a way to be judgmental toward them. 00:00:54.560 --> 00:00:59.920 And after I sort of throughout the week, weeded my way through all my judgmentalism, and trust me, there's a lot. 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:00.560 I'm a preacher. 00:01:00.960 --> 00:01:02.240 I can have opinions. 00:01:03.039 --> 00:01:19.599 There was sadness, just sorrow for the loss of life eight days ago, for violence, for hatred, for racism, for racial bias, for the lack of moral declaration, for the lack of moral leadership. 00:01:20.000 --> 00:01:25.120 And it was interesting that so much of this came after our text last week. 00:01:25.359 --> 00:01:29.280 Because that's immediately where my mind went to is Genesis 1.27. 00:01:29.359 --> 00:01:32.799 So God created man in his own image. 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:36.239 In the image of God, he created him, male and female, he created them. 00:01:36.480 --> 00:01:38.159 God blessed them. 00:01:38.719 --> 00:01:42.719 So this means he did not just create white people in the image of God. 00:01:42.879 --> 00:01:48.560 And he did not just create black people in the image of God, or Middle Eastern people in the image of God, or any other people group. 00:01:48.879 --> 00:01:54.480 He created all of us in all of our differences in his image. 00:01:54.640 --> 00:01:57.439 And all of us equal and all of us lovely. 00:01:58.159 --> 00:02:03.359 And so much of this Imago Day, that's what this doctrine is, is Imago Day, created in the image of God. 00:02:03.519 --> 00:02:06.159 So much of this Imago Day has gone sideways. 00:02:06.319 --> 00:02:19.199 I mean, even throughout the biblical history, throughout the Old Testament, one people group hating another people group, and then that people group hating another people group, all of it has gone sideways so much, still sideways, so often. 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:32.080 And then we see Jesus in the New Testament showing up and showing us the way back to the truth of Imago Day as he just loves people of all races, genders, socioeconomic. 00:02:34.319 --> 00:02:50.960 And then Paul expounds on this doctrine in Galatians 3, 28, where he says, there's neither Jew nor Greek, there's neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 00:02:51.199 --> 00:02:54.479 So all of this means in the gospel of Jesus, this is what this means. 00:02:54.639 --> 00:03:02.240 Hatred and racism and racial bias and a lack of moral declaration about any of that, all of that should break our hearts. 00:03:02.479 --> 00:03:04.400 And I know where I'm standing. 00:03:04.800 --> 00:03:06.639 Because I grew up here. 00:03:07.199 --> 00:03:08.879 I've grown up in Georgia my entire life. 00:03:09.039 --> 00:03:10.319 I'm a Southerner. 00:03:10.719 --> 00:03:18.080 And I'm standing in a room of mostly white people, not all white people, mostly white people, in a southern town. 00:03:19.120 --> 00:03:25.360 But to be southern no longer means to be racist or to be racially biased. 00:03:26.960 --> 00:03:32.159 And to be southern is not an excuse to be against the way of Jesus because you're a Christian. 00:03:32.800 --> 00:03:34.960 And you're a Christian before you're a Southerner. 00:03:35.360 --> 00:03:37.520 And you're a Christian before you're a liberal. 00:03:37.680 --> 00:03:40.240 And you're a Christian before you're a conservative. 00:03:42.400 --> 00:03:49.039 And so to be a Christian means that we live in a place of humility and repentance when it comes to this stuff. 00:03:49.599 --> 00:03:58.400 Like eventually, after we weed our way through the judgmentalism, which we all have, we get to the point where we go, oh, I have bias. 00:03:59.680 --> 00:04:01.599 And maybe even racism. 00:04:02.159 --> 00:04:04.400 And that I need to repent of. 00:04:05.840 --> 00:04:07.919 I ran into a prayer this week. 00:04:08.159 --> 00:04:10.800 My mentor Scotty Smith wrote this. 00:04:11.599 --> 00:04:12.400 I'll read it. 00:04:12.639 --> 00:04:20.800 Father, before the values of this world or the father of lies, the tweets on our screens, or the idols of our hearts claim our thinking. 00:04:21.040 --> 00:04:23.600 We surrender our thought lives to you. 00:04:23.839 --> 00:04:29.199 Gladly, Father, we want our thoughts to be captivated with Jesus, by Jesus, for Jesus. 00:04:29.360 --> 00:04:36.560 We want the kingship and reign of Jesus, not the madness and the meanness of our current political scene to rule in our hearts. 00:04:36.720 --> 00:04:46.720 We want the truth and gospel of Jesus, not the spin of social media or the fears of our hearts to shape our reactions, our sleep and our choices. 00:04:46.959 --> 00:04:59.839 We want the mercy and grace of our great high priest Jesus, not our biases or selfishness, to determine how we look at other people, disappointing circumstances or hurtful events. 00:05:00.160 --> 00:05:06.319 May it be, Father, may it be by your grace and for your glory, so very amen. 00:05:06.399 --> 00:05:11.120 We pray in Jesus' glorious and graceful name. 00:05:12.560 --> 00:05:15.920 So there's our lighthearted introduction for this morning. 00:05:16.079 --> 00:05:17.920 And now we'll turn to the real sermon. 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:20.000 That was just kind of an add-on on Thursday. 00:05:20.240 --> 00:05:20.959 Wrote that part. 00:05:21.120 --> 00:05:22.560 Well, here's the regular part of the sermon. 00:05:22.639 --> 00:05:25.439 That's just light-hearted entry to warm us up. 00:05:26.000 --> 00:05:28.399 So Genesis 1, here's this other concept. 00:05:28.480 --> 00:05:31.600 So the one concept that surfaces is Amago Day. 00:05:31.759 --> 00:05:36.800 The other concept that surfaces in Genesis 1 is that time was created. 00:05:36.959 --> 00:05:39.439 This would be such an easy thing to read over. 00:05:39.680 --> 00:05:41.040 Just to pass by. 00:05:54.959 --> 00:05:56.160 See, God created time. 00:05:56.319 --> 00:05:59.680 And let them be lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth. 00:05:59.839 --> 00:06:00.639 And it was so. 00:06:00.800 --> 00:06:06.639 And God made the two great lights, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night, and the stars. 00:06:06.800 --> 00:06:15.120 And God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. 00:06:15.279 --> 00:06:17.519 And God saw that it was good. 00:06:17.759 --> 00:06:21.600 And there was evening and there was morning the fourth day. 00:06:22.079 --> 00:06:23.920 So here's what we see in Genesis. 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:32.560 We see God, who is outside of time, creates time, and within that he creates places and creatures. 00:06:32.879 --> 00:06:34.399 So I learned a little this week. 00:06:34.560 --> 00:06:39.759 The average American, so that's us, we sleep on average eight hours and 50 minutes a night. 00:06:39.920 --> 00:06:40.959 I would have never guessed that. 00:06:41.120 --> 00:06:42.079 We're doing really well. 00:06:42.319 --> 00:06:43.360 I would not have guessed it. 00:06:43.439 --> 00:06:44.959 I would have guessed like seven. 00:06:45.199 --> 00:06:46.319 It would have been my guess. 00:06:46.480 --> 00:06:47.199 We're doing good. 00:06:47.279 --> 00:06:48.399 Let's feel good about ourselves. 00:06:48.480 --> 00:06:50.720 This is a moment to be proud about ourselves. 00:06:50.800 --> 00:06:51.759 That's fantastic. 00:06:52.000 --> 00:06:59.600 By the way, so that means you sleep 28 years out of your 78-year lifespan. 00:06:59.920 --> 00:07:03.120 You sleep 28 years of it. 00:07:03.360 --> 00:07:04.959 And I love that. 00:07:05.920 --> 00:07:09.920 Because I need a break at the end of the day, right? 00:07:10.000 --> 00:07:12.720 I mean, I just need a break from all of it. 00:07:13.279 --> 00:07:17.519 An average American spends five hours a day watching TV. 00:07:17.920 --> 00:07:22.639 And actually, as you get younger into like teenage and students, uh it becomes less. 00:07:22.800 --> 00:07:25.279 So as you're an adult, five hours a day. 00:07:25.600 --> 00:07:29.120 We spend 1.5 years. 00:07:29.519 --> 00:07:33.680 1.5 years of our lives on the toilet. 00:07:33.839 --> 00:07:37.519 I mean, I'll just I thought it was interesting enough to mention. 00:07:38.720 --> 00:07:43.759 That's a good amount of time for contemplation, but we know what's going on on the toilet. 00:07:43.839 --> 00:07:48.000 You're on your phone, which by the way, is 23 days a year. 00:07:48.319 --> 00:07:49.360 23 days a year. 00:07:49.439 --> 00:07:53.519 So if you're needing time, I found time for you. 00:07:54.240 --> 00:07:56.720 23 days a year on your phone. 00:07:56.800 --> 00:08:02.000 And still it's easy to feel like we don't have time or we can't get time under control. 00:08:02.160 --> 00:08:03.439 We think about time all the time. 00:08:03.600 --> 00:08:05.600 That's why we say things like, what time is it? 00:08:05.680 --> 00:08:06.639 I don't have enough time. 00:08:06.720 --> 00:08:07.839 I don't know if we can fit that in. 00:08:07.920 --> 00:08:08.319 I don't know. 00:08:08.560 --> 00:08:08.879 I don't know. 00:08:09.040 --> 00:08:10.480 Are you wasting my time? 00:08:10.639 --> 00:08:10.800 Right? 00:08:10.959 --> 00:08:12.079 Like that's the worst feeling. 00:08:12.240 --> 00:08:14.079 Are you wasting my time? 00:08:14.240 --> 00:08:16.720 You ever had someone text you an address? 00:08:17.199 --> 00:08:18.720 And they just messed up. 00:08:18.800 --> 00:08:28.720 Like one little number, but it sent you to the wrong place, and then you're trying to figure it out, and you're looking it up, and you're calling, and you're going, they are wasting my time. 00:08:28.959 --> 00:08:38.639 Or you had a boyfriend in college, and he should have broken up with you at month six, but he didn't break up with you till month 14. 00:08:39.279 --> 00:08:44.399 And you get to month 14, and you're like, you wasted my time. 00:08:44.559 --> 00:08:45.440 It's a bad feeling. 00:08:45.519 --> 00:08:49.759 I used to work somewhere, we would have these meetings, their most inefficient meetings. 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:50.799 I hated them. 00:08:50.960 --> 00:08:55.679 I hated them so much that I would take a Coke and crackers into the meeting, every meeting. 00:08:55.759 --> 00:09:07.840 And just at the point where I was about to become the unibomber in that place, just at that moment, I would open my Coke and crackers and have my snack, and I would just eat it strategically the rest of the meeting. 00:09:08.159 --> 00:09:10.480 Because you're wasting my time. 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:14.799 And we all, we all hate that. 00:09:15.440 --> 00:09:20.960 So I want to jump from I want to jump from Genesis, this idea of time. 00:09:21.120 --> 00:09:22.320 We know the feeling of time. 00:09:22.480 --> 00:09:24.080 We can know the feeling of the crushing of time. 00:09:24.159 --> 00:09:27.279 I don't have enough time, or you're wasting my time. 00:09:27.519 --> 00:09:35.360 But I want to jump from this idea of time being created in Genesis to two words that are in the New Testament about time, which give us great insight about time. 00:09:35.440 --> 00:09:36.879 And the first word is Kronos. 00:09:36.960 --> 00:09:43.120 This is this word throughout the New Testament, and it's pretty much any time that we we see this word in the New Testament. 00:09:43.200 --> 00:09:45.200 It's just the passage of time. 00:09:45.519 --> 00:09:48.720 It's just time passing, one moment after another. 00:09:48.879 --> 00:09:52.080 It's the way most of us think about time most of the time. 00:09:52.240 --> 00:09:53.840 You're wasting my time. 00:09:55.039 --> 00:10:00.480 You would say something like, Russ, I think it's about time for this sermon to pick up the pace. 00:10:00.879 --> 00:10:03.679 That would be the way you would use Kronos. 00:10:04.080 --> 00:10:06.159 Okay, well, I totally agree with you. 00:10:06.240 --> 00:10:07.360 So, second word. 00:10:07.759 --> 00:10:08.480 Kairos. 00:10:08.799 --> 00:10:11.519 Kairos is time as meaning. 00:10:11.919 --> 00:10:14.320 So some have called it deep time. 00:10:14.960 --> 00:10:20.240 It's not just time passing, it's not the clicking of the clock, it's what time brings. 00:10:20.559 --> 00:10:31.600 It's the moment, it's that moment when your existence and your relationships or your job or your friendships, your family means something. 00:10:31.840 --> 00:10:32.240 Right? 00:10:32.399 --> 00:10:38.000 It's not just living in a moment that's passing, but it means something. 00:10:38.639 --> 00:10:47.039 So we live and we operate most of our days wrapped up in chronos, but we want an existence of Kairos. 00:10:47.519 --> 00:10:50.879 Now, this word Kairos is used in Ephesians 5, 15, and 16. 00:10:50.960 --> 00:10:53.840 This is as much our text this morning than the Genesis passage. 00:10:54.080 --> 00:11:02.080 Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise, making the best use of the time. 00:11:03.279 --> 00:11:05.039 Because the days are evil. 00:11:05.440 --> 00:11:07.840 Okay, so making the best use of Kairos. 00:11:08.320 --> 00:11:10.320 So Paul's saying, I want you to have Kairos. 00:11:10.399 --> 00:11:13.759 I want you to have time as meaning, not just time passing by. 00:11:13.919 --> 00:11:16.559 I want you to have time as meaning. 00:11:16.799 --> 00:11:18.240 And you go, well, that's a lot of pressure. 00:11:18.399 --> 00:11:23.759 Well, in the context of this Ephesians 5, Paul has just showered you already in those first few chapters. 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:30.960 You are saved by grace, not by you being the most time efficient, and you can manage your time, and every moment means everything. 00:11:31.120 --> 00:11:39.519 At this point in Ephesians, when you get Ephesians 5, you are so secure in the grace of God that it is not by your work and your production and your meaning. 00:11:39.679 --> 00:11:44.559 You are like, I am a child of God based by the saved by grace, by Jesus' work alone. 00:11:44.799 --> 00:11:46.320 I am good forever. 00:11:46.480 --> 00:11:49.279 I don't have to prove anything, earn anything, I am good. 00:11:49.440 --> 00:11:55.200 And then Paul says, by the way, because of that, make the best use of your kairos. 00:11:56.159 --> 00:12:00.080 May your time not just pass by, but mean something. 00:12:00.879 --> 00:12:01.840 So a few points. 00:12:02.000 --> 00:12:05.200 Number one, if we think back to Genesis, God's eternal. 00:12:05.440 --> 00:12:10.960 The fact that God created time and he was outside of it, God is eternal. 00:12:11.120 --> 00:12:19.279 Not meaning he exists and lives forever, because that would be a language and a framework of time, if you're tracking with me just for a moment here. 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:23.840 It actually means that God exists outside of time, where time does not exist. 00:12:23.919 --> 00:12:28.159 And that's about all we can say about it, because I think anything more than that we're just not going to understand. 00:12:28.480 --> 00:12:43.440 But God exists outside of time, which does mean a lot for us, even if we can't get our minds around it all the time, because it means there's a type of existence for us that's outside of the burden of Kronos. 00:12:45.440 --> 00:12:48.480 It means there's some sort of deeper meaning to life. 00:12:50.080 --> 00:12:54.879 Point number two God created and we live in both Kronos and Kairos. 00:12:55.440 --> 00:12:58.639 So our our hope, our hope, we know this feeling, but our hope is. 00:12:58.799 --> 00:13:03.200 Our hope is to live not defined and bound by the clock. 00:13:04.080 --> 00:13:08.799 But to be connected to Kairos, to have some meaning for all of these moments that are passing by. 00:13:08.960 --> 00:13:10.080 And this is a shift. 00:13:10.240 --> 00:13:16.320 This is a shift of going like, what time is it to what is my time for? 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:21.600 That shift from what time is it to what is my time for? 00:13:21.759 --> 00:13:28.720 And like I said, as a child of God, you get to ask that question without any guilt or shame or anxiety. 00:13:28.960 --> 00:13:30.879 You get to ask it freely. 00:13:31.440 --> 00:13:32.879 What's my time for? 00:13:35.600 --> 00:13:42.399 Yesterday we spent the day with my college roommate and his wife and their four kids, and I asked him when he wanted to retire. 00:13:42.879 --> 00:13:49.120 It might seem like a funny question because I'm 38 and he's 39, and that'd be like really early to ask that question. 00:13:49.279 --> 00:13:56.000 But I had I remembered years ago, and he's a smart, successful, like hard savings guy. 00:13:56.159 --> 00:14:01.440 And so years ago, I remember he had said he wanted to retire between the ages of 45 and 50. 00:14:01.759 --> 00:14:07.440 And well, now he's 39, he's gonna be 40 in November, and I was wondering like, like, when does he want to retire? 00:14:07.519 --> 00:14:09.759 Like, he's thinking the same thing. 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:12.639 And he said, you know, that's so interesting you asked me that. 00:14:12.799 --> 00:14:15.519 He said, because I've actually changed. 00:14:15.759 --> 00:14:29.919 He said, I did, I used to want to retire between the ages of 45 to 50, but then his brother died while his brother had little kids, and then one of his good friends died earlier this year, who had little kids. 00:14:30.240 --> 00:14:38.720 And he said, I realized I could work really hard and save really hard and retire between the ages of 45 and 50. 00:14:38.879 --> 00:14:42.000 And when I get to be about 50, my kids are gonna be out of my house. 00:14:43.360 --> 00:14:45.039 And I'm gonna wasted all that time. 00:14:47.279 --> 00:14:49.440 He said, So I've rearranged what I'm doing. 00:14:49.679 --> 00:14:51.120 I'm still saving, I'm still gonna retire. 00:14:51.200 --> 00:14:53.120 I'm it's gonna be I'll probably be 60. 00:14:53.279 --> 00:14:57.279 He's like, but I'm spending more money on my kids and more time with my kids. 00:14:58.159 --> 00:14:58.559 Right? 00:14:58.879 --> 00:14:59.919 What is he saying here? 00:15:00.080 --> 00:15:03.279 Well, he shifted what time is it to what is time for? 00:15:05.120 --> 00:15:10.799 He began to ask that bigger question, not just the question of Kronos, but Kairos. 00:15:11.120 --> 00:15:13.600 Like, what is this time for? 00:15:15.120 --> 00:15:16.960 These moments right now. 00:15:17.519 --> 00:15:22.799 Now, maybe perhaps at this point you're feeling really bad because you do spend 23 days a year on your phone. 00:15:22.960 --> 00:15:26.559 Actually, when I give you that stat, you're like, there's no way it's 23. 00:15:26.639 --> 00:15:31.679 It's gotta be 60, 70 days a year because I'm on it all the time. 00:15:32.159 --> 00:15:35.840 Or maybe your life is not filled with like Mother Teresa meaning. 00:15:36.000 --> 00:15:40.720 Like you're like goozing Mother Teresa, you know, Billy Graham meaning into the world. 00:15:40.799 --> 00:15:43.759 You're like, I have I'm not even close to it. 00:15:44.480 --> 00:15:55.519 Maybe you aren't punctual, maybe you're inefficient, maybe you don't just watch The Bachelor, you'll like re-watch old episodes of The Bachelor, which would be like the biggest waste of time possible. 00:15:55.840 --> 00:16:00.159 But I've watched a rerun of 9 of 210 before, so I cannot stay much. 00:16:00.320 --> 00:16:02.480 I mean, is Dylan gonna be okay? 00:16:03.440 --> 00:16:05.440 Some of you know what I'm talking about. 00:16:05.679 --> 00:16:07.679 And you gotta watch, you gotta know. 00:16:09.440 --> 00:16:10.480 Well, here's the good news. 00:16:10.639 --> 00:16:11.600 Bad news first. 00:16:11.840 --> 00:16:13.519 We all know the bad news. 00:16:14.080 --> 00:16:16.559 We're not perfect with time. 00:16:16.879 --> 00:16:18.240 Okay, bad news first. 00:16:18.399 --> 00:16:20.720 We are all failures before time. 00:16:20.879 --> 00:16:24.240 None of us are making the most of our chronos and our kairos. 00:16:24.559 --> 00:16:25.840 None of us are. 00:16:26.080 --> 00:16:32.080 Which means, here comes the good news, which means this is not about us being perfect with our time. 00:16:32.399 --> 00:16:41.039 This is about this is about us realizing what Ephesians has taught us leading up to this, make the most of your time, that you are saved by the grace of God. 00:16:41.200 --> 00:16:49.200 You're already set free from time being a burden over you, and you get to ask the question what's time for? 00:16:50.399 --> 00:16:52.879 This leads us to point number three, sort of a recap. 00:16:53.039 --> 00:17:02.080 God, who is outside of time, came into time in the person of Jesus to rescue us from our failure before time. 00:17:02.879 --> 00:17:05.759 This is the narrative set from the very beginning in Genesis. 00:17:05.920 --> 00:17:16.240 Last week we broke it apart, really dissected, and we said, Oh, we see Elohim, and we see the Spirit, and then we see the Christ, and they were all here from the very beginning. 00:17:16.640 --> 00:17:36.240 And then we saw in John how John's writing in his gospel in the New Testament about the Christ, and the word was in the beginning, and now the Christ is coming, the incarnation of God's love for us, and the Christ comes to live his life, to be the sacrifice for us because of our failure to take on our sin upon himself and to give to us his righteousness. 00:17:36.480 --> 00:17:38.880 This was the plan the entire time. 00:17:40.640 --> 00:17:40.880 Right? 00:17:41.119 --> 00:17:42.480 Romans 5, verse 6. 00:17:42.640 --> 00:17:47.519 For while we were still weak at the right time, Christ died for the ungodly. 00:17:47.839 --> 00:17:49.839 So we wrestle with this issue of time. 00:17:50.000 --> 00:17:51.200 How will I spend my time? 00:17:51.359 --> 00:17:52.400 Am I wasting my time? 00:17:52.480 --> 00:17:56.319 Or we beat ourselves up over years of feeling like we've wasted time. 00:17:58.480 --> 00:18:03.359 Maybe you feel like you beat yourself up, like I'm not radical enough, I'm not devoted enough. 00:18:03.680 --> 00:18:05.759 I've got to use my time better. 00:18:06.160 --> 00:18:11.920 And the secret is not to be radical enough or to think you're gonna get yourself devoted enough. 00:18:12.000 --> 00:18:14.160 That's a carrot you will not get to. 00:18:15.759 --> 00:18:23.200 The secret is to abide in the one who has always been perfect before time was even created. 00:18:26.079 --> 00:18:32.559 Jesus frees you to live in Kairos without having to be Mother Teresa or Bonna or Oprah. 00:18:32.799 --> 00:18:34.160 You can just be normal. 00:18:35.359 --> 00:18:39.200 You can rest when you rest and work when you work and love your family and love your friends. 00:18:39.359 --> 00:18:43.039 And that has a great, great meaning in this world. 00:18:47.519 --> 00:18:54.160 And deeper than all of that, we find our meaning most of all in the fact that we are God's beloved because of Jesus for us. 00:18:54.400 --> 00:18:59.359 So, my brothers and sisters, may you know the one who is outside of time and may you abide in him. 00:18:59.680 --> 00:19:01.039 Let's pray together. 00:19:02.079 --> 00:19:04.319 God, thank you for your goodness to us. 00:19:04.880 --> 00:19:10.400 These great concepts of today, Amago Day, and Kronos and Kairos. 00:19:11.759 --> 00:19:18.240 God forgive us for the ways that we are failures before other people. 00:19:19.359 --> 00:19:21.759 As we sit in judgment so quickly. 00:19:22.400 --> 00:19:24.319 We hold bias so quickly. 00:19:27.839 --> 00:19:31.440 Would you give us a spirit of humility and repentance as a church? 00:19:36.480 --> 00:19:37.200 Forgiveness. 00:19:38.000 --> 00:19:39.039 Not revenge. 00:19:40.319 --> 00:19:41.440 Not entitlement. 00:19:44.000 --> 00:19:48.079 God, when it comes to time, would you forgive us for all the ways that we do waste time? 00:19:48.319 --> 00:19:50.559 Not that we would grow on our guilt. 00:19:51.920 --> 00:19:53.359 We just say we're not perfect. 00:19:53.839 --> 00:19:56.240 We know the goal is not perfection. 00:19:57.519 --> 00:20:01.599 God, would you give us the freedom in Jesus to ask, what's our time for? 00:20:03.039 --> 00:20:06.319 How can we have meaning in our lives? 00:20:07.200 --> 00:20:08.400 How can we love more? 00:20:10.160 --> 00:20:19.680 God, we thank you for the great gift of Jesus that has that allows us to ask these types of questions without the guilt and the shame of performance. 00:20:20.319 --> 00:20:21.839 We pray this in Jesus' name. 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:22.400 Amen.