Pastor: Olu Brown

Title: Time: Chronos

Scripture: Ecclesiastes 3: 1-2 CEB

1 There’s a season for everything and a time for every matter under the heavens: 2 a time for giving birth and a time for dying, a time for planting and a time for uprooting what was planted…

Introduction:

Sitting on the Dock of the Bay by Otis Redding

“Sittin' in the mornin' sun

I'll be sittin' when the evenin' comes

Watching the ships roll in

Then I watch 'em roll away again…”

Life Cycles

· Birth, Living, Dying, Planting, Growing, Harvesting

Chronos: Natural Time

I. An assignment of time

· Chronos

· A season for everything

· Birth, Living, Dying, Planting, Growing, Harvesting

II. An assignment of Destiny

· There is an appointed time

· Sitting on the Dock of the Bay by Otis Redding

“Look like nothin's gonna change

Everything, still remains the same

I can't do what ten people tell me to do

So I guess I'll remain the same…”

III. An assignment of Responsibility

· My life

· My time

· My responsibility