Ecclesiastes 3:1-15 Worshiping the God Who Is Lord Over Time

Worshiping the God Who Is Lord Over Time Oct 8, 2017

In our secular culture, life is defined without God. Our world and we as humans are considered as accidents that came about by an incomprehensible amount of time plus chance. Scientists usually only consider how the world came into existence not who brought it into existence. The end of the world is described in terms of an asteroid colliding with the earth. Again, merely chance, or the end may come by global warming which of course humans are the culprits. The end result of such secular dogmas is blasphemies and cursing. Certainly not worship. This passage focuses on the God who is Lord over Time () and the result is standing in awe of God and worshipping the Creator and Sustainer of this world and of our lives.

of this world and of our lives.

I. The Living God Controls Time –

A. Our life is determined by God

1. When we are born, God breathes life into us – ; ; ,

2. God creates each person –

3. The day of our death is foreordained –

B. Life is full of activity

1. A time to plant and a time to harvest –

2. A time for war and a time to heal –

3. A time to gain and a time to lose –

4. A time for silence – ;

5. A time to speak –

What profit has the worker in all his labors? –

II. Rest in the Sovereign God –

A. He makes everything beautiful in its own time –

1. “We know God works all things for good to those who love Him and are called according to His purpose” –

2. God has a purpose for every season under heaven –

B. God has made each of us in His image with an awareness of eternity “For when unbelievers, who do not have the law, by nature do the things in the law . . . who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and between themselves their thoughts accusing or else excusing them in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.” –

their conscience also bearing witness, and between themselves their thoughts accusing or else excusing them in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.” –

C. Rejoice and do good –

1. Enjoy the good of your own labor; it is a gift of God –

2. Worship when you eat the labors of your hands

3. Those who desire their own self-expression and self-satisfaction will never be genuinely happy because someone, somewhere will be having more happiness that they are.

The Westminster Confession of Faith summarizes:

5. I. God the great Creator of all things does uphold, direct, dispose, and govern all creatures, actions, and things, from the greatest even to the least, by His most wise and holy providence, according to His infallible foreknowledge, and the free and immutable counsel of His own will, to the praise of the glory of His wisdom, power, justice, goodness, and mercy.

and things, from the greatest even to the least, by His most wise and holy providence, according to

His infallible foreknowledge, and the free and immutable counsel of His own will, to the praise of the

glory of His wisdom, power, justice, goodness, and mercy.

III. Fear the God of Time –

A. Who can change the purpose of this God of Time?

1. He does not change –

2. Who can make straight what God has made crooked? –

B. We must worship the Triune God

1. God in the fullness of time sent His Son –

2. At the right time Jesus died for the ungodly –

3. Today is the day of salvation –

Come to Christ today! The God of Time is your salvation. Jesus is the Man for all seasons!