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[ Silence ] [MUSIC PLAYING] I am redeemed, bought with a price. Jesus has changed my whole life.

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Oh, if anybody asks, just who I am, ♪ I am redeemed ♪ ♪ I am redeemed ♪ ♪ Oh, I've been lost ♪

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♪ Jesus has changed ♪ ♪ Has changed my whole life ♪ ♪ Oh, anybody should ♪ ♪ Anybody ask me ♪

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♪ Just who I am ♪ ♪ Who I am ♪ ♪ Tell them ♪ ♪ Tell them ♪

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♪ I am ♪ ♪ I am ♪ ♪ I am ♪ ♪ Redeemed ♪

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♪ Where there was hate ♪ ♪ Love now abides ♪ ♪ Where there was confusion ♪ ♪ Peace now reigns ♪

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♪ I'm walking with Jesus ♪ ♪ I'm a child of the King ♪ ♪ All because I've been redeemed ♪ ♪ Oh, I am ♪

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♪ I am redeemed ♪ I've been ♪ Fought with, fought with the fight ♪ ♪ Jesus has changed, Jesus ♪

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♪ Oh yes he has ♪ ♪ Has changed my whole life ♪ ♪ Oh, if anybody should ask you ♪ ♪ If anybody asks you ♪

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♪ Oh, just who I am ♪ ♪ Tell, who I am ♪ ♪ Tell them ♪ ♪ Tell them ♪

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♪ Tell 'em I am ♪ ♪ I am redeemed ♪ ♪ I'll tell of his favor ♪ ♪ I've got to tell of his love ♪

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♪ Got to tell somebody about his goodness to me ♪ This is what he did. ♪ He purchased my redemption ♪ ♪ With his own precious blood ♪

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♪ And from sin I've been set free ♪ I gotta tell somebody Oh just who I am this is what I want you to tell them that I I will tell of God's favor. I'll tell of His love.

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I've got to tell somebody of His goodness to me. Has He done anything for you? Oh, he purchased my redemption with his own precious blood. And from sin I've been set free.

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Oh, I am, oh yes I am. I've been bought with a price. Jesus has changed, not the same. Has changed my whole life.

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Oh, if anybody should ask you, just who, who is that man? Who? Tell them for me. Tell them.

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Tell them. Tell them. I want you to tell them. Tell them.

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(Song) "Heaven, I am, I am, I am, I am, I am, redeemed." (Applause) (Song ends) (Song begins)

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...engaged in a series of sermons based on the letter of the apostle Paul to the Romans. Today we continue, as we call your prayerful attention to Romans V, 5, and 6, reading from the newly revised Standard Version. For while we were still weak, at the right time, Christ died for the ungodly.

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We want to focus on just three words in this particular passage--the right time. We cannot save ourselves. We cannot lift ourselves up by our own bootstraps. We need someone greater than ourselves, someone who has the power to redeem us, someone who

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is able to deliver us from the horrible pit of death. We stand before God in a new relationship that Paul tells us about. It is a new relationship we have with him through Jesus Christ, our Savior and our Lord. It is a relationship established by God himself.

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We are no longer victims of the wrath of God, but recipients of his grace. We have access to God. The bad conscience which otherwise would always scare us away from God has been silenced. It is not because we have set ourselves right in such a way that the bad conscience finds

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nothing else of which to accuse us, but because Christ has put his terrible watchman into the chains before God's holy throne and silenced him. While we were yet helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. King James Version of the Bible says, "In due time Christ died for the ungodly."

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Barclay says, "In God's own time." We are slaves of time. We're in a race with time. We're creatures of time.

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What time is it? We ask. And some even now may be looking at their watch to say you've got just 30 minutes. We have no time of our own.

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There is no time that we completely control. The moment we tell someone the time, that very moment, it is already changed. Time is fleeting. All time belongs to God.

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The preacher says, "To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heavens." to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to pluck up that which is planted, a time to kill, a time to heal, a time to break down and a time to build up, a time

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to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to cast away stones and a time to get stones together, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, a time to get and a time to lose, a time to keep and a time to cast away, a time to rend and a time to sow, a time to keep silence, and a time to speak, a time to love, and a

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time to hate, a time of war, and a time of peace. God has made everything beautiful in His time. He has set eternity in the heart of man. Now we think of time as something that may be measured.

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Sometimes we think of it as being measured in an hourglass, sand running through the hourglass, or something determined by the hands of a clock. few days we will change time. Sometimes we move it up an hour, sometimes we move it back an hour. But I want us not only to think of time as we usually do,

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in terms of something that is measured by seasons, years, clocks, and events. But let's look at it as the ancient Greeks had at least two words.

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They had more than two, but I want to lift up these two words that the Greeks had for time. The first is chronos, C-H-R-O-N-O-S, chronos. And the other is karos, K-A-R-O-S,

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chronos and karos. These are the two words, chronos and karos. Now we understand chronos, that has to do with the word from which we have chronology,

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chronological, time and sequence, year after year. year after year. We celebrated some birthdays a few moments ago and Kronos moves on like that. Sometimes it moves too fast for us. We say tempest-fugit, time flies. We'd like to back up a little, backward old backward, just for a night.

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We say make me a child again. Chronos. Chronos. A time that moves by seasons.

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In fact, when I was a boy it was very popular for older people to have different ages. You know, they'd have one age that was the actual age and another that was the insurance age. age. They would put their age back because they could write the insurance a little cheaper, you know. So we were moving around with time in that process. But that's Kronos. We understand

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that. They have so much time. The service begins, the first service at eight o'clock And we expect to be out around nine o'clock. That's Kronos. Kronos.

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And we look at our watches to see what time it may be. Kronos. But there's also Kairos.

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Kronos, as we have children who, well, they ought not to reverend, they ought not to join the church until they're 12. That's Kronos. Wait until they're 12. He doesn't know yet. Wait until he's 12 years. Why? Well, Jesus did it at 12, so let's have

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him wait until 12. But Kairos says it's whenever God reveals himself in such a manner that He accepts him as Lord and Savior. That's kairos. That's a moment in time.

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It has to do with the fulfillment of time where God comes in in time and changes the situation. It's an event, not something measured on about a clock. It's an event. Kairos.

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Kronos Kau. Well, a young man takes a young lady to the movie and he wants to kiss the young lady. This is the first date. And she says, "No, no.

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You don't kiss me on the first date." That's Kronos. Well, when is the right time to kiss a lady? Well, we're dealing now with Kairos.

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And Paul here refers to kairos, at the right time. God acts at the right time, at the right time, right time. Kronos, a measure of days, a mark on the calendar. Kairos is to seize the moment.

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is a moment of opportunity. In other words, there is a window of opportunity, and while that window is up, you better get in. That's cause. And Paul says, "At the right time, God sent forth his Son." And Jesus puts it another way. He says, "In the fullness of When the time was fulfilled, the kingdom comes, the fulfillment of time.

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So here we have the two, Kronos and Kairos. Children of Israel come down to the Red Sea, and the sea opens and they march through. There's a wall on either side and they march through on dry land and

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then when They get on the other side it closes that's power The Egyptians tried but it doesn't work Chronos the time of the years the days the hours and

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the seizing of opportunity. God is present and we are to seize that opportunity where He reveals Himself, in other words, the eternal and the temporary. Those are the two times represented here by those two words, the eternal and the temporary. The Bible tells us that the eternal enters history and has relationships with God, with

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man. The eternal comes where we are. wonderful thing to know that as time is ebbing away, as our time passes on and as we see the effects of it in the wrinkles on our faces and the baldness in our

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heads, we see what Kronos is doing to us. But there is time that is beyond and And this is the eternal Eternal and the eternal does not change the eternal remains

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always the same I Looked at my baby picture the other day and I could see a few resemblance But Chronos is

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is changing us and and we are always in the race with Kronos that we always lose We never win that race with time so the Bible talks about the eternal

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Entering into history and this is what Paul is trying to to lay out before his readers that in the midst of all of of the changes that have occurred in human history, God at the right time, God at the right time, steps into the picture and, in other words, He invades our lives.

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He doesn't ask whether or not He can come. He breaks in. He invades our life, and as He invades our lives, He is instrumental in changing our relationship with Him, our relationship with ourselves, our relationship with others.

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God does that through Jesus Christ, and He acts as the Eternal. He's eternal. So whenever you're hooked up with God, you don't have to set a timetable for God. Don't set a timetable for Him.

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He's in control. And when I look at the church, I don't measure the future of the church by what's going to happen right under my administration. Well, He's been here 20 years, 30 years, and what happened?

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God controls it, the eternal enters into history, and the eternal decides what's going to be. So the real challenge for us this morning is whether or not we are rightly related to the eternal.

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It doesn't matter about what you may have, what may be your ailments this morning, or any other morning. The real question is whether or not

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we are rightly related to the eternal. Keep your hands in the hands of the eternal, and when you are in the hands of the eternal, then you are prepared for whatever may happen. So Kairos is Jesus' time.

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It's the presence of the eternal and the temporary. Jesus is our eternal contemporary. Let me say that again. Jesus is our eternal contemporary.

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In other words, he is always with us. We don't have to worry about whether you are in this period of your life, or this other period of your life,

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or any period of your life. If Jesus, our eternal contemporary, He is with us in our youth and our infancy, He is with us in our old age, He is with us always, not only in our history, He is with us beyond our history.

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He is with us. So the wonderful thing that Paul says here, "At the right time." In other words, at the right time, the Eternal invades history. It's in the fullness of time that Jesus is born.

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So when God acts, the Eternal acts, there's nothing that can negate His action. Herod may have his forces, and they go about raiding and upsetting all things in the community, for a male child seeking to thwart the will of the eternal but Jesus is born he's born even though they have no room for him in the manger Jesus is born and

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He grows up and does His work. We cannot defeat or destroy the Eternal. So, as we look at this picture, the Eternal invades time, the Eternal is represented in the fullness of time that Christ died. There was no God in the lives of many, but God came and changed the course of their history, the eternal invaded time. So the Bible tells

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us that the way of this life is the one in which time will one day run out. So it's important that we be hooked up with the eternal. You know most of the things we do are rooted in the temporary clothes we wear. They'll be out of style in short time. You know you have a small time one while and there's a large time

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another we have a certain style this time and another style another time all of that is temporary. The house you live in and the things that we do in this world are all temporary, but there is the eternal. And the plea of the apostle here is that at the right time, in other words, at the right time, God's own time, in God's

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own time, He acts. So there comes a time when all of these temporary things will pass away. John talks about it in Revelation and it's the time that the saints of God are sure that they are hooked up with the eternal. Someday, somewhere, someday, somewhere all of the peoples of this world will gather to

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the mount of God. People everywhere of all languages will gather to that mountain. somewhere. Someday somewhere the persons who looked upon as being poor would be able to sit under their own vine and fig tree and there shall be none to make

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them afraid. Someday somewhere, someday somewhere every valley shall be exalted and every mountain shall be made low. Someday, somewhere. Someday, somewhere the lion and the lamb

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will lie down together. Someday, somewhere. Someday, somewhere men shall beat swords into plowshares and spears into pruning hooks and study war no longer.

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Someday, somewhere. Someday, somewhere time will run out And the angel Gabriel will put one foot on land, the other on sea, and declare time no longer to be.

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Someday, somewhere, it will all happen. Someday, somewhere. God is the eternal. And the wonderful thing is that the eternal

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enters history and identifies with the temporary. We talk about it in the song when we sing and he walks with me and he talks with me and he tells me that I am his own and the joy we share as we tarry there none other has ever known. So we come to this point.

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Only you can answer this question as to whether you are hooked up with the eternal. When I was a little boy, there were those who responded to the call and some came because they were embarrassed or humiliated. But I said I'm going to wait until I know God has acted in my life.

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And God does act. He does act. And the time came and I can never forget it When he acted in my life to change it not not because someone else did it but because God did it

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He acted in my life and so Whenever that time comes brothers and sisters Whenever that time comes it's morning

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It's morning Whenever that time comes this morning in your life. It's a new day For a new person with a new destiny. It's morning. I'm so glad I met God

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one morning When my day was at its best and his presence came like sunrise Like a glory in my breast all day long that presence lingered all day long He stayed with me and we sailed with perfect calmness or very

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respectful see so I Think I know the secret learn from any a day That if you see God in the morning

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He'll be with you through the day So we ask you to come This is not this is morning

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It's the dawn of a new day, a new opportunity, a window of opportunity in which you may enter in the morning. For if you seek Him in the morning, He'll be with you throughout the day.

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Come. We invite you to come by letter, by Christian experience or on profession of faith. For you, for me, for each one of us in the temporary

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to be hooked up with the eternal, to go from pronos to having fellowship with caros. That's the invitation we extend to you in the hearing now. Come.

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Come. ♪ If you seek God ♪ ♪ In the morning ♪ ♪ He'll be with you ♪

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♪ All through the day ♪ ♪ If you ask him ♪ ♪ To go with you ♪ ♪ He'll be with you ♪

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♪ All of the way ♪ ♪ You must give him ♪ ♪ All your troubles ♪ ♪ At his feet ♪

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♪ Be a burdened slave ♪ ♪ If you seek God ♪ ♪ In the morning ♪ ♪ He'll go with you ♪

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[music] ♪ You must give him all your troubles ♪ ♪ And his feet your burden plain ♪ ♪ If you seek God in the morning ♪

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♪ He'll be with you all through the day ♪ ♪ You must deal with all your troubles ♪ ♪ You must deal with all your troubles ♪ ♪ At his feet your burdens lay ♪

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♪ If you seek God in the morning ♪ ♪ He'll be with you ♪ with you all through the day. All through the day.

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[APPLAUSE] Let's all say amen. Amen. Jesus was betrayed that he observed this meal with his disciples.

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It is a love feast. The table of the Lord is prepared for all of the Lord's people, those who honor Jesus as Lord and Savior, those who accept him as such in their lives, a privilege to commune at his table.

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The psalmist says he prepares a table for us in the presence of our enemies. In the presence of all of the adversities and all of the negative circumstances that we may face,

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is this table. It is a diet for every disciple. It's a diet for us as we travel through the wilderness of this world. The diet that will sustain us. A diet provided by God himself, the body and blood of his son Jesus Christ, who died and rose again that we may live triumphantly in his name. Let us bow our heads.

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That's God's blessings upon us and upon this bread and this cup. Lord, we thank you that you have brought us thus far along life's way and as we bow today we remember your goodness and your grace, the time when we encountered you and how you have changed our lives and how you have been with us in our sickness, in our

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joys, in our sorrows. We thank you as we come to celebrate your goodness and your mercy around this table. Bless the bread representing the broken body of our Lord and the cup representing his shed blood and may we give our energies in serving him looking forward to that day when we shall all gather in that great banquet

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around the great white throne. We ask in Jesus name, Amen. [BLANK_AUDIO]