The Time To Respond | Elder Ang Peng Hoe

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will light up your day. I'm going to read the verses, and then

after that I'm going to dissect it so that we have a clear understanding.

Okay, it accuses this chapter three, verse one to fifteen. I'm reading

from the NLT, and he just says, a time for everything verse one.

For everything, there is a season, a time for every activity under

heaven. A time to be born and a time to die, a time

to plant and a time to have us. A time to kill and a

time to heal. A time to tear down and a time to build up.

A time to cry and a time to laugh, a time to grieve

and a time to dance. A time to scatter stones and a time to

gather stones. A time to embrace and a time to turn away. A

time to search and a time to quit searching. A time to keep and

a time to throw away, a time to tear, tear, and a

time to men. A time to be quiet and a time to speak,

a time to love and a time to hate, A time for war and

a time for peace. Verse nine. What do people really get for all

their hard work? I have seen the burden God has placed on us all

Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity

in the human heart. But even so people cannot see the whole scope of

God's work from beginning to end. So I concluded there is nothing better than

to be happy and enjoy ourselves as long as we can. And people should

eat and drink and enjoy the fruits of their labor, for these are gifts

from God verse fourteen. And I know that whatever God does is final.

Nothing can be added to it or taken from it. God's purpose is that

people should fear him. What is happening now has happened before, and what

will happen in the future has happened before, because God makes the same things

happen over and over again. Okay, I know Dema is quite philosophical.

This is King Solomon in his life last days, contemplating about life. And

this is one character who has lived life. I don't know whether I can

call it to the foolers or in a foolish way. King Solomon, the

one who decided to marry one thousand people, one thousand, seven hundred wives

and three hundred concubines beyond me. But there is a time for everything.

It starts with birth, and then there will come a time when the clock

will stop ticking for each one of us, and the hour will come is

something that we can alter. That's why sometimes when I teach them, when

I preach, I tell people that death is the only inevitability in life,

but years sometimes when it comes, we are shocked by it, and naturally

so, because again, death has a way of creeping up on earth when

we least expect it to happen, even though we are reminded that it will

happen one day, but we don't know when it will happen. But this

is the precious com quodity of time that we all have. And we may

have difference, we may come from different social standings. May I be earning

more, you be earning less, or I be earning less and you'll be

earning more. But the truth is all of us have got twenty four hours

a day, and that's the reality of it. What we do with the

time therefore, decides on where we spend eternity. I think that it's something

that we need to be clear off and it's a very important subject. That

we have here. You will have heard this passage, read it often.

I'm not sure what you make of it as you're reading this passage, because

some people, when they read this passage, they will take the view that

or everything is within our human capacity to decide the appropriate time to do something.

So really they're saying, there is a time and a place for everything,

and we decide ourselves what to make of it. Okay, so some

people take that view, you see. But the trouble is that the English

translation for this versus makes well most of them translated as a time, there

is a time for this, a time for that. But actually the better

way to translate it is the time. The article. The usage of the

article should have been more accurately translated as the time. And actually you see

that in the Good News Bible. For some strange reason, the Good News

Bible translated translates it quite accurately the time. And therefore the message that should

come true is that it is not your choice to choose the time. It

is already chosen. It's definitive when you use the It's more definitive than just

er when you say, there you know that it's chosen. The time is

fixed. But with that understanding and that view, some people take a fatalistic

view of life and how and what that means is this, they feel that

the times have so been fixed and there's nothing you can do about it.

Everything is in the hand of faith, everything is fitted. You have you

met people like that, it's fait, it's predetermined and it's inevitable. That

means no matter what, you got no part to play in it. You

just need to accept it. Actually, sometimes that's how even our Muslim brothers

and sisters, they view life in a very fatalistic view. That's why you

always hear them saying some more conduct to hand. It is fixed ready,

there's nothing I can do about it. If this is supposed to happen,

it's supposed to happen, just let it be. But if you study this

passage carefully, I believe it teaches us neither that it is our choice to

choose the time, nor do we just have to accept things in a fatalistic

manner. I believe the truth lies somewhere in between those two extreme views.

And what the philosopher is trying to teach us here, what Solomon is trying

to help us understand, is how do we respond to the tides of time?

I think that's going to be key for us to understand that. And

you understand tides. How many of you all know what tides are? Ever

been to the ocean, ever been to the seaside? Basically, that's the

tide coming in. It's like the waves that bring the water to the shore.

And then you know there's high tide, there is low tide. Sometimes

the waves are high. Sometimes you can walk mouths onto the ocean, the

sea and there is it's all land because that is low time. So really,

how we respond to the tides of time is very important. How do

we make the best out of the time we have. It's so important because

what we do with our time really can either give it beauty, purpose and

sense, or it can bring it to complete nothingness. That's the real of

it, and that's what the whole book of Ecclesiastics is about. The main

question. If you read it, you realize what King Solomon is actually asking

is this, No, is life worth living? What is the point of

living? And these are really important questions to ask, because if you don't

ask them, you will naturally end up wasting time. And King Solomon he

has reached the end of his life, and actually he's quite disappointed, a

bit disillusion and a little bit hopeless. That's what he's setting out to do

right now, that's what he's thinking. He's reflecting, he's pondering, and

we have seen that he tried. No, he lived his life. You

can't say that Solomon didn't leave his life. He lives my life. He

tried to get as much money as possible. You know, he enjoyed all

the pleasures that this world had to offer, whether it's drinking, partying,

women, you name it. He has gone it through it all, and

he was trying to find the best way to use his time. He knew

he only had one life to live. And now he's looking back and he's

thinking, and he's pondering, what was the pattern? Who set the time?

What have I got to show for it all at the end of my

life? What do I have to show for it? Because you see,

you can spend It's not only you can spend a lot of money and have

nothing to show for it. And that is something that is true if you

look at the parable of the prodigal son. He took all the father's inheritance

when now plundered, party, party hard, and then came back and had

nothing to show for it. But it doesn't just end that. Actually,

you can spend a lot of time and also have nothing to show for it.

And that's what Ecclesiastics is saying. God sets the time to be born

and the time to die, the time for sorrow, the time for joy.

God is the one that sets the time. God is the one that

sets the clendor of your life and the seasons of your life. You cannot

set those times. But yet what you do with the times that God has

said is going to determine whether your life has meaning and a point to it

or not. That is something that we really need to understand the scripture.

So it is a balance. God sets the time, but you do with

the times that he sets. What you do with it is your responsibility.

So the secret of success in life is to sense when God's spirit is preparing

a situation and to get in there and capitalize on it. It is sensing

the type. How do you catch the type? You know? Surfers actually

do this. Surfers will go out to the seashore and then they will look

out and then they will have to study the waves before they actually start paddling

out to write the waves back in, because if they calculate it wrongly,

they sense it wrongly, they can better all the way out and there's no

way to bring them back in. Means they got the battle all the way

back in, but sensing the time, understanding so that you can catch it

capitalized on it. That is essentially what Ecclesiastics is saying. God says the

time, but if you respond to it and seize the time, then you

will either be discovered in him or of course, the other alternative is you

don't respond to it at the right time, and you will never be discovered

in Him. So in other words, your life is not just spend one

thing to dance and to love and to be happy and to build. But

if you seize those times of sorrow, those times of mourning, those times

of loss, and you respond to them rightly, you can weave everything into

a life that is not pointless but filled with purpose. That is my belief,

and I believe that's what Scripture is saying here to us. And this

is a message that is relevant to is relevant to all of us. And

so King Solomon in ACCLESIASI history from the onset, he came to this understanding.

There is a dichotomy. Basically, he says this in some reear,

life is full of contrast, makes sense, contrast means opposite things happening.

And then he says this life is full of continuity, so it's like up

down, but it carries on. So on the one hand, that seems

to be seasons which alternate with each other. And yet on the other hand,

there is a sameness about everything because it just comes back again and again

and again. And they're so true to life. Right, Your life is

made up of contrast. Moments that you have been so happy, elated,

you're jumping for joy, and then there are moments where you have been really,

really down. So there is a contrast there, and yet somehow the

contrast keeps recurring, so that life is basically a series of ups and downs.

Is that not true? That is life as it is, and God

has set life as it is. We know this is true. And I

call it sometimes and some people call it as well, the rhythm of sorrow

and joy. It's like a song that you're singing. The rhythm that's attuned

to it, the rhythm of birth and death. And in this passage.

You see seven verses, which for the Hebrew is actually a perfect number.

Seven is God's number. And there are seven verses that the writer has written

now, and basically all seven shows a contrast in life. In each of

those seven verses, two contrasts. You will see. One is something that

you welcome, and the other one is something that you sort of want to

keep out of your life. I mean, it's true, even the first

one's time to be born and the time to die. We don't like,

we like to keep death out of our life, but we welcome and we

celebrate births and babies coming into this world. And that's the reality of it.

And so he begins and ends with the two biggest facts of life.

One is, of course, the individual fact of life, which is birth

and death. The second is the biggest social fact that we will ever encounter

in life, and that is war and peace. And basically, if I

look bad at my life forty short years of it, okay, I'm that

old forty three years this year, I think I can safely say that those

two couplets cover most of my life. Birth and death, war and peace.

Whatever your age is, you will see that happening is like an up

and down and a continuity. And this is life as it is, one

contrast after another year. This contrast seems to keep coming, and so there

is a continuity and the sameness about everything. Now, that is what Acclesiastic

is saying. Here nothing lasts forever, but nothing is totally destroyed. That

is the pattern of life that Solomon has identified. And then now let's turn

to the next question. He's starting to ask who calls the tune, who

decides the seasons? Who is the real power? Who decides that next year

this time I'm wonderfully happy or I'm terribly sad. Who decides? And there

are only a few possibilities, right, it is either chance or choice.

And what I mean by dad, is this, either the seasons are impersonal

forces beyond anyone's control, or someone is controlling them. Now, if you

have to decide right now, which of those is your answer? It's important

for us to take a stand, because that is the philosophy that you will

live by. Some people they always say this, I live by the philosophy

of chance, pure chance. Luck. You should be and you'll be amazed,

know how many people always say, ah, it's not all luck.

Fluent. It happened because it just happened. You won't find that kind of

answers in the Bible because the Bible doesn't believe in chance or luck. We

don't believe that seasons are just set blindly. It is very impersonal and it's

all faded. And then but there are also some who say that it is

my choice. I am the captain of my own life. I am the

master of my soul. I will decide when to be happy. I will

defy faith if I want to. I can change my life whenever I want

to. But to this, Jesus actually says tonight, your soul will be

required of you. I think that's a powerful reminder that we don't set the

times, because if you do set the times, you can decide when you're

born and when you should die. But we don't set those times. And

now, of course there are those who sometimes say that my life is fixed

by other people. Basically everything al so we blame other people, and that's

sometimes Malaysians. Everything is okay. Blame the government. Government is a life

is miserable because government increased patrolla increased the is no have you noticed that it's

the reality we always find an excuse to blame someone else. So who sets

the season? Some people say it is down to share chance, share love.

Some people says I said the season. Some people say they set the

season, and that'fore they are to be blamed. But actually, in Ecclesiastice,

it is very very clear it is God who sets the seasons. It

is God who sets the times. It is God who decides when you live

and when you die. It is God who decides whether next week is going

to be a good one for you or not a good one. It is

God who removed those circumstances so that those circumstances in your life either exhalts you

or it humbles you. Is God who decides whether you get married or whether

you be attending a funeral. That's the reality of it, right. How

you respond to God's clendor is going to be the secret of whether you find

a real point and purpose in your life or not. And that is what

Ecclesiastice is saying and answering to the question who is the real power behind all

things? It is not in your power of mind to control the seasons.

It is not in the power of faith to control the seasons. It is

God who sets the clock, and it is God who sets the time for

your circumstances, And it is quite an act of faith to believe all this.

It is therefore, that means there must be a purpose, because God

is not purposeless. Do you realize that right from the very start, if

you read the book of Genesis, you realize that God is not without form

and not without purpose because everything that he did right from the beginning shows that

he has got form, he has got structure, and he has got a

purpose and a direction in which he's leading us towards. So God gives me

an unhappy this week, then there must be a reason for it. There

must be a purpose for it. Faith is actually needed to believe that God

sets the seasons. If we don't have faith, and we don't exercise the

faith to believe that God sets the seasons, then we will revert back to

fatalism, which says that there's nothing I can do about it except to put

up with my life and the misery that life brings me. But faith actually

says this, what is God saying to me by setting this season? Our

hope is in God, and that must be evident in our lives. That's

why In Hebrews chapter eleven, verse one, it says faith is the substance

of things hoped for the evidence of things that we can see. Here is

an example. If you are still finding it hard to understand, see when

we don't have four seasons here, but imagine if we actually had four seasons.

Winter time it gets cold, right, and trust me, it gets

cool. You try sitting under your econ sixteen degrees naked and don't move for

two hours theater you're cold, and okay, zero degrees. You can say

I want to defy winter time, and I Am going to go skinny deeping

into the lake right now and enjoy a swim. You are free, you

know, actually to defy the seasons. But what is a really fixed,

and what is really predestined, is that winter will come. How I respond

to that, whether I cooperate and put on a nice jacket to keep myself

warm, or whether I say I want to go out and swim in the

frozen lake. That's your freedom. So God says the time to mourn,

and you can laugh it off if you wish to. God says the time

when you can respond and repent, and you can choose to harden your heart

and walk out without doing so. God will not force you to go with

the times, but a person is wise to move with the times, which

God has said. That is the message in Ecclesiastics. Because someone is wise.

When God sends summer, then summertime killer, go and get a nice

ten, go out, go sunwading, no problem. That's enjoying God's goodness.

But when God sends the winter, we can also say, God,

I praise you for this also because you want to do something with me during

this winter season in my life. Someone is wise who, when he is

a picture of health and is enjoying being alive and breeding, says, praise

God, I am well and I can enjoy and live for the Lord.

And it's also wise when in sickness, you can also say, Lord,

what are you trying to say to me in this time in which I'm going

through hardship? What are you trying to say to me when I'm moaning and

when I'm down, Which then moves us to the final part of Ecclesiastists chapter

three, where you see Solomon trying to understand the purpose of life, and

again he's very honest. Actually, when you read these scriptures, you realize

Solomon is just being He's just bearing it all. That's one thing I love

about scripture, because it doesn't just tell you all the nice, good things.

No, it actually shows you. That's actually a book which is also

I think written by you know, it's not written by Solomon lamentations. The

fact that it's called lamentations, and so you're like, basically it's complains.

No, the title of the book is complains. I think it's written by

Jeremiah, the one. He is, another one that went through hell and

back and had to live his life when everyone is against him. So he

wrote one whole book called complaints. But that's how true the Bible is.

It's not just all nice everything, rosy everything on the high. It's honest

enough to say. And this is King Solomon. No, I have searched

all my life, and I cannot see the point. I've not found the

pattern. I have not found the purpose. And therefore I have come to

terms with my life and all these contrasting things that happens and happens continue.

Was he was frustrated. Actually, and you know I'll be telling you life.

I actually tell you, I promise you when you become a Christian and

believer, life is full of dancing. All you do is dance and enjoy

saying, jump up and down every morning is going to be an awesome pattern,

no problems, that will be a downright life. And you know it

because all of you have lived life long enough to know that that's not true.

But if I can lead you to a faith that says, even in

those bad things, that God has said the time for he knew what he

was doing, and he was essentially weaving a beautiful picture which you can see.

How would you feel about it? You feel different? You see in

the Old Testament you may not be able to see the full picture. And

that's why when you read Acclesiast this wish is in the Old Testament, it

sounds a bit more pessimistic, you know it. It's called pessimistic writing that

life sucks. That's how he's looking at it. And I don't know what

to make of it. I can't see all these things. How does the

author? How does Solomon cope with it? He says, well, God,

you have set eternity in man's mind, and yet you have prevented man

from understanding the meaning of life. Well, that's quite a difficult thing to

do. But that's what he was complaining. God, you talk about living

forever, but I don't even understand what life as it is right now is.

So he's complaining. What he means is this, Ah, It is

him actually looking at this huge painting. Sometimes this is us. We see

a this big painting, but we are using a small, little magnifying glass

to try to look at a large painting. And the large painting is this

painting called life. We look at it from a single lens which only sometimes

focus usually on our own life, and it's a small picture as compared to

the big picture that God has for all of us, and we wonder what

is it that we are trying to see. We only see bits and pieces,

and that's why sometimes trying to understand the situations in which you are going

through doesn't make sense. But you see in the New Testament, God reveals

what he is doing, and we praise God. Right after we study all

in the Old Testament, we can now turn to the pages in the New

Testament. And then what this helps us to do is sometimes sometimes we are

seeing just one small little thing, and then God is saying that come over

to the other side. I will show you the whole picture in his entirety.

And that is what the New Testament has done. And we today have

the New Testament. Because again I've said this many times before. The Old

Testament is the New Testament concealed. I mean it's hidden. The New Testament

is hidden in the Old Testament. But the New Testament is the Old Testament

reveal when you have come and when you move over to the New Testament,

essentially what you're seeing is the revelation of all the things that have been said

in the Old and it's happening right now. And that's why when you turn

to say efficients chapter one, this is what you will read. In all

his wisdom and insight, God has made known to us the mystery of his

will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ. See.

This plan, which God will complete when the time is right, is to

basically bring all creation together, everything in heaven and everything on earth with Christ

as the heat. That is the secret that has been told. And that's

why I now know that I now know what God is doing in my life.

I now know why he sets the seasons of ups and downs. Everything

has got to be summed up in Christ. That is God's purpose. You

will see this when you get into Christ, and when you become a believer,

you see this picture that this old world isn't just going through cycles.

And that's how we sometimes feel because when you talk about contrusting things happening in

life and a continuity, the only thing that we can imagine is we are

being in some washing machine. Now you know what a washing machine. If

you ever go to the river, sometimes they call it a washing machine.

In fact, basically you can get trapped and you're drowned there, but you

are stuck there. It just goes round and round and round and round and

round. But that is not what life is. It's not just a static

cycle seasons do keep repeating, but do notice this and do realize this.

It is aligne that has a beginning and it will eventually come to an end.

Yes, while we are moving forward contrast and continuity, contrast and continuity,

contrast and continuity, But there will be an end. And the end

is that one day there will be a Christian universe. That is what scripture

promises us. That is God's big picture, and that is the grand purpose

that God is working out. Sometimes we don't see it, but really I

pray that you see why do you think people of the past were willing to

die for their faith. It's because they knew this for a fact, and

for them this is so real. And I'm going to live out my faith,

even though I don't know when I will ever see this grand picture of

a Christian universe, but I will hang on to it. You see,

we only see bits and pieces of it. But it is God that sets

the times of our lives. The time of your birth, the time of

your death is all set out in a perfect plan. It is then that

you can begin to say some things in confidence. It is only as you

respond to Jesus and the times that He has set for you, from beginning

all the way to the end, then you can say with some certainty,

I know that all things work together for the good of those who love God

and are called according to His purpose. Those scripture is a familiar scripture,

but sometimes we say it not knowing what it really means. But I pray

with the knowledge now that we have, we can truly say all things work

together for the good of those who love God and are called according to His

purpose. Because knowing this, then whatever experiences that comes your way, God's

times are set for you. But you can still say, Lord, my

times are in your hands, and therefore all things are brought into Christ.

And I can suffer in Christ as well as dance in Christ. Life has

become whole, and life has essentially become a beautiful thing. You see that

phrase my times are in your hands. It actually comes from Psalm s thirty

one, verse fifteen, and it comes just a few verses after the verse

that says, into your hands, I commit my spirit. Does that sound

familiar? Where do we hear that Jesus say that? Actually a young man

of thirty three years old, Say that this was a young man whose life

was cut off by wicked people, a young man in his prime, who

had done nothing but good. And this young man his name was Jesus,

and he is God. But Jesus only had three short years in the public.

But from the Psalm that said my times are in your hands, comes

those words into your hands, I commit my spirit. In some others gospel

is actually just translated as this it is finished, into your hands, I

commit my life. It is finished. He just knew that he has done

everything and he's giving it back to Christ. You see Jesus may not have

traveled the whole world. He may now I have lived outside his nation,

but he had fulfilled the most beautiful and perfect picture of life there has ever

been so in three short years. No, he responded to the times.

Study the life of Jesus and you will realize how he responded to those times

that his father has said. You know, there was a point in scripture

in the gospel whereas earlier and she earlier. So they tried to kill him

really in John chapter two, but he said, my time has not yet

come. He knew what time it was. He knew when it was the

time to rejoice, and when was the time to make merry. But then

his friends call him a glutton. A lot of people say, oh,

this law is a glutton and a drunkard. But he knew when God the

Father had set the time for him to go to Jerusalem, and when was

the time set for him to die. He always knew what time it was,

and it was not by his watch. He just knew what time it

was. Do you notice that Jesus didn't wear a watch, but he knew

what time it was. He knew whether it was time to rejoice or whether

it was time to be said. When they criticize him for going to parties,

he says, well, that was not the time to fast or pray,

nor was it the time to be said. That would come a time

when we have to fast and pray and be reverend. Unto God. He

knew when it was time to wreck and when it was time to build,

because there were some people's lives that he took apart, and there were some

people's life in which he built up. And all these were perfectly in the

hands of the Father. So when Jesus came to the end of it,

even though he had only done three years of public ministry, he said,

Father, into your hands, I commit my spirit. His times were in

the Father's hands. It was then time to die, and Jesus knew the

time, and it was time to go home because he had done everything that

the Father wanted him to do. You see, that is all the time

you have gone. We haven't got a lot of time to spend. Sometimes

we always think, wow, we got a lot of time. No,

but you have got one life. It is long enough for you to do

everything that God wants you to do. In this one life. He has

set the times and it's very short for us to waste any of it.

That's why someone wants said that life is long enough to live out God's purpose,

but it's too short to waste a moment of it. I know sometimes

you are young and you don't think about time. You think you have all

the time in the world. But again to dead, Jesus always says,

I can take you away today itself, and that's the reality of life.

And so I want to plead with all of us, whether you're young,

whether you're old, whether you realize all this, please do know what time

it is, because for some of us it's high time to seek the lot.

For some of us, it's time we serve the lot. For some

of us, yeah, it could be time to fall in love. For

some of us, it may be time to get married. For some of

us, it could be time to dance. For others it will be time

to mourn. But you don't need to be a fatalist. You don't need

to say I'm leaving it all to chance and faith. You need faith because

my times are in your hands God. Whatever this week brings, whatever this

day brings, whatever the coming months bring, I will call it beautiful because

you have set it as it is. And you see, the book of

Ecclesiastics actually ends like this in chapter twelve. This is Solomon finally saying,

here is my final conclusion. Fear God and obey his commandments, for this

is the entire duty of man. For God will judge us for everything we

do, including every hidden thing, good or bad. There are some helpful

points for us to note. In the last passage of Ecclesiastics, God Solomon

says, Remember. He urges his hearers to remember God, and this advice

probably came from his own experience. He's saying that he will not have faced

all the trauma in life of trying to figure out what life was all about

if only he had remembered God earlier in his life. And you know,

Solomon did a lot of dodgy stuff, especially earlier in his life. So

he says, remember God. Don't just remember him at the end of it,

remember him right at the very stunt. And then he goes on to

say this fear God. He urges his readers to fear God. You see,

the wisdom literature, whether in Psalms and Proverbs, constantly tells us to

fear the Lord. Fear the Lord that's the beginning of wisdom. We truly

fear God. We are not afraid of anything or anyone. We must fear

God because he is going to eventually ask us for an account of our lives.

One day we will see him face to face and he will ask us.

And if we don't fear him, we could go like, why you

must know who gave you the right to ask me this question? I don't

think. I'm not sure if we dare to do that. But you see,

Jesus told his followers and not to fear those who can kill your body,

but rather to fear him who, after killing the body, has the

power to throw you into hell. Strong words, no, but really,

men can kill each other, and that's the truth of it. And yet

sometimes we fear men more than the person who can throw us into hell forever

and have her. You see, people outside the church don't fear God.

It is always most likely because people inside the church don't fear God. And

that's something that we need to bear in mind. The fear of the Lord.

Shellin. You can come out. I'm almost done. And finally he

says his obey and Solomon knew that he had not obeyed God. As he

should. Nevertheless, he tells his readers to be careful to obey God.

He now knows that God's laws are given for our good, not to make

life miserable, no, but really to help us make the most out of

it. You see, our responsibilities are more important than our rights. That's

what Solomon is essentially saying. But in this society where we're always constantly demanding

rights but then not knowing responsibilities, our responsibility is to be obedient to God.

And that's how this entire book is concluded. You see at Lysias.

This shows there are limits to human wisdom, and it's a reminder of the

sort of person we will become if we don't discover God's way to live.

I pray that we discover God in our life because God has included this this

pretty strange book, but I love it because it's a book of contrast.

It is highest lows. No, he's complaining, and that's soonless he's consoling

himself. As he's complaining. We see all sorts of ideas, right,

ideas wrong, ideas they go side by side. It tells us that if

we don't understand the meaning of life from Heaven's angle and from the angle of

the next world. We will end up this illusion. We will end up

disappointed. We will end up. But of course the Bible never leaves us

with just a pessimistic book. We are grateful that the New Testament today tells

us that Christ is our wisdom. Through him, we find out both why

and how we should live life. John seventeen tells us the true life is

to know him, because indeed he is the Alpha and the omega. He's

the one that ensures that life does have meaning and purpose. And so what

has God God in mind for his ultimate plan? What is God after all?

In all this? Why is he spending his grades so lavishly on earth?

Because God, in his infinite wisdom has shown us the plan. And

Christians know what God's plan for the universe is. You know it is in

your scripture. And God's plan for the universe is this in efficients one verse.

That is is to unite all things in Christ, things in heaven and

things on earth. That is his plan, so that there is nothing outside

of Christ in God's universe. What a plan? That is right? That

is why believers we know the plot. There is a rhythm, there is

a pattern. You understand music you'll be able to understand this even better.

All the universe is going to be Christian. We are going to be little

christ In all the chaos, of all the human events that have been happening

since Adam, all the way to the present day. There is a purpose

for it. And that is why more people must hear the Gospel today than

ever before. The Bible I thank God is available in so many languages today.

It remains the best selling book ever. I don't think anything can ever

superseded now. Of course, we don't go by book sales anymore because everything

is online. But these are all significant events because I believe God is calling

out people of every tribe and every tongue. And I am grateful that God

is telling us about this that I am grateful that I am not lost anymore.

I am not afraid to go into another year, even if worse things

happen in my life. I pray that it's how you will understand these scriptures.

You're not afraid of changes that can take place. It will happen in

life because ultimately you can see the plan that God has showed to each and

every one of you. And I tell you this, God's great plan is

that all may know His plan. Amen. We hope you've been blessed by

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