a time to search and a time to count as lost, a time to keep and a time to discard,a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
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… I want you to see this it says there's a time and a season for everything and then it says there's a time To get and a time to lose A time to keep and a time to Cast away everybody say cast away then look at it in the nlt version it says there's a time to search and a time to quit searching relationship advice and there's a time to keep and a time to everybody say throw away so there's things that we've been holding on to that is saying we need to cast away and some of them we need to throw away and look at it in the message version it says there is a right time to hold on and so many of us thought that we'd be holding these things for years the unforgiveness the bitterness the anger the people will be holding for years he said but there's another time to do like elsa and let it go okay it's time or maybe let me say it a different way stop holding and i know it's hard i know it's hard to start doing these things because that means that i'm gonna have to give over control but god is saying through these scriptures i need you to let those things that you've been holding on to. I need you to cast them away. I need you to throw them away. …
… There's a time for death. There's a time to laugh and a time to weep. There's a time to build up and a time to tear down. All told, in these eight verses, Solomon is gonna give us 14 of these dualistic pairs or two sets of seven, which is a Hebrew way of signaling perfection, completion. In other words, the very shape of the poem is declaring to you, this is the totality of life. the seasons, the cycles. This is life. And just like the actual seasons, none of us can change or predict or control them. Listen, I love the fall here in North Carolina. It literally cannot get here soon enough for me. The temperature is perfect. The leaves start to change and there is no pollen. Spring is okay. Okay. It's okay. The pollen just about ruins it for me. These muggy, humid summer months are something I could forever leave behind. Now, my wife is almost the exact opposite. But of course, our preferences don't change anything in regards to when the seasons come or how long they last. In the same way, all the money in the world cannot stop life's biggest changes. Your body aging, your kids growing up, things in your life changing, friends moving away, relationships falling apart, economies crashing, prostates developing, cancer, a loved one dying. …
… And yes, that is a book in the Bible. Ecclesiastes chapter 3, verses 1 through 15 is where we're going to be studying tonight with a message entitled, All in Good Time. All in good time. Now for many of us, we have both heard these words spoken and probably repeated them ourselves. To the little kid who wants it to be Christmas already, to the teenager who wants to drive so badly to the engaged couple anticipating their long-awaited wedding day, we would say, well, all in good time. But is it true, all in good time? Will you and I get everything we desire in good time? Do good things come to those who wait? Well, possibly, but certainly not always. I would suppose it's really dependent on one major factor, and it would be how you and I would define the word good. And rather, who would define what is good? If God, who is the source of all goodness, as the Bible tells us, is the one to define what is good, then the answer to the statement, all in good time, is absolutely yes. …