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06/19/2022 Church service

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Seasons

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SEASONS

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SEASONS
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

Whenever I have to help someone move – especially when lifting the heavy things – I think, “You know, it would have been great of I had been going to the gym and getting stronger before this day came.”

Woulda – Coulda – Shoula

We have to prepare in advance for things that are yet to come

There are seasons of preparation and seasons that should reflect completion

This year it seems the season of summer came way too early.

Last week we said: From the beginning of God’s Word we read in Genesis: "As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest…”

We all understand the four seasons of the year – but what about other seasons the Bible tells us about?

seedtime and harvest are seasons.
both real – but both with different purposes and impact.

Ecc 3:1: To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven

Seasons Change.
We have to be sober minded and observe and become aware

Jesus said, “Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near.”  (Matt 24:32)

Prov 10:5: A wise youth makes hay while the sun shines, but what a shame to see a lad who sleeps away his hour of opportunity.

NOT observing the changing seasons can bring regret.

Some regrets may be simple – and we can brush them off
“I wish I had set my alarm.” “I wish I had remembered to buy milk.”

Other regrets are deep and painful
“I wish I had told them I loved them.” “I wish I had told them I had forgiven them.”
“I wish I hadn’t said what I said.”

NOT observing the changing seasons can bring great regret.

Prov 20:4: Some people are too lazy to plant seeds. So at harvest time, they look for food and find nothing.

There are seasons to recognize and observe in our lives

Our natural lives. Our spiritual lives.

There are seasons in our society. In our nation. Our world.

…and there are seasons in the Kingdom of God.

Romans 13:11: And now consider this. You know well the times you are living in. It is time for you to wake up and see what is right before your eyes: for salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.

Ecc 3:1: To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven

“To every thing there is a season”

I believe (as the scriptures verify) that we are always in some type of season – season of preparation and seasons that should reflect completion

You can’t have satisfactory completion without proper preparations

In Gen 41, God revealed to Joseph that there would be seven years of abundance and seven years of famine. Joseph advised the Pharaoh to store and prepare during the good years to prepare for the famine that, as scripture describes, “the abundance in the land will not be remembered, because the famine that follows will be so severe.”

So that is exactly what they did.

Because Joseph was aware of the season, and obeyed God, not only was Egypt saved, but Genesis tells us, “all the world came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph, because the famine was severe everywhere.”

Had Joseph not responded, all would have been lost.

How great – how painful – would that regret have been?

God guided him to take the proper steps to prepare. To work in the proper season.

Prov 6:6-8: Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest.

The Word of God clearly directs us to observe the seasons and prepare – and not juts coast passively through our lives.

What we have covered so far is practical and natural.

But there is certainly a spiritual side to our preparations, as well

Ecc 3:1: To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven

Amos 8:11 - “The days are coming,” declares the Sovereign Lord, “when I will send a famine through the land— not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord.”

How should we be preparing – how should we now be storing up?

2 Tim 2:15: Study and do your best to present yourself to God approved, a workman [tested by trial] who has no reason to be ashamed, accurately handling and skillfully teaching the word of truth.

When you squeeze and orange you get ________________

? What comes out of you when the pressures of life squeeze you hard?

? Are you filling your tank with the proper spiritual nutrition?

How can we hear from the Lord if we are not listening – if we are not letting His Word speak to our hearts?

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

We must not miss our season to hear from God – to respond to that still, small voice of the Holy Spirit

Isaiah 55:6 - Seek the Lord while you can find him. Call on him now while he is near.

“So turn your attention and seek the Eternal One while it is still possible; call on Him while He is nearby.”

This seems to indicate there is a finite window of opportunity for us –

-      a window of His Grace

As it says in Hebrews (quoting the Psalmist,) “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts”

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven

There are always seasons. Seasons change. Seasons end.

“It’s better to know Him before you meet Him”

Romans 10:9 - “If you declare with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved”

Acts 4:12 - And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

Romans 10:13 - “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

Will you call on Jesus today?

To everything there is a season. One day this door – this season – will end.

Romans 13:12: Night is almost over, and day will soon appear. We must stop behaving as people do in the dark and be ready to live in the light

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Hillside United Methodist Church
3739 US 80
Phenix City  AL  36870
United States
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