In the Fullness of Time | Claire Buntrock

In this message, In the Fullness of Time, we explore how God works behind the scenes through history, politics, language, and culture to set the stage for his plans. Drawing from Galatians 4, the message unpacks how the first-century world was uniquely prepared for Jesus through the Jewish sacrificial system, Greek philosophy, a universal language, and Roman roads, none of which were built with God in mind yet all of which served his purposes perfectly. Five practical ways to cooperate with God's redemption in your own life are offered, because your appointed time is coming.

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Redemption And The Fullness Of Time

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I have a message for you called In the Fullness of Time. And we're going to be digging into how God is a redeemer tonight, how he has come to redeem you and every broken place in your life, and how he has redeemed us out of this world and bought us back here. And so we're going to look at how we can cooperate with his redemption. If we'll desire that and chase after it. And here is how Merriam Webster's dictionary defines redemption. God's a redeeming God. Redeem to redeem means to buy back, to get or win back, to free from what distresses or harms us, to free from captivity by payment of ransom, to extricate, to release from blame or debt and clear that. And to free from the consequence of sin, to reform, repair, restore. Are you getting the idea? God wants to restore the world back to himself. He wants to restore you. He wants to restore all the broken parts of your life. And he does that in the fullness of time. So if you

Galatians 4 Slaves Become Sons

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would turn with me tonight to Galatians chapter 4. And uh and I'm gonna start reading in just in verse 1. It says uh Paul is talking to the Galatians. He says, Now I say that the heir, as long as he is a child, does not differ at all from a slave, though he is master of all, but is under guardians and stewards until the time appointed by the Father. Even so we, the the Israelites, the Jewish race, even so we, when we were children, when they were young in their history, they were in bondage under the elements of the world. They had to obey the Jewish law. But here is the time when everything, there is a time when everything changes. There is a time in your life when everything changes. And uh, and so in verse 4 we get to that, but when the fullness of time had come, when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his son, born of a woman, born under that law, to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. In the fullness of time, God did that. He sent his son, he changed their status from slaves and servants to sons and heirs. He changed everything in the fullness of time. And uh, you know, I read a post on X is good for something every now and then. I read something this week that really inspired me, and I'm really gonna share some of the thoughts that I had uh over that. But um, there is a full, there's a fullness of time. God works outside of time, uh, and yet there he set the universe in order with this this times and seasons, with the the celestial bodies in the universe, and they're all following his wonderful pattern. And something about the first century, something happened. This was not just in the fullness of time. God didn't decide to just drop Jesus to the earth at a random thing, and he doesn't, and he didn't pick the the time randomly from even when he created the world. He prepared, everybody say he prepared. He prepared the world, he was working behind the scenes when nobody could see it, and everything was set, the table was completely set when he sent Jesus. And I want you to think about your life. I want you to think about when he sent the Lord Jesus Christ to redeem you, when you finally answered the call to come into his kingdom. And then I want you to think about the things that are broken in your life and know that he is working behind the scenes like he did in creation in this time in the first century, so long ago in history, but God was working then and he is putting together a plan right now. Right now. Jesus came one time, he came as a humble infant born in a stable and laid in a manger, and he is coming back again as a ruling and reigning king, with king of kings and lord of lords written on his thigh, carrying a two-edged sword with his eyes burning like fire. He is coming. And so the prep the preparation God did for that time is actually going on right now again for this second coming. And so we have something to be excited about. And um, and I so what is it about the first century that was so great? It wasn't God just saying, Oh, it's time, the clock said. No, no, the entire world

Why The First Century Was Ready

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was prepared. And here's what here's what I learned this week. It's really interesting. Um, first of all, there was uh the Jewish sacrificial system was fully in place when Jesus came. He was born into this people group, the Jewish race, the Jewish people who had spent 2,000 years forming Israel. They had a covenant, they had a sacrificial system, they had prophets. They had 700 years ago, Isaiah had written uh Isaiah uh 53, 3. He is despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows acquainted with the grief. We hid our faces, but he has borne our griefs, surely he's borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. Y'all know that scripture. Uh yet we esteemed him stricken of God, smitten uh of God, and afflicted. And he yet he was root wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon him, and by his stripes we are healed. Isaiah didn't know Jesus was gonna get whipped with the cat of nine tails. He didn't know his back was gonna be opened up, he didn't know he was gonna die on a cross. But the prophet Isaiah, 700 years prophesied that there would be a Messiah that would come into this system, the Jewish system, the sacrificial system, and he would be the sin. He would be, he would represent, he would be the lamb that was slain for the sin of the world. And uh, and so the Jews they were shaped over that time by exile, by wilderness, by divine discipline, by keeping every jot and tittle of the law, trying to tithing their mint and cumin, and by all the things they did, um they had that infrastructure for atonement and it was fully in place. And do you know that at the exact moment that the Jews were killing their last sacrificial lamb, Jesus was also outside the camp being sacrificed at nine o'clock in the morning, hanging on the cross. It was a it was a divine moment, and it was all set forth when God created the world, and he used the Jewish sacrificial system, he used religion, he used a religion.

Logos And A World Ready To Hear

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All right, he also used the gentile philosophers, he used philosophers. This is something I did not know that there was a philosopher named Heracletus. Heracletus lived in Ephesus, and 500 years before Jesus came, he came up with this idea of the logos. This irrational or this very rational, this invisible principle, but it was very rational, and it ruled the universe, and it it would it was called the order or account that governs the the entire universe was this idea of the logos. And so then for 500 years, that idea is cooking around in the Greek philosophers, the other philosophers, and then there's this other philosopher years later during the time of Jesus, right before the time of Jesus named uh Philo of Alexandria, and he was a Jew, but he was also a Greek philosopher as he spoke uh Hellenistic Greek. And he I built on this idea of the Logos also being the mind of God, and so all the philosophers were just really keen on this subject. Oh, there's something called the Logos. What a beautiful idea! It's the mind of God, it brings order to the universe, and then John the apostle sits down and pins the word. In the beginning was the logos, the word. And then in verse 14, John says, John 1:14, and the word became flesh and dwelt among us. So John could write that word, that logos, and immediately there was already this context built in. It was a trigger. The Greek philosophers saw it. Oh, oh, the loath, this beautiful idea, it's a person, it's this guy Jesus. So that was all cooking. So we have the the Jewish sacrificial system, we have the Greek philosophers. Guess what else

One Common Language For The Gospel

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we have? There was no, there was what language would it would the Messiah have come into? Why didn't he come into the Hebrew language? Why didn't he come into uh not enough people spoke that language? There was not a universal language. You know what when he came, when there was a universal language of Koine Greek, he came during a time that the dock workers and the aristocrats and everybody was speaking Koine Greek. And why were they speaking this language together where they could communicate? This language that was so simple and that was so um universal and everybody could understand it, had no complexity in it. It was just like just a everybody could could communicate on the same level in this in this language, Koine Greek. Why would everyone speak that? How did that spread so quickly? Well, there was this conqueror, this dread champion, full of ego and full of himself, and his name was Alexander the Great. And he went about conquering all of these kingdoms and these places uh far and wide and spreading the Hellenistic Greek language, Koine Greek, and spreading that language to all of the places that he conquered, and so that by the time Jesus came, there was a common language that could receive it. And then, so now the Hebrew scriptures can be translated into the Koine Greek. It was a translation, maybe you've heard of it. It was called the Septuagint. And uh so so now the Hebrew scriptures could be translated into Greek, and so Gentiles could learn about God. It was possible for them to read this cryptic language that only the Hebrews had locked up all of these years, but now lots of people could read it. Lots of people could understand. And when they heard the Logos was made flesh, it meant something to them. That's fine. Okay, so we have the the sacrificial system, people could understand it, they could now read about it in their language. They could um there was a philosophy that kind of that kind of tied to this idea of the logos,

Roman Roads And God’s Hidden Hand

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but how would it go? How would it, how would it spread? Well, there were the Romans, and the Romans were really good at building roads. They engineered roads and aqueducts, and they had roads all the way, the Pax Romana, it was called, the network of roads for your feet. Pax, I think, means feet. Anyway, it was for uh it was roads all the way, stone highways stretching from Spain to Syria. Huge, huge network of roads to carry the gospel. The Romans did not think they were building something to carry the gospel, they thought they were spreading the Roman Empire. Alexander the Great did not think he was spreading the gospel. He thought he was spreading his own power and glory and ego. And God let him think that. In fact, they did not even know God. They were they were uh serving other false gods. That guy, Philo, Philo, I don't know how to say that, of Alexandria, he lived in Egypt, in the Egyptian Alexandria is in Egypt. He didn't know God. He actually lived at the same time as Jesus, and there is no record that he ever wrote of Jesus. How ironic is that? He was not in it for God, he was just a philosopher. Heracletus? Just a philosopher. Thought he was spreading, you know what, but God gave him an idea. It rains on the just and the unjust, y'all. And then that cold, dead religious system that God hadn't sent a prophet to the Jews in 400 years. They had forsaken God, they had they had turned God into this legalistic system and they had written off any relationship with him. But God still invaded all of those ways, and he was a puppet master almost. He was he was pulling their strings and they didn't know it, and they were willingly building of their own accord, but with God's, see, they were building a structure for Jesus to come. And I look at this world today and I see a structure of politics, of language, of thought and culture. People did not know that they're building that, but they're building it to support the second coming of Jesus. They're building it for that, they're building it for the Lord. We are helping. We are either helping or we are hindering. And God's gonna get it done either way, but I want to be a helper. God used them.

Sovereignty And Believer Authority Together

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Daniel 220. You know, Daniel was also now, this is an Old Testament prophet who uh who lived at the time of the uh when the Jews were were kicked out of Israel. They were carried away captive. Um yet Daniel got to serve King Nebuchadnezzar, and Nebuchadnezzar had had a dream, and Nebuchadnezzar looked to Daniel as a confidant, as a guide. How can I, oh, I had this terrible dream. Oh, so how can I understand it? And Daniel got the interpretation for the king, and he answered in Daniel 2 20, he said, Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, for wisdom and might are his. He changes the times and the seasons, he removes kings and he raises up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding. He reveals deep and secret things, and he knows what is in the darkness, and light dwells with him. I want that light. I want that light. And I know that God is working through our system right now. So there is a, you know, in many, many things, there's there are things in the word that we have to balance out. And um the two, there's a continuum, like we talk about the word and the spirit, you know, people who have real heavy of the word, they need, you know, they need a balance. They need the Holy Spirit to come and breathe life on that word that they know. Or if the people have all spirit, they need the word to anchor them. Otherwise, they're just emotional and flighty, and so they need the word and the spirit. It's the same thing with these two ideas of God's sovereignty and the believer's authority. You have people in the in the Christian world that are very, very heavy on, oh, God is sovereign. Everything happens for a reason. Every I this sickness that I have is from God. He gave it to me. He's sovereign, he rules over all. He and and so when we look at a message like this, we say, oh, you know, see, uh, God's using uh He's using the EU, he's using George Soros. He's using uh, you know, he might be, but it's against his will. But you know, um there is that idea God is sovereign, but to me, there the other on the other side of the coin, there is the believer's authority. People need to have a, they need to understand that we speak a thing, we decree a thing, and it comes to pass. We have our word, you know. Um uh Ed Dufrain, our sweet friend, now in heaven, always said, Brother Ed, uh, God's sovereignty is in your mouth. So God does, he works these things, but he uses us. He uses somebody when Jesus came, there were Simeon and Anna who were waiting for the consolation of Israel. They were helping to pray it in. Would God have done it if they wouldn't have prayed? I don't know. But he put them in place to do their job. We are in place to do our job. We have a part to play and to pray in God's redemption, both the big, big redemption of the whole wide world, but also of the redemption of the things in your life. We've got to pray those things in. We've got to cooperate with those things. Um, I want to encourage you out of Ephesians 1:7. In Him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace, that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times. Everybody say fullness of time, he might gather in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth in him. So this is the second coming. In him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will. He works all things according to the counsel of his will. That's the Goddess sovereign camp. Those the people, the Goddess Sovereign Camp will quote the scripture and they will say it's the only scripture in the Bible. He works all things according to the counsel of the of his own of his will. And then the people in the other on the other side will say, you know, but um, you'll say unto this mountain, be moved and cast into the sea. And we believe that. We say those things, but we when we say them, they have to be in line with God's will. That's how his sovereignty works. It is already written. It is written here. When we speak in line with his will, then it comes to pass. Then, then it comes to pass. And um, and so we work together, we work together with God. How awesome is that! And it comes from again when Galatians 4, when the fullness of time has come, what what would he do? He made us instead of now, instead of slaves and and and tutors and children under the law, where we're just learning and we're just children, and the law is teaching us a lesson. Now, the fullness of time, Jesus came, he redeemed us, and now we're not slaves and children anymore. We're grown up and we're heirs, and we're we can be a partner with God. We have a partnership with him and his redemptive power in the earth. Hallelujah.

Relationship Over Religion And Dead Works

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That's awesome. So, okay, so what five things can we do to cooperate with God? And um, this is not gonna be a surprise, but uh, number one, uh, we want to major on relationship with God through the word and the spirit. We want to major on a relationship with God. There is a move in the church, I see this, and that the whole book of Galatians was written to a people who were being tempted to leave their salvation by grace through faith alone and go back to the legal system where they would be circumcised and they would follow the law and they would they would they were being dragged back. And that's why Paul told them later in Galatians, he said, don't get dragged back there. Um stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ has made you free, and do not be entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Then he says, Um, uh, foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, who has given you another gospel that you should believe? This other gospel, this other Jesus. No, Jesus, he paid all of the price for the sin. Do not be trying to go back to dead works. So um, so major on relationship and not religion. Um, for Galatians 4 9, so later in the passage he says, but now you have known God, or rather are known by God. How is it that you can turn again to the weak and beggarly elements to which you desire again to be in bondage? Religion is a weak and beggarly element. Man's philosophy is a weak and beggarly element. It pales in comparison to the true relationship we can have with the real Jesus, where we can have koinonia back and forth, relationship with him, time with him, know his heart. He says, You observe days and months and seasons and years. I am afraid for you lest I have labored in vain. Paul's saying, Don't, I don't want you to be a waste of my time. I love y'all. I don't do this. Don't go back into this religion. Don't don't do it. We've had people in the past leave the church. I remember somebody left the church because they became Seventh-day Adventists so they could keep the Sabbath. That's the wrong way. That's a religion. That's a system. That's a just major on relationship. Amen. And then don't major, and then not so major on relationship, not on philosophy of man. So yes, God used philosophers, but they are not the answer. That same philosopher did not know Jesus when he came into the world and did not even recognize him. That same philosopher, yes, he inspired, maybe inspired the Gospel of John to say, John the revelator, to say, hey, the logos is Jesus. That's awesome. But that same guy also inspired Frederick Nietzsche, who then inspired Hitler. So, like there, you know what I'm saying? Like, there were other, the philosophy itself is never the answer. We measure, it's not what the people are saying, it's who are we, who is in are we in relationship with? And it should be Jesus, and uh, and we should be listening to him. Beware, Colossians 2.8, beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit. And see, that's what I see on my phone, a lot of that. There is a lot of philosophy and empty deceit that we can scroll through here. And there's some good stuff, but then there's don't beware, just beware, have your guard up. Uh, because here's what it looks like according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of this world, in other words, the beggarly elements again, and not according to Christ, for in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, and you are complete in him, who is the head of all principality and power. You are complete in him. Uh so uh it's fine to study some things, to study to show yourself approved unto God. Uh, but beware, your study is secondary to your relationship with the Lord. And uh one thing I know my dad has been kind of like we all have such respect for Charlie Kirk and what he has brought to this to this movement, to the world right now, where people are now they're studying Western civilization. They know about these philosophers, they're reading stuff that they've never read before. That's good, but it can't be number one. Number one has to be your relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ because that's who you're complete in. You're complete already in him. And if your brain can learn a few things on the side uh that might help you talk somebody off a ledge, that's great. But uh, you know what? The Holy Ghost knows all the stuff already. If we can tap into him, he'll help us look smart when we need to. Amen. He'll help us win with signs, wonders, and miracles.

Counterfeits, Discernment, And Prayer

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That's the best way. Amen. All right, number two, reject counterfeits. Um let me just say that everything God does, He everything God does. The devil wishes he could copy. And he there is a counterfeit to everything God does. Um the children of Israel had the Philistines always fighting against them. The Philistines had a holy land. Guess where that was? The Gaza Strip. Guess who the Philistines are now today? The Palestinians. It's the same, it's the same. Guess what they were good at? Uh uh projectiles, projectiles. They were arrows, bows and arrows. That was that was the Philistines were really good archers. And um, guess what the Philistines used? Rocks and missiles and bows and arrows. Modern day. And uh you could just there are a lot of, there are just counter, there's a counter, there's God's people and there's counterfeit. There's God's plan and there's a counterfeit in your own life. You know, there's God's best, and then there's something that God sends to look like God's best. And so we have to be patient. We have to pray to know God's plan, which brings me to the next one. Pray to recognize God's work. I honestly, I think if I were living in the first century, I, you know, you wouldn't have looked at Alexander the Great and said, He's conquering people and teaching them Greek so that God can use that. I mean, I don't think you would have seen that coming. I don't think you would have seen that coming that God used President Trump either. Who would have thought that it saw that coming? That God would use it 20 years ago. If you knew Donald Trump, he was kind of a playboy kind of a guy. He was just uh an entertainer. Nobody would have thought, but I think God's used him. It's clear. It's clear that he is. You know, one of the things the Romans did when they built those roads, um, before they built their roads, there were pirates. If you did try to travel, you would get beat up, like the like the parable of the of the good Samaritan, um, you know, who was beat up while he was traveling and all his money was stolen from him. That was very, very common. There were pirates. Um, we have that in certain areas today. But the Romans cleaned all of that up while they were building the roads. They were also fighting and conquering and making it clear that they were there to take the money, not the pirates. They were gonna seize it in your taxes. But um it's interesting to see what God, what is God using today? I don't pretend to know all the answers, but I can't I tell you one thing, 1 Corinthians 2 9. I has not seen nor ear heard now, nor has it even entered into the heart of man the things that God has prepared for you, his saints, his people. But God has revealed it to us by his spirit. You didn't think of it, it didn't even enter your mind. All the good, there's goodness, and you can't, it's more than you can imagine, Ephesians 3.20. It's it's beyond what you could ask or think, above and beyond abundantly, above and beyond everything you could ask or think is so big. Oh, you can't know. No, you can know it. God has revealed it. 2 Corinthians 2.10, but God has revealed it. But God, everybody say, but God has revealed it. But God has revealed it. So pray, pray that you'll know the things, so you'll know your part in them, and you'll it matters. Look, God worked through politics, then he worked through Alexander the Great, was a conqueror, was a warmonger, was a probably a tyrant. I would not have wanted to be conquered

Rahab And Redemption From Your Past

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by him. Throughout the Bible, okay, Rahab. If you rewind, way back to the time of uh just when the Jews were starting to enter the promised land, and the fourth book of the Bible, Joshua. Oh, sorry, sixth book of the Bible. I can count. There was a at first she is is identified as Rahab the harlot. So she didn't have a good reputation. She was, she needed redemption. She was one of the people that were marked for destruction. She happened to be born and live in the town of Jericho, which was in God's, it was in the Israelites' promised land, and the Jericho people, the Canaanites, they had a detestable, awful religion that um that was not pro-family, it was not pro-children, it was a terrible civilization, and God had deemed that it was the fullness of time for that for that people had come and that they were marked for destruction. What was it about Rahab that was different? Well, she recognized she was a she was a harlot, she was a temple um harlot, but she received the the the the Israelites into her home and she took care of the spies and she worked for the right side. She ended up working for God's side and not the devil's side. So pick the right side and pick the right side. And so she was redeemed by that one act, and then her and all of her family and all of her stuff, everything else in Jericho, her town, was completely destroyed, and people were dragged off and killed, and it was it was Mahem. But her family was redeemed, her family was chosen and set apart. And not only that, from then on, she's not referred to a harlot anymore. She actually ends up marrying one of the Jewish uh, they were then the conquerors, so she marries a Hebrew man, and now she becomes the grandmother of David the king. I believe she um she she marries uh Salmon and then she begets Boaz. Boaz begets Obed, Obed begets Jesse, Jesse begot David, and David begot Solomon, and Solomon blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah begot Jesus. Don't tell me God can't redeem anything. Oh, but Claire, I'm a single mom. You can't change your past. You should do everything you can to cooperate right now going forward. You should do everything you can do to cooperate with the plan of God. Everything. Because this book is life. And you didn't know back then. You didn't know what you didn't know, and so you made mistakes, and now you're where you are. God is a redeemer. He is taking all of that and he's rolling it up and he's making something beautiful out of it. You didn't know back then, but he was building a road, you were building a road for him. You didn't know, but you were changing the language, you didn't know, but there was a new philosophy and mindset. You didn't know, but he was building a relationship with you, and he was laying the way, and he was coming, and he's gonna right now in the fullness of time, there's a time. And he's coming and he's gonna redeem all of that. So from this day forward, that's my point number four. Do everything you can to cooperate with that. Everything you can to do this right here, and put the past behind you. You didn't know back then, but you know now. And so do what you know to do, and God will bless you. If you did it wrong, if you got it, if you get it wrong in the future, repent and go the other way. And then help other people not do the same mistakes you did. It's hard. The truth is, it's hard to be a single mom. It's much easier to pick the person the right time, the first time, and pick them. It's better to do that. It's better even when marriage is hard, it's better to make it work. It's better rather than uh nursing a grievance. It's better to forgive that person even when it's hard. It's better to look at yourself and and try to find the thing you did wrong instead of focusing on the thing the other person did wrong. It's better to save it. When you can save it, it's better, it's better, it's always better, but God He still redeems. I don't know how He used it, I don't know how He's gonna do it. But He's a redeemer and He makes something beautiful. He takes the pieces and turns them to praises. That's one of our favorite uh lyrics of song lyrics around here. He takes it and he makes it something good, but but cooperate with Him and do the word that you know. And then finally,

Due Season, Vision, And Appointed Time

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don't give up. Never, never, never, never give up. Number five, never, never, never, never give up. Galatians six, if we if we go down to Galatians all the way to the to the last chapter, it says, let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season. You shall reap if you do not lose heart. In due season. When is due season? I don't know. But you gotta know it's coming. You gotta know. You gotta have faith that it is coming. It is your due season. You have sown your seed and you shall reap a harvest. There is due season. Don't be weary, keep doing the good. Is it hard sometimes? Yeah, it's hard. Habakkuk 2.2. Then the Lord answered me and said, Write the vision and make it plain on tablets, that he may run who reads it. There is an encouragement every day that can come if you write that thing that God showed you, that thing that you're believing God to be, to do for him. What is he making out of your life? Take time to pray about it, get a vision and write it somewhere. Make it plain and then run. Run to go do it. Run to let him let him inspire you. For the verse three, for the vision is yet for an appointed time. Everybody say an appointed time. That word is a Hebrew word, Moed. And it is an appointment. If you have an appointment, you don't, if, if, if you have an appointment. Hey, I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow. I'm gonna be at my doctor's office. I'm gonna be at the nail, the nail lady's gonna be doing my nail. I have an appointment. I am not just a walk in, maybe I'll go. I might be. No, if you have an appointment, you're like, I'm gonna be there. I'm gonna be there. And there's an appointed time, and God said, I'm gonna be there. The stars already are aligned. I mean, like he literally he laid them out. When Jesus came, have y'all ever, that's a whole other thing. I I can't even preach on that tonight, but there was an entire constellations. Uh the king star overlaid the the virgin star and the virgin constellation, and and it's over the the it all of this stuff came together. It was in the fullness of time. God set the universe in motion back in Genesis chapter one. We didn't know how he did it, and we don't know if he sped everything up or if he slows it down or how did he coordinate with exactly when all the but it happened. Some people think, and I I've come to think um that Jesus was actually not born in December. He was born on Passover. When else would he be born? That was a it was a feast. That was he was fulfilled. There were appointed times. Moed, that time, Moad, that that was an appointment God had with his people. There were seven feasts in Israel. We will not do a whole teaching on the seven feasts, but everything God did, he did on a feast day, on a Jewish feast day, feast of tabernacles, feast of Passover. Uh there were feasts and there were appointed times, there were Moads that God fulfilled and Jesus, Jesus fulfilled. He fulfilled them in his life and birth and ministry, and then he will fulfill them in his second coming. The Feast of Trumpets, the rapture. You have an appointment, it's just like Christmas. It's coming. It's coming. At the end, it will speak and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it, because it will surely come. Will it tarry? It won't tarry. I don't can't tell from the scripture. Whatever it is, I know it's on a schedule, and I'm gonna be patient. I'm gonna keep doing good. I'm not gonna be weary in my doing good because there is due season, it's coming, and I'm gonna I'm gonna reap. And my my Moa and my my Christmas is coming. Jesus is coming. And he is a redeemer of

Final Encouragement To Hold On

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all things. Amen. I hope that encouraged you tonight. He's redeeming things. It's a wonderful time. The set time, the time to favor her has come. Joseph was a slave in Egypt until in the in the in this fet in fetters and iron. God laid his soul in irons until the time of his word came to pass, Psalm 105. Until the time, until the time, until the time, until the time, until the time. Have you suffered tonight? Have you been in darkness? Have you not, you haven't, you haven't seen the full plan of God come together? Please hold on. Please don't be weary in well-doing. Please keep doing as much as you can of the word. It has that person disrespected you, love them anyway. Keep doing this word. It will be for an appointed time. And God is working something good through you. Please rise above it. Please don't give up. God has an appointed time and He's redeeming it. He's redeeming it to Himself and He's redeeming all of us. And soon He is coming. Amen.