Kairos Part 2, Knowing the time | Andy Elmes | Sunday 5th February 2023
Pastor Andy continues the theme of Kairos, this week focusing on knowing the time we are in. Kairos is about this being a God moment, a Divine moment of opportunity for us individually and as a whole in the church. Andy speaks of us being in God ordained moments just as Noah, Joseph and others saw themselves in.
God creates specific moments for specific things that he's doing on the earth. We need to have a correct world view of the moment we are in and also an equally good spiritual view. In Luke 12:54-56 Jesus talks about the foolishness of not being able to interpret present times from a Godly understanding. God doesn't want us to be foolish! We need a healthy balance of how God wants us to respond and what God wants regarding what is happening in the world. Every season serves a purpose under Heaven (as Ecclesiastes 3:1) and God wants us to be able to interpret his Seasons.
When Isaiah spoke of this (Isaiah 60), he said ‘Arise and shine for your light has come and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. For Behold, the Darkness shall cover the earth and deep darkness’. This is a good description of a ‘now’ moment, isn't it for many? But the Lord will rise over you and His glory will be seen upon you and the Gentiles shall come to your light. Obviously, this was speaking to a Jewish people then, but it's speaking to us now, as the people of God. Paul said the same thing often in the New Testament. Specifically in Romans 13, 11-14 (NKJV) it says “And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfil its lusts”.
So this moment is a time to wake up, cease living any life of compromise we may have and be alert (1 Peter 5, 8). Jesus will return to this earth like a thief in the night without warning. In Acts 2:17 (NKJV), Peter speaks to men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem saying “And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your young men shall see visions, Your old men shall dream dreams. And on My menservants and on my maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days; and they shall prophesy. I will show wonders in heaven above and signs in the earth beneath: Blood and fire and vapour of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord. And it shall come to pass that whoever calls on the name of the Lord Shall be saved.”
There is no reference to gender, race, age, rich or poor in this passage. The Bible is a signpost telling us to look out and be ready. Are we ready? Do we know the time?
