Isn't that a good hymn? A great hymn. Our times are in
thy hand. That's the subject of this message.
This is a timely message. There's a message on about time
and our times. The times of our life, everything
in this short existence. Thank God. We need to thank God
our times are in his hands. And they are. God is eternal. God is, time is nothing to him. Days a thousand years, a thousand
years a day. But we're creatures of time. We're so subject to time, aren't
we? If we actually live right now,
we don't know what tomorrow holds. We're just on a subject of time. A very short time. A very short
time. A man is born of woman is a few
days. Just days. And full of trouble. Full of trouble. So scriptures
tells us over and over again. Reminds us over and over again.
That's how we begin this message. The time is short. Redeem the
time. We're trying to do it right now.
We're asking the Lord right now to redeem this time, to make
this time the most valuable time on earth. And it is. This is time well
spent. In fact, it's the only time worth spending. You know, today, that's what
we're in right now, today. And today is a day of salvation.
Right now. Salvation is preached. Right
now you're hearing the message. Today. The day of salvation. Wouldn't that be something? The
Lord, the most born today. Start living and never die. That's
what we're going to talk about today. Ecclesiastes means the
preacher. What a premium God puts on preaching. How God elevates the office of
preacher. Solomon was a king, small K,
but he puts a capital P on preacher. Why? This is life or death. The preacher. It begins, this
book begins, look at chapter 1, the words of the preacher,
verse 1, son of David, king, small K, in Jerusalem, and it
begins this way, vanity of vanities. Say it, the preacher. Vanity
of vanities. All is vanity. What profit hath
a man of all his labor? But ye take it, and it's done. And the whole book goes on to
show us that you do this, you do that, you accumulate this,
you accumulate that. You go through these times, and
these times, and it's all over. It's vanity. This book ends with
vanity of vanity. I told you. Vanity means empty. Vanity means empty. You may get
filled up with stuff, but you're going to lose it. You're going
to be empty. That's all over. Vanity won't
satisfy. Vanity means it won't satisfy. It will fulfill you. This chapter says the eye is
never satisfied with seeing, the ear with hearing. This body,
it won't fulfill. When it's all over, it leaves
it emptiness. Look at chapter 11 with me, chapter
Ecclesiastes 11. If you haven't read this in a
while, you need to read it. A whole book. Look at verse 8
of chapter 11. If a man live many years and
rejoice in them all, but remember, the days of darkness, and there'll
be many. And all that cometh is vanity. So he tells young people, verse
1 of chapter 12, Remember thou thy Creator in the days of thy
youth, while the evil days come not, because they're coming.
They're coming. This is why the oldest Psalm,
one of them, Psalm 90, we just sang it, says, teach us to number
our days. I remember when I turned 15,
I couldn't wait. I was a car buff all my life. I loved cars. And we were talking
about my oldest brother was, he had some classic cars, and
he let me sit on his lap. And 10, 9, 10 years old, shift
gears in his MG. This 56 Chevy, I thought, oh,
man, when I grow up, I'm going to have one of those. Well, I
did, and it's gone. Had a bunch of them, gone. But
I remember when I turned 15, I made me a calendar, a homemade
calendar, 365 days. And I marked off every day until
I turned 16, my wheels. I'm going to get my wheels. You
know what? I'm gone. That's what I was looking
forward to. You know what I'm numbering my
days for now? I'm going to get my wings. And I'm gone. I almost perished
the first time. And I'm not going to perish this
time. I'm waiting on my wings. I'm counting the days. Are you?
Teach us to number our days. This is not a morbid message,
although it is on mortality. We need to consider our mortality.
This is a message, really, on immortality. Because our Savior,
Scripture says, our Savior Jesus Christ has abolished death and
brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel.
This is not a morbid message at all. But for those in Christ,
this is good. It starts out bad. It ends good. It's going to be sad. But it's
going to be happy. Now the outlook for this world
is bleak. But there's a new world and it's
brighter than the sun shining today. There's not even going
to be a sun in the new world. It's going to be that bright.
One bright and glorious morning. Alright, verse 1 in our text.
Chapter 3. One of Ecclesiastes says this, to everything there
is a season, a time, every purpose under heaven. Everything is seasonal
by the purpose of God. Everything is seasonal. We have
seasons. I'm glad I live in Virginia. I'm thankful to live in Virginia.
We get to enjoy these seasons, don't we? Beautiful. I wouldn't
want to live in, well, I did live in Florida. And there was
never a fall. Trees didn't turn. You know,
ugly palm trees, that's all. No, the seasons are wonderful.
God has made everything beautiful in his time. That's what it goes
on to say. Season. The winter starts out,
doesn't it? January. The winter. It's winter.
Winter has its own beauty, doesn't it? It really does. When the
leaves are gone, you see every limb of the trees and all that,
and you look out. It just has its own beauty, but After too long a winter, it's
cold and bleak. It starts looking bleak, doesn't
it? Then what's next? Spring. Oh, man, it's my favorite
time. April. Flowers start blooming. My grass is turning green. Couldn't
come sooner than that. See, the winter made the spring
wonderful. Everything is a season. Set in order by God. It's spring. Life springs up. Okay. And it's summer. Summer. Oh, man. Get out there. It's
summertime. You ready to go camping? Summer. It's over. Fall. That's the beauty
of it. Fall. The leaves are turning.
Turning red and orange and yellow and all. It's beautiful. Is there
a more beautiful time? But you know what it's showing us? Death. Every leaf on every tree is going
to fall to the ground and decay and rot is gone forever. And
in the winter, it's cold. And back to spring. And back
to summer. Isn't God wonderful? Wonderful. Everything's seasonal.
Everything in this life is seasonal. Isn't it? Everything. There's
a time. for every purpose unto heaven.
You see, God has purposed all things. Everything is on purpose.
Aren't you glad? Aren't you glad you know that?
Aren't you glad you know Him who worketh all things according
to His purpose? And aren't you glad? We looked
at this Wednesday. All things work together for
good to them that love God who are called according to His purpose.
We've been called by this gospel. We know. We know this. May the
Lord take it from our heads to our hearts that everything is
on purpose and everything is good In everything give thanks. This is a will of God in Christ
Jesus concerning you. It's all good. It's all designed
by our all-wise God. It's all on purpose. He's predestinated
us to become like Jesus Christ and so that someday we'll be
with Him forever. No more sorrow. No more tears.
No more sadness. No more death. In God good. We've got to go through these
seasons now. And God has purposed every one
of us for His glory, for our good, to bring us to Christ. Purpose. Verse 2 says it's time
to be born, time to die. We were waiting on Francis to be born. Francis. Luke's last, probably won't be
his last donor. Looks like there may be more
coming. You reckon, Gary? Hard to tell. But we're waiting
on Frances, you know. It's a long time. Whoa, man,
look. Beautiful flower. Gorgeous. I've never seen a cuter baby,
unless it's my own. Frances, Hannah's approaching
40 years old. I'm sorry, but I've got to tell
everybody that. It's true. You were born yesterday. It's just yesterday. Time to
be born. Time to die. And it's just about that fast. You
know a singer born? Look at chapter 7, but here's
what God's Word says. Here's the blessed promise, believer. Oh, may this get a hold of us.
Chapter 7, verse 1, a good name is better than precious ointment. I'm thankful that I was Henry
Mahan's son. I am. I'm thankful that Doris
Frese Mahan is my mother. The name Mahan is going to perish.
I want to be a son of God. That's a good name. I'll never
perish. Never again. And now look at this. Verse 1
says, The day of death is better than one's birth. Can you get
a hold of that? I hope after this message. Day
of death. It's not death to a believer. It's not death to a believer.
It's birth. You know how we look forward
to Francis' birth? And she's born. All of Tracy's pain and all of
our anxiousness and all is over in a moment, in the twinkling
of an eye. She's alive! Look at her, beautiful! We're
all closing, all happy, happy, happy. That's the way it's going
to be for all of us. No more memories. Look at her,
she's beautiful. Look at him, he's beautiful.
He looks just like Christ. Who wouldn't look forward to
that? In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, we'll all be changed. Look at chapter 3, verse 2. It says, a time to plant, a time
to pluck up, seed time and harvest. The gospel seed is sown, and
the Lord plants this gospel in some, and what a glorious thing. New birth. And every plant that
our Heavenly Father hasn't planted will be what? Plucked up. Rooted up. Our Lord came and
grew up. He is the seed. and grew up as
a tender plant, as a root out of dry ground, but it said he
was cut off from the land, plucked up. It's seed time, time to be
born, and then it's harvest time, time to die. Planted, plucked
up. Who decides? The farmer, that
farmer. Every plant shall be taken away,
harvested. Are you wheat or are you jack? That's what we need to know.
The chap is going to be cast out. Look at verse 3, a time
to kill and a time to heal. Notice the order here. Okay? Kill and then heal. Break down,
build up, weep, laugh, mourn, damn. You notice the order there?
That's what our Lord said who came in the Sermon on the Mount.
That said, blessed are they that mourn, blessed are the poor.
It's time to kill and time to heal. I kill, the Lord said.
I kill. Brothers and sisters, we need
to get this through our head. It will give us peace now and
we won't worry about a thing. We won't worry about one thing. Things don't kill us, brethren.
The Lord may send things, but they don't kill us. God does. He said, I kill, have so-and-so
get this. God said it. That'll be free from fear. Stop.
Don't give yourself as much power as God did. He said, I do this. I kill. I heal. Don't give doctors the credit. They're in his hand. They might
heal. They might not. Right? He might use it, he might
not. I kill, the Lord kills. The Lord wounds. Now, the principle
application of this is spiritually. What's the first thing God does
to His people? He kills them. Paul said, when the commandment
came, I died. When the gospel came, the law came, I died. So
I was alive without the law. No, you weren't, Paul. You were
dead in sin. When the law came, it says, you're a sinner. You're
dead in sin. He died. He's made of iron. And one is wounded and healed. Oh, the Lord kills. He wounds
by His Word. He makes alive by the same Word. I pray. Barnard used to say this. He was an evangelist. He traveled
around preaching everywhere. Fiery evangelist. And he used
to say, I'm not trying to get people saved. I'm trying to get
them lost. That's the first thing that's
got to happen. Trying to kill. Trying to kill. Kill. The heart's
got to be pierced. We've got to die. We've got to
see Christ. We've got to see ourselves bitten
by that serpent. Then we'll look to Christ crucified
on the pole. I kill. I make a living. Physically
speaking, We get sick and we ask the Lord to heal, don't we?
We always do. We love people. We ask the Lord,
pray for the sick. We're told to. And we do and
ask the Lord to heal and sometimes He does. Sometimes He doesn't. My times are in His hands. Times of health, times of sickness.
He purposed everything. And nothing can stop it. And
you don't want it to. You don't want it to. Our times
are in His hands. It's all on purpose. We need
to realize that. We get sick and we pray for healing. A brother, a sister, a husband,
a wife, son or a daughter, a father, a mother, we pray for healing.
And the Lord takes them away. They die. Brothers and sisters,
if they knew Christ, they're healed forever. They're healed. I know that's
part of the reason our Lord wept at Lazarus' grave. God will bring him back. You know, Mindy said this so
many times that she wouldn't bring her mother back for nothing.
She loved her mother. She lost her mother when she
was 20. She missed her greatly, didn't
you? Would you bring her back to this
place? Not for anything. He says, I kill. I heal. It's in His hands. It couldn't be in better hands.
We don't want charge of that. Look at verse 3, a time to break
down, a time to build up, break down. Right after the fall of
man, it reads that Cain's son, Cain, Abel we know was killed. Boy, Adam and Eve, right after
the garden, they walked out and saw their son lying in his own
blood. And Cain got married. They had
children, grandchildren for Adam and Eve. And it says that Cain's
son, Enoch was his name, he started building the city. Started building
the cities. And then men began to build cities.
That's when they didn't need cities before. But they began
to build cities. And they built cities and cities
and finally came. But anyway, chapter 6, God says,
I'm going to tear it all down. Everybody here has corrupted
my way. And God sent a flood and washed it all away. Man began
to build up, build up, build up, and God sent a flood, so
I'm going to tear it down. Tear it down. And He did. Our Lord, one time, they were
impressed with the temple. That's the disciple. Isn't this
beautiful? Look at that. This is beautiful.
Nehemiah and Ezra built this temple. Isn't this gorgeous?
He said, you see all these things? You see all these things? He
said, not one stone is going to be left standing on another.
What impresses us in this work? Lots of things. We're flesh.
Lots of things do it. Music, architecture, food, all
this. Not one stone is going to be
left standing on another. There's going to be a time. I'm
going to tear it all down. The whole world is going to be
shaking, the scripture says. Hebrews 13 says, there's going
to be a time. There are things that can't be
shaken. I'm going to stand. Where do you stand? On Christ
the solid rock. Can't be shaken. Built up. Time
to build up. Time to break down. Time to build
up. Brothers and sisters, God has
been building His house, His temple, for years now. He's been
building that temple for years now. He's been preparing a place
for God's people. And very shortly, this world
is going to be torn down, folded up like a vesture and cast away.
But brethren, we're going to see new Jerusalem come down out
of the sky, built by the hand of God. Time to build it. Look at verse 4, it's time to
weep. Time to laugh. Time to weep. Go back to chapter
7. Chapter 7. This whole book is
marvelous, isn't it? Chapter 7. Notice again, the
order was time to weep. It talks about death being better
than birth. Verse 2. Chapter 7, verse 2,
it's better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the
house of feasting. Why, Solomon? Why? Because this
is the end of all men. This life ends in weeping. The joy comes in the morning. Time to weep. This is the time. Scripture says, they that sow
in tears shall reap in joy. Weeping endureth for a night. Joy cometh in the morning. We've all had tearful
departures, haven't we? Seen people depart. We've departed,
those we love. We've seen the day that you took
our grandchildren from us. to that distant land, three hours
away. It might as well, Gary, it might
as well have been 3,000. Oh, that was so hard. But tearful, you know, we lose,
you know, the Lord takes those away from us that we love so
dearly. Tearful. But the reunion, what's
a reunion like? I remember taking my, Ed Ballard's
daughter and granddaughter away from him, from Ashland, to come
down here. And I remember the look on his
face when I did that. At the time, I couldn't appreciate
it. Adam, I couldn't. I'm gone, you know. I dropped
him out. He's broken. She was the only
source of joy he has as a child, and I took her. I look back on
that now, and I wish I told. Heath, I'll try to take care
of your daughter. Time to weep. As tearful as the
departure was, you lost your dad yesterday, Stephen. He's
with the Lord today. You're going to see him tomorrow. That's right. Smile. Right now. It's coming. As tearful
as the departure is, time to weep, you just wait. The reunion. The reunion. Scripture says joy unspeakable. Unspeakable, unbridled, and unending. No end. Days without end. They knew the Lord. Let's see
them again. Time to weep as weeping. Time to laugh. Oh, we're going
to laugh? Don't you love Psalm 126? When
the Lord turned our captivity, we're like them that dreamed.
And our mouths were filled with laughter. And they say, oh, the
Lord has done good things for us. And he goes on to say, those
that sow in tears shall reap in joy. Those that go forth bearing
precious seed, weeping bearing precious seed, shall doubtless
come again with rejoicing, bringing the sheaves with them. Time to mourn, verse 4, and time
to dance. Time to mourn. Time to dance. Didn't our Lord say, blessed
are they that mourn? Didn't He? Didn't He say, blessed are they
that mourn? What did He say after that? They
shall be comforted. As deep as the sorrow is, the joy is much greater. Where
sin doth abound, grace did much more. Those that weep, oh, the
laughter is going to last a long... You know the old saying, those
that laugh last, laugh best. So He tells us to weep now. Our
Lord going to the cross, remember what He said, and listen to Henry
Mahan's message on that. Weep not for me. He said, weep
not for me, weep for yourselves. He's leaving. He's going back
to the Father. Weep, but weep for yourselves and your children.
You're staying here. I'm going to glory. But it'll
be turned to those that weep, those that mourn, it'll be turned
to laughter. And those that mourn, they'll dance. They'll dance. Is there going to be dancing
in heaven? I believe so. We're not going
to be male and female. There's not going to be a sin. David danced before the ark.
He was so overcome with joy, the ark was coming home. He was
dancing. I danced with my daughter at
her wedding. Remember that? Remember the song? That was yesterday. Oh, you reckon the Lord's going
to dance with his bride? When you come home from wherever,
Karen, how does Caleb greet you? He's dancing. He's wagging that
dog, wag all over on it. When we see the Lord. When we
see those we love. I'm not getting Pentecostal on
you here. So there's a time to dance. Time to dance. We're going to be so happy. See our Lord and see those we
love. It's time to mourn now. Time to dance. Time to weep.
Time to cast away stones. Verse 5. Cast away stone. Time
to gather stone. Time to cast away. I plow in
a field. When we first came to Rocky Mountain,
I didn't know why they named it that. I do now. I was trying
to plant a garden. There's a stone every six inches.
What are you doing with those stones? What are you doing with
them? You plow and you cast them away, cast them away, cast them
away. Just keep casting those stones
over the side. You know, every single human
being has a heart hard as a rock, hard as stone. The Lord, the
owner of this field, this gospel field, is going to plow it up.
And you know what he's going to do? He's going to take some
of those hard hearts, some of those stony hearts, and gather
them back together and give them a heart of flesh. And he's going
to call them living stones. He's going to put those that
were cast away, he's going to bring the cast away back together
into his building. Living stones as a temple unto
the Lord for His glory. That's what. Time. Cast away. Time to gather. Look at verse
5. It says it's time to embrace. Time to refrain from embracing.
You know, the gospel embraces the repentant sinner. The gospel
embraces the prodigal son. We're getting ready to look at
that. Luke 15. Prodigal coming home. Oh, but
the time when He was gone. Time of weeping, time of mourning. Father mourned. The pain He went
through, the suffering He caused. The pain He caused others. Oh,
my, weeping. But boy, what a reunion. Time
to embrace. And when He came back, you know
what the Scripture says? The Father saw Him afar off and
ran and fell on His neck. Welcome home, son. Embraced. The Gospel embraces. The Gospel
kisses us. Oh, the Gospel engulfs us and
tells us of the love and mercy of our God, the love of our Father,
the love of our Lord Jesus Christ for us on Calvary's tree. Time
to embrace. You know, we often play the prodigal
again. The story of Jose and Gomer. He married her. She ran off. The story of the child and Ezekiel.
Ezekiel 16. Cast out. He gathered her. He
embraced the child, didn't he? Washed her, clothed her, embroidered
her with embroidered work, put a ring on her finger, didn't
he? Oh, he embraced her. I said,
Liv, you're mine, you're mine. That child that was cast away,
he gathered and embraced. But you know what she did? She
trusted in her own beauty. She got puffed up in pride. And
she left. So there's a time to refrain
from embracing. And the Gospel embraces us. But
if we run off, and we do. If we play the harlot, and we
do. If we get lifted up with pride
and we do the Lord, we're going to feel His displeasure. We need to feel His love. We
need to feel His presence. We need to feel that He loves
us and has gathered us, don't we? But there's times we need
to feel His displeasure. We do. He's a God that hides
His face. The message on the radio was,
oh, did God make His face to shine upon us? And He has. But
there are times when we don't give God And we run off after
this world and things of it, so God hides His face. No, you need that. No. And then we long for another
embrace. We need it. It's time. Time. Look at verse
6. It's time to get. Time to lose. You know, everything gotten will
be lost. Everything accumulated will be
taken from us. Man says this, better get it
while you can. Know what man says? Better get it while you can.
God says, with all thy getting, get understanding, get wisdom.
Because the proverb says this, in the day of prosperity, rejoice. But in a day of adversity, consider,
God has set the one over against the other, the end, that man
will find nothing after him. Whatever you get, you're going
to lose. Naked I came, Job said, and naked
I shall return. I brought nothing with me, he
said, I won't take anything out of here. Time to get, time to lose. Time to keep, look at our text.
It says a time to keep, a time to cast away. Who decides this? What we keep and how long? God
does. My times are in thy hand. God
gives us things. And I say this to our young people
and everybody, that God gives us all things richly to enjoy.
This whole book is about that. That he enjoyed this, he enjoyed
that, but he realized he can't keep it. And so it's vanity. It doesn't last. So he said,
it's good, he says, nothing better at the time than to enjoy it. Enjoy it. God gives us all things
richly to enjoy. Enjoy it. There's no sin in enjoying
it. The sin is forgetting God. The
sin is enjoying these things more than God. And if you belong
to God, He'll take it away from you. Scott Richardson used to say,
don't hold things so tightly that God has to break your fingers
to make you lose them. Because He's going to take it. He's the one that gives us what
we have. The Lord gave. He takes away. We only get to keep one thing. Eternal life. And it's life more abundant.
We'll see. You'll see. The only thing worth keeping,
really. We want to keep things. Anybody
in here a hoarder? Any American is not a hoarder. Our attic's full of stuff. Well,
then, after a while, we realize, I don't need this. Now, we walk
up there and look at what we've kept. We need to cast it away. And his wisdom, his purpose,
allows us to keep things for a while. And he says, it's time. I'm taking it away. I'm taking it. He gives us a
husband. He gives us a wife. It's a blessing,
isn't it? We get to keep them for a while. And the scripture says, as time
remains, those that were married are as though they've never been
married. He's good. He gives us a good
mate. What a blessing, isn't it? But
we can't keep him. They keep him. But if your maker
is your husband. You see? You see? We need to
see this. It doesn't lessen the sorrow
at the time, but it gives us hope that we sorrow not as those
who have no hope, The time to cast away. Verse 7 says, the
time to rend, the time to sew. Jeremiah said, let us turn to
our Lord our God. Let us rend our hearts, not our
garments. Let's rend our heart and turn
to the Lord. You know what He'll do if He rends your heart? If
you turn to Him in repentance, you know what He'll do? He sews
you a garment. Bartimaeus, when he... Jesus! Son of David, have mercy on me!
They said, He's calling you. He had that old security blanket,
that old rag He was wearing. It gave Him comfort in all that
time of His darkness, His blindness. The first thing He did was, I
don't need that. And that's what we see when the Lord gives us
eyes. We say, I don't need any of this.
I need Him. And He came and I know the Lord
gave Him eyesight and He gave Him a new garment. He came into the garden. He liked
to party. Clothing was the best. He put
a ring on his finger. Time to rent, time to sow, time
to keep silence, verse 7. Time to keep silence. Oh, is
now ever a time that the world ought to be silent. And God in a measure, sovereignly,
providentially, is putting something over men's mouths. Looks like
everybody can see. We ought to keep silence. This
is what brought on these things. That the lofty looks of man shall
be brought down. The haughtiness of man shall
be stopped. Every man shall be stopped. And it's a time to keep silent.
God's in the heaven, we're upon the earth. Let your words be
few, be not hasty to utter... The next chapter, be not hasty
to utter anything before God. He's in heaven. Let men keep
silence. If they're going to say anything,
let them call for mercy. Looks like the world will be
calling for mercy, doesn't it? No, just as soon as this plague
is gone, as soon as men... feel some freedom, they'll start
spouting off again, worse than ever. And then God sends something
worse. It's time to be silent. We need
to hear God speak, don't we? Who do we need to hear speak?
God speak. Time to keep silent. And he says,
verse 8, a time to love. Time to love. Love the Lord. You who love the
Lord, He says, hate evil. Time to love. In chapter 14 of Luke, we're
getting ready to look at it Wednesday night. It says, If any man love
father or mother, husband or wife, son or daughter more than
me, I'm not a disciple. You know what that means. Do
I know what that means? That's what he said. He said,
Amen. Hate, Father. Time to love. Time to hate. Love is good. But
not if it's more than God. Love is good. We ought to. Time
to love our enemies. But then David said, Psalm 139,
Do not I hate them that hate thee. I hate them with a perfect
hatred. Time to hate. You that love the Lord, hate
evil. And then look at this in closing, the last line says a
time of war. That's where we are right now.
That's where we are. The believer lives in this world
and there's a warfare going on. There's a spiritual battle going
on. There's an old man and a new man within every believer. The
believer is not a friend of the world, a friend to it. but not a friend of it. He said,
you shall be hated. Believer is in a battle against
the God of this world, the things of this world, the flesh, sin,
flesh, devil, all these things. It's a constant warfare, a constant
battle, a constant struggle, isn't it? And it won't end until
these bodies, like a soldier, lay in the grave. And then what? Peace. A time for peace. Now, who wouldn't want that?
I'll tell you who wouldn't want that. It's those that are not
in the battle. But those in the warfare, those
that have the struggle, want peace. David said, I'm for peace. They're for war. He said, I want
out. They don't want out. I do. Where's
the time? Coming a time. There's coming
a time when this warfare will be over. Christ said it on the
cross. It's finished. It's finished. Isaiah said it long before that.
The warfare is accomplished. Iniquity is parted. Sin is purged.
And Christ said it on the cross. It's finished. And it's over.
It's all over. But we're still here. But there's going to be a time
when there is no more time. When time is no more, peace forevermore. No tears, no weeping, no sorrow,
no mourning, no death, joy. And that's all I can say
about that because it's joy unspeakable, full of glory. where Christ is. Come quickly, Lord. Come into
the hearts of those who don't know you and come for your people.
Come quickly. All right, let's sing in closing.