Where to dive in:

0:00 – Do You Know What Time It Is?
2:20 – Loving God’s Word: From Junk Food to Living Bread
7:00 – Time Is a Governor
11:51 – Why Everything in Life Is Ruled by the Clock
20:22 – The Sons of Issachar: Understanding the Times
27:02 – A Time for Every Matter Under Heaven
29:22 – Judah’s Tragic Mistake: Wise Moves, Wrong Order
32:56 – You Did Not Look to Your Maker
40:37 – King David: A Man After God’s Heart, Still Bound by Time
44:00 – The Snooze Button That Changed Everything
50:28 – The Domino Effect of Ignoring God’s Timing
53:04 – The Clock Is Ticking: Salvation Is Nearer Now
58:50 – Your Personal Wake-Up Call
1:00:27 – Final Challenge and Prayer

Transcript

Jaime Luce (00:00.494)
Hey everybody, good to be with you today. Welcome to the Jamie Lewis Podcast. today we’re going to be talking about time. Specifically, do you know what time it is for your life? this is a really important subject today. Wise people, wise people, whether you’re a leader.

in your home, a leader in business, a leader in ministry. this is paramount to those who lead. But I would say that no matter what station you are in life, no matter what age you are in life, you must know and understand your time. And there are great consequences to not understanding your time.

This will be a help to you today. It will help you focus and know how to pray, to seek clarity for whatever might be ahead of you and give you some instruction that we find based off of some things that people got wrong, but that God’s expectation was clear so that we can learn from what we read in the Word. I don’t know about you, but I was recently.

With some friends, we were having some dinner, my husband and I, and I had commented on how much I just love the Bible. I just love God’s word. And the longer you take, the more years that go by that you are reading it, digesting it, eating it, taking it in, letting it transform you, letting it read you, letting it correct you, letting it build you up. The longer that you do that.

The more delicious this bread becomes, the more you crave it, the more you need it, the more you understand its power in your life for you, that truly it is the word of God. It’s what sustains us, that that we can feast on his word and be filled and satisfied and gain instruction and know what to do and get help.

Jaime Luce (02:20.182)
And be encouraged when we’re discouraged. Okay, if think about it this way. If you don’t love your word, if if it’s a chore to you to sit and read your Bible, now I’m not, this is not condemnation, please hear me. But I want to give you a word picture to help you understand what’s going on. If you don’t love the word enough to be in it, eating from it.

Dissecting it, learning from it, craving time in it. Think of it as the way you think about your regular appetite. It’s you can tell the difference. People’s appetites are different. Their taste buds are different when they are someone who feeds on nothing but junk food. They’re constantly taking stuff in. In fact, people who consume

What is kind of categorized as junk food tend to eat more of it and still feel much less satisfied from it. And yet that’s what they crave. So when you give them healthy food, they think, ugh, that doesn’t taste good. I don’t want that. Because they have allowed their taste buds to be formed by what they continually feed themselves that is a

That is a degenerate degenerated form of what good food is. It’s been broken down, it’s been dismantled, it’s been faked with all kinds of fakery. And you can see that the difference between somebody who is healthy and they crave healthy things, what does it do for them? Their bodies are actually not just fed, but the nutrition they are receiving gives them.

Really good energy, helps them to sleep well at night. It gives them endurance and they crave those things because it’s something that powers them and it helps them to keep going. And they notice if they don’t have it, what it does, what the absence of that health food in their system does. So I I’m challenging us today that if we have a junk food habit.

Jaime Luce (04:40.532)
If we tend to take in all day long stuff from our cell phones and our social media and television and whatever else that we’re pouring into ourselves, if we’re feeding ourselves junk food, we won’t be hungering after the things that are truly going to help us and nourish us, which means there’s some work on our part that has to be dealt with. We have to be those who are willing to cut some things out and make some changes.

We are responsible for ourselves alone. No one can make you make those changes. Nobody can help you do that. That is a decision you make, and that is the discipline that you put on yourself and that you expect from yourself. It’s the parameters and the borders that you choose to live within. And nobody can determine those but you. So my challenge to you is to become a lover of God’s word because.

You need what’s in here. You need the nourishment that’s found in here. You need the the the energy and the strength and the guidance that this gives your life. And this is kind of a topic that is all throughout scripture in different ways. And I had to just for sake of knowing we can’t spend that much time, just ignore a ton of them.

But as a quick reference to understanding time, a few weeks ago, it might be a few months ago now, it’s probably a few months ago now, we had spoken about the five wise and the five foolish virgins. If you they didn’t understand their time. Now, when I gave you this message, we didn’t specifically say the word time and deal with the time other than they were in the right place at the right time, but they were not prepared.

Well, that’s part of knowing what time it is, that you’re prepared. It’s like getting ready to go in and take a major exam and you haven’t you didn’t study at all. You knew what time the exam was, but you didn’t study. Well, that’s part of knowing what time it is. You’ve taken the steps to be prepared for the time. So let’s talk about time here for a moment. Whether we like it or not, and I know many who don’t like this.

Jaime Luce (07:00.62)
But whether we like it or not, time is a governor. Time governs our life. Like think of it like a governor who runs the state, decides certain things. You have to live within the parameters of the laws of the governing officials. Okay, time is a governor. And wise people, wise people know what time it is.

And one of the best pursuits for personal growth is to understand what time it is. And I’m talking about your life specifically, as well as knowing for the Church of Jesus Christ what time it is. Okay. And whether we like it or not, our lives are what I quote unquote will call where we live on the clock. You have to live on the clock, right?

we are ruled by what time it is. Have you ever gone on a vacation or went somewhere for the weekend or did something is Friday night and you say to somebody, Okay, we can do that. I’m off the I’m off the clock. I don’t have to worry about this or that because I’m off the clock. Well, what does that mean exactly? It means I don’t have to pay attention to something right now because I don’t feel constrained by time. What’s funny about that is you are only off the clock, so to speak.

For a certain amount of time because you’re actually still on the clock. There’s no way to fully remove yourself from the clock. Let me explain. Because even if you think, well, I don’t work outside of a job, or I don’t I I make my own schedule and I you are still governed by time. Think about it in these ways. When you eat, when you sleep, when you work.

Or when you play. Let’s say it’s, you know, it’s you’re determining a when you’re gonna eat, but your stomach and your body will start having consequences if you do not eat, when you should eat. There will be consequences. the same thing with sleep. If you don’t get enough sleep, you’re going to have consequences. When you get to work, if you have any kind of work to do, there are parameters of time.

Jaime Luce (09:26.998)
And there are consequences if you don’t deal with getting there in a timely manner in the time that’s prescribed. Even when you play. Let’s say I want to play golf, because that’s my new thing this past year. I love golf. I don’t get to play as much as I’d like, but I’m still totally a beginner and not very good, but I absolutely love it. But you have to get a tea time and you have to be there on time. And you have to worry about playing at a speed.

That doesn’t hold the people up behind you because they’re on the clock as well. Time matters. Knowing what time it is matters. We must continually think about how long it will take to get somewhere. Now, I live in Southern California, and if you are not from this area and you’ve never been to LA or dealt with the conditions of the freeways in Southern California.

It is a whole different world to us who live here versus living other places. And like I lived in Texas for a while, and if we hit traffic, I mean it could seem like bad traffic too, we usually own w I mean, you might have been 10, 15 minutes late. In Southern California, you can come up on something unexpected and it’s going to take another extra hour, maybe two. It

Your time is greatly affected out here. So for us, when we schedule things, depending on where we’re scheduling that and what time we have to be there and how important it is to be there on time, you have to really plan for that. You have to plan how long is it going to take me to get there? And should I actually add in time for the unknown of what traffic might do to me?

If you have a project you’re working on, you have to not only think of, okay, this is the deadline of my project, but you have to also figure out how much time it’s going to take to do that project. It’s like when scripture says that no one builds without first considering, do I have enough to build? Do I even have enough time to get the project done by the deadline? And if I do.

Jaime Luce (11:51.074)
How much time do I have that are working hours that I can actually put on this project if this is a work project? And out of all the other things I have to do in my work schedule, how much time can I actually devote to this specific project? I mean, there time is a governor. It’s a governor. Okay, then let’s take add all the other things that come into that. So if you need family time, if you’re married or you have a spouse and you have children, you have

Activities that the kids are involved in, school things, maybe music and sports, and then you’ve got friendships and you have your church and all the things going on with church. Everything takes time, and everything is governed by those times. We usually have to deal with the normalcy of job, family time, kids’ activities. Then there’s birthdays with special times. There might be weddings, very

Festive occasions and things that we need to celebrate. And then there are funerals that happen that were unexpected. You know, this week there were two very prominent, and to many people who know knew those two people, they also knew this third person, but there were three people who have died in the last week that.

It was just kind of a a couple of them. Well, one was a a surprise. some of us didn’t know how sick some people were. and that now has rocked the world of those family members and close friends. It’s it’s hurt and upset a lot of people, and people will grieve, but those closest to them, it’s like their world stops. I remember one time my mom had explained to a

a time in her life when they had been in a very bad car accident and they were in the hospital and dealing with things in the hospital and they could see at the cafeteria these people just, you know, coming and going and doing their their life and they might have been visiting somebody other might have been working there or and she felt in that moment that their lives I mean time just keeps going.

Jaime Luce (14:17.3)
Even though my life feels like it’s stopped right now, time is still happening. And it’s usually at a critical time, like a funeral, when we actually realize just how much time is actually governing our lives and how important our choices about time actually.

Are and to know what time it is, and then to use that time appropriately, will determine and make evident whether we were wise about knowing what time it was, or whether we are foolish, whether we wasted time. Time is one of those things that we take for granted. Even though we know we shouldn’t, we do.

And it’s always something that gets wasted. Time just no matter who we are, we find ways to realize in almost every situation we have wasted some time. Time gets misjudged. Time even gets abused. I mean, think about the qualities of time. They almost seem human. They get misjudged, time gets misjudged, it gets misused and abused.

Time can feel like it’s endless when you’re waiting for something and it can just feel like an eternity. When you’re a child and you just feel like it’s endless, days are just endless, or you feel the opposite and it’s fleeting. It’s it’s going too quick, it’s happening, it’s going so fast we can’t stop it. Time can be cruel, or time can be benevolent.

Time can be set or time can be flexible. When you’re pregnant, we have expectations of time and due dates. But that birth of that child can come early or it can come late.

Jaime Luce (16:36.768)
It becomes very clear that time is a governor, and that time and knowing your time has consequences. I hope I have said this enough for you to understand what I’m saying. If you don’t go to bed at a timely appropriate time, then tomorrow morning, when your little time alarm goes off.

You will immediately feel the consequences of not going to bed on time. You’ll feel tired, you’ll feel drained, groggy, maybe feel like you don’t quite have it all, you’re not strong, you don’t feel your strength and your go-to and get it done attitude could be very much affected. If you ignore your little time alarm when you get up.

And you hit that snooze button so that we waste a little time because we had misused and abused our sleep time, then we might have to deal with the extra time of consequences like being stuck in traffic, possibly upsetting a boss or a coworker, being late for or missing a meeting, maybe missing an opportunity altogether. I think about people who have to go to

Like if you’re an actor, they have to be at a particular place at a particular time for an audition or in the arts world. And if you miss it, you miss it. Your opportunity’s gone. They’re not giving you another shot. That was the time, that was a place. And if you missed it, you missed it. Here’s a not funny but kind of comical one. If it if you children, if you have a baby and it’s time to change their diaper.

There are consequences if you don’t change that diaper at an appropriate time. Not only will the child look funny walking, and anyone who has seen this knows exactly what I’m saying, the discombobulated diaper that’s hanging from the baby’s body. But now you also have a smell of a consequence that you are dealing with. And sadly, it can have harmful.

Jaime Luce (18:58.072)
Consequences to the child if you are not timely in changing that diaper because now that child might be in pain and there might be a rash on that child, and whose fault is that? Ouch.

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Jaime Luce (20:22.296)
So I say again that the wise know what time it is. The wise know what time it is. Let me give you this scripture real quick. In 1 Chronicles, we got lots of scripture today, because we love the Bible and it’s good for us. It teaches us, it nourishes us, trains us, corrects us. But in 1 Chronicles chapter 12, this is King David. And we’re going to talk about King David a little bit more in a little bit.

This is when they are basically numbering and putting together all of his mighty men, all the people who were with him, all those of stature and strength and wisdom and cunning and all these that he had for him to back him up as king. And in chapter twelve, verse thirty two it says, and of the sons of Issachar who had understanding of the times, to know.

What Israel ought to do. I don’t know if you understand how important that is, but that is critical right there. That is critical. These were people who not only knew what time it was, but because they knew what time it was, they knew what to do. Do you know what to do today? Are you facing something that you don’t know what to do? Then you need to figure out what time it is.

You need to know what time it is. Because if you know what time it is in your life, for what God is doing in your life, for the things He has shown you, for what the plan is ahead, for what your purpose in this earth is, if you know what time it is, then you know what to do. If you don’t know what time it is, there are consequences.

We get to choose whether we will be wise or we will be foolish. Again, a reference to the five wise and five foolish virgins. Do we understand what time it is? Now, I I’m not talking about this today particularly, but if we look at the church as a whole, if we look at eschatology as a whole, what’s going on in our world as a whole right now, we need to have our eyes very open.

Jaime Luce (22:47.724)
We need to have our oil ready because we know what time it is. We’re running out of time. We need to be ready for the return of Jesus Christ. And the only way you’ll be ready for his return is if you know what time it is. You know it. And because you know it, you know what to do to be prepared for that time. All right, let’s go.

Dive into some scripture here. We’re going to start with Psalm 90, verse 12. And this is a critical start point because so many of us, like I said, waste time, we don’t understand, or maybe we don’t know what time it is. But look what the psalmist said. And this is like a prayer of what he’s asking of God. So teach us to number our days.

That we may get a heart of wisdom. Do you see the connection again? That if we know how to number our days, if we know what time it is and how to spend our days wisely, that means we have gained a heart of wisdom. It is wise to know what time it is. And and I would also say this: if you don’t know what time it is and you don’t feel

At all worried. Like if you think, okay, this message today, this doesn’t interest me. Okay, what time it is? Okay, I know Jesus is coming soon. You want to click off, you don’t want to pay attention. Let me give you a warning. It’s those who right now, in their minds, don’t think it’s critical to know what time it is that prove you are unwise and you don’t know what time it is. You are wasting time.

Time right now. If you don’t know what time it is, but you’re wise enough to know, Jamie, this hits me. I don’t know what to do and I don’t know what time it is. I feel like I need this and I’m not sure what to do, then you’re showing wisdom right now because you’re going to spend time finding out what time it is. You’re going to think critically about that. You’re going to think about your life, what you’re doing, what you’re spending your time doing, what you’ve committed yourself to, how much time that’s going to take. Is this leading me in the in the way that God wants me to go?

Jaime Luce (25:08.468)
Is am I doing what I should be doing? Is my family where it should be doing what we should be doing right now? Are my children involved in things they should be involved in or not? Or are there are they involved in things that are wasting their time? Are you wasting a bunch of time, even in your children’s lives, just you know, having them involved in every possible thing for no other reason than to just keep them busy? We we need to be diligent and wise.

With how we use our time. And make sure that what we’re doing with our time and how we’re using that time is fulfilling the purposes that need to be fulfilled. That we are wise people. Ephesians chapter 5, verses 5 through 17 says, Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise, making the

Best use of the time because the days are evil. Hello, friends. Yes, they are. Yes, they are. Therefore, do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. So what is the what is the emphasis he’s making there? What is the connection between the Lord’s will and

Being wise and not foolish. Well, it’s saying be careful how you walked, and you have to know what time it is. You need to be wise and you need to know what time it is. Make the best use of your time. Then you will know what the will of God is. If you understand what God has for you and you understand his will, you will make wise decisions and choices about how you spend your time. You will not waste your time.

Jaime Luce (27:02.526)
Ecclesiastes one. You probably thought I was gonna start off with this one if you were if you were guessing. But for everything, for everything, there is a season and a time for every matter under heaven.

Now, I’m not going to read you the whole chapter. There’s a time for all kinds of things, but this sums it up. For everything, there is a season and a time for every matter under heaven. And you need to be dealing with what God has for your times right now. Wisdom says I will do the right thing at the right time. Because you can do the right thing at the wrong time and have no good outcome. You could as you could still miss the outcome.

You can actually land in bad circumstances, bad consequences for doing the right thing at the wrong time. We have to do the right thing at the right time. So I want us to look at a couple of examples today. We’re going to be looking in the book of Isaiah, and this is talking about Judah as a people. This is when they have been carried, they’re going to be carried off into exile. We’ve been reading all about that.

Dealing with the different kings of Israel and Judah. And Isaiah is recounting, we’re recounting through Isaiah the things that we have just finished reading in 1st and 2nd Chronicles and 1st and 2nd Kings. Kings 1, 2nd, and then Chronicles. And then we will also look at the life of David. So let’s look, because this is a tragic example that we see in the book of Isaiah. And this was Judah’s ignorant use of time.

Their ignorant use of time. And here’s a little backdrop. 2 Chronicles 32 tells us this is what Isaiah is talking about. 2 Chronicles 32 tells us about when Sennacherib had come up against King Hezekiah, and that they, Judah, in defense, constructed during this time a tunnel to move the water and protect it, as well as fortifying the walls of their protection.

Jaime Luce (29:22.176)
All of that seems wise and good, and it’s actually listed for us to see in both 2 Kings and 2nd Chronicles to see the things that King Hezekiah did that were considered good things. But this was all done. Everything he did to move the tunnels and to reconstruct and help fortify their walls was done before Hezekiah had gone to God and asked God to help bring them deliverance. Okay?

He had done all the stuff in the natural before he actually went to God. We don’t know that when we’re reading in 2 Chronicles till we read it in Isaiah and we see it in Isaiah. So although they were wise moves, they were ultimately futile in the long run. Now, not in the short term, but in the long run. They were ultimately futile because they were done without first consulting the Lord, their maker.

And they had missed a set time that he had for them of deliverance. They ultimately were carried away. Judah was carried away finally into exile to Babylon. So let’s go to Isaiah chapter 22.

Jaime Luce (30:37.504)
Isaiah chapter 22. And we’re going to read verses 8 through 14. So it says, He removed the protection of Judah. You looked in that day to the armor of the house of the forest, which simply meant there was a building they had in the forest where that was like their armory where they kept their stuff.

You also saw the damage to the city of David, that it was great. And you gathered together the waters of the lower pool. You numbered the houses of Jerusalem and the houses you broke down to fortify the wall. So he’s saying he used the timber of these knockdown houses to actually help rebuild and fortify the wall. You also made a reservoir between the two walls.

For the water of the old pool, which is actually the pool of Shiloam. But, now listen to this, but you did not look to its maker. And maker is capitalized, meaning you didn’t look to God first, the one who made the water, the one who gave this land in the first place to his people. You didn’t look to your maker, nor

Did you have respect for him who fashioned it long ago? He he’s calling them to understand we and we do this so much. We are all so guilty of this. We will do stuff and we are totally like the pot. And we are trying to say that the potter got it wrong, that the one who made us.

made the flaw instead of understanding we can’t even you you don’t have a leg to stand on to say when you’re the one who’s created to tell the creator that he needs to do it different or it was done wrong. That’s insanity to think that the thing that’s created can judge the creator. And he is pointing out the flaw that

Jaime Luce (32:56.884)
You’re missing you’re you think you’re being wise with your stuff, with the water and the building and the fortifying, and when you go try to get help from Egypt, or you go get help from Israel, or you go get help from these other kings, when you’re trying constantly to lean on the arm of the flesh for help in your own strength. You think you know what to do and you charge forward doing stuff in your own strength. He says, Nor did you have respect for him.

Who fashioned it? Who actually made it long ago? Created it. And in our own lives, we have to make this correction. We have to understand that, Father, everything that I have, even if I think I work really hard and I just use all my, you know, we we call them gifts and talents. They’re if you actually look at the word, what does that even mean? A gift means it wasn’t yours, it was given to you.

So it was his. He gave it to you. It was a gift he gave you. Your talents, he actually created in you when he made you. They were his to begin with. It makes complete sense to think that no matter what we go up against, the first place we turn to is the creator. We turn to the creator. And verse 12 and in that day, the Lord God of hosts called. Listen to this the Lord, in that day.

God had an expectation when they were up against this problem. God actually had a plan that He wanted them to do when they came up against Sennacherib. Listen to this. And in that day, the Lord God of hosts had called for weeping and for mourning, for baldness, meaning they’d shaved their head, they’d made vows before the Lord, and for girding with sackcloth.

He actually wanted them to understand why they were facing what they were facing. And he wanted them to mourn and to weep over the fact that there’s a reason they are dealing with this. Because if they would have done that, if they would have known what time it was, they would have repented and they wouldn’t have to worry about their enemies coming against them. But because they didn’t, they didn’t understand what time it was.

Jaime Luce (35:24.46)
And their enemy has now come up against them. I’m gonna read that again. In that day, the Lord God of hosts called for weeping. His method to help them was for them to deal with why they’re in the situation in the first place. Called for weeping and for mourning, for baldness and for girding with sackclock. But instead, he’s saying, Instead, this is what you did. Instead, joy and gladness.

Slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating meat and drinking wine. Let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die. Did you know that that’s where that scripture came from, by the way? Eat and drink for tomorrow we die. That’s the Bible. That wasn’t a man-made thing that came from some historical fight in the world and in in our earth’s history, other than the Bible history came from Judah.

How much more can you not know what time it is if you know that tomorrow you die? If you know the possibility is that tomorrow it’s all over. Times up.

And instead of making sure you’ve got it right and being in repentance before God, coming before him and asking him, why am I in this situation? Why is it like this? Show me, Lord, like David, show me if there’s any wicked way in me. Instead of doing what God called for and knowing your time is up, tomorrow we die. There it

They have joy and gladness. They’re celebrating. They’re slaying oxen. They’re having feasts. They’re killing the calves and the sheep. They’re eating their meat and they’re drinking their wine and they’re having a party. And they’re saying, eat up, drink up, have as much fun as you can. Just forget it all. Forget that it’s bad. Just ignore the fact that it’s all going on. And tomorrow we die.

Jaime Luce (37:33.784)
Folks, this is such a wake up call to us as children of the light. We are not children of the darkness. We are children of the light. He tells us you need to work while it’s light because when it gets dark no man’s working. There’s coming a time when it’s going to be dark and no one can work. Time will be up. It will be over. Over. Time up.

Jaime Luce (38:01.23)
Time is a governor. Time is a governor. And because Judah and not just King Hezekiah, God had been warning them all through the kings, whether they were good kings or evil kings. He was trying to get them to face where they had fallen away from him and to repent so he could restore them. And instead, the ultimate consequence was they were carried away to Babylon.

Into captivity, made slaves now. No, they couldn’t govern their own time, they couldn’t s you know be doing whatever they want, whenever they want. They were now slaves to Babylon. All right, let’s look at King David, because King David got a lot right. He got a lot right, but he got some serious things wrong too. And even though King David was a man after God’s own heart.

A man who was now listen to the the dichotomy here. Listen to the you’re gonna see the greatness of this man and who he was in God and everything that was available to him in God, and then you’re gonna see the antithesis of that. We’re gonna see the very opposite. Though he was a man full of the Spirit of God.

Jaime Luce (39:26.296)
Though he was a man after God’s own heart, he was also just as bound to time as the rest of us. So it doesn’t matter your giftings, it doesn’t matter your calling, so to speak, it doesn’t matter your titles, it doesn’t matter what you’ve done good for God.

Up to this point, it doesn’t matter even what you’ve built for God and you feel like there’s legacy there and and inheritance and heritage to pass on.

Time still governs each of our lives.

And the consequences for ignoring the time for David proved fatal in David’s life.

It proved fatal in several areas, and I’m only going to talk about one today, but I’ll mention a couple others. I want you to go with me to second Samuel.

Jaime Luce (40:37.614)
We’re gonna look at second Samuel chapter eleven.

Jaime Luce (40:48.11)
Turn in there with you.

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And this, I’m not gonna read you the whole thing because it’s it’s literally two full chapters just to make this point. But chapter 11 and chapter 12. So I’m going to summarize it for you. But this is how it starts. Verse one of chapter 11. It happened. It happened. Listen to these words. This is I’m gonna show you something very interesting in how this is written. It happened.

Happened. So we’re getting ready to be told about something that happened. Something happened. It happened.

In the spring of the year. We’re getting the time frame. It happened in the spring of the year.

The time, at the time, when kings go out to battle, this is a set time. We’re being told something happened at a set time. And at that set time, there were expectations of what takes place during that set time.

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It happened in the spring of the year at the time when kings go out to battle that David sent Joab and his servants with him and all Israel. And they destroyed the people of Ammon and besieged Raba, but David remained at Jerusalem. Well hang on a minute, hold on.

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And yet we see that during this set time, and we know God is a God of set times, he gave his children of the children of Israel set feast times, set harvest times, set sowing times, set everything had very particular times and you had expectations for those times. And there are consequences when you don’t.

And David knew this. David was a man after God’s own heart. David was a man who understood time.

What is happening? He’s ignoring a time. He’s hitting the snooze button on the general of time. On the governor of time. He’s saying, I’m not gonna do what I’m supposed to do this time. I’m going to ignore that it’s this time, this time. Have you ever said that? Well, this time I’m gonna do this, I’m gonna do such and such. That time I did that, but this time I

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David knew what time it was. It happened in the spring of the year, at the time when the kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab and his servants with him, and all Israel with him, sends Joab with everybody. And they did a great job. They went out and conquered. They destroyed the people of Ammon. They besieged Rabah. But David remained at Jerusalem.

Now listen to this. Then it happened. So we started by saying it happened. What happened? He tells you what time it happened. Now he says, then it happened. One evening that David arose from his bed. So many people like to say that Bathsheba was, you know, out there teasing David and

And provoking David bolone. It was nighttime in the dark. David was already in bed. So this woman was discreetly going to take a bath when it’s dark and no one can see her, and everyone’s gone to bed. One evening that David arose from his bed and walked on the roof.

Of the king’s house. Couldn’t sleep. He gets up, he goes for a walk on the roof. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing. And the woman was very beautiful to behold. Folks, you have to understand. Nighttime in ancient Israel, there was not electricity. There were little lamps lit.

So David was somewhere he shouldn’t have been, at a time he shouldn’t have been there, and now looking to see something he shouldn’t be looking to see. And the woman was very beautiful to behold. The domino effect has already begun and been put in motion by the sheer fact that David was not where he was supposed to be when he was supposed to be there. The domino effect has now taken place. He’s now

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In his bed and can’t sleep, gets up, he’s now on his roof, which he normally wouldn’t be there, and he’s seeing a woman in the middle of the night that he shouldn’t be seeing. The domino effect takes place the minute we hit the snooze button and the chips start to fall where they may, when we do not allow ourselves to live according to the governed times.

He then now I’m gonna just summarize this. He now takes a married woman, he inquires about her, finds out who she is, they send someone to go get her, he knows she’s married, and not only is she married, she’s married to one of his mighty men, one of his best friends, a confidant, one of his inner circle.

And he sleeps with her and gets her pregnant and then tries to trick her husband. I mean, he’s willing to not have the son and keep the child. He tries to get the husband, calls him off the battlefield, says, Go home, be with your wife. But because this man is so righteous, and because this man is so connected to David and cares so much about being one with God.

Following God’s orders to go and deal with the enemies of God. And because he’s so faithful to David, he sleeps on the porch, won’t go into his house and sleep with his wife because he feels like that would be wrong. These other men are out there at war, putting their lives at risk. So he’s gonna lay out there, he’s not gonna enjoy the fact that he gets to be home. David twice this, tries this a couple times.

Even tries to get him drunk so he just won’t know what he’s doing so that he’d go home and sleep with his wife. But he’s so loyal he will not. And then after trying to trick him doesn’t work, he sets him up to have him killed and has Joab, and Joab has to follow the instructions that he’s been given. He says, put him in this particular place, make sure he’s right there out in the open. And if for sure he’s gonna get shot by the archers, there’s no way he’s gonna live. And sure enough, he kills Uriah.

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Then he goes and he gets Bathsheba, he brings her back, and he brings her in and makes her one of his wives. The problem is all of this, this domino effect of the deconstruction of this man, King David, and all of the evil that he does because of not being where he’s supposed to be at the time he’s supposed to be there, not only costs him the damage to his own soul, which

Nathan the prophet has to come and confront him on. Thank God because he is a man after God’s heart and because he recognized he was wrong and he was willing to hear it and hear the word of God and to be confronted with his sin, that he repents. But the domino effect is still in action and the consequences are still going to happen. And that child that she is pregnant with, when they

When she gives birth to that child, it’s a son, and that son dies.

And now Bathsheba has to grieve not only the loss of her husband, being ripped from her home, being impregnated by the king, and who knows if he’ll ever be with her again. Her life, you know, the the life of a queen was not what we they had he had lots of wives. It’s it’s not what you think. It’s not all the glamour you think.

And now their child dies. Her son dies. I mean, this is a lot of loss. A lot of grief, a lot of loss, a lot of consequences because David didn’t know what time it was. I mean, he did, but he ignored it. He did know.

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It’s wise to know what time it is, like the sons of Issachar, because then they know what they should do. And David should have known what he should do based off of the time, but he ignored it. The time was wasted. It was misused. It was abused. And now the consequences are there.

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And I bet you we’ve all been at this place at some point in our lives where we say, I wish I could go back. If I could go back, I would do it again. And we know we can’t go back. Time, when time is gone, is gone. It’s gone. There are times when God is merciful and in his redemption, he allows us a chance to kind of have a do over with some things.

But we go into that knowing it’s a do-over, that we blew it the first time. Our hope is that we are wiser, that that we are now taking that knowledge of what time it is and how valuable it is, and that we are using it wisely.

To be very blunt, the reason that many of us have gotten into the mess that we’re in was because we didn’t realize what time it was.

I w I would say that that’s the majority of us, that the majority doesn’t know what time it is. And then those that do know and misuse it have great consequences. Both have great consequences. So neither one is better than the other, so to speak. Let’s look again at Ephesians 5 that we read just a few minutes ago, verses 15 through 17.

Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise, making the best use of the time. Because the days are evil. Therefore, do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

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Is. Alright, I want to give you another scripture. I want you to go to Romans 3, verse 11.

Says, besides this, you know the time. You know the time. That the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed. Folks, the clock is ticking. The clock is ticking. It is closer now.

Jesus’ return is closer now than when we first believed.

We must be always in communion with God to know what time it is so that we know how to act accordingly. If Hezekiah and the children of Israel would have known, or the children of Judah would have known what to do the way God prescribed it and when to do it, it would have helped the cycle, the domino effect to be changed.

Acts one seven says, He said to them, It is not for you to know times and seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority. Interesting scripture. He’s saying you don’t get to be in on the decisions of what God has put as a fixed thing having to do with your times.

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But because he knows we get to ask him, Lord, what should I do? That’s why we have to do what this is prescribing. Isaiah said, if they would have asked God, it would have been different. He had answers for them. He had deliverance for them. He had methods for them to bring about a good result for them.

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It is not for you to know the times and seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority. Jesus was explaining that without the Holy Spirit, you can’t know the time. But with him, you will know what you need to know when you need to know it. If you are submitted to the Lord and you are asking him, the Holy Spirit.

Will bring to you the answer. Jesus is returning again, and we need to be living our lives as those who know what time it is. Knowing the time will govern our choices, it will govern our decisions.

We will then know how we are to use our time so that we can fulfill the will of the Lord for our lives. It not only helps us know that, but when you know what the will of the Lord is for your life, it removes the fear. It removes the anxiety because we know we’re doing what God wants us to do, and therefore we have his hand on.

stretched out towards us to to handle and to control and to create the outcome.

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You’re not going to want to know the will of God for your life and to know what time it is if your mind is not set on the kingdom of God.

If you don’t have a kingdom first mentality, you simply won’t want to know. You won’t care what time it is. This is almost like a foundational thing below time. That be below time, before time, you need to know and understand that it’s the kingdom we’re living for, that our king has set times.

And if I’m not living kingdom first, I will miss my time. I won’t understand the times. I won’t get it right. I won’t be in the right place at the right time. Child of God.

We have to make sure that we have surrendered our lives, surrendered our times, surrendered our agendas, surrendered our decisions to the will of God because He has set times. Whether we acknowledge them or not, they will come.

You can ignore them. If you do not believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you have said, I don’t choose you, regardless if you believe in him and choose him or not, he’s coming again. That is the truth. And you will have missed it. We have this time, he says, when you hear in that day, when you hear, don’t harden your hearts. You have to, right now, for some of you.

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This is actually your wake up call, your personal wake up call. I’m the alarm going off on your time alarm. And I’m saying you have to wake up, you got to get this right. Put things in order. Get things right. Make sure that you know what got what time God says it is for your life, and that you are doing for him everything that is the will of God for your life. That you have a kingdom first mentality.

What does the scripture say to us that I seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness first, seek him first. When we seek him first, his will first, his expectations first, his desire first, his will first, everything else gets taken care of. Everything else falls into place. Everything else. But if I ignore the kingdom of God, if I ignore God’s will, if I ignore

That he has set times.

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I will essentially with my eternity be carried off as a captive for all of eternity.

Hell isn’t a party.

And even if you don’t think about hell, life on this earth, my goodness, is so short.

The scripture tells us our time is just a vapor. We’re just a ps. That’s it. We were here, we’re gone. And it’s true.

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There won’t be another do over once our time is up. And right now we have the opportunity to wake up, like the scripture says. Wake up.

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Wake up and ask the Lord, what time is it? The wise know what time it is. And you get to choose whether you will be wise or whether you will be foolish. You get to choose. The power is in your hands.

I mean that’s good news. We could think, if I if I didn’t have control over that and I’m asleep, I got I got nothing. It it’s like being blind and not seen. If you’re blind, you don’t see it. We need our eyes open. We need our ears unplugged. We need our minds and hearts receptive to the will of God. We need to submit ourselves under the mighty hand of God. We need to seek Him first. Seek His kingdom first. And then all these things.

Will be added unto us. Let’s be wise and see what time it is. Thanks so much for spending your time today with me. I know how valuable it is. I truly believe that this was a wise investment in your life today. Let me pray for you. Heavenly Father, I am just so grateful that you are sounding the alarm, so to speak. And

We can know what time it is. We can know what your will is for our life, and we can walk in it and experience the blessing from your hand to us, your protection, your provision, your joy, your satisfaction. We can miss the potholes that the enemy has set for us. We can see the traps that he’s laid and be free from stepping in them. But it all takes

Knowing what time it is. So we seek you today. I’m asking, Father, that you would impart to each one who has heard this message today, that what time they need to know and understand, they will understand. That the questions they have will be answered and they will know for their life what time it is in regard to their life, their ministry, their children, their family, their marriages, their schooling, their work, whatever. That they will know what time it is.

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And that we would all know what time it is that we are preparing ourselves to live the way you’ve called us to live, Father, to accomplish what you’ve called us to accomplish before you return. For you are coming again. And we await with bated breath your return, God. Thank you for waking us up. Thank you for caring. Thank you for the warning. Thank you for the alarm.

And we will do what we are called to do, God, and live in the blessing that you have provided. Thank you. And it’s in your precious son’s name, Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. Thanks so much again for spending time with me in the Word today. I’d love to hear from you. If you want someone to agree with you in prayer, you can leave me a prayer request on my website. Let’s send me an email. Mail at jaimeluce.com. My website is jameleose.com. Both of those, J-A-I-M-E-L-L.

U C E. Thanks so much. We’ll see you next time. Bye-bye.