kairos

Making the Most of the Time We’re Given

Making the Most of the Time We’re Given

Dave Riddle - 1/15/2023

Key Passage:  Ephesians 5:15-17

Look (Ephesians 5:15)

  • Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk.

    • Literally “look carefully”

    • blepo (Greek: βλέπω) literally: to see. Metaphorically: to see with the mind’s eye. To turn the thoughts or direct the mind to a thing; to look at; to weigh carefully; to examine, consider and/or contemplate.

    • How you walk = peripateo (Greek: περιπατέω) literally: to tread all around, walk at large. Figuratively: to live, to make one’s way, to regulate one’s life, to conduct oneself

  • How? (v. 15)

    • Not as unwise people but as wise

    • sophos (Greek: σοφῷ) - Wise. To have skill or expertise. To best form plans and use the best means for their actual execution. 

  • Proverbs 1:1-7

    • If we don’t pay careful attention to the way we live our lives, then we are living as fools!

Seize (Ephesians 5:16)

  • chronos vs kairos

    • Greek: καιρός: No direct English equivalent 

      • The right time

      • The critical time

      • The opportune moment

    • Implies, not the convenience of the season, but the necessity of the time at hand.

    • “Kairos is when eternity steps into time”

  • To make wise and sacred use of every opportunity for doing good.

Know (Ephesians 5:17) 

  • So don’t be foolish, but understand.

    • syniemi: to put together (mentally) to comprehend, to set or join together in the mind. To understand and act piously. Having the knowledge of those thing which pertain to salvation.

  • How do we know the will of God? 

    • Romans 12:2 

    • Francis Chan: “What is God’s well for my life for the next five minutes?”

    • Jim Elliot: “Wherever you are, be all there; live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.”

    • MLK Jr. “It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.“ & “We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always right to do right”

Mary - Time to Get Uncomfortable

Time to Get Uncomfortable - Mary

Dave Riddle - 12/11/2022

Key Passage: Luke 1:26-38

Mary Was Deeply Troubled

  • diatarassō (διαταράσσομαι) - to disturb wholly, agitate, with alarm. Troubled, perplexed.

  • “What kind of greeting is that!?”

Mary’s Kairos moment

  • Somewhere between a speed bump and a brick wall.

  • καιρός: No direct English equivalent 

    • The right time. The critical time. The opportune moment. Implies, not the convenience of the season, but the necessity of the time at hand.

    • “Kairos is when eternity steps into time”

  • Luke 1:34 - “How can this be!?”

God’s Supernatural, Outlandish, Very Divine Answer

  • Luke 1:35

    • You don’t need to know a man like that to have a kid like this.

Mary’s Incredible Response

  • I am the Lord’s servant, may it be done to me according to your word.

    • Luke 1:37-38

    • “Perfect submission, all is at rest.”

  • Mary moved from deeply troubled to perfect submission.

His Mission = Our Mission

His Mission = Our Mission

The Gospel of John - Part 20 • 2/7/21

Key passage: John 7:1-13

Family

  • John 7:3-5 - Jesus’ brothers: if you are who you say you are, why don’t you go to the party and do some miracles for everyone to see.

Divine Timing

  • John 7:6 - My time has not yet arrived, but your time is always at hand.

    • chronos vs kairos

      • kairos (greek: καιρός) No direct English equivalent

        • The right time

        • The critical time

        • The opportune moment

      • Implies, not the convenience of the season, but the necessity of the time at hand.

      • “Kairos is when eternity steps into time”

  • John 7:7-8

    • Go to the festival! It’s time for you to go, but I’m working with a different agenda/priority/kairos

    • The world hates Jesus because of who he says he is, and what he says he is there to do.

    • plēroō (Greek: πληρόω) - to make full, fill up. literally, to cram (a net), level up (a hole or hollow).

Power Brokers 

  • John 7:9-11

    • They want to eliminate Jesus.

    • They fundamentally misunderstand who Jesus is.

The Ordinary People

  • John 7:12

    • there was lots of murmuring about Jesus among the crowds.

    • “Murmuring” gongysmos (Greek: γογγυσμὸς) - grumbling, muttering, whispered debates.

What’s The Takeaway For Us?

  • In the same way that Jesus’ brothers, the power brokers, and the public misunderstood Jesus, people misunderstand our decision to follow Him.

    • if you live the way Jesus calls you to live there are going to be people who respond to you in the same way these people responded to Jesus.