Welcome to House Church. My name's Alex, and I want to welcome you to another week in our series on time.

We're going through the book of Ecclesiastes, but we're doing a series within a series on time.

We're looking at Ecclesiastes chapter 3, 1 through 8.

And this week we're going to be looking at verse 9 of Ecclesiastes chapter 3. But

baby live, our sixth kid is here. And before, yes, before we went to the hospital,

before we went to the hospital, we had to talk Lockelai and I, and we're like, listen, let's prep ourselves before we go, because when we get there,

they're going to ask us all kind of questions, they're going to have a sign up for all kind of stuff

that they want to put into the baby and put into Lockelaani. And we're all about medicine and the beauty of hospitals in

America. I think it's a blessing that we have those things. But there's a lot of stuff that we just

don't want to put in our kid, you know, just because this person's telling us to do it. And so we had to

practice saying like no to each other in the mirror. No. No. We're good No, thank you. Are you sure? No. And so we did that preparation

because we want to be watchful for live coming into the world. Watchfulness is something that is lacking

in our culture today, but watchfulness is a biblical mandate. It's a biblical characteristic.

What watchfulness is, this one commentator says, is watchfulness is a biblical mandate. It's a biblical characteristic. What watchfulness is,

this one commentator says, is watchfulness suggests a preparedness in order to avoid being taken unaware by an enemy. It involves fighting carelessness to reach a desired goal. So in Genesis

chapter 2, verse 15, God puts Adam in the garden and says to Adam,

I want you to keep watch over my stuff, over the garden. Keep watch. Practice watchfulness

in the garden. The first Adam did not do that. The second Adam does. The second Adam, Jesus,

practice watchfulness, everywhere went, every hour of the day. But Adam blew it. And what happened?

An enemy came in, because Adam was unprepared, came in and took everything from Adam and he had

to lose the garden. Who was that enemy? Not Satan,

not the serpent. The enemy was sin and death. Satan just presented the temptation, but the enemy

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