February 18, 2018 | Bob Bartlett
Passage: Ecclesiastes 3:1-22
“The Ever Turning – Never Changing World” Ecclesiastes 3
Vs 1: “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven.”
Invokes the question, “Have you ever found an adequate, satisfying answer to life?”
Vs 9: “What does the worker gain from his toil?”
I must keep God’s p on life.
- Invokes the question: What is the sum p of my life?
- Is it to seek God? Psalm 27:4 “One thing I ask of the Lord…”
Vs 10: “I have seen the burden God has laid on men”
I must understand a life a from God is burdensome.
Vs 11: “He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.”
- Every human spends an eternity – somewhere – heaven or hell. Hebrews 9:27
- Eternity should shape every d I make.
Vs 13-14: “That everyone…find satisfaction in all his toil – this is a gift from God. I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing from it. God does it so men will revere him.”
I must keep God’s p in life. “1st things” a Christian perspective – a Christian’s priorities
- God is good and the author of everything good. James 1:17
- God is to be revered above all else. Psalm 86:11
Vs 15-16: “in the place of judgment wickedness was there, in the place of justice – wickedness was there.” A worldly perspective – the world’s priorities:
- No Fear (revere) of God. Romans 3:18
- No Accountability to God: the lost perspective of our fallen nature.
Vs 17-22 “God will bring to judgment both the righteous and the wicked, for there will be a time for every activity, a time for every deed.”
I must keep God’s p for life.
To live prepared by being a lifesaver in this world. 1Corinthians 4:1 “So then men ought to regard us as servants of Jesus Christ and as those entrusted with the secret things of God”
In an ever turning – never changing world, the best way to live prepared in this life
is to live prepared for the next life.