DRAW NEAR TO LISTEN (6 OF 9)
by Will McGee
Scripture: Ecclesiastes 5:1-2, Ecclesiastes 5, Ecclesiastes 5
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Draw Near to Listen (6 of 9)
Series: Beyond the Sun
Will Mc Gee
Ecclesiastes 5:1-7
[5:1] Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. To draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they are doing evil. [2] Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven and you are on earth. Therefore let your words be few. [3] For a dream comes with much business, and a fool's voice with many words.
[4] When you vow a vow to God, do not delay paying it, for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you vow. [5] It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay.
[6] Let not your mouth lead you into sin, and do not say before the messenger that it was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice and destroy the work of your hands? [7] For when dreams increase and words grow many, there is vanity; but God is the one you must fear.
INTRODUCTION
Ecclesiastes.... Solomon has searched all that is under the sun... If this is all there is... If there is no God... If there is no life after death... Then everything is meaningless...If there is no God... Then death erases everything. Renders it all meaningless.
So, Solomon exposes the bankruptcy of the idea that we can find meaning apart from God.
I heard one teacher say that searching for meaning apart from God is like peeling an onion.
You keep peeling back the layers hoping to find the substance, but you keep peeling and peeling...
And you weep the entire time you are searching for it. You never find it.
You peel back Wisdom... Wealth... Sexuality... Influence... Morality... Pleasure...
You keep peeling it back, but you never find the center... Just more and more layers.
Many people (in their lives) come to realize that Ecclesiastes is telling the truth.
There are countless stories of people pursuing all the pleasures they pursue... Only to feel like they are com ...
Series: Beyond the Sun
Will Mc Gee
Ecclesiastes 5:1-7
[5:1] Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. To draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they are doing evil. [2] Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven and you are on earth. Therefore let your words be few. [3] For a dream comes with much business, and a fool's voice with many words.
[4] When you vow a vow to God, do not delay paying it, for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you vow. [5] It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay.
[6] Let not your mouth lead you into sin, and do not say before the messenger that it was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice and destroy the work of your hands? [7] For when dreams increase and words grow many, there is vanity; but God is the one you must fear.
INTRODUCTION
Ecclesiastes.... Solomon has searched all that is under the sun... If this is all there is... If there is no God... If there is no life after death... Then everything is meaningless...If there is no God... Then death erases everything. Renders it all meaningless.
So, Solomon exposes the bankruptcy of the idea that we can find meaning apart from God.
I heard one teacher say that searching for meaning apart from God is like peeling an onion.
You keep peeling back the layers hoping to find the substance, but you keep peeling and peeling...
And you weep the entire time you are searching for it. You never find it.
You peel back Wisdom... Wealth... Sexuality... Influence... Morality... Pleasure...
You keep peeling it back, but you never find the center... Just more and more layers.
Many people (in their lives) come to realize that Ecclesiastes is telling the truth.
There are countless stories of people pursuing all the pleasures they pursue... Only to feel like they are com ...
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