AVOIDING THE WORSHIP OF FOOLS (5 OF 5)
by Jeff Strite
Scripture: Ecclesiastes 5:1-7
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Avoiding the Worship of Fools (5 of 5)
Series: There Ain't Nothing Better
Jeff Strite
Ecclesiastes 5:1-7
OPEN: A Missouri couple decided to build a luxury home in Florida. But they accidentally constructed a $650,000 house on the lot next door to the one they owned… on property land belonging to someone else. The initial survey of the property was wrong.
In a similar story, a Rhode Island developer mistakenly built a $1.8 million house on public park land. Again, the survey was wrong. The Rhode Island Supreme Court ordered the house removed from public land.
The moral: When you build a home… you better make sure you build in the right place.
(Daily Heartlight for 11/12/2014 by Tim Archer)
Now here in Ecclesiastes 5, Solomon is offering a slightly different kind of moral to his readers:
He's saying: If you're going to worship God… better make sure you do it in the right way.
There is a right way, and a wrong way to worship God.
Solomon said: ''Guard your steps when you go to the house of God.
Go near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of FOOLS, who do not know that they do wrong.
Do not be quick with your mouth, do not be hasty in your heart to utter anything before God.
God is in heaven and you are on earth, so let your words be few.'' Ecclesiastes 5:1-2
Solomon is saying there's a right way and wrong way to worship God.
The right way is that of wise men.
And the wrong way is the way of fools.
As I was preparing for the sermon this week I thought it would be interesting to ask:
What is the WRONG way to worship God?
What is the way of fools?
From the first 2 verses of chapter 5, Solomon tells us that fools…
1. don't even KNOW that they do wrong in worship
2. they are quick and hasty in what they say: They talk without thinking
3. and they SAY A LOT… but they MEAN LITTLE of what they say. They're hypocrites.
Solomon very clearly says: ''Guard your steps when you go the house of God.''
Now, I don't want to worsh ...
Series: There Ain't Nothing Better
Jeff Strite
Ecclesiastes 5:1-7
OPEN: A Missouri couple decided to build a luxury home in Florida. But they accidentally constructed a $650,000 house on the lot next door to the one they owned… on property land belonging to someone else. The initial survey of the property was wrong.
In a similar story, a Rhode Island developer mistakenly built a $1.8 million house on public park land. Again, the survey was wrong. The Rhode Island Supreme Court ordered the house removed from public land.
The moral: When you build a home… you better make sure you build in the right place.
(Daily Heartlight for 11/12/2014 by Tim Archer)
Now here in Ecclesiastes 5, Solomon is offering a slightly different kind of moral to his readers:
He's saying: If you're going to worship God… better make sure you do it in the right way.
There is a right way, and a wrong way to worship God.
Solomon said: ''Guard your steps when you go to the house of God.
Go near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of FOOLS, who do not know that they do wrong.
Do not be quick with your mouth, do not be hasty in your heart to utter anything before God.
God is in heaven and you are on earth, so let your words be few.'' Ecclesiastes 5:1-2
Solomon is saying there's a right way and wrong way to worship God.
The right way is that of wise men.
And the wrong way is the way of fools.
As I was preparing for the sermon this week I thought it would be interesting to ask:
What is the WRONG way to worship God?
What is the way of fools?
From the first 2 verses of chapter 5, Solomon tells us that fools…
1. don't even KNOW that they do wrong in worship
2. they are quick and hasty in what they say: They talk without thinking
3. and they SAY A LOT… but they MEAN LITTLE of what they say. They're hypocrites.
Solomon very clearly says: ''Guard your steps when you go the house of God.''
Now, I don't want to worsh ...
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