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LOOKING FOR JOY IN SOMETHING YOU CAN’T TAKE WITH YOU.

INTRODUCTION:

SO MANY OF US WANT WEALTH, BUT DO NOT KNOW HOW MUCH SACRIFICE IT WOULD TAKE TO OBTAIN IT.

WE BELIEVE IF WE WHERE WEALTHY THAT WOULD BRING JOY TO OUR LIVES, ONLY TO FIND OUT IT WOULD BRING MORE PROBLEMS TO OUR LIVES.

KING SOLOMON WAS THE WEALTHIEST KING IN THE BIBLE AND STILL COULD NOT BRING HIM JOY TO HIS LIFE OR SATISFY HIS APPETITE.

I LIKE TO SPEAK ABOUT 3 THINGS.

TRYING TO FIND JOY IN FORTUNE.

TRYING TO FIND JOY THROUGH YOUR FAMILY.

TRYING TO FIND JOY IN THE FULLNESS OF AGE.

A. TRYING TO FIND JOY IN FORTUNE.

ECCLESIASTES 6: 1-2 “There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men: a man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.”

THE ISSUE HERE IS NOT WEALTH, BUT WHAT WOULD A MAN LOSE TO GAIN IT. THE REAL EVIL IS WHEN GOD GIVE US SOMETHING NOT FOR US TO FORGET WHO IT BELONG TO.

THE REASON IS WE WILL SQUANDER IT ON OUR OWN APPETITE INSTEAD OF FEEDING THE APPETITE OF GOD.

THE DANGER OF THIS, WE WILL NEVER BE SATISFIED AND OUR APPETITE WOULD REQUIRE MORE.

WHEN YOU THINK THAT WEALTH AND RICHES WILL BRING YOU JOY OUTSIDE OF THE LORD, YOU ARE SETTING YOURSELF UP FOR A FALL.

KING SOLOMON WAS NOT A STRANGER TO THIS , BECAUSE GOD GAVE HIM WEALTH, BUT HE LOST SIGHT OF GOD AND TURNED TO ANOTHER GOD, WHICH IS THE GOD OF THIS WORLD.

WHEN YOU STRIVE FOR WEALTH AND NOT JESUS YOU WILL LOSE YOUR SOUL.

THE PROBLEM WITH SOME WEALTHY PEOPLE THEY WILL TRY TO HOLD ON TO EVERYTHING THEY HAVE , AFRAID THEY WILL LOSE IT. THEY ARE NOT WILLING TO SHARE WITH NO ONE.

THE ENERGY THEY WOULD PUT INTO WEALTH TO MAINTAIN IT, HE WOULD NOT HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO ENJOY IT.

SOME OF US WORK SO MUCH THAT WE ARE NOT ABLE TO ENJOY THE FRUIT OF OUR LABOR.

THE PERSON WHO HAVE A LOT AND NOT WILLING TO SHARE WITH NOBODY IS A MISER. A MISER IS SOMEONE WHO HOARDS HIS OR HER OWN WEALTH AND DOESN’T SHARE OR SPEND ANY OF IT.

JOB SAID, NAKED CAME I OUT OF MY MOTHER’S WOMB, AND NAKED SHALL I RETURN THITHER; THE LORD GAVE, AND THE LORD HATH TAKEN AWAY; BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE LORD.

YOU CANNOT CONFUSE EARTHLY WEALTH WITH SPIRITUAL WEALTH, BECAUSE EARTHLY WEALTH CANNOT GO WITH YOU WHEN YOU DIE, BECAUSE IT WOULD BE HERE FOR SOMEONE ELSE TO ENJOY.

BUT SPIRITUAL WEALTH WILL BE WITH YOU ALWAYS, BECAUSE IT GOD’S HIDDEN TREASURE THE HOLY SPIRIT THAT LIVETH IN YOU THAT WILL NEVER DIE.

ECCLESIASTES 5:13 “There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.”

B. TRYING TO FIND JOY THROUGH YOUR FAMILY.

ECCLESIASTES 6:3-5 “If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he. For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness. Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.”

SOME PEOPLE WHO’S LIFE ARE EMPTY AND OBTAIN A LOT OF WEALTH TRIES TO FIND JOY IN HAVING CHILDREN. THEY BELIEVE THAT CHILDREN WILL TAKE THE PLACE OF THEIR EMPTINESS.

FAMILY CANNOT TAKE THE PLACE OF A RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.

EMPTINESS HAPPEN WHEN YOU LOOKING FOR JOY THROUGH ANOTHER RESOURCE OTHER THAN GOD.

YOU CAN HAVE 100 CHILDREN, BUT IF YOUR LIFE HAS NOT BEEN EXAMPLE FOR YOUR CHILDREN WHILE YOU LIVED ON EARTH, YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE HONOR FROM YOUR CHILDREN OR YOUR OUTSIDE FAMILY. DON’T YOU THINK BECAUSE HOW MUCH WEALTH YOU HAVE CAN TAKE THE PLACE OF A RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM AND THE LORD JESUS.

THOSE WHO LIVED IN DARKNESS DO NOT RECEIVED A BURIAL LIKE THOSE WHO LIVE IN THE LIGHT, BECAUSE IT NOTHING TO CELEBRATE.

BURIAL WAS IMPORTANT IN THE BIBLE BECAUSE EVEN JESUS WAS BURIED WHICH SHOWED HIS SERVICE TO GOD WHILE HE WAS HERE ON EARTH.

PROVERB 17:6 “Children’s children are the crown of old men; And the glory of children are their fathers.”

IF YOU DIE IN CHRIST YOUR LIFE WILL ALWAYS LIVE THROUGH SOMEONE ELSE AND YOUR JOY WILL REMAIN IN THEM.

C. TRYING TO FIND JOY IN THE FULLNESS OF AGE.

AGE DO NOT PROMISE YOU JOY, BECAUSE YOU CAN BE A FOOL IN OLD AGE.

A FOOL WILL SAY IN HIS HEART THEIR IS NO GOD, BECAUSE THEY CHOOSE TO WALK IN DARKNESS.

YOU CANNOT BE FULFILLED IN OLD AGE, IF YOUR APPETITE IS FOR YOUR FLESH.

WHEN YOU A OLD FOOL AND YOU ARE OUT TO PURSUE AFTER YOUR OWN DESIRES, IT NOT ONLY BRING DISHONOR TO YOUR NAME , BUT DISHONOR TO GOD’S NAME.

BUT IF YOU WALK IN WISDOM OF GOD IT WILL BRING JOY TO YOUR HEART AND HONOR TO YOUR NAME.

PROVERBS 10:8 “The wise in heart will receive commandments: But a prating fool shall fall.”