Sermon Tone Analysis

Worship Music

Holy Holy Holy - 4Him

Trust & Obey - Discovery Singers

Nothing Compares - Third Day

When I Was Young - Brandon Heath

The Perfect Wisdom Of Our God - Getty

No Turning Back - Brandon Heath

Call To Worship Scripture

Sermon Scripture

Ecclesiasties

Ecclesiasties

Intro:

Listen to some of what you have each in unity declared this morning:

Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty

Early in the morning my song shall rise to thee

Holy.

holy, holy

Merciful and mighty

God in three persons, blessed Trinity

But we never can prove the delights of His love

Until all on the altar we lay;

For the favor He shows, for the joy He bestows,

Are for them who will trust and obey.

Then in fellowship sweet we will sit at His feet,

Or we’ll walk by His side in the way;

What He says we will do, where He sends we will go;

Never fear, only trust and obey.

I see all the people

Wasting all their time

Building up their riches

For a life that's fine

Nothing compares to the greatness of knowing You, Lord

As we go through the years

Somehow those little fears

Grow into something else

Our older wiser selves

So now I play it safe

Oh, me of little faith

Could learn a thing or two

From who I used to be

When I was young

As we go through the years

Somehow those little fears

Grow into something else

Our complicated selves

So now I play it safe

Oh, me of little faith

Could learn a thing or two

From who I used to be

When I was young

Each night I'd say my prayers

And He was there

I slept so well

When I was young

Ecclesiastes 12

Ecclesiasties 12

As a smelling sauce is given and opens with the word:

REMEMBER: that is to call to mind your creator.

WHEN: Right now - the days of your youth - while you are living and specifically while you are sowing what you will reap.

This is a, “you reap what you sow” section of scripture.

It is a closing plea of the good preacher.

As Matthew Henry states:

The royal preacher’s application of his sermon concerning the vanity of the world and every thing in it.

"You that are young flatter yourselves with expectations of great things from it, but believe those that have tried it; it yields no solid satisfaction to a soul; therefore, that you may not be deceived by this vanity, nor too much disturbed by it, remember your Creator, and so guard yourselves against the mischiefs that arise from the vanity of the creature.’’

It is the royal physician’s antidote against the particular diseases of youth, the love of mirth, and the indulgence of sensual pleasures, the vanity which childhood and youth are subject to; to prevent and cure this, remember thy Creator.

We remember our creator.

He has created us and not we ourselves.

He has created wisdom since before time as the Psalms told us.

God has fashioned us together in our mothers womb.

God is the creator and all things operate at his command.

Blessing is alone in him.

The peace of right oppression and the path of life is with Him alone for he created it and owns it.

We must thus engage ourselves with Him.

That wisdom which He created and possesses and used to bring about all creation by, we must seek that in Him that we might know how to rightly live.

Now let me drive home the final plea of Solomon from Ecclesiastes:

The words of wisdom are true and fixed forever and belong to one Shepherd.

Wisdom is Gods.

Wisdom that is true, eternal, fixed.

This is the only wisdom which everything truly operates by and/or meets it’s end by.

As proverbs spells out:

Wisdom: the commands given by God for all of creation.

Wisdom applied is mans seeking of God’s commands, hearing them and applying them.

Understanding - becomes the fruit of the man exercising wisdom.

Discretion - becomes the mans manner of walking.

Do not go outside of these words to seek wisdom

You are young.

You have strength, energy, ability and options.

You can choose anything, just dream and pursue.

But friends this is what we are warned against.

Remember God! Life is not about the many paths but the one true path.

Life is not about the many preferences of man, but about the divine creator, the glories which rest with Him and the beauty of life that He has given.

Do not mix godliness and worldly wisdom.

Do not say this is of the world but it works.

We don’t have that insight and what appears to work today can be gone tomorrow.

All judgments of man are on this side of the grave and fail to take eternity into account, but the wisdom of God is eternal in every step.

In God’s wisdom every moment, past, present and future is deeply rooted in eternity and the glory of God.

Just as wisdom was before time, so in this the Christian operates unbound by time but bound only to the commands of God.

Don’t let the world put you in a 80 year rat race, know God today and run to win the true race.

Repent: with this comes all of the “yea, but, are you saying?”

You know what it is, you have gone to college, you’ve read books, heard documentaries, “lived life” and you ask how I can say that wisdom is so narrow and confined?