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Let’s Pray
Ecclesiat
Ecclesiatets
Let’s Pray
Intro/Recap of Series
Aspects of our Design
Song + Design - We all sing a song; Made in Imago Dei
Purpose + Design - We all crave purpose; purpose is part of design
Words of Solomon the teacher/philosopher provoke us...
Pleasure + Passion
3 Main Points:
We were made to enjoy pleasure
A Pleasure that kills
A Pleasure that heals
We were made to enjoy Pleasure
Does happiness lead to good life?
Pleasure - Joy, Glad, Delight, Lust, Rejoice, Happy - Words the scriptures use (636 Verses)
God enjoys and finds pleasure...
- God is happy about what He has created.
There are things God does not enjoy.
His greatest pleasure in creation: Humanity, “Very Good”
- After humanity, “Very Good”
- We exist for God’s pleasure
There are things God does not enjoy
Rev. 4:11 - We exist for God’s pleasure
Solomon has a good deal to say about pleasure
- We exist for God’s pleasure
If we were made in God’s image, we were made to enjoy pleasure
Pleasure is like a fire
Pleasure is like a fire
We are made to enjoy fire …to be warmed by it, to be healed even by it.
…to be warmed by it, to be healed even by it.
Not all fire is the equal though.
Some is useful, helpful, lasting.
Some is careless, fleeting, dangerous.
Anyone have any good memories around a fire?
Some is careless, fleeting, dangerous...
Story about my burn pile, the flash and the long burn
A pleasure that kills
Pleasure that kills is like that careless fire, the quick flash…
It is dangerous and can cause a bigger issue… burn a whole forest down… not useful
Some of use play with pleasures that are like a quick flame...
Peterson translates this passage:
Nothing but smoke
= vanity… vanishing...
It’s all smoke… It’s a momentary flash that is dangerous...
A fire can be so good and yet twisted to be so bad
Pleasures that kill are crooked, twisted; taking that which is good is deforming out of God’s design
Taking that which is good is deforming out of God’s design
Ecclesiastes 2:1
How do we get a happiness that leads to good life?
Taking that which is good is deforming out of God’s design
A pleasure that heals
There is a strong but often unseen correlation between wise pleasure and true freedom.
Think about Sex.
Yes, sex.
Sex outside of Marriage is exciting, diverse, loose, spontaneous...
Sex in a marriage could become dull, but doesn’t have to…
Think about it… if I am with someone new all the time, when do I get to be comfortable and just be me?
I have to be what that new person expects or what turns them on...
In my marriage, I become wise, I learn, I develop relationship...
I get to be ME in the bedroom, I get to be who I am, without shame.
If I don’t get to be me, how am I supposed to know I am enjoying it…
This is wise pleasure.
What defines wise pleasure vs foolish pleasure?
Your design.
Living your right design
I don’t enjoy Maui because it’s got everything I want…
I enjoy Maui because I got to experience it with the person that brings me the most Joy.
= right relationship w/ God and others = true lasting pleasure
Ecclesiastes 9:7-11
tells us to enjoy life with our wife...
What happens if you settle for object-oriented pleasure:
You run from life.
You are no longer enjoying life, you’re escaping it.
You are no longer enjoying life, you’re escaping it
Isn’t the purpose of pleasure to experience and enjoy LIFE?
Jesus didn’t promise us ease… but He did promise us Joy...
Jesus didn’t promise us ease… but he did promise us Joy...
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