Willing One Thing

Upsetting Equilibrium

We are living in an exceptional time period. It is 2020 and we live in America. There is so much change.

In January, we didn’t know about COVID.

We couldn’t even imaging putting on a mask to go into a store.

We couldn’t imagine having parking lot services or meeting virtually on Sunday and Wednesday nights.

Many people have died.

There has been a political quarrel in our nation.

Antifa, wok, “can’t breath,” BLM, Defund the police. These are all new terms or concepts to a majority of America.

This election has been filled with the most mean-spirited, dogmatic assertions. There has been no listening to both sides.

Churches have taken a toll.

Elders have had to make decisions when members strongly disagree on both sides.

Economy:

[Question] The question for this sermon is: how should we think about change?

[Thesis] I have two main points on this.

[Passage] Ecclesiastes 3

Analyzing Discrepancy

[Option Earthly]

[Option Spiritually]

Cluing Resolution

Experiencing Gospel

I. Christians should be involved in the change of seasons.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-11

1 That there are seasons.

Men are forced to go through appointed, changing occasions or seasons.

These are seasons.

What are the seasons.

2-3 Childbearing and death: most momentous.

A Christian is always about the business.

4 Human emotions

5 Friendship [Don’t ]

6 possessions “to search, give up, keep throw away.”

7-8 destructive and creative

II. Christian should maintain undistracted devotion to the Lord in change.

For what are the seasons?

9 There is a profitlessness to

10 God is the one who gave these tasks to men

11 God has kept man from “finding” eternity, the plan of God in its entirety, from beginning to end.

It as if God is baiting or toying with human creatures

We have a deep-seated desire, a compulsive drive … to know the character, composition, and meaning of the world … and to discern its purpose and destiny. Such a desire is frustrating.

Luke 10:38-42: Martha, Martha, you are worried and bothered about so many things; 42 but only one thing is necessary, for Mary has chosen the good part, which shall not be taken away from her.” Martha was too busy.

Nuta in Romania: Dollies.

Do not overmake them to draw attention to them.

Do not neglect them so as to cause a distraction from their absence.

Overwriting a book:

Overacting a part:

Anticipating Consequences