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Helping Youth Have Fun and Rejoicing in Old Age
Ecclesiastes 11.7-12.8
ROC 5/27/15
I. Introduction
1. Pre-introduction
i. Thank you for your prayers these past two weeks, I have been blessed
2. SO let’s pray
i. Lord, I feel the worries people have for the young generations and also the way older generations are tossed aside,
ii.
May you enable the church to be different from the world where al people in your image are valued and challenged to be more like you
3. Catch- Do you know how long have teenagers been around?
i.
The word teenager first appeared in 1941 of the reader’s digest
1.
Now, there has always been young people in their teen years, but this was a first time that a separate age group was created between being a child and an adult
2. Up until then the great depression in the 30s, very few people went to high school
a.
But with all the roaming young people due to there being no jobs, people got worried
b.
It was the Hitler youth after all that helped raise a dictator to power over in Germany
ii.
Youth groups didn’t exist until the 50s
1.
But suddenly people saw the soul of the church in youth, they had to reach them, and thus came up with all these ways to try to get young people saved
2. Some were good, others turned church into a place of entertainment , which would try to rival the world in getting your attention for a short bit of time
3. Sadly, what you win them with is what you keep them with and the problems of the seeker sensitive movement created a generation of people who loved church without Jesus Christ
iii.
There are two important factors here as the older generations both feared the youth and saw their future in them
iv.
And being a young person is the time you get to answer who I am
1. Sadly, because it’s a time of discovery, the world has very low expectations on teenagers
a.
People say they’re going to rebel and get in trouble,
b.
They’re expected to sin in some major way that you will have to keep off social media so future employers don’t find out.
2. But the bible calls young people to be defined by your relationship with God
a.
He can let you know who you are in your strengths and trails
b.
We cannot treat them like non people because we believe you can know the deep things about God,
3. At the same time, we cannot expect them to be the same as the experienced… their stage of life must be different
4. Review of the preacher’s message
i. We’ve hit the final section of Ecclesiastes as he drives us toward the conclusion of needing to fear God and obey his commandments
ii.
Previously he has spoken about what to do when the you don’t know the future
iii.
Now he reminds young people what to do when they do something about their future… we all get older.
II.
How do we help young people be godly and prepare for old age
1. Youth must learn to fear God in the trials of youth (11.7-10)
i. Explanation
1.1.
Young people can expect difficult days (7-9a)
a.
He talks about light of good days and darkness of bad days as Ecclesiastes is so true to this fallen world.
Ever since Genesis 3, Adam and Eve, this world has problems and so will you.
i.
One of the struggles of a young person is that they think the world is great, some of you haven’t experienced the evil of this world yet
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So, those dark days hit them harder because they’ve never seen them come to an end before
iii.
so we must warn them that there will be bad days,
yet v8 makes clear, these bad days too are soap bubbles, they pass… There are good days coming too
the sun will rise again
Thus
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Young people can Rejoice!
i. Being happy and serving God are not enemies
ii.
Rejoice means to be elated, delighting, and while we sometimes make a distinction between happiness which is temporary, and joy which lasts
1. Luke 6:23 tells us to rejoice and leap for joy when our names are spurned because we have great reward in heaven.
2. But it can also be enjoyment of blessings God has given us
iii.
Young people, have been given by God unique gifts and time in life that God wants you to enjoy… not just hear don’t do this or do that.
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We need to encourage a theology of fun, where young kids to young adults know they can have fun in special times in life
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C.S. Lewis has this famous quote in reference to this that you’ve probably heard before
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He says that God does not consider our desires too strong and we need to deny them... have less fun, be more serious
2. No, he says our desires are too weak.
we want to be satisfied with video games, sports, drinking, complements, possessions… or whatever
it is like a child sitting in a bud pit, making mud pies and saying no to an all paid cruise.
c.
Walk has to do with the way we live our lives as he says do want your heart desires and go after what you see with your eyes
i. Remember, God want to bring you joy
Trans: But the joy is found sometimes in sacrifice
1.2.
Young people must sacrifice what will hurt them (9b-10)
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He gives a sober reminder:
God’s judgment will come on everything that you do.
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Hebrews 9:27 makes this clear
And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,
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This should be the overriding thought for a young person
The fact that you will be judged for all you do
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Think of this truth as those little bumps on the road
When you first learn to drive its sometimes hard to stay straight, so you start to drift to one side of the road… as soon as you start to hit them, the whole car vibrates and you know you’re going off track.
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its hard for the young person to keep on the straight and narrow when deciding things for the first time.
So, the lives of others must remind them their decisions bring consequencs.
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They must remove certain things from your life
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