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*GETTING THE MOST OUT OF LIFE*
*“Live Peacefully”*
*Ecclesiastes 5:1-7, 10-12*
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*There are many today that are seeking peace.*
*Peace in their homes with their children or spouse, peace at work where it never seems to calm down and is always very hectic, *
*peace at school when it seems no one likes you, *
*peace in relationships where it seems nothing you say is correct, *
*peace in many war conditions with other countries,*
*peace with our own neighbors.*
*Dr.
Jon Kabat-Zinn, founder and former Executive Director of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
He is also the founder and former director of its renowned Stress Reduction Clinic and Professor of Medicine emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.*
*Kabat-Zinn recommends several guidelines for practicing mindfulness: *
* * *Breathing* *is the cornerstone of mindfulness.
Kabat-Zinn calls it a natural tranquilizer.
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** *Refrain from judging* *your experiences as good or bad.
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* * *Avoid striving.*
*Allow things to be as they are instead of wishing your life were different.*
* * *Let go of the past.
Let go of worrying about the future*.
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*Peace is not something that comes with a special formula.
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*The only true peace comes from a relationship with God through His son Jesus Christ.*
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*What we will see today is how our relationship with God will allow us to see every situation from a different perspective.*
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*The two areas we are given in chapter 5 of Ecclesiastes give us the essential foundation of finding peace in this world.*
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*INGREDIENTS OF A PEACEFUL LIFE*
*- RELIABILITY IN YOUR SPEECH – V.1-7*
/1 Guard your step when you go to the house of God.
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/Better to draw near in obedience than to offer the sacrifice as fools do, for they are ignorant and do wrong.
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*Reliability in your speech is when you do what you are going to say*.
*Action that matches your speech.*
*Living a life of obedience to God, not performance, is accomplished by following His plan and purpose for our lives.
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*Getting to know Him enough that His will is engrained into our minds.*
*It is relational.*
Solomon is speaking of different areas we make promises about.
*Concerning our worship* – songs, offering, sacrifice
We should come with a…
- receptive attitude
- readiness to listen rather than lecture God on what He ought to do
- worship(sacrifice) offering to God
- don’t attempt to bribe God with vows, we think that worshiping God gives us leverage to bargain with God.
(I came to church 3 Sundays now things should start going different.)
*Concerning our commitment to God* – *v.2-5*
/2 Do not be hasty to speak, and do not be impulsive to make a speech before God.
God is in heaven and you are on earth, so let your words be few.
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/3 For dreams result from much work and a fool’s voice from many words.
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/4 When you make a vow to God, don’t delay fulfilling it, because He does not delight in fools.
Fulfill what you vow.
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/5 Better that you do not vow than that you vow and not fulfill it.
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- Verse 4 is telling us *not to make a commitment you have no intention to keep*.
Commitment of giving your life to Christ.
Commitment to give up drinking
Commitment to stop cursing
Commitment to remain pure until marriage
Commitment to not fill your mind with dirty movies
– *If you arouse God’s displeasure* and He may well take away what we were thinking of keeping for ourselves.
(our time, talents, treasures)
*Concerning your comments in front of others*.
/6 Do not let your mouth bring guilt on you, and do not say in the presence of the messenger that it was a mistake.
Why should God be angry with your words and destroy the work of your hands?
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/7 For many dreams bring futility, also many words.
So, •fear God./
*Living peacefully is not accomplished by doing enough*.
We cannot do enough to have complete peace in our lives.
*We think if we do enough than we can be meet a commitment.
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It is like our salvation, there is nothing we can do to earn it.
It is a matter of faith and trust.
*Realize that you can't keep your promises.
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*Consider this question: If we could keep our promises, wouldn't we have done it by now? *
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*How many times have we made the same promises?
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*Many of us have struggled with promise-keeping for one reason: We have focused on our performance more than on Jesus Christ.
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*The Bible teaches that effective Christian living doesn't come by trying.
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*It comes by trusting Christ to express his life through us.
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*Steve McVey, president of Grace Walk Ministries.
Men of Integrity, Vol. 1, no. 2.*
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*- FINANCIAL CONTENTMENT – V.10-12*
/10 The one who loves money is never satisfied with money, and whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with income.
This too is futile.
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*Some people trust money as though it were a god.
They love it, make sacrifices for it, and think that it can do anything.*
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*The person who loves money cannot be satisfied no matter how much is in the bank account, because the human heart was made to be satisfied only by God.*
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*1 Timothy 6:6-12 - */6 But godliness with contentment is a great gain.
7 For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out.
8 But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with these.
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/9 But those who want to be rich fall into temptation, a trap, and many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge people into ruin and destruction.
10 *For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and by craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains.*/
*Some people have sacrificed their worship to God through*
their *tithing* (because they spend it on many toys),
their *time* (because of their working for pleasure), \\ their *talents* (using them for their own benefit not for God)
*We have got to learn contentment if we want peace.*
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When good things increase, the ones who consume them multiply; what, then, is the profit to the owner, except to gaze at them with his eyes?
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*Philippians 4:10-13* - /10 I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at last you have renewed your care for me.
You were, in fact, concerned about me, but lacked the opportunity to show it.
11 I don’t say this out of need, *for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am.
*12 I know both how to have a little, and I know how to have a lot*.
In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret of being content—whether well-fed or hungry, whether in abundance or in need.
13 I am able to do all things through Him who strengthens me.* /
*In his autobiography Just As I Am, Billy Graham recalls a story demonstrating that true greatness is not defined by wealth or fame, but by character.*
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*Some years ago Ruth and I had a vivid illustration of this on an island in the Caribbean.
One of the wealthiest men in the world had asked us to come to his lavish home for lunch.
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