SERMON OUTLINE

“Enjoying the Blessings”

Ecclesiastes 5:18-20

1) Joy __ a _______, not a __________.

!!Ecclesiastes 5:18

18 Behold, what I have seen to be h good and fitting is to eat and drink and find enjoyment 8 in all the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days of his life t hat God has given him, for this is his i lot.

2) Solomon said it is ____ and _______ to eat, drink and find _________ in all the ____.

3) Enjoy the _______ of ____. Enjoy the ________ and don’t ____ them.

4) Solomon didn’t seem to _____ much _____ what was ______ this ____.

Ecclesiastes 5:19

19 Everyone also to whom j God has given k wealth and possessions l and power to enjoy them, and to accept his lot and rejoice in his toil—this is m the gift of God. 20 For he will not much remember the days of his life because God keeps him occupied with joy in his heart.

Ecclesiastes 5:10-12

10 He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity. 11 When goods increase, they increase who eat them, and what advantage has their owner but to see them with his eyes? 12 Sweet is the sleep of a laborer, whether he eats little or much, but the full stomach of the rich will not let him sleep.

5) The ____ who is able to ______ what God has _____ him is the guy who is really ________.

6) Remember _______ with __________ is great gain. And there will be ___ who _____ it.

Ecclesiastes 5:20

20 For he will not much remember the days of his life because God keeps him occupied with joy in his heart.

Kansas – Dust in the Wind

Psalm 103:14-16

14 For he knows our frame;1

he sremembers that we are dust.

15 As for man, his days are like tgrass;

he flourishes like ua flower of the field;

16 for vthe wind passes over it, and wit is gone,

and xits place knows it no more.