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Time and Eternity
already has been; that which is to be, already has been; and
God seeks what has been driven away.
Ecclesiastes 3
October 3, 2021
The Big Idea: God’s big, beautiful plan for our lives includes every
kind of positive and negative experiences.
The painful and confusing
ones are a part of His mercy, intended to drive us toward God.
You are
made for so much more than yourself and the pleasures you crave.
You
are made for God’s pleasure, His glory, and for eternity.
What We Need to Know in Order to Make Sense of Ecclesiastes:
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Don’t read Ecclesiastes in isolation from the rest of the Bible.
It asks
more questions and raises more dilemmas than it offers answers.
Remember that is more of a journal of one man’s search than a roadmap
of how to get to purpose for your life.
Read properly, Ecclesiastes will send you on a quest for understanding of
the meaning of your life.
3 THINGS GOD HAS DONE WHICH WILL CHANGE YOUR
LIFE:
1.
He designed you, placed a burden on you, and now guides you
through events that come in seasons and at certain times.
[Ecclesiastes 3:1]
2. Every moment of your life comes through the Father’s hands.
There is a beauty in His purposes.
[Ecclesiastes 3:11]
3.
He made you for more than just time – you are created for Him
and for Eternity.
[Ecclesiastes 3:11]
THE PURPOSES OF YOUR LIFE:
Ecclesiastes 3 (ESV)
ü You are made for God’s pleasure [Genesis 1:31; Psalm 104:31]
For everything there is a season, and a time for every
matter under heaven:
ü You are made for God’s glory [Isaiah 43:7; Colossians 1:16]
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What gain has the worker from his toil? 10 I have seen the
business that God has given to the children of man to be
busy with.
11 He has made everything beautiful in its time.
Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he
cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the
end.
12 I perceived that there is nothing better for them than
to be joyful and to do good as long as they live; 13 also that
everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his
toil—this is God’s gift to man.
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I perceived that whatever God does endures forever;
nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it.
God
has done it, so that people fear before him.
15 That which is,
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ü You are made for Eternity [Ecclesiastes 3:11]
PROPER RESPONSES TO THE LORD:
1. Find joy and pleasure in God’s good gifts.
He gave them to you.
2. Do not despise the seasons full of hard days and winter nights.
Let them drive you to Jesus.
3. Don’t spend so much of your energy battling the events of
“seasons and times” that you miss Eternity.
4. Accept the futility of trying to help out the Lord by adding or
subtracting from His work.
Rest in His goodness and
completeness.
“Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord,
and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.”
Augustine
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