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well, we have a Come to a little bit of a change in the direction, in the sense, that for the month of January.

I have been preaching while our pastor is away on sabbatical, beginning next Sunday.

And for the month of February, Dr. Kreider are celosia and residents will be free.

And then for the month of March, Pastor, Bob, our youth pastor will take responsibility in the Pulpit.

We've been on a little bit of a journey during the month of January.

The idea was a directional Journey, a Pursuit for a 2022.

A pursuit of, of God.

We started off and the first, the Sunday with an emphasis upon prayer.

And I found out that God welcomes us, refractory provides for us, even the opportunity in a relationship where we can call him Abba.

Father.

Daddy almost the most intimate term of a relationship with God Is Possible.

Then the next Sunday, we I did the communion and found out that in actual fact, we think about us pursuing, God for the truth is, God was pursuing us and did so, throughout the Old Testament in the form of covenants, where he wanted to have an everlasting and eternal relationship with us accomplished by Jesus Christ.

And the New Covenant, which is celebrated at Communion where Jesus died upon the cross to pay the penalty for sin.

Then the third Sunday.

We talked a little bit about the idea of pursuing god with faithfulness.

The idea that we have responsibilities toward God, and to God, because of everything belongs to him.

And so, if we're going to be faithful with others things, we know that God owns everything.

We don't own anything, even the breath of his are no longer belongs to God.

So we have a responsibility to be faithful to serve him last week.

We talked a little bit about finding contentment and satisfaction purpose in life, and the solemn and help this by looking.

And as we looked at his first sermon out of the Book of Ecclesiastes, where he talks about, the idea of men's pursuit of a number of things that hopefully would bring satisfaction and contentment materialism, more money, Hedonism more pleasure.

The idea of chasing various philosophies of men and ideas trying to figure out What's in the world and we discovered that all of those ideas are life Under the Sun without God true.

Meaning true.

Contentment true.

Fulfillment is found in a relationship with God.

And so we come today to the end of the book of Ecclesiastes, as we just circled back there and we're going to talk a little bit about the pursuit of success.

How can I be successful?

One of the questions I suppose.

One of the issues that we have to answer is well, what is success?

Some people think success has more money while we found last week.

He can't ever get enough of that.

Maybe success is, if I'm in a position of power and influence, not likely.

Success is being what you were intended to be.

And doing what you were intended to do.

Free simple.

and, Solomon gives us some clues.

Some hints on how we can move towards that goal of success being what God wants me to be and doing what God wants me to do for and finding out that we have the opportunity of being successful.

Pdsd chapter 12 will come back to chapter 11, but please assis chapter 12.

In verse 1 says, remember, also your creator in the days of your youth before the evil, the evil days come and the years draw near.

I wish you will say I have no pleasure in them.

Remember your creator won the steps to success is remembering your creator.

I've read that.

Just the first verse of this chapter.

You can read on to the rest of the chapter.

If you want.

It's a little discouraging.

It's a little bit of what I'm experiencing actually teeth falling out, hands and arms shaking legs boiling, and some almond tree, gray hair.

Went to the barber couple weeks ago and asked for a computer haircut.

He said, what what's the computer here?

Cuz I said, well in the computer they have a cut and paste program.

I would like for you to cut and then pay swear.

I don't have hair.

He didn't understand and didn't do its talking about going over and growing old here, but it's saying in the process of life whether you're young or grow.

Older.

The idea is remember your creator.

remember, the idea of remembering is not

Because you forgotten something.

The idea of remember, in the Bible, especially in the Old Testament, with the Hebrew word is to mean that to act in favor of to do something.

The Bible talks about to Hannah being in the Bible.

Praying, and asking for a son in the Bible, says God remembered Hannah.

It wasn't I had forgotten about her.

It's just that he acted favourably towards her.

Remember your creator.

Act in a way favourably towards him.

Remember your creator.

Remember God.

You can remember God in a number of ways and a number of different characteristics here.

It's saying in order to be successful.

One of the things you should do is remember your creator, remember that God created you.

In the Genesis chapter 1.

And in verse 26, it says here and God said, let us make man in our image, after our likeness and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and all old the Earth.

And over every creeping thing that creeps on the Earth.

So God created man in his own image.

In the image of God, he created him male and female.

He created him.

God has an intention that we would be image Bears last week.

I tried an illustration with bubbles.

That didn't go well.

But I've got a different illustration today, you know, something, I've got a picture here of you won't be able to see it, this the picture of my dad.

Going into his teenage years.

And if you didn't see that picture.

And you saw my grandson before his hair, grew the way it is today, but back in the summer.

When he had the buzz cut, you would say of my grandson.

He is a spitting image.

Of his great-grandfather.

He is a spitting image.

That's a word that we use and I'm suggesting that to him.

That's God's intention and creating you and me.

That we would be spitting images of him.

Well, not in appearance because God's spirit and is invisible.

And here is is the Triune God.

God the Father God, the son, God the Holy Spirit, God the son, before he took on human flesh, invisible.

It is very one.

God, three different persons that say, let us make man in our image.

Let him and her be spitting.

Images of us, not in appearance.

But in actions and attitudes.

So, success, is being an image Bearer.

Making the invisible God visible in my sphere of influence.

Show at work when things go.