Ecclesiastes 7:19-29

Eclesiastes 7:19-29

Ecclesiastes 7:19–29 (NKJV)

19 Wisdom strengthens the wise More than ten rulers of the city.

We will look more deeply on this statement when we look at chapter 10.

20 For there is not a just man on earth who does good And does not sin.

Indeed this is true,

Romans 3:23 “23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,”

That is why God was manifested in the flesh to set is free from see and redeem unto himslef people who are zealous for good works.

21 Also do not take to heart everything people say, Lest you hear your servant cursing you.

22 For many times, also, your own heart has known That even you have cursed others.

In other words don’t take every word that people say personally,

Else you will hear someone insultfull things about, insolent remarks.

People say all kinds of thing, something they mean it some things are said out of the heat of the moment.

You have to know when to take someone words seriously and when not too.

You yourself have said words in the heat of the moment, out of frustration, being overwhelmed in certain situations, that you yourself don’t want others to take personally.

1 Samuel 30:1–8 NKJV

1 Now it happened, when David and his men came to Ziklag, on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the South and Ziklag, attacked Ziklag and burned it with fire, 2 and had taken captive the women and those who were there, from small to great; they did not kill anyone, but carried them away and went their way. 3 So David and his men came to the city, and there it was, burned with fire; and their wives, their sons, and their daughters had been taken captive. 4 Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voices and wept, until they had no more power to weep. 5 And David’s two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the widow of Nabal the Carmelite, had been taken captive. 6 Now David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and his daughters. But David strengthened himself in the Lord his God. 7 Then David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech’s son, “Please bring the ephod here to me.” And Abiathar brought the ephod to David. 8 So David inquired of the Lord, saying, “Shall I pursue this troop? Shall I overtake them?” And He answered him, “Pursue, for you shall surely overtake them and without fail recover all.”

David did not take the words of his men personally though it may have temporarily caused him distress.

He understood that it was coming out of the hearts of men who have been overwhelmed with the calamity that had befall them.

Shimeiah curses David at his low point (2 Samuel 16:5-13)

One of his men, Abishai sons of Zeruhiah, was so upset for David sake that he offered to cut of the head of Shimeah,

Later on at Davids Triumphs over his enemy Shimea came first bowing down to greet him and ssaid 2 Samuel 19:19-20 “19 Then he said to the king, “Do not let my lord impute iniquity to me, or remember what wrong your servant did on the day that my lord the king left Jerusalem, that the king should take it to heart. 20 For I, your servant, know that I have sinned. Therefore here I am, the first to come today of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.””

However God took it to heart and eventually the man paid for his own sin under the hand of Solomon.

23 All this I have proved by wisdom. I said, “I will be wise”; But it was far from me.

24 As for that which is far off and exceedingly deep, Who can find it out?

25 I applied my heart to know, To search and seek out wisdom and the reason of things, To know the wickedness of folly, Even of foolishness and madness.

26 And I find more bitter than death The woman whose heart is snares and nets, Whose hands are fetters. He who pleases God shall escape from her, But the sinner shall be trapped by her.

Solomon would be an expert on this, he had a dealing with a lot of women , to say the list.

They are two types of woman in our Bible.

A vituas woman and an immoral woman.

A virtuos woman.

Proverbs 30:10-31, talks about the virtuous woman.

How she most valuable and to be greatly cherished.

That she is above rubies and she is a pillar and an anchor to her husband in the ways of God.

Truly irreplacable.

Her characteristic that make virtuous is mention in those passages.

An Immoral woman

This is whom solomon is reffering to as bitter than death,

Whose hearts is snares and nets and her hands fetters

Her Character is revealed in Proverbs 5:1-9,

Proverbs 5:1–9 NKJV

1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom; Lend your ear to my understanding, 2 That you may preserve discretion, And your lips may keep knowledge. 3 For the lips of an immoral woman drip honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil; 4 But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword. 5 Her feet go down to death, Her steps lay hold of hell. 6 Lest you ponder her path of life— Her ways are unstable; You do not know them. 7 Therefore hear me now, my children, And do not depart from the words of my mouth. 8 Remove your way far from her, And do not go near the door of her house, 9 Lest you give your honor to others, And your years to the cruel one;

The only way to escape from her is to please God.

Proverbs 6:20–26 NKJV

20 My son, keep your father’s command, And do not forsake the law of your mother. 21 Bind them continually upon your heart; Tie them around your neck. 22 When you roam, they will lead you; When you sleep, they will keep you; And when you awake, they will speak with you. 23 For the commandment is a lamp, And the law a light; Reproofs of instruction are the way of life, 24 To keep you from the evil woman, From the flattering tongue of a seductress. 25 Do not lust after her beauty in your heart, Nor let her allure you with her eyelids. 26 For by means of a harlot A man is reduced to a crust of bread; And an adulteress will prey upon his precious life.

“he who pleases God shall escape from Her”

Make it you aim in all things to please God and you will be safe, you will escape her.

Joseph escaped Potiphers wife, because his aim was always unwaveringly to please God.

Samson, aim was never to please God, he just pleeased himself and when he was convenient he pleased God.

He fell for her trap and paid a great price.

27 “Here is what I have found,” says the Preacher, “Adding one thing to the other to find out the reason,

28 Which my soul still seeks but I cannot find: One man among a thousand I have found, But a woman among all these I have not found.

29 Truly, this only I have found: That God made man upright, But they have sought out many schemes.”

Truly when God created man, he made him morally upright, straight but he has consistenctly taught out schemes to stray from the straights path of the Lord.

The hebrew word here literarly is invention.

Romans 1:3, Paul calls man inventors of evil things.

Man has invented all kinds of technologies, ideologies, philosiphical taught to manuever and stray from the straight moral compass placeb by God within them.

You see, all the evil in this world is to be blamed upon man.

The devil and sin have a role to play but are not ultimately responsible to evil of this world.

1 Corinthians 15:21, by man came death. Romans 5:12 sin entered into the world by one man.

Sometimes we heap up too much blame on the devil to absolve ourselves from being accountable to our actions. It is the cursed nature of man.

Proverbs 19:3 “3 The foolishness of a man twists his way, And his heart frets against the Lord.”

Adam and Eve were accountable for their decision to disobey God. Though decieved, they had ultimately control of their action in the face of that deception.

When we sin out of ignorance, or because of deception and we repent of it then he will absolve us from ebing acountable to the eternal consequence of our sin.

the wages of sin is death, the second death.

He will not absolve us from temprol consequence of our sins.

so that we may fear, and becarful of the words we speak and the actions we take. Knowing that we will suffer the consequences of our action, wether good and bad.

We see this in David’s sin of Adultery and Murder.