Sermon
Text: Eccl 4: 9 (a) Two
are better than one…
Sermon
Title: Greater Twogether
Point
1:
Two Pays vs. 9 Two are better than
one, because they have a good reward for
their toil
Solomon points out a simple fact. Two
people can make more than one person. Two people can produce more than one
person. Two people can get more done than one person. Going through life by
yourself cuts in half what you could make and accomplish had you had a partner
with you.
Point 2: Two Lifts
vs10 For if they fall, one will lift up
his fellow [friend] But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not
another to lift him up!
Clearly Solomon knows something about this.
He was the lone ranger. He was left to himself with his wisdom, but that wasn’t
enough. So when he fell in relationship after relationship there was no one to
hold him accountable.
Point
3:
Two Warms vs 11 Likewise, two
people lying close together can
keep each other warm. But how can one
be warm alone?
Solomon is clearly talking about a deep
abiding relationship in verse 11. Warming implies two who are together not
sexually but intimately. Solomon, although he is highly sexual, with 700 wives,
that’s not what he is talking about here. You can be sexual without being
intimate. The text implies an intimacy in a closely bonded relationship.
Intimacy is a part of a relationship when you are vulnerable, transparent and
willing to be yourself. You warm one another with your words and deeds.
Point 4: Two Wins
vs 12 A person standing alone can be
attacked and defeated, but two can stand back-to-back
and conquer. Three even better, for a triple-braided cord is not easily
broken
We are designed to win. But we cannot win
by ourselves and without growing. Solomon ultimately lost and declared
everything vanity because he tried to live life alone and he didn’t grow.
Spiritual growth happens more readily in the context of growing relationships.
As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17—NIV
2011)
Paul put it this way in Gal 6: 2 Carry one another’s burdens. The
Greek means carry what they cannot carry then you both cross the finish line
winners.
Life
Application:
1. Register
for a life group 8 weeks will change your life
2. Decide now you will change someone’s life by
doing life together
3. Without Jesus you are alone accept him today
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