Sermon
Text: Eccl
3:1 - 1 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under
heaven:
Do You Have the Time?
Point 1:
Life’s Clock is set on Purpose.
1. There is a time for everything, and a season for every
activity under heaven. Solomon is simply
saying time and seasons dictate our lives and if
life did not have sequence, four seasons, time of day, which starts with day
and ends with night; our lives would be chaotic.
Gen. 1: 2-3 - Now the
earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was
over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the
waters. 3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.
Right after God destroyed the earth one of the
first things God did was re-establish time,
order, sequence, seasons –
Gen.
8: 22 "As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and
night will never cease."
Isaiah
46:10 I make known the end from the
beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come.
MESSAGE
- From the very beginning telling you what the ending will be, All along
letting you in on what is going to happen, Assuring you, 'I'm in this for the
long haul, I'll do exactly what I set out to do,'
Point
2: Life’s clock is set on enjoyment. Vs. 12-13 - 12 I know
that there is nothing better for men than to be happy and do good while they
live. 13 That everyone may eat and drink and find
satisfaction in all his toil—this is the gift of God.
Contrary to popular belief God wants us to live
an enjoyable life.
·
3 John 2 – (2) Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good
health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along
well.
o Message - and I pray
for good fortune in everything you do, and for your good health—that your
everyday affairs prosper, as well as your soul!
·
Jer. 29:11 - 11 For I know the plans I
have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to
harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
o Message - I'll show up
and take care of you as I promised and bring you back home. I know what I'm
doing. I have it all planned out—plans to take care of you, not abandon you,
plans to give you the future you hope for.
·
Josh 1:8 - 8 Do not let this Book of the Law depart from
your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do
everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.
o Message - And don't for
a minute let this Book of The Revelation be out of mind. Ponder and meditate on
it day and night, making sure you practice everything written in it. Then
you'll get where you're going; then you'll succeed.
Prov.
10:22 - 22 The blessing of the LORD brings wealth, and he
adds no trouble [sorrow] to it.
At times life seems to be 1) out of balance, 2) out of control, 3) painful and anything but enjoyable.
Haggai
1:5-6 - 5 Now this is what the LORD Almighty says: "Give
careful thought to your ways. 6 You have planted much, but
have harvested little. You eat, but never have enough. You drink, but never
have your fill. You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages, only to
put them in a purse with holes in it."
Point
3: Life’s Clock is set on eternity – vs. 11, 14 - 11 He
has made everything beautiful in its time. He
has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has
done from beginning to end.
14 I
know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it
and nothing taken from it. God does it so that men will revere him.
Ps.
139:16 - 16 your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were
written in your book before one of them came to be.
MESSAGE
- Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth; all
the stages of my life were spread out before you, The days of my life all
prepared before I'd even lived one day.
Jeremiah 1: 5"Before I shaped you in the womb, I
knew all about you. Before you saw the
light of day, I had holy plans for you:
A prophet to the nations— that's what I had in mind for you."
A prophet to the nations— that's what I had in mind for you."
1. Are you really enjoying life? Circle Yes or No
2. Do you know your purpose in life? Circle Yes or No
3. Do you know where you will spend
eternity? Circle Yes or No
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