Ecclesiastes 3/4/18
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But all this I laid to heart, examining it all, how the righteous and the wise and their deeds are in the hand of God. Whether it is love or hate, man does not know; both are before him. It is the same for all, since the same event happens to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil, to the clean and the unclean, to him who sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice. As the good one is, so is the sinner, and he who swears is as he who shuns an oath. This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that the same event happens to all. Also, the hearts of the children of man are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead. But he who is joined with all the living has hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion. For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten. Their love and their hate and their envy have already perished, and forever they have no more share in all that is done under the sun.
Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do.
Let your garments be always white. Let not oil be lacking on your head.
Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun. Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.
God hates to see you die (v.1-6)
God loves to see you smile (v.7-10)
Jesus came to make you human
God Hates to See you Die (v.1-6)
The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, declares the Lord God, and not rather that he should turn from his way and live?
Say to them, As I live, declares the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel?
2. God Loves to See you Smile (v.7-10)
And out of the ground the Lord God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
And out of the ground the Lord God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
and wine to gladden the heart of man,
oil to make his face shine
and bread to strengthen man’s heart.
For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,
The tears are inevitable, but the laughter we might neglect.
The tears are inevitable, but the smiles we might neglect.
3. Jesus Came to Make you Human
Jesus, our Model
a) Jesus, Our Example
On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.
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Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples.
When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.”
The Son of Man Came...
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For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’
b) Jesus, our Substitute
But he who is joined with all the living has hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
In creation, God delights in humans.
In the gospel, God delights in sinners.