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*/Ecclesiastes 5:1/**/ through Ecclesiastes 5:7 (NIV)/*
1Guard your steps when you go to the house of God.
Go near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.
2 Do not be quick with your mouth,
do not be hasty in your heart
to utter anything before God.
God is in heaven
and you are on earth,
so let your words be few.
3 As a dream comes when there are many cares,
so the speech of a fool when there are many words.
4When you make a vow to God, do not delay in fulfilling it.
He has no pleasure in fools; fulfill your vow.
5It is better not to vow than to make a vow and not fulfill it.
6Do not let your mouth lead you into sin.
And do not protest to the temple messenger, “My vow was a mistake.”
Why should God be angry at what you say and destroy the work of your hands?
7Much dreaming and many words are meaningless.
Therefore stand in awe of God.
*Introduction:*
Three Monkeys: Speak no evil, hear no evil, see no evil.
I. When You Come To God's House, Be Careful What You Say.
A. Over Expression (v. 2)
*** "Blessed are they who have nothing to say and cannot be persuaded to say it."
- James Russell Lowell
***It is better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
--Unknown
***On a Television program called /Blossom, /there was a girl named Syx who talked so incessantly and so fast that no one could get in a word edgewise.
***When Jean and I were dating, we would sometimes get sort of nervous and start talking, without any real sense or importance being conveyed.
We agreed that when either of us noticed the other doing it we would say one word.
We would look at the other person and say "babbling."
We got it from a picture we had gone to see together, but it is also a good way to understand our tendancy to come to God's house, mouth full of words that are meaningless, and carry little weight when put beside His Word.
B. Over Profession (v.
4-6)
/Luke// 14:28// through Luke 14:33 (NIV)/
28“Suppose one of you wants to build a tower.
Will he not first sit down and estimate the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it?
29For if he lays the foundation and is not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule him, 30saying, ‘This fellow began to build and was not able to finish.’
31“Or suppose a king is about to go to war against another king.
Will he not first sit down and consider whether he is able with ten thousand men to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand?
32If he is not able, he will send a delegation while the other is still a long way off and will ask for terms of peace.
33In the same way, any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple.
II.
When You Come To God's House, Be Careful What You Hear.
A. Approach Hearing (v. 1)
***Our anatomy is put together in divine wisdom to support only one mouth and two ears.
It should suggest to us that we should be twice as willing to listen as to speak.
/Romans 10:17// (NIV)/
17Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ.
***Topic: Hearing
Subtopic: Careless
Title: They Weren't Listening
President Franklin D. Roosevelt got tired of smiling that big
smile and saying the usual things at all those White House
receptions.
So, one evening he decided to find out whether
anybody was paying attention to what he was saying.
As each
person came up to him with extended hand, he flashed that big
smile and said, "I murdered my grandmother this morning."
People
would automatically respond with comments such as "How lovely!"
or "Just continue with your great work!" Nobody listened to
what he was saying, except one foreign diplomat.
When the
president said, "I murdered my grandmother this morning," the
diplomat responded softly, "I'm sure she had it coming to her."
*** Important Matters
It is said that Demothenes was speaking upon a very important
subject.
As he spoke, his hearers became very drowsy and uninterested.
He suddenly stopped and said, "My hearers, I have a very important
matter to relate."
Then he said, "A gentleman hired a donkey from
another man.
They were to make a trip from Athens to Megara on a very
hot day.
They both desired to rest in the shadow of the donkey.
The
man who hired the donkey insisted that, when he hired the donkey, this
included the shadow.
The Owner of the donkey insisted that he hired
only the donkey and not the shadow."
Then suddenly he stopped, but the
crowd was so interested that they insisted that he explain further.
Then Demosthenes turned upon them and said, "O ye Athenians, ye are
greatly interested when I speak of the shadow of a donkey, but you go
to sleep when I speak about solemn matters."
Too many church-goers don't pay attention to the Word of God when it is
being
preached.
However, these same "Christians" will eagerly listen and pay
attention to senseless and worthless matters!
---William Moses Tidwell, "Pointed Illustrations."
B.
Apply Hearing
***Not in one ear and out the other.
Once it is heard, there is no excuse for disobedience.
/Matthew// 21:28// through Matthew 21:32 (NIV)/
28“What do you think?
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