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INTRODUCTION
GOOD MORNING
Good Morning
Before we get started today I wanted to invite Coyce Young to share with us a bit of how she is personally parting with South Creek Middle School
INTRO
We are in week 2 in our series through the book of Ecclesiastes
Turn there with me.
AFTER Psalms and Proverbs, BEFORE Song of Solomon and Isaiah
ECCLESIASTES
Cyclical Rhythm of Life - Search for meaning to break the monotony in our lives
Hevel - Vanity, Meaningless - Everything
Smoke or vapor - impossible to grab hold; lacking substance.
Addressing the longings in our hearts and where we look to satisfy our desires.
Today - the passage focuses on our pursuit of happiness
AMERICAN DREAM
Declaration of Independence
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
It is this thirst, desire, and pursuit of happiness that drives most of us.
Advertising sells happiness
An article from this past January said,
“Since the dawn of advertising, brands have sought to evoke happiness in ads to help them to persuade people to buy certain goods and services.”
In 2016, a marketing company tried attracting new clients by saying,
“We sell happiness”
“We’re human.
We worry about taking the wrong step or missing our shot at happiness.
Should I have traveled to Europe after college?
Will I ever get the opportunity again?
Will I have a family - blink - then spend the rest of my days knitting hats?
This general anxiety is heightened by the dooming ripple of the sharing economy, in which we share running snapshots of our lives, presenting our most impressive facades to the world.
ZenithOptimedia
found that people seek certainty - longing for the very real statistical pursuit of happiness.
The author - Millennials herself said,
Brands like Taco Bell among others get that
Tacos make life better
Though millennials don’t like brands they tend to love taco bell.
(sweaters, senior photos, engagements and weddings)
GENERATIONS
You may not understand the love for Taco Bell but even across the past generations in America - we have the ways we pursue happiness.
Show graphic
What do you pursue to make you happy?
For Gen Z and Millenianls - says happiness / PLEASURE
Health
Family & Friends
Career
Today’s passage in Ecclesiastes is going to address three areas that we seek to find happiness but how in the end they are vanity, meaningless - HEVEL, vapor and smoke.
PRAY
RESTLESS SEARCHING
READ
AUTHOR & PUPOSE
KING SOLOMON “exposes the emptiness of the American dream.
If we stop for a second, let go of our desires for more and more and more, and look at the many examples around us” we will see the truth in theses verses.
“We look at lives like Marilyn Monroe, Kurt Cobain, and Robin Williams, and we see people who had everything this world says you could ever want, and it brought them nothing but pain and emptiness.”
(Daniel Akin)
UNHAPPY BUSINESS
Solomon is like a scientist who is experimenting with his heart to see what will truly bring him happiness.
His heart is restless, seeking the substance of joy yet discovering that everything is meaningless, tiresome - vapor.
I’ve tried wisdom and knowledge but its a striving after after the wind.
(hear in his words, I’ve sought higher education and degrees yet there is no end to learning and I am still paying school loans…)
In , King Solomon is going to address 3 areas where we seek to find the substance of happiness
Pleasure
Wisdom
Work
PLEASURE
Laughter
“Laughter can momentarily distract us from real pain, but it cannot overcome it.
So solomon does not conclude that laughter is evil unless you try to turn it into the solution for life’s problem’s” (Duane Garrett).
Wine
Drank with wisdom - moderation
Drank in folly - drunkenness
Great Works (houses, gardens - eden)
Solomon built the temple ()
He took 13 years to build his house, which was bigger than the temple ()
If I had a different house in a different neighborhood...
He built houses and shrines for his wives - all 700 of them (; , ).
The phrase “every kind of fruit tree” used in 2:5 is also used 3 times in the creation account (, ; )
Solomon tried to rebuild or bring back paradise here on this broken/fallen world but it is impossible.
Possessions
Newest iPhone or Google Pixel, even Motorola’s Razr is making a comeback.
They tells how many songs or movies they can holds
Solomon just bought the band - you wanna listen toyour favorite artist - he just bought the singer or band.
Money (buy the band)
says that Solomon was so rich that silver was as common as stones
Sex
300 concubines
Whatever my eyes desired
CONCLUSION - 2:11, “Then I considered all that I had done and behold, vanity (Hevel) and a striving after the wind.
I gained nothing.
WISDOM
Now let’s seek wisdom
Let’s meditate on wisdom and folly and crazy.
There is more gain in wisdom
Every athlete is told the same narrative growing up.
Work hard, respect your coach, play by the rules, be a good sport, do not complain about playing time, and show your skills in practice because that is the right way to do things.
Yet, in the 2014–2015 NFL season, a guy named LeGarrett Blount smashed that narrative.
He was so angry about his lack of playing time with the Steelers that he walked off the field before the game was over.
The team cut him the next day, and then the Patriots signed him, and he won a Super Bowl ring.
Sometimes we try and use wisdom for our own gain
We assume that if we understand the world well enough then we can bend it to make us happy.
If I do the right things, live the right way, then God has to bless me and make my life prosperous - thus, I will be happy.
In the end, we try to manipulate God will our actions, saying, “if I do these certain actions, then God will bless me.”
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