Remember When
Ecclesiastes: Follow God's Command • Sermon • Submitted
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Intro
Intro
A study revealed that an average seventy-year-old man has spent twenty-four years sleeping, fourteen years working, eight years in amusements, six years at the dinner table, five years in transportation, four years in conversation, three years in education, and two years in studying and reading.
His other four years were spent in miscellaneous pursuits. Of those four years, he spent forty-five minutes in church on Sundays, and five minutes were devoted to prayer each day. This adds up to a not at all impressive total of five months that he gave to God over the seventy years of his life.
Even if this man had been a faithful churchgoer who attended Sunday school and three one-hour services per week, he would have spent only one year and nine months in church!
Be invested in God’s plan
even when we don’t know the details of it
Don’t wait
Time is fleeting, it does not go backwards
Remember Your Creator (1)
Remember Your Creator (1)
Creator
In Rev. remember your first love
Maker of the Universe
all its pleasures
the only Judge
your actions and words
Matt 6:33 “But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Seek Godly pleasures
Free will comes with consequences
Youth
thee days are limited
energy, enthusiasm, excitement
enjoy life
the excitement of coming to know Jesus?
brought joy
now have relationship with and the right to approach the throne of the creator of the Universe
Don’t let life get in the way
Don’t forget your first love
Go, do, be
go and enjoy life
do the things God has called you too
be Christ to the world
but you have your warning!
this message of Solomon geared towards the younger generation but all must heed its words
You are not getting younger. Get busy, be invested in God’s plan
while the windows shine bright
Remember Your End (2-5)
Remember Your End (2-5)
imagery here of an aging man
you are not invincible
earlier he said we all have the same fate
The Body falls apart
v2 apocalyptic imagery
Revelations of the lights of God created to shine in our dark world will go out. casting the world into forever darkness, and rain never ceases to fall.
Picture of personal anguish in one who knows his death comes
We get old, our bodies no longer how they once were.
hands shake; legs and back stoop; teeth fall out and grind no more; eyes like windows grow dim; hair turns white like almond branch; and fear cripples
picture of a funeral procession
Remember this!
when young we don’t think of these things
immortal, time runs slow, worry about these things later
how much time was devoted to God this week?
how many times did you share the gospel, encourage a brother/sister, be Christ?
how much time spent in God’s word?
how much time spent worshipping with church family?
time is limited
not meant to bring you down, but give you energy
go, do, be
Go and enjoy life
do the things God has called you too
Be Christ to the world
Remember Your Eternity (6-8)
Remember Your Eternity (6-8)
Death comes for us all
pursuit of riches, accolades, empty words is futile
worldly wisdom leads to nothing but fleeting pleasures
seek after God’s wisdom: follow his commands
to dust we will return
made from and will return to it
Gen 3:19 By the sweat of your face You will eat bread, Till you return to the ground, Because from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return.”
vanity of vanities
seeking after the world is pointless
In a year of craziness
value of family, value of church, value of faith in dark times
value of worldly things
nothing
we will all one day return to dust
picture Solomon has painted points to God
complete the painting
Conclusion
Conclusion
Dust is not our final form
Death is not the final end to those who are in Christ Jesus
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus. For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words.