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Pastor's Sunday Sermon

May 26, 2024

 

 

 

 

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  • Solomon states that God gave us authority over His creations (Genesis 2:15-20), as way to keep us occupied. Is that a bad thing? Or was this a way of keeping us out of trouble.

  • Verse 15 talks about how some things that we do, or things that happen to us, cannot be undone. These things usually are done for a reason. Some for our benefit, some for the benefit of others.

  • Verse 18 states essentially that the more you know, the more grief you get. We can take that as: focus on what gifts the Lord has given you and not to spread yourself too thin trying to do it all!

 

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Ecclesiastes 1:12-18

 I, the Teacher, have been[a] king over Israel in Jerusalem. 13 I applied my mind to examine and explore through wisdom all that is done under heaven. God has given people[b] this miserable task to keep them occupied. 14 I have seen all the things that are done under the sun and have found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.[c]

15 What is crooked cannot be straightened;
what is lacking cannot be counted.

16 I said to myself, “See, I have amassed wisdom far beyond all those who were over Jerusalem before me, and my mind has thoroughly grasped[d] wisdom and knowledge.” 17 I applied my mind to know wisdom and knowledge, madness and folly; I learned that this too is a pursuit of the wind.

18 For with much wisdom is much sorrow;
as knowledge increases, grief increases.

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Genesis 2:15-20

The Lord God took the man and placed him in the garden of Eden to work it and watch over it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree of the garden, 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for on the day you eat from it, you will certainly die.” 18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper corresponding to him.” 19 The Lord God formed out of the ground every wild animal and every bird of the sky, and brought each to the man to see what he would call it. And whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name. 20 The man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds of the sky, and to every wild animal; but for the man[a] no helper was found corresponding to him.

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