Ecclesiastes: Why Everything Matters (Preaching the Word)
don’t play games with God!
Philip Graham Ryken • Ecclesiastes: Why Everything Matters (Preaching the Word)
The point of the shepherd king ...on pay to God the vow you promised him!
“the sacrifice of fools.”
Philip Graham Ryken • Ecclesiastes: Why Everything Matters (Preaching the Word)
There is a vast distance between the finite and the infinite.
Philip Graham Ryken • Ecclesiastes: Why Everything Matters (Preaching the Word)
then the Bible says that we are guilty of great evil, for we have despised the gospel of the cross and the empty tomb.
Philip Graham Ryken • Ecclesiastes: Why Everything Matters (Preaching the Word)
telling us to pay attention to God’s Word.
Philip Graham Ryken • Ecclesiastes: Why Everything Matters (Preaching the Word)
So the most important VERB used to described our "part" in worship is to LISTEN. Pretty passive! Yet many people can only think of what they are wanting to TELL/ASK the Lord! There is a place for us to speak ...
ECCLESIASTES 5:10
Philip Graham Ryken • Ecclesiastes: Why Everything Matters (Preaching the Word)
Insert the concpets of the ress to these vesres (5:8-20) under the previous verse 5:1-7 on worship!
“For when dreams increase and words grow many, there is vanity; but God is the one you must fear” (Ecclesiastes 5:7).
Philip Graham Ryken • Ecclesiastes: Why Everything Matters (Preaching the Word)
The trouble, of course, is that it is hard for us to listen.