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Guest Preacher Shane Haff started his first sermon in his 3-week sermon series on Haggai.
Guest Preacher Shane Haff started his first sermon in his 3-week sermon series on Haggai.
Guest Preacher Shane Haff started his first sermon in his 3-week sermon series on Haggai.
Guest Preacher Shane Haff started his first sermon in his 3-week sermon series on Haggai.
The words of ver. 12; ch. 7:27; 12:8-10 the Preacher,1:1 Or Convener, or Collector; Hebrew Qoheleth (so throughout Ecclesiastes) the son of David, ver. 12king in Jerusalem.
2 ch. 12:8 Vanity1:2 The Hebrew term hebel, translated vanity or vain, refers concretely to a “mist,” “vapor,” or “mere breath,” and metaphorically to something that is fleeting or elusive (with different nuances depending on the context). It appears five times in this verse and in 29 other verses in Ecclesiastes of vanities, says [See ver. 1 above] the Preacher,
ch. 12:8 vanity of vanities! [Rom. 8:20]All is vanity.
3 ver. 14; Ps. 144:4; See Job 7:16; Ps. 39:5 What ch. 2:11, 22; 3:9; 5:16does man gain by all the toil
at which he toils under the sun?
4A generation goes, and a generation comes,
but Ps. 104:5; 119:90the earth remains forever.
5 [Ps. 19:4-6] The sun rises, and the sun goes down,
and hastens1:5 Or and returns panting to the place where it rises.
6 [ch. 11:5; John 3:8] The wind blows to the south
and goes around to the north;
around and around goes the wind,
and on its circuits the wind returns.
7All Ps. 104:8, 9streams run to the sea,
but the sea is not full;
to the place where the streams flow,
there they flow again.
8All things are full of weariness;
a man cannot utter it;
ch. 4:8; Prov. 27:20 the eye is not satisfied with seeing,
nor the ear filled with hearing.
9 ch. 3:15; 6:10; [ch. 2:12] What has been is what will be,
and what has been done is what will be done,
and there is nothing new under the sun.
10Is there a thing of which it is said,
“See, this is new”?
It has been ch. 3:15already
in the ages before us.
11There is no ch. 2:16; See ch. 9:5remembrance of former things,1:11 Or former people
nor will there be any remembrance
of later things1:11 Or later people yet to be
among those who come after.
The Shepherd (GOD)...
...Makes Me Stop (v. 2a)
Max Lucado “In God’s hands, intended evil becomes eventual good.”
Why can’t you stop? Or Why won’t you stop?
…Stills My Mind (v. 2b)
What has been mentally consuming you?
...Fills Me Back Up (v. 3a)
Phillip Keller A Shepherd Looks at Psalms 23 “Sheep are incapable of finding good water on their own… if left alone, sheep will drink whatever they stumble upon, even if it is stagnant, filthy, and unfit to drink.”
How do/can you get “filled” by the Lord?
...Sends Me Back Out (v. 3b)
What would people say about your shepherd?
Luke 2
1Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that a census be taken of all the inhabited earth. 2This was the first census taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3And everyone was on his way to register for the census, each to his own city. 4Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the city of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David, 5in order to register along with Mary, who was engaged to him, and was with child. 6While they were there, the days were completed for her to give birth. 7And she gave birth to her firstborn son; and she wrapped Him in cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
8In the same region there were some shepherds staying out in the fields and keeping watch over their flock by night. 9And an angel of the Lord suddenly stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them; and they were terribly frightened. 10But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid; for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be for all the people; 11for today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. 12This will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger." 13And suddenly there appeared with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying,
14"Glory to God in the highest,
And on earth peace among men with whom He is pleased."