Part 2 | Why Am I So Frustrated?
From Ecclesiastes 3-5
The Frustrations of Later Life:
1. Life is filled with .
📖 Ecclesiastes 3:1 ESV For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
2. Life is filled with realities.
📖 Ecclesiastes 3:14-14 ESV I perceived that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it. God has done it, so that people fear before him. 15 That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already has been; and God seeks what has been driven away.
3. Life is filled with .
📖 Ecclesiastes 3:16 ESV Moreover, I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, even there was wickedness, and in the place of righteousness, even there was wickedness.
📖 Ecclesiastes 4:1 ESV Again I saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power, and there was no one to comfort them.
4. Life is a with no .
📖 Ecclesiastes 4:4 ESV Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
Moving from Frustration to Freshness:
1. Jesus gives .
📖 Ecclesiastes 4:6 ESV Better is a handful of quietness than two hands full of toil and a striving after wind.
📖 Proverbs 15:16 ESV Better is a little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble with it.
📖 1 Timothy 6:6-8 ESV But godliness with contentment is great gain, 7 for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. 8 But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content.
2. Jesus brings .
📖 Ecclesiastes 3:17 ESV I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for there is a time for every matter and for every work.
📖 John 5:22 ESV For the Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son
3. Jesus creates .
📖 Ecclesiastes 4:7-8 ESV Again, I saw vanity under the sun: 8 one person who has no other, either son or brother, yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eyes are never satisfied with riches, so that he never asks, “For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?” This also is vanity and an unhappy business.
📖 Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 ESV Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. 10 For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! 11 Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? 12 And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
📖 Ecclesiastes 4:13 NCV A poor but wise boy is better than a foolish but old king who doesn’t listen to advice.
The key to : about .
4. Jesus gives you a .
A. up.
📖 Ecclesiastes 5:1 ESV Guard your steps when you go to the house of God…
B. up.
📖 Ecclesiastes 5:1b-2 ESV To draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they are doing evil. 2 Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God,
📖 Psalm 16:11 ESV You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
C. up.
📖 Ecclesiastes 5:2b ESV for God is in heaven and you are on earth. Therefore let your words be few.
Sermon in a Sentence:
I can build a life without God or a life in Christ. The choice is mine in every .
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