Part 3 | Why Am I So Stressed?
From Ecclesiastes 7
📖 Ecclesiastes 6:12 ESV For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his vain life, which he passes like a shadow? For who can tell man what will be after him under the sun?
Two Stress-Inducing Realities:
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Stress-Reducing Rejections:
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📖 Ecclesiastes 7:1-4 ESV A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of birth. 2 It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for this is the end of all mankind, and the living will lay it to heart. 3 Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of face the heart is made glad. 4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
📖 Ecclesiastes 7:8 ESV Better is the end of a thing than its beginning, and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
📖 John 16:13 ESV When the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all the truth, for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak, and He will declare to you the things that are to come.
Stress-Reducing Rejections:
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📖 Ecclesiastes 7:5-6 ESV It is better for a man to hear the rebuke of the wise than to hear the song of fools. 6 For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fools; this also is vanity.
📖 Proverbs 13:20 ESV Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
📖 Romans 8:15-16 ESV For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” 16 The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
Stress-Reducing Rejections:
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📖 Ecclesiastes 7:13 ESV Consider the work of God: who can make straight what he has made crooked?
📖 Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. 6 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
📖 Ecclesiastes 7:14 ESV In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.
Stress-Reducing Rejections:
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📖 Ecclesiastes 7:15 ESV In my vain life I have seen everything. There is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs his life in his evildoing.
📖 Ecclesiastes 7:16-17 ESV Be not overly righteous, and do not make yourself too wise. Why should you destroy yourself? 17 Be not overly wicked, neither be a fool. Why should you die before your time?
📖 Ecclesiastes 7:18 NLT Pay attention to these instructions, for anyone who fears God will avoid both extremes.
The Ultimate Solution to Stress:
A. you’re a .
📖 Ecclesiastes 7:20 ESV Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
📖 Ecclesiastes 7:21-22 ESV Do not take to heart all the things that people say, lest you hear your servant cursing you. 22 Your heart knows that many times you yourself have cursed others.
B. God’s a .
📖 Psalm 130:3-4 NLT LORD, if you kept a record of our sins, who, O Lord, could ever survive? 4 But you offer forgiveness, that we might learn to fear you.
C. Jesus as .
📖 1 John 1:7-9 ESV But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. 8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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