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Notes: November 12, 2008 - Ecclesiastes 4 & 5

Bob Feather November 12th, 2008

Life is tough

  • The dead don’t suffer any longer; but it’s better never to have been born (Ecclesiastes 4:1-3)
  • It’s funny, men envy all these things that don’t satisfy the soul (Ecclesiastes 4:4)
  • Idleness is folly (4:5)
  • Why does a single person work so hard? (4:6-8)
  • Having a friend is better than being a hermit (4:9-12).
  • A child is better than a king when the child is wise and king is old and foolish (4:13).
  • Public opinion is fickle (4:14-16)
  • Are you religious? Don’t make promises you can’t (or won’t) keep. (5:1-7).
  • Don’t be surprised by injustice and oppression (vs 8)
  • Don’t be covetous (vs 10-11)
  • Honest labor helps you sleep (vs 12)
  • Why labor to accumulate stuff? You can’t take it with you. (vs 13-17)
  • Did I tell you? Learn to enjoy life (vs 18-20).
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Ecclesiastes 4:1-3
1So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
2Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
3Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 4:4
4Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

Notes: November 11, 2008 - Ecclesiastes 2 & 3

Bob Feather November 11th, 2008

I tried everything

  • Having a good time doesn’t satisfy the soul ( 2:1-2)
  • Wine doesn’t satisfy (vs 3)
  • Owning buildings and property doesn’t satisfy (vs 4-6)
  • Employing lots of people doesn’t satisfy (vs 7)
  • Wealth doesn’t satisfy (vs 8)
  • Music doesn’t satisfy (vs 8)
  • I had everything; I did everything; nothing satisfied me (Ecclesiastes 2:10-11).
  • Wisdom is greater than folly (vs 12-14); but
  • fools and the wise alike die (vs 15-17).
  • Why work hard so that you can leave it all behind to a fool? (vs 18-21)
  • Life is difficult (vs 22-23)
  • It really doesn’t matter what you have or what you’ve done, as long as you enjoy it (vs 24-26). To enjoy life is a gift from God (Ecclesiastes 2:24; 3:13).
  • There is a time for everything (3:1-8).
  • Work and beauty are gifts from God, too (vs 9-12)
  • God’s work is eternal; there’s nothing new (vs 14-15)
  • Judicial corruption exists (vs 16-17)
  • Men live and die; animals live and die (vs 18-21)
  • Enjoy life. That’s what I say. (Ecclesiastes 3:21,13; Ecclesiastes 2:24)
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Ecclesiastes 4:1-3
1So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
2Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
3Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 4:4
4Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes 2:10-11
10And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.
11Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 2:24; 3:13
224There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.
313And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.
Ecclesiastes 3:21,13
13And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.
21Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
Ecclesiastes 2:24
24There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.

Notes: November 10, 2008 - Ecclesiastes 1

Bob Feather November 10th, 2008

Vanity of Vanities

The theme and conclusion of the book: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity (Ecclesiastes 1:2; 12:8).

  • What profit is there in life’s pursuits? (Ecclesiastes 1:3. Cf. 2:11; 3:9; 5:9, 16; 7:11; 10:10). Indeed, what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his soul (Mark 8:36)? (vs 3)
  • Do all you can, get all you can. Life goes on. (vs 4)
  • Things around us keep changing (vs 5-8);
  • yet there’s nothing new (vs 9-11).
  • So I, the preacher-king of Israel, set out on a quest to understand life (vs 12-18).
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Ecclesiastes 4:1-3
1So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
2Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
3Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 4:4
4Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes 2:10-11
10And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.
11Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 2:24; 3:13
224There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.
313And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.
Ecclesiastes 3:21,13
13And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.
21Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
Ecclesiastes 2:24
24There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.
Ecclesiastes 1:2; 12:8
12Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
128Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 1:3
3What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
Mark 8:36
36For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

Notes: November 9, 2008 - 1 Kings 11

Bob Feather November 9th, 2008

The dark spot on Solomon’s reputation

Solomon loved women, foreign women, women who didn’t love God (1 Kings 11:1).

God warned Solomon not to associate with unbelieving women; but he chose to love them anyway (1 Kings 11:2).

As predicted, these unsaved women turned Solomon away from God (vs 4-8).

The LORD was angry with Solomon for his sin, and He announced that the kingdom would be divided (vs 9-14).

God raised up two adversaries to Solomon: Hadad the Edomite (vs 8:14), and Rezon (vs 8:23).

When God announced that the divided kingdom would be in the hands of Jereboam, Solomon himself made Jereboam his adversary (vs 8:40).

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Ecclesiastes 4:1-3
1So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
2Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
3Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 4:4
4Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes 2:10-11
10And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.
11Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 2:24; 3:13
224There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.
313And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.
Ecclesiastes 3:21,13
13And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.
21Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
Ecclesiastes 2:24
24There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.
Ecclesiastes 1:2; 12:8
12Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
128Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 1:3
3What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
Mark 8:36
36For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
1 Kings 11:1
1But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;
1 Kings 11:2
2Of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.

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