Title What is Time?/Ecclesiastes 3:1-22
Contents Chapter 2 What is time? (3:1-22) ---- Time without God
There is a creative time and a destructive time. creative time
is the time of the event evaluated positively and the destructive time is the time of the negative
It can be said that it is the time of the event. The text expresses this as a deadline and sometimes.
Therefore, there is a time and a time for everything.
First, the affirmation and negation of time (3:1-9)
1. Positive and creative time. 2. Negative and destructive time
.providing life .time of death
.Provide health .In times of illness
.Provide youth
.The thrill of achievement (when you laugh) .
.when dancing .time of sorrow
.The joy of attack .The time of defeat
.Joy of owning .When losing
.the joy of speaking .when silent
.When you love .When you hate
.time of peace .time of war
When to . . When to throw away
..... . . . . . . .
We see the positive and creative events of time make our lives more rewarding.
lose, but be pessimistic about the negative and destructive events of time
Here comes the optimism of life and the pessimism of life.
Are you a pessimist or an optimist?
2. Solomon gives us two truths about time in 3:1
All. tell me what
(1) We are never masters of time.
(2) There is a time in time and it can never be eternal.
Second, the lesson of time (3:10-15)
1.Is time equal for everyone?
2. In 3:13, we can enjoy the pleasures of our labor in the time God has given us.
what is it called
It is God that we can work hard and enjoy the time God has given us.
It is a special gift of love. We have various events through time.
I let you experience it in order to know what the grace of God is.
Therefore, time is God's great gift to man. We
If health continues, who will be able to tell God about health?
would you buy When I suddenly lost my health one day and was hospitalized, my health
You will realize the preciousness of God and thank God for His grace. You
What can we thank God for?
3. What does our heart long for through time in 3:11?
Through the limitations of time, man discovers his own weakness and seeks eternity.
You will have a longing heart. For this, God will do everything in due time.
He said that it is beautiful. Also, human beings do not know what God is doing.
Here we discover the limits of man and trust in the eternity of God.
will do
4. What God does, it lasts forever, and what he does with men,
What are you going to do? (3:14)
In the end, in order to make people fear only God, God
He does many things. God's work is the story of man's fear of God.
Because you want to have faith. you are the station in time
Have you experienced a God who forgives?
Third, God's judgment on time (3:17)
God has given us only the time we absolutely need.
It's very important, because it's the end of our life.
Because it makes sense. God calculates how he lived during this time
He wants you to do it. That is, the line that He will judge all of our lives.
Therefore, depending on how one spends time, one becomes righteous.
It is up to you whether you become a wicked person or not. The day we settle accounts with God
should live with the
Fourth, the Christian time view
The Christian view of time is an eschatological view of time. It has a beginning and an end
Receive by faith that God is holding the clock
The Son is a view of time. This is different from a reincarnation view of time and a dialectical view of time.
It is a completely different thing. Therefore, the saints live their lives while always thinking of the end.
We have to live. The Bible tells us to save time. Wesley spends five minutes a day.
I didn't send it in the slightest by dividing it into use cases.
How will you use your God-given time meaningfully?
God loves you.