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Ecclesiastes 7:1-12 The Better Way Maker - Nick Gerringer - Assisting Pastor

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Nick Gerringer - Assisting Pastor

Date Taught: January 30, 2020

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Life Lessons Referenced

Life Lesson (Ecclesiastes 7:1)

How you are living determines how you are known. Do you have a good name?

Life Lesson (Ecclesiastes 7:2)

When considering death, consider Jesus who put death to death because He loves you to death.

Life Lesson (Ecclesiastes 7:6)

Love receiving correction. Only give correction in love, with humility, and gentleness, being aware of your own sinful nature and need for forgiveness in the process.

Life Lesson (Ecclesiastes 7:10)

We have to move in the realm of what the Spirit is doing in our lives today. Remember the good, have first love and first works attitude toward the Lord too. The better way is to forget what is behind and reach ahead towards Jesus now.

Verses Referenced and Teaching Notes

Eccl 7:13 NLT

Accept the way God does things, for who can straighten what he has made crooked?

Luke 10:20 NKJV

Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven."

Phil 1:21-23 NKJV

21 For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain. 22 But if I live on in the flesh, this will mean fruit from my labor; yet what I shall choose I cannot tell. 23 For I am hard-pressed between the two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.

Matt 5:4 NKJV

Blessed are those who mourn, For they shall be comforted.

Isa 53:3 NKJV

He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.

Heb 5:7-9 NKJV

7 who, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His godly fear, 8 though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered. 9 And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him,

Ps 141:5 NKJV

Let the righteous strike me;
It shall be a kindness.
And let him rebuke me;
It shall be as excellent oil;
Let my head not refuse it.

Rom 5:3-5 KJV

3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
4 And patience, experience; and experience, hope:5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

Prov 16:18 NKJV

Pride goes before destruction,
And a haughty spirit before a fall.

James 1:19-21 NLT

19 Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters: You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry. 20 Human anger does not produce the righteousness God desires.

Eccl 7:11-12 NLT

11 Wisdom is even better when you have money. Both are a benefit as you go through life. 12 Wisdom and money can get you almost anything, but only wisdom can save your life.

Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.

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