Transcript SeasonsConlusion

Living Life’s Seasons
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For everything there is a season…
a time to be born
and a time to die,
a time to plant
and a time to uproot,
a time to kill
and a time to heal,
a time to tear down
and a time to build,
a time to weep
and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn
and a time to dance,
a time to scatter stones
and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace
and a time to refrain,
a time to search
and a time to give up,
a time to keep
and a time to throw away,
a time to tear
and a time to mend,
a time to be silent
and a time to speak,
a time to love
and a time to hate,
a time for war
and a time for peace.
Life Has Seasons
They are beyond OUR CONTROL
They are often CONFUSING
God has a PURPOSE for each
season
They include both GOOD AND BAD
times
What I SOW in one season, I’ll REAP
in another
How to make the most of each
season…
What can I LEARN?
What can I ENJOY?
What is MOST IMPORTANT?
How can I CONTRIBUTE?
Living Life’s Seasons
The Conclusion of the Matter
11
12: The
Ecc.
words of the
wise are like goads, their
collected sayings like firmly
embedded nails —given by
one Shepherd (One). 12 Be
warned, my son, of anything
in addition to them.
13 Now
all has been heard;
here is the conclusion of
the matter:
Fear God and keep his
commandments,
for this is the whole duty
of man.
“Hear
the end of the
matter:
‘Fear, love and trust in
God
and keep his
instructions, for this is
the entirety of man.’”
Fear God = PROPER
RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM
Fear… Love… and Trust in God above
all things…
The Six Constant Instructions
1. To believe in God and that he created all
things.
2. Not to believe in anything else other than
God.
3. To believe in God's Oneness.
4. To fear God.
5. To love God.
6. Not to pursue the passions of your heart
and stray after your eyes.
End of the Matter:
A Season-less Eternity
“Heaven and earth will pass
away, but my words will
never pass away.”
Matthew 24:35
End of the Matter:
A Season-less Eternity
Revelation 22 Then the angel
showed me the river of the
water of life, bright as crystal,
flowing from the throne of
God and of the Lamb
2 through the middle of the
street of the city; also, on
either side of the river,
the tree of life with its
twelve kinds of fruit,
yielding its fruit each
month.
3 No longer will there be
anything accursed, but the
throne of God and of the
Lamb will be in it, and his
servants will worship him. 4
They will see his face, and
his name will be on their
foreheads.
5 And night will be no more.
They will need no light of
lamp or sun, for the Lord God
will be their light, and they will
reign forever and ever.
Living Life’s Seasons