Preaching Notes from Ecc 2:1-11 “The Heart”

• The heart is the center of a man. The will follows the heart. 
• • Lloyd-Jones 
• Whatever He can do to laugh and feel good. He will do it. 
• Vanity, What Use is it!
• 3 Stages or Phases 

• The craziest party you have been to is like a family picnic.
• Gatsby’s parties are cute in comparison. 
• 1 Kings 4:22-23 “Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty cors of flour and sixty cors of meal, ten fat oxen, and twenty pasture-fed cattle, a hundred sheep, besides deep, gazelles, roebucks and fattened foul.  
• Had 12 Officers, 1 per month as his party planner. 12000 horseman
• Did whatever he wanted. Fatasy factory.
• Dragged shopping carts behind a truck when he was drunk and high! 
• Laughed till he threw up type of stuff!

• The satisfaction of a job well done
• Solomon built/managed more than you. 
• Great Works include
• • 13 yrs on House
  • 7 Years on the Temple
  • 1 Chor 8 He built cities like Millo a defense city. 
  • Military Outposts  
  • Gardens/forests
  • Pools to water the vineyards and trees. 

Vs 7-8 The Pleasure of Leisure and Sex

• Solomon enjoyed what he worked for. 
• He got all inclusive service. All you can eat.
• He did not have to mow his yard. 
• Wealth. He had gold brought to him. 
• • 2 Cor 9:13-21
• He bought Jim Gaffagin, and U2
• Many Concubines.
• He had sex. A lot of it! 

• Whatever he wanted to do. He did it. 
• Whatever his heart wanted. He got it. 

• We all have stories of remember fun times. 
• This stuff? Fun!!!!!
• This is why so many stay under the sun. 
• • It satisfies just enough to not see past it. 

• After consideration?
• Vanity and Striving after the wind. 

• You are satisfied with things under the sun.  
• Your ambitions are Wealth, Power, Pleasure, Comfort. 
• You believe God is supposed to give you your idols of wealth, power, pleasure, and comfort. 
• You tell your family your workaholicism is for them.  
• You always think you will “arrive” in a few years.  
• Your motivation is fueled by expanding you and your purposes.
• C.S. Lewis from “The Weight of Glory” 

• 2 Cor 4:5-6
• We see that the best pleasures this world has to offer is a drop in a bucket compared to the ocean of joy and satisfaction found in Christ.