{"id":262,"date":"2014-03-10T19:25:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T19:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/preaching-notes-from-ecc-21-11-the-heart\/"},"modified":"2014-03-10T19:25:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T19:25:00","slug":"preaching-notes-from-ecc-21-11-the-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/preaching-notes-from-ecc-21-11-the-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Preaching Notes from Ecc 2:1-11 “The Heart”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ecclesiastes 2:1-11 The Heart<\/b><\/div>\n
Intro: Overview of Last Two Sermons<\/b><\/div>\n
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  • Solomon’s Reflects on His Project <\/span><\/li>\n
  • Put his whole heart into this. <\/span><\/li>\n
  • Is there anything of eternal value under the sun? <\/span><\/li>\n
  • Pleasure and Laughter<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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    Vs 1-2: Solomon Tests His (Heart) with Pleasure and Laughter<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
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    • The heart is the center of a man. The will follows the heart.<\/span> <\/li>\n
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      • Lloyd-Jones<\/span> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
      • Whatever He can do to laugh and feel good. He will do it. <\/span><\/li>\n
      • Vanity, What Use is it!<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 3 Stages or Phases <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
        Vs 3: Parties and Laughter (Solomon’s Parties)<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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        • The craziest party you have been to is like a family picnic.<\/span><\/li>\n
        • Gatsby’s parties are cute in comparison. <\/span><\/li>\n
        • 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.  <\/span><\/li>\n
        • Had 12 Officers, 1 per month as his party planner. 12000 horseman<\/span><\/li>\n
        • Did whatever he wanted. Fatasy factory.<\/span><\/li>\n
        • Dragged shopping carts behind a truck when he was drunk and high! <\/span><\/li>\n
        • Laughed till he threw up type of stuff!<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
          Vs 4-6: Pleasure of Hard Work (Solomon Got Responsible) <\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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          • The satisfaction of a job well done<\/span><\/li>\n
          • Solomon built\/managed more than you. <\/span><\/li>\n
          • Great Works include<\/span><\/li>\n
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            • 13 yrs on House<\/span><\/li>\n
            • 7 Years on the Temple<\/span><\/li>\n
            • 1 Chor 8 He built cities like Millo a defense city. <\/span><\/li>\n
            • Military Outposts  <\/span><\/li>\n
            • Gardens\/forests<\/span><\/li>\n
            • Pools to water the vineyards and trees. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

              Vs 7-8 The Pleasure of Leisure and Sex<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n

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              • Solomon enjoyed what he worked for. <\/span><\/li>\n
              • He got all inclusive service. All you can eat.<\/span><\/li>\n
              • He did not have to mow his yard. <\/span><\/li>\n
              • Wealth. He had gold brought to him. <\/span><\/li>\n
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                • 2 Cor 9:13-21<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
                • He bought Jim Gaffagin, and U2<\/span><\/li>\n
                • Many Concubines.<\/span><\/li>\n
                • He had sex. A lot of it! <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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                  Vs 9-10a: He Did It Again. Tried it to the max!<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
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                  • Whatever he wanted to do. He did it. <\/span><\/li>\n
                  • Whatever his heart wanted. He got it. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
                    Vs 10b: And He had Fun! <\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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                    • We all have stories of remember fun times. <\/span><\/li>\n
                    • This stuff? Fun!!!!!<\/span><\/li>\n
                    • This is why so many stay under the sun. <\/span><\/li>\n
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                      • It satisfies just enough to not see past it. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
                        Vs 11: Same Story as Wisdom and Knowledge <\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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                        • After consideration?<\/span><\/li>\n
                        • Vanity and Striving after the wind. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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                          Where is Your Heart? <\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
                          1. Indicators that Your Heart is Dead?<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
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                          • You are satisfied with things under the sun.<\/span>  <\/b><\/li>\n
                          • Your ambitions are Wealth, Power, Pleasure, Comfort. <\/span><\/li>\n
                          • You believe God is supposed to give you your idols of wealth, power, pleasure, and comfort. <\/span><\/li>\n
                          • You tell your family your workaholicism is for them.  <\/span><\/li>\n
                          • You always think you will “arrive” in a few years. <\/span> <\/span><\/li>\n
                          • Your motivation is fueled by expanding you and your purposes.<\/span><\/li>\n
                          • C.S. Lewis from “The Weight of Glory” <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
                            2. The Christian is a Person Who’s Heart Has Been Changed <\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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                            • 2 Cor 4:5-6<\/span><\/li>\n
                            • 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. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n
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                              Two types of hearts. Dead hearts and alive hearts. A dead heart is going to always try to find satisfaction under the sun. You need a alive heart! An alive heart is only satisfied with the Glories of God seen in the face of Christ Jesus. 2 Cor 4:6<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                              Ecclesiastes 2:1-11 The Heart Intro: Overview of Last Two Sermons Solomon’s Reflects on His Project  Put his whole heart into this.  Is there anything of eternal value under the sun?  Pleasure and Laughter                                             […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}