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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>NOV
8 - ECCLESIASTES 3-5 - QUEST BY GENERAL OBSERVATION</b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><b><font style="font-size:11pt">1.
3:1-2a (3:1-8, ESV) VANITY: WEARY ROUND OF ALTERNATE TIMING. </font> “For
everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under
heaven: <font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">2a </font><font size="3">a
time to be born, and a time to die;” </font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-weight:normal">Give
us the heart of Issachar O Father, with an understanding of the times
and what to do (2 Chronicles 12:32)! Then we can give wise counsel to
Your people. Then we will understand </span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><u><span style="font-weight:normal">Your
rule</span></u></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
upon earth! </span></span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Hallowed
be your :name.</span></i></font></b></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">2.
3:11 (3:9-22) OBSERVATION: EXELLENCY BUT INSCRUTABILITY OF GOD’S
WAY. </span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">He
has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity
into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done
from the beginning to the end.” </span></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">In
this, man differs from all animals; for You Father, have made us in
Your image. We are offspring of God, created by Yo</span></span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">u</span></span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">,
and redeemed by You: </span></span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><u><span style="font-weight:normal">twice
bought</span></u></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">!
In this light we pray, </span></span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Your
:kingdom come!</span></i></font></b></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">3.
4:6 (4:1-6) VANITY OF OPPRESSION AND SERVICE: CORRECT BY PEACE.
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Better
is a handful of quietness than two hands full of toil and a striving
after wind.” </span></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
we embrace Your peace in our hearts! For in this gift and fruit of
the Spirit we are able to walk through the contradictions of life and
say with all our heart, Lord, we do not always understand You, but
like Job </span></span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><u><span style="font-weight:normal">we
do always trust </span></u></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">You!
</span></span></font><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Your</span></i><i>
:will be done, As in heaven, so on earth. </i></b></font>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><b>4:9-10 (4:7-12) VANITY OF
ALONENESS: CORRECTED BY TWO. “<u>Two are better than one</u><span style="text-decoration:none">,
because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one
will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls
and has not another to lift him up!” </span></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Help
us not to be unilateral Christians, Father. Help us to understand
body truth (1 Corinthians 12). Show us the power of Matthew 18:19,
and Deuteronomy 32:30. Lead us into </span></span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><u><span style="font-weight:normal">Prayer
Multiplication</span></u></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
through this principle. </span></span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Our
:daily :bread Give us this day.</span></i></font></b></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">5.
5:2 (4:13-5:9) VANITY OF LACK OF JUSTICE OR PLEASURE: ADVICE. </span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Be
not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word
before God, for God is in heaven and you are on earth. Therefore let
your words be few.” </span></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
forgive us for being so foolish ofttimes with our words. You do not
hold us guiltless for rash words. May we heed your advice through
Solomon. Yes, we recognize the wisdom of this advice. </span></span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And
forgive us our :debts, As we also have forgiven our :debtors.</span></i></font></b></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">6.
5:12 (5:10-12) VANITY OF LOVE OF MONEY: CORRECT BY CONTENTMENT.
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Sweet
is the sleep of a laborer, whether he eats little or much, but the
full stomach of the rich will not let him sleep.” </span></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Give
us wise insight on these words, Father. May we not be foolish in
multiplying to ourselves riches, goods and possessions. Help us to
hold on to what we have </span></span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><u><span style="font-weight:normal">loosely</span></u></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">.
</span></span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And
bring us not into temptation!</span></i></font></b></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">7.
5:18 (5:13-20) VANITY OF SAVING FOR OTHERS: CORRECT BY
SELF-ENJOYMENT. </span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">Behold,
what I have seen to be good and fitting is to eat and drink and find
enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils under the s</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">u</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">n
the few days of his life that God has given him, for this is is lot.”
</span></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">These
are the words of the wealthiest man who ever lived. Surely he
understood these principles of which he spoke! Surely then we can see
dimly Your purposes in this Father, and boldly proclaim that </span></span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">You
deliver us from the evil </span></i></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">one!</span></font></b></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><u><font style="font-size:11pt">NOTE</font></u><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">:
4:11-12 (4:7-12) </span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>THE
POWER OF TWO. </b></span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>“Again,
if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone?
</b></span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>12
</b></span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>And
though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will
withstand him - and a three-fold cord is not quickly broken.”
</b></span></font><u><font style="font-size:11pt">Jesus</font></u><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">
is this third strand: Then with Him - </span></font><u><font style="font-size:11pt">You</font></u><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">
vanquish our enemies, Father!</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">C.H.
Spurgeon Quote: “Sham Christians” - </span></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Why
these are sham Christians: they are of the world, and do the things
of the world. We may conclude that their hearts and natures are
worldly, for if they were spiritual they would love spiritual things,
and their hear</span></span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">t</span></span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">s
would be engaged in spiritual exercises.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">Our
Psalm for the Day: 128:1 (128) </span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">BLESSED
IS EVERYONE WHO FEARS THE LORD. “Blessed is everyone who fears the
LORD, who walks in his ways!” </span></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
we marvel at the blessings of the one fearing You, walking in the
knowledge that You are a </span></span></font><u><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-weight:normal">jealous</span></font></u><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
God: eats labor of his hands; he and his wife have many children;
Jerusalem will be blessed; he will see his grandchildren, and Peace
upon Israel. </span></span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Hallowed
be your :name!</span></i></font></b></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt">There
is clearly an advance in age, for here we go beyond children to
children’s children; and also a progress in happiness, for children
which in the last Psalm were arrows are here olive plants, and
instead of speaking “with the enemies in the gate,” we close with
“peace upon Israel.” Thus we rise step by step and sing as we
ascend.</font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">128:1
</span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>Blessed
is every one that fears the Lord. </b></span></i></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">A
man’s heart will be seen in his walk, and the blessing will come
where heart and walk are both with God. Note that the First Psalm
links the benediction with the walk in a negative way, “Blessed is
the man that walks </span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">not</span></i></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">,”
etc.; but here we find it in connection with the positive form of our
conversation. To enjoy the Divine blessing, we must be active, and
walk; we must be methodical, and walk in certain ways; and we must be
godly, and walk in the Lord’s way. God’s way are blessed
ways; they were cast up by the Blessed One; they were trodden by Him
in Whom we are blessed; they are frequented by the blessed; they are
provided with means of blessing; they are paved with present
blessings, and they lead to eternal blessedness: who would not desire
to walk in them?</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">128:3.
</span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>Thy
wife. </b></span></i></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">To
reach the full of earthly felicity a man must not be alone. A
helpmeet was needed in Paradise, and assuredly she is not less
necessary out of it. He that finds a wife finds a good thing. It is
not every man that fears the Lord who has a wife; but if he has, she
shall share in his blessedness and increase it. </span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>By
the sides of your house. She keeps at </b></span></i></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">home,
and so keeps the house: It is her husband’s house, and she is her
husband’s; as the text puts it - “thy wife,” and “thy house”;
but by her lov</span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">i</span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">ng
care, her husband is made so happy </span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">t</span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">hat
he is glad to own her as an equal proprietor with himself, for he is
hers, and the house is hers, too. </span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>Your
children like olive plants round about your table. </b></span></i></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">Our
children gather around our table to be fed, and this involves
expenses: how much better is this than to see them pining upon beds
of sickness, unable to come for their meals! It may help us to value
the privileges of our home if we consider where we should be if they
were withdrawn. What if the dear partner of our life were removed
from the sides of our house to the recesses of the sepulcher? What is
the trouble of children compared with the sorrow of their loss?
Think, dear father, what would be your grief if you had to cry with
Job, “OH, that I were as in months past, as in the days when God
preserved me; when my children were about me.”</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">128:6.
</span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>Yes,
you shall see your children’s children. </b></span></i></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">This
is a great pleasure. Men live their young lives over again in their
grandchildren. Does not Solomon say that “children’s children are
the crown of old men”? So they are. The good man is glad that a
pious stock is likely to be continued; he rejoices in the belief that
other homes as happy as his own will be </span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">b</span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">uilt
up wherein altars to the glory of God shall smoke with the morning
and evening sacrifice. This promise implies long life and that life
rendered happy by its being continued in our offspring. It is one
token of the immortality of man that he derives joy from extending
his life in the lives of his descendants. </span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>(From
“The Treasury of David” by C.H. Spurgeon, abridged by D.O.
Fuller)</b></span></font></font></p>
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