The Meaning of Life #7: Ecclesiastes Chapter 5: Joy and the Fear of God Introduction: About five years ago we started a series on the book of Ecclesiastes, written by Solomon the wisest man to ever live under the sun. If you haven’t seen or listened to the first 6 installments called “The Meaning of Life,” they are available on our website: getabundantlife.com, our facebook page, and our youtube channel, and in written form on my blog: BucketFullofGrace.blogspot.com. I’ve had a lot of appreciative comments from people about these over the last five years so I would recommend them not because they are things that I have said, but because I really think the Lord spoke to people through our extensive study of the book of Ecclesiastes so far in spite of me getting myself in the way, so without rehashing and reviewing too much of those first 6 sermons, I would remind you that Solomon tried everything possible to find happiness in this life under the sun, women, money, power, great works
Prophecy > Tongues Sermon Notes Open with me to 1st Corinthians 14 and let’s Pray. -The Holy Spirit Teaching Us -Unity of the Brethren -To Pursue Love 1 John 1:5 “God is light: in Him there is no darkness at all.” Of all the light [electromagnetic spectrum] that is whizzing around us. Humans can only see what we call visible light, and this light makes up less than 1% of all the light, actually less than 35 ten thousandths of a % of all the light. We see in a mirror dimly but one day we will see Him face to Face. And so it is with the Holy Spirit Gift of tongues. There is some small percentage of the Glory that God is due that I am actually able to give in the English language. But, when praying, it can become overwhelming and we just don’t have the words to express to God what needs to be said, so the Holy Spirit intercedes for us with groaning beyond our understanding… and this exalts God to His True place, this is 100% of the light or 100% of the Glory that He is due. To