Ecc 2:1 GNB

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Ecc 21 (GNB) I decided to enjoy myself and find
out what happiness is
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Ecc 210-11 (GNB)
10 Anything I wanted, I would take. I denied
myself no pleasure. I even found great pleasure
in hard work, a reward for all my labors. 11 But
as I looked at everything I had worked so hard to
accomplish, it was all so meaninglesslike
chasing the wind. There was nothing really
worthwhile anywhere.
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John 1316-17 (ISV)
16 Truly, truly I say to you, a servant is not
greater than his master, and a messenger is not
greater than the one who sent him. 17 If you
understand these things, how blessed you are if
you put them into practice!
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Here's the question...
Do you really believe that?
Do you believe it enough to reorder your life?
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Exo 42-4 (BBE) And the Lord said to him, What
is that in your hand? And he said, A rod. 3 And
he said, Put it down on the earth. And he put it
down on the earth and it became a snake and
Moses went running from it.
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Exo 42-4 (BBE)
4 And the Lord said to Moses, Put out your hand
and take it by the tail and he put out his hand
and took a grip of it and it became a rod in his
hand.
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The staff represented everything Moses was ...
It represented his identity
It represented his influence
It represented his income
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John 142 (GNB) Then he took Simon to Jesus.
Jesus looked at him and said, "Your name is Simon
son of John, but you will be called Cephas."
(This is the same as Peter and means "a rock.")
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Genesis 126-28 (KJV) And God said, Let us make
man in our image, after our likeness and let
them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and
over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle,
and over all the earth, and over every creeping
thing that creepeth upon the earth.
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Gen 126-28
27 So God created man in his own image, in the
image of God created he him male and female
created he them. 28 And God blessed them, and
God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply,
and replenish the earth, and subdue it and have
dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the
fowl of the air, and over every living thing that
moveth upon the earth.
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God Created humanity with a specific purpose in
mind ...
To have dominion over all the earth
With an image different than all of the other
parts of creation
With his own nature (Spirit)
The ability to function like He does (By faith)
God placed man in his presence.
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Genesis 31 (KJV) Now the serpent was more
subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord
God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea,
hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of
the garden?
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Genesis 216-17 (KJV) And the Lord God commanded
the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou
mayest freely eat 17 But of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of
it for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou
shalt surely die.
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John 316 (KJV) For God so loved the world, that
he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever
believeth in him should not perish, but have
everlasting life.
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John 33,6 (GNB) Jesus answered, "I am telling
you the truth no one can see the Kingdom of God
without being born again." 6. A person is born
physically of human parents, but is born
spiritually of the Spirit.
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2 Cor 516-17 (ISV) So then, from now on we do
not think of anyone from a human point of view.
Even if we did think of Christ from a human point
of view, we don't think of him that way any more.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new
creation. Old things have disappeared,
and-look!-all things have become new!
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2 Cor. 1013-16 (ESV) the area of influence
God assigned to us is to reach you. (Now) our
hope is that as your faith increases, our area of
influence may be greatly enlarged, so that we may
preach the gospel in lands beyond you.