Understanding our Times XVII

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A Word to Youth
Eccl 11.9-10 12.1
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Rejoice in the Time of Your Youth
Eccl 11.9
Eccl 11.9

• Rejoice, young man, during your childhood, and
  let your heart be pleasant during the days of
  young manhood. And follow the impulses of your
  heart and the desires of your eyes.

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Rejoice in the Time of Your Youth
Eccl 11.9

• Let your heart be pleasant
• Stay happy, positive, rejoiceful
• Follow the impulses of your heart and the
  desires of your eyes
• Pursue your dreams
• Keep a sense of idealism

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Remove Vexation From Your Heart and Pain From
Your Body
Eccl 11.10
Eccl 11.10
So, remove vexation from your heart and put away
pain from your body, because childhood and the
prime of life are fleeting.
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Remove Vexation From Your Heart and Pain From
Your Body
Eccl 11.10

• Remove vexation from your heart
• Emotional vexation
• Anger, rebellion, jealousy, bitterness, anxiety
• Results in anorexia/bulimia depression drug and
  alcohol use sexual immorality suicide.

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Remove Vexation From Your Heart and Pain From
Your Body
Eccl 11.10

• Remove vexation from your heart
• Emotional vexation
• Spiritual vexation
• From guilt

Mt 11.28-30
Come to me, all who are weary and heavy laden,
and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you
and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in
heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For
My yoke is easy and my load is light
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Remove Vexation From Your Heart and Pain From
Your Body
Eccl 11.10

• Remove vexation from your heart
• Emotional vexation
• Spiritual vexation
• Put away pain from your body
• Physical suffering
• E.g. From drinking, drugs, promiscuous/premarital
  sex, driving foolishly, etc.
• Moral evil of such things

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Remove Vexation From Your Heart and Pain From
Your Body
Eccl 11.10

• Remove vexation from your heart
• Put away pain from your body
• Resolve now to protect your purity at all costs
• Sex is for marriage only Heb 13.4

Heb 13.4
Marriage is to be held in honor among all, and
the marriage bed is to be undefiled for
fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
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Remove Vexation From Your Heart and Pain From
Your Body
Eccl 11.10

• Remove vexation from your heart
• Put away pain from your body
• Resolve now to protect your purity at all costs

1 Cor 6.18-20
Flee (sexual) immorality. Every other sin that a
man commits is outside the body, but the
(sexually) immoral man sins against his own body.
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of
the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from
God, and that you are not your own? For you have
been bought with a price therefore glorify God
in your body.
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Remove Vexation From Your Heart and Pain From
Your Body
Eccl 11.10

• Remove vexation from your heart
• Put away pain from your body
• Resolve now to protect your purity at all costs

2 Tim 2.22
Now flee from youthful lusts and pursue
righteousness, faith, love and peace, with those
who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
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Remember Your Creator and Reflect on Your Future
Eccl 11.9c 12.1-7

• Remember that your Creator will call you to
  judgment 11.9c

Eccl 11.9
Rejoice, young man, during your childhood, and
let your heart be pleasant during the days of
young manhood. And follow the impulses of your
heart and the desires of your eyes. Yet know that
God will bring you to judgment for all these
things
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Remember Your Creator and Reflect on Your Future
Eccl 11.9c 12.1-7

• Remember that your Creator will call you to
  judgment 11.9c
• Devote yourselves to serving God now, reflecting
  on the days ahead 12.1f

Eccl 12.1
Remember also your Creator in the days of your
youth, before the evil days come and the years
draw near when you will say, I have no delight
in them
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Remember Your Creator and Reflect on Your Future
Eccl 11.9c 12.1-7

• Remember that your Creator will call you to
  judgment 11.9c
• Devote yourselves to serving God now, reflecting
  on the days ahead 12.1f
• What can you do in the kingdom?
• Encourage others by your presence and active
  participation in the church

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Remember Your Creator and Reflect on Your Future
Eccl 11.9c 12.1-7

• Remember that your Creator will call you to
  judgment 11.9c
• Devote yourselves to serving God now, reflecting
  on the days ahead 12.1f
• What can you do in the kingdom?
• Encourage one another by being involved together
  with the youth in church

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Remember Your Creator and Reflect on Your Future
Eccl 11.9c 12.1-7

• Remember that your Creator will call you to
  judgment 11.9c
• Devote yourselves to serving God now, reflecting
  on the days ahead 12.1f
• What can you do in the kingdom?
• Get involved in service and mission work

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Remember Your Creator and Reflect on Your Future
Eccl 11.9c 12.1-7

• Remember that your Creator will call you to
  judgment 11.9c
• Devote yourselves to serving God now, reflecting
  on the days ahead 12.1f
• What can you do in the kingdom?
• Invite your friends to church and talk to them
  about the gospel

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Remember Your Creator and Reflect on Your Future
Eccl 11.9c 12.1-7

• Remember that your Creator will call you to
  judgment 11.9c
• Devote yourselves to serving God now, reflecting
  on the days ahead 12.1f
• What can you do in the kingdom?
• Help out at church building cleaning, bulletin,
  Lords supper prep., etc.

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Remember Your Creator and Reflect on Your Future
Eccl 11.9c 12.1-7

• Remember that your Creator will call you to
  judgment 11.9c
• Devote yourselves to serving God now, reflecting
  on the days ahead 12.1f
• What can you do in the kingdom?
• Begin preparing for a life of service
• Gaining some Biblical knowledge
• Establish the foundation for your lifes
  decisions (college, career, marriage, etc.)

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Remember Your Creator and Reflect on Your Future
Eccl 11.9c 12.1-7

• Remember that your Creator will call you to
  judgment 11.9c
• Devote yourselves to serving God now, reflecting
  on the days ahead 12.1f
• What can you do in the kingdom?
• Choose your friends wisely
• 1 Cor 1533 -- Do not be deceived Bad company
  corrupts good morals."

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Remember Your Creator and Reflect on Your Future
Eccl 11.9c 12.1-7

• Remember that your Creator will call you to
  judgment 11.9c
• Devote yourselves to serving God now, reflecting
  on the days ahead 12.1f
• What can you do in the kingdom?
• Be an example to your elders 1 Tim 4.12

1 Tim 4.12
Let no one look down on your youthfulness, but
rather in speech, conduct, love, faith and
purity, show yourself an example of those who
believe.
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Remember Your Creator and Reflect on Your Future
Eccl 11.9c 12.1-7

• Remember that your Creator will call you to
  judgment 11.9c
• Devote yourselves to serving God now, reflecting
  on the days ahead 12.1f
• What can you do in the kingdom?
• Be an example to your elders 1 Tim 4.12
• Jesus himself did the same Lk 2.41-52

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Rejoice in the Time of Your Youth
Remove Vexation From Your Heart and Pain From
Your Body
Remember Your Creator and Reflect on Your Future
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Eccl 12.13-14
The conclusion, when all has been heard, is
fear God and keep His commandments, because this
applies to is the whole of every person. For
God will bring every act to judgment, everything
which is hidden, whether it is good or evil"