Ecclesiastes 2: 1-8….A modern Billionaire!

More thoughts on the same passage as yesterday! I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy yourself.” But behold, this also was vanity. I said of laughter, “It is mad,” and of pleasure, “What use is it?” I searched with my heart how to cheer my body with wine—myContinue reading “Ecclesiastes 2: 1-8….A modern Billionaire!”

Ecclesiastes 2: 1-8…So let us enjoy ourselves!

1 I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy yourself.” But behold, this also was vanity. 2 I said of laughter, “It is mad,” and of pleasure, “What use is it?” 3 I searched with my heart how to cheer my body with wine—my heart still guiding me withContinue reading “Ecclesiastes 2: 1-8…So let us enjoy ourselves!”

Ecclesiastes 1: 12-18….Don’t just look,…think!

I the Preacher have been king over Israel in Jerusalem. And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven. It is an unhappy business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with. I have seen everything that is done underContinue reading “Ecclesiastes 1: 12-18….Don’t just look,…think!”

Ecclesiastes 1: 1-11…..All Is Vanity

The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever. The sun rises, and the sun goesContinue reading “Ecclesiastes 1: 1-11…..All Is Vanity”

1 Corinthians 6: 12-20….Of food and sex.

12 “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything. 13 “Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality,Continue reading “1 Corinthians 6: 12-20….Of food and sex.”

1 Corinthians 6: 9-11….An unpopular passage!

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you.Continue reading “1 Corinthians 6: 9-11….An unpopular passage!”

1 Corinthians 6: 1-8….Is this practical?

When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints? Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases? Do you not knowContinue reading “1 Corinthians 6: 1-8….Is this practical?”

1 Corinthians 5: 9-13….Remember..

I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people— not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone whoContinue reading “1 Corinthians 5: 9-13….Remember..”

1 Corinthians 5: 1-8…. Sexual Immorality Defiles the Church

1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father’s wife. 2 And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you.3 For though absentContinue reading “1 Corinthians 5: 1-8…. Sexual Immorality Defiles the Church”

1 Corinthians 4: 14-21….Paul a ‘perfect’ model.

I do not write these things to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children. For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel. I urge you, then, be imitators of me. That is why IContinue reading “1 Corinthians 4: 14-21….Paul a ‘perfect’ model.”