August 15, 2021

What to Do With What You Don’t Know

Dave Hopping – Ecclesiastes 11:1-6

Sermon Quotes

Then I saw there is more gain in wisdom than in folly, as there is more gain in light than in darkness.
-Ecclesiastes 2:13

Again I saw that under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to those with knowledge, but time and chance happen to them all.
-Ecclesiastes 9:11

Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days.
Give a portion to seven, or even to eight, for you know not what disaster may happen on earth.
If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth, and if a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it will lie.
He who observes the wind will not sow, and he who regards the clouds will not reap.
As you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.
In the morning sow your seed, and at evening withhold not your hand, for you do not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good.
-Ecclesiastes 11:1-6

So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
-Matthew 7:12

For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
-Matthew 16:25

And he said to them, “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.” And he told them a parable, saying, “The land of a rich man produced plentifully, and he thought to himself, ‘What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’ And he said, ‘I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.”’ But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’ So is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.
-Luke 12:15-21

“Ecclesiastes-type wisdom, Christlike wisdom, grows believers who spend their life on living in the world rather than on living in the world so as not to die.”
-David Gibson

…whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
-2 Corinthians 9:6

“…the thing that is worse than either success or failure in life is failing to live in the first place. Paralyzed by the fear of failure, we never try anything. Driven by the desire to succeed, we focus on only one thing.”
-David Gibson

Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.
-John 3:7-8

Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.
-2 Timothy 4:2