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Lesson # Eccl. 3:14-15 Study Material - Eccl. 3:14-15 You must be in fellowship prior to your Bible study, so that the spiritual information you receive can become a source, of blessing to your soul and produce spiritual growth. Eccl. 3:14-15 14 I know that everything God does will remain forever; there is nothing to add to it and there is nothing to take from it, for God has so worked that men should fear Him. 15 That which is has been already, and that which will be has already been, for God seeks what has passed by. God is eternal, and all that He does is eternal as well. God has a sound consistent policy with regard to mankind, to angels, to the universe in its entirety. We can not add to that which God has ordained or decreed. We cannot take away anything from that which God has decreed. We cannot change anything or alter it. The sun rises and sets and over that we have no control. Time moves forever forward and over that we have no control. We have been born and that cannot be undone. One day we will die, and we have no control over that final event in this life of ours. God has given us many examples with which to come to the conclusion that He really exists, and that we have virtually no control over our life on this planet. That is to say, one day we arrived on the scene (when we were born) - no choice there on our part. And one day we will leave - no choice there. Even suicide is not a choice. God can overrule that too, in which case a suicide attempt would fail. Or He can permit it to its successful end of your life. Either way, God is the one who has the sovereign decision regarding all things in this life. Gods policy is sound and unchanging. It has been in place since time began and actually prior to the beginning of time. Gods policy did not suddenly come into being in our current day. Gods policy was not formulated over time as He 'learned' while history progressed. God is omniscient. He knows all of the known. He knows all of the unknown possibilities. But you say, 'What about the flood? Didn't God change His mind about mankind there? Wasn't He sorry to have created man and thus wiped them out?' No. A lot of the information in the Bible is language of accommodation. God is said to have hands, but God is a spirit and He has no hands. This language to represent our security as we are held in His hands. Likewise, God has a policy with respect to mans attitude toward sin and wickedness. He is patient. He allowed mankind to continue for centuries, even with the interactions with angels and the production of giants and unusual offspring by means of angels having sex with human women (which, by the way is the foundation of Greek mythology). So God allowed these super human half-breeds (half man, half angel) to come into existence. God allowed Satan to come very close to destroying a pure human race. You realize that this would have ruined the promise of a savior who was to be genuine human, not part human and part angel. But God was patient the permitted these events to happen allowing mankind many years to change their ways. God even gave man 120 years notice before the judgment was to occur. So people knew what was to happen and when it was to happen - the flood. Yet all ignored God and His warning. That is, all except Noah and his wife, and his three sons and their three wives. So eight people listened to God and eight were delivered. Today we have the same information. Listen to God. Learn to 'fear' Him. And how do we do that? We study His Word. There is no other way, no other means under heaven by which we may be saved or grow up spiritually. Through Gods Word we discover salvation. Through Gods Word we discover spiritual growth. God has given us all that exists in life to recognize that we need Him in our life. That without God in our life, then we are no better off than the animals in the jungle. We are either tough and survive - for a while, or we are weak and get run over. What is new today that hasn't been already? Nothing with respect to the soul. Sure we may have knowledge that is different than existed centuries ago. Then they knew of buggy whips, and today we know of computer chips, but that is simply an orientation to the environment around us - the world. Then we beat the clothes on the rocks down by the creek, today we throw them into the washing machine. So what has changed? Nothing, but the tools at our disposal, and they do not help us to gain access to God. We can say a prayer or think doctrine (or not think it) while down by the creek, or while sitting in the laundry room. The method of salvation has not changed since Adam. He believed just as we believed. He was saved just as we were saved through faith in Jesus Christ (the promised Savior, the Son of God, the descendant of the woman's seed, the one by which the sacrifices taught salvation, death, burial, resurrection and so forth). Adam was not in the dark concerning all of this. What does God seek? That which has already been! That which has already been given freely to all of mankind - Bible doctrine. He seeks your redemption through Christ's work on the Cross, your justification through Christ's work on the Cross. He seeks your spiritual life through the example of Christ's life during His first advent. All of this and lots more. Does God desire anything new? No. There is nothing new under heaven, or under the sun, as Solomon describes it. All that will be, has already been. Mankind in his ignorance and arrogance seeks new philosophies, new awakenings, and he manufactures them out of his own imaginations. If there were a new spiritual truth, wouldn't it come from God? Where did Christianity come from? God! Where did the scriptures come from? God! 'All scripture is God breathed and profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. That the man of God might be mature, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.' 
Now is the time to post a prayer. End Of Lesson Study to show thyself approved (mature) unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing (studying/discerning), the Word of truth. |
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