Dr. McKellar’s Lesson for August 8, 2021
Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
Ecclesiastes 3:1-15
1. Viewing Life through the Lens of God’s Sovereignty (1-8)
• life “under the loom”
• “everything” in the hands of God
• apportions times, seasons and tasks
• exhaustive sovereignty demonstrated through a series of contrasts
2. Applying the Joy-Fueling Principle of God’s Sovereignty (9-15)
• two questions: What’s the profit? (9) and What’s the purpose? (10)
• two affirmations:
God makes all things beautiful (fitting, appropriate) in His time
God has placed eternity in our hearts (11)
• two observations:
God gives ability, appetite and orientation (12-13)
God’s actions involve permanence, completeness, reverence and repetition (14-15)
3. So What?
• Because God really is in control, acknowledge your accountability to Him and trust Him to order your steps.
• incentive to look “above the sun” and to the Son (1 Cor. 1:26-31)
• Throw your hands up in faith!
• “Think not that God has thee forsaken when sorrows crown your acts of care, nor that He sleeps and cannot waken while evil prospers everywhere. Each recompense will have its hour. God sets the times with truth, with love and power.” (G. Neumark, “If Thou But Suffer God to Guide Thee”)
