Ecclesiastes 3 — Keith Daniel

Life's Brief Moment and Ecclesiastes 3

Ecclesiastes chapter 3 takes us on a staggering journey of life and its critical moments. Its critical moments. In verse 1 we read, Over the years I've been approached by many people to write books. And I've always replied, where does a preacher like myself ever find a moment that I could write a book with all my preparation, my traveling, and my preaching.

That I could stop life literally and write a book that's worthwhile anyway. But I've since occasionally thought that if I ever did write a book, that if I ever stopped life and wrote a book, it would be titled this moment.

This moment called life. This moment called life. And my sermon tonight is basically the foundation or outline of what I may eventually publish as a book. The title the title of my sermon therefore is this moment, this moment, this moment called life.

The Brevity of Human Life

There is a time to be born, verse 2 says, and a time to die. Now in every gravestone and cemeteries across the world you find a block. On the gravestone there's seldom anything more written or recorded of that person's entire life apart from his name, his date of birth, and the date of his death.

That's all that's recorded of an entire life after his generation. At the outset now God's Word solemnly warns us of the brevity of life, the brevity of life. James asks this question in chapter 4 verse 13 of his book, what is your life?

What is your life? And then he answers, it is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time, a little time, and then vanishes away, vanishes away. That's all we are given. Don't dare doubt this now, that's all we've got, a little time, a little time to live on this earth.

In all eternity man that is born of a woman is of few days. Job warns in chapter 14 verse 1, when a few years have come, it's finished, or passed, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return. Job 16 verse 22, for man, as for man his days are as gross as the flower of the field, and so he flourishes.

Then the wind, the wind passeth over it, the wind passeth over it, and it is gone. The wind passeth over it, over our lives, involves a lot of things. You live and you love every hour. The future, the future seems so bright and so calm, then soon like that sad wilted flower, the world seems to lose all its charm, and soon it's past, flown away, and all that's left are tears and strife.

You're alone at the end of day, and you wonder what became of life. That's a staggering and heart-searching poem. No matter, no matter who you are, in one fleeting moment, friend, in one fleeting moment, you will face death.

Don't doubt that now. One fleeting moment. In Numbers 14 verse 35, we read that Joshua was young and brave, but a few pages later in the sacred book, in Joshua 13 verse 10, we read that the Lord said unto him, thou art old and stricken in years.

It's a few pages, Joshua 13 verse 1, thou art old, God said. We read in 1 Samuel 17 42, that David was but a youth, this is a moment of youth, then suddenly in 1 Kings 2 verse 2, he cries, I go the way of all the earth, I go the way of all the earth, I'm dying.

It's a moment, my age, my age has departed. Isaiah 38 verse 12, that is my life is over, my lifespan is gone, the Hebrew says, my age has departed. When I was a boy, five years of age, I went to school to grade one, we called it class one in those days, and the little boy sitting next to me, age five, his name was Errol, Errol Keane.

We befriended each other immediately, that moment, sitting in the same little desk, there was two sitting in one desk, and we became close friends, for a few years at least, and then suddenly, life and circumstances made us separate.

65 years later, as I fostered this, I came across him again, I was staggered, stunned, as I looked at him, I had no idea what that little face was now going to be, and he was just as stunned as he looked at me, I could see that, as a childhood friend, my first friend at school, my first day at school, and now 65 years later, we were both old, but it was like a moment, that's all, one moment, and we all will face this rude awakening, don't doubt that in life, you see the greatest shock most people will ever face in life is how short it is, when you think it's starting, when you think it's just beginning, it's over, don't doubt that now, it's over, in Judges 2 verse 10, we read that there arose another generation after them, how swiftly that happens for all of us, this generation passes, another generation rises up, as swift as what we pass, it's like the sea, if you sit in the seesaw, and you look at the waves, they rise up in full strength and staggering power, they surge with such strength and power, but there's immediately another wave behind them, before this wave can spread itself out in the shores of time, it's covered, totally wiped away, forgotten, another generation, it happens to all of us, before that wave finishes its course, it's suddenly aware, there's another generation taking over, we're about to be, how swiftly that happens in this world, and so my first point here tonight is, the man that is born of a woman is of few days, be careful here, what God says to us, it's a few days, therefore this book solemnly warns us, whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with all thy might, for there is no work, no device, no knowledge, no wisdom in the grave, whither thou goest, Ecclesiastes 9 verse 10 says, the dead know nothing, the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward, Ephesians Ecclesiastes 9 verse 5 says, life's opportunities cease, no time is given to accomplish anything more, in just one moment, oh Ephesians 5 verse 6 warns, redeem the time, don't waste life, be careful, because that's possible, when you think you've still got time, you find you don't, perhaps there's a need here, for you tonight, to reassess your whole life, your choices, your values, your priorities, your directions, your goals, perhaps there's a great need for you to sit there right now, and make startling choices, radical choices, and what God's word is awakening you to, with this fearful verse that we are considering of Job 14 verse 1, it doesn't stop there, it goes on, man that is born of a woman is of few days, yes, and full of troubles, God says, full of troubles, he cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down, that's how fast, he flees as a shadow, and continues not, that is born of a woman, man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward, that's how much you're gonna face,.

Job 5 verse 7 says, you're born unto trouble, Job and all his troubles, oh Job cried, my days are spent swifter than a weaver's shuttle, that's how fast shuttle when you weave, and they are spent without hope,.

Job at which point of his life cried, and many of us will too, in Job 7 verse 6, and many of our troubles, we sorrowfully face in life, are tragically self-inflicted, perhaps through the folly of sin, be sure your sin will find you out, Numbers 32 verse 23 says, now if you research that verse, you will find, be sure your sin will find you out, literally actually is telling us, will affect you, will affect your life, adversely, don't doubt this, Captain Dobby, a great preacher in our mission, spoke of the aftermath, the aftermath of sin's ramifications, doesn't just stop at your sin, perhaps self-inflicted through the folly of sin in your life, these troubles that you face, perhaps full of troubles through, full of troubles through the wrong choice you made of a wife, you see, that it's unbearable God says, an odious woman, hateful woman, horrible word, Proverbs 30 verse 21, when she is married, it's unbearable God says, if she gets married, it's unbearable, and also, he that troubleth his own house, God speaks of men that do that, Proverbs 11 verse 29, it's men that just give nothing but sorrows, the contentions of a wife, or such a wife as God speaks here, are like a continual dropping, that is an unending, relentless irritation and grief, that's if you have made the wrong choice of wife, Proverbs 19 verse 13 says, in Genesis 2 verse 18, the Lord God said, it's not good, the man should be alone, a man should marry, the Bible tells us clearly, but only in the Lord, 1 Corinthians 7 verse 3 says, why would he say that, only in the Lord, Paul says, if it's the Lord's will and you're sure of it, God's choice, but be ye not unequally yoked, joined with unbelievers, God warns, 2 Corinthians 6 verse 14, be careful and pray for her, favour, or charm literally, is deceitful, and beauty, if that's what you're attracted to, beauty is vain, it's momentarily given, it's brief, it's soon gone, but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised,.

The Consequences of Sin in Family and Children

Proverbs 31 verse 3 says, her children arise up and call her, blessed, her husband also, and he prays with her, staggering words, but something you have to think about, or weave about, perhaps it's full of troubles, through our children, our children,.

Psalm 113 verse 9 speaks of a joyful mother of children, a joyful mother of children, but also of the shame and the grief of a mother of wicked children, and that's strewn through the Bible,. Psalm 58 verse 3, the wicked are estranged, separated from the womb, that's a fearful verse, uncomprehendable, but God says it, they go astray as soon as they are born, God says, it's beyond comprehension what God says, you see there's a generation that curses their father,.

Proverbs 30 verse 11 says, and doth not bless their mother, God warns us in such children, he that wastes, that mistreats or disrespects his father, and chases away his mother, that rejects his mother's instruction or influence for good, is a son that causes shame, and bringeth reproach,.

Proverbs 19 verse 26 warns, a foolish son, a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother,. Proverbs 10 verse 1 says, a foolish son is the calamity of his father, literally the ruination of his father,.

Proverbs 19 verse 13, embrace yourself, embrace yourself as the baby you're carrying in your arms, could suddenly in one brief moment be a youth, and you will find, as everyone does, that every child is born with a sinful nature, God says, as a result of the fall, the tragic result of the fall,.

Psalm 51 verse 5, I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me, I was born with a sinful nature, this is really what it's saying, it's actually what it's saying, I was once sitting at a table with a whole lot of preachers in a convention in the dining hall, and most of the people left the dining hall, but we sat there, we were talking about the godliest man we all had ever known, or were aware of in our lives, a man called Guru McFarlane, he most certainly was the godliest man I ever met, and most of those preachers agreed, and one of them said, have you noticed that he has no wrinkles, how does a man his age have no wrinkles, one of the men said, surely because of his walk with God, and then there was a voice at the end of the table of a little old lady, who was listening to us, overhearing our conversation, and she looked at us and said, no, it's surely because he didn't have any children, and a tear came down her face, made us all in dead silence just walk away from the dining hall, what does the Bible say about youth, about a youth, it firstly warns us of the brevity of youth, the glory of young men is their strength, Proverbs 20 verse 29 says, their strength, but God's word warns that bodily exercises profiteth little, profiteth little, 1 Timothy 6 verse 6, but godliness, godliness is profitable unto all things, having a promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come, 1 Timothy 4 verse 8, you see the glory of young men is their strength, Proverbs 20 verse 29, but in the same verse, it suddenly says, the beauty of old men, is gray hair, the gray hair, one moment, that moment called life, the youth, the strength is gone, you have gray hair, in one moment, don't doubt it, this is what God's saying, that the crown of his glory, Proverbs 16 verse 31, will be found in the way of righteousness, speaking of the old man, if he was righteous, it's like a crown of the glory of his life, in Ecclesiastes 11 verse 9, God warns wayward and sinful youth, may certainly rejoice, O young man in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, in the sight of thine eyes, but know thou, that for all these things, God will bring thee into judgment, a warning to wayward youth, it is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth, if he learns submission to God, contextually, Lamentations 3 verse 27 says, therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh, for childhood and youth are vanity, vanity, terribly brief, just brief moments,.

Ecclesiastes 11 verse 10 says,. Ecclesiastes 12 verse 1, remember now thy creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come, while the evil days come, not in the years drawn nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them, I had no pleasure in remembering the folly and the foolishness of my choices, affected my life decrementally like this, oh before the evil days come, and they will, and you look back in devastation, you will, young man, oh while you're young, with your soul, into the same appearance of the wicked son or daughter, we can only hope, and agonize daily in prayer, and long for even a glimpse of hope, of their turning, before they die, in tragic consequences, but be careful to ask God for grace, to show total and swift compassion, as the father of the prodigal, be very careful in prayerful here, they may give up on themselves forever, if you don't appearance, take care now, while I do not advocate Rome, or its perverted tragic heretical doctrines, I dare to quote someone, who's known throughout the world as Mother Teresa, had a lot of compassion, she said these shattering words, loneliness, and the feeling of being unwanted, is the most terrible, terrible poverty, loneliness, and the feeling of being unwanted, by parents, is the most terrible poverty, terrible, the desire to be forgiven, all wrongs, always comes in the tormented mind, of a wayward child, don't deny him, if he tries, don't give up, on your wayward child, fathers and sons, are the two most important figures in his life, Deuteronomy 32 verse 39 says, I kill, but I also make a life, I wound, but I heal, God says, that's God's way, that's why, he creates circumstances to wound our lives, like Paul says, I spoke in that way, that made you sorrow and shame, but I did it, to make you turn, to make a wicked man turn, to repentance, is a godly sorrow, worketh repentance to salvation, those who sorrow to repentance, verse 9 says, to salvation, not to be repented of, but this comes as a result of the harshness of Paul, against the person, the longing, Hosea 6 verse 1, God has torn, but he will heal, he is smitten, but he will bind up, we also have to have that heart, to the wayward child also, as perhaps listening tonight, don't give up on yourself, no matter how far you've gone, and no matter how hopeless life may be, don't give up on yourself, that I, before I close this point, would just carefully warn, those children, that there are lost opportunities, that can never be grained, if you don't grab them, before it's too late, lost opportunities, Exodus 20 verse 12 says, honor thy father and mother, don't leave it too late now, that it may be well with thee, God says, they must live long on the earth, but I also would give this solemn warning, to every wayward child, he that pursueth evil, that goes off, no matter what God or man does to stop him, he that pursueth evil, pursueth it, to his own death, Proverbs 11 verse 19 says, don't doubt this, the wages of sin is death, Romans 6 verse 23, for the gift of God, held up to you tonight, is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord, oh you need to seek salvation, you need to seek forgiveness, from God and then of man, we'll give you the grace, to find forgiveness, because of the way you ask, if you're saved, but now let us go back a little, just to consider what the sacred book warns, us about marriage, to everything there's a season, Ecclesiastes 3 says, time to every purpose under heaven, verse 5 a time to embrace, verse 6 a time to get, verse 6 goes on to say, the time to keep, you've got to be careful there, time to keep, that will cost in marriage, if you're willing, he that findeth a wife, findeth a good thing, Proverbs 18 verse 22 says, but be careful, he that findeth a God-fearing wife, a woman that feareth the Lord, Proverbs 31 verse 30, God-fearing wife, Proverbs 31 verse 10, who can find such a virtuous woman, the heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, she will do him good and not evil, all the days of his life, strength, honor are her clothing, her mouth is opened only with wisdom, her tongue is the law of kindness, she looketh well after the ways of her household, and her children call her blessed, her husband also, at the end of these words, we've risen to a ready favor, that's charm is deceitful and beauty is vain, that's going to go in one moment sir, lady, but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised, a woman that fears, we need to seek God for a God-fearing wife, to grasp the shame and sorrow and tragedy of the exact opposite of this woman God speaking about, one needs to read the same chapter and just say the opposite words, she'll do him evil, praise her, put the exact opposite words, he that findeth a wife is a God-fearing wife, and then to remain faithful and be all God commands us to be in marriage, marriage is honorable, God says, and the bed undefiled in God's eyes, but whoremongers and adulterers, God will judge, don't doubt this now, or God's lying if he doesn't,.

Marriage, Fidelity, and Forgiveness

Hebrews 13 verse 4 warns, God carefully warns us as husbands, be thou ravished, always with her her love,. Proverbs 5 verse 19, why would thou be ravished with a strange woman, God asks, in Proverbs 5 verse 20, who shall commit adultery with a woman lacketh understanding, he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul,.

Proverbs 6 verse 32, therefore take heed to your spirit, let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth,. Malachi chapter 2 verse 15 warns, let's go deeper into God's word concerning marriage now, husbands love your wives, Ephesians 5 verse 25 says, love your wives and be not bitter against them,.

Colossians 3 verse 19, be careful here now, there's a time, a brief time given to love, don't lose it, there's a brief time given to love, Ecclesiastes 3 verse 8 says, and love suffereth long and is kind,.

1 Corinthians 13 tells us, if you are willing to accommodate each other's imperfections and flaws, which he also has to survive the view, 1 Peter 3 verse 1, has unto the weak a vessel, if you're willing to accommodate, forgive, for every one of us have flaws, every one of us has imperfections, you won't find a woman, you won't find a man, you know, you have to remember, here is the weak a vessel husband, you see there's a time to embrace, verse 5 of Ecclesiastes 3 says, there's a time to get the success, but there's also a time to keep the success at the end, there's a time to keep what you get, what you embrace in marriage, there are many times in marriage, there's a time to keep silence, verse 7, that's how you keep, and it's not easy, God asks us, in this book, the time of peace, making peace, don't lose it, the time to heal, verse 8, the time to build up, verse 3, continues, let not the sun go down upon your wrath, God says, forgiving one another, that's even in marriage, be ye angry, I suppose every one of us have moments like that, but don't let it become something that destroys your life in marriage, sin not, let not the sun go down upon your wrath, that's a staggering commandment, Ephesians 4, verse 26 says, the greatest danger with prolonged notes of anger and unwillingness to seek God for grace to forgive, is that they come to point that anger will become irreparable in your heart and mind, the ability to obey God's command to forgive will be lost, this tragically would be a time to lose, Ecclesiastes 3, verse 6, where hatred could set in, verse 8, the hope of healing will be broken, lost, will you kill, verse 3 says, what could have been healed, perhaps you need right now to pray, while there's still a brief moment left, forgive me Lord, that I have shown such impatience with such unforgiving heart, such anger and yet unforgiveness, but now has asked of me to show love, love that covereth the multitude of sins, I suppose if it can't work in the home, how can it work anywhere, O husbands, love your wives, live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest, God says, because you could find your lost opportunity to love, to forgive, you will realize that life's moment to even love your wife is so brief, the lost opportunity to forgive, to take time, to heal, to do anything, before closing this point, before closing this point, I would make this solemn statement, man, man is made with a need to love, don't doubt this, which if it is not grasped, nurtured and protected and through food will fill him with a tragic void, gaping flaw, gap and probably, almost certainly driving to the wrong desires, man is made with a need to love and to be loved, don't forget that, in case you think you could live without it, or better off without it, the attempt to love, our beloved times will come, that we all will face, where we despair of life itself, God's word is full of this, 2 Corinthians 1 verse 8, Paul wrote that in Asia, while they were in Asia, we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life, if Paul could despair of life in circumstances, we can, Jonah prayed in despair, take I beseech thee my life O God from me, in chapter 4 verse 3, it's better for me to die than to live, he cried, Jonah was a godly man, you may be too, 1 Kings 19 verse 4 Elijah, we read that Elijah requested for himself that he might die, he was a godly man, are you more godly than him, that can't happen to you, these sorrowful times, these sorrowful times may shorten our life span, drastically, drastically, David cried out, my days are like a shadow that declineth and I'm withered, I'm my bones wax old, through my roaring all the day, through my despairing, Psalm 32 verse 3, that happened to a man after God's own heart, do you think it was his history, no, it's for you and me to know, it could happen to us, in this moment called life, but it's in these times that we become conscious, very conscious, we are the prisoners of the earth, Lamentations 3 verse 34, the prisoners of the earth which long for death but it cometh not, Job 3 verse 21, I once stood with a very godly man called Lex Buchanan, a German man, in a town close to Petersburg, a place called Cateridge, he was a farmer and we were speaking about all the injustices that come upon Christians and I particularly began to pour out my heart about all the cruel injustices and wrongs thrown at me and I was really shaken by myself pouring out my whole complaint and then I said these words, I'm so tired sir, I would be glad if God just took me away from all this, took me to heaven right now, and he looked at me for a while with a compassionate tear coming down his own face and then he said to me these words, no Keith, that would be the easy way out, that would be the easy way out, that's not God's will in the school of God, it's these things that will make you, if you stay close to God, come out more like Christ, more refined, more of all God wants and intends you to be, don't take the easy way out, it's also in these times, such times that we become aware that God knoweth our frame, Psalm 103 verse 14, he remembered that we are dust, God doesn't just look with no interest, it may be that he will cry to you as he does, I will restore to you the years that the locusts have eaten, Joel 2 verse 25, that we still seek him with all of our hearts through all these times, and endeavor to walk with him wholeheartedly to the end of our lives, with all of our souls, you see we read in Psalm 91, there's one he that dwelleth in the secret place that lives to be alone with God, that lives to abide in him, that walk in the spirit that they fulfill at the lust of the flesh, for whosoever abideth in him shall withdraw, or he that dwelleth that has this continual communing with God, verse 14 says, because he hath set his love upon me, long life will I satisfy him, it's something of promises here, but there's conditions attached, in the end we take courage, cry thy gentleness has made me great O God, Psalm 18 verse 35, that has caused me to rise up and survive, my gentleness of dealings with me, but the Bible warns us that many that are first shall be last, and the last shall be first, Matthew 19 verse 30, my father was 51 years of age when he gave his life to Christ, and for nine years he lived, he turned so many people to Christ, that one of the greatest preachers in our country, at that time the most famous preacher in our country, said these words of my father, I don't know of a man, apart from this man, every step he takes seems to influence people to come to Christ, it would seem he's won more souls to God than most preachers who spend a lifetime, and all he's done is be saved a few years, oh yes he read through the Bible 68 times in those nine years, he led multitudes to Christ across the whole land, you see other people who were saved when they were young, never led anybody to Christ, never read through the Bible once, I mean how old you are, when you come to Christ you must cry, while I have life, I give it to thee Lord, what's left of life, take it for thyself, I set myself to pursue thy world, to live for thee with my whole heart, but have my life, yes, God said to Joshua thou art old, and stricken in years, that happens in a moment, but then he said these words, after he said those words, there remaineth yet very much land to be possessed Joshua, even if you're old, stricken, Joshua 13 verse 1, does God not say that to many of us tonight, to many of us, while there's life, there's reason to be alive, don't doubt that, on the swift Alps, Europe is a famous thing that many people have referred to in sermons, but I do too, tonight, a man died as he climbed those Alps, and they put his grave right there where he died, and there is a gravestone with a very large plaque that says these words, he died climbing, he died climbing, and I also want to die climbing, I want to die climbing, not giving up, not falling back, but take heed now, at the end of your life, you need to be extremely careful not to become lax spiritually, and that happens to so many, even the greatest preachers on earth, who really did walk with God, and serve God, and are anointed by God, and used by God, we need to take heed that toward the end of life, we don't become lax spiritually, we need to be careful, not to be shot down by Satan at the finishing line, just before you reach that finishing line, that can happen, as it has happened to most of the world's great preachers in my lifetime, to be shot down, shot down by Satan, Paul writes, I keep under my body, and bring it into subjectiveness, that by any means, when I preach to others, I myself should be a cast away, that could happen, it has happened, it is happening, will you be next, be careful, 1 Corinthians 9 verse 27 says, be careful here, Paul cried, I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith, what a lovely thing to end life with, 2 Timothy 4 verse 7, but as we approach the end of the road, we face sudden frailty, the Bible speaks of it, even Paul, the frailty of old age, you see, if by reason of strength, your life goes beyond what God says is the lifespan normally, the strength lays labor and sorrow, Psalm 90 verse 10, it is that my wife's mother and father were farmers, and on the farm, I used to go for walks, and they had these big dogs, one of them, Jackie, this dog was just incredible, it showed off with its strength, and it would leap like a deer, only you couldn't believe it, the way it just shot up, and you could see it was showing off, leap into the field, and catch rabbits, it was quite incredible, any movement, and with a short while, I would go for a walk, when we went back to the farm, and suddenly I saw, he couldn't leap anymore, he wanted to walk with me, he couldn't jump, just slip around, and hardly, and he couldn't walk again, that's the strange thing here, the frailty of old age hits us, no matter what strength you have, in one moment, Psalm 90 verse 10, the days of our years are three score years and 10, that's 70 years, and if by reason of strength, the day before score years, if you go on beyond that, another 10 years or so, it is their strength, labor, and sorrow, struggle, but soon it will be cut off, and we will fly away, Psalm 90 verse 12, so teach us to number our days, O God, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom, Psalm 39 verse 4, O make me to know my end, O God, the measure of my days, that I may know how frail I am, then we will begin to let this world go, we all will, the things that we held on to, gathered, the time to get, there's a time to keep, but there's a time to cast away, Ecclesiastes 3 verse 6 says, we all reach that moment, I don't want to get anything more, materialism, for man also knoweth not his time, that's the time of his death, the time to die, as the fishes that are taken, in an evil net, that's an unsuspected net, as the birds that are caught in the snare, that's an unsuspected trap, so are the sons of men snared, trapped, caught, in an unexpected, an evil time, an unexpected time, when it falls suddenly upon them,.

Death, Judgment, and the Last Enemy

Ecclesiastes 9 verse 12 says, we must face the last enemy, this book says, which is death, the last enemy, God calls it an enemy, it's not easy to die, for most people, for most Christians, I watched them, great godly people, 1 Corinthians 15 verse 26, we all will face this enemy God says, the last enemy, his death,.

Psalm 39 29 asks, what man is he that liveth, he shall not see death, shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave, there is no man that hath power over his spirit, neither hath he power in the day of his death,.

Ecclesiastes 8 verse 8 says, thou shalt return to the ground, for out of this was thou taken, for dust thou art, unto dust shalt thou return,. Genesis 3 verse 19 says, all turn to dust again,. Ecclesiastes 3 verse 20 says, then man goeth to his long home, that's his eternal home, the Hebrew says, man goeth to his long home,.

Ecclesiastes 12 verse 5, then shall the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return unto God, who gave it, you see, a man's soul will never ever die, it's appointed unto men once to die, that's the physical, but after this, the judgment, there's an eternal soul, it will return to God, and your body is left behind and become dust again, it's appointed unto men once to die, but after this, don't doubt this, the judgment,.

Hebrews 9 verse 27, you see, Christ says he will return in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, who shall be punished with everlasting destruction,.

2 Thessalonians 1 verse 8, oh God lied, it's a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God,. Hebrews 10 verse 31 says, if you have not prepared yourself to meet with God,. Amos 4 verse 12 tries, to everything there's a season, there's a time to be born, there's a time to die, but there's one more thing, that's the most important thing of the whole of life, that brief life, there's a time to be born again, you see, except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of heaven, he will never go to heaven,.

Being Born Again Through Faith in Christ

John 3 verse 3 says, how can a man be born when he's old, can he go into his mother's womb a second time, be born again, no, that which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the spirit is spirit, when you're born, you're not born a child of God, none of you, just a child of your father and mother, but not a child, that has to happen of your own intellect, your own free will, and your faith, to be born again, to become God's child, where God, the Holy Ghost, gives birth through your faith, and he's reaching out to you with the promises, and by grace through faith, in Christ's death, you see, the wages of sinners death, don't doubt this, but the gift of God, I will redeem, God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave,.

Psalm 49 verse 15, I will ransom them from the power of the grave, I will redeem them from death,. Hosea 13 verse 14 says, for as much as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things of silver and gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, you see, the blood of Christ, 1 Peter 1 verse 18, verse 19, the blood of Christ, Jesus Christ, God's son cleanses us from all sin, 1 John 1 verse 7, if we put our faith in his death, in his blood, he justified freely by through faith in his blood,.