DEATH: A Lens for Living Life—Fully or Futilely 死亡: 生活的鏡片- 豐富地或無益地

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1 DEATH: A Lens for Living Life—Fully or Futilely 死亡: 生活的鏡片- 豐富地或無益地
Pastor Dale Barrett

2 TIME…FROM GOD’S POINT OF VIEW Lesson Two: Ecclesiates 3:1-15 時間…從上帝的觀點出發 第二課: 傳道書 3:1-15
Lesson One—”Chasing After the Wind or Choosing to Please God” 第一課 – 「捕風還是選擇討上帝喜悅」 Our perspective of death informs and instructs how we live. 我們對死亡的觀點指教我們如何生活.

3 TIME…FROM GOD’S POINT OF VIEW Lesson Two: Ecclesiates 3:1-15 時間…從上帝的觀點出發 第二課: 傳道書 3:1-15
The dark shadows of Ecclesiastes are meant to help us frame our lives in a context other than our own futile self- indulgent pursuits; we are, instead, challenged to choose to live our lives in a way that pleases God and ensures our joy in the midst of life’s “good and bad”. 傳道書的黑影用意在幫助我們不建構自己的生活在無益, 追求自我享受上, 相反地, 它挑戰我們活著要討上帝喜悅, 並且在人生的「好與壞」中獲得喜樂.

4 Why is understanding time so critical? 為何明白時間如此緊要?
Time cannot be replaced. 時間無法被取代. There is a difference between our concept of time and the divine perspective. 我們對時間的觀念和上帝的觀點有差別.

5 Why is understanding time so critical? 為何明白時間如此緊要?
Time challenges us to be good stewards of it as a resource for joy and fulfillment. 時間挑戰我們要做它好的管理者, 它是喜樂與滿足 的資源. Time linked to eternity provides intrinsic motivation for its management. 時間連接上永恆, 提供我們自然的動力去好好管理 它.

6 1. THERE IS A GOD-ORDAINED TIME FOR EVERYTHING, 3:1. 上帝對萬事都有定時, 3:1

7 2. THERE IS A TIME FOR BOTH POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE EVENTS IN OUR LIVES, 3: 我們人生中的正負事件都有它們 的時間, 3:2-8

8 3. GOD HAS MADE EVERYTHING BEAUTIFUL IN HIS TIME, 3:11 上帝使萬事在祂的時間成為美 好, 3:11

9 4. GOD HAS PUT ETERNITY INTO MAN’S HEART, 3:11 上帝將永恆放在人心裡, 3:11

10 5. GOD’S GIFTS TO MAN ARE PROVIDED FOR HIS ENJOYMENT, 3:12,13 上帝給人的恩賜是為了他的享受而 提供的, 3:12,13

11 CONCLUSION 結語 Whatever God does endures forever, 3:14 上帝所做的必存到永遠, 3:14
We cannot reconfigure time, 3:14 我們無法重新配置時間, 3:14 We fear God because He alone controls time and “that which is to be has been already”, 3:15 我們敬畏上帝, 因為只有祂掌控時間, 且「將來的 事早已有了」, 3:15

12 CONCLUSION 結語 The challenge, then, is to align our time with His timing, knowing His ultimate purpose for us will be accomplished for our good. 挑戰: 將我們的時間與祂的時間對齊, 深知祂對我們 最終的目的將會為了我們的益處來完成.