Sermon: Proper 24B (OT)
21 October AD 2012 (Pentecost 21)
Title: The Good Life (MP3 Audio)
Summary: No life is full unless Christ fills it. Never mind wealth, fame, power, or any earthly measures, if we trust in and depend on anyone or anything above Jesus, our confidence will be betrayed and our lives will have not real meaning.
The practical advice of this section is predicated on faith in God’s grace and providence. The only truly good life that we can have is the life Jesus gives us in Word and sacrament. When we believe in this greatest gift of God, we can then receive all other gifts from Him with thanksgiving and contentment.
Text: He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity. When goods increase, they increase who eat them, and what advantage has their owner but to see them with his eyes? Sweet is the sleep of a laborer, whether he eats little or much, but the full stomach of the rich will not let him sleep.
There is a grievous evil that I have seen under the sun: riches were kept by their owner to his hurt, and those riches were lost in a bad venture. And he is father of a son, but he has nothing in his hand. As he came from his mother's womb he shall go again, naked as he came, and shall take nothing for his toil that he may carry away in his hand. This also is a grievous evil: just as he came, so shall he go, and what gain is there to him who toils for the wind? Moreover, all his days he eats in darkness in much vexation and sickness and anger.
Behold, what I have seen to be good and fitting is to eat and drink and find enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days of his life that God has given him, for this is his lot. Everyone also to whom God has given wealth and possessions and power to enjoy them, and to accept his lot and rejoice in his toil — this is the gift of God. For he will not much remember the days of his life because God keeps him occupied with joy in his heart. Ecclesiastes 5:10-20
Scripture quoted from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®, © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Audio: Click to hear the MP3 of The Good Life, preached to the saints of God at Faith Lutheran Church, Knob Noster, Missouri.
NB: For some reason, a few people have had problems trying to play the inline audio if Windows Media is their default MP3 player. If this occurs, you can either change to QuickTime or another default browser player, copy and paste the link directly into a selected player, or download it to your computer, where it seems to work regardless of which player. Several folks have suggested VLC Player from VideoLAN.
Other Readings: Psalm 119:9-16; Hebrews 4:1-13 (14-16); Mark 10:23-31
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Title: The Good Life (MP3 Audio)
Summary: No life is full unless Christ fills it. Never mind wealth, fame, power, or any earthly measures, if we trust in and depend on anyone or anything above Jesus, our confidence will be betrayed and our lives will have not real meaning.
The practical advice of this section is predicated on faith in God’s grace and providence. The only truly good life that we can have is the life Jesus gives us in Word and sacrament. When we believe in this greatest gift of God, we can then receive all other gifts from Him with thanksgiving and contentment.
There is a grievous evil that I have seen under the sun: riches were kept by their owner to his hurt, and those riches were lost in a bad venture. And he is father of a son, but he has nothing in his hand. As he came from his mother's womb he shall go again, naked as he came, and shall take nothing for his toil that he may carry away in his hand. This also is a grievous evil: just as he came, so shall he go, and what gain is there to him who toils for the wind? Moreover, all his days he eats in darkness in much vexation and sickness and anger.
Behold, what I have seen to be good and fitting is to eat and drink and find enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days of his life that God has given him, for this is his lot. Everyone also to whom God has given wealth and possessions and power to enjoy them, and to accept his lot and rejoice in his toil — this is the gift of God. For he will not much remember the days of his life because God keeps him occupied with joy in his heart. Ecclesiastes 5:10-20
Scripture quoted from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®, © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Audio: Click to hear the MP3 of The Good Life, preached to the saints of God at Faith Lutheran Church, Knob Noster, Missouri.
NB: For some reason, a few people have had problems trying to play the inline audio if Windows Media is their default MP3 player. If this occurs, you can either change to QuickTime or another default browser player, copy and paste the link directly into a selected player, or download it to your computer, where it seems to work regardless of which player. Several folks have suggested VLC Player from VideoLAN.
Other Readings: Psalm 119:9-16; Hebrews 4:1-13 (14-16); Mark 10:23-31
Tags: Pentecost 21 | 21th Sunday after Pentecost | Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost | Proper 23 | Three Year Lectionary | 3 Year Lectionary | Series B | theology | Jesus | Jesus Christ | Christ | Law and Gospel | Law | Gospel | wealth | money | riches | contentment | Solomon | 21 October 2012 | October 21, 2012 | Lutheranism | Lutheran | Christian | Christianity | Ecclesiastes 5 | sermon | preaching | text | theme | topic | The Good Life | audio | mp3 | Pastor Snyder | Pastor Walter Snyder | Walter Snyder | Ask the Pastor | Happenings
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