Troy Mills Christian Church

Sunday, August 21, 2022

Bible Reading: Lamentations 3:22-23 “The faithful love of the Lord never ends! His mercies never cease. Great is his faithfulness; his mercies begin afresh each morning.” (NLT)

Text: Ecclesiastes 12:13-14

Ecclesiastes 7:14a

Romans 8:28; Numbers 23:19; Malachi 3:6; Hebrews 13:8; Jeremiah 29:11;

John 10:10

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8—The seasons of life bring “good times” and “tough times.” God is never the author of tough times. Sometimes we are the cause; sometimes Satan is the cause; sometimes the evil in others is the cause, but God is never the cause of tough times.

Ecclesiastes 7:8-10

#1—The end of a thing is better than its beginning

• We are all “in process”
• We are not today, what we will be tomorrow

Romans 8:28; Romans 8:31

#2—The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit

• When pride takes over
• Resist looking back

“The ‘good old days’ are a combination of a bad memory and a good imagination.”

Warren Wiersbe   

          2 Corinthians 5:17— “old things have passed away; all things have become new.”

          Isaiah 43:18-19— “Do not remember (hang on to) the former things, nor consider the

          things of old…. I will do a new thing…….”