Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness Series Part 3: The Pursuit Of Happiness
Message: Solomon is in the trying stage and summarizes his experiences in seeking his own will first and God's will second. He finds out everything he did had no value and it burdened his spirit. The sermon focuses on the different bases of happiness and joy. Joy is cultivated internally, making peace with God's purpose as His creation. Happiness is based on other people, places, thoughts and events, however divine perspective finds happiness when God is Lord, Master and Savior. Pursue God, life can be happy and joyful in changing times because He is unchanging.
Scripture: Ecclesiastes 2:8-11 "I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts. So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me. And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour. Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
