Wisdom in Wicked Times — part 11 of Ecclesiastes sermon series by Ps Sam Powell

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Wisdom in Wicked Times
by Ps Sam Powell
Ecclesiastes 8:1-13 (NKJV)

Chapter 8 Who is like a wise man?
And who knows the interpretation of a thing?
A man’s wisdom makes his face shine,
And the sternness of his face is changed.

² I say, “Keep the king’s commandment for the sake of your oath to God. ³ Do not be hasty to go from his presence. Do not take your stand for an evil thing, for he does whatever pleases him.”

⁴ Where the word of a king is, there is power;
And who may say to him, “What are you doing?”
⁵ He who keeps his command will experience nothing harmful;
And a wise man’s heart discerns both time and judgment,
⁶ Because for every matter there is a time and judgment,
Though the misery of man increases greatly.
⁷ For he does not know what will happen;
So who can tell him when it will occur?
⁸ No one has power over the spirit to retain the spirit,
And no one has power in the day of death.
There is no release from that war,
And wickedness will not deliver those who are given to it.

⁹ All this I have seen, and applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun: There isa time in which one man rules over another to his own hurt.

¹⁰ Then I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of holiness, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done. This also is vanity. ¹¹ Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. ¹² Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and his days are prolonged, yet I surely know that it will be well with those who fear God, who fear before Him. ¹³ But it will not be well with the wicked; nor will he prolong his days, which are as a shadow, because he does not fear before God.

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