Hungry Dogs, Racing Rats, & Lonely Hearts ( Part 2): Ecclesiastes 4 by Dr. Rod Mattoon
- Preacher
- Rod Mattoon
- Tradition
- Christian (Unspecified)
- Published
- Length
- 33:32
Scripture
About this sermon
Solomon not only studied men of injustice, he also looked at the men that were industrious and hard-working. He believed that their motive to be successful was a matter of competition. They were runners in the rat race. He believed that men work hard because they want to outdo their neighbors or to beat the Joneses, if you please. They want to outdo the other guy. Solomon’s conclusion to this kind of attitude of beating your neighbors and getting more than them was, “This is such a waste. It is like chasing after the wind. It doesn’t matter.” The passion to have more than others is true of people that believe that their value or importance is based on how much money they have in the bank. They believe that money is power and is what give you value or importance. It doesn’t especially with God. We are to be in a race, beloved, but not the rat race. As Christians, we are not in competition with one another. As pastors, we are not competitors, we are team mates trying to serve the Lord. We are to be running our race for Christ, living for Him, serving Him, and obeying His will for our lives. We are in a race for sure as Christians, but it is different than the race the world runs. Our race is God’s will for our lives. We seek a different prize for our race....the souls of men. The writer of Hebrews put it this way in Hebrews 12:1, “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.” We are not sprinters for the Savior. We are marathon runners, running the long race for our entire lives. The race is not only for the young and strong, it is also for the old, the weak, and the weary. No Christian is to drop out of it. Instead, we are to keep moving forward until we drop dead. When we are called home to Glory, may we die on the battlefield, fighting for the souls of men. This message was preached on Wednesday night, December 30, 2020 at Lincoln Land Baptist Church.
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