Prayer, Open Theism and a really hard Sunday School Lesson
September 6, 2010 | 
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Sometimes I really want to stop in the middle of a lesson and take a picture and then show everyone I am teaching what they look like and then ask, “So, what are you thinking?”
Well, at the apex/end of a short overview of the Old Testament wisdom literature and the biblical teaching on wisdom in general, we took two weeks in my Sunday School class on the will of God – defining and determining, last week and this week respectively. As I bit off a 16lb bite of the hamburger this last week, I realized that it would be better if I wrote a bit more to explain a bit more clearly.
Get slideshow here if you want: Will of God
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Last lesson on Wisdom Literature Overview
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DailyTheocentrism: If this is your best life now, you must be bound for Hell
The very nature of seeking “our best life” is folly here, in this world, at this time. Ecclesiastes as a book speaks toward that very concept, that if it is this world that we seek satisfaction in, then:
24 There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink and tell himself that his labor is good. This also I have seen that it is from the hand of God. 25 For who can eat and who can have enjoyment without Him? 26 For to a person who is good in His sight He has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, while to the sinner He has given the task of gathering and collecting so that he may give to one who is good in God’s sight. This too is vanity and striving after wind. NASB (Eccl. 2:24-26)
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If there is a shadow, there must be sunshine . . .
Great music with lots of truth – don’t make too much of the first line.
Perspective
Diagnosis
Encouragement
My favorite trifecta!
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Wisdom Literature Notes: Ecclesiastes
I want to thank Dr. Randall McKinion for work of his that I used for a few of these points.
File from the NewLife Class
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