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The End of the Matter
Luke Stehr
Community Engagement Coordinator
The End of the Matter
Ecclesiastes 12:13-14
If anyone loudly blesses their neighbor early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse.
Proverbs 27:14
Cause: Loud Blessing Early in the Morning
Effect: Angry neighbor
“Qoholet surveys the physical (toil and death), economic (labor and gain), and sociopolitical (injustice and the supreme power of rulers) realms as well. The world does not operate according to our ideal expectations … These are the exceptions that occur in the life of God’s people, who are saved by God’s grace yet are marked by fallen human nature.”
· Elaine Goh
How do we live well when the world doesn’t operate according to our ideal expectations? If everything is meaningless, fleeting, vain, or foggy, what do we do?
Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the duty of all mankind. For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is evil or good.
“Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King.”
· Mr. Beaver, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.
Mark 12:30-31
Tracing Wisdom from Proverbs through Job and eventually to Ecclesiastes, a believer in God embraces Torah obedience while growing in faith. Such obedience demands serious engagement with the harsh realities of life (such as the suffering of the righteous, toil, and death), and the ultimate presence or absence of God .. A believer in God grows from a simple faith to a faith in crisis and then a renewed faith.
-Elaine Goh
As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. My command is this: love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. This is my command: Love each other.
John 15:9-14, 17
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Luke Stehr
Community Engagement Coordinator
The End of the Matter
Ecclesiastes 12:13-14
If anyone loudly blesses their neighbor early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse.
Proverbs 27:14
Cause: Loud Blessing Early in the Morning
Effect: Angry neighbor
“Qoholet surveys the physical (toil and death), economic (labor and gain), and sociopolitical (injustice and the supreme power of rulers) realms as well. The world does not operate according to our ideal expectations … These are the exceptions that occur in the life of God’s people, who are saved by God’s grace yet are marked by fallen human nature.”
· Elaine Goh
How do we live well when the world doesn’t operate according to our ideal expectations? If everything is meaningless, fleeting, vain, or foggy, what do we do?
Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the duty of all mankind. For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is evil or good.
“Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King.”
· Mr. Beaver, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.
Mark 12:30-31
Tracing Wisdom from Proverbs through Job and eventually to Ecclesiastes, a believer in God embraces Torah obedience while growing in faith. Such obedience demands serious engagement with the harsh realities of life (such as the suffering of the righteous, toil, and death), and the ultimate presence or absence of God .. A believer in God grows from a simple faith to a faith in crisis and then a renewed faith.
-Elaine Goh
As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. My command is this: love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. This is my command: Love each other.
John 15:9-14, 17