Setting Your Love On Others

Ecclesiastes 4
Setting Your Love On Others
Sermon Notes for February 11, 2007 by Pastor Dennis R. Tuuri

Intro The Movement of the Sermon Title; God's Foreknowledge:
'The fixing the mind upon'-Charles Hodge
'Looked favorably on and marked out for blessing'-Haldane
'Before loved or acknowledged'-Garvie
'Those on whom His eyes fixed from all eternity with love; whom He eternally contemplated and discerned as His.'-Godet
'To love, to care for'-Pareus
'To fix the eye upon..with the additional notion of a benignant and kindly feeling toward the object.'-Shedd
'For those on whom He set His heart beforehand'-Williams

hāšaq Ex. 27:17; 38:17, 28; 1 Kings 9:19; 2 Chr. 8:6

I. The Setting of God's Love on Others-Deut. 7:17; Isa. 38:17; Dt. 10:15

II. The Setting of Our Love on God –Ps. 91:14

III. Setting Our Love On Others-Gen. 34:8; Dt. 21:11

IV. Motivations for Setting of Our Love on Others - Ecc. 4:1-12
A. The Disadvantages of Not Seeking Community - Ecc. 4:1-8

1. Isolation in oppression is horrible vv. 1-3
2. Isolation removes satisfaction from our labors vv. 4-8
   B. The Triple Advantage of Community - Ecc. 4:9-12
3. Fulfilling the Purpose of work v. 9
4. Support in Inevitable Difficulties vv. 10-12a
   a. Encouragement in Depression v. 10
   b. Protection in Difficult Environments v. 11
   c. Defense Against Enemies v. 12a
5. Strength v. 12c

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