Ecclesiastes 3:11 KJV
He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
My text for consideration is the phrase, "also He hath set the world in their heart." The word world can be used to refer to a great many things.
The material world: "Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world."
The world system: "All that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life..."
The physical world: "the pillars of the earth are the Lord's and He hath set the world upon them."
The inhabitants of the world: "For God so loved the world..."
The word can also speak of something immense, without end, inestimable: "the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity."
It is in this last context the word is used in our text today. The Hebrew word translated world means, "concealed, the vanishing point, time out of mind" and it refers to eternity.
So in that context, the phrase means that God has placed within the heart of man an awareness of eternity.
We know there are things beyond us
We know there are things our minds can't conceive
We know there concealed from our eyes but nevertheless true and there
We know there is an eternity
We know there is life after death
Of course, there are those who pretend to have become educated past what they know in their heart. Their hearts tell them one thing; their educated (worldly) minds tell them something entirely different. I am convinced that for all the smoke they blow, in the end, what God has placed in their hearts is never completely squelched out. In the quiet moments; in those moments of pain and loss, the volume of the heart is turned up.
There are still others who seek for eternity in the wrong places. Satan has done his best to provide fallen man with as many substitutes for the truth about eternity as mankind might need to prevent them from finally arriving at the truth.
Thank the Lord for the Holy Spirit of God who convinces us of the truth. The mission of the Christian is simply to present God's truth about what God has already placed in the hearts of man.
Some will deny it is truth
Some will prefer a false truth but
Others will see the truth and be saved
He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
My text for consideration is the phrase, "also He hath set the world in their heart." The word world can be used to refer to a great many things.
The material world: "Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world."
The world system: "All that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life..."
The physical world: "the pillars of the earth are the Lord's and He hath set the world upon them."
The inhabitants of the world: "For God so loved the world..."
The word can also speak of something immense, without end, inestimable: "the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity."
It is in this last context the word is used in our text today. The Hebrew word translated world means, "concealed, the vanishing point, time out of mind" and it refers to eternity.
So in that context, the phrase means that God has placed within the heart of man an awareness of eternity.
We know there are things beyond us
We know there are things our minds can't conceive
We know there concealed from our eyes but nevertheless true and there
We know there is an eternity
We know there is life after death
Of course, there are those who pretend to have become educated past what they know in their heart. Their hearts tell them one thing; their educated (worldly) minds tell them something entirely different. I am convinced that for all the smoke they blow, in the end, what God has placed in their hearts is never completely squelched out. In the quiet moments; in those moments of pain and loss, the volume of the heart is turned up.
There are still others who seek for eternity in the wrong places. Satan has done his best to provide fallen man with as many substitutes for the truth about eternity as mankind might need to prevent them from finally arriving at the truth.
Thank the Lord for the Holy Spirit of God who convinces us of the truth. The mission of the Christian is simply to present God's truth about what God has already placed in the hearts of man.
Some will deny it is truth
Some will prefer a false truth but
Others will see the truth and be saved
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