Pengkhotbah 11:9--12:1

Enjoy Life to the Fullest under the Fear of God

11:9 Rejoice, young man, while you are young,¹

and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth.

Follow the impulses² of your heart and the desires³ of your eyes,

but know that God will judge your motives and actions.⁴

11:10 Banish⁵ emotional stress⁶ from your mind.⁷

and put away pain⁸ from your body;⁹

for youth¹⁰ and the prime of life¹¹ are fleeting.¹²

Fear God Now Because Old Age and Death Come Quickly

12:1 So remember¹³ your Creator in the days of your youth –

before¹⁴ the difficult¹⁵ days come,

and the years draw near when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”;

Yesaya 3:11-14

3:11 Too bad for the wicked sinners!

For they will get exactly what they deserve.¹⁶

3:12 Oppressors treat my¹⁷ people cruelly;

creditors rule over them.¹⁸

My people’s leaders mislead them;

they give you confusing directions.¹⁹

3:13 The Lord takes his position to judge;

he stands up to pass sentence on his people.²⁰

3:14 The Lord comes to pronounce judgment

on the leaders of his people and their officials.

He says,²¹ “It is you²² who have ruined²³ the vineyard!²⁴

You have stashed in your houses what you have stolen from the poor.²⁵

Yesaya 22:12-14

22:12 At that time the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, called for weeping and mourning,

for shaved heads and sackcloth.²⁶

22:13 But look, there is outright celebration!²⁷

You say, “Kill the ox and slaughter the sheep,

eat meat and drink wine.

Eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”²⁸

22:14 The Lord who commands armies told me this:²⁹ “Certainly this sin will not be forgiven as long as you live,”³⁰ says the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies.

Lukas 13:25

13:25 Once³¹ the head of the house³² gets up³³ and shuts the door, then you will stand outside and start to knock on the door and beg him, ‘Lord,³⁴ let us in!’³⁵ But he will answer you,³⁶ ‘I don’t know where you come from.’³⁷

Lukas 17:26-30

17:26 Just³⁸ as it was³⁹ in the days of Noah,⁴⁰ so too it will be in the days of the Son of Man. 17:27 People⁴¹ were eating,⁴² they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage – right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then⁴³ the flood came and destroyed them all.⁴⁴ 17:28 Likewise, just as it was⁴⁵ in the days of Lot, people⁴⁶ were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building; 17:29 but on the day Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.⁴⁷ 17:30 It will be the same on the day the Son of Man is revealed.

Lukas 19:42-44

19:42 saying, “If you had only known on this day,⁴⁸ even you, the things that make for peace!⁴⁹ But now they are hidden⁵⁰ from your eyes. 19:43 For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build⁵¹ an embankment⁵² against you and surround you and close in on you from every side. 19:44 They will demolish you⁵³ – you and your children within your walls⁵⁴ – and they will not leave within you one stone⁵⁵ on top of another,⁵⁶ because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”⁵⁷

Ibrani 3:7-11

Exposition of Psalm 95: Hearing God’s Word in Faith

3:7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,⁵⁸

“Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks!⁵⁹

3:8 “Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness.

3:9 “There your fathers tested me and tried me,⁶⁰ and they saw my works for forty years.

3:10 “Therefore, I became provoked at that generation and said, ‘Their hearts are always wandering⁶¹ and they have not known my ways.’

3:11 “As I swore in my anger, ‘They will never enter my rest!’”⁶²

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