MIDWEEK SERMON
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Central Baptist Church of Ponca City, OK
DATE: May 8, 2024
SERMON BY: Dr. John Waterloo
SERMON TITLE: Better is the House of Mourning
SERMON THEME: Difficulty Breeds Maturity and the Surety of Death, a Sober Mind
SERMON SERIES: Ecclesiastes
SERMON TEXT: Eccl. 7:1-8
1. We always grow spiritually during the hard times
2. A sober attitude and demeanor brings spiritual maturity
3. …so stop avoiding, and start dealing, with reality!
Eccl. 7:1 A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one’s birth. 2 It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart. 3 Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. 4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth. 5 It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools. 6 For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.
Eccl. 7:7 Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart. 8 Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
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