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“Ways to Get Ahead in Life" (Ecclesiastes 7:15-29)

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  1. Good afternoon, Paul Salahat and happy Lord's Day, Pop.

  2. So I'm going to happen so young Ryan, I galing sa seremony,

  3. Reverend Mark Chin social boy pastoring and 1st Evangelical

  4. Reformed Church, the Singapore and it upon sermon I preach on

  5. 20/21. So again, like Papa Salamats,

  6. adios for allowing us to proclaim this sermon.

  7. So to start question Parappa Satin, what does it take to get

  8. ahead in life? And you kelangan para umang hai

  9. or konsa words anyone kelan tayo maraca angat salai lian or

  10. kellan capaldo or some access step by the step.

  11. So another question is I know you must be bigger certain and

  12. guarantee success una Mai manga outside themselves about success

  13. neon my Ellen nagsesearch learning Iban culture portion of

  14. life. Well, for example, Nagana Puma

  15. crusader now Holy Grail and associated some miraculous

  16. healing, eternal youth and spiritual sustenance.

  17. So and then you mong Chinese emperors naman nang elixir

  18. sopara pahaba in you. And ironically is that you

  19. ascribed the alchemist's during their time in mercury and

  20. arsenic, a highly toxic substance.

  21. And for others they sought endless love.

  22. So manga Naniniwala sa Fung Shui station, but is functionally so

  23. meeting in so you gonna go vanilla you Mario Gayuma in many

  24. demand Naganang endless riches maraming explorers are trying to

  25. find they travelled to Corrado. I think my movie Punon now in

  26. her human minds are treasures and he King Solomon Paddy a

  27. companion number Typo human Chinese emperor searching for

  28. life, so gonna die Marami explorers you Nagira command and

  29. on the other hand, main mangatown to meeting in Amman

  30. inwardly para hanapin young success and upon epic Sabin

  31. Punon morality now in Egypt nila now kung mabitsela gumagawa

  32. nagma booty or basalt umiiwas samasama.

  33. Why or edibles Cilla just diosa nila middle marapatti Hindi

  34. pillaging Gannon humata amoral or matuidi Hindi lagging peanut

  35. papala. In fact, the wicked me prosper

  36. even more and that he'll putito marami una give up some morals

  37. nila but instead aguinaga is that nagresearch Cilla so

  38. worldly wisdom and schemes to get ahead or para nyandarua

  39. silla gumagawa namanga crimen pero Hindi guarantee nonsuccess

  40. marami young nahuli marami Yuna paresahan so neon surpasses

  41. punat andito Sai Ecclesiastes Chapter 7 D Lee Solomon new idea

    Ecclesiastes 7 chapter mention

  42. Natal. How can a person get ahead?

  43. Ohh some morality banya chagoma Shannon schemes Or do miss

  44. Katisha or in Hindi passage as being read to us in the posh

  45. meddling intindihin Larnaca chapter NATO after this

  46. encourage, encourage atopowe passage network deeper for

  47. yourselves pero basis. Did Martin say passage punito

  48. and sagara as someone who delivers this sermon to you?

  49. So Nagbibigay sees Solomon apart not truth India Nathan about

  50. success in life. So firstly the sermon points

  51. Nantahala. Firstly, morality does not get

  52. your head in life. Secondly, immorality also does

  53. not get you ahead in life and separate law 30 people also do

  54. not get you ahead in life. And fourthly, in last point,

  55. Jonathan Mamaya, only one man guarantees the way to get ahead

  56. in life. So you people make up pero

  57. Bhagalpur Anglo hat. Let us all play are very

  58. gracious and holy God, apart from Your Spirit we see words,

  59. but Mr. Glory, we hear sounds, but we miss Your voice.

  60. So therefore we ask now for the gracious illumination of Your

  61. Holy Spirit. Open our minds to understand the

  62. Scriptures that you incline our hearts to love the truth and

  63. bend our wills to joyful obedience to You.

  64. And as Your word is preached now, ohh Lord, grant that Christ

  65. may be clearly seen and received.

  66. Remove every distraction and every confidence in our human

  67. wisdom, and we pray that the light of the gospel shine so

  68. that Jesus Christ alone is magnified, His person, His work,

  69. His grace, his lordship. And may I already in this pulpit

  70. decrease and Christ increase amid the faith of your people.

  71. Be strengthened, that they may be comforted, given rest, and

  72. that your church built up for your glory.

  73. And we ask all this in the name of our exalted Saviour Jesus

  74. Christ. Amen.

  75. Simulant monaten. So firstly, morality does not

  76. get you ahead in life. So Punta Putasa, verse 17.

  77. Iglesias T 7 verse 15 In my vein life I have seen everything.

  78. There is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness

  79. and there is a wicked man who prolongs his life in his evil

  80. doing a common process among human guiseppina kung ako my

  81. morality and human religious. I will get ahead and kung Hindi

  82. ako mabuti essentially Hindi poet and Christianity leave

  83. Sahama. Indeed Christianity but karma

  84. gumagawa Kannamma booty going. He tried with Casa Papa Mu

  85. patrol Bulka and Mamata Inang Maga.

  86. If you put A you should get B. So paragon now and meron din

  87. religious natalio now gumagawa namanga religious things any

  88. dial putito next season basila they go to church regularly BK

  89. Pagano offering or sibanda golfer Papa since just your son

  90. when the first thing one or in April there are bits so

  91. naniniwala silanyo pagiging religious or your morality nila

  92. Manila subway. But this is not the case.

  93. He deported to ohh young karma Hindi guarantee nonsuccess

  94. immorality and savers 15 Nahita nutriture or Nako health or

  95. niece Solomon that good young people die but wicked people

  96. they have a long life. Anything London now the Mamata

  97. you my booty. No Kabuki Hanya and Samantha

  98. Way, but a mug Patului and in fact inland ports.

  99. Pinaka Masamang tyrants as sila pumunta.

  100. Pinakamahal Bangui. Example.

  101. Konkola Napusi, Paul. Pot Nan Cambodia 70s no age

  102. yeah, see Fidel Castro non Cuba I think in about 90 years old.

  103. Bagshaw Nemati Indian North Korean leader in Sikkim.

  104. Il Sung in Abu Hai Angang 82 So so Dita nahita nutriture orni

  105. Solomon Kabalik Taran Nan Karma and Gonna tayo now Hindi Pata

  106. hai tama puba Hindi Pata Mumbai one typo imaginative parent they

  107. need this regard. Ponatinib now Makita po natin

  108. Yan Tai or it'll be nothing. My son, young adult and Meron

  109. Shang potential. See, that's not been out there,

  110. not that potential. Nothing kalimba nagging had lung

  111. saka Matalan yung pagiging bata Olympic potential and in deepu

  112. magiging ganon ever indeed mapipigilan youth or in a

  113. potential young death and masala Luna sapna gosa panpuna Kenyon

  114. Indian garden not in subway segura moralistic tales or

  115. bustamante cuento Nana totoro satena Kapag Emma bearing deeply

  116. in love. In fact, medal short studies see

  117. Mark Twain don't call Sai sang bad little boy in Battleship Jim

  118. instead Nasha mapa trouble allegation successful market

  119. manisha Samsung apple tree paramagnet apple and indeed a

  120. balliang sangha Indiana who look or Nibali and manlang brasso

  121. hindocha kanagaratnam aso no farmer and indeed sahan indeed

  122. in the Graflex C Jim edition apparel Fleck conditional gripen

  123. conditional bago paramagnet booty in Hindi instead after in

  124. young nakawin Humana apple apple and napakasarap naglasa apple.

  125. So if you fishing Rincy gym on the Lord's day pera kalivas in

  126. expect Amanda Babasa conditionally no in East

  127. Malaysia in about an engagio indeed inserting Amankila so

  128. mamasi Jim Peru movie shannamara dalana masarap Nice that so Gene

  129. got ahead in life. So morality does not always

  130. guarantee success and that is reality.

  131. Yeah and someone got see Solomon server 16 Malik Pattaya text

  132. little poser verse 16 did not overly righteous and do not make

  133. yourself too wise. Why should you destroy yourself?

  134. Para Marino para satin Hindi seen Assad beneath Solomon

  135. damaging masama tayo no at least Claremont Poleon indeed haha

  136. Mohan in holiness and instead in address near Yamata magneton

  137. kaipan neon Casey pan is that nakuma booty or religious Aku is

  138. showing the matata you put you in an address in Solomon say

  139. selfish poo and Pagan mindset was uni that that they good do

  140. good things in exchange for blessings.

  141. Thailand cumbucket wicked in prosperity gospel tama puba

  142. Sabina chakor young prosperity gospel I Pagan give to the

  143. church and believe that God will bless pero Hindi poito yung

  144. wisdom Bible a human wisdom and young people suffer in indito is

  145. young phrase so verse 16 so do not make yourself too wise.

  146. You were gonna make potito in original language UI reflexive

  147. verb because behind the subject performs an action upon itself.

  148. Yeah, I'd be Sabine Punon in the more simple terms.

  149. Now in big Sabina is that do not be wise in your own eyes and

  150. it's the same thing Mangaya poya announcing Asaba Proverbs 3

    Proverbs 3:7

  151. verse 7 be not wise in your own eyes.

  152. Fear the Lord and turn away from evil.

  153. Ibiza behin you know walang according Sasha Really Nilang

  154. wisdom you hyper morality nila blessings yeah and under own

  155. young winning Sunderland Solomon against Sagan Iton Kaipan.

  156. So the morality principle will not get you ahead and

  157. unfortunately a young alampur Hindi ito 19 dehan nang marami

  158. this Maya adios Yahoo successful.

  159. So you is that next swing sila Punta sila extreme to the other

  160. extreme. Instead Nagra resort sila

  161. Samantha wicked schemes. It'll dito bina Bala and me

  162. Solomon about naman immorality and that it also does not get

  163. you ahead in life. So you know Mancunian pagusapan

  164. Natin SAS second point on next. So verse 17 be not overly wicked

  165. neither be a fool. Why should you die before your

  166. time? So, in other words, do not be

  167. overly wicked only one by saying this in this in Assad beneath

  168. Solomon. OK Lang maging Masama Conte

  169. editor in the new epic Sabian sasabihin amata so-called

  170. realistic now Kung walang guarantee you, you own Amit Nang

  171. evil scheme illegal, but indeed so Casey Kung Yung Masama

  172. tournament imma sama paminsan minsan.

  173. So gonna very attractive young immorality looking out for #1

  174. merging madiskarte need to point us in the culture.

  175. Descartes maruno man lamang sagawa sinasabi is that protect

  176. hanwell Sarili mo and that more young Sarili mo mo alaga new

  177. Sarili mo in Telangana making 2 so I made or madaya ka Conte

  178. midge better in September later or now with people.

  179. Young people think that it is smart.

  180. Now we're gonna go up to nothing and write some in, for example,

  181. sofast food, my IBA Nahumi Hinge and maraming paper napkins,

  182. Spadina Bumile or fast food hotels or Sandman money in

  183. Platinum jalebi. I don't know why.

  184. Sad opicina nothing. Human garment Paragliding

  185. sterling supply one paper clip office supplies miniprint

  186. panganan resume Superintendent office onion and monitor.

  187. So some algorithm moments and I thought about Ontario.

  188. We feign ignorance when we make a mistake and another person

  189. takes a bling and see nobody protector new sarili nila.

  190. So sad. Pinapakita poyo nature.

  191. Jonathan Palagi. Nothing Incognito ring you

  192. nangyari Hindi Lang with the outside world or outside the

  193. church, but attending manga Cristiano specifically is a

  194. Church of Corinth. So dito posycode nagsasama sama

  195. human members para is celebrating Lord's Supper and

  196. young fellowship Milan also known as the love feast.

  197. Pero anung ginagawa ponila. Thank you again.

  198. That's fine. And having a library in Amman

  199. for a wicked entire input. I evil smart people sitting in

  200. the Pinapaalala satin. Me Solomon Eton simple advice

  201. Samantha ohh my ganitong pagi. Is it that you're smarts Laluna

  202. will not get you ahead? Your evil schemes will not

  203. guarantee success. So do not be foolish.

  204. Well, since I've been verse 17. Okay, support verse 17.

  205. So do not be overworked. So I repeat so be not overly

  206. wicked neither be a fool. So why should you die before

  207. your time? So pinapakita monitor next verse

  208. Nabanggit code go in a scheme or mcclanahan especially among a

  209. devious way or with the intent to do something illegal or

  210. wrong. So what happens if you cut

  211. corners and do so little bad things?

  212. So what happens if you give yourself two Life of crime clear

  213. Hindi po mahapa guaranteeing success.

  214. Yampa gigging immoral so being as atex pedical Mama Thai maga

  215. so gonna complain young sinasabi NI Solomon for us bitter Hindi

  216. Lang Yun bidding must masahol park is a premature death young

  217. consequences of crime and sinasabi editor in the months of

  218. verse 26. So Ecclesiastes 7 verse 26 and I

    Ecclesiastes 7:26

  219. find something more bitter than death.

  220. And to put you know, Tonya, the woman whose heart is snares and

  221. Nets, and whose hands are feathers, so chain, he who

  222. pleases God escapes her, but the Sinner is taken by her.

  223. So you mabuhi Salaman and the Bible describes sin and

  224. temptation as a woman who seeks to seduce a man.

  225. And we know naman porno now surpasses poneto now Hindi

  226. poetry sang sexist remark cause yeah well they needed to be

  227. fair. They need described the number

  228. Bible young wisdom as a woman point me Solomon kung gusto

  229. Momma Buhari in a life of skimming and sin or cremant

  230. paraca among that well. Ohh I see you ohh Hindi ikaw

  231. yung gumagamit among schemes not all, but the rather instead it

  232. to pull you Nangyari. Now you mark as Alan and more

  233. sale in Kapadia Kai Gumagawa an evil schemes a cow in a gigging

  234. Alipin. You see people nothing

  235. laundering someone nothing in kites among a scarily nothing

  236. scheme index has succeeded Anonyara Babalik at Babalik.

  237. So I said be HIPPA in maraming basis now in the gigging

  238. patternator known Buhay Nila. So in our leaping time, but we

  239. don't suck when Tony, Samson and Delilah in alchemy.

  240. Delilah nilambing and paulit ulit nanaki USA para malaman new

  241. secret. Samson Tasha Delilah pero sahli

  242. Sina bina in secret in petting is seeping out in Nagano ka

  243. Foolish. See Samson battle now.

  244. But will it? Will it tie on a give in and

  245. consumer control and someone Nanguli story dinoko Mamata

  246. Samson sleeping Indian poor young kapalaran or faith namas

  247. masala hoopa kaisa kamatayan the airports in Assad being a man he

  248. Solomon now young evil schemes and Hindi guarantee nonsuccess.

  249. Do not live a life of crime. Pero aunga Gustavo manga hai in

  250. Insignia. No going back then the first

  251. point not in the middle. Ammonia Arito Sapa gigging moral

  252. or religious in super Mama Geethan Nang wicked schemes the

  253. number 2 Biddle Solomon suffers 8.

  254. So pay attention. Someone instructions NATO now

  255. yours. You want, son Intellicolor and

  256. more extreme, Senator Janina, morality and immorality.

  257. So it means by relying on morality alone and then Sir,

  258. immorality. So another question, parental

  259. question. So how else do we get ahead?

  260. The semi mangata Omaha Sandman's IBA or Wisdom Nila nila mismo

  261. kita naman needs Solomon now Hindi lagging ma asahan human

  262. atau gonna then you manga ability and wisdom now Meron

  263. sila sarili nila So did the tournament third truth and

  264. parental reports Third Point point attempt.

  265. So since I've been the man and verse 19.

  266. So wisdom gives strength to the wise men more than 10 rulers who

  267. are in the city. So verse 19 period.

  268. So like the guy in the warning sees Solomon some of the readers

  269. yeah against Paccaro on an unrealistic expectation Samatau.

  270. So now we feel Kaku manga Pinaka asahan pal and Pinakita nya

  271. pulito sapphic examining some of the rulers in this passage.

  272. This is in the sabadito against adverse 19.

  273. Now you in San Paolo my wisdom and he get my booty.

  274. Some pong mighty rulers in a city.

  275. So clearly an image for us. Clearly it is one versus 10.

  276. You he sang good leader. Fortunate.

  277. And how much more you sleeping? Nothing you sang City made some

  278. good leaders about a pussy makapag governance mayos Humana

  279. decision makers now is a city government so kailangan Napa

  280. harami information and expertise parama conducting illegal so

  281. it's a big booty naman talaga sampu pero Hindi parin sila

  282. chasing who Sai now is Santa 29 wisdom cause you sample mighty

  283. rulers Imma be bingo and we cannot hope too much for sinners

  284. bucket this is sinasabi so verse 20 so verse 20.

  285. Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and

  286. never sins. It appears that he landmark

  287. apatite kung bakit tayo as citizens of heaven in Kilang

  288. manalangin parasol manga earthly government not in Ganon Mancilla

  289. Catalino Hindi parin sapat you Manila McKinsey Solomon that we

  290. know that is the wisest governor of all.

  291. Umamin Shana Shami simo in a Kamalika Sinasabe.

  292. Now verse 23 I said I will be wise but it was far from me.

  293. Andina Putada Pat Magtaka Councilman and Hindi perfectly

  294. numero Uno and maritime political leanings minimal

  295. government. Now Paul had a mug for fail in

  296. one way or another and Ilan Basatin unity wala government or

  297. party, but nothing and 11 new naglalagay satte nang pagasa

  298. sakanila pero well, indeed the leaders in binabanggit potito

  299. patikai ping pong ohh yeah, it's a manservants did nothing

  300. mainland sat in the mirror nothing household payan kits

  301. among trabaho panatina. So excitation point to para

  302. satin lahat. So human servants, NATO is human

  303. subordinates in one way or another.

  304. Pero kung talagang Alam Lang natin seen Assad been and verse

  305. 21 Do not take to heart all the things that people say, lest you

  306. hear your servant cursing you, he said.

  307. Ohh no America and what tayama bazar samaga naririnig nothing

  308. now Hindi kami gigging best friend bangla and Hindi caring

  309. iga galangal and untruth Hindi. And seeing as not being in verse

  310. 22, your heart knows that many times you yourself have cursed

  311. others. So sin has affected everyone.

  312. So we are not reliable camping. I think binasa ranina sahanas

  313. outdoor and now observed in Solomon eternal wisdom here by

  314. the power of the Spirit and shamie smo, you know, conclude

  315. that he was not wise enough. That's the only thing couple

  316. sinasabihan verse 23 All this I have tested by wisdom.

  317. I said I will be wise, but it was far from me.

  318. Now conclude na na mahirap Makita yung wisdom according the

  319. man's servers 24 and scenic Apnana Alamin born among the bad

  320. guy. So according the man suffers 25

  321. and snapping a servers 29 Noelani Santa alma booty see

  322. this alone I found that God made man upright and they have sought

  323. out many schemes. Sugarman kahitna Genoa anila

  324. long time you nandos in London nabooti sa simula so perosino

  325. gila yung sarili nilang schemes import Paramus manino Hindi

  326. against angios success. Many of God's people have

  327. succeeded in life and my bapala nandos humanoid mammal sukanya

  328. pero alalahanin puna then Humana on tulani, Abraham, Job, David

  329. for example, they did not consider success in life as

  330. their chief goal. Guapo Hindi dapat malabo yung

  331. Plano natin dahil sama bagai salupa Burnham for example to

  332. meeting in Shanghai sang better country now my eternal life and

  333. true love coming from the Lord. And you wanna bargainer hang up

  334. Walang Mokumanu Layon samurai ality and wicked schemes and

  335. make it up battle. So this for our last point is

  336. the one month principle. So only he guarantees success.

  337. So Pontamman Potaos I think last point and safe passage NATO

  338. interesting thing now Hindi Makita Miss Solomon so see this

  339. not being verse 20. So surely there's not a

  340. righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.

  341. So Ibiza behin imposibleng Mahita nang is mahita Nissan

  342. Navara righteous and then he did in some marquita anyways.

  343. So binanggit punya nang sang wisata ohh gipa gives us A10

  344. capable rulers. So Mahirap Namajita is on city

  345. is a capable ruler. Nothing.

  346. You makakita Nissan tuna know Wiseman Emma's Mahirapan better

  347. for me sang bagai na nakita shano matapos yung long and hard

  348. search. So since I've been on verse 28,

  349. one man, one man among 1000 I found, but a woman among all

  350. this I have not found. So Angan again point to sexist

  351. remark. Pero rest assured now Gumagamit

  352. Solomon hyperbole or exaggeration 1st 27 a month so

  353. then inside doing investigation own solution, said tuna in

  354. happiness. Better not halo's impossibly so

  355. I cannot meet Nani Solomon deduction elimination examining

  356. the situation from every angle. Sauli Nahitar in his Solomon

  357. Young Hinahanap nya a needle in a haystack.

  358. When is Santa? Now we're learning ibang lalaki

  359. O babae. Compare I upright so I it might

  360. be noisy, Solomon said. Comparison and importantly

  361. Potito, you numeral one so the number one means more because

  362. not only is this one man unique or no other man or woman

  363. compares, but he is upright and wise.

  364. So my Makita Mahanap, capable person tonight, but also Vietnam

  365. among fools and schemers. Ohh.

  366. Nana Kitanya or Natagpuan Solomon now upright and wise.

  367. And who is this one man? Well, he did not ensure

  368. community not Tukoy Nice Solomon Island Partick particular Natal

  369. and indeed nothing alarm NASA Insignia and indeed in Malino

  370. Kung direct Banyang mera first Christo Dito, which is of course

  371. the spirit intense for us to draw from this and you alarm

  372. lamp unath and bases in history of mankind.

  373. Solomon maybe some part owner Eva which you see Enoch.

  374. I don't see Enoch Well Sinasabihan, Genesis 524, Nashi

  375. upright and Lumakad Kasamang Dios and he Walesa in Sumangala,

  376. Taasha, Sakanya and Anupu nagging result.

  377. So God took him to heaven without dying and his reward was

  378. immortality not success on earth middle young secret but as a

  379. guarantee the material success in Hindi people binigay

  380. pulsating. God may bless in your

  381. uprightness. So pedikanda mangat sabu hai

  382. Gaya Nina Job and Abraham better pay during Hindi kahitna in your

  383. uprightness Pedicab Mamata ina mahira gayani Apostle Paul.

  384. See, there is no guarantee that in your wisdom you may be

  385. blessed like Solomon period point point namakula natin dito

  386. a genitalia puka. Simply, these men of God did not

  387. look for happiness on earth. They did not look in hanap nila,

  388. your happiness neon in the life to come.

  389. So Kai pat umasa, some morality, Manian evil schemes or wisdom or

  390. guide simulator, Buhari, Nath and Salupa.

  391. But whatever it is, look instead to this one man who guarantees

  392. us eternal life, everlasting love, wealth and wisdom beyond

  393. our wildest imaginations in the land to come.

  394. Yes, Uprights Enoch and Kenosha Nandos and the earth was not

  395. worthy of him. You know why is an upright that

  396. the earth was not worthy of him. You're poison, Christo in an

  397. uprising, Sabina Cristo look 1215.

  398. Look 1215 sinabing. Take care and be on your guard

  399. against all covetousness, for one's life does not consist in

  400. the abundance of his possessions.

  401. So Kailangan nothing Melissa, sorry, did nothing.

  402. Annoying Mahalaga Hindi young boy Dito got a thing.

  403. It should have been a point on his source.

  404. Sir John 17 verse 3 and this it's internal life that they

    John 17:3

  405. know you the only true God and Jesus Christ whom you have

  406. sinned. Dito suzaan Covenant Reformed

  407. Church sabu hai walang secret nanak bibigyan guaranteed

  408. success or mahabang bui bandana Then God blesses whom he

  409. blesses. Do you mind Madam?

  410. Open secret to call Sabiha inovalon Hungarian and Italian

  411. Matatagpuan Christo announcing Albini polls a first Corinthians

  412. won for our sakes. God made him to be our wisdom,

  413. righteousness and redemption. And info on point misalignment.

  414. That was Solomon's conclusion. And sat in a man.

  415. Are you searching for eternal life?

  416. True love, success and abundance.

  417. Your morality and wisdom are insufficient.

  418. You will only have them in Christ, maybe in this life, but

  419. definitely in the life to come. So my chapati Hindi po natatapos

  420. ang Bibles statement that life is mercy under the sun, it ends

  421. with and this is life eternal, that they know you, the only

  422. true God and Jesus Christ whom you have sinned.

  423. Amen. Let us all pray.

  424. So please bow down your heads and let us pray.

  425. Gracious sovereign God, your Word humbles us in, exposes the

  426. weakness of our wisdom and the poverty of our righteousness.

  427. And you show us that life under the sun cannot be mastered by

  428. effort, by morality or our own understanding.

  429. And we confess all that we are quick to trust ourselves to

  430. justify our sins and to grow bitter when life does not unfold

  431. as we expect. So Father, we thank You that our

  432. hope rests in Christ alone, that He is a truly righteous 1 the

  433. wisdom of you for us, and who bore our guilt and failure upon

  434. the cross and in Him give us a righteousness that we did not

  435. earn and align that cannot be taken away.

  436. And Lord, teach us to fear you with humble faith, to receive

  437. both with joy and even in the times of trial, knowing that it

  438. is from your hand, and to rest in your gracious purposes and

  439. promises for your people. And by Your Spirit, keep us from

  440. pride and despair and fix our hearts in the gospel.

  441. We rely on your grace alone in Jesus Christ our Lord.

  442. Amen.