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1 A DISAPPOINTING DEITY ECCLESIASTES 2:1-11
Font: Tex Gyre Adventor, all caps, bold Try to center the word under the sun and make it look as if it is resting atop and between the mountains.

2 THE 5 STAGES OF PLEASURE

3 ANTICIPATION

4 PREPARATION

5 PARTICIPATION (WITH TREPIDATION)

6 DISSIPATION (IMMODERATION)

7 DESOLATION

8 A Disappointing Deity Nothing on earth can satisfy our need for lasting significance.

9 A Disappointing Deity Pleasure is a good gift, but it is a disappointing deity.

10 A Disappointing Deity Pleasure is a good gift.

11 A Disappointing Deity There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink and tell himself that his labor is good. This also I have seen that it is from the hand of God. For who can eat and who can have enjoyment without Him? Ecclesiastes 2:24-25

12 A Disappointing Deity Enjoy life with the woman whom you love all the days of your fleeting life which He has given to you under the sun; for this is your reward in life and in your toil in which you have labored under the sun. Ecclesiastes 9:9

13 A Disappointing Deity Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow. James 1:17

14 A Disappointing Deity The Lord of hosts will prepare a lavish banquet for all peoples on this mountain; A banquet of aged wine, choice pieces with marrow, And refined, aged wine. Isaiah 25:6

15 A Disappointing Deity Pleasure is a good gift.
Pleasure is a disappointing deity. It is short-lived. It can destroy us.

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17 A Disappointing Deity Pleasure is a good gift.
Pleasure is a disappointing deity. It is short-lived. It can destroy us.

18 A Disappointing Deity All a man’s labor is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not satisfied. Ecclesiastes 6:7

19 A Disappointing Deity Pleasure is a good gift.
Pleasure is a disappointing deity. It is short-lived. It can destroy us. It can blind us.

20 A Disappointing Deity For [a man] will not often consider the years of his life, because God keeps him occupied with the gladness of his heart. Ecclesiastes 5:20

21 A Disappointing Deity Have you turned pleasure into a god?

22 A Disappointing Deity Seek pleasure in God first (John 15:9-11).
Enjoy earthly pleasures, but within proper boundaries. Seek help when you need it.

23 A DISAPPOINTING DEITY ECCLESIASTES 2:1-11


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