2. Ecclesiastes 5:1-7 Vanity of Empty Religion
What Empty Religion looks like.
Why Empty Religion is so common.
How we can change.

3. Ecclesiastes 5:1
1 Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. To draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they are doing evil.

4. Ecclesiastes 5:1
1 Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. To draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they are doing evil.

5. Ecclesiastes 5:2-3
2 Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven and you are on earth. Therefore let your words be few. 3 For a dream comes with much business, and a fool’s voice with many words.

6. Ecclesiastes 5:4-7
Ecclesiastes 5:4-7 4 When you vow a vow to God, do not delay paying it, for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you vow. 5 It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay. 6 Let not your mouth lead you into sin, and do not say before the messenger that it was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice and destroy the work of your hands? 7 For when dreams increase and words grow many, there is vanity; but God is the one you must fear.

7. Why is empty religion so common?

8. What God Desire Deuteronomy 6:4–6
4“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart.

9. What Man Gives God
2 Corinthians 11:3 3 But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
Matthew 6:24 24 “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

10. Half hearted worship sees God is a useful aid to help us find meaning under the sun.

11. Is Your Heart Divided?

12. What do your steps reveal about your heart?
Is Your Heart Divided?
What do your steps reveal about your heart?

13. Is Your Heart Divided? What do your steps reveal about your heart?
What do your prayers (or lack of) reveal about your heart?

14. Is Your Heart Divided? What do your steps reveal about your heart?
What do your prayers (or lack of) reveal about your heart?
What do your broken promises reveal about your heart?

15. Where is there Hope? (3 Options)

16. Where is there Hope? (3 Options)
Refuse to guard your steps – Vanity.

17. Where is there Hope? (3 Options)
Refuse to guard your steps – Vanity.
Promise God you will change – Vanity.

18. Where is there Hope? (3 Options)
Refuse to guard your steps – Vanity.
Promise God you will change – Vanity.
Draw near with all your sin and broken promises – Joy.

19. Luke 18:9–12
9 He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt: 10 “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’

20. Luke 18:13-14
13 But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ 14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”