A Time for Everything Under the Sun

The next part of Solomon’s reflection is a time for everything. Ecclesiastes 1-2 talks about the vanity of life. Ecclesiastes 3 begins to talk about a time for everything. The whole cycle starts with the fact that for everything there’s a season and a time for every matter under Heaven. This will be a significant study to talk about the cycle of life itself.

Learning from Solomon’s Repentance from Vain Pursuits in Ecclesiastes 1-2

We have done a study of Solomon’s revival to ruin. It’s easy to talk about his excellent beginning and how he collapsed. He had his weakness of womanizing which he had a total of 1,000 women (700 royal wives, 300 concubines). It’s taught by some malicious conditional security preachers that Solomon never turned back to God or was an apostate. Yet, we read in Nehemiah 13:16 that he, Solomon was indeed beloved of his God. Such preachers accuse others of taking Scriptures out of context and rejecting God’s Word while they do the exact same thing.

John 6:37 and Unconditional Election

John 6:37 is an eternal security verse. It’s often used to defend the doctrine of eternal security. I believe in Once Saved Always Saved (OSAS) but there are warnings in the Scripture about false conversions. Not everyone who claims to be OSAS is saved. The Scriptures warn that false converts will eventually fall away. The non-Calvinist Christians, however, still reject the very idea of the lost person’s inability to trust in Christ alone for salvation. However, the more I study it, the more I realized that it’s hard to recall the exact date and time when I was saved because my rebirth had nothing to do with me. Some can remember it because of a crusade without the wishy-washy preacher.

What Does It Mean to be Called to Become Saints?

Today, I read through Charles H. Spurgeon’s devotional, and the key verse is Romans 1:7. Romans 1:7 and 1 Corinthians 1:2 says that those who are in Christ, loved by God, are called to be saints. What does it mean to be a saint? The Greek word is hagios or that which is sacred, concentrated, holy, and Thayer’s definition is that a saint is one who is most holy. The Hebrew word for saint is kodesh meaning apartness, holiness, sacredness, and separateness. In short, the Christian calling to be a saint is to become a person who is set apart for the work of God.