WE ALL KNOW THAT LIGHT REMOVES THE DARKNESS OF SIN! John 1:12-13
[12]But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
[13]Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

THAT LIGHT WAS SENT TO FREE MEN FROM THE DARKNESS OF DEATH! MANY DESIRE THAT LIGHT WITHOUT SACRIFICE ON THEIR PART! THEY WANT TO SPEAK AND RECEIVE IT!

Matthew 5:6 KJV
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

THEY WANT TO BELIEVE ONCE THEY HAVE POSSESSED IT THEY CAN NEVER LOSE IT! Revelation 3:5 KJV
He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

MANY WALK WITHIN THEIR VISION OF THE LIGHT! ONLY THOSE WHO SURRENDER  TO THE LIGHT FIND HIS PATH!

Matthew 7:13-14 KJV
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: [14] Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

SPIRITUAL FOUNDATION!

As I pondered this whole scenario of what the Holy Spirit is about to reveal I turned to Ecclesiastes 2:1
[1]I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity. To grasp the spiritual depths of what is about to be placed before us! What this verse spoke to me was that the wisest man in the world had already searched this area of men’s desire to find the felicity of man! And found it to be in vanity!

Matthew 6:22 KJV
The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.

OBSERVATION!

Solomon here, in pursuit of the summum bonum–the felicity of man, adjourns out of his study, his library, his elaboratory, his council-chamber, where he had in vain sought for it, into the park and the playhouse, his garden and his summer-house he exchanges the company of the philosophers and grave senators for that of the wits and gallants, and the beaux-esprits, of his court, to try if he could find true satisfaction and happiness among them. Here he takes a great step downward, from the noble pleasures of the intellect to the brutal ones of sense yet, if he resolves to make a thorough trial, he must knock at this door because here a great part of mankind imagines they have found that which he was in quest of. In conclusion, Solomon found it to be in vanity!

COMMENTARY of MATTHEW HENRY (1662-1714)!

(Solomon chose to experiment with, what I believe many in today’s Assemblies and Ecclesia are walking in as modern Christianity!)

He resolved to try what mirth would do and the pleasures of wit, whether he should be happy if he constantly entertained himself and others with merry stories and jests, banter and drollery if he should furnish himself with all the pretty ingenious turns and repartees he could invent or pick up, fit to be laughed over, and all the bulls, and blunders, and foolish things, he could hear of, fit to be ridiculed and laughed at, so that he might be always in a merry humour

1. This experiment made (Ecclesiastes 2:1): “Finding that in much wisdom is much grief and that those who are serious are apt to be melancholy, I said in my heart” (to my heart), “Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth I will try if that will give thee satisfaction”!

Neither the temper of his mind nor his outward condition had anything in them to keep him from being merry, but both agreed, as did all other advantages, to further it therefore he resolved to take a lease this way, and said, “Enjoy pleasure, and take thy fill of it cast away care, and resolve to be merry”!

So a man may be, and yet have none of these fine things which he here got to entertain himself with many that are poor are very merry beggars in a barn are so to a proverb.

Mirth is the entertainment of the fancy, and, though it comes short of the solid delights of the rational powers, yet it is to be preferred before those that are merely carnal and sensual.

Some distinguish man from the brutes, not only as animal rationale–a rational animal, but as animal risibile–a laughing animal, therefore, he that said to his soul, Take thy ease, eat and drink, added, And be merry, for it was in order to that that he would eat and drink “Try therefore,” says Solomon, “to laugh and be fat, to laugh and be happy.”

OBSERVATION!

(I ponder these next words are possibly describing many in the Ecclesia today!)

Solomon took care at the same time to acquaint himself with wisdom, to manage himself wisely in the use of his pleasures, so that they should not do him any prejudice nor disfit him to be a competent judge of them. When he drew his flesh with wine he led his heart with wisdom (so the word is), kept up his pursuits after knowledge, did not make a sot of himself, nor become a slave to his pleasures, but his studies and his feasts were foils to each other, and he tried whether both mixed together would give him that satisfaction which he could not find in either separately.

This Solomon proposed to himself, but he found it vanity for those who think to give themselves to wine, and yet to acquaint their hearts with wisdom, will perhaps deceive themselves as much as those do that think to serve both God and mammon.

And in conclusion, I believe in the following two verses describe the truth about what many in today’s Ecclesia don’t want to admit!

Ecclesiastes 2:8,10-11
[8]I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.
[10]And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.
[11]Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

Robert a humble obedient servant to Yeshua and his Father in heaven Yahewa. And all of God’s children say Amen and Amen in the name of Jehovah Jireh our provider of all things righteous and Holy!