Page 14 - Lovers of Pleasures More than Lovers of God
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come to great estate, and have gotten
more wisdom than all they that have been
before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had
great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
17 And I gave my heart to know wisdom,
and to know madness and folly: I
perceived that this also is vexation of
spirit.”
Pleasure in and of itself is not sinful
Deriving pleasure from innocent and
“benign” activities and from God’s material
gifts and provisions is not sinful in and of
itself. In Ecclesiastes 5:18-20, Solomon
says, “Behold that which I have seen: it
is good and comely for one to eat and to
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