Welcome to House Church. My name's Alex. Tonight, I want to talk to you about how God's fatherhood changes you.

So there's two ways we're going to look at in Ecclesiastes chapter 3, verses 9 through 14.

So if you have your Bibles, you can open there or you can read on the screen behind me.

Ecclesiastes chapter 3, 9 through 14. Let's start with reading these verses and then we'll jump into how God's fatherhood

changes us. We all know that God is our father, but what does that actually mean? Glad you asked.

Ecclesiastes chapter 3, 9 through 14. What gain has the worker from his toil? I've seen the

business that God has given to the children of man to be

busy with. He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into a man's heart.

Circle that word eternity, if you have your Bible's open, yet so that he cannot find out what God

has done from the beginning to end. Verse 12, I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good

as long as they live.

Also, verse 13, that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in his toil.

Underline that word pleasure.

This is God's gift to man. I perceived, verse 14,

that whatever God does endures forever, nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it.

God has done it so that people may fear him, fear before him. Underline that one. That's the last one for

today. Putting you guys to work today.

Underline fear. Verse 15, that which is already has been and which is to be already has been.

And God seeks what has been driven away. So Kruger National Park is a park in South Africa.

And they had no little to no

elephants there. They had this, you know, epidemic where all elephants were dying. Suddenly they all

started coming back. Baby elephants are going crazy or whatever and they're having tons and

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