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Rev. Mac Ranie Reyes
UBC Manila


 

The “Secret Sauce”

Two are better than one…

Ecclesiastes 4:7-12

 

What’s your favorite sauce?

Discover the “secret sauce” of the super 5 ingredients to a healthy lifestyle.

Life is designed not for isolation but for union.

 

1. USELESSNESS OF ISOLATION (vv. 7-8)

(7) Then I returned, and I saw the vanity under the sun: (8) There is one alone, without companion: He has neither son nor brother. Yet there is no end to all his labors, nor is his eye satisfied with riches. But he never asks, “For whom do I toil and deprive myself of good?” This also is vanity and a grave misfortune.

Issue:
Aloneness
Covetousness

 

Life Question:
For whom do I toil and deprive myself of good?

 

Useless labor
Useless pursuit
Useless life

 

2. USEFULNESS OF COMPANION (v. 9)

(9) Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.

A. Better Together
B. Better Reward

 

3. USES OF UNION (vv. 10-12)

Supporting

(10) For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls. For he has no one to help him up.

Strengthening

(11) Again, if two lie down together, they will keep warm; but how can one be warm alone?

Shielding

(12) Though one may be empowered by another, two can withstand him. And a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

 

Enjoy journeying to a healthy lifestyle…

(The Daniel Plan)

FOOD
FITNESS
FAITH
FOCUS
FRIENDS (“The Secret Sauce”)

 

CONCLUSION

SET-UP…
ENLIST…
ENGAGE…

Heavenly Father, our desire is that we will become people who are healthy, but more important than that, people who have a heart for You, who love You with all our hearts, love our neighbors as we love ourselves. We believe that Your Word teaches us the truth about love. Help us become loving people. Help us to treat each others, the way You treat us. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

Vision: To see equipped members fulfilling the Great Commission.