Where are you prone to look for meaning in life? Pleasure, projects, possessions, power, profession…what is it for you? As we continue studying the book of Ecclesiastes, JP teaches through chapter 2, showing us the only place to find true meaning.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
-The dumbest thing you could do is to live out the experiment Solomon did thinking you will get a different result.
-Our pleasure apart from God is meaningless.
-The only thing believers use alcohol for is fellowship.
-Our projects apart from God are meaningless.
-Your home, yard, landscaping, renovation, or any other project is futile apart from the Lord.
-Solomon made over $2,700,000 per day. He threw a party where he served 22,000 cows and 150,000 sheep. He owned 12,000 horses and had 30,000 employees. You will not have a glimpse of his possessions.
-Our possessions apart from God are meaningless.
-You could have something that Bill Gates and Warren Buffet don’t have. Today.
-We all really want to be comfortable. To have enough where we can get to a place where we don’t have to worry.
-Liberalism and conservatism will both leave you empty. Neither are the answer to life’s problems or meaning.
-Our power apart from God is meaningless.
-A wise man learns from their mistakes, but a wiser man learns from the mistakes of others.
-The rich are infinitely better off than the poor because while the poor think money will bring them happiness the rich know better.
-People who are wealthy enough to actually do what they want to do when they want to do it are on a fast track to sickness.
-Our profession apart from God is meaningless.
-There is no job in the world that will provide enough meaning to your life.
-When you look at what you do with an eternal perspective everything can have meaning.
-The essence of enjoying something is found in using it. When you take things and put them in light of eternity, they can be enjoyed to the glory of God.
MENTIONED OR RECOMMENDED RESOURCES
-Suggested Scripture Study: Ecclesiastes 2; 1 Corinthians 10:31
-Sermon: The Search Begins