(04-09-2023) Bro. Allan Barabat
=The Missing Piece Sermon Series: Book of Ecclesiastes=
QUESTIONS:
• How to find what really matters?
• What am i here for?
• Is happiness still out of reach?
• Man search for meaning
"What is the meaning of LIFE?"
ANONE (to listen) (Hey listen!)
Jedidah = Beloved of the Lord
King Solomon (1 Kings 3:5 "Gift of Wisdom")
> Song of Solomon
> Proverbs
> Ecclesiastes
"qoholet" = preacher, searcher, quester
"What could be the purpose and meaning of life? Is there a reason for living?"
=Anone! Anona?=
*Ecclesiastes 1:1-2
"1 The words of the Teacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem:
Who is King Solomon?
2 "Meaningless! Meaningless!" says the Teacher. "Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless."
Utterly, Everything
Meaningless: Hebel (??) --> Hebrew --> smoke, mist, vapor, breath
3 What does man gain from all his labor at which he toils under the sun?
Why Life is Meaningless?
1. R-outinary (Paikot-ikot)
*Ecclesiastes 1:4-7
4 Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever.
+The Course of Life
5 The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises.
+The Circle of the Sun
6 The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course.
+The Circuit of the Wind
7 All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again.
+The Cycle of the Water
9 What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
*Ecclesiastes 1:8
8 All things are wearisome, more than one can say. The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing.
"Booooooring!"
*Hedonism: philosophical doctrine (pleasure or happiness is the sole ot chief good in life)
> Originated from the Ancient Greek
*1 Corinthians 10:23
"23 "Everything is permissible"--but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible"--but not everything is constructive.
2. T-emporary (Panandalian lang)
11 There is no remembrance of men of old, and even those who are yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow.
*Humanism (progressive philosophy)
3. W-orthless
*Ecclesiastes 1:17
"17 Then I applied myself to the understanding of wisdom, and also of madness and folly, but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind.
> Worthless
"What could be the purpose and meaning of life? Is there a reason for living?"
Wrong starting point: OURSELVES
What do I want to be?
What should I do to earn a living?
"...under the sun."
> 29x
> Earth-bounded view
> Not thinking beyond the earthly life
> Deleting God in the picture of your life
+ Consider a right starting point in looking at the meaning of life.
*Ecclesiastes 12:1
"1 Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come and the years approach when you will say, "I find no pleasure in them"-
"Look for yourself, and you will find loneliness and despair. But look for Christ and you will find him and everything else."
-C.S. Lewis
Your Reason for Living:
1. Starts with God
*Isaiah 43:7
"7 everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made."
2. Created for His Glory.
*Romans 11:36
"36 For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen.
3. Designed for His Purpose.
*Ephesians 2:10
"10 For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
"God designed you for His Glory and Purpose."
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