Sermon Cloud

WHY> Week 2: Why Should I Believe in God in the First Place?

A Relationship with God…

1. Offers lasting meaning.

Eccles. 1:1-3 (NIV) The words of the Teacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem:

[2] "Meaningless! Meaningless!" says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is

meaningless." [3] What does man gain from all his labor at which he toils under the

sun?

2. Gives significance.

Eccles. 1:4-8 (NIV): Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains

forever. [5] The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises. [6] The

wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning

on its course. [7] All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the

streams come from, there they return again. [8] All things are wearisome, more than one

can say. The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing.

3. Empowers life change.

Eccles. 1:9-11 What has been will be again, what has been done will be done

again; there is nothing new under the sun. [10] Is there anything of which one can say,

“Look! This is something new"? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our

time.

Eccles. 12:13-14 (NIV): Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the

matter: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.

James 2:19 (NIV): You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons

believe that and shudder.