Sermons About Ecclesiastes
Ecclesiastes 9:1-12 - Seize Your Days
We don’t think about death very often because it can be very depressing, and when we do think about death it is with fear because of what we will lose and the uncertainty that lies after it. King Solomon reminds us that we are all going to die someday and that we need to live our days in light of that fact and enjoy the good things that God has put in our life. As Christians we do not need to fear death because God has given us the great promise that we will get to spend eternity with Him and sent His Son to die in our place to make it possible and rise from death to assure us that God can raise us from the dead as well.
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Ecclesiastes 8:1-17 - Burdens Under the Sun
In America we tend to be individualistic, rebellious, and distrustful of government. Solomon reminds us that without government, as flawed as it usually is, there would be more oppression and injustice in the world, so it is a burden under the sun that must be endured along with the injustice that still remains. We all look for ways to try and cope with this reality or escape from it with hedonism, ethics, and religiosity, but Solomon tells us that it would be best for us to simply fear God and enjoy the food, drink, and gifts that He has given to us.
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Soul Prosperity
We need to live in God’s righteousness, peace and joy on the inside all the time, not just cry out to God for it when we are in a crisis. Our soul is prospering when we are walking in step with Holy Spirit.
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Soul Prosperity
We need to live in God’s righteousness, peace and joy on the inside all the time, not just cry out to God for it when we are in a crisis. Our soul is prospering when we are walking in step with Holy Spirit.
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Ecclesiastes 6:10-7:29 - Wisdom on the Road to Death
There is wisdom to be found in remembering that someday you are going to die. King Solomon tells us that it is better to go to a funeral than to a party because the funeral reminds you of your own mortality and helps to sharpen your priorities. We should live our lives with the end in mind. We ponder about who we want to be at our funeral and what we want them to say about us, and then live in such a way as to make it possible. Solomon shares various nuggets of wisdom with us to help us to live skillfully while we are here and reminds us that God is ultimately in control and His ways are beyond our understanding.
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Ecclesiastes 5:8-6:9 - The Futility of Wealth
King Solomon was a man who had unparalleled wealth. He had amassed such a fortune that he could have whatever he wanted and wouldn’t have to think twice about what it cost him. What he came to realize after having all the money he could ever want is that if you love money you will never be satisfied by it. You will toil and stress yourself out to get it, and when you finally do, you won’t have the time or ability to enjoy it, and when you die you won’t be able to take it with you. Instead of devoting ourselves to accumulating wealth we should devote ourselves to following Jesus, and He will enable us to find satisfaction in the good things that He gives to us.
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Rewarded Beyond the Sun
In the book of Ecclesiastes King Solomon urges us not to waste the few days that we have on the earth chasing things that are meaningless and temporary. Jesus also urges us not to waste time storing up temporary things in this life but to work towards storing things in heaven where they will last forever. If we put our faith in Jesus and His death for us on the cross we get to spend eternity with Him, and we also can spend our days in this life doing good works that store up rewards for us in heaven. The things that we can do to store up rewards include being generous with our possessions, being hospitable, praying and fasting, working diligently at our jobs, enduring persecution, and sharing the Gospel. God wants us to spend our brief lives under the sun serving and obeying Him so that we would be rewarded beyond the sun.
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Seek the House of Mourning (Skip the Party, Find a Funeral)
Skip the party ... find a funeral. That's the essence of Solomon's advice to the wise in Ecclesiastes 7:1-6. In the house of mourning, eternal lessons can be learned. However, fools will head straight for the house of feasting. Their love of pleasure distorts their view of life and truth. This sermon conveys the folly of living for self and the wisdom of living for Christ.
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Ecclesiastes 3:16-4:3 - Disillusionment Under the Sun
Solomon turns his attention to the frustration and disillusionment that comes from the realization that there is so much injustice in the world. The strong oppress the weak without consequence, and many of the wrongs done cannot be reversed or repaired. The authorities and structures that are in place to enforce justice are often corrupted themselves and contribute to the oppression. Consequences are often not doled out fairly; the rich get off and the poor get punished more severely than they should. Seeing all of this and feeling helpless to prevent it led King Solomon to despair and conclude that it would be better to have never been born than to see all of the injustice done under the sun. Solomon does say, though, that he knows that God will eventually judge the righteous and the wicked and bring everyone to an account for their actions.
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Ecclesiastes 2:18-3:15 - Despair
Solomon warns us that all of our hard work and accomplishments that we strive for under the sun only lead to frustration, toil, and sleepless nights, and then some day we will die and leave all of our accomplishments and earnings to someone else, and we don’t know if they will use them wisely or squander them foolishly. God has set up creation in such a way that everything has its own appointed time and all good things come to an end, but he has written eternity in our heart so that we are frustrated when good things do end. Rather than chase and toil after things that will not last but quickly pass Solomon tells us to simply enjoy the good things that God has already put in our lives and fear Him while we are young.
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