Meaningless Meaningless says the Teacher Utterly meaningless Everything is meaningless Ecclesiastes 12 With Out God The Search for Meaning Part VI I Living Is Meaningless Without God vv 12 ID: 783683
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Slide1
Slide2He is the Professor
We are the Students
Slide3Slide4“ ‘Meaningless! Meaningless!’ says the Teacher. ‘Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.’ ”
Ecclesiastes 1:2
Slide5With-
Out
God
Slide6The Search for Meaning
Part
VI
I. Living Is Meaningless Without God (vv. 1-2)
II. Dying Is Meaningless Without God (vv. 3-6)
III. Effort Is Meaningless Without God (vv. 7-9)
Existence Is Meaningless Without God
(vv. 10-12)
Slide7Good
to appreciate the basics of food and water
(v.18)
Need to
find satisfaction
in our work (v.18)
The days of our lives are what
God
has
given
(v.18)God gives wealth and possessions (v.19)God enables us to enjoy these possessions (v.19)To be able to be happy with our lives and our work is a gift from God (v.19)We are not overwhelmed by the past because God gives us gladness of heart (v.20)
Ecclesiastes 5:18-20
Slide8With-
Out
God
Slide9“God gives a man wealth, possessions, and honor.”
Ecclesiastes 6:2
Slide10“God gives a man wealth, possessions, and honor.”
“But God does not enable him to enjoy them.”
Ecclesiastes 6:2
Slide11With-
Out
God
Slide12Slide13With-
Out
God
Slide14The Search for Meaning
Part
VI
I. Living Is Meaningless Without God (vv. 1-2)
II. Dying Is Meaningless Without God (vv. 3-6)
III. Effort Is Meaningless Without God (vv. 7-9)
Existence Is Meaningless Without God
(vv. 10-12)
Slide15“A man may have a hundred children.”
Ecclesiastes 6:3
Slide16“A man may have a hundred children.”
“And live many years.”
Ecclesiastes 6:3
Slide17“All our days pass away under your wrath;
we finish our years with a moan. The length of our days is seventy years-
or eighty, if we have the strength;
yet their span is but trouble and sorrow,
for they quickly pass, and we fly away. Who knows the power of your anger?
For your wrath is as great as the fear that is due you. Teach us to number our days aright,
that we may gain a heart of wisdom.”
Psalm 90:9-12
Slide18“A man may have a hundred children.”
“And live many years.”
“Yet no matter how long he lives, if he cannot enjoy his prosperity.”
Ecclesiastes 6:3
Slide19“A man may have a hundred children.”
“And live many years.”
“Yet no matter how long he lives, if he cannot enjoy his prosperity.”
“And does not receive a proper burial.”
Ecclesiastes 6:3
Slide20Slide21“I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.”
Ecclesiastes 6:3
Slide22“Why did I not perish at birth, and die as I came from the womb?”
“Or why was I not hidden in the ground like a stillborn child, like an infant who never saw the light of day?”
Job 3:11,16
Slide23UNBORN BABY: “Never saw the sun or knew anything.” (v.5)
MAN WITHOUT GOD: “Lives a thousand years twice over but fails to enjoy his prosperity.” (v.6)
Compare
Slide24“Years on earth do not even matter. The eternal life is what is important. Two thousand years would not be long enough for man (without God) to find satisfaction in this life. The only real satisfaction is in the Lord.”
-Ken Cayce
Slide25With-
Out
God
Slide26The Search for Meaning
Part
VI
I. Living Is Meaningless Without God (vv. 1-2)
II. Dying Is Meaningless Without God (vv. 3-6)
III. Effort Is Meaningless Without God (vv. 7-9)
Existence Is Meaningless Without God
(vv. 10-12)
Slide27Slide28Slide29“All man's efforts are for his mouth, yet his appetite is never satisfied.”
Ecclesiastes 6:7
Slide30“What advantage has a wise man over a fool?”
-Ecclesiastes 6:8
Slide31Slide32With-
Out
God
Slide33The Search for Meaning
Part
VI
I. Living Is Meaningless Without God (vv. 1-2)
II. Dying Is Meaningless Without God (vv. 3-6)
III. Effort Is Meaningless Without God (vv. 7-9)
Existence Is Meaningless Without God
(vv. 10-12)
Slide34“What exists has already been named”
-Ecclesiastes 6:10
PREDETERMINED
Slide35“What exists has already been named”
“And what man is has
been known”
-Ecclesiastes 6:10
Slide36“What exists has already been named”
“And what man is has been known”
“No man can contend with one who is stronger than he”
-Ecclesiastes 6:10
Slide37“Many today refuse to know what Solomon knew. They believe that when they face God they will in fact contend with him, and tell God a thing or two. Such are seriously and sadly deluded.”
-David
Guzik
Slide38“The more there is, the more empty. What man is better for it?”
“The more the
words
, the less the meaning.”
“Many
things
in life lead to vanity.”
Ecclesiastes 6:11
Slide39“For who knows what is good for a man in life?”
-Ecclesiastes 6:12
Slide40Slide41“Who knows what will happen under the sun after he is gone?”
-Ecclesiastes 6:12
Slide42With-
Out
God
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