Message: “12. Vapor Comparison | Ecclesiastes 4:9-16” from Aaron Carlberg

As we keep saying, a big push in the book of Ecclesiastes is the question, “What is the meaning of life?” Do we live our lives as if they are expressions of gifts we have ALREADY received or do we live like we are always searching for something? If you are having a hard time figuring that out, Ecclesiastes is a great starting point to have an awareness that all we have and have been through is from the hand of God. When that truth begins to click we enter into the realm of the eternal. Joy doesn’t have a beginning and end just like peace doesn’t have a beginning and end. When the temporary takes over our life we become lost, it becomes vapor.

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From Series: "Ecclesiastes - The Existential Hangover"

Ecclesiastes is a book that deals with the idea of our existence. The teacher of the book looks at life "under the sun," which is a way to say "our life a part from who God is." Under the sun refers to all of our works that are temporary and contrasts them with things that are eternal, the things that belong to God who isn't confined to live "under the sun." The book looks at a life of someone who achieved everything anyone could have wanted yet still wakes up the next day and says, "now what?" We are calling the series the Existential Hangover because we will deal with our lives and how they are meaningless without Jesus. Ecclesiastes asks questions that can only be answered by the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

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