We are in week 12 in our series on the book of Ecclesiastes. Ecclesiastes is a look at an old man surveying his life and realizing that everything apart from God is meaningless because there is no purpose in life if there is no God. Solomon will make a lot of comparisons throughout the book, he will make these comparisons to help us understand what is actually better in life. Trusting God, community, friendships, good food, and wisdom are all better than their counterparts of loneliness, foolishness, despair, and vapor.
Today Solomon starts to run full force at our need for friendships with one another, he will do this in practical ways by speaking about safety and security.
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.
