THIS SUNDAY! Join Element at Ferini Park in Los Alamos at 9:00am for ONE Church Service In The Park! All are welcome. Help us Celebrate together with Old Days.
Aaron Carlberg - October 6, 2019
25. Listening Over The Vapor - Ecclesiastes 9:11-16
This is week 25 of our walk through the book of Ecclesiastes. In Ecclesiastes 9 Solomon will talk about death and joy, injustice and pain, what we need to remember and what we forget. The idea being that God is good enough to provide joy before death and we should embrace it as long as we can. While we have life, we also have the opportunity to make the most of our days and maximize the lot in life God has given us. The day will arrive when death overtakes us and our labors come to an end, so until that day comes we should be ambitious about our jobs, homes, families, friends, churches, and ministries because we have no idea what God may do in us and through us tomorrow.
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.
