Ecclesiastes 2
A Quest for Meaning: Living With Death
(1) A search for significance (1v12ff)
The paths of …
… Study / wisdom / knowledge (1v13, 16-18)
… Pleasure / laughter / wine (2vv1-3)
… Great projects (2v4-6) / riches (2v7-9)
… Entertainment (2v8) / self-indulgence (2v10)
… Work / labour / toil (2v10, 17-23)
(2) Dead ends – vanity / foggy vapour
2v5 – “few days”
2v14f – the same fate for wise and foolish
2v16 – quickly forgotten
2v16 – the wise man too must die
2vv18-19, 21 - Who will get it when you’re gone? - 1 Tim 6:7
(3) A way forward (2vv24-26)
Better to be wise (2v10, 13-14)
Don’t make the penultimate ultimate / confuse gifts and Giver
Death defeated -1 Cor 15:54-58
Matthew 6:19-21; 24-34
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