The Meaning of Life

Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.

Vanity Five times in 1:2 & three times in 12:8 38 times in book Every chapter except 10 Doubled for emphasis

Temporary (vapor, mist) Insubstantial False or deceptive Meaningless Absurd Not satisfying Vanity

What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?

A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever.

88 All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

1010 Is there a thing of which it is said, “See, this is new”? It has been already in the ages before us.

1111 There is no remembrance of former things, nor will there be any remembrance of later things yet to be among those who come after.

When you die… 1. You will be forgotten 2. The world will be the same 3. What you’ve done will be washed away

a time to be born, and a time to die;

a time to kill, and a time to heal;

a time to love, and a time to hate;

Funny the way it is, if you think about it Somebody’s going hungry and someone else is eating out Funny the way it is, not right or wrong Somebody’s heart is broken and it becomes your favorite song

Funny the way it is, if you think about it One kid walks 10 miles to school, another’s dropping out Funny the way it is, not right or wrong On a soldier’s last breath his baby’s being born Dave Matthews

9 What gain has the worker from his toil? 10 I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with. 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. Ecclesiastes 3

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. C. S. Lewis

13 The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. Ecclesiastes 12

14 For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil. Ecclesiastes 12

What if there is MORE than life “under the sun”?

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain. 1 Corinthians 15:58

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain. 1 Corinthians 15:58