True satisfaction cannot be found…

1. In human accomplishments, but that doesn’t stop people trying to find it there.
2. By increasing your wisdom.
3. In the pleasure you experience from indulging in what this world offers you.
4. In working to achieve simply for the sake of saying you did it.
5. By

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wise living over foolish living.

- It’s better to

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in the light of wisdom than the darkness of fools. (v.13-14)

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comes for both the wise and foolish, no one escapes. (v.14b-15)

- No one

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you after you die, both the wise and the foolish are forgotten (v.16)

Sermon Text & References

Ecclesiastes 2:12-17 (CSB)
12 Then I turned to consider wisdom, madness, and folly, for what will the king’s successor be like? He will do what has already been done. 13 And I realized that there is an advantage to wisdom over folly, like the advantage of light over darkness. 14 The wise person has eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also knew that one fate comes to them both. 15 So I said to myself, “What happens to the fool will also happen to me. Why then have I been overly wise?” And I said to myself that this is also futile. 16 For, just like the fool, there is no lasting remembrance of the wise, since in the days to come both will be forgotten. How is it that the wise person dies just like the fool? 17 Therefore, I hated life because the work that was done under the sun was distressing to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

Matthew 7:21–27 (CSB)
24 “Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 The rain fell, the rivers rose, and the winds blew and pounded that house. Yet it didn’t collapse, because its foundation was on the rock. 26 But everyone who hears these words of mine and doesn’t act on them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. 27 The rain fell, the rivers rose, the winds blew and pounded that house, and it collapsed. It collapsed with a great crash.”

Matthew 25:31–34 (CSB)
31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. 32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate them one from another, just as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on the left. 34 Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

Next week:
Ecclesiastes 2:18-26

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