Title: A Challenge to All Ages
Text: Ecclesiastes 11:7-12:1
Date: October 29, 2023

Introduction: We often complain about our bad memories. However, we could not exist for a single day without this God-given ability to forget. To have to experience the accumulated pain of our previous days would be overwhelming. To have to experience the intensity of all our past failures and trials would be more than any of us could bear. Our ability to forget, therefore, is one of the blessings of life.

However, like most blessings, it is a mixed one, because the ability to forget also creates come problems. There are some things we need to forget. Other ideas, lessons, and teachings need to be remembered.

This was the thought of Solomon as he closes the Book of Ecclesiastes. He challenges us to remember some things that are very important in life and directs this challenge to all ages. How does Solomon break down the ages?

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Larry Gipson
First Baptist Church-Oneonta