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Wisdom: The Art of Godly Living

Ecclesiastes in Five Weeks

Ecclesiastes in Two Words

Ecclesiastes in Two Words

Ecclesiastes 4

1 Again I looked and saw all the oppression that was

taking place under the sun…

4 And I saw that all labor and all achievement spring from

man’s envy of his neighbor….

8 There was a man all alone; he had neither son nor

brother…This too is meaningless— a miserable business!

Ecclesiastes 4

4 Two are better than one, because they have a good

return for their work…

12 Though one may be overpowered, two can defend

• themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.

Ecclesiastes 5

1 Guard your steps when you go to the house of God… 4 When you make a vow to God…fulfill your vow. 7 Therefore stand in awe of God.

Ecclesiastes 5

18 Then I realized that it is good and proper for a man to

eat and drink, and to find satisfaction in his toilsome labor under the sun during the few days of life God has given him…19 this is a gift of God.

Ecclesiastes 6

3 A man may have a hundred children and live many

years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he cannot enjoy his prosperity and does not receive proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

Ecclesiastes 7

2 It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a

house of feasting, for death is the destiny of every man; the living should take this to heart.

Ecclesiastes 8

12 Although a wicked man commits a hundred crimes and

still lives a long time, I know that it will go better with God-fearing men, who are reverent before God.

Ecclesiastes 9

7 Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine

with a joyful heart, for it is now that God favors what you

• do. 8 Always be clothed in white, and always anoint your

head with oil.

Ecclesiastes 9

9 Enjoy life with your wife, whom you love, all the days

• f this meaningless life that God has given you under the

sun— all your meaningless days. For this is your lot in life and in your toilsome labor under the sun.

10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your

might, for in the grave, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.

(Brief)

Spend Your (Brief) Life For God

Spend Your (Brief) Life For God

Ecclesiastes 11:1 Cast your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will find it again.

Spend Your (Brief) Life For God

Matthew 6:19–21 “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and

• steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart

will be also.”

Spend Your (Brief) Life For God

Ecclesiastes 11:2 Give portions to seven, yes to eight, for you do not know what disaster may come upon the land.

Spend Your (Brief) Life For God

Ecclesiastes 11:3–4 If clouds are full of water, they pour rain upon the

• earth. Whether a tree falls to the south or to the

north, in the place where it falls, there will it lie. Whoever watches the wind will not plant; whoever looks at the clouds will not reap.

Spend Your (Brief) Life For God

Matthew 25:16, 18 The man who had received the five talents went at

• nce and put his money to work and gained five

more…But the man who had received the one talent went off, dug a hole in the ground and hid his master’s money.

Spend Your (Brief) Life For God

Ecclesiastes 11:2 Give portions to seven, yes to eight, for you do not know what disaster may come upon the land.

Spend Your (Brief) Life For God

Ecclesiastes 11:5 As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.

Spend Your (Brief) Life For God

Isaiah 40:13–14 Who has understood the mind of the LORD, or instructed him as his counselor? Whom did the LORD consult to enlighten him, and who taught him the right way? Who was it that taught him knowledge or showed him the path of understanding?

Spend Your (Brief) Life For God

Isaiah 40:27 Why do you say, O Jacob, and complain, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the LORD; my cause is disregarded by my God”?

Spend Your (Brief) Life For God

Romans 11:33 Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out!

Spend Your (Brief) Life For God

Romans 12:1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act

• f worship.

Spend Your (Brief) Life For God

Ecclesiastes 11:6 Sow your seed in the morning, and at evening let not your hands be idle, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or whether both will do equally well.

Spend Your (Brief) Life For God