Pointless
Is life all about having a good time and self satisfaction?
Life can be very boring without Jesus.
Life
is meaningless
Earthly wisdom
is meaningless
What
does meaningless mean?
No
significance, waisted energy, pointless.
We
go through life chasing the wind!!!
Life
is only about chasing the wind, it’s meaningless and we pass away.
Everything
in this world is meaningless without Jesus.
Life
of the world is meaningless without God, it’s all about pride and vanity,
searching for long term happiness which is never found.
Life
here on earth is transitory.
Dictionary
- meaningless
having
no meaning especially ; lacking any significance. having no assigned
function in a language system.
Pointless,
senseless.
Basically
in Ecclesiastes Solomon is stating the life on earth without God is
meaningless. We go through life searching for satisfaction and accomplishments
to please ourselves then pass away. It’s all about pride and vanity.
Life
is nothing without God, it is meaningless,
He
created us and everything in the World.
With
Him and His precepts and his exhortations we have love,
faith, and humility while growing in righteousness and sanctification.
In
Ecclesiastes Solomon applied to all works on earth, to pleasure, grandeur,
wisdom, the life of man, childhood, youth, and length of days, the oblivion of
the grave, wandering and unsatisfied desires, unenjoyed possessions, and
anomalies in the moral government of the world.
Solomon
speaks of the world-wide existence of “vanity,” not with bitterness or scorn,
but as a fact, which forced itself on him as he advanced in knowledge of men
and things, and which he regards with sorrow and perplexity. From such feelings
he finds refuge by contrasting this with another fact, which he holds with
equal firmness, namely, that the whole universe is made and is governed
by a God of justice, goodness, and power.
Solomon
discusses ten vanities—ten things that are “meaningless” when considered from
the limited point of view of “under the sun.” Without God, human
wisdom is meaningless (2:14–16); labor (2:18–23); amassing things
(2:26); life itself (3:18–22); competition (4:4); selfish overwork (4:7–8);
power and authority (4:16); greed (5:10); wealth and accolades (6:1–2); and
perfunctory religion (8:10–14).
When
Solomon says, “Everything is meaningless,” he did not mean that everything in
the world is of zero value. Rather, his point is that all human efforts
apart from God’s will are meaningless. Solomon had it all, and
he had tried everything, but when he left God out of the equation, nothing
satisfied him. There is purpose in life, and it is found in knowing God
and keeping His commands. That’s why Solomon ends his book this way;
“Now
all has been heard;
here
is the conclusion of the matter:
Fear
God and keep his commandments,
for
this is the duty of all mankind” (Ecclesiastes 12:13).
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Ecclesiastes
1
Everything
Is Meaningless
1 The words of the Teacher,[son
of David, king in Jerusalem:
2
“Meaningless!
Meaningless!”
says
the Teacher.
“Utterly
meaningless!
Everything
is meaningless.”
3
What
do people gain from all their labors
at
which they toil under the sun?
4
Generations
come and generations go,
but
the earth remains forever.
5
The
sun rises and the sun sets,
and
hurries back to where it rises.
6
The
wind blows to the south
and
turns to the north;
round
and round it goes,
ever
returning on its course.
7
All
streams flow into the sea,
yet
the sea is never full.
To
the place the streams come from,
there
they return again.
8
All
things are wearisome,
more
than one can say.
The
eye never has enough of seeing,
nor
the ear its fill of hearing.
9
What
has been will be again,
what
has been done will be done again;
there
is nothing new under the sun.
10
Is
there anything of which one can say,
“Look!
This is something new”?
It
was here already, long ago;
it
was here before our time.
11
No
one remembers the former generations,
and
even those yet to come
will
not be remembered
by
those who follow them.
Wisdom
Is Meaningless
12 I, the Teacher, was king over
Israel in Jerusalem. 13 I applied my mind to study and to explore
by wisdom all that is done under the heavens. What a heavy burden God has laid
on mankind! 14 I have seen all the things that are done under the
sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
15
What
is crooked cannot be straightened;
what
is lacking cannot be counted.
16 I said to myself, “Look, I
have increased in wisdom more than anyone who has ruled over Jerusalem before
me; I have experienced much of wisdom and knowledge.” 17 Then I
applied myself to the understanding of wisdom, and also of madness and folly,
but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind.
18
For
with much wisdom comes much sorrow;
the
more knowledge, the more grief.
Isaiah
29;21
Who
cause a person to be indicted by a word, And ensnare him who adjudicates at the
gate, And defraud the one in the right with meaningless
arguments.
Isaiah
40;17
All
the nations are as nothing before Him, They are regarded by Him as less than
nothing and meaningless.
Isaiah
40;23
He it
is who reduces rulers to nothing, Who makes the judges of the earth meaningless.
Matthew
6;7
“And
when you are praying, do not use meaningless repetition as the
Gentiles do, for they suppose that they will be heard for their many words.
Timothy
Skon
7/16/19