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THE MAJOR DUTY OF MAN or a LIFE WITHOUT MEANING

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13 The end of the matter; all has been heard.

Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.

YOU CAN KNOW THE MAJOR DUTIES OF MAN BY payING attention to THE advice OF SOLOMON IN VS 13

Intro

Condolences to the Family

Life is so short, so unpredicatable

it causes us to ask what is the purpose of my life

Hurray for a child

That makes it through

If there's any way

Because the answer lies in you

They're laid to rest

Before they've known just what to do

Their souls are lost

Because they could never find

What's this life for

You ever asked yourself that question?

What on earth is this life for?

Everyone of us has wrestled with this question

If you ask a million different ppl the qus

Some college students were asked to give a definition of life.

Here are some that won honorable mention:

"Life is a joke that isn't even funny."

"Life is a jail sentence that we get for the crime of being born."

"Life is a disease for which the only cure is death."

That sounds cynical, doesn't it?

And, I'm afraid many college students are just like that.

But, life is empty.

Life is vain apart from God.

Now, I'm going to tell you a secret.

God engineered it that way.

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Now, the Book of Ecclesiastes is the journal of King Solomon.

Now, King Solomon had everything.

I mean, you talk about a man that had everything!

Listen, folks.

He had it all: He had power; he had popularity; he had prosperity; he had prestige; he had pleasure—anything his heart could desire.

He had it all; and yet, it was a washout for him.

He learned how to have a living, but not a life.

He was drawing his breath and dying at the same time.

And, I think that, if he'd been living today, somebody might say to him, "Hey, man, get a life!"

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1. Fear God

2. Keep his commands

In simple terms apart from God – life is meaningless

God has wired us that way

Augustine said, “You created us for Yourself, O God, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in You.”

1. Apart from God, Wisdom is Meaningless

The more a man learns, the more he realizes he doesn't understand.

Bertrand Russell said, "Philosophy proved a washout for me."

You see, apart from God, God has engineered that your life is going to be meaningless.

16 For the wise, like the fool, will not be long remembered;

the days have already come when both have been forgotten.

Like the fool, the wise too must die!

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Here's a man that goes off to school: He studies, and studies, and studies, and studies, and studies; he gets a Ph.D.; he learns all of these things; he walks this way; his eyes are in his head.

Here's another guy: He could care less; he doesn't do anything.

And, they both somehow get through life.

They die.

They go to the ground, and they're both gone.

Solomon said, "Wait, what happened to all this knowledge?"

Down into the dirt—it's gone, gone, gone.

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SO VERY WISE IN THER OWN EYES

on the beach.

And, we made a sand alligator—incredibly beautiful, about eight-feet-long.

And, we crafted that out of sand, and we worked on it all morning long.

It was great.

We just could hardly wait for people walking down the beach to come and see our alligator.

We went off to do something and came back—do you know what had happened?

The sand was perfectly smooth.

The water had come up and taken our sand alligator away, and it's like it never had been there.

That's what Solomon is saying.

"Listen," he is saying, "apart from God, wisdom is meaningless."

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Get educated but also be educated in the Word as well

One will help you in this world, the other will be help with your soul

2. Apart from God, Wealth is Meaningless

He's saying, "Apart from God, wealth is meaningless."

Look in 6:1, 2: "There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men: A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease" ().

Remember when you were young?

You couldn't afford anything but beans and rice, but you had a cast iron stomach.

And now, you can eat prime rib, but the doctor won't let you.

Isn't that amazing?

That's what Solomon is saying.

And so, somebody eats the things that you have worked for.

He's saying, "Apart from God, wisdom is meaningless.

Apart from God, wealth is meaningless."

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We spend all our waking hours today trying to get rich

Look at what is happening in Trinidad

So much crime

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Little Kid in Arima being killed

All because of this desire to be richer than others.

Don't pursue the Almighty dollar but pursue of the Almighty Father

3. Apart from God, Work is Meaningless

"Apart from God, work is meaningless."