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Be Sure to Live
Before You Die!
Ecclesiastes 9:1-18
November 14, 2021
The Big Idea:
Death has been called the great equalizer since it
comes to all people.
Solomon’s wisdom is that we should come to grips
with our impending death and only then are we prepared to truly live in
the days the Lord gives us.
Only through Jesus are the enemies of sin and
death vanquished so that we can live now and forever.
Ecclesiastes 9 (ESV)
9 But all this I laid to heart, examining it all, how the righteous and the
wise and their deeds are in the hand of God.
Whether it is love or hate, man
does not know; both are before him.
TRUTH #1: If you do not trust that your life is held in the sovereign hand
of God, you will go mad.
2
It is the same for all, since the same event happens to the righteous and the
wicked, to the good and the evil, to the clean and the unclean, to him who
sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice.
As the good one is, so is the sinner,
and he who swears is as he who shuns an oath.
3 This is an evil in all that is
done under the sun, that the same event happens to all.
Also, the hearts of
the children of man are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they
live, and after that they go to the dead.
TRUTH #2: Death comes to all.
It is an absolute certainty.
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Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God
has already approved what you do.
8
Let your garments be always white.
Let not oil be lacking on your head.
9
Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that he
has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your
toil at which you toil under the sun.
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Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work
or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.
TRUTH #3: Life should be enjoyed with the ones you love.
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Again I saw that under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to
the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to
those with knowledge, but time and chance happen to them all.
12 For man
does not know his time.
Like fish that are taken in an evil net, and like birds
that are caught in a snare, so the children of man are snared at an evil time,
when it suddenly falls upon them.
TRUTH #4: Good and bad things happen to all kinds of people.
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I have also seen this example of wisdom under the sun, and it seemed great
to me.
14 There was a little city with few men in it, and a great king came
against it and besieged it, building great siegeworks against it.
15 But there was
found in it a poor, wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city.
Yet no
one remembered that poor man.
16 But I say that wisdom is better than might,
though the poor man’s wisdom is despised and his words are not heard.
17
The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the shouting of a ruler
among fools.
18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner
destroys much good.
TRUTH #5: We should live wisely, but not expect that everyone will listen
or understand.
ULTIMATE TRUTH: Only Jesus Delivers from Death and Sin and Gives Us
Abundant & Eternal Life
Ecclesiastes 3:1
• We long for a return to Eden, to live in a perfect world
• Revelation 21-22 says we can!
Romans 5:12-21
• Through one man, Adam, came sin and death.
• Through one Man, Jesus, came grace, justification, righteousness, eternal
life.
John 10:10
Romans 8:29 – For the rest of our lives on this earth, we are to be conformed to
the image of the Son.
• When you’ve been truly saved and are being conformed to the image of the
Son, you’ll love and enjoy God’s gifts, because they taste and feel like home.
And, home is where your Lord is.
“Let us eat, drink and be merry for yesterday we were dead, but today we
are alive!”
Russell Moore
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