Ecclesiastes: Why Everything Matters (Preaching the Word)
ECCLESIASTES 5:10
Philip Graham Ryken • Ecclesiastes: Why Everything Matters (Preaching the Word)
Insert the concpets of the ress to these vesres (5:8-20) under the previous verse 5:1-7 on worship!
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he is God and we are not.
Philip Graham Ryken • Ecclesiastes: Why Everything Matters (Preaching the Word)
he is in Heaven and we are on earth,
Philip Graham Ryken • Ecclesiastes: Why Everything Matters (Preaching the Word)
one whom we must revere.
Philip Graham Ryken • Ecclesiastes: Why Everything Matters (Preaching the Word)
The book thus moves from vanity to reverence.
Philip Graham Ryken • Ecclesiastes: Why Everything Matters (Preaching the Word)
he finally reaches the conclusion of his spiritual quest, he will say that the goal of life is the fear of God
Philip Graham Ryken • Ecclesiastes: Why Everything Matters (Preaching the Word)
Ecclesiastes began with the vanity of vanities — the futility of life in a fallen world. Here we see such vanity in the idle daydreams and foolish words of a churchgoer who only pretends to worship, without ever really offering his mind and his heart to God.