Ecclesiastes – Part 1
October 6, 2024
Lead Pastor Paul Castelli
Ecclesiastes – Finding Meaning in a Meaningless World
Part 1
Ecclesiastes 1:1-14 NIV
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.
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.
Ecclesiastes 1:1-11 NIV
1 The words of the Teacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem:
2 “Meaningless! Meaningless!”
says the Teacher.
“Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless.”
“There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of each man, which cannot be satisfied by any created thing… but only by God the Creator, made known through Jesus Christ”
Next Steps
- I will accept Jesus as my Lord and Savior.
- I will ask God to show me lasting meaning in Him.
- I will sign up for #ForHernando Oct 12th and/or Baptism Oct 20th.
- I will memorize Ecclesiastes 1:3
Ecclesiastes 1:3
3 What do people gain from all their labors
at which they toil under the sun?