I've Got Some Questions

An exposition of Ecclesiastes 5-6

Some people are not asking the right questions; they’re trying to get the Bible to answer questions it doesn’t.

God wants you asking questions; He’s asking you to ask questions. Better to ask questions than be too busy or too uninterested to ask. Listen to some questions:

Why Should God Be Angry at Your Words? (5:1-7)

There’s people in the church culture who have no idea that they should be listening.

If you make a vow, a pledge, a commitment, you must keep your word. So, be careful about what you promise.

We make commitments when we feel like making them so that we’ll keep them when we don’t feel like keeping them.

What Advantage to Being Rich? (5:8-12)

If you love money, I have a question for you. When will you be satisfied? When will your income be enough? Listen to the YouTube message above to hear about what advantage you get for being rich.

The love of money is a treadmill on which you run and run and never get anywhere.

What Gain Is There to Working Hard (5:13-17)

It’s a “grievous evil” to have worked hard for money that is lost in a failed business venture. Listen to the YouTube message above to hear about what gain you get under the sun.

What Are You Supposed To Do? (5:18-6:6)

Money cannot buy the ability to enjoy money. It cannot buy sleep, brains, a home., health, peace, friends, love, joy, a church, a Savior.

You glorify the giver when His good gifts give you joy.

That you have to “find” enjoyment implies that sometimes it will take a lot of looking. Sometimes enjoyment is hiding. Here “under the sun,” an evil that “lies heavy” on us is when we lack that ability to find enjoyment

Unanswered Questions (6:7-12)

Our work is an endless cycle of getting up early, going to work, so I can get the money, so I can eat. What’s the use? Listen to the YouTube message above to hear about what’s the use.

Why is it better to know how to be moral, wise, if your morality and decency doesn’t result in more money and a better house?

What if every pain we suffered, every pleasure we deprived ourselves of, for something better, here “under the sun,” comes to nothing?

Don’t live only for what is “under the sun.”

Find pleasure now, even though we know everything is falling apart, because we did not put our love, our treasure in what is “under the sun,” but in heaven, where Christ sits at the right hand of God, in Him who is over the sun.

Listen to the YouTube message above to hear about what is over the sun.

Covenant Reformed Baptist Church is Caswell County’s/Danville’s Reformed church.