Building a Life of Purpose

Ecclesiastes 1:1-15

October 15, 2006
Speaker: Randal Myers

Life Seems Useless
- “Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.”
  Ecclesiastes 1:2
Life Seems Tiresome
- All things are wearisome, more than one can say.
  Ecclesiastes 1:8
Life Seems Unfulfilling
- The eye never has enough of seeing,nor the ear its fill of hearing.
  Ecclesiastes 1:8
Life Seems Insignificant
- There is no remembrance of men of old, and even those who are yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow.
  Ecclesiastes 1:11
Life Seems Uncontrollable
- What is twisted cannot be straightened; what is lacking cannot be counted.
  Ecclesiastes 1:15

Relationship
- Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' The second is this: `Love your neighbor as yourself.’
  Mark 12:28-31
Reproduction
- Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit…
  Matthew 28:19-20
Rehearsal
- The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. Galatians 6:8

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