Proclaiming the Gospel: Remember your Creator in the Days of Your Youth

Peter Barnes | Ecclesiastes 12:1

SERMON  NOTES
Remember Your Creator in the Days of Your Youth
Eccles. 12:1-14;  1 Cor.15:12-19, 29-34

Joseph  Conrad:  ‘the  feeling  that  I  could  last  for  ever’.

1. There’s  something  wrong  with  everything.

– 1:2 –  vanity  or  futility  or  meaninglessness  –  36  times

(a)  wisdom  –  1:12-13, 16-18.  Douglas  Adams  says  the  answer  is  42.

(b)  pleasure  –  2:1-11
But  I’m  dying  now  and  done  for
What  on  earth  was  all  the  fun  for?  (John Betjeman)

(c)  work  – 2:18-23  –  the  executive  and  the  fisherman

(d)  wealth  –  5:10-17

2. What  exactly  is  wrong  with  the  world?

(a)  sin  –  7:20, 29;  10:1

(b)  death  – 9:2-10

3. What  is  life  all  about?

– 1 Cor.15:32;  Eccles.12:13;  Josh.23:14a;  1 Kings 2:2a;  Matt.11:28-30

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