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