Divide your note card into two columns Mark one “Agree” and the other “Disagree” Thirteen statements from pre-class presentations will each be on.

Divide your note card into two columns

Mark one “Agree” and the other “Disagree”

Thirteen statements from pre-class presentations will each be on screen for 15 seconds

If you agree with a statement, put a hash mark in the “Agree” column

If you disagree, put a hash mark in the “Disagree” column.

When the statements are complete, add the total for each column, Agree and Disagree

All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.

-- T. S. Eliot

We flee from the truth in vain.-- Unknown

“Reason cannot, by itself, explain why there is reason.”

Mark Levin, Liberty and Tyranny, p24

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

-- Albert Einstein

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.

-- Benjamin Franklin

God has given man a desire for eternity and perpetuity; therefore man cannot be satisfied with what is merely temporal. Man’s quest for the eternal, however, is frustrated by his finite limits.

-- The King James Study Bible, footnote to Ecclesiastes 3:11

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.

-- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903))

The end of labor is to gain leisure.-- Aristotle

You may delay but time will not.


“Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong”

-- Calvin Coolidge

Dumb people never learn from their mistakes.Smart folks do.Wise ones learn from the mistakes of others.

-- Unknown

Though a man may become learned by another’s learning, he can never be wise by his own wisdom.

-- Noah Webster

Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored.

-- Aldous Huxley

How many did you agree with?

Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof…

Ecclesiastes: Teaching Objectives

Seeking AnswersSeeking AnswersA Study in Ecclesiastes

Lesson 25, February 26, 2012 Lesson 25, February 26, 2012

Thought for TodayThought for Today

Too soon old, Too late smart.

-- Unknown


The clock indicates the moment – but what does eternity indicate?

-- Walt Whitman


You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, but only after they have exhausted all of the alternatives.

-- Sir Winston Churchill


"When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch."

-- C. S. Lewis


Age does not always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.

-- Unknown


Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claim,Because it was grassy and wanted wear;Though as for that the passing thereHad worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally layIn leaves no step had trodden black.Oh, I kept the first for another day!Yet knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.

-- Robert Frost


"Life is a journey, not a destination.”-- Ralph Waldo Emerson


Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

-- Samuel Johnson (1759)


Solomon hammers home his theme “vanity of vanities, all is vanity” from the first of the book (1:2) to the last (12:8) until everything “under the sun” lies like a heap of dust before him.

-- Paul Earnhart


The Almighty has his own purposes. -- Abraham Lincoln


"The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country."

-- Calvin Coolidge


A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.


Watch your thoughts, for they become words.Watch your words, for they become actions.Watch your actions, for they become habits.Watch your habits, for they become character.Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.


“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”

-- Abraham Lincoln


“This is the beginning of a new day. I have been given this day to use as I will. I can waste it or I can use it for good. What I do today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever, leaving in its place whatever I have traded for it. I pledge to myself that it shall be: Gain, not Loss; Success, not Failure; Good, not Evil, in order that I shall not regret the price I have paid for this day.”

--Unknown


What you have on the day of your death will belong to others; what you are will be yours forever.

-- Henry Jackson Van Dyke


"The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country."

-- Calvin Coolidge


-- Albert Einstein


-- Albert Einstein

Morality

Ethics

EnjoinedEnjoined

Ecclesiastes Helps Me Endure Ecclesiastes Helps Me Endure Statements Like TheseStatements Like These

You are so close minded…

You must be tolerant…

You are so judgmental…

Everything is relative…

There are no absolutes…

Ecclesiastes 10:12-15

12The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

13The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.

14A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

15The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.

Preachers TeachersTeachers

Preachers

“Teach” occurs in 76 verses in NT (KJV)

“Preach” occurs in 134 verses in NT (KJV)

lndeberry

lndeberry

The Word of God … “is profitable” (2 Timothy 3:15-17) In a word, Jesus (Acts 8:26-40, cf v 35) The book of Ecclesiastes:• Inspired scripture (Galatians 3:24-25)• A thinking person’s book• Forward-looking• Practical in that Solomon provides help for

discouraging times• Encourages service and obedience to God

Find common ground; it is personal and relevant (Ecclesiastes 1:12-2:23; Luke 13:18-21; 14:15-24; 15:11-32)

Intellectual ability demands decisions (Ecclesiastes 3:1-15)

Acknowledge and renounce evil and wrong (Ecclesiastes 3:16; 6:1; Acts 7:1-60)

Find the proper perspective (Ecclesiastes 1:3; Hebrews 1:1-4)

Use the author’s techniques (Eccl 1:2; 7:13-14; 1:3; 7:1-8)

Repetition• Third time to see Wisdom Literature

techniques in class• Went thru Ecclesiastes multiple times

before a text study (Igor, Brian’s photo album)

“Thoughts for the Day” and quotes from numerous sources were modern day proverbial statements

Lesson titles were rhetorical questions

Wisdom literature seeks to confirm our inability to make sense of life… One way Ecclesiastes establishes the necessity of having God’s guidance is to reveal the limits of human wisdom… (Ecclesiastes 7:23; 8:16-17)

-- BKD

Find common ground; it is personal and relevant (Ecclesiastes 1:12-2:23; Luke 13:18-21; 14:15-24; 15:11-32)

Intellectual ability demands decisions (Ecclesiastes 3:1-15)

Acknowledge and renounce evil and wrong (Ecclesiastes 3:16; 6:1; Acts 7:1-60)

Find the proper perspective (Ecclesiastes 1:3; Hebrews 1:1-4)

Use the author’s techniques (Eccl 1:2; 7:13-14; 1:3; 7:1-8)

Look thru others’ eyes (2 Samuel 12:1-14)

Divide your note card into two columns Mark one “Agree” and the other “Disagree” Thirteen statements from pre-class presentations will each be on.

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