Solomon closes the book of Ecclesiastes with these words.

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter.

Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.

Each of us have been given only one life. What will we do with it? Life. It's not a game.

And in this journey through the book of Ecclesiastes, Scott Pauley will guide us to better understand the true meaning of life.

Work is not a dirty word.

In fact, work is meaningful.

Work is purposeful.

Work is not part of the curse.

It actually is a blessing from God.

Some people have this crazy notion that if Adam and Eve had not fallen in the garden,

we wouldn't have had to work.

But you better go back and read Genesis again because work was not a part of the consequence of sin.

Work was a reality before the fall of man.

It's a blessing to get up in the morning, to have something

meaningful to do with your life, especially when you know that work is work that's been

assigned to you by Almighty God. We're laboring together with God. We're fulfilling the divine

purpose with our lives. The consequence of the fall was that that work would become much harder.

The ground would bring forth thorns and thistles, and we would work in the sweat of our

brow.

So the strain in the labor, that is the consequence of sin, but work itself is actually a blessing.

And yet, when work is separated from the God who is really the one

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