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.

Suicide is up 200% from my father's generation to my generation.

And it's a pervasive thing now.

It's not just among young people.

It is among people of every age demographic.

And why is that?

Because so many people have lived for this world and lived for what they could get, what they could do, what they could be.

And then at some point, they realize how empty that is.

The epitaph over their life must be Solomon's words.

All is vanity and vexation of spirit.

And the devil tells them a lie.

And the lie is you'd be better off dead.

There's only one person in scripture that's said of, and that is Judas.

It would have been better for him never to have been born

because he rejected Christ. But the devil, who is a liar, I'll remind you, and a murderer from the

beginning, the enemy comes to steal, to kill, to destroy. He wants to devour your entire life. Here's

what he does. He comes and says to you there's nothing

worth living for. Why don't you end it now? And he gives you the idea that maybe if you just take

your life, you'll be better off. The pain will stop and it will be better off for everybody else.

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