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.

Do you ever talk to yourself?

I think at times all of us do that.

You've got to be careful about answering yourself, of course.

But most of all, you have to guard what you say to yourself.

Sometimes the conversations we have internally are really just us repeating what we think to be true. I hear people say sometimes, well, if I know my own heart, the reality

is you don't know your own heart because, in the words of Scripture, the heart is deceitful

above all things and desperately wicked.

Who can know it? Only God really knows the heart and only God can give us truth.

So when you're talking to yourself, be sure that you're not just repeating what you think,

that you're saying what God says. That's the foundation for

our study today in Ecclesiastes chapter 3, because it begins this way in verse number 17,

I said in mine heart. Now, this is an expression that Solomon uses multiple times throughout the

book of Ecclesiastes.

In fact, you're going to hear it at least twice just in the scripture passage today.

I said in mine heart.

The problem with that is that some of the things we say are right and some of them are skewed.

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