BONUS: ECCLESIASTES OVERVIEW
Join The Journey
Watermark Community Church, Dallas, TX
5 • 827 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Emma Dotter is joined today by Christ Sherrod, Watermark’s Marriage & Family Director. The book is really saying that all of creation is good, but it is never intended to satisfy us. It’s not that life has no point, but that these things are “hevel.” The word “hevel” means “mere breath”. Christ said that the book has made him a joyful realist! Accept that life is fleeting, enjoy this life, but do not forget that this life is “hevel.”
Book, Living life Backwards
Psalm 39: 5, “Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath!”
Proverbs 31:30 “Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain…”
Ecclesiastes 3:8, “He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also he has put eternity into man’s heart…”
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| 0:00.0 | Everybody, what is going on? You know what time it is. You're listening to join the Journey podcast with your host, Emma Daughter. |
| 0:08.8 | Thanks for joining. Today is a bonus episode day, and I am here with the one and only, Chris Sherrod. |
| 0:16.4 | Hello. Chris, glad to have you here. |
| 0:19.0 | Listeners might be wondering why we're about to talk about Ecclesiastes. |
| 0:22.5 | They saw it in the title. |
| 0:23.9 | It is not in this year's reading plan. |
| 0:26.4 | However, many scholars would say Solomon wrote it, and that being said, we're currently reading about Solomon and First Kings. |
| 0:35.0 | And so this would chronologically kind of fall around this time. |
| 0:39.0 | Perfect. Yep. But I know you, Chris, you get excited about Ecclesiastes. You've taught it before. |
| 0:44.6 | And so I thought, hey, if we're doing a bonus episode, I've got to get Chris in the studio. |
| 0:49.4 | Why do you get excited about Ecclesiastes? Why should we study it? |
| 0:53.8 | Well, a few things. One, I used to not like Ecclesiastes. When I didn't really know it well or |
| 1:00.0 | understand it, I would be like, why is this even in here? Like, I don't get it. And then I had a |
| 1:06.0 | different view of it that it was all about just, you know, wealth and women and prestige. |
| 1:12.4 | Like, we know that isn't satisfied. This is just reaffirming that. But now I actually believe |
| 1:16.5 | even more that this book is relevant. One of my favorite apologetics writers said one time that |
| 1:22.5 | Ecclesiastes is the book that modern man needs the most. And here's what he said. It is the book that asks |
| 1:29.1 | the question that the rest of the Bible answers. And the main question is, what will satisfy you? |
| 1:35.1 | Is there anything that's going to last that really is meaningful? And this is what it constantly |
| 1:39.9 | asks all through the book. Is there anything? And so the author, assuming it's Solomon, |
| 1:45.7 | who did this big experiment, lists literally everything you can think of. And I think what most |
| 1:51.8 | sermons I've heard cover is just, like I mentioned, the riches, those don't satisfy. You know, |
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