Cemeteries and Funeral Homes

Enjoying the Journey

Scott Pauley

Religion & Spirituality, Education

5 • 725 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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(Ecclesiastes 7:2-4) Death is a reality of life. Just as surely as your life had a beginning, it will have an ending. The brevity and fraility of life can make a great motivator for living each day to the fullest for the Lord. (09166250710) Keep Studying Whether you're a new believer or have walked with the Lord for years, you'll find thousands of free devotionals, Bible studies, audio series, and Scripture tools designed to strengthen your faith, deepen your understanding of the Bible, and help you stay rooted in the Word of God. 👉 Take the next step on your journey with Jesus —start today at EnjoyingTheJourney.org.Extend the Work Enjoying the Journey provides thousands of Bible studies and resources for free worldwide. If you would like to help extend this Bible teaching, you may give at enjoyingthejourney.org/donations/ Thank You! All new and returning donors will receive FREE access to two of Scott's audiobooks (read by him). You may make a one-time gift or set up a fully customizable recurring donation.

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0:00.0	Solomon closes the book of Ecclesiastes with these words. Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter.
0:14.6	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
0:25.3	with it? Life. It's not a game. And in this journey through the book of Ecclesiastes,
0:31.1	Scott Pauley will guide us to better understand the true meaning of life.
0:47.9	Occasionally, I will hear a parent say that they don't want their children to be around death. They don't want to take them to a funeral home. They don't want to take them to a
0:53.5	cemetery. They don't want them to see that a funeral home. They don't want to take them to a cemetery. They don't
0:54.3	want them to see that someone has passed away. But I think, honestly, it's good for children.
1:01.0	It's good for all of us to realize that death is a reality of life. That is surely, as there is a
1:08.4	beginning, there is an ending, and there are tremendous lessons to be
1:12.0	learned from that. We return today to Ecclesiastes chapter 7 to three verses that I think are
1:18.7	very unique. Let me read them to you, beginning in verse 2. He says it is better to go to the house
1:26.3	of mourning than to go to the house of feasting.
1:31.2	Now, let's pause there for just a moment.
1:32.7	If I gave you a choice today and said, you get to go to one of two houses,
1:35.5	you can go to the house that's throwing a party and everybody's having a great time,
1:39.2	or you can go to the house next door where people are brokenhearted and mourning and weeping over loss,
1:46.3	which house would you prefer to go to? Well, obviously, all of us would choose the house of feasting.
1:52.5	Or let's get more personal, if I said your house today is going to be a house of mourning
1:57.9	or a house of feasting, which would you choose?
2:06.8	We all would choose the house of feasting, yet somehow Solomon says it's better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting. He explains, for that is the end of all men,
2:14.2	and the living will lay it to his heart.
2:18.9	In other words, there are some things you can only learn in cemeteries and funeral homes.
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