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.

Sin taints everything that it touches.

In fact, in the words of Scripture, all the earth is out of course.

The fall of man literally set this world on a collision course with disaster. It caused everything to be affected by the corruption introduced into the mainstream of humanity. And that's why when

you look around you, even in the best situations, there are inequities and injustices.

And I've got to be honest with you, sometimes when you watch the news and you listen to people talk and you see what's going on,

you can get so overwhelmed with it and so frustrated by it.

And then people get angry.

They get angry because they want to fix it and they want to change it,

but you can't fix every injustice. You can't make right every inequity. In fact, the word

iniquity literally means crookedness. We're living in a world of crooked things, bent by sin,

broken by the fall.

Only the Lord can make all that right.

And here's the good news today.

He is going to make it right.

We've come to an amazing verse in Ecclesiastes chapter 5,

a verse that I must be honest with you.

I've never given much attention to until recent days, meditating through this

amazing sermon about life. Solomon writes, Ecclesiastes 5 verse 8, if thou seest the oppression

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