Welcome to Enjoying the Journey with Evangelist Scott Pauli.

Today we are on a journey through Scripture.

We hope you'll join us as we make 66 stops through each book of the Word of God.

Have you ever seen someone that had so much wisdom, so much promise, so much potential,

and then they made such a terrible end? I've known people like that. Frankly, it's one of the great

tragedies of living in a sin-cursed world. And when you come to the pages of Scripture, God holds nothing back about his people.

He shows us not just the good, he shows us the bad.

We've just finished journing through Proverbs, and there we saw wise Solomon in all of the wisdom God gave him.

Oh, it's a powerful book, but now we come to the next book of the Bible, and we journey through Ecclesiastes.

You see, Solomon wrote not only Proverbs, he wrote Ecclesiastes.

He wrote Proverbs when he was middle age, at the height of his power and splendor.

But he wrote Ecclesiastes late in life.

There's a great deal of reflection here.

And the tragedy is, in Proverbs we see wisdom defined, but in Ecclesiastes, we see

wisdom disobeyed. The word wisdom is used throughout the book of Ecclesiastes, but the truth of the

matter is, most of the time it's used in Ecclesiastes. It's not referring to the wisdom of God.

It's referring to the wisdom of man. Sometimes the

wisest people make the most foolish decisions. People who know all about the Lord, people that

know all the answers from the Bible, people that have been in church all of their life end up

doing something. They never dreamed they would do. This is the story of King Solomon. As a matter of fact, in Ecclesiastes

chapter 4, verse 13, he says, better is a poor and wise child than an old and foolish king who

will no more be admonished. I've often wondered as I read that verse if he wasn't giving his own

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