God has given us one book that can change the entire direction of our lives, the Bible.

And in this study, journeying through scriptures, we will take a brief big-picture look at every book of the Bible, tracing God's unfolding story from Genesis to Revelation.

Our prayer is that this journey will stir your heart to open God's word daily.

Let's join Scott Pauli for today's study.

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 journeying 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 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.

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