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.

Numbers has never been my strong suit.

I am no accountant.

I thank God for them, and I appreciate their help.

But there is a spiritual accounting that all of us must do.

Like taking life's ledger and saying, all right, let's run some numbers here.

And might I just say that God's math is always higher math? I mean by that, the Lord does not account things like we account things.

The closing verses of Ecclesiastes chapter 7 bring us really to some spiritual accounting

today.

So get your thinking cap on, get your heart in tune as we read these closing verses.

Because Solomon has a pen in hand and a ledger before him, and he's trying to account for some things in life.

Listen to the closing three verses.

Verse 27 through 29 of Ecclesiasties 7,

Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account,

which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not.

One man among a thousand have I found,

but a woman among all those have I not found.

Lo, this only have I found,

that God hath made man upright,

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