There is no substitute for the preaching and teaching of God's Word.

Each weekday on enjoying the journey, Scott Pauley leads us in a brief study of Scripture.

Today, on the weekend pulpit, we are happy to share a full-length Bible message given through Scott's pulpit ministry.

These messages were recorded live in a local church or gospel event in recent days.

It is our prayer that the message will be a help to you today.

Thank you. you today. Well, this is a magnificent crowd to see on this Lord's Day morning and I want to commend you for being here

spring revival feels like winter revival but we're having revival and that's very good and I drove

in last night from wild wonderful West Virginia anybody here from West Virginia I'm just curious

hey there are some Mountaineers back there that's good anybody ever been to West Virginia how many

you know what's a state would you raise your hand please and we wear shoes and

have our teeth it's amazing you know but I am happy about being with you for the

next two or three days and seeing what the Lord will do.

We had a great time.

In the Sunday school hour, just laying a little foundation, and some of you just joined us,

we're happy that you're here.

I want you to open the Word of God with me, please, to one of the most depressing books in the Bible.

All right?

I want you to open it to the book of Ecclesiastes and somebody says well that that's not encouraging at all actually

I say it's depressing because it's written from the perspective of a man who had given his life to the wrong things comes to the end and realizes at the end of it all that he has really made a poor investment may I say to you it might be good if all of us now took the long look that he took at the end

instead of waiting to the end to see it Solomon is the writer of the book of

ecclesiastes he wrote three books of the Bible he wrote Song of Solomon when he

was young and in love anybody in here still young and in love would you raise your hand

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