Life is worth a living just because he lives.

In many ways, that sentence answers all of humanity's questions that has ever been asked.

Many people who find themselves living under the sun,

and as we've been seeing throughout the series of messages from Ecclesiastes,

it means living a life without God, is seeing things from our perspective, not God's perspective.

And in many ways, most of us have lived, if not all of us, have lived at some time, some point,

under the sun. Even when those of us who know the Lord Jesus, we have allowed

times in our lives when we try to take control of things and thought we can really do things

with our lives and then made a mess of it and find ourselves asking the question in the midst

of that time under the sun and say, is life really worth living?

And the answer is because he lives, life is worth the living.

Because the resurrected Jesus Christ, all those who belong to him will live a life that's not only worth living, but a life that is meaningful,

a life that's productive, a life that is fruitful. Even a thousand years before the resurrection

of Jesus Christ, Solomon, who was searching, he called himself the searcher, he called himself

the preacher, he called himself the searcher, he called himself the preacher, he called

himself the investigator of life under the sun, concluded that life under the sun, that is life

without God. He said vanity of vanity is all in vanity, meaning it is futile, all futile,

life is futile without God. Oh, but life is worth a living

because he lives. Life, he said, under the sun is monotonous and boring. He told us that life is

void of meaning, has no meaning to it. Life is futile, that life is short and uncertain.

Ah, but then when he got lifted up above the sun where God is, and he began to see things

from God's perspective, not from his own human eyes, not from his own perspective. When he

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