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.

Ecclesiastes is one of the wisdom books, and it is the book that reminds us that

folly fades, but wisdom won't. And as you near the end of this book, Solomon begins to

emphasize certain key parts to life, areas that we must give

attention to. And in the next two studies, we've come to two of those that I think are really

primary. They're connected in life, and they're connected all through Scripture, and they are,

our words and our work.

Wisdom for your words and wisdom for your work. And this is so interesting, but these two really

are woven together all through Scripture. For example, in Colossians chapter 3, verse 17,

it says whatsoever you do in word or indeed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus.

James chapter 2 deals with our works, and then James chapter 3 turns right around and deals with our words.

1 John chapter 3, verse number 18, says, let us not love in word only, but in deed and in truth.

Do you see how both of them matter to God? Our talk and our walk, our conversation, and our

conduct, our life message and our lip message, and they have to match.

So let's begin today with Ecclesiastes chapter 10, with a handful of verses in this chapter

that we've not yet studied, verses 11 through 15, and let me show you God's wisdom for our words.

The Bible says beginning in verse number 11, surely the serpent will

bite without enchantment, and a babbler is no better. The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious,

that the lips of a fool will swallow up himself. The beginning of the words of his mouth is

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