Time and Eternity are Meaningless Without Jesus | Ecclesiastes 3:1-15
What Solomon is trying to do in the Book of Ecclesiastes is he’s meditating on this idea: if this cursed world is all there is, if there is no God, if you don’t have a relationship with God, if there is no eternity, if this life is all there is – then really there’s no purpose and there’s no meaning. Life without God, life without some kind of eternal plan that God has, is meaningless. If there is no relationship with God, then nothing that you do really matters at all.
People turn to all kinds of things to find meaning – pleasure, relationships, work, all these different things, but it doesn’t satisfy. Even when you have everything you’ve been working for – the education, career, family, house, possessions, etc. – you always end up saying “there’s got to be more than this, right?”
There’s a reason why God lets you feel that frustration, that pointlessness: it’s because he’s trying to drive you to him. If you have a relationship with God, that’s going to give you purpose right now, and that’s going to give you a hope for the future.
God is saying, “I’ve got this full masterpiece that I’m painting, and you’re right up close to it and you can see a little bit of it, but you don’t have the vantage point or the perspective that I have to see the full picture. And so trust me.” You can trust that because of Jesus.
Sermon Outline:
Time and Eternity are Meaningless Without Jesus – Ecclesiastes 3:1-15
- Meaningless
- Ecclesiastes 3:1-9
- Eternity
- Ecclesiastes 3:10-11
- Time
- Ecclesiastes 3:12-13
- Ecclesiastes 7:2