Life and Labor

That's Life - Message 5 - Life and Labor - Eccl. 2:12-26

Outline

I. Life Under the Sun – vs. 12-17
A. Try Again – Same Results (vs. 12)
B. Wise or Foolish (vs. 13-16)
C. I Hate My Life (vs. 17) – “I hate life, and yet I am afraid to die.” – Voltaire

II. Labor Under the Sun – vs. 18-23
A. Working to Leave It Behind
B. The Curse of Work (vs. 22-23)

III. The Hand of God – vs. 24-26
A. Enjoy the Good (vs. 24-25)
B. Good in His Sight (vs. 26)
C. Stewardship vs. Ownership (vs. 26)

Take care of what God gives you. (Faith, Wisdom, Knowledge, Joy).
Don’t concern yourself with what He gives others – Matt. 20:1-16

“Two ways of life: the vicious circle of a pointless world, temporary pleasures, fruitless work, futile wisdom, and inevitable death versus an enjoyable life taken daily from the hand of God in the assurance of faith that He deals appropriately with the righteous and the unrighteous.” – Eaton