Vanity of Pursuing Knowledge

Idea: The pursuit of knowledge divorced from God will not lead to true happiness. Learn to find happiness only in the knowledge of God and in following after Him.

1. The King Pursues Knowledge(Vs. 12)

2. Solomon’s Experiment(Vs. 13)
   a. Wisdom under the sun
   b. The curse of the fall affects knowledge
   c. Fulfilling the cultural mandate has become a tangled mess.

3. Solomon’s Findings(Vs. 14)
   a. Grasping for the wind
   b. What is crooked cannot straightened, and what is lacking cannot be numbered. (Vs. 15)

4. Even Solomon’s Great Intellect was no help. (Vs. 16-17)

5. In much wisdom is much grief.(Vs. 18)

Conclusion: