How to Live (A Study in Ecclesiastes) Lesson #14 Cast Your Bread upon the Waters
How to Live (A Study in Ecclesiastes) Lesson #14: Cast Your Bread upon the Waters (Ecclesiastes 11:1-10) In this chapter we see a great lesson on giving. In this lesson we will use the term giving in a broad sense. It can refer to giving basically anything that you...
How to Live (A Study in Ecclesiastes) Lesson #12 Using What is in Your Hand
How to Live (A Study in Ecclesiastes) Lesson #12: Using What is in Your Hand (Ecclesiastes 9:10-13) When we started this series we stated that you have to be careful with the book of Ecclesiastes because it is written from the view point of man. We said that we could...
How to Live (A Study in Ecclesiastes) Lesson #11 A Living Dog or a Dead Lion
How to Live (A Study in Ecclesiastes) Lesson #11: A Living Dog or a Dead Lion (Ecclesiastes 9:1-6) The passage before us is an interesting passage. At first Solomon is comparing the righteous and the wicked saying that the same thing happens to them all. The event he is referring...
How to Live (A Study in Ecclesiastes) Lesson #10 You are not getting away with it.
How to Live (A Study in Ecclesiastes) Lesson #10: You’re Not Getting Away With It (Ecclesiastes 8:1-13) Many times it may seem like those who live in sin are getting away with it. Sometimes even saved people will sin and maybe even continue to sin because they think that it...
How to Live (A Study in Ecclesiastes) Lesson #9 Avoiding Anger
How to Live (A Study in Ecclesiastes) Lesson #9: Avoiding Anger (Ecclesiastes 7:9) This lesson deals with the subject of anger. Everyone experiences anger the difference is how we handle anger. Even though most of the time anger does cause us to sin, anger itself is not sin. Note that...
How to Live (A Study in Ecclesiastes) Lesson #8 The End
How to Live (A Study in Ecclesiastes) Lesson #8 The End (Ecclesiastes 7:1-8) In the passage for our lesson Solomon makes multiple comparisons concerning things that are better than something else. In this lesson we will look at some of these comparisons in order to learn two things. First off,...
How to Live (A Study in Ecclesiastes) Lesson #7 Laboring for the Wind
How to Live (A Study in Ecclesiastes) Lesson #7 Laboring for the Wind (Ecclesiastes 5:10-16) This lesson deals with the subject of riches and gives warnings to those that are pursuing after them. Paul gives us a similar warning in 1 Timothy 6:5-10. By using these two passage we will...
How to Live (A Study in Ecclesiastes) Lesson #6 Study to be Quiet
How to Live (A Study in Ecclesiastes) Lesson #6 Study to be Quiet (Ecclesiastes 5:1-7) The passage for this lesson deals with being rash with our mouth. Have you ever stopped and considered how many words that you say in one day or maybe even a week. I would imagine...
How to Live (A Study In Ecclesiastes) Lesson #5 Those with no Comfort
How to Live (A Study in Ecclesiastes) Lesson #5 Those with no Comfort (Ecclesiastes 4:1-3) This is an interesting passage. Not that Solomon is considering the oppressed in this lesson. There are many different types of oppression we will give a dictionary definition for the word oppression below. Oppression –...