Ecclesiastes #006 - Learn the Bible Broadcast - Ecclesiastes 1:3
Bro. Jonathan D. Judy

Antioch Baptist Church
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II. THE VANITY OF LABOUR (Ecclesiastes 1:3-11)
A. Under the Sun (Ecclesiastes 1:3)
a. Labour
i. There is nothing wrong with a man labouring
ii. For his family, to eat, to provide for things that are needed
iii. In fact he is commanded to do so (2 Thessalonians 3:10)
iv. Proverbs speaks much of working diligently and avoiding slothfulness (Proverbs 12:24, 27; 18:9; 22:13; 26:14)
b. Notice this is labour “under the sun”
i. This labour is questioned four times in Ecclesiastes (Ecclesiastes 1:3; 2:22; 3:9; 5:16)
1. “What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh…?”
2. “For what hath a man of all his labour,…?”
3. “What profit hath he that worketh in that…?”
4. “… what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?”
ii. Labouring for the “things” of this world (Mark 8:36)
1. What does it accomplish?
2. Without God, what does this labour profit?
3. Solomon even in his younger years spoke of the vanity of riches (Proverbs 23:4-5)
a. Solomon told his son not to labour to be rich
b. To cease from his own wisdom
c. Two things are seen here:
i. The riches of this world are temporal