Point of Grace Online Worship - August 31, 2025

THE BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES - PART TWO

MAKING THE MOST OF YOUR TIME

Point of Grace - Pflugerville, Texas

August 31, 2025 

INTRODUCTION

Ecclesiastes 1:2 and 12:8

“Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless!” 

I.                     ____________________ THAT GOD HAS A ____________________ FOR EVERY TIME 

Ecclesiastes 3:1

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: 

Ecclesiastes 3:2-8

…a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, 3 a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, 4 a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, 5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain, 6 a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, 7 a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, 8 a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.  

Ecclesiastes 3:9-11a

What does the worker gain from his toil? 10 I have seen the burden God has laid on men. 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. 

Romans 8:28 (TPT)

We are convinced that every detail in our lives is continually woven together for good.

 The Point:

STAY _____________________! 

II.                  _____________________ YOUR _________________ IN GOD THROUGH ALL TIMES  

Ecclesiastes 3:11b

He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end. 

Ecclesiastes 3:11b (LB)

Though God has planted eternity in the hearts of men, even so, man cannot see the whole scope of God’s work, from beginning to end. 

John 13:7

You do not realize what I am doing, but later you will understand.  

2 Corinthians 1:9

This happened so that we might learn to trust not in ourselves, but in God.

The Point:

KEEP ______________________!  

III.                ___________________ YOURSELF TO DOING _____________ AT THE PRESENT TIME 

Ecclesiastes 3:12-13

I know that there is nothing better for men than to be happy and do good while they live. 13 That everyone may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all his toil—this is the gift of God.  

Ephesians 2:10

For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.  

The Point:

DO ___________________ TODAY! 

Proverbs 3:27 (GN)

Whenever you possibly can, do good to those who need it.  

Ecclesiastes 3:14:

I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing can be taken from it. God does it so that men will revere him. 

IV.                ___________________ GIVING GOD AN __________________ AT THE END OF TIME  

Ecclesiastes 3:15-17

Whatever is has already been, and what will be has been before; and God will call the past to account. 16 And I saw something else under the sun: In the place of judgement—wickedness was there, the place of justice—wickedness was there. I thought in my heart, “God will bring to judgment both the righteous and the wicked, for there will be a time for every activity, a time for every deed.  

Romans 14:12

So each of us will give an account of himself to God.  

Matthew 25:23

Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful with a little, I will make you faithful over much. Enter into the joy of your Master!  

The Point:

BE _____________________________!

 Ephesians 5:15-16 (Phil)

Live life, then, with a due sense of responsibility, not as ones who don’t know the meaning of life, but as those who do. Make the best use of your time.

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Point of Grace Worship 8.10.25 Seeking Wisdom – Part 6 “ Ecclesiastes – Part 1 What is the Meaning of Life?” 

“What is the Meaning of Life?”

Three Major Truths Found in the Wisdom Books…

#1 - We all need WISDOM

#2 - We all need JESUS

#3 - We all need HUMILITY 

The Fear of the Lord

“A relationship of awe and reverence for God with deep relational love, trust and submission.”  

Proverbs 9:10

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. 

WHAT IS THE MEANING—THE WHOLE POINT—OF LIFE? 

Our First Guest: THE AUTHOR OF THE ECCLESIASTES  

Ecclesiastes 1:1 

The words of the Teacher, a son of David, king in Jerusalem: 

Our Second Guest: THE TEACHER  

Qoheleth 

Ekklesia 

Ecclesiastes 1:2

“Meaningless! Meaningless!’” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless!’” 

Ecclesiastes 12:8

“Meaningless! Meaningless!’” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless!” 

Hevel 

Ecclesiastes 1:2-11

“Meaningless! Meaningless,” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless!” 3 What does man gain from all his labor at which he toils under the sun? 4 Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever….  

5 The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises. 6 The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course. 7 All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again. 8 All things are wearisome, more than one can say…. 

The eye never has enough seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing. 9 What has been will be again; what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. 10 Is there anything of which one can say, “Look! This is something new”? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time….  

11 There is no remembrance of men of old, and even those who are yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow.  

Ecclesiastes 1:13

I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the  wind. 

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun. 

A Central Message of the Book of Ecclesiastes:

IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND A LIFE OF LASTING, UNSHAKABLE MEANING, PURPOSE, IDENTITY, CONTENTMENT, JOY AND PEACE IF YOU ONLY LOOK “UNDER THE SUN” 

Real Life is Not Found Horizontally but Vertically—“Above the Sun” 

1 Corinthians 1:24

…the Power of God and the Wisdom of God 

Colossians 1:17-18

He is before all things and in him all things hold together…so that in everything he might have the supremacy. 

Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come and the years approach when you will say, “I find no pleasure in them.” 

Ecclesiastes 12:6-7

Remember him—before the silver cord is severed, or the golden bowl is broken; before the pitcher is shattered at the spring, or the wheel broken at the well, 7 and the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who made it. 

Ephesians 1:4-5,10 (LB)

Long ago, even before He made the world, God chose us to be His very own through what Christ would do for us with His love. 5 His unchanging plan has always been to adopt us into His own family by sending Jesus Christ to die for us. And He did this because He wanted to…10 And this was His purpose: that when the time is right He will gather us all together to be with Him in Christ forever.  

Why Did God Make You?

GOD MADE YOU TO LOVE HIM AND LIVE WITH HIM FOREVER! 

Ecclesiastes 3:10

God has also set eternity in the hearts of men. 

Ecclesiastes 12:9-14

Not only was the Teacher wise, but also he imparted knowledge to the people. He pondered and searched out and set in order many proverbs. 10 The Teacher searched to find just the right words, and what he wrote was upright and true. 11 The words of the wise are like goads, their collected sayings like firmly embedded nails—given by one Shepherd. 12 Be warned, my son, of anything in addition to them. Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body. 13 Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. 14 For God will bring every deed into judgement, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil. 

John 10: 10-11

I have come that you may have life and have it abundantly. 11 I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd lays his life down for the sheep. 

Colossians 3:1-4

Since then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. 3 For you, died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.