06-07: Ecclesiastes :: Understanding Hevel

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Ecclesiastes :: Understanding Hevel

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Welcome to First Church! Thanks for joining us online :) On this Sunday, we start a new study on the book of Ecclesiastes, and no better way to start than to understand the word used most by the Preacher -- hevel.

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Sermon Passage

Ecclesiastes 1:1-11

Everything Is Meaningless

[1] The words of the Teacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem:

[2] “Meaningless! Meaningless!”

says the Teacher.

“Utterly meaningless!

Everything is meaningless.”

[3] What do people gain from all their labors

at which they toil 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 of 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] No one remembers the former generations,

and even those yet to come

will not be remembered

by those who follow them.

Sermon Slides

• Slide 1
  What is the key to living life?

• Slide 2
  Other renderings:
  Vanity of vanities! All is vanity.
  Meaningless, meaningless! Everything is meaningless.
  Futility of futilities! Everything is futile!
  Absolutely pointless! Everything is pointless.
  Vapor of vapors—the whole of itis vapor!

• Slide 3
  HEVEL= vapor, smoke, breath

• Slide 4
  Something hevel cannot be grasped or controlled, neither physically nor intellectually.” (C.L. Seow)

• Slide 5
  ● I feel the weight of the world on my shoulders
  ● I have a heavy burden to bear
  ● The pressure is getting to me
  ● I can’t keep doing this

• Slide 6
  כׇּל־הַדְּבָרִ֣ים

• Slide 7
  What specific thing is wearing you out right now?