Ecclesiastes chapter 1. We'll look at this whole chapter
but we'll just read it as we go along. I was looking at this and I was
looking at some other scriptures and some of the things that have
happened lately have really made me to really think about the the brevity of life and the foolishness
of man to look to ourselves in anything, in any regard whatsoever.
Our subject tonight is vain wisdom and true wisdom. Vain wisdom
and true wisdom. Now Solomon sets forth what God
taught him in verse 2. And this is what we need to be
sure to get. Verse 2. Vanity of vanities. Vanity of vanities. All is vanity. All is a mighty
inclusive word, isn't it? It takes in everything, doesn't
it? All. It means all. It means all. Some try to qualify what Solomon
meant here. They call him pessimistic, call
him fanatical, call him rash. God gave Solomon wisdom and knowledge
along with riches and wealth and honor. Like no king before
him or after him. And the Lord Jesus spoke about
that. He said the Queen of Sheba came to hear Solomon's wisdom
that he had. But after that, after that, God
taught Solomon by painful experience, true wisdom. He gave him true
riches. He gave him true knowledge, true
wealth, true honor. A greater than Solomon, Christ
Jesus the Lord, the preacher, the priest, the king of God's
people is declaring this and we do well to take heed to it.
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity. all is vanity. Verse 3, what
profit hath a man of all his labor which he taketh under the
sun? Now this is where we're talking
about the vanity is. What profit hath a man of all
his labor, his labor, which he takes under the sun. After all
man's labor, after all his seeking, after all man's getting wisdom,
getting riches, getting gain, even if he got the gain of the
whole world, what's he profited? What profit is it? Eve was deceived
that she would be as God, as a god. that her and Adam would
be as a God. She was deceived. She was beguiled.
Adam did what he did with his eyes wide open. But Eve was deceived. And this was the deceit. This
was the trick, the beguiling that Satan used with her. That
if she didn't take God quite so seriously, and didn't take
God quite at His word, at what He meant. Don't be too fanatical
about what God has said. If you will look at this food,
it looks good to the eye, and it's pleasant, it's desirable
to make one wise, and he continues to use that deception by whispering
in men that the wise thing, the practical thing to do is not
to heed what God says, don't take God's word too far, but
Satan's beguiling is to make us think it's wise to seek that
thing which to our own eye appears good for food and pleasant and
will make us wise. That's devilish wisdom. That's vanity. Vanity. It's been
the way of man since sin entered this world. Verse four, one generation
passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth
forever. Man is full of change and decay
and no lasting substance to him whatsoever. One generation passes
away, another one comes. They pass away, another one comes. They pass away, another one comes.
There's only one thing about you and me that never changes.
we are always changing. That's the only thing. The only
thing about us that never changes is we have no strength, no wisdom,
no ability whatsoever in ourselves. That's the one thing that doesn't
change about a sinner. Why would we lean to our own
understanding to the understanding of one so fickle and so prone
to change and to decay as a man. Why would we do that? Why would
we look to ourselves? But, look at the verse, the earth
abideth forever. But look past the earth. He's
using the earth as an analogy here. Look past the earth. Look
at Psalm 104. Look past the earth and look
to who made it. Psalm 104, verse 5. Who laid the foundations of the
earth that it should not be removed forever? Now this word forever
here and in our text is a comparative term. It means in comparison
to you and me. We pass, the earth remains. But even when the earth is no
more, look at Psalm 102. Look at Psalm 102 verse 25. Even when the earth is no more,
God remains the same. Look at verse 25. Of old hast
thou laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the
work of thy hands. They shall perish. But thou shalt
endure. Yea, all of them shall wax old
like a garment. As a vesture shalt thou change
them, and they shall be changed. But thou art the same, and thy
years shall have no end. The children of thy servants
shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee.
So you see the analogy here. One generation passes and another
comes. One passes and another comes.
But God, who laid the foundations of the earth, God remains forever.
He remains unchanging. His Word is one to be trusted.
Now look at verse 5. We're going to read down to the
beginning of verse 8 here. The sun also ariseth, and the
sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. The
wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north.
It whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again
according to his circuits. All the rivers run into the sea,
yet the sea is not full. Unto the place from which the
rivers come, there they return again. All things are full of
labor. But now stay with this analogy.
The things that he said all is vanity and all things that are
full of labor are men. It's man who's vanity. It's the
man who is full of labor. You and I, sinners, at our best
state, are altogether vanity. And as surely as the sun and
the winds labor on their course, as surely as they work exactly
on their course, one generation after the next, of sinful men
continues on the same course, the very same course of laboring
to seek wisdom in the things which are made rather than God
who made them. Amen. We're full of labor. We're
always full of labor. Yet, like the sun and the wind,
our course never changes. But naturally speaking, if we
continue naturally, just like the natural sun and the wind,
our course does not change. After all our searching, here
we are at our best state in verse 8. Man cannot utter. Man cannot
utter. We have not wisdom. Look at James
chapter 4. We don't have wisdom to speak
about what tomorrow holds. We don't have wisdom to utter
a promise and to be able to see to it that that promise comes
to pass. We don't have wisdom to know
the things that God's doing. There's things that aren't told
us that God's doing in this world. Look at James 4.14. Whereas you
know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? What is it? I'll tell you what
your life is. Listen to me. Listen real carefully. Your car, your life is a car
on slick pavement is out of control, and you can't stop it. That's
what your life is. And that fast. It's over. That fast. What is your life? It's even a vapor that appears
for a little time, then vanishes away. We got no wisdom to even
utter. We got no wisdom to even open
our mouth and say anything. Look back at our text, Ecclesiastes
1, 7. We're like the rivers running
into the sea. Verse 7. All the rivers run into
the sea, yet the sea's not full. Unto the place whence the rivers
come, thither they return again." Look down at verse 8. So it is
with man. The eye is not satisfied with
seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. Just like the waters
continue, and the rivers continue to run into the sea, and the
sea is not full. by our natural fleshly eye and
our natural carnal ear, we're never full, we're never filled. And it's our natural fleshly
way to be slaves to the natural, slaves to the carnal, slaves
to the transient, the eye and the ear. Yet as the rivers run
and the sea into the sea and are not full, we're never satisfied.
The eye, the carnal eye won't satisfy and the carnal ear won't
satisfy. We spend our lives seeking wisdom. We spend our lives seeking what
we can see and hear. Wisdom according to what we can
see and what we can hear and what we determine by our natural
understanding to be wisdom We look to the earth. We look to
the Sun. We look to the wind We look to the waters rather
than heeding the Word of God the wisdom of Christ our wisdom
There's a place all further back in Ecclesiastes, it says, he
that looks to the wind and looks to the cloud, I'm paraphrasing,
I may not be quoting exactly, he that looks to the wind and
he that looks to the clouds will never sow and will never reap.
He's always got a reason not to believe God. There's always
something preventing them from believing God. Look to yourself.
Look to your wisdom. Look to some righteousness in
you. Look to some holiness in you. Look to something that you've
done by the works of your hand to make you commendable to God,
and you'll never sow to God and reap life everlasting. Never. I won't either. We won't ever
do it. Look at verse, back at our text, verse 9. The thing
that hath been, it is that which shall be. And that which is done
is that which shall be done. And there is no new thing under
the sun. Is there anything whereof it may be said, see, this is
new. It hath been already of old time which was before us.
Now this is so with man. This is so with us by our natural
way. Sadly, every generation that
comes along thinks they're smarter than the generation that came
before. Every generation to come, but we think we have acquired
some new wisdom that makes us smarter than the generation before
us. I won't make the same mistakes
Solomon made. That's what this, that's what
we think. Oh, I won't make the same mistakes a limelight made.
Oh, I won't make the same mistakes mom and dad made. So the newest
generation proves that there's nothing new under the sun. That's
exactly what the generation before did. That's exactly what mom
and dad said. That's exactly what Solomon said.
That's exactly what a limolex said. I won't make the mistakes
that those made that came before me, and they made the same ones.
For example, the latest discoveries in science and technology and
political science, all these different things. We brag about
discovering new things. Something new we found, and we
brag about it. It's something new that we've
come up with in medicine or whatever it is. Can we really hear God? Look at verse 10. Is there anything
whereof it may be said, see, this is new? It hath been already
of old time, which was before us." I know this is a crude illustration,
but maybe this will hit home with some of you. We got this new fashion called
jeggings. Never been anything like it before.
Michelle and Christine, do you all remember stirrup pants? The
jeggings aren't much different than that. Nothing new. That's
just some simple thing. But brethren, in all things,
in all things, man comes along and thinks that he's got some
new gospel. Man comes along and thinks he's
got some new way to God. Man comes along and thinks he's
got some new and improved way to come to God. I don't have
anything new to say to you that hasn't been from old eternity. My gospel is as old as my God. It didn't originate with me and
it didn't originate with man. It originated with the God of
all grace. That's who He is. All grace is
of God. We can learn all knowledge that
we want to about grace so that we can prophesy. Balaam prophesied
We can learn all mysteries so that we have all knowledge of
all mysteries and all understanding. We can have faith to say, I believe
those things. The devils believe God and tremble
about Him. We have to have the love of God
in our heart, formed in us, Christ formed in us by the Holy Spirit
of God to make us behold the works have been finished from
before the foundation of the world. When God put his people
in Christ, he said, Christ struck hands with the Father and He
entered into surety-ship engagement with Him to fulfill all righteousness,
to justify His people from all our sins. And in the fullness
of time, He came forth and accomplished, not a new thing, that thing that
He promised before the world ever began. And he said, it's
finished. It is finished. And when he said
it is finished, he meant it is finished. The work of salvation
is accomplished. Christ is not a failure. The
work of salvation is accomplished. Christ put away the sins of His
people by the sacrifice of Himself. He satisfied Holy God. He brought in everlasting righteousness
for His people. And this is what He promised
to do before the world began. It's not anything new. The newness
is the same old deceitfulness of our heart. That's what makes
us try to, always like the Athenians, wanting to find out something
new, wanting to hear about something new. I think sometimes that if
men didn't have somebody opposing them and arguing with them about
the doctrine of grace, that they wouldn't even have anything,
they wouldn't have any, there would be no fun in it to them.
There would be no joy in it to them. The joy, I will stand and
declare to you that what this gospel is teaching us mans the
vanity, mans the vanity. God put a people in Christ by
his sovereign choosing of that people, whom he would. It's not
of him that willeth nor of him that runneth. It's of God that
showeth mercy. He chose whom he would. And God
has to come and create us anew. He has to give us life and make
us to give us faith, grant us repentance. He has to do everything
for us to make us willing to believe on Christ and cast all
our care into His hand and trust that He has saved us and is saving
us and shall save us. He does that. And we like to
talk about preserving. Oh, we preserve. We do persevere. The believer does persevere.
But it's by the preservation of God that we persevere. Look
at the next verse, verse 11. Here's the problem. Here's why
we have to be preserved by God. There's no remembrance of former
things. Neither shall there be any remembrance
of things that are to come with those that shall come after. The current generation fails
to remember the former things. Just naturally speaking, we don't
have the intellect to remember things from the past. And likewise,
the next generation, he says here, neither shall there be
any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall
come after. You see, the problem lies in
us. The problem lies in us. We're
the vanity. We're the vanity. The memories
of men fail so that we don't retain understanding from one
day to the next, much less from one generation to the next. God
has to teach us. God is the teacher. He's the
preserver. He's the keeper. He's the reason
not one shall be lost. Not one of his children shall
be plucked from his hand because he's keeping his children by
his hand. Man's full of defects in passing
on things from one generation to the next generation when it
comes to just our natural wisdom and our natural understanding
of things. You think about this. We think we have really discovered
a bunch of new things. I'm just, right now, I'm just
talking about a natural thing. We can see how defective we are
in spiritual matters when we can't even pass from one generation
to the next. Natural things. How was it that
men, I'm talking about generations ago, how did men record the wisdom
and the knowledge they found out? They wrote things on a rock.
Rocks just turn to the dust. Rocks just turn right back to
the dust. And so after those things perish away, men have
to start all over trying to figure out, okay, let's try to figure
out this wisdom. And then when they figure it
out, they think, well, we found something out new. Something
out new. How long do you think information
is really going to last on a computer file? If God tarries in 1,000
or 2,000 more years, you can't go back and find things that
you recorded on a cassette tape from 1980. And if we're that defective in
passing on wisdom from one to another, that shows us in everything,
especially in spiritual matters, we have to have God to teach
us. Teach us. According to His Word, there's
nothing new under the sun. We really can't say with certainty
that anything that we've ever discovered wasn't discovered
before. Look at Ecclesiastes 2.16. For there's no remembrance of
the wise more than of the fool forever. Seeing that which now
is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. Shall all be
forgotten. And how doth the wise, just like
the fool? You see, it doesn't matter if
you come into this world and you pass from this world thoroughly
ignorant, having no education, no being never taught anything,
or if you had the best education and the wisest of all. Until
God teach us this gospel in our hearts, the wise man will perish
just like the fool will. Just like the fool will. Solomon
said, I tried it myself. With all the wisdom and the knowledge
and the honor and the riches that God gave me, Solomon said,
I tried it myself. Look at Ecclesiastes 1.12. I, the preacher, was king over
Israel in Jerusalem. I had every advantage that could
be given to a man. And he said, and I gave my heart
to seek and to search out wisdom concerning all things that are
done under heaven. And what did he find out? What
did he find out? Look at verse 13. This sore travail
hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith. First of all, this word sore
travail means wicked and sinful labor. Wicked and sinful labor. Ecclesiastes 3.11, look there. It says, He hath made everything
beautiful in His time. God has benefited each generation
with man's discoveries. He's given them the wisdom so
that man can make discoveries in science and all these different
things. And he's benefited mankind greatly
by it. Look at this next word. Also,
he has set the world in their heart so that no man can find
out the work that God maketh from beginning to the end. God
suffers many to foolishly waste their entire lives laboring in
the pursuit of wisdom in the things that God has made, who
never seek God who made those things. Can he not do with his own what
he will? He makes the world a better place by it. But God has done
this. We tried to reach forth our hand
and acquire wisdom apart from God in the garden. And part of
the curse of that is, from now on, just like we get our bread
every day by the sweat of our brow, if we're going to get any
wisdom and understanding, it's going to be by labor. We're going to have to seek.
We're going to have to seek after it. And yet, unless God draws
us to seek Him, we won't seek Him. Unless God puts the wisdom
in our heart, we won't know. And unless God teaches us, they
shall all be taught of God. Every child that God saves, every
child that comes to God and bows before Him in saving faith, it's
because God's taught them. The Holy Spirit of God has taught
them in their heart. God does this. Look at verse
14. He said, I've seen all the works that are done under the
sun. And behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. It's
vanity and a labor for the wind. Look at chapter 5 and verse 16. This also is a sore evil, that
in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit
hath he that hath laboured for the wind? What profit is it that you labour
for the wind? Our Lord, when He walked this
earth, look at Hosea, Hosea chapter 12. When our Lord walked this
earth, He said this, He said, Seek first. That word means preeminently.
That word means in all things, all the time. Seek first the
kingdom of God and His righteousness. Seek first Him. I know that some
invariably will hear this and some are going to say, you're
taking that too far now. A man needs to go out and get
him a good education and go out and get him a good job and all
those things. I'm not even going to answer
that. I'm going to say what God says right here. This is what
God says right here. We labor for the wind. We labor for the wind. Seek first
preeminently in all things Christ our righteousness. Seek him first.
Hosea 12 1. It says Ephraim. Let me get there. Ephraim feedeth on wind, and
followeth after the east wind. He daily increaseth lives in
desolation. And they do make a covenant with
the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt." I couldn't help
but read that and think about, in our day and time, how many
lying, deceitful covenants are being made to go in Arab lands and get oil and carry
oil away. Because that's strength. That's
wisdom. That's the strength of nations
and the power of nations. It's feeding on wind. It's no
different, and it's no different for you and I to look to the
work of our hand, to look to something we've done or something
we've not done. I said this to you Sunday. God
does create fruits in his children, the fruits of righteousness which
are by Jesus Christ, Paul said to the Philippians. But the moment
you start looking at your fruits, And I start looking at my fruits
to try to gain assurance by works based assurance by what I have
done or not have done. I guarantee you're going to find
yourself face down begging God to show you his face. I guarantee
it. If we think we have fruits and
we can get some assurance by something we've done, it puffs
us up so that we don't need God to carry us. And then when we
look and we can't see any fruits in us, it casts us down into
the valley so that we think God's altogether left us. Don't give
me poverty, Lord, and don't give me riches. Don't let me see in
myself any strength of riches by something I've done or any
poverty by something I've done. Lest I forget God and curse His
name, Lord, cause me always to seek Your face, to seek Christ
Jesus who is all my wisdom and all my righteousness and all
my sanctification and all my redemption. If I can see Him,
I'll be satisfied. Well, look down now back at our
text, Ecclesiastes 1. Yet every new generation comes
along imagining that by man's own work, man's own wisdom, they
can fix what's broken. Look at verse 15. That which
is crooked cannot be made straight, and that which is wanting cannot
be numbered. It just can't be. Well, I thought
the Lord said, I'll make the crooked thing straight. That's
the point. The Lord said, I'll do it. I'll
make the I'll make the mountains a plain. I'll make the valleys,
I'll bring up the valleys and I'll make the crooked things
straight. God said He will do it. The point is, the deficiency,
the true want, the true lack is us. And the deficiency of
the sinful heart can't be numbered by man's wisdom. It can't be
much less straightened out by man's wisdom. We can't even count
the deficiencies we have in ourselves, much less straighten it out.
Verse 16, I communed with my own heart saying, Lo, I've come
to great a state. and have gotten more wisdom than
all they that have been before me in Jerusalem. Yea, my heart
had great experience of wisdom and knowledge, and I gave my
heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly." This
is not like some think. I don't think it is. I don't
think it's that he tried to run into madness and folly so he'd
have something to compare truth with. I think it meant in all
parables and science, philosophies of men, things that men deem
as wise. It's really just madness and
folly, science so-called. He said, I gave myself to all
that. I perceive that this also is just chasing wind, vexation
of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief,
and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. You know why? I'll tell you one reason. Man
thinks that when they get a lot of wisdom, they'll be happy.
Just like riches, man thinks, well, I get enough riches, I'll
be happy. Anything like that of this world, naturally, that
we think we can obtain, we think if I get enough of it, I'll be
happy. And we're never satisfied by it. We're grieved by it. And
if we do get something, our neighbors are envious that we have it,
and there's even more grief from those around us. Those that see
us, if we get to some Some place like Solomon got in wisdom or
honor or something like that. The man who's on top is a target
for the man that wants to be there. The man that's at the
top, the next man's wanting to knock him off so he can be there.
And it just causes grief and vexation and sorrow. And the
sum of it all is that it doesn't give peace at all. So here's
the message. That's vanity. That's the first
point. Vanity. The vain wisdom. Now
here's true wisdom. There's wisdom and knowledge
that's opposite to all this. which is not vanity, but it's
excellent. It's excellent. The more it's
increased, the more joy and the more comfort it brings. Heed
this, not as the word of a man, not as the word of Solomon. Heed
it as the word of Christ Jesus, who is wisdom himself. He said
the Queen of Sheba came down to see all of Solomon's wisdom,
and she said the half hadn't been told. When she saw just
that wisdom, Solomon had, as a man. Christ said, I'm greater
than Solomon's here. This is the one, this word exercise,
back in verse 13, verse 13, I gave my heart to seek. He said, this
sore travail has God given to the sons of men to be exercised
therewith. That word exercise also means
humbled. It means humbled. It means to
be brought down. Man's got to be taught by God. Look at 1 Corinthians
1.30. We'll look at a few scriptures
here. 1 Corinthians 1.30. He said there in verse 29 that
no flesh should glory in his presence. He's talking here that
He's saying there's not many wise men called. There's not
many noble called. There are some. Solomon was one
of them. The Apostle Paul is writing this.
He was a wise man, naturally speaking. But there's not many
called. Most are know-it-alls and too
good for their own good. But that no flesh should glory
in his presence. Verse 30. But of God are you
in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom. God's got
to make Christ wisdom to us. God's got to make Christ righteousness
to us, sanctification and redemption that according as it is written,
he that glories, let him glory in the Lord. Let him glory in
the Lord. Look at Ephesians 3. Ephesians
3. What wisdom are we talking about
here? This was Paul's desire. This is my desire. for us in this place, right here,
Ephesians 3, verse 19. Well, let's look at verse 17,
that Christ may dwell in your heart by faith, that you being
rooted and grounded in love may be able to comprehend with all
saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height. And to know the love of Christ,
look at what this love does. It passes knowledge. It passes
knowledge. It's greater than anything a
man can obtain by his own hand. It's greater than anything man
can imagine. The half truly hasn't been told.
We haven't entered in even an inkling to the wisdom that Christ
is, to know the love of Christ. This is that you might be filled
with all the fullness of God. This is the wisdom by whom the
worlds were made, and the worlds are held in store. Proverbs 8. Proverbs 8. Let's look real quick. Proverbs 8, 14. Just before the book of Ecclesiastes.
Proverbs 8. Look at verse 14. This is wisdom
personified, but it's Christ that's speaking here. Counsel
is mine and sound wisdom. I am understanding. I have strength. Proverbs 8, 15. By me kings reign
and princes decree justice. By me princes rule and nobles,
even all the judges of the earth. And you know who really those
kings that reign and those princes that decree justice and those
princes who rule and nobles that are the judges of the earth?
You know who they are? They're those in whom this love of Christ
is made known. They're His children in whom
The kings and princes of this earth aren't declaring justice.
They aren't declaring that Christ came and satisfied justice by
himself, by laying down his life for his people. But God's princes
are, God's judges are. Those that are gonna stand one
day by him and when he judges this world in righteousness by
Christ Jesus, whom he's appointed heir of all things, who is all
wisdom and to whom all judgment is given. Every child of God
is going to say, Amen. Amen. Riches and honor with me. Yea, durable riches and righteousness. Riches, unsearchable riches.
Righteousness that never changes. My fruits better than gold. Yea,
than fine gold and my revenue than choice silver. This is it. John 6. Let's look over there.
John 6, 27. This is what I'm trying to tell
you. I'm not telling you not to get
an education. Not telling you not to do those
kinds of things. Not at all. But this is what
Christ said. Look at verse 27. Labor not for
the meat which perisheth. But for that meat which endureth
unto everlasting life, which the Son of Man shall give unto
you, for him hath God the Father sealed. Seek Christ. Seek Him. He said in Jeremiah
9, 23, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom. Let neither the
mighty man glory in his might. Let not the rich man glory in
his riches. But let him that glory, glory in this, that he
understandeth and knoweth me. I am the Lord which exercise
lovingkindness and judgment and righteousness in the earth. For
in these things I delight, saith the Lord. I'll show you one more
thing. One more thing. Look over at Mark 14. Mark 14. I want you to remember, the Lord
said, one generation passes and another comes, but the earth
abides forever. And we're talking about He by
whom the worlds were made, by whom all things were created,
everything that exists, true wisdom. And He is Jesus Christ
the same, yesterday and today and forever. He never changes.
His righteousness is everlasting. Those that have been saved by
grace will be saved by grace. Grace don't change. The gifts
and calling of God were without repentance. There's nothing a
child of God can do to make himself unsaved if God saved him. Now,
that doesn't make a man run into sin. That makes a man run to
God who saved him and run to Christ and cling to Him. I want
to show you something here. God remembers you want to live
for something. You want to really set out now
to get into your life and really go after something and live for
something. Let me ask you something. Who
invented the wheel? I'd say that's a pretty marvelous
invention and been used for generation after generation after generation.
I don't guess we have a clue who invented the wheel, do we?
Who figured out how to start a fire and how to create a fire? That's a good wisdom to have
and it's benefited us extremely. We have to have it. I couldn't
tell you, and I don't guess this world even has a remembrance
of who it was that God gave that wisdom to, that first said, here,
we can strike these rocks together and put some dry stuff here and
we can make a fire. That's never been recorded, has
it? Look at verse Mark 14. A woman came to the Lord and
she took all she'd been saving from a year's worth of her wages
and she poured it out on His feet. And the Lord said, she
had done what she could, verse eight, she had done what she
could. She has come beforehand to anoint my body to the bearing. Verily, I say unto you, wheresoever
this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this
also that she had done shall be spoken of for a memorial of
her. It's still being spoken of. All
those other things that we consider wise and great new things, we
don't even know who did those things. This right here is what
God regards as wisdom. Coming to Christ and giving yourself
to Him, laying down all at Him. You go home tonight, you read
Hebrews 11, you'll find some of those that God shows us that
He regards worthy of remembrance. They walk through this world
trusting God. All their care was in his hand.
God says, I remember them. I remember them. Amen.