Okay, let's turn to Ecclesiastes. It comes as a shock and a surprise
to many that the word of God that you hold in your hand was
deliberately written by inspiration. in such a way as to confuse unbelieving
men and women. To the believer, to the sinner
who has been saved by God's grace, who has been given life and faith
in Christ, whose eyes have been opened to see, whose ears have
been opened to hear, whose heart has been opened to understand
and believe God, this book is the revelation of God. It is
an unsealed, open book. We read it, and God speaks to
us by it, and we bow to it. To the unbeliever, it is a sealed
book, full of confusion. That fact is nowhere more obviously
demonstrated than in this book of Ecclesiastes, and in the comments
that men commonly give concerning it. Almost everything I have
read by other men, and almost everything I've ever heard by
other men on this blessed book, suggests that Solomon wrote this
book at a time when he was in utter frustration, in disappointment,
in darkness. Some suggest he wrote it because
he was in a backslidden condition and God put it down for that
purpose. We're told that the book of Ecclesiastes
is the rankings of a frustrated, defeated, pessimistic man. Nothing
could be further from the truth. Now one thing that makes this
book so confusing to many is that it is full of errors. Now
hear what I said. It is full of errors. It is written
and recorded by divine inspiration. But the scriptures record Satan's
words, which are always full of errors. The scriptures record
the words of men that are always full of errors. And when the
scripture records something, it records it accurately. Let
me give you some examples of the errors that are written here.
In chapter 3, Solomon tells us, in verses 19 and 20, that there's
no difference between men and beasts. that man dies like a
dog and returns to the dust. The same thing is repeated later
on. In verse 22 he tells us that the best thing a man can do,
the best thing a man can do is rejoice in the works of his own
hands. The best thing a fellow can do is rejoice in what he
does. In chapter 4 he tells us that the dead are no better off
than the living. And that nonexistence is really
better than both. And it says that plainly in verses
2 and 3. Now how can these things be so? How can this book be written
by divine inspiration and yet be full of errors? The reason
many have difficulty understanding it is that they fail to understand
that Solomon is here giving us by divine inspiration. the meaning
of life from two totally, radically, diametrically opposing points
of view. He gives us first the meaning
of life to the man who is without Christ. I can't think of a sadder way
to describe you who are yet without God, without Christ. What horrible words. To be without
Christ is to be without life, without righteousness, without
hope. And that's the man Solomon's
talking about here. The man who is without hope deals
life altogether differently from the believer. Those who are unregenerate,
without God, without hope, without Christ, live in constant disappointment
and frustration. Those men and women constantly
look for something that will give them satisfaction. They
constantly have to have something new. Have to have a new experience,
a new position, a change of life. Something new all the time because
they look for satisfaction in this world. They look for meaning
in this world and find none. You see, nothing under the sun
can satisfy your immortal soul. Nothing. Nobody. No possession,
no relationship, no experience. When eternity bound creatures
have earth bound hearts, they live in constant frustration
and misery. In the light of that statement,
we ought not be surprised that psychiatrist offices are overflowing. We ought not be surprised that
everybody under the sun is looking for somebody to give them a pill
to calm them down. When eternity-bound creatures have earth-bound hearts,
they live in constant frustration and misery. Such poor souls constantly
feel what Solomon declares from their point of view. Vanity of
vanities, all is vanity. When the natural man looks over
his life, he's forced to conclude Though he tries with all his
might to deny it, he's forced to conclude, he looks back over
his life, doesn't matter whether he dies when he's 20, when he's
40, when he's 60, when he's 80, when he's 100. He looks back
over his life and he has to acknowledge all was vanity and vexation of
spirit and there was no prophet under the sun. That's how this
book begins. Look at verse 1, chapter 1. The
words of the preacher. the son of David, the king in
Jerusalem. Vanity of vanities, saith the
preacher, vanity of vanities, all is vanity, empty, meaningless,
insignificant, nothing, nothing. But the wisdom of God gave Solomon
another understanding of things. The wisdom of God teaches us
Never to look for satisfaction under the Son, but to look for
satisfaction in Christ who is the Son, the Son of God and the
Son of Righteousness. The person who is born of God,
the man or woman who trusts Christ, that one who is taught of the
Spirit, finds meaning to his whole life. Finds meaning to
everything that's involved in his life. His life has meaning. Because he lives in Christ. And
Christ lives in him. Now that gives meaning. That gives purpose to life. I'm
not my own. I've been bought with a price.
I've been redeemed by the blood of Christ. And when God revealed
that in me, for the first time in my life, I found meaning. Purpose. A reason for existence. I live in this body, yet not
I, but Christ lives in me, who loved me and gave himself for
me. And that's how the book ends.
Look in chapter 12, verse 13. Let us hear the conclusion of
the matter. Solomon says, let us hear the conclusion of the
whole matter. He says, this is what I've been
talking about now for 12 chapters. This is what I've been showing
you. Fear God. I couldn't believe it. I read
a sermon today in a very popular preacher some years ago, and
he said no gospel preacher would ever attempt to preach a gospel
message from this text. This is Old Testament law. No,
no. Fear God. Worship God. Trust God. Bow to God as he's
revealed in Christ. and keep his commandments, keep
his word, for this is the whole of man." Isn't that amazing? Our translators put that little
word, duty, in there. It is the duty of man, but it's
more than that. To believe God, Bobby, is the
whole of manhood. It's the whole of manhood. To
be made whole in Christ is to be a whole man. And to be without
Christ is to be something less than a whole man. For God shall
bring every work into judgment, and every secret thing, whether
it be good or whether it be evil. Now, everything between what
we read in chapter 1 and what we just read here in chapter
12, shows us the emptiness of life without Christ. The vanity
of seeking satisfaction in this world. This book is given as
a beacon, a beacon so that we might be spared the bitterness
of learning the vanity of things of the earth by finding their
waters to fail, that we may seek Christ and find all in him. Throughout these twelve chapters,
Solomon alternates between these two points of view, between showing
us the futility of seeking satisfaction in the things of time and sense,
and the blessed teaching of the word of God, that we must look
to Christ, finding all things in him. Now he gives us the natural
man's point of view, and as I go through this and show you the
natural man's point of view, please understand that in these
various chapters, Solomon intersperses words of encouragement and instruction
as to how we ought to really look at things. But as we go
through these chapters, and read them carefully when you go home,
Solomon is showing us how the natural man views things. The
ungenerate man, he has a wrong view of everything. Now let that sink in, I know
we don't have to leave it. The ungenerate man has a perverted
understanding of everything. His mind is perverted. His heart
is perverted. Depraved men, dead sinners have
no fear of God and they are without understanding. Any kind of understanding
that's right. They have a perverted view of
everything in the world. Everything spiritual and everything
natural. This is what Solomon shows us
in Ecclesiastes. In this book God shows by divine
inspiration to preserve in his word the carnal reasonings of
natural men under the sun. That word under the sun is used
continually through the book. Under the sun. Under the sun.
These are folks whose hopes reach no higher than what they can
see. They're under the sun. Under the sun. All they hope
for is what they can see. All they live for is what they
can see. All they understand is what they can see, and they
don't even understand that. evaluate this man's thinking
in the light of scripture. First, in verses 4 through 7
of chapter 1, the natural man has a perverted view of God's
universe. He looks upon the universe as
a piece of machinery, not a piece of providential machinery, just
a piece of machinery. A piece of machinery that he
knows somehow works. They call it the laws of nature.
They call it mother nature. They call it the laws of gravity. They call it the laws of physics.
They look upon it as a piece of machinery. But a piece of
machinery without any real meaning, just existence. And they try
to understand the various aspects of its existence. And that man
who looks upon God's creation as a piece of machinery, looks
at himself and says he's just another piece of machinery. And
he reasons like this. I'm just like the wind. I'm just
like the rain. Modern mystical religions, they
tell you, become one with nature. I'm not interested, thank you.
I'm just like the wind. I'm just like the rain. Just
a drop in the cycles that are constantly moving to an ultimate
fatalistic end. And this perverted view of the
universe gives them a perverted view of God. in chapter 3 verses
1-9 and the latter part of chapter verses 18-22. Now man has a God
consciousness. Every man does. Folks talk about
being atheist, there's no such thing. He may scream atheist,
but he inside says God rules. Inside he knows he's going to
meet God. But man's understanding of God, his thoughts of God are
perverted. He sees God only as an impersonal
force, somehow to be reckoned with. Not as the almighty sovereign
redeemer and savior of his people to be trusted, worshipped, and
loved. And there's a reason for that.
Look in verse 11, chapter 3. Why is it that men can't understand
our God? Why can't they know our God? Why can't they find out God? Can't thou by searching find
out God? Let's see. He hath made everything
beautiful in his time, also he hath set the world in their heart."
Oh, God! From the day that Adam lifted
his fist against God's throne, all the sons of Adam, under the
judgment of God, have their hearts filled with the world. And as
long as your heart's filled with this world, he says no man can
find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
It ain't gonna happen. The natural man has a perverse
attitude with regard to both righteousness and wickedness.
Look in chapter 7. He doesn't understand That he
is wicked. He understands that people do
wicked things, including him. But he doesn't understand that
he is wicked. Talk to him. Ask him. He'll never fess up
to it. He won't do it. Because he doesn't
understand that he's wicked. He doesn't understand not just
that he does evil, and that evil is in him. He just does not understand
that he is evil. That he is wickedness. And he
doesn't understand. that righteousness is something
that God Almighty works for us through the sacrifice of his
Son, and gives to us by the gift of his free grace, and works
in us by divine regeneration. It is not something we perform.
He understands that men, in his perverted understanding, he thinks
that men do good and they do evil. And the two things sort
of counterbalance one another. Look at verse 14. The natural man presumes that
he can balance the scales of justice by his deeds. He knows
that God's holy, the law is written on his heart, and he's going
to meet God, and he's going to have to give an account. But
he hopes that the good will outweigh the evil, and everything will
be all right in the end. Let's see if this is what he
says. Verse 14. In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in
the day of adversity consider. God also hath set the one over
against the other, to the end that man should find nothing
after him. All things have I seen in the
days of my vanity. There is a just man that perisheth
in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth
life in his wickedness. And so this is my conclusion.
Be not righteous over much. Don't be too good. Don't overstress
this thing of religion. Don't become so heavenly minded
that you have no earthly good. Don't be overly righteous. And he says, neither make thyself
over wise. Why shouldst thou destroy thyself?
Destroy your life. These things you pursue, be not
over much wicked, neither be thou foolish. Why shouldst thou
die before thy time? Now this is his reasoning. If
the far, far away God, that great force that we have to deal with,
balances things, why shouldn't we do the same? And so he adopts
this philosophy. Don't be too righteous and don't
be too wicked. The religious middle-of-the-road
philosophy of our day. That's exactly what this is talking
about. This is the thinking of the natural man. No one's perfect. We all have to just do the best
we can do. And that'd be all right. Look
at verse 20. For there's not a just man on earth that doeth
good and sinneth not. Now no question, that's a true
statement. But that's exactly the way men talk. when they are
confronted with evil, and nobody's perfect. Nobody's perfect. I wouldn't claim to be perfect.
I'm not evil, but I wouldn't claim to be perfect. Then fourthly,
the natural man has a terribly perverted view of life and death.
Look at chapter 9. Begin reading with me, verse
1. For all this I considered in
my heart, even to declare this, that the righteous and the wise
and their works are in the hand of God. No man knoweth either
love or hatred by all that is before him. All things come alike
to all. There is one event to the righteous
and to the wicked, to the good and to the clean and to the unclean,
to him that sacrificeth and to him that sacrificeth not. As
is the good, so is the sinner, and he that sweareth, as he that
feareth an oath. This is an evil among all things,
that all are done unto the Son, and there is one event unto all. Yea, also the heart of the sons
of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they
live, and after that they go to the dead. For a living dog is better than
a dead lion. A living dog is better than a
dead lion. For the living know that they
die, but the dead know not anything. Now that phrase, we all have
recited so many times, a living dog is better than a dead lion,
is not really to be used that way. What Solomon is saying here
naturally is, it's better to live as the lowest of beasts,
than to be dead and be the greatest of beasts. Because when the lion
is dead, when the greatest among us is dead, he doesn't know anything. He's gone. For the living know
not, know that they shall die, but the dead know not anything,
neither have they any more a reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.
Verse 6. Also their love and their hatred,
and their is now perished. Now that's not so. That's not
so. Hell's full of it. Full of hatred
and envy. Heaven's full of love and mercy. Hell's full of misery. Heaven's
full of blessedness. But the natural man says, these
things have ended once a fellow dies. Neither have they any more
a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun. Look
at verse 7. go thy way, eat thy bread with
joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart, for God accepteth
thy works." The man under the sun thinks that everyone will
ultimately share a common fate. He reasons that one final end
is in store for us all, the righteous and the wicked, the good and
the evil, the clean and the unclean, the one who sacrifices worshiping
God, and the one who doesn't sacrifice and doesn't worship
God at all. His view of life is that the grave ends everything.
Countless false religions in this day, as in days gone by,
refer to verse 5 and try to make a pretense of Well, this passage
is telling us, God's telling us that there's no life after
death, the grave ends at all. But you understand this statement
is not a divine revelation. By God's inspiration, Solomon
is here telling us how the natural man thinks. And look at chapter
9 again, verse 7. This natural man's perverted
view of things makes him a slave. a slave of the worst kind, a
slave to his lust, a slave to the earth, a slave to dirt, a
slave to the things of this world, a slave to this perishing world. Get all you can. You don't care. Get all you can get. And if you
get all of it, if you get all of it, if you get all of it,
what's gonna profit you? You'd sit down and look at it.
That's all. You just sit down and look at
it. That's all. Look at verse 7, chapter 9. Go thy way, eat
thy bread with joy, drink thy wine with a merry heart, for
God now accepteth thy works, Let thy garments be always white,
and let thy head like no ointment. Live joyfully with the wife whom
thou lovest all the days of thy life, of thy vanity, which he
hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity, for
that is thy portion in this life. And in thy labor which thou takest
under the sun, whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with
all thy might. How come? For there is no work,
nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom where you're going. You're
going to die like a dog, so live it up. The man under the sun
says make the best of every day. eat well, enjoy life, make your
heart merry, find all the gusto you can, you just go around once,
get it all, and enjoy your life. Look at chapter 9 again, verse
7, the man's horribly sad, horribly sad. How many, how many, don't show
your hands, How many content people have you ever met in your
life? How many folks who were happy
with what God's doing have you ever met in your life? How many
of you ever raised a content son or a content daughter? How many of you know what it
is to find contentment? I returned and saw under the
sun, I looked at folks living here on this earth, that the race is not to the swift,
nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise,
nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill,
but time and chance. Time and luck, time and fate,
happeneth to them all. for man also knoweth not his
time, as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as
the birds that are caught in a snare, so are the sons of men
snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them."
Well, enough about man's philosophy. There is not a song to brighten
his life, no praise heard from his lips, just vanity. Against this dark, dark background,
Solomon now sits before us, the glory of God in the face of Christ. Throughout these chapters he
intersperses these things. Christ you see alone. Oh, God
teach us this. Christ alone is life, Bob. And
Christ alone gives meaning to life. In this world is all emptiness,
in Christ is all fullness. Actually these 12 chapters is
a rather long exposition of our Savior's words to the Samaritan
woman. You remember what he said? Whoso drinketh of this water
shall thirst again. What earthly thing Did you ever
want so bad you could taste it? When you got it, you were satisfied
with it. What position did you ever get?
Oh, if I could just have my name up there so everybody would look
at me. What position did you ever get when you got it, you
didn't want something else? What? What? You come to this well, and you
just as well dip your water with a bucket with no bottom, because
you're going to be thirsty just as soon as you take a drink.
He shall thirst again. The book presents the world in its best aspect. Yet, it says emphatically, satisfaction
is not here. In the second chapter, we have
a striking parallel with the seventh chapter of Romans. Sheba
was reading a little book in my library yesterday that caught
my attention to this, and I thought it was great. Romans chapter 7 and this chapter
as well are full of one word, the first person singular personal
pronoun, I. In this chapter it appears 36
times, more than 30 times in Romans chapter 7. I in Romans 7 and I in Ecclesiastes
2 is frustration, failure, misery. I corrupt everything. I destroy
everything. I ruin everything. Even when
I try to help, I hurt. When I try to comfort, I make
you uncomfortable. When I try to be joyful, I make
somebody sad. I mess up everything. Paul looks within and he sees
nothing but sin. That's all there is. Solomon
says, I said in my heart, go to now, I will prove thee with
mirth. I said, I sought, I made, I builded,
I planted, I got, I gathered, so I was great. Then I looked. Now look at it. This man Solomon,
he was unlike the other kings in his day. He had the means
wherewith to investigate anything he wanted to. He had the riches
to get anything he wanted. He said, I didn't withhold anything
from my heart. All his life he was engaged in study, in the
pursuit of knowledge, in building. He said, I sought, I built, I
made, I did. I became great, the greatest
in the East. And then he says, I looked and behold, all was
vanity and vexation of spirit. That's me. That's me. But then Paul turns
from looking to himself in Romans 7, and in Romans chapter 8, he
shows us that we must look to Christ. And looking to Christ,
we lose sight of self. In Romans 8, we are consumed
with Christ, with his life, life in the Spirit. And the result
is, there's therefore now no condemnation to them that are
in Christ Jesus. We're more than conquerors through
him that loved us. Who shall separate us from the
love of God? Now there's no vanity, now there's
no vexation, only delight! For Christ is all fullness. Now
this is what this fellow said. When self is the center of your
life, And for most people, that's the
center. I was visiting one place not long ago, and some friends
were going through some real troubles. And I was talking to
the pastor, and this lady came up, and she started talking about
her troubles. Oh, worst troubles in the world.
Oh, terrible troubles. Nobody got woes like me. She
walked away, and he said, I believe if you were to tell her that
your wife, your daughter, your son-in-law, both your grandchildren
just got killed in an accident on the street here. She'd say,
oh, that's too bad. I'm so sorry. Did I tell you
about my sore thumb? Most of us live to ourselves
and live in utter vexation. When self is the center of life,
everything is looked at from the standpoint of frustration,
defeat, and failure, utter misery. When we find Christ, and find
in Him a new center of life, when everything revolves around
Him, then all falls into its right place, and we find rest
and satisfaction for our souls. We begin to ask about everything,
not, how will this affect me? Oh, I would, God, I could get
over that, don't you? I wish I could never even think
again, how's that going to affect me? How's this going to affect
you? God's people, God's kingdom,
God's glory. If I were concerned with Christ,
that's exactly how I'd think. You too. Then in Ecclesiastes
9.8, there's There's something here that Solomon
intersperses that just almost reminds me of John's epistles.
He says, Let thy garments be always white, and thy head lack
no ointment. Obviously, he's not talking about
just keeping your clothes clean. I don't think that's what he's
talking about. Let your garments be white. These are they that have washed
their robes and made them white. These are they whose robes are
undefiled. How on earth do we keep our garments
white? If we walk in the light as he
is in the light, then he keeps us in his goodness and his blood
cleanses us from all sin. Christ is unto God a sweet savour,
a sweet smelling savour, his sacrifice, and we in Christ are
a sweet savour to God. His blood cleanses us from all
sin, and his spirit is that unction we have from the Holy One that
keeps us and teaches us. And then in chapter 9, verses
14 and 15, I read this yesterday and again
earlier this morning, I thought what a delightful parable. There was a little city and few
men in it. That's this little ball in which
we live, the earth, insignificant, just a speck in God's universe.
And there came a great king against it and besieged it and had built
great bulwarks against it. Our Lord said, the prince of
this world coming. Paul tells us the God of this
world has blinded the minds of them that believe not, lest the
light of the glory of God, the light of the glorious gospel
should shine unto them. And he has thus put a sage around
the city of Mansoul. And the parable goes on. Now
there was found in it, in that little city, a poor wise man. And he, by his wisdom, delivered
the city. You know the grace of our Lord
Jesus Christ? He who is wisdom. How that though
he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through
his poverty might be made rich. By the blood of his cross, our
Lord Jesus, in infinite wisdom, though he made himself utterly
poor, delivered his people from the curse of the law and redeemed
our souls. Read on. Yet no man remembered
that same poor man. On one occasion there were ten
lepers who came to the master and they said we want to be made
clean. We want you to heal us. And he said it's done. And they
went away and one of them turned back to give thanks. The nine
forgot him. Oh my Redeemer, oh my Savior, forgive my forgetfulness. Look in chapter 11, here's a
great encouragement. Cast thy bread, your seed corn
upon the waters, for thou shalt find it after many days. I'm
told that in Egypt when the Nile overflows and folks are going
to plant rice, they take it and just throw it out on the waters.
Throw it out on the waters, just broadcast it everywhere while
the ground's covered, and when the waters subside, it soaks
into the ground, and then in time, it brings forth fruit. Our Lord speaks in the parable
of the sower of us taking the word of the gospel. in casting
it out upon the ground. Just broadcast it. Just broadcast
it. I know folks who they preach
like they are planting in the garden. I'm going to put my seed
right here. Put it right here in this row.
That works in the garden. It doesn't work in the kingdom
of God. decide who we're going to preach
the gospel to. We don't try to make it fit one
group or one sect of society, but rather we take the word of
God and just preach it. Just throw it everywhere. Just
throw the seed everywhere. Everywhere with delight. Cast your bed upon the waters.
And the Lord says, I knowest not whether shall prosper either
this or that. Or whether they both shall alike
be good. And he makes that supposition.
And we don't know. You know, we just cast out our
bread. Don't know what God's going to
do. But we do have this word of promise. His word will not
return to him void. But it shall prosper in the thing
whereto he sins. So I urge you, my brothers and
sisters, let us give our lives to the casting out of the bread
of the gospel. What do you do then? Just wait.
Just wait. I wonder where God's going to
use that. I don't know, and you know, honestly,
I don't really care. I don't really care. Wherever
he wants it to, it'll be all right. I wonder how he's going
to use it. I don't know. I don't know how he's going to
use it. However he wants it to, it'll be all right. We just cast
out the bread, and God will cause his word to be fruitful. Now,
look at verse 9 of chapter 11. The Lord God here by his wise
servant Solomon calls for us early to seek him. They that
seek me early shall find me. I urge you who are yet without
Christ Don't look upon your unbelief as a matter of indifference.
O people, self and seek him. Rejoice, O young man, in thy
youth, and let thy heart care thee in the days of thy youth,
and walk in the ways of thine heart and in the sight of thine
eyes. But know thou that for these things God will bring thee
into judgment. Therefore remove sorrow from
thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh, for childhood
and youth are vanity. Oh, I've got to sow my wild oats. Childhood and youth are vanity.
He's got to find himself. Childhood and youth are vanity.
Find the Redeemer. That's the only thing that matters.
Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth. For the evil
days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say,
I have no pleasure in them. While the sun, or the light,
or the moon, or the stars be not darkened while ye can still
see, while the clouds return after the rain, in the day when
the keepers of the house shall tremble, when his hands grow
weak, and the strong men bow themselves, your legs begin to
buckle, and the grinders cease because they are few, your teeth
begin to fall out, and you look out the windows Those that look
out the window, it'll be darkened, your eyes grow dim. He says,
remember your Creator while you can. Believe Christ while you
can. Trust the Son of God while you
can. And then in verse 11 of chapter
12. Solomon's coming now to the conclusion
of this book of great wisdom. And it tells us that there is
only one source of wisdom, only one source of satisfaction, only
one source of grace, only one source of fullness, security,
and everlasting salvation, and that is in one shepherd. The
words of the wise are as gold. Knowing the terror of the Lord,
we persuade men. I've been trying to goad you,
Larry, to Him. Goad you to the Redeemer. Goad you to Him. And there is nails fastened by
the masters of assembly, the nail fixed in a sure place, which
are given from one shepherd. One shepherd. I'm the good shepherd. I know my sheep. and have known
of mine. I'm the good shepherd, I lay
down my life for the sheep. My sheep, hear my voice, I know
them, they follow me, I give unto them eternal life, and they
shall never perish. Now, let's look at the conclusion
of the matter one more time. Verse 13. Let us hear the conclusion of
the whole matter. Believe God. Fear God. Keep his commandments. The whole of his word, the whole
of this book, says one thing to you, one thing. Believe on
the Son of God. The whole of this book, believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ. Trust Christ. Fear God, keep
his commandments, for this is the whole of man. And one of
these days, we're going to meet God in judgment. God give us grace to look not
at things which are seen, but things which are unseen. To set
our hearts not upon things on the earth, but on things in heaven. For the things that are sane
are temporal, the things that are unsane, that really matters.