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We talked about the resurrection today.

I'm going to finish our series.

Only crazy ass stays the day.

Will be the last message on Ecclesiastes.

Not remember, we've been talking about finding meaning and purpose in life, and we talked about a lot for the last 3 months, and this is our series searching for heaven on Earth and we didn't go in through the Book of Ecclesiastes.

Here's today's message.

The conclusion of the whole matter.

What we're going to talk about is Solomon's final false on the meaning and purpose of life.

And so we're going to look I'm going to give you four attitude will talk about those in a moment.

Well, it was during WWII.

Here's a story of three.

Teenage boys that had been captured and they were out of a Nazi concentration camp.

Well, one night.

There was an uprising amongst all the prisoners.

You don't really hear these stories that much but about 400 went up against some of the Nazi guards and about a hundred of them escaped.

And they fled for the woods.

Well, three of those 100 were these three teenage boys.

And they spent 4 days and nights trying to escape from that place or what they would do.

They would sleep during the day and then they would move at night.

And then on the fourth night, they was out in the woods and they can see some lights and a building in the distance.

And they said, we have finally escaped and they ran into that building.

Unknowingly, they were running back to the same prison that they had just escaped from 4 days.

Earlier and other words, what they had done is they had spent four days traveling in a circle.

And didn't know where they were with a course, they ended up back where they started and they were arrested again.

Well, Solomon in the Book of Ecclesiastes.

It's kind of a picture of someone just living life in a circle.

Just going from one thing to the other and this book kind of describes Solomon's if you want to call it.

That a round trip experience with God.

Remember what he began the book say and he said all is Vanity, all is just useless.

I mean life.

We just can't understand it.

Well, we conclude our study today.

And we're going to talk about one main theme here and we started earlier in the series.

We said that this was following his book of regrets.

If you think of it like that, he looks back upon his life because he's an old man now and he just regretted that he tried to live his life apart from God.

All these things that you read in here about what life has no meaning what he's talkin about.

Is if you try to live life with God on the periphery or God in the background, it's not going to work.

You're not going to find meaning.

You're not going to find purpose.

You're not going to find love.

You're not going to find enjoyment.

You just cannot do it.

And so in a way his life was like those three teenagers wandering in the woods.

Without a roadmap ended up exactly where they began frustrated and meaningless.

And that's what life is without God.

So in this lesson today, one of them, Who is trying to just give you kind of an overview of all the questions that he has raised in these 10 chapters and I want to give it to you in a summary form.

So what I'm going to do is I'm going to give you four attitudes that you need to have if you're going to find meaning and purpose in life for attitude.

So let's go ahead and again with number one in the first attitude is this life is uncertain.

So embrace it.

Now, this is on the back of your bulletin, or you can follow up here on the screen slalom.

And he take great.

He takes great pains here to communicate in this book, the uncertainty of life.

Now, there's a Temptation especially among Christians to kind of sit back and kind of relax in the face of life's uncertainty.

Just kind of play it safe.

Don't Rock the Boat, just kind of bide your time.

What Simon says, don't do that.

He says, you need to be proactive in your life as you approach life.

You don't need to do crazy things, you need to practice and do life with wisdom, but you just don't sit back and let life come to you.

You need to be proactive.

So, how does he say that?

Well, let's look at it here in a crazy ass things.

Chapter 11.

And I want you to look at verse one because what he says is we need to be Diversified in our investments.

Now.

Look how he says this inverse.

1 of chapter 11 pieces, cast your bread upon the waters for.

You will find it after many days.

You said what, what in the world would that mean?

Well again, this is what it's called, an Old Testament.

Idiom in the idiom is cast your bread upon the waters.

Now, here's how to understand that.

In Solomon's day merchants.

Would load their ships with grain or die, or something like that.

And they would send them by ship across, who knows a hundred 203 for 500 miles to another land and they would trade that for something that the people in the other land had.

So he says, cast your bread upon the waters in the Hope was when the ship would come back, what you would have coming to?

You would be more valuable than what you sent and noticed.

The word here Waters is in the plural, hear what that indicates, is the wisdom of not sending everything that you have.

On one ship.

It means you may put grain and go to the north.

You may put die or something and go to the South.

You may put wool or something like that.

And go east, go west, you diversify.

So he says here, cast your bread upon the waters, don't in other words.

If you're looking at it in our day, don't put all your eggs in one basket.

Don't do that.

Don't put all your money.

In the stock market, don't put it all there.

You can put some there.

Diversified put some in stock splits.

Plumbing Bond.

Do you have a small business, put some money over here?

Maybe you have a house, something that you want to rent, or trailer, a piece of land that you want to rent, do that.

Don't put everything in one basket, is what he said, be Diversified in your investment because life is uncertain.

And instead of burying your resources.

Like we see in the New Testament.

Remember the talents parable of the talents one went out and dusted made money.