Series: Living Life Backwards

Title: Better Wisdom in a Broken World.

Text: Ecclesiastes 7:1-14 NIV

Ecc 6:12

I. Look on Death

a. Ecc. 7:1 “a good name is better than fine perfume”

b. Ecc 7:1 “and the day of death better than the day of birth”

c. Philippians 1:23

d. Quote: Charles Spurgeon “Death is the end of dying. On the day of the believer’s

death, dying is forever done with. The saints who are with God shall never die

any more. Life is wrestling, struggling, but death is the end of conflict: it is rest-

victory.”

e. Ecc 7:2

f. Ecc 7:4

g. Ecc 7:3

II. Ignore the Fools

a. Ecc. 7:5-6

b. Proverbs 27:5-6

c. 2 Tim 4:3-4

III. Live in the Present

a. Ecc 7:7-9

b. Ecc 7:10

c. Isaiah 43:18-19, “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am

doing a new thing!...”

d. Philippians 4:11

IV. Invest in Wisdom

a. Ecc. 7:11-12

V. Embrace the Mystery of Life

a. Ecc. 7:13-14

b. Job 1:21