Category: 2024 – Nelson’s A Life Well Lived (Ecclesiastes)

As Pastor Tommy Nelson explains, injustice in our world seems out of control.

Do you ever wonder what kind of God could sit back and watch criminals freed on technicalities and the innocent sentenced to a death penalty?  Do you ever question how the King of the Universe could withhold a baby from a loving Christian couple while hormonally charged teenagers get pregnant after a one-night stand?

But is instant justice the answer?  Do we truly want God to mete out judgment after every moral infraction? After all, what happens when we slip up?

Solomon explains that a life well lived is not on another planet or that our only joy will come in heaven.  He will show us that despite the seeming inequalities all around us, there is a way to live in this insane world.

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A consistent—and perhaps reasonable—question that is commonly asked is this: “Why do bad things happen to me when I love God and am trying to do the right thing?” 

In the third chapter of Ecclesiastes, Solomon shows that no matter how you slice it, the sovereignty of God lies behind everything that happens.  

The existence of evil is one of the great philosophical problems of all time: How did evil come into existence from an all-holy God? 

Pastor Tommy Nelson explains that Solomon’s four themes in this chapter are as follows: God is wise; God is mysterious; enjoy today; and rest in the sovereignty of God. 

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