A Life Filled With Regrets

Part 1
Introduction to the book of Ecclesiastes.
The Speaker, The Sermon, The Sub-Text

Ecclesiastes 2:10-11
10 
And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.

11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

The Speaker

Ecclesiastes 1:1, 12
The words of the Preacher
, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.

12 I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.

The Sermon

Ecclesiastes 1:2
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

His Thoughts

Ecclesiastes 1:13a
And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven:

Ecclesiastes 1:16
16 
I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, 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.

His Thrills

Ecclesiastes 1:17
17 
And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 2:3
I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.

His Things

Ecclesiastes 2:4-10
I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:
I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits:
I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees:
I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:
I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.
So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.
10 And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labor.

Ecclesiastes 2:11
11 
THEN I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had labored to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:17
17 Therefore I hated life
; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

The Sub-Text

Ecclesiastes 3:11
11 
He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God  maketh from the beginning to the end.

Ecclesiastes 3:12-13
12 
I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.
13 And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.

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