Ecclesiastes 10-12, Chuck Smith teaching (C3000, 1985 to 1999)

Read as you listen: Chuck Smith on Ecclesiastes 10

Read the opening of his teaching

Let’s turn now to Ecclesiastes chapter ten as we continue our study and the words of the preacher, the Ecclesiastes. Solomon is identified as the writer. Written in his later years when he had turned his heart away from the Lord and he sees, in this book, the emptiness and the futility of life at its best, apart from Christ. He tasted of everything, he had done everything, he said that there is not a single thing that he desires that he did not withhold from himself. Yet, having tasted of it all, he speaks of the emptiness of it all. The emptiness of all of those worldly accomplishments, worldly glory, the riches and the fame, was empty in and of themselves.