Secularism: Its Problems and its Remedy - Part 1

Message of Ecclesiastes:
Fear God in order to turn a vain, empty life into a meaningful life that will enjoy God's good gifts.  

1. Title (1:1)

2. The secularist's problems (1:2-2:23)

   i. The failure of secularism (1:2-11)

   ii. The failure of wisdom to satisfy secular life (1:12-18)

   iii. The failure of pleasure seeking and self indulgence to satisfy secular life (2:1-11)

   iv. Life's ultimate certainty: death (2:12-23)

3. The alternative to secularism: faith in God (2:24-3:22)

   i. The life of faith (2:24-26)

   ii. The providence of God (3:1-8)

   iii. Fear God, the Sovereign One (3:9-15)

   iv. The judgment of God (3:16-22)