When all has been heard, the conclusion of the matter is this: Fear God and keep His commandments, because this is the whole duty of man.This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.This is the end of the matter; all hath been heard: Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.
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… or you'll leave very discouraged and depressed. Ecclesiastes 12, the last two verses, he says, let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter. What matter? The pursuit of the purpose of life. He would summarize it like this, fear God and keep his commandments for this is man's all. For God will bring every work into judgment including every secret thing whether good or evil. That for the believer should not bring terror but excitement because what we do today matters in eternity. It really does. C.H. Spurgeon said time is short, eternity is long and it's only reasonable that this short life be lived in light of eternity. and it's absolutely true. A couple more verses for you. Psalm 127, verses one through two. You've heard these before, but I want you to think about them in light of the sovereignty of God. Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless the Lord guards the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. …
… the wisest man who ever lived when he came to the end of his life, looked back and said, all of life can be summarized in these words. Ecclesiastes 12 verses 13 and 14, the conclusion when all has been heard is fear God and keep his commandments, because this applies to every person. For God will bring every act to judgment, everything which is hidden, whether it is good or evil. The fear of God motivates us to obedience, but so does the love of God. When we consider all that God has done for us, ultimately in sending Christ to die for us and bridging that gap, that ought to overwhelm us with gratitude, a love for God that would make us want to seek his approval as well. Do you have a healthy fear of God? Do you understand the words of Acts 17, 28 that says, for it's only in God that we move and exist and we have our being. When you drift off to sleep at night, do you realize that unless God keeps that heart of yours pumping, you will not awaken in the morning. …
… In the book of Ecclesiastes, the wisest man to have ever walked the earth, Solomon. he says this at the very end of his discourse in the book of ecclesiastes he says let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter meaning this is this is what it's all about fear god and keep his commandments for this is man's all the second weighty command that we'll consider now is to serve the Lord. Serve the Lord. And this is really the main thrust of our entire passage this morning. Serving the Lord, it is mentioned four times in just our two verses, and it's mentioned many more times in the entire chapter. This word serve, it means to work for, to labor for. It means to minister, to worship through service. I love that last way of thinking about it. To worship through service. Now, if you hear this word, serve the Lord, if you hear this command to serve the Lord, and you think, so okay, God just wants me to work for him then? Is that right? …