{"id":7144,"date":"2019-09-30T04:18:51","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/chasing-the-wind\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:18:51","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:18:51","slug":"chasing-the-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/chasing-the-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"Chasing the Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon in Ecclesiastes series.    Quest for significance.    Eccl 1:12-2:26<\/p>\n<p>                              ================<br \/>\n                              CHASING THE WIND<br \/>\n                              ================<\/p>\n<p>     I. The quest for significance.<br \/>\n         A. What have you sought after for happiness?<br \/>\n         B. Solomon did it all.                                         1:12<\/p>\n<p>    II. Wisdom is chasing after the wind.<br \/>\n         A. Solomon&#8217;s quest for significance.<br \/>\n         B. Existentialism.<\/p>\n<p>   III. Frustration of Pleasure.                                         2:1<br \/>\n         A. Pleasures most people consider worthwhile.<br \/>\n         B. Grandiose projects.                                          2:4<br \/>\n         C. Pleasure in and of itself is a dead end.<\/p>\n<p>    IV. The ultimate frustrations &#8211; work and death.<br \/>\n         A. Wisdom is better than insanity, but both die in the end.    2:14<br \/>\n         B. Who gets our stuff?                                         2:17<br \/>\n         C. What we get for our sweat.<\/p>\n<p>     V. Normal life has meaning &#8211; with God.<br \/>\n         A. We can experience fulfillment despite life&#8217;s difficulties.  2:26<br \/>\n         B. God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon in Ecclesiastes series. Quest for significance. Eccl 1:12-2:26 ================ CHASING THE WIND ================ I. The quest for significance. A. What have you sought after for happiness? B. Solomon did it all. 1:12 II. Wisdom is chasing after the wind. A. Solomon&#8217;s quest for significance. B. Existentialism. III. Frustration of Pleasure. 2:1 A. Pleasures most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3938,1524,3339,1476,368],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}