It says in verse 6, Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen
no good. Do not all go to one place. Now, this is the key phrase here in verse 6 that
he's getting at in this chapter. Do not all go to one place. Now, this is not talking
about the soul. Obviously, we know that people go to heaven and people go to hell. But what
he's talking about here is that everybody is going to the grave. Everybody is going
to die. And here's the thing about this. If everybody eventually dies, whether you live
and look at the example that's given in verse 6, it's kind of a crazy example, a thousand
years twice told. Now, told means counted, like the teller at the bank counts your money.
So it's saying here if he lives two thousand years, you know, a thousand years and then
another thousand years, which is obviously impossible. Nobody's ever done that. But he's
saying even if you lived two thousand years and then the other one is an untimely birth,
so it dies in the womb, he's saying they both go to the same place. Now, what this
is basically saying is that if everybody eventually dies, then it doesn't really matter whether
you lived 20 years, 60 years, you know, 90 years or 90 minutes because either way you
die. I mean, think about obviously to us it matters while we're living our life. But here's
the thing, what about a thousand years from now, two thousand years from now, five thousand
years from now, a million years from now, is it really going to matter whether people
lived for five minutes or five years or 50 years because they all ended up the same way.
See, what the Bible teaches is it's the end that matters, okay? So what we can take from
this and really the whole book of Ecclesiastes is that it's what comes after death that matters.
It's all that matters. Only what comes after death matters in the end. Obviously today,
you know, we care about how our day is going today because we're here right now experiencing
it and we want it to be nice. But really when it all is boiled down, only one life so soon
has passed and only what's done for Christ will last. And three thousand years from now,
you know, there are going to be people in heaven and, you know, whether they lived thirty
years or sixty years, it's not like people are going to be like, man, I'm so glad I got
to live to be ninety, yeah, it's cool. It ceases to matter at some point. You know,
what's going to matter is, you know, the rewards, the works that you did for Christ. And the
whole point of the book of Ecclesiastes is that life without Jesus Christ is totally
meaningless. And our world is doing a pretty good job of figuring that out now because
now they're basically teaching everyone that they're animals and that it's just a cosmic
accident and that we're all stardust and that we basically are just really advanced
apes and, you know what, dolphins might even be smarter than us, in fact. Look at the size
of that brain in that dolphin. Maybe he, you know, maybe there's just a lot going on in
there. You know, still waters run deep, you know, and maybe the dolphin's even smarter.
You know, our world today is teaching that they're animals, that humans are animals,
right? But you know what, without God, without Jesus Christ, without the Lord, they're pretty
much right. Their life is meaningless and they really do have no purpose and there really
is no morality and there really is no right and wrong, so eat, drink, and be merry because
tomorrow you die. But thank God that those of us who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ,
we realize that we are not animals, but we are human beings made in the image of God
and our lives matter and God has the hairs of our head numbered. So much for being an
accident, right? So much for being a lump of cells, so much for being just, you know,
this cosmic accident of the big bang and there's this little ripple in this universe.
You know, God formed and fashioned me in my mother's womb and he knows every hair on my
head, every tear that I've ever shed, he has kept in a bottle. He has written down the
story of my life and told all of my wanderings. And so, you know, our lives have meaning as
Christians, but sadly the unsaved, their life has no meaning. And that might seem like
a harsh thing to say or a harsh reality, but it's the truth. Unsaved people's life eventually
ultimately has no meaning because 500 years from now or 50,000 years from now when they're
burning in hell, it's not going to matter what kind of car they drove, it's not going
to matter how much money they had, it's not going to matter how long they lived, none
of it is going to matter. Nothing will matter.