And what we see here in these first couple verses is the fact that death is no respecter
of people.
Death is not racist, it's not prejudice, it can care less if you are an old person,
if you're a young person, if you're a teenager, it's no respecter of people, it will affect
everyone.
Look at verse number one.
For all this I considered in my heart, even to declare all this, that the righteous
and the wise in their works are in the hand of God.
No man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them.
All things come alike to all.
There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good and to the clean
and to the unclean.
To him that sacrifices and to him that sacrifices not, as is the good, so is the sinner,
and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event
unto all, yea also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil and madness is in
their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
So what is it basically telling us here?
It's telling us that death happens to the righteous as well as the unrighteous.
Happens to everyone, right?
Death is one of those things that no one can really escape in this world, okay?
You can prolong it, you can try to live as healthy as possible, you can make all the
right decisions.
But here's the thing, even if you live a healthy life, you're a righteous person, you're
God-fearing, death can even come upon you as well.
It happens, right?
And we are all going to die one day.
Now here's the thing, the surface meaning to this is the fact that everyone's going
to die.
So it should come as no surprise when people start dying in our church.
Now if they just start dropping like flies, alright maybe there's something to that,
maybe there's something going on or something.
But I'm saying right now we have a very young church, we have a very young church,
and that's great.
I think that's wonderful that we have a young church.
Obviously we got sprinkled of some ancients in our church, which is great.
I think it's good.
But as the years go by, as the decades go by, we're all going to get old, okay?
And after a while, you know how we're like, oh man, wedding after wedding after wedding
after wedding?
It's like five weddings this year, well there's going to come a time folks, where it's just
like funeral after funeral after funeral after funeral.
Five funerals this year or something, you know?
That's just a way of life.
Everyone goes that way.
No one escapes this event here.
You know, it happens to the righteous as well as to the unrighteous.
All things come alike to all.
There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked.