Speaker: Pastor Tristan Sherwin
'Qohelet’s not happy with it, but he won’t tolerate delusion, either. Death is a problem. We should feel Qohelet’s angst. His frustration can be summed up, again, by how Woody Allen put it: ‘I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don’t want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment.’
If we are honest with ourselves, we get this. Don’t we?
Central to Qohelet’s angst (our angst) and his repetitive use of I, is the question, ‘Who Am I?’Qohelet, like all of us, knows he is made for something, but if nothing lasts, then what is he made for?'
Tristan shares his sermon notes on his own blog. You can read them here: VAPOUR? | SEARCHING (Ecc. 1:12 - 2:26)