Reflections on Life in the Light of Death. Sermon delivered by Chris Price on Mar 21, 2010 at Coquitlam Calvary Baptist Church.

1. Ecclesiastes The great equalizer

2. Job Friends Appearance Athletics Status Money Lover of God Loved by God

3. Ecclesiastes The great equalizer “ Some day a company of men will process out to a church yard and lower a coffin and everyone will go home; but one will not come back, and that will be me”. – Karl Barth

4. Ecclesiastes The great equalizer 1st Timothy 4:1-5 1 The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. 2 Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. 3 They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth.

5. Ecclesiastes The great equalizer 4 For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, 5 because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer. -

6. Ecclesiastes The great equalizer “ Define your life forward and live it backward” - Soren Kierkegaard

7. Ecclesiastes The great equalizer Resolutions # 5: “Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possible can”. Resolution # 6: “ Resolved, to live with all my might, while I do live”.

8. Ecclesiastes The great equalizer Resolution # 17: “ Resolved, that I will so live, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die”. (I.e live so that you have no regrets when you die). Resolution # 22: “Resolved to endeavor to obtain for myself as much happiness, in the other world, as I possible can”. - Jonathan Edwards

9. Ecclesiastes The great equalizer