Sermon
The Conclusion of the Matter
Stonebrook Community Church
Speaker: Matt Heerema
December 14, 2025 · 38 min
Summary
Solomon concludes Ecclesiastes by urging readers to fear God and keep His commands, the purpose for which humans were created. After exploring every philosophical pursuit and earthly pleasure, Solomon declares all meaningless without God, and warns that judgment awaits every person for their deeds—a reality that drives wisdom toward recognizing need for Christ as savior.
Highlights
If you are not bothered from time to time by God's word in your Bible study, if you aren't occasionally uncomfortable with what God's word is saying clearly, it's possible you aren't letting God's word do its work in your life.
We're trying to find our meaning, our worth, our self-justification in all the wrong places, and we're refusing to face God, who one day is going to ask us to give an account.
Judgment day holds no more terror for us. Not because we keep God's commands perfectly, but because Jesus kept God's commands perfectly.