The Worth of Wisdom

The Worth of Wisdom

Sermon by Pastor Brent Snook / Aug 3, 2025

Series: Living Life Backward

Text: Ecclesiastes 7:12-29

Certain things in life are important. Other things in life are crucial.

Read Proverbs 2:1-7

I. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF WISDOM

A. WISDOM TO DEAL WITH

Read Ecc.7:11-12

B. WISDOM TO DEAL WITH

Read Ecc.7:13-14

“God balances our lives to give us enough blessing to keep us happy and
enough burdens to keep us humble. If all we had were blessings in our
hands – we would fall right over – so the Lord balances the blessings in our
hands with burdens on our backs. That helps keep us steady and as we
yield to him we can even turn burdens into blessings.” – Warren Wiersbe

C. WISDOM TO DEAL WITH

Read Ecc.7:15

Read Isaiah 55:8

II. THE STRENGTH OF WISDOM

Hokmah – one of the Hebrew words for wisdom – “to be wise”

A. STRENGTH WITH THE WE FACE

Read Ecc. 7:19-20

B. STRENGTH WITH THE WE FORM

Read Ecc. 7:21-22

C. STRENGTH WITH THE WE FEAR

Read Ecc. 7:23-25

D. STRENGTH WITH THE WE FIGHT

Read Ecc. 7:26-29

Read Prov 21:16, 2:11

“Solomon was trapped by sexual seductions. He went looking for love and
thought he would find it in a relationship with a woman. He went looking for
that which would support him, strengthen, and make him feel life is worth
living. But what we found was nothing but a fleeting sexual thrill. He found
himself with a woman who did not give what he was looking for at all: He
still felt the same empty loneliness as before.” – Roy Stedman