Look Above The Sun (Ecclesiastes 1/2/12) | Cabe Matthews

Vine Worship at Kingwood Methodist · Aug 13, 2026 · 22m

Usually translated “vanity” or “meaningless”, the Hebrew word “hevel” also has the sense of breath or transitoriness or the ephemeral. In the book of Ecclesiastes, Qohelet’s name means “collector”; he’s a collector of money and pleasure and power and experiences and even wise sayings. In the end, he concludes that all his collections amount to nothing but hevel: empty, meaningless, vapid, vanity. Nothing “under the sun” can satisfy. Qoheleth knows this; we can take his word for it, because he’s tried it all! To find something more than vapor in this life, we need to look above the sun, to the…