Text: Ecclesiastes 8:2-13

Introduction: Contrast wisdom and knowledge. Give situations where people had knowledge but not wisdom.

Proposition: We need to apply God’s wisdom to help us in situations that confront us.

Transitional Sentence: Chapter 8 gives us two areas that wisdom has answers for.

1. Wisdom & Authority (8:2-6)
1. Be obedient (8:2)
2. Be loyal (8:3)
3. Be discerning (8:4-6)
2. Wisdom & Wickedness (8:7-13)
1. Wickedness will not deliver from death (8:7-8)
2. Wicked is self-injurious (8:9-10)
3. Wickedness will not profit in the long run (8:11-13)

 Wisdom comes from God (James 1:5)

 Wisdom must be heeded or it is of no benefit