Ecclesiastes has two main messages about work. Firstly, it is meaningless (1:3, 2:10-11, 2:17-23, 3:9, 4:4, 4:8, 5:16) - as if we didn't know that it would say it was meaningless already.
Secondly, though, he says that if you can work and find satisfaction, then that is a gift from God (2:24, 3:13, 3:22, 5:12, 5:18-19, 8:15, 9:9-10).
Ecclesiastes also tells us that working enough to be satisfied is better than working to have a whole lot of stuff you'll never get to use (4:6), and that teamwork is efficient (4:9).
While I haven't drawn much from Ecclesiastes, I think some of these points are possibly some of the most important points I will make in my sermon. That's an interesting thought.
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