Homilist Psalm 39:5 Behold, you have made my days as an handbreadth; and my age is as nothing before you… I. Man's existence WITHOUT IMMORTALITY IS VANITY. 1. It is vain in the sense of hollowness. It is an empty fiction, an inflated bubble. (1) It lacks inner satisfaction. (2) It lacks endurance. 2. It is vain in the sense of worthlessness. On the assumption that there is no immortality, what useful purpose is answered by our existence? I appreciate the literary productions of genius, but the best of them I feel are unworthy of our creation. II. Man's existence WITH A GODLESS IMMORTALITY IS VANITY. 1. It is an existence eternally pursuing a phantom. 2. It is an existence eternally producing injury. Learn — (1) The infinite worth of the Gospel. (2) The infinite folly of the Gospel-rejector. (Homilist.) Parallel Verses KJV: Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah. |
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