Wealth Under The Sun

Ecclesiastes 5-6

• “The Founder” – Story of McDonalds
• Human heart – nothing is ever enough

1. Wealth never satisfies (Ecclesiastes 5:10-20)
   • Harvard University Psychologist Daniel Gilbert said they have “concluded that wealth increases human happiness when it lifts people out of abject poverty and into the middle class but that it does little to increase happiness thereafter.”
2. Being content with what God has given you (Ecclesiastes 6:1-12)
   • Philippians 4:11-12
3. We are to store treasures in heaven (Matthew 6:19-24)

• Conclusion
  • In the age of excess – we are to live a life of simplicity and self-sacrifice