Job 3:16 - Homiletics

To be or not to be.

I. AGAINST BEING AND IN FAVOUR OF NOT - BEING .

1 . Life is little other than a capacity for suffering affliction.

2 . At the best, life is so short, and man's powers so feeble, that nothing he undertakes can attain to perfection.

3 . In every instance life involves the terrible necessity and painful experience of dying.

4 . Life always carries in its bosom the possibility of coming short of everlasting felicity.

II. IN FAVOUR OF BEING AND AGAINST NOT - BEING .

1 . Life in itself is a thing of pure enjoyment.

2 . Man's powers, though imperfect, are susceptible of infinite improvement.

3 . The day of existence, whether long or short, affords a noble opportunity for serving God.

4 . The fact that one is born gives him a chance, by being born again, of attaining to salvation and eternal life.

LESSONS .

1 . Notwithstanding all the miseries of human life, it is better to have been born than to have remained in non-existence.

2 . Notwithstanding all its brevity and imperfection, life is worth living.

3 . Because of all its hardships and sorrows, it should be given up with resignation when God recalls it to himself.