This document discusses how time has no meaning in three situations: 1) When one has nothing to live for and their work seems meaningless, as described in Ecclesiastes, 2) When the task at hand is of great importance, such as Anna's service at the temple or Paul's warnings, and 3) In consideration of eternity, whether eternal punishment or eternal life, as eternity exists outside of time and a thousand years is like a day.

1. When Time
has no
Meaning

2. Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
1 To everything there is a season,
A time for every purpose under heaven:
2 A time to be born,
And a time to die;
A time to plant,
And a time to pluck what is planted;

3. Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
3 A time to kill,
And a time to heal;
A time to break down,
And a time to build up;

4. Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
4 A time to weep,
And a time to laugh;
A time to mourn,
And a time to dance;

5. Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
5 A time to cast away stones,
And a time to gather stones;
A time to embrace,
And a time to refrain from embracing;

6. Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
6 A time to gain,
And a time to lose;
A time to keep,
And a time to throw away;

7. Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
7 A time to tear,
And a time to sew;
A time to keep silence,
And a time to speak;

8. Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
8 A time to love,
And a time to hate;
A time of war,
And a time of peace.

9. When Time
has no
Meaning

10. When Time has no Meaning
• When you have “nothing to live for”

11. Ecclesiastes 2:22,23
22 For what has man for all his labor, and
for the striving of his heart with which he
has toiled under the sun? 23 For all his
days are sorrowful, and his work
burdensome; even in the night his heart
takes no rest. This also is vanity.

12. Ecclesiastes 4:8
There is one alone, without companion: He
has neither son nor brother. Yet there is no
end to all his labors, nor is his eye satisfied
with riches. But he never asks, “For whom
do I toil and deprive myself of good?” This
also is vanity and a grave misfortune.

13. 1Kings 19:1-4
1 And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had
done, also how he had executed all the
prophets with the sword.

14. 1Kings 19:1-4
2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah,
saying, “So let the gods do to me, and
more also, if I do not make your life as
the life of one of them by tomorrow
about this time.”

15. 1Kings 19:1-4
3 And when he saw that, he arose and
ran for his life, and went to Beersheba,
which belongs to Judah, and left his
servant there.

16. 1Kings 19:1-4
4 But he himself went a day’s journey into
the wilderness, and came and sat down
under a broom tree. And he prayed that
he might die, and said, “It is enough!
Now, LORD, take my life, for I am no
better than my fathers!”

17. When Time has no Meaning
• When you have “nothing to live for”
• When the task is of great importance

18. Luke 2:36,37
36 Now there was one, Anna, a
prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of
the tribe of Asher. She was of a great
age, and had lived with a husband seven
years from her virginity;

19. Luke 2:36,37
37 and this woman was a widow of about
eighty-four years, who did not depart
from the temple, but served God with
fastings and prayers night and day.

20. Acts 5:42
And daily in the temple, and in every
house, they did not cease teaching and
preaching Jesus as the Christ.

21. Acts 20:31
Therefore watch, and remember that
for three years I did not cease to warn
everyone night and day with tears.

22. When Time has no Meaning
• When you have “nothing to live for”
• When the task is of great importance
• In eternity

23. Mark 9:43
If your hand causes you to sin, cut it
off. It is better for you to enter into life
maimed, rather than having two hands,
to go to hell, into the fire that shall
never be quenched—

24. Mark 9:44,46,48
Where ‘Their worm does not die
And the fire is not quenched.’

25. 2Peter 3:8
But, beloved, do not forget this one
thing, that with the Lord one day is as
a thousand years, and a thousand
years as one day.

26. Revelation 14:11
And the smoke of their torment
ascends forever and ever; and they
have no rest day or night, who worship
the beast and his image, and whoever
receives the mark of his name.

27. Matthew 25:46
And these will go away into
everlasting punishment, but
the righteous into eternal life.

28. John 3:16
For God so loved the world that He
gave His only begotten Son, that
whoever believes in Him should not
perish but have everlasting life.

29. When Time has no Meaning
• When you have “nothing to live for”
• When the task is of great importance
• In eternity