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The Vanity of Popularity

Sermon Title: The Vanity of Popularity
Sermon Text: Ecclesiastes 4:13-16

Sermon Purpose: To call the hearer to avoid the man driven desire for fame, popularity and prestige.

Sermon Proposition: There are 3 transitory characteristics of human popularity.

 
I.          The contrast of human popularity. V.13-14

            Prov. 19:1; Gen. 39:20-41:45; Prov. 28:6; Prov. 26:1; 12

 
II.        The comparison of human popularity. V.15

            Prov. 19:6; 27:24; 29:26

            A.        The vanity of royal popularity.
            B.        The folly of princes.
            C.        The fickleness of people.

                        “The highest form of vanity is love of fame.” George Santayann

 
III.       The concern of human popularity. V.16

            A.        Popularity, fame, and prestige are short-lived.

B.        This passage illustrates the moral of Eccl. 4:13: it is better to be poor (and without influence) than to be powerful and influential. Because power, influence, and prestige are all transitory.

 

“The fumes of popularity have turned the brains of many a man.” C.H. Spurgeon

 

“The adulation of multitudes has laid thousands low.” C. H. Spurgeon