241: Mitch Haughton – Exhortation: Ecclesiastes

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This talk is an excitation by
Brother.

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Mitch Haughton that he gave just
last week, April 23rd at the

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Cranston Rhode Island.
Ecclesia here in the states.

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His topic is Ecclesiastes, it’s
been in the readings lately and

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he does a really good job kind
of over viewing the entire book

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and applying it to the question
of why do we go to work?

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He did he details that as an in
his introduction, which I

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thought was really helpful and
stuck with me through this week

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when I was at work and I think
it’s a really great as station.

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I’m excited to share it.
It was a suggestion suggested

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right after they the person
finished hearing it.

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And so that’s why it’s so new.
It was just last week so happy

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to share it here is brother.
Mitch had Anan Ecclesiastes.

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Solomon the wisest man to ever
walk.

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The earth, besides Christ, Kings
and rulers came from all over,

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to hear him, talk to present,
problems for him, to solve to

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ask him questions.
Sometimes I wish I could lay

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some of my own problems before
him and ask for advice.

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How would he handle our
problems?

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What would he advised us to do?
What questions should we ask

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him?
This is the wisest man on Earth,

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divinely influenced.
What are we asking the biggest

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questions of life that life has
to offer?

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What about the answer to life?
Why are we here?

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How can we live a life worth
living?

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How can we, as humans find
Ultimate lasting fulfillment?

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That’s something that at one
point or another.

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I think everyone considers we
work day in and day out at our

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jobs.
We come home, rest, wake up and

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do it again.
We stress out over the

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happenings at work, we come
home, we still think about work,

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we go on vacation or week or two
out of the year and sometimes

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also still think about work.
And yet, when we permanently

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leave that job, all of that goes
away.

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And we might ask what was all of
that stress for Maybe we picked

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up a few new skills but all
those things that we stress out

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about disappear, all those
people that we butted heads with

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that caused endless,
frustration, if we step back,

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what is it really?
Take away the company that we

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are working for and what’s left?
To struggle without purpose.

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I’m not saying we shouldn’t work
hard.

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What I’m saying is what we get
caught up in the things of this

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life, underlying all of it is an
understanding that the worldly

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things we busy ourselves with
that.

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We think are important
ultimately aren’t actually that

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important when we let our jobs
Define us.

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We lose sight of the bigger
picture of life, When we’re in

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between jobs, it’s like coming
up for air briefly before we

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find a new job, with the next
pharaoh, to give our time to if

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our nine to five jobs.
Define us.

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If it’s our life’s purpose, Then
we, then when we leave that job,

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we also lose our life’s purpose.
We might start to consider what

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our lives mean.
Again, what am I here for?

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If not to give my time to
pharaoh, And just maybe we have

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time to think about a greater
purpose than our 925 before the

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responsibilities of Life hit us
again and we get right back to

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the job hunt and find the next
place to work and put her head

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down once again.
And that’s life.

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Typically, we’re too busy to
consider.

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If what we’re doing is really
worth it, if it really gives us

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any true sense of fulfillment,
And that’s where Ecclesiastes

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comes in.
Ecclesiastes.

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We can be fairly confident was
written by Solomon.

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In Ecclesiastes chapter 1.
Ecclesiastes.

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Chapter 1.
And verse 1.

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The words of the preacher, son
of David King in Jerusalem.

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This Narrows down the
possibilities of writers to the

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sons of David who were rulers,
but it could be any who were

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rulers or Kings over Judah.
If we equip skip down to verse

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12, we read I the preacher was
King over Israel in Jerusalem.

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From that, we know that there
are only two sons of David who

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ruled over Israel from
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Because once the kingdom split
Jerusalem was the place where

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the king of Judah ruled, those
two sons are Solomon and real

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bone.
And then we come to verse 16 and

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we read, I communed with mine
with mine own heart, saying lo I

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am come to Great Estate and have
gotten more wisdom than all.

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They that have been before me in
Jerusalem.

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Ye may heart had great
experience of wisdom and

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knowledge.
Now, we have a much more clear

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answer between Solomon.
Rehoboam Solomon was the one who

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was given wisdom and
understanding exceeding much.

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Solomon was a king.
He was wise wealthy beyond all

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other kings present and past.
By the way, when I say he was

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the wisest just understand the
day do mean besides Christ, he

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was also incredibly busy.
He had his own kingdom to run

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but the rulers from all over
came to ask him questions asked

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for his help to solve their
problems, but despite being busy

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Solomon, still had his head
above water.

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He made time to consider, he put
the wisest mind on Earth, his

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mind to the task of answering
life’s, biggest questions, and

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both his journey and his answers
are recorded here in

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Ecclesiastes for all of us.
Here’s something to ponder as we

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go through the book this
morning.

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Notice that no one asked Solomon
to answer this question.

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This didn’t come from, God
Solomon, said out in this

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journey, to answer these
questions on his own.

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Why didn’t this come from God?
Just keep that in mind as we

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read through Ecclesiastes.
And look at the beginning,

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Solomon starts with a thought.
And a question Ecclesiastes, 12

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verse 2, vanity of vanities,
saith the preacher vanity of

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vanities.
All is Vanity.

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What prophet?
Half a man of all his labor

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which he taketh under the sun,
He’s given life some thought and

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his initial outset is this
feeling of vanity.

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What prophet hath a man of all
his labor which he taketh Under

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the Sun.
What lasting value?

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Do we get from our labor?
Verse for one generation passeth

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away and another generation
cometh.

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But the Earth abideth forever.
This one also arises in the sun

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goes down and he stiffed to his
place where he arose the wind

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goes toward the South and
turneth about into the north.

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It worth about continually the
wind return if again according

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to a circuits, all the rivers
run into the sea.

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Yet, the sea is not full.
I’m to the place from whence the

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rivers come together.
They return again.

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All things are full of Labor,
man cannot utter it the eye is

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not satisfied with seeing nor
the ear filled with hearing the

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thing that hath been is that
which shall be, and that, which

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is done, is that which shall be
done?

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There is no new thing under the
sun.

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Is there?
Anything where of it?

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Maybe said see this is new.
It has been already of all time

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which was before us.
So Solomon looks at Ation and he

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sees the same thing.
Everything is busy, work is

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being done, but nothing is ever
fully satisfied.

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All the rivers run into the sea.
And yet the sea is not full.

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No matter how much we work, we
will never be satisfied.

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There will always be something
to chase more money or status or

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recognition more fulfillment,
more entertainment.

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Like to see, we will always want
for more and yet never be

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filled.
That is a condition of mankind.

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What about creating a legacy for
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We do something great.
Even if we can’t take it with

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us, when we die, at least, maybe
we’ll be remembered.

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Verse 11.
Solomon says, there is no

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remembrance of former things,
neither shall there be any

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remembrance of things that are
to come with those that shall

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come after For the vast majority
of humankind, no matter how much

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we work, everything we did will
be forgotten anyway, within a

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generation or two.
This is the problem that Solomon

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set out to solve in
Ecclesiastes.

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How do we gain lasting
fulfillment?

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And he searches for answers
without God verse 12.

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I the preacher was King over
Israel and Jerusalem.

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I gave my heart to seek, and to
search out by wisdom, concerning

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all things that are done under
Heaven, this sore.

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Travail hath God, given to the
sons of man to be exercised,

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their with I have seen all the
works that are done under the

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sun and behold, all is Vanity
and vexation of spirit, that

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which is crooked cannot be made
straight now, which is wanting

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cannot be numbered.
Bird I communed with mine own

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heart.
Saying lo I am come to Great

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Estate and have gotten more
wisdom than all.

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They that have been before me in
Jerusalem.

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Yay!
My heart had great experience of

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wisdom and knowledge and I gave
my heart to know, wisdom and to

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know Madness and Folly.
They perceived that this also is

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vexation of spirit.
Anyone can solve this puzzle,

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it’s Solomon, the wisest man who
ever lived.

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He’s also a king blessed with
Wealth Beyond.

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Any other king for in much
wisdom is grief and he that

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increaseth knowledge increaseth
sorrow.

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This is of course, wisdom and
knowledge of worldly things.

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As we read through Ecclesiastes,
we will see just how much of the

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world Solomon came to know and
the feeling of uselessness he

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gained from it.
We come to chapter 2.

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And Solomon is going to run a
test 2:1 I said in my heart, go

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to now I will prove thee with
mirth.

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Therefore, enjoy pleasure.
So Solomon’s first test is to

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enjoy all the pleasures that
life has to offer.

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It is a test of personal
experience.

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If work brings some satisfaction
even temporarily, then he will

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work harder than anyone else if
entertainment and money brings

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some level of satisfaction, then
you will experience an

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accumulate more than anyone
before him ever had.

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Verse 3, I saw it in my heart to
give myself unto wine.

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Yet, acquainting, my heart with
wisdom and to lay hold on Folly

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till I might see what was that
good for the sons of men, which

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they should do under Heaven, all
the days of their life.

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I made me great works.
I builded me houses, watch for

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all these action words, I
planted me Vineyards.

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I made me Gardens and Orchards.
I planted Vineyard trees and

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them of all kinds of fruit.
I made me pools of water to

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water their, with the wood.
That bringeth forth trees.

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I got me.
Servants and maidens, had

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servants born in my house, he’s
of life and power over others.

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Also, I great possessions of
Great and Small cattle above all

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that were in Jerusalem before
me.

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I gathered me also, silver and
gold is accumulating wealth and

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the peculiar Treasure of kings
in the of end of the province’s.

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I got me, men, singers and women
singers, and the Delights of the

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sons of men, as musical
instruments and out of all

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sorts, So, I was great and
increased more than all that

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were before me in Jerusalem and
also my wisdom remained with me.

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He did not forget his goal among
all this intelligence and

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whatsoever.
Mine eyes desired, I kept not

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from them.
I withheld, not my heart from

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any joy for my heart rejoiced in
all my labor.

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And this was the portion of all
my labor.

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There is joy to be held in
labor. then I looked on all the

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works that my hands had wrought,
and on the labor that I had

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labored to do and behold, All is
Vanity and vexation of spirit

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and there was no profit under
the sun.

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Just imagine the vast amount of
both human and material

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resources that went into running
this test.

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How many people were involved?
How many hours and providing

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Solomon with all that he
desired?

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All the workers to do the
building.

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All the people who gathered
resources, the people who were

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find the resources, all the
people who trained for years at

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their craft, their music, the
cattle, herders, the traitors

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all to help Solomon run.
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any of us could ever muster all
directed it fulfilling Solomon’s

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every desire.
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greater extent than any of us
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And in the end, it’s still
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He wasn’t satisfied all the
joints fulfillment.

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He got were temporary and he was
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How often in life do we think I
just had a little bit more, I

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would be content and yet, there
are people who already have what

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we desire.
They are already where we want

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to be and guess what?
Sometimes they think if I just

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had a little bit more, I’d be
content.

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We can never be fully satisfied
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Shalt thou eat bread till thou
return unto the ground was the

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curse of Labor to Adam in the
garden.

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Whether first survival or want
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labor.
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Wisdom had gained Solomon, much
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It helps solve so many problems
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Quit wisdom, provide any
fulfillment.

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First 12 chapter 2 and I turned
myself to behold, wisdom and

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Madness, and Folly for what can
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king even that which hath been
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Then I saw that wisdom Excel of
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As far as light Excel with
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are in his head.
But the fool walketh in darkness

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and I myself perceived also that
one event happened at to the

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mall.
And I said my heart as a

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happiness to the fool.
So it happened at the even to me

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and why was I then more wise,
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this also is Vanity for there is
no remembrance of the wise more

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than of the fool forever seeing
that, which now is in the days

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to come shall all, be forgotten,
how diet the wise man as the

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fool, Wisdom is great to have.
It is better than being a Fool

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by far but in the end, death
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wise or foolish all is Vanity.
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Solomon’s conclusion of this
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Here is nothing better for man
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He should eat and drink that he
should make his soul, enjoy good

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in his labor.
This also I saw that it was from

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the hand of God for who can eat.
Who else can hasten hereunto

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more than I So it’s a blessing
from God that while we do have

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to work our entire lives, labor
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temporary satisfaction and
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I’ve tried it to a greater
extent than anyone else can says

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Solomon.
And the emptiness that you

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experience now is the same that
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If you take work to an extreme,
this life is not designed to

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provide Eternal satisfaction.
So don’t try to go too far with

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it.
Understand that enjoyment is

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temporal and appreciate it for
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When you can And The Echoes this
in Chapter 3 of Ecclesiastes and

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verse 22.
Where for I perceive that there

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is nothing better than that.
A man should rejoice in his own

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works for that as his portion
for who shall bring him to see

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what shall be after him.
So having concluded this test of

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experience, Solomon Begins the
next experiment and this is an

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experiment of observation.
The first thing that he observes

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is life’s oppressions and
unfairness, what if a person’s

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situation robs them of their
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Ecclesiastes 4 and verses, 1 to
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So I returned and considered all
the oppressions that are done

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under the sun and behold the
tears of such as were oppressed

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and they had no comforter and on
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there was power, but they had no
comforter wherefore, I praised

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the dead, which are already
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which are yet alive.
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I considered all the travail and
every right work that for this

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is a man envied of his neighbor.
This also is Vanity and vexation

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of spirit.
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Well done can be tarnished when
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for it.
And what little Joy he was

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looking forward to is taken
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Just because we did the work,
doesn’t guarantee that we will

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have a chance to appreciate and
gain the joy.

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First, five, the fool folded his
hands together and Edith his own

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flesh.
The full doesn’t get any

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satisfaction from labor because
he doesn’t do any Skip over to

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chapter 5 and verse 8.
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the poor in violent perverting
of judgment and Justice in a

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province Marvel, not at the
matter for he that is higher

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than the highest regardeth and
they would be higher than they.

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Some are oppressed by those who
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they and those in higher
positions can be oppressed by

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those in positions higher than
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Skip the chapter 6 and first
one.

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There’s an evil, which I have
seen Under the Sun and it is

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common among men, a man to whom
God hath.

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Given riches wealth and honor.
So that he wanted nothing for

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his soul of all that.
He desireth yet.

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God giveth him.
Not power to eat thereof, but a

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stranger eateth it.
This is Vanity and it is an evil

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disease.
Some seem to have all that one

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could want in life, but maybe
they died early and they’re not

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able to partake of the
satisfaction that they Acted in

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everything that they had is
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Verse 6.
Yay though we live A Thousand

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Years twice, old yet hath he
seen no good.

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Do not all.
Go to one place.

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So here’s the opposite
situation.

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Some may be blessed with a long
life but they experienced no

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good and in the end die.
Anyway, as all do So what

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Solomon doing with these
examples?

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What’s the thought process in
the first experiment?

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We established that.
Even if we do not gain,

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Everlasting satisfaction from
labor, at least we can gain

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something temporary.
He’s established.

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Something that feels somewhat
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second guest in the second test,
he’s observing cases where that

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answer is not always true.
There are those who do honest

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work and do not get any
fulfillment from it even

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temporarily.
So the answer he came up with in

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the first test is now thrown
back into question and he

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security, we feel that we, that
may have been gained by the

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initial answer is now, once
again, broken down.

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We don’t know what tomorrow will
bring.

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We don’t know how life will work
out.

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We may not even get to enjoy the
little that we were hoping to

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life is not fair.
Life is not certain and we’re

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left feeling empty.
Vanity Vanity, all is Vanity.

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Solomon is finding that life
outside of God means nothing,

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that is something that God built
into us from the beginning

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Ecclesiastes 3 real quick, Three
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I’ve seen the travail which God
hath given to the sons of men to

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be exercised in it.
He hath made everything

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beautiful in his time.
Also, he has set the world in

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their heart so that no man can
find out the work that God

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maketh from the beginning to the
end.

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That word world is eternity in
the Hebrew.

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God has set eternity in their
heart.

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Animals cannot grasp at Eternal
things, animals, live in the now

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man can grasp at Eternal and so
he chases it.

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He chases Eternal satisfaction
and fulfillment.

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And yet never attains it and
this Chase can cause a man to be

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frustrated.
And that frustration, that

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emptiness that feeling of vanity
that Solomon is left with leads

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to seeking out answers.
And by coming to the conclusion

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that the answer is not in the
world, because the world is

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uncertain and unfair and vein,
then we are left seeking

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elsewhere.
And her hopefully led to God.

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God is the only source of
Eternal lasting fulfillment.

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John 14 4 and verse 14
whosoever, drinketh of the water

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that I shall give him shall
never thirst.

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But the water that I shall give
him shall be in him.

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A well of water springing up
into Eternal into lasting

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eternal life.
So reading through queasy astiz

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may make us feel depressed, but
it has a purpose.

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It prepares, the mind, the
carnal mind to accept the answer

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because the answer contradicts
everything that the world in our

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human nature tells us his
valuable and worth our attention

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and effort.
Ecclesiastes chapter 7 to 10

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record Solomon’s deductions and
expectations to the Ecclesia of

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God regarding these experiments
and IT Major.

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She theme is showing the value
of wisdom and man’s inability to

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be saved by wisdom alone.
And the last few chapters

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chapters 11:49 are as final
conclusions.

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Ecclesiastes 11.
Solomon gives advice for what to

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do with the uncertainty of life.
Ecclesiastes 11 and verse to

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give a portion to seven and also
28 for thou knowest.

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Not what evil shall be upon the
Earth.

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We don’t know what will happen
tomorrow be generous so that if

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you find yourself in trouble,
others are willing to offer

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help.
First five as thou knowest.

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Not what is the way of the
spirit, nor how the bones do

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grow in the womb of her, that is
with child even.

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So thou knowest not the works of
God, who maketh all We don’t

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know how God works or what he
can do busier cell.

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So that God May bless our
efforts for six in the morning.

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So thy seed and in the evening
with whole not thine hand, for

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thou knowest.
Not whether whether shall

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prosper either this or that or
whether they both shall be

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alike.
Good.

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Be generous and enterprising
because we don’t know how it

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will all work out. and yet,
there’s one thing that is

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certain verse 9, Rejoice, O
young man in that youth and let

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thy heart cheer.
The, in the days of thy Youth

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and walk in the ways of thine
heart and in the sight of thine

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eyes.
But know, thou that for all

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these things, God will bring
thee into judgment.

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Life is uncertain.
But one thing is certain

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judgment will be there for us at
the end.

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Ecclesiastes 12 verses 1 to 8
describes the ending of one’s

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life.
Remember now thy Creator in the

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days of thy youth while the evil
days come, not nor the years

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draw nigh.
When thou shalt say, I have no

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pleasure in them.
While the Sun or the light, or

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the moon or the Stars, be not
darkened, or the clouds return,

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after the rain, When We’re Young
set roots and God before we grow

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up and responsibility sets in
and becomes more difficult.

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And the day, when the keepers of
the house shall tremble, in the

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strong, men shall bow
themselves, and the Grinders

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cease because they are few and
those that look out of the

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windows be darkened, the door
shall be shut in the streets.

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When the sound of the grinding
is low and he shall rise up but

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the voice of the bird and all
the daughters of music shall be

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brought low.
Also, when they shall be afraid

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of that, which is high and fear
shall be in the way.

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And the Almond Tree shall
flourish.

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The grasshopper shall be a
burden and desire shall fail.

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Because man go with to his long
home, in the mourners, go about

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the streets, wherever the silver
cord, be loosed, or the Golden

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Bowl, be broken, or the pitcher
be broken at the fountain or the

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wheel broken at the cistern.
Then shall the dust return to

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the Earth as it was and the
spirit shall return unto God.

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Who gave it vanity?
A vanity saith the preacher.

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All is Vanity.
This is the decline of old age,

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this is the end of all mankind.
The wise, the fool, the rich,

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and the poor.
In verse 9 moreover because the

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preacher was why’s he still
taught the people knowledge.

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Yeah he gave good heed and
sought out and sit in order

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many.
Proverbs the preacher sought to

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find out acceptable words and
that which was written up.

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Right was upright even words of
truth.

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The words of the wise are as
goads and as Nails, fastened by

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the masters of assemblies which
are given from one Shepherd.

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Nails.
Fastened our secure.

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They can be relied upon like the
words from the ultimate

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Shepherd.
And verse 12, and further by

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these, my son, be admonished and
making many books of making many

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books.
There is no end in much.

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Study is a weariness of the
flesh.

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The wisdom of the world is a
weariness solemn is expanded

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vast resources and energy to
explore these life questions.

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And he reaches the answer here,
verse 13.

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Let us hear the conclusion of
the whole matter.

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Fear.
God, keep his Commandments for

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this is the whole of man.
This is the completed, the

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filled the Satisfied Man,
following this path of life, we

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have the potential to attain
Everlasting fulfillment.

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No more treadmill.
No more vain chasing.

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No more filling the void that
can never be filled.

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The work we do.
In the truth is stockpiled, will

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still be relevant after we die.
Unlike all the other cares of

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the world.
Verse 14 for God shall bring

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every work into judgment with
every secret thing.

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Whether it be good or whether it
be evil, Try as he might

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Solomon, could not find anything
in the world that would give

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mankind, lasting fulfillment.
So, why didn’t God asked Solomon

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to embark on this journey?
Because God gave mankind the

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answer a long time ago.
Deuteronomy 17 verse 19 details,

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the charge to all the kings of
Israel, it shall be with him,

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and he shall read therein all
the days of his life that he may

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learn to fear the lord, his God
to keep all the words of his law

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of this law, and these statutes
and do them.

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Under the law.
In Leviticus. 22 and verse 31.

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Therefore, shall you keep my
Commandments and do them?

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I am the Lord. and finally, the
words of Jesus Christ in

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Matthew, 19 and verses 16 to 17
And behold one came and said,

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said unto him.
Good Master, what good thing

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shall?
I do that?

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I may have eternal life and he
said unto him.

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Why callest thou me?
Good?

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There is none good but one that
is God But if thou Wilt enter

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into life, keep the
Commandments.

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