Dev Ramcharan – Class 1: All is Vanity

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This is day one of the 2022 Palm
Springs Bible School.

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Our first period teachers by the
dev Rams, run his General

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subject is the whole duty of
man.

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Today’s topic is all is Vanity
for the deaf.

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So in 32 years of travel around
the world Bible schools,

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everywhere I have never heard
announcements like that in my

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life.
Unbelievable.

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I still don’t know who Gupta
Ram.

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Charan is either.
But I know Jean-Jacques jelly.

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No has told me you, we might be
my grandfather or something like

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that.
And Montreal, that’s what he

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would have sounded like brothers
and sisters this week we’re

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going to be looking at the Book
of Ecclesiastes.

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It has its dark bits.
It has its moments of joy and

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upliftment but largely what it
is.

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It is the deep thoughts and
sharing.

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Of a man somewhere between birth
and death on the horizon.

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Who has a full life behind him
and his had the chance to

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experience everything a person
can experience.

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And he’s come to realize many
things about life, the way it

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is, and the way we experience
it.

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Now, for all of us, we want to
figure out what God is doing.

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We want Pat answers.
We want everything to line up.

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Well, like a spreadsheet.
We wanted to be easily

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understood.
We want to see common sense in

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the things that are going on
around us.

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But we know that that’s not the
way life is.

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Life is full of things that
happened that don’t make any

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sense at all.
It’s full of experiences, we

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never thought could possibly
happen, but they do happen. and

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when we think God is doing
something according to our

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particular thoughts about where
things are headed we find he’s

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actually doing something
completely different And we are

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continually continually
surprised by what he does and

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the world in which we live.
Now, we can start looking at the

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Book of Ecclesiastes in Genesis
chapter 3, believe it or not.

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All the way back in verse 17.
verse 17 sin has taken place

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death is now going to be in the
world and in verse 17, And unto

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Adam, he said, because thou Hast
hearkened unto the voice of thy

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wife and Hast eaten of the tree
of which I commanded thee

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saying, Thou shalt not eat of
it.

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Cursed is the ground for thy
sake.

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In toil.
Shalt thou eat of it all the

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days of thy life, thorns and
thistles, shall it?

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Bring forth to thee and thou
shalt eat the herb of the field

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in the sweat of thy face.
Shalt.

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Thou eat bread.
Till thou return unto the

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ground.
For out of it was so taken for

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dust Thou Art and unto dust
shalt thou return.

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So God says to Adam and Eve this
world you are in is now going to

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be filled with challenge with
difficulty.

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But thorns and thistles.
But things that are not easy to

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bear and by the sweat of your
brow.

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You’ll be able to live in this
world for your sake.

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Well, we can interpret that to
mean because of you or because

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this is what is it is necessary
for you to go through?

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To live the life, you’re not
going to live.

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Before me in the Earth.
Now we could then go from

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Genesis chapter 3 and we could
look at Romans chapter 8, Romans

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chapter 8.
And we could see an illusion.

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It doesn’t come right out,
clearly like a reference, would

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it?
It is a, it is an echo back to

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what is going on in Genesis.
In Romans eight.

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Beginning at verse 20, we read
For the creation.

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Was made subject to vanity not
of its own.

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Will you authorized version says
not willingly?

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but by reason of him, who
subjected it in Hope, In Hope.

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That the creation itself.
Also shall be delivered from the

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bondage of corruption into the
liberty of the glory of the

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children of God for, we know
that the whole creation groaneth

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and travaileth in pain together
until now, And not only, they,

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but ourselves also, which have
the firstfruits of the spirit,

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even we ourselves groan within
ourselves, waiting for the

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adoption to wit.
The Redemption of our body but

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we are saved by hope but hope
that is seen is not hope. and

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so, what Paul is saying, what
God is saying through Paul is

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The difficulty of this life is
intentional.

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The trouble in this world has a
purpose that the trouble in in

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your individual life.
Has meaning.

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And in all in the end, casts Us
in Hope.

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Upon God because there’s nothing
else to hold onto.

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We can’t hold onto our money,
the house, we live in the car,

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we drive, whatever our
investments look like our

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children, our possessions, we
can hang on to any of that.

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those crises of life as Sailors
when we experience the full

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extent of what the aging process
brings for us, all the pain, all

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the chronic illness is nothing
else for us to hold on to But

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faith.
Hope the hope that one day, we

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will not be as we are now.
And by the way, I know you might

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be thinking.
So awfully young to be at this

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school, isn’t he?
I’m older than Jeff.

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I turned 60 in January, January
9th.

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All right, so I’m not a kid
anymore.

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And my body is telling me that
every day, these aches, and

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pains these disappointments.
These regrets these troubles

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these times of loneliness, These
feelings of isolation, all of

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these things are part, and
parcel of the life that we live,

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that casts as upon God, in faith
and in love, will you have

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answers to all the questions
that you have?

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Will anything ever make sense
fully?

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Will you ever be able to
understand why God allows or

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brings the tragedies into your
life?

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They come when they come and the
answer, maybe, maybe not job

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cries out to God.
He struggles with his friends.

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He has all kinds of questions
for God because according to his

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model of the way things are the
way things ought to be the way

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things should be his life.
Doesn’t make any sense at all.

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How can I be going through all
of this pain?

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All of this loss.
And be God’s child.

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Be a believer.
He wants to hold God to account.

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He wants to align God to his
model about the way things

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should be in the way, God should
be, and God comes to him in the

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end.
It says, all right, you want to

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talk to me?
You want to fight with me?

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when argue with me, Have a
quarrel.

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You want to settle with me?
You want me to explain myself to

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you?
Look at all these things that I

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do.
Look at the Precision of

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creation, and how its it runs,
its course season after season.

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Look at everything that I have
created.

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Look at the massive power of the
sea and I treated like a little

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baby and say, look I put a
diaper on, you don’t go past

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this border.
You stay right there and behave

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yourself and the seed listens to
me. now job, You want to argue

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with me?
You want me to make sense to

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you.
You want me to explain myself to

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you?
Were you with me?

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When I did all these things and
put them together.

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When I took the universe and
wound it up.

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Like a watch.
So that it could behave the way

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I expected to behave.
And questions job has he doesn’t

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answer.
He does not answer jobs

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questions.
He had job at the end says I’m

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so sorry.
Didn’t know what I was saying.

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And you look at them, if there’s
something else that comes after

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that is there another Passage.
and it’s as if the book just

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stops, And all the answers we
wanted with job.

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Are not answered.
That is the point.

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The point is this.
I am in control of everything

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that exists.
I’m in control of the way the

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world operates.
I run this Fallen World Fallen

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because of sin, but a world that
has a future that I I am

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creating I know what I’m doing.
Including what I’m doing in your

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life.
With all of its pain.

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With all of its trouble.
With all of its loneliness.

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With all of it, unbearable
losses.

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With all its disappointments.
I am here with you.

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And I will carry you through.
Just hold on to me.

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The book of Ecclesiastes is
written by a man like Lee

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Solomon.
Who is King and Jerusalem and

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her son of David.
And over all Israel.

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If we interpret the opening to
be talking about Israel as an

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integrated Nation, not a poetic
term for the split Nation, but

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an integrated Nation.
And this was a man who had

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everything a man could have.
He had all the money a person

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could have hit, all the all the
gold, all the silver, all the

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land, all the women, all the
power, all the drink, all the

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food, everything he had
everything a man could have.

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He wasn’t happy.
You wonder sometimes how these

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super wealthy or super
successful individuals in places

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like Hollywood.
Commit suicide.

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They got everything.
They thought they wanted, they

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had everything they thought
would make them happy and they

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realized there’s still a cavern
inside my heart that cannot be

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filled and I don’t know what to
put in it.

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Because there’s nothing I found.
It feels it. that whole and

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every one of our hearts, Can
only be filled with faith.

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With God.
Solomon did all this work.

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He built all of these things, he
put everything in place, he

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structured so much for the
nation and knew that he was

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going to hand it off to a fool.
He says in one of the passages

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were after everything.
I’ve built.

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Who knows if the person I’m
going to give it to his going to

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squander it and be a fool.
He know what his son was like

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and we see historically.
That rehoboam was a fool.

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The nation’s split because he
took bad and stupid advice.

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And why did they give him that?
Bad advice the young men in

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their 40s, by the way, not 29:18
in their 40s and 50s because

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they couldn’t wait to get access
to the money.

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That would come through
increased taxes.

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So they could be as rich as
possible.

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That’s why they wouldn’t relent
on taxes.

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That’s why they wouldn’t reduce.
The taxes.

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They wanted to get us rich and
as fast as they could, because

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in their foolishness, they
thought that would make them

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happy.
And so the book begins with the

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words, the words of Koh helath.
The son of David King in

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Jerusalem, that we’re going to
let the preacher in, in, in the

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Septuagint translation.
It is the word Ecclesiastes.

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It’s a word that’s related to
the assembling of a group of

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people.
So this is about a man,

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expressing the wisdom of old
age, your wisdom with all of

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your life behind you to look
upon Your understanding and he’s

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sharing with everyone who will
listen, these are the things.

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That I have learned.
The hard way.

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He says.
Vanity of vanities.

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All is Vanity.
The word vanity, the Hebrew word

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had Bell means futility
emptiness.

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It refers to something that
there is diaphanous is passing.

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That is exceedingly fragile like
a breath gone.

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Kong after a moment.
He says, every thing, it doesn’t

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matter how durable it looks, it
doesn’t matter how sustainable

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it seems.
It’s all empty in the end.

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Now we look at that as Believers
and we think well, how can a

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Believer say something like
that?

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He’s speaking.
He’s speaking from the point of

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view.
Of a man who’s standing aside

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for a moment from faith and will
see almost this confusing

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interplay and alternation of
Godly thinking.

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And then thinking of a man of
this world, not no one in this

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audience is a man or woman of
this world.

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That’s why you here.
Men and women of Faith but we

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can still benefit and we can
still in ourselves, see through

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the period of time that we’ve
been standing upon the face of

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the Earth.
This kind of mentality, a

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sailing us at certain points in
our lives.

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Does look everything.
Everything I’ve seen everything

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I’ve seen in the end is full of
disappointments.

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It’s empty.
It’s futile.

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What profit what gained what
benefit has a man of all his

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hard work that he does Under the
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That’s a key phrase.
Because Under the Sun means in

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this world, as we know it today,
if that’s all we focus on.

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If our life is about what’s in
this world, then we are no

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different to the billionaire,
Jeff Bezos.

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Responsible for Amazon.
Who right now is investing vast

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amounts of money into research
related to life extension.

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I wonder why that is Because his
billions and trillions will not

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keep him out of the grave and he
suddenly realizes.

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Oh no, I have everything.
But I have nothing at the same

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time.
I need to live as long as I can.

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Because a man of this world
realizes, I may have built

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Amazon but it does me no good.
Because I’m dying.

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I’m dying.
So it goes on and it says one

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generation passes.
And another generation comes and

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the Earth abides Forever.
The Sun Also Rises in the sun,

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goes down and hasteth to his
place where he arose.

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And that word hasteth has the
the essential meaning and Hebrew

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of it gets there.
Almost out of breath.

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Poetic language showing that the
sun is doing its work and it’s

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it gets tired out and everything
that it does there’s an endless

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cycle that goes on and on in
natural things and an endless

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cycle of generations coming and
going coming and going coming

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and going and we’re just members
of one generation.

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That is now starting to pass off
the sea.

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He goes on and he says, the wind
goes to with the south turns,

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about Hunter the north it
world’s around all over the

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place.
And then it goes back to where

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it came from all the rivers run
into the sea yet to see is Never

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full.
The rivers, come hither and

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return again.
All things are full of such hard

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work.
They says you could barely

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describe it a man, cannot utter
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This is the eye is never
satisfied with seeing nor the

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year filled with hearing.
And so he says, we are like we

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are like black holes of the need
to see things and hear things,

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and experience things.
And in the end with everything,

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we see with everything that we
do, we’re not satisfied.

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You’re not satisfied.
He says, is there anything that

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can be called new?
Well, we might think.

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Yes, technology, we went to the
moon.

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We’ve got iPhones that people
don’t know how to turn off.

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We, we have all kinds of things
that’s new.

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Well, no, it’s not new.
What’s new is the ability to do

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old things.
We’ve always needed to find ways

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to do.
To communicate.

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They get access to information.
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to deal with that oil that we’re
engaged in all the days of our

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lives.
But essentially there’s nothing

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brand-new.
That brand new thing will come

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with the kingdom.
And with the changing of those

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who have believed also the
generations, there’s no new

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thing under the sun on this
Earth in this world.

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It’s just something that we can
say this is new.

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He says no it’s already been
there and some in some form of

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the other before us and he says
and you know, another thing,

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what’s even worse than that?
Nobody will remember you when

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you’re gone.
Jeff Bezos.

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Not Jeff.
Gelineau, I know we’ll remember

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him.
Those cookie ways and big heart.

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There is no remembrance of
former things.

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Neither shall there be any
remembrance of Latter things?

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The goes on.
He says, he says it’s suddenly

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shifts from third person to
first person.

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It’s very personal now. he says,
I the preacher.

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I was King.
Over Israel in Jerusalem.

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

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All things that are done under
Heaven.

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This sore travel has God, given
to the sons of man to be

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exercised their with I looked at
all my work, I looked at the way

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life is in this world.
And I had to find a way to

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figure it all out to work out
how things.

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Work the way they do an eye
structure.

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I was desperate to understand.
Is this all there is no.

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Remember Solomon.
Had taken a bypass away from God

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for a period of time.
And many of us believe that this

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this is an indicator that he
came back to God’s truth.

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But he came back to God truth
and please whatever you do.

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Don’t be among those people who
say the scary thing while Shaman

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will never be in the Kingdom,
you know?

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Who did all the bad stuff he
did?

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He was a stupid wise, man.
And your wife thinking to

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herself?
Yes, I know one like that too.

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This, these are the words of a
man who came back who came back.

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Verse 14, have seen all the
works that are done under the

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sun and behold all is Vanity and
vexation of spirit.

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He said that which is crooked
cannot be made straight and this

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is not talking about something.
Being perverse is talking about

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something that’s he didn’t,
that’s not clear.

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And what he’s saying?
Effectively is, God has made it

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so that life is hard to figure
out.

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We can’t take a model in our
head and slap it on life and

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say, aha, this explains
everything.

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Where would there be opportunity
for faith if we could do that?

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We’re always going to want to
aim in the direction of figuring

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out all aspects of everything.
You raised a family of kids, you

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raised them in the truth.
Maybe one comes in of the three

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or four that you have.
Maybe many come in and then they

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leave.
Maybe they come in.

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And then you look at the most
desperate, marriage situations

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are just break.
Your heart in pieces.

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As an aging father a mother you
want to advise but you know,

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you’ve got to be careful what
you say to your adult children.

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And you look at all that
heartache and your heart, breaks

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for your grandkids, I’m just
describing typical situations.

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This is not somebody’s
individual life.

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I’m pointing out.
This is our experience as aging

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parents. and we look at all that
and we want it all to make sense

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and we asked ourselves was I
such a terrible father, was I

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such a horrible mother that this
has happened in my childhood

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life, how can they not know not
to do these things or be

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involved and those things,
whatever the case may be when we

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read this book, when we look at
the things Solomon says, our

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hearts are deeply moved if we
put ourselves into the pages.

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We can feel a sense of
disappointment of of, almost

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bitterness towards God.
How could you do this or that in

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my life?
If your God, if you’re loving

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God allows things to happen.
Sometimes God causes things to

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happen.
To exercise our faith.

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The drive us towards him. so
that we can say with our arms of

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lifted, Tears streaming down our
faces.

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Not our needs.
I don’t know why this is

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happening.
But I believe in you.

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Let make the choice again to
trust you and to know that you

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are in this situation somewhere.
You get me through.

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You’ll get me through. and so it
goes on and he says, He says I

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communed with mine own.
Heart saying hello I am.

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Come to Great Estate.
And have gotten more wisdom than

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all.
They that had been before me in

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Jerusalem.
Who all well, David Saul Oak is

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a deck multiple Kings who were
there before him and wiser than

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the mall and I still have
struggled.

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I understand God.
And I gave my heart to know,

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wisdom and to know Madness and
folly.

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Madness and Folly.
I perceived that this also is

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vexation of spirit for in much
wisdom is much grief.

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And he that increaseth
knowledge, increaseth sorrow.

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If you were to ask Mick, Jagger
today and don’t some of you

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pretend you don’t know, because
the people beside you or to

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Godly to know who that is.
If you were to ask Mick Jagger

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today, are you a happy, man?
He would say to you.

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I Can’t Get No Satisfaction.
No matter what I do, I try and I

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try, I Can’t Get No
Satisfaction.

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He has all the money a person
could have All the possessions

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houses, everywhere, palatial
mansions, and he’s a dying, man,

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I don’t know how they even move
around on stage.

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Rumor Has It Keith, Richard
died. 20 years ago.

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He’s really a remote control
unit on stage.

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So it goes on and it says in
much wisdom is much grief.

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Wisdom of what Godly wisdom?
No.

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The more, you know, this life.
On the earth and have access to

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exploring it, the more you
grieved by it.

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Apart from God.
He goes on.

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He says, in Chapter 2, I said in
my heart.

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Go, you go, like he’s talking to
a friend.

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You’re going to experience
everything there is to

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experience.
Do whatever people can do.

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Go drink eat be merry live your
life of pleasure but watch

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yourself and try to see what
you’re experiencing.

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It went through as they ran the
course of sin that he was

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involved in Solomon.
It was at the same time,

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objectively watching and
observing himself. and learning

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whatever he could learn says I
said of laughter, it’s Madness.

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And if mirth, what does it
accomplish what do with it?

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I saw it in my heart to give
myself to Wine later on.

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He says, I had great works.
Houses, Vineyards Gardens and

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Orchards all kinds of fruit.
I made pools, I had menservants

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and maidservants I bought people
and I had them as slaves and I

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had slaves, born to them in my
house, I had great possessions

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of herds and flocks, silver, and
gold The Peculiar A treasure of

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Kings.
In other words, the things only

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Kings could afford, I had
everything.

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I had singers.
And I had the Delights of the

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sons of men.
Concubines very many.

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I reckon there was no lonelier
man in Israel with a thousand

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wives and all his concubines and
Solomon.

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God made us so that we we could
love and build a life.

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With one woman.
With one woman.

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While we’re both alive together.
We go through all the couples go

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through.
We get closer and closer in the

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truth.
Now you all know Jeff and yet

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you know that Jeff will say
things like as long as I’ve

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known him, Jeff will say this
you want to be happy?

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Mary Kelly.
And what that means is he so

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deeply honors and trusts and
cares for Kelly.

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But the answer to so many of the
problems and struggles of his

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life.
Has been his beloved Kelly.

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Brother Max met me yesterday.
And we were talking in the first

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thing.
He said, Was about his wife

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being a fantastic person.
He just talked and talked about

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how fortunate he is to have her.
And to love her.

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Now, that’s, that’s marriage in
the truth.

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I am not saying that that is
yours, and that means you’re not

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in the truth or that you are not
a person of faith.

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Because the experience of
trouble in this life might be in

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your marriage right in your
marriage.

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And that does not mean that
you’re not a God-fearing man or

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woman.
But but when it is to Believers

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together, laboring together.
Even as our bodies fall apart.

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We have all the struggles of the
flesh.

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No matter how old we are.
Those struggles transform and

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mutate into different struggles,
compared to when we were 20.

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There is a love that grows and
grows that Solomon, didn’t have.

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He had everything but he didn’t
have that.

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He did not have that.
He goes on and he says his Rook

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at all of this.
He says also my wisdom remained

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with me.
I kept watching myself.

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As an observer, an objective
pair of eyes on me.

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Even as I subjective, Lee, went
through all of these things.

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Whatsoever.
Mine eyes desired.

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Verse 10.
Chapter 2, I kept not from them.

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I withheld, not my heart from
any joy for my heart rejoiced,

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in all my labor.
And this was my portion from all

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my labor and I looked in all the
works of my hands and bras and

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the labor that I’d labored to do
and behold.

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All is Vanity.
And a striving after wind.

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There was no profit under the
sun.

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But I looked at my life, in this
earth, all my business, all the

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work, all the success, all the
money, all the possessions,

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everything I looked at it, all I
thought apart from God, it isn’t

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worth anything apart from God on
this Earth.

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Under the sun isn’t worth a
thing.

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Oh, there’s the excitement into
we’re moving up through the

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Grand, dark of the
accomplishments of our lives.

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But in the end, when we achieve
Those things.

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It’s almost as if there’s a
feeling of.

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Well, Been There.
Done That.

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What’s Next?
Hey, something to do just keep

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me engaged to keep me
interested.

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And there’s a sense of
diminishing.

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Returns, the more that we have,
the more that we experienced

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Vladimir poutine right now.
Is after something that is

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impossible for him to achieve.
A feeling of enough power.

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Enough wealth.
Enough influence enough.

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Respect enough adulation enough
worship.

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None of which he’s ever going to
achieve.

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Never.
But that’s what he’s after.

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And the invasion of the Ukraine
is just one major push in the

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direction of achieving those
things.

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Who Dean is just typical of many
many men in this world.

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There are the heads of
Corporations.

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They are in finance, they are in
government.

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Municipal state federal doesn’t
matter where?

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People aiming at Power and
feeling a sense that that when

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they get it, is going to make
them happy.

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But Solomon said, there’s no
profit when I life is just

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rooted in the things that we see
with our eyes Under the Sun,

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turned myself, to behold,
wisdom, and Madness, and Folly

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for what can the man do?
The comes.

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After The King.
My son’s never going to do

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anything better than I did.
He’s just going to do what’s

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already been done.
Then I saw that wisdom is better

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than Folly as far as light
excels Darkness.

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Better to be in this world Under
the Sun, with some

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understanding, and some
practical ability to use what we

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have learned.
And to have no wisdom, the wise

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man’s eyes are in his head.
But the fool walks in darkness.

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I know that and yet I have seen
the same thing happens to both

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of them.
The wise man in this world and

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the food.
They both dropped dead one day.

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There’s no difference between
the two of them.

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And said my, in my heart.
As it happened to the fool.

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So it happened at even to me,
why was I then more wise than

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the fool?
And I said in my heart that this

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also is Vanity.
But there’s no remembrance of

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the wise man, more than the fool
for ever seeing that all will

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have been already forgotten.
And how dieth the wise, man as

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the fool.
Therefore, I hated life because

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the work that is wrought.
Under the Sun is Grievous unto

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me.
For all is Vanity.

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The striving after wind.
Now remember this is a man.

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writing as if he is someone in
this world having been a person

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that was in the world who
stepped aside from his faith and

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he’s saying to a group of
brothers and sisters I want to

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share with you what I’ve
realized about this life.

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Now, you might think we’ll how
does that apply to brothers and

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sisters?
Because we fall into the same

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Cycles.
Now at this stage of their

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lives, you’re at the end of all
that.

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But if you were 20 years younger
than you are today or 30 or 40

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years younger, you would see
yourselves in these Pursuits.

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After means of being happy, the
do not make us happy You’d have

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to be reminded like I have to be
at my stage of life.

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All of these Pursuits in the end
that are so desperate.

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And so desperately trying to
give us a feeling of

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significance of importance of
well-being of accomplishment of

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achievement, and the end there
like a handful of Ash or dust.

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Because they’re not durable.
They amount in the end to

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vanity.
When when I am bishan, things

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are focused on achieving things
on the earth in this world.

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So brothers and sisters.
We are going to maintain the

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time for the morning that we may
have lost a few minutes.

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I can’t taste say why the
beginning of the class.

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So that way you can get to the
break that you use quickly as

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you can.
Thank you.