Class 3 from this series was used in GCT Episode 197<\/p>\n
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\nBible School.
\nOur first period, teacher is <\/p>\n
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\nbrother.
\nDev Ram, Charan. <\/p>\n
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\nHis General.
\nSubject is the whole duty of <\/p>\n
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\nman.
\nToday’s topic is life’s vanity. <\/p>\n
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\nObserved, well, good morning
\neveryone. <\/p>\n
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\nThose announcements sure are
\nsomething. <\/p>\n
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\nAren’t they?
\nWhen you look at the Book of <\/p>\n
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\nEcclesiastes, one of the ways
\nthat might help you too, <\/p>\n
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\nUnderstand it.
\nIs to look at it this way. <\/p>\n
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\nA man gets up in front of a
\nCongregation of people might be <\/p>\n
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\nSolomon, might be someone else.
\nHe plays the role of a CO helath<\/p>\n
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\nthat is a preacher someone who
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\npeople.
\nFor part of what he’s saying, he<\/p>\n
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\nsays let me talk to you.
\nLike, I’m a man of this world <\/p>\n
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\nwho has no faith, but then let
\nme talk to you about how you see<\/p>\n
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\nthings when you are a man of
\nfaith. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s the real alternates back
\nand forth between these things. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s not that he is saying, I
\nstruggle with all these things <\/p>\n
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\nterribly, I have all these
\nmassive doubts and then well, <\/p>\n
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\nthen God gives us this or does
\nthat when he’s presenting is two<\/p>\n
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\nviews.
\nIn the hopes that the <\/p>\n
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\ncongregation will recognize
\nwhich is the view that is valid <\/p>\n
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\nfor a believer.
\nThat’s how I find it. <\/p>\n
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\nIt helps me to Grapple with the
\ncomplexities of the book when I <\/p>\n
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\nwas a young man in my 20s.
\nThere were some books that I <\/p>\n
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\navoided like, the plague, The
\nBook of Job was one of them. <\/p>\n
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\nEcclesiastes was another and the
\nSong of Solomon, which I’m yet <\/p>\n
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\nto put my foot into, it can be a
\nMinefield for interpreters and <\/p>\n
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\nspeakers.
\nSo, the Book of Job is now <\/p>\n
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\nsomething that I’ve done some
\nwork in and Ecclesiastes even <\/p>\n
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\nwith its brevity of what only 12
\nchapters is sufficiently complex<\/p>\n
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\nthan one has to really be
\nthinking very carefully about <\/p>\n
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\nwhat is happening in the gear.
\nTransitions as one goes from <\/p>\n
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\nsection to section, chapter 2
\nchapter in the book. <\/p>\n
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\nSo I find that that that
\nframework helps me to understand<\/p>\n
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\nit better.
\nYou may have a different way of <\/p>\n
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\nlooking at it. perfectly valid
\nto have different views on this <\/p>\n
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\nbook, but for me, what helps me
\nto put it together as a man, <\/p>\n
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\nstanding up, and voicing, to
\nopposite points of e, starts off<\/p>\n
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\nwith that dark Earthbound
\nworldly perspective, vanity of <\/p>\n
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\nvanities, everything is useless
\nin the final analysis It’s the <\/p>\n
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\nkind of conclusion that is drawn
\nby an extremely wealthy dying <\/p>\n
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\nold man.
\nThat that’s that’s the <\/p>\n
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\nconclusion that they draw when
\nthey look at everything that <\/p>\n
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\nthey’ve done and all that,
\nthey’ve sacrificed their lives <\/p>\n
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\nfor and they way it.
\nIt’s so light in the palm of <\/p>\n
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\ntheir hands.
\nThey look at their children, <\/p>\n
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\nfighting each other over their
\ninheritance. <\/p>\n
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\nThey look at people who have led
\ntheir corporations organizations<\/p>\n
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\nthinking, in terms of carving up
\nthe empire for themselves, and <\/p>\n
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\nthey ask themselves.
\nWhy, why did I do all of this? <\/p>\n
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\nWhy did I waste my life this
\nway? <\/p>\n
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\nSo that’s the one view.
\nNow, we’re going to go to <\/p>\n
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\nchapter 2 and pick things up.
\nWhere we left off yesterday. <\/p>\n
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\nVerse 18.
\nAs a consequence of that way of <\/p>\n
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\nlooking at his life, that way of
\ninterpreting, everything he had <\/p>\n
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\nachieved and accomplished.
\nHe says, I hated all my labor <\/p>\n
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\nthat I taken under the sun.
\nUnder the sun. <\/p>\n
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\nBecause I’m going to leave all
\nof this to a man who’s going to <\/p>\n
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\ncome after me?
\nWho knows what kind of man. <\/p>\n
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\nHe will be, but he be wise or
\nwill be. <\/p>\n
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\nWill he be foolish?
\nAnd we know the answer that <\/p>\n
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\nquestion if it was in fact,
\nSolomon who was saying these <\/p>\n
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\nthings, First 21, there is a man
\nwhose labor is with wisdom and <\/p>\n
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\nwith knowledge and with
\nskillfulness fulness, by the <\/p>\n
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\nway.
\nIn answer to what brother? <\/p>\n
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\nJeff said, earlier, I’m reading
\nprimarily from the authorized <\/p>\n
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\nversion the King James version,
\nbut periodically, I will drop <\/p>\n
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\ninto the revised version from
\nthe 1880s, all right? <\/p>\n
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\nAs as modern, as I’ve been
\ngetting today this but I love, I<\/p>\n
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\nlove the modern versions, some
\nso many wonderful ones today <\/p>\n
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\nthat we can learn from so bear
\nwith me. <\/p>\n
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\nHe says, he says, in verse 21,
\nthere’s a man whose labor is <\/p>\n
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\nyet her, man, that hath, not
\nlabored, they’re in jail, he <\/p>\n
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\nleave it for his portion.
\nWe all know about businesses <\/p>\n
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\nLabor was put into them. <\/p>\n
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\na child who wasted and <\/p>\n
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\nsquandered, everything
\ndestroyed, the business had no <\/p>\n
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\nclue what he was doing and
\neverything fell apart. <\/p>\n
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\nAll that hard work.
\nJust literally frittered Away by<\/p>\n
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\nsomeone raised in the lap of
\nluxury who had no clue how hard <\/p>\n
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\nit was to build.
\nWhat was built? <\/p>\n
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\nThis also is Vanity and a great
\nevil for what hath a man of all <\/p>\n
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\nhis labor and of the striving of
\nhis heart we’re in, he’ll a <\/p>\n
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\nbreath under the sun for all his
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\nOur bizarros it is travel is
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\nEven in the night, his heart <\/p>\n
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\ntaketh.
\nNo rest. <\/p>\n
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\nDo you own a business? <\/p>\n
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\nWe know what that feels like
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\nAs it needs to be sometimes. <\/p>\n
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\nAll his days are but sorrows in
\nhis travel grief, even in the <\/p>\n
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\nnight, his heart takes no rest.
\nThe revised version says, and <\/p>\n
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\nthen There’s a major transition
\naway from the pessimism of the <\/p>\n
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\nAnd there’s a transition to the
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\nThen that he should eat and <\/p>\n
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\ndrink.
\nAnd make his soul, enjoy good in<\/p>\n
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\nhis labor.
\nThis. <\/p>\n
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\nAlso I saw that it is from the
\nhand of God. for, who can eat <\/p>\n
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\nand who can have enjoyment more
\nthan I For God. <\/p>\n
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\nGiveth to a man.
\nThat is good in his sight, <\/p>\n
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\nwisdom and knowledge.
\nEnjoy. <\/p>\n
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\nNow what does that mean that we
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\nWe don’t have disappointments, <\/p>\n
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\nTrauma, it’s not what it means. <\/p>\n
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\nbut what it is saying is that in
\ngeneral terms, when we do our <\/p>\n
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\nwork as believers, We have some
\nkind of an opportunity to see a <\/p>\n
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\nreturn on that work to enjoy the
\nfruit of our labors. <\/p>\n
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\nI’ve known people in my life,
\nhave been related to people in <\/p>\n
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\nI am related to people in my <\/p>\n
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\nWhose entire Focus has been the <\/p>\n
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\nPossessions. <\/p>\n
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\nLand Investments.
\nBut they have not enjoyed one, <\/p>\n
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\niota of those things.
\nOne relative of mine. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know it was it was a
\nshocking thing for children to <\/p>\n
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\nAnd our three. <\/p>\n
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\nLittle hellions will run in and
\nstart jumping on the woman’s <\/p>\n
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\nIt was not a good time for her <\/p>\n
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\nat all.
\nShe would often spend her <\/p>\n
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\nThe facets of the pieces of <\/p>\n
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\nCrystal on her chandeliers.
\nThe the house was a master. <\/p>\n
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\nIt wasn’t a home.
\nAnd so it’s possible to be the <\/p>\n
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\nkind of individual who has
\nwealth, who has money and yet <\/p>\n
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\ndoesn’t enjoy any of it, but
\nthis is kind of crab it, you <\/p>\n
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\nknow, fervent effort to protect
\nit and to prolong it. as a what <\/p>\n
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\nGod is telling us through the
\npreacher through Cole health is <\/p>\n
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\nenjoy would have blessed you
\nwith Enjoy these things, not <\/p>\n
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\ndoesn’t mean that we enjoy them
\nto distraction and that we live <\/p>\n
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\na life that is fully given over
\nto the flesh. <\/p>\n
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\nBut we do recognize that what we
\nhave received materially from <\/p>\n
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\nGod and through efforts that
\nhe’s blessed, we can enjoy. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd share and share these
\nthings. <\/p>\n
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\nSeeing them as from the hand of
\nGod. <\/p>\n
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\nFor who can eat at all of these
\nthings, verse 28, he then says. <\/p>\n
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\nGod gives to, to us not just
\nthings. <\/p>\n
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\nBut for those who trust it.
\nWho love him. <\/p>\n
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\nWho care about him who please it
\ndoes? <\/p>\n
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\nThat mean, does it say those who
\nare sinless that? <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s not what it’s saying.
\nBut it’s saying is that when we <\/p>\n
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\ncare about God, Care about how
\nhe feels. <\/p>\n
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\nDo what we can in our faulty
\nfailing and consistent lives to <\/p>\n
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\nat least have a trend that is
\ntowards him. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd towards godliness and
\ngratitude in our lives that they<\/p>\n
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\nblesses us with something that’s
\nbigger than any possession. <\/p>\n
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\nWe could actually possess he
\ngives us wisdom. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd knowledge.
\nAnd joy. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd those are the most precious
\nthings you have and at this <\/p>\n
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\nstage of your life.
\nThese are some of the precious <\/p>\n
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\njewels that you actually have.
\nIf they give your grandchildren,<\/p>\n
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\nThe joy that they bring you.
\nThe love that you have the <\/p>\n
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\nimportance of your
\nrelationships, you know. <\/p>\n
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\nNow at this stage of your life,
\nwhat’s most important is not <\/p>\n
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\nwhat you possess.
\nIt’s your relationships. <\/p>\n
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\nWith god with you children with
\nother people and whatever <\/p>\n
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\nvestiges of Health, you still
\nhave at this stage of your life.<\/p>\n
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\nGoes on your transitions into
\nthis. <\/p>\n
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\nBeautiful, passage that talks
\nabout times. <\/p>\n
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\nHe says, look there’s a time for
\neverything. <\/p>\n
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\nIt changes everything doesn’t <\/p>\n
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\nmindful compared to what we do.
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\nSo I’ve observed that God does <\/p>\n
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\nlots of things to keep people
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\nhas work to do. <\/p>\n
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\nbecause Adam was made to tend
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\neverything that exists has its
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\nyou have and then goes through
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\nhe could be saying there is an
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\nNow that world that word that is
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\neternity.
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\nis this God’s put eternity and
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\nmay, they may ignore it.
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\nand God has to point out to him.
\nNo, I’m God. <\/p>\n
340
\n00:25:26,900 –> 00:25:31,800
\nBut I do what I do.
\nAnd you are who you are. <\/p>\n
341
\n00:25:32,900 –> 00:25:37,300
\nAnd so though, God has put a
\nfeeling and desire for a <\/p>\n
342
\n00:25:38,100 –> 00:25:42,300
\nhankering after Eternal things
\nin our hearts. <\/p>\n
343
\n00:25:43,600 –> 00:25:47,800
\nHe’s also put certain things in
\nplace to cover his tracks. <\/p>\n
344
\n00:25:48,400 –> 00:25:50,500
\nSo we’re continually searching
\nfor him. <\/p>\n
345
\n00:25:50,600 –> 00:25:55,200
\nLooking for what he does trying
\nto interpret what he is doing. <\/p>\n
346
\n00:25:56,300 –> 00:25:58,400
\nAnd finding we can’t always
\nfigure him out. <\/p>\n
347
\n00:25:58,400 –> 00:26:04,800
\nAnd that too is not a curse.
\nIt’s a blessing for us because <\/p>\n
348
\n00:26:04,800 –> 00:26:11,100
\nit casts us upon him in faith.
\nThe baby that you carry in your <\/p>\n
349
\n00:26:11,100 –> 00:26:14,900
\narms, your little granddaughter,
\nyour little grandson doesn’t <\/p>\n
350
\n00:26:14,900 –> 00:26:16,400
\nunderstand everything you’re
\ndoing. <\/p>\n
351
\n00:26:17,300 –> 00:26:20,900
\nShe doesn’t understand what you
\nwere thinking of, as you take <\/p>\n
352
\n00:26:20,900 –> 00:26:25,100
\ncare of her, she has no clue
\nwhat you’re going to do next. <\/p>\n
353
\n00:26:25,100 –> 00:26:28,200
\nYou may have a general idea that
\nshe’s got a diaper that needs to<\/p>\n
354
\n00:26:28,200 –> 00:26:32,200
\nbe changed, or she’s hungry or
\nher ears, hurt, or something <\/p>\n
355
\n00:26:32,200 –> 00:26:37,500
\nalong those lines, but your
\nmind, and you’ll care for her. <\/p>\n
356
\n00:26:38,300 –> 00:26:43,000
\nIs above and beyond anything.
\nShe can work out in her mind <\/p>\n
357
\n00:26:43,400 –> 00:26:45,300
\nthat its current level of
\ndevelopment. <\/p>\n
358
\n00:26:46,300 –> 00:26:47,800
\nAnd that’s the way God is with
\nus. <\/p>\n
359
\n00:26:49,600 –> 00:26:52,700
\nWe can’t work out everything.
\nHe’s doing where he’s going, <\/p>\n
360
\n00:26:52,700 –> 00:26:55,500
\nwhat he’s up to and it’s not a
\nbad thing. <\/p>\n
361
\n00:26:57,100 –> 00:27:01,000
\nIt makes us realize, I need to
\nhold on to you and just believe <\/p>\n
362
\n00:27:01,900 –> 00:27:05,900
\nthat things will work out.
\nThat everything will be okay in <\/p>\n
363
\n00:27:05,900 –> 00:27:09,800
\nthe end.
\nAnd he says, in verse 13. <\/p>\n
364
\n00:27:10,000 –> 00:27:14,200
\nOh, verse 12.
\nI know that there is no, there’s<\/p>\n
365
\n00:27:14,200 –> 00:27:20,000
\nnothing better for them than to
\nrejoice and do good as long as <\/p>\n
366
\n00:27:20,000 –> 00:27:23,600
\nthey live.
\nSo, there’s the balance for us, <\/p>\n
367
\n00:27:24,200 –> 00:27:30,800
\nit’s not just about rejoicing,
\nit’s about doing doing good, <\/p>\n
368
\n00:27:31,500 –> 00:27:36,900
\ndoing good in our lives.
\nNow remember the, the story, the<\/p>\n
369
\n00:27:36,900 –> 00:27:42,100
\nparable, Of the man who is given
\nthe talent and the way he dealt <\/p>\n
370
\n00:27:42,100 –> 00:27:51,300
\nwith it was to go bury it. and,
\nhis approach was not to do good,<\/p>\n
371
\n00:27:52,300 –> 00:27:56,500
\nbut to have an absence of doing
\nevil, That was his Focus. <\/p>\n
372
\n00:27:57,200 –> 00:28:01,200
\nJust haven’t had an absence of
\ndoing evil of doing wrong. <\/p>\n
373
\n00:28:01,500 –> 00:28:05,200
\nI’m not going to lose any of
\nthis because I know I work for a<\/p>\n
374
\n00:28:05,200 –> 00:28:10,300
\nStern strict and difficult man.
\nThat was his attitude. <\/p>\n
375
\n00:28:10,700 –> 00:28:15,200
\nWhereas the others took every
\nopportunity, they could to show <\/p>\n
376
\n00:28:15,200 –> 00:28:18,100
\na return on that investment.
\nThe interpretation comes after <\/p>\n
377
\n00:28:19,100 –> 00:28:22,000
\nwhen Christ in the parable talks
\nabout those times. <\/p>\n
378
\n00:28:22,900 –> 00:28:27,400
\nWe visit and spend time with the
\nsick, the imprisoned, the <\/p>\n
379
\n00:28:27,400 –> 00:28:30,100
\nhungry, thirsty, the naked, and
\nso on, and so forth. <\/p>\n
380
\n00:28:30,500 –> 00:28:31,900
\nI know I don’t do enough of
\nthat. <\/p>\n
381
\n00:28:32,400 –> 00:28:37,600
\nWe all have to do more as much
\nas we can, the talent was a vast<\/p>\n
382
\n00:28:37,600 –> 00:28:39,700
\namount of money.
\nWell, How do we then interpret <\/p>\n
383
\n00:28:39,700 –> 00:28:41,900
\nit?
\nIt was a vast amount of <\/p>\n
384
\n00:28:41,900 –> 00:28:44,600
\nopportunities to serve God and
\nhelp others. <\/p>\n
385
\n00:28:46,400 –> 00:28:48,100
\nThat’s what the talent equates
\nto. <\/p>\n
386
\n00:28:49,200 –> 00:28:55,700
\nSo in the man buries a talent,
\nhe does nothing in God’s family.<\/p>\n
387
\n00:28:56,800 –> 00:28:59,700
\nIt doesn’t help.
\nHe doesn’t support. <\/p>\n
388
\n00:29:00,300 –> 00:29:04,600
\nHe doesn’t spend time with.
\nHe doesn’t encourage, he doesn’t<\/p>\n
389
\n00:29:04,600 –> 00:29:06,900
\nphone up on the phone.
\nHe doesn’t sit beside and listen<\/p>\n
390
\n00:29:06,900 –> 00:29:12,200
\nto he has no time for any of
\nthat. that’s what bearing the <\/p>\n
391
\n00:29:12,200 –> 00:29:15,000
\ntalent is all about and so what
\nthey, what they would call <\/p>\n
392
\n00:29:15,000 –> 00:29:21,100
\nHellas is saying here is that we
\nRejoice before God seeing the <\/p>\n
393
\n00:29:21,100 –> 00:29:27,600
\nblessings, he has given us in
\nour lives and also that we do <\/p>\n
394
\n00:29:27,600 –> 00:29:31,100
\ngood.
\nAs long as we live. <\/p>\n
395
\n00:29:32,100 –> 00:29:38,200
\nThat’s what the revised version
\nsays, as long as they live. <\/p>\n
396
\n00:29:39,500 –> 00:29:44,800
\nSo you’re above ground is still
\nliving, this still good, you can<\/p>\n
397
\n00:29:44,800 –> 00:29:49,200
\ndo to encourage and support and
\nhelp each other. <\/p>\n
398
\n00:29:51,200 –> 00:29:54,900
\nBrother told me a story about
\ntrying to encourage someone and <\/p>\n
399
\n00:29:54,900 –> 00:29:57,300
\nyou get to that stage of Frailty
\nwhere there’s not a lot you can <\/p>\n
400
\n00:29:57,300 –> 00:30:06,800
\ndo physically. and so he talked
\nabout, Encouraging a sister to <\/p>\n
401
\n00:30:06,800 –> 00:30:12,100
\npray, just encouraging her to
\npray and and thanking her for <\/p>\n
402
\n00:30:12,100 –> 00:30:15,100
\nthe prayers that she must have
\ngiven for him. <\/p>\n
403
\n00:30:16,200 –> 00:30:19,500
\nThat in the morning, he woke up
\nand he didn’t have as much pain <\/p>\n
404
\n00:30:19,500 –> 00:30:23,600
\nas he usually hadn’t felt great
\nand just buy that that little <\/p>\n
405
\n00:30:24,000 –> 00:30:28,000
\ngentle tender bit of
\nencouragement. <\/p>\n
406
\n00:30:29,000 –> 00:30:33,100
\nPrayer has begun to become more
\nimportant to that sister. <\/p>\n
407
\n00:30:34,100 –> 00:30:35,900
\nNow, how much effort did that
\ntake? <\/p>\n
408
\n00:30:36,300 –> 00:30:40,900
\nWas it a massive feat of
\nintellectual prowess? <\/p>\n
409
\n00:30:42,100 –> 00:30:48,000
\nWas it a physical strain?
\nIt was just a quiet Act of love.<\/p>\n
410
\n00:30:49,300 –> 00:30:51,300
\nThat is helping to save
\nsomeone’s life. <\/p>\n
411
\n00:30:53,000 –> 00:30:56,300
\nSo we can all do something while
\nwe live. <\/p>\n
412
\n00:30:58,800 –> 00:31:04,500
\nYou’re 16.
\nHe looks Under the Sun at the <\/p>\n
413
\n00:31:04,500 –> 00:31:09,200
\nplace of judgement.
\nHe looks at rulers in this world<\/p>\n
414
\n00:31:09,500 –> 00:31:12,300
\nand even Solomon.
\nIt’s Solomon acknowledging in <\/p>\n
415
\n00:31:12,300 –> 00:31:16,000
\nhis kingdom.
\nThere is corruption, there are <\/p>\n
416
\n00:31:16,000 –> 00:31:19,800
\ncorrupt officials not doing the
\nright thing. <\/p>\n
417
\n00:31:20,600 –> 00:31:23,500
\nAnd when I looked at the place
\nof righteousness and found that <\/p>\n
418
\n00:31:24,300 –> 00:31:29,100
\nthere was wickedness there, I
\nsaid in my heart, God shall <\/p>\n
419
\n00:31:29,100 –> 00:31:32,400
\njudge the righteous.
\nAnd the wicked for there is a <\/p>\n
420
\n00:31:32,400 –> 00:31:37,400
\ntime there for every purpose and
\nfor every work, I said in my <\/p>\n
421
\n00:31:37,400 –> 00:31:42,800
\nheart concerning the estate of
\nthe sons of men that God may <\/p>\n
422
\n00:31:42,800 –> 00:31:47,300
\nprove them, and that they may
\nsee that they themselves are <\/p>\n
423
\n00:31:47,300 –> 00:31:50,900
\nbeasts.
\nThen he talks about the fact <\/p>\n
424
\n00:31:50,900 –> 00:31:55,000
\nthat men and beasts have the
\nsame thing. <\/p>\n
425
\n00:31:55,800 –> 00:31:59,900
\nOh, a man’s thoughts, maybe
\nupward and in the context, it’s <\/p>\n
426
\n00:31:59,900 –> 00:32:02,000
\nnot necessarily in a Godly
\nDirection. <\/p>\n
427
\n00:32:02,600 –> 00:32:07,500
\nIt may be in the direction of
\nambition, desire for power, and <\/p>\n
428
\n00:32:07,500 –> 00:32:10,300
\nall these sorts of things that
\nmen have. <\/p>\n
429
\n00:32:10,800 –> 00:32:18,000
\nWe see Vladimir Putin doing
\nexactly that right now, Looking <\/p>\n
430
\n00:32:18,300 –> 00:32:24,200
\nup word for power.
\nAnd then the Beast, whose whose <\/p>\n
431
\n00:32:24,200 –> 00:32:29,100
\ngroveling everyday work is to
\nfind something to eat so that it<\/p>\n
432
\n00:32:29,100 –> 00:32:35,900
\ncan preserve its life.
\nHe says, Mighty booty and the <\/p>\n
433
\n00:32:35,900 –> 00:32:39,300
\nrat that is running around down
\nthere on the ground looking for <\/p>\n
434
\n00:32:39,300 –> 00:32:42,600
\nsomething to eat.
\nBoth have the same experience at<\/p>\n
435
\n00:32:42,600 –> 00:32:47,400
\nthe end of their lives.
\nNeither is superior to the <\/p>\n
436
\n00:32:47,400 –> 00:32:54,300
\nother. but for people of faith,
\nAnother story is different, all <\/p>\n
437
\n00:32:54,300 –> 00:32:59,300
\nthat you are in right now.
\nIs the phase of life that comes <\/p>\n
438
\n00:32:59,300 –> 00:33:03,700
\nbefore eternal life.
\nMy forever. <\/p>\n
439
\n00:33:04,700 –> 00:33:08,200
\nWith all the strength you need
\nand all the focus. <\/p>\n
440
\n00:33:08,200 –> 00:33:12,900
\nYou need to be a perfect servant
\nfor God. <\/p>\n
441
\n00:33:14,000 –> 00:33:18,000
\nIt.
\nSo then we move back in to <\/p>\n
442
\n00:33:18,300 –> 00:33:22,100
\nchapter 4.
\nSo, I returned and considered <\/p>\n
443
\n00:33:22,100 –> 00:33:25,800
\nall the oppressions that are
\ndone under the sun. <\/p>\n
444
\n00:33:27,700 –> 00:33:33,800
\nSo Under the Sun is Earthly,
\nlife divorced from God, and that<\/p>\n
445
\n00:33:33,800 –> 00:33:36,500
\nwe have God, and the life of The
\nGodly. <\/p>\n
446
\n00:33:38,000 –> 00:33:42,100
\nI looked at all the oppression,
\nthe tears of the oppressed, they<\/p>\n
447
\n00:33:42,100 –> 00:33:45,700
\ndidn’t have a comforter and on
\nthe side of the oppressor. <\/p>\n
448
\n00:33:46,200 –> 00:33:49,800
\nThere was power.
\nBut they had no comforter. <\/p>\n
449
\n00:33:51,000 –> 00:33:55,000
\nAnd so I looked at them and as a
\nman of this world, I praise the <\/p>\n
450
\n00:33:55,000 –> 00:33:56,700
\ndead.
\nAnd I praise those that have not<\/p>\n
451
\n00:33:56,700 –> 00:34:01,800
\neven been born yet because they
\nhave not had the chance to see <\/p>\n
452
\n00:34:02,500 –> 00:34:04,800
\nthe terrible things that are
\ndone by people on the Earth <\/p>\n
453
\n00:34:04,800 –> 00:34:09,000
\nUnder the Sun.
\nAgain, I looked at the travel <\/p>\n
454
\n00:34:09,000 –> 00:34:15,000
\nthe labor and every skillful
\nwork that for this Amman is <\/p>\n
455
\n00:34:15,000 –> 00:34:17,300
\nenvied of his neighbor.
\nLet’s go with this. <\/p>\n
456
\n00:34:17,300 –> 00:34:20,500
\nThen this also is Vanity and a
\nstriving. <\/p>\n
457
\n00:34:20,800 –> 00:34:24,900
\nTo wind.
\nThe fool folds, his hand <\/p>\n
458
\n00:34:24,900 –> 00:34:28,100
\ntogether.
\nAnd eats his own flesh. <\/p>\n
459
\n00:34:29,400 –> 00:34:32,400
\nNow, let’s back this up and look
\nat some of these verses. <\/p>\n
460
\n00:34:34,000 –> 00:34:40,100
\nThen I saw verse for revised
\nversion all labor, and every <\/p>\n
461
\n00:34:40,100 –> 00:34:45,100
\nskillful work that for this
\nAmman is envied of his neighbor.<\/p>\n
462
\n00:34:46,600 –> 00:34:49,699
\nand it gives you an alternate
\ntranslation of footnote in the <\/p>\n
463
\n00:34:49,699 –> 00:34:56,800
\nrevised version that says It
\ncometh of a man’s rivalry with <\/p>\n
464
\n00:34:56,800 –> 00:35:00,300
\nhis neighbor.
\nWell, how do we interpret that <\/p>\n
465
\n00:35:00,900 –> 00:35:04,000
\nall the striving after money and
\npower? <\/p>\n
466
\n00:35:04,000 –> 00:35:08,200
\nAnd possessions is about a rat
\nrace? <\/p>\n
467
\n00:35:09,300 –> 00:35:14,600
\nA competition among people.
\nOne of my old bosses wonderful <\/p>\n
468
\n00:35:14,600 –> 00:35:19,900
\nman named Corey Rose, not in the
\ntruth but he wouldn’t be being a<\/p>\n
469
\n00:35:19,908 –> 00:35:24,200
\ngood brother.
\nHe worked for the head of a <\/p>\n
470
\n00:35:24,200 –> 00:35:30,000
\nmajor Canadian Corporation. and
\nhe was at a company picnic and <\/p>\n
471
\n00:35:30,008 –> 00:35:34,200
\nhe said to the owner, I think
\nhis name is Frank strong, Iraq. <\/p>\n
472
\n00:35:34,400 –> 00:35:37,500
\nHe said to Frank boy Frankie,
\nyou haven’t made, you’ve got <\/p>\n
473
\n00:35:37,500 –> 00:35:40,300
\neverything a person could want
\nyou’ve got, you’ve got your own <\/p>\n
474
\n00:35:40,300 –> 00:35:43,900
\nplane, you’ve got all of this
\nwealth, you’ve built an <\/p>\n
475
\n00:35:43,900 –> 00:35:47,300
\norganization from the ground up
\nand, and you’ve done extremely <\/p>\n
476
\n00:35:47,300 –> 00:35:50,600
\nwell.
\nAnd Frank said to Cory, <\/p>\n
477
\n00:35:51,200 –> 00:35:54,700
\nactually, no Cory.
\nIt’s funny, you know. <\/p>\n
478
\n00:35:56,300 –> 00:35:58,900
\nWhat do you get a jet?
\nAnd somebody else has a bigger <\/p>\n
479
\n00:35:58,900 –> 00:36:01,800
\njet than you.
\nYou need to go get a bigger jet <\/p>\n
480
\n00:36:01,800 –> 00:36:05,500
\nfrom them.
\nThe competition never ends. <\/p>\n
481
\n00:36:05,900 –> 00:36:08,500
\nYou never have enough.
\nYou never big enough. <\/p>\n
482
\n00:36:09,300 –> 00:36:15,500
\nYou never own enough. and that
\nwas a very humbling thing for <\/p>\n
483
\n00:36:15,500 –> 00:36:21,300
\nmen in that sphere of life to
\nsay, But it shows you that this <\/p>\n
484
\n00:36:21,300 –> 00:36:26,800
\ncompetition that this
\ncontinually one-upping of life <\/p>\n
485
\n00:36:27,200 –> 00:36:30,300
\nfrom from, you know, from the
\npeople who live in this world <\/p>\n
486
\n00:36:30,300 –> 00:36:34,600
\nand it can infect us to we can
\nbe infected by this. <\/p>\n
487
\n00:36:34,600 –> 00:36:36,400
\nWe we can’t pretend that this is
\nnot us. <\/p>\n
488
\n00:36:37,500 –> 00:36:40,900
\nThe competition to own things to
\nlive in the best neighborhoods <\/p>\n
489
\n00:36:40,900 –> 00:36:46,500
\nto to have not one SUV, but
\nthree to have a five car garage <\/p>\n
490
\n00:36:46,500 –> 00:36:48,500
\nand being ridiculous.
\nBut you know what I mean? <\/p>\n
491
\n00:36:49,500 –> 00:36:53,100
\nHoliday, and now strand.
\nThen fly over to fly over to <\/p>\n
492
\n00:36:53,100 –> 00:36:57,200
\nIceland and then make sure that
\nyou, you you go to another <\/p>\n
493
\n00:36:57,200 –> 00:37:04,600
\ncountry in 11 road trip.
\nMy parents, I can’t say I grew <\/p>\n
494
\n00:37:04,600 –> 00:37:09,100
\nup poor, I didn’t agree.
\nIn a comfortable family. <\/p>\n
495
\n00:37:09,400 –> 00:37:13,100
\nI remember my parents when they
\nwere young and struggling, but <\/p>\n
496
\n00:37:13,300 –> 00:37:19,300
\nmy dad had a senior role in
\ngovernment and Trinidad, and my <\/p>\n
497
\n00:37:19,300 –> 00:37:23,500
\nmother worked in the University
\nof the country. <\/p>\n
498
\n00:37:24,300 –> 00:37:27,600
\nAnd on top of those two good
\njobs, they had a chicken farm, <\/p>\n
499
\n00:37:28,600 –> 00:37:33,100
\nAnd there they came a point in
\ntime where we’re well, they were<\/p>\n
500
\n00:37:33,100 –> 00:37:38,100
\ndoing extremely well.
\nAnd and one day, my dad said <\/p>\n
501
\n00:37:40,100 –> 00:37:43,300
\nthat we’re going to go for a
\ntrip to Barbados and my sister’s<\/p>\n
502
\n00:37:43,300 –> 00:37:46,600
\nturned up their noses and were
\nangry. <\/p>\n
503
\n00:37:46,700 –> 00:37:50,300
\nBarbados, like, what, why are we
\ngoing to Europe? <\/p>\n
504
\n00:37:51,200 –> 00:37:59,100
\nAnd my dad heard what they said.
\nAnd he shut down 60% of the <\/p>\n
505
\n00:37:59,107 –> 00:38:02,400
\nfarm.
\nBecause he realized it was <\/p>\n
506
\n00:38:02,400 –> 00:38:08,700
\nstarting to destroy his kids.
\nHe took the lifestyle and he’d <\/p>\n
507
\n00:38:08,700 –> 00:38:10,500
\ncome out of poverty.
\nAs had my mum. <\/p>\n
508
\n00:38:11,500 –> 00:38:15,300
\nAnd for someone who has come
\nfrom poverty, poverty to wealth,<\/p>\n
509
\n00:38:15,900 –> 00:38:22,700
\nit is the most brutal thing.
\nTo pull the gears and Ratchet <\/p>\n
510
\n00:38:22,800 –> 00:38:27,400
\nyour life back.
\nBut he delivers kids, you wasn’t<\/p>\n
511
\n00:38:27,400 –> 00:38:30,500
\nin the truth.
\nBut he did that for his <\/p>\n
512
\n00:38:30,500 –> 00:38:33,000
\nchildren.
\nAnd yes, it was all about <\/p>\n
513
\n00:38:33,000 –> 00:38:35,800
\ncompetition.
\nIt was all about comparing <\/p>\n
514
\n00:38:35,800 –> 00:38:38,400
\nyourself to other families.
\nWhere were they going on <\/p>\n
515
\n00:38:38,400 –> 00:38:39,600
\nvacation?
\nWhat did they own? <\/p>\n
516
\n00:38:39,600 –> 00:38:42,000
\nWhat do they drive?
\nHow much do they have? <\/p>\n
517
\n00:38:42,100 –> 00:38:43,900
\nWhat kind of boasting could
\npeople do? <\/p>\n
518
\n00:38:43,900 –> 00:38:47,500
\nI remember, family, gatherings,
\nwhere so much of it was about <\/p>\n
519
\n00:38:47,500 –> 00:38:51,700
\nboasting and it wasn’t just
\nboasting about what people owned<\/p>\n
520
\n00:38:51,700 –> 00:38:54,000
\nit was.
\nHow is your son doing? <\/p>\n
521
\n00:38:54,000 –> 00:38:59,300
\nOh, he’s doing so well.
\nYou know, he’s doing so well. <\/p>\n
522
\n00:38:59,300 –> 00:39:02,200
\nHe’s you know right now he’s
\narticling with one of the <\/p>\n
523
\n00:39:02,200 –> 00:39:05,700
\nbiggest law firms in Toronto,
\nright? <\/p>\n
524
\n00:39:06,100 –> 00:39:10,800
\nAnd and that that nonsense which
\nwhich I hated as a child. <\/p>\n
525
\n00:39:11,100 –> 00:39:13,800
\nAbsolutely hated.
\nAt the same time my wife Rose <\/p>\n
526
\n00:39:14,100 –> 00:39:17,500
\nwas growing up in a similar
\nfamily in Toronto, having the <\/p>\n
527
\n00:39:17,500 –> 00:39:23,200
\nsame experience so that when we
\ngot together we walked away from<\/p>\n
528
\n00:39:23,200 –> 00:39:28,000
\nall that.
\nMy children, I didn’t realize it<\/p>\n
529
\n00:39:28,000 –> 00:39:30,200
\nbecause we never talked about
\nthose things with them. <\/p>\n
530
\n00:39:31,500 –> 00:39:37,500
\nSaw a picture of my my family’s
\nestate and we’re speechless. <\/p>\n
531
\n00:39:38,900 –> 00:39:42,000
\nThey thought I had grown up in a
\nHut in the jungle somewhere. <\/p>\n
532
\n00:39:42,200 –> 00:39:47,100
\nThey literally said that.
\nI said, watch like really, yeah,<\/p>\n
533
\n00:39:47,100 –> 00:39:51,300
\nwe thought you grew up in a hut
\nsomewhere so why didn’t you say <\/p>\n
534
\n00:39:51,300 –> 00:39:53,500
\nsomething to me?
\nThis is my twenty something year<\/p>\n
535
\n00:39:53,500 –> 00:39:57,100
\nold child telling me this.
\nWe never talked about those <\/p>\n
536
\n00:39:57,100 –> 00:39:59,200
\nthings.
\nThat’s the kind of thing. <\/p>\n
537
\n00:39:59,200 –> 00:40:01,700
\nWe never wanted to talk about
\nwith our kids. <\/p>\n
538
\n00:40:02,900 –> 00:40:04,700
\nBecause it was all about
\ncompetition. <\/p>\n
539
\n00:40:05,400 –> 00:40:09,400
\nAnd so what scripture is telling
\nus is what God sees in human <\/p>\n
540
\n00:40:09,400 –> 00:40:11,800
\nlife.
\nAnd he says, look all of this <\/p>\n
541
\n00:40:11,900 –> 00:40:14,600
\nquesting for wealth and and
\nprosperity. <\/p>\n
542
\n00:40:14,600 –> 00:40:21,300
\nAnd so on can become just a
\nhorse race, a rat race, that’s <\/p>\n
543
\n00:40:21,300 –> 00:40:26,900
\nwhat it is but it can become for
\nsome people often Then he says, <\/p>\n
544
\n00:40:26,900 –> 00:40:30,600
\nin verse six or verse 5, and he
\nsays, so you’ve got the people <\/p>\n
545
\n00:40:30,600 –> 00:40:33,300
\nwho out there striving and
\nstriving and pushing, and <\/p>\n
546
\n00:40:33,300 –> 00:40:35,600
\npushing, and pushing and
\nclimbing, and climbing and <\/p>\n
547
\n00:40:35,600 –> 00:40:40,300
\nclimbing, climbing, a ladder of
\nprosperity, and power and impact<\/p>\n
548
\n00:40:40,400 –> 00:40:43,600
\nfinancially.
\nAnd then you have the opposite <\/p>\n
549
\n00:40:43,600 –> 00:40:48,400
\nwho does nothing the checked out
\n1960s Beach Bum. <\/p>\n
550
\n00:40:48,900 –> 00:40:52,200
\nDo you remember those guys who
\ndidn’t wash at all? <\/p>\n
551
\n00:40:52,600 –> 00:40:55,900
\nThey had headbands and they had
\nlike a piece of leather which <\/p>\n
552
\n00:40:55,900 –> 00:40:59,400
\nwas Dirt at the bottom of their
\nbare feet and he didn’t want to <\/p>\n
553
\n00:40:59,408 –> 00:41:02,500
\nget too close to them because it
\nknocked you out just a smell of <\/p>\n
554
\n00:41:02,500 –> 00:41:06,400
\nthem as they enjoyed the freedom
\nof the 1960s. <\/p>\n
555
\n00:41:06,400 –> 00:41:09,000
\nRemember them.
\nLook what it says about them. <\/p>\n
556
\n00:41:10,100 –> 00:41:14,400
\nThe fool folds, his hands
\ntogether and eats his own flesh.<\/p>\n
557
\n00:41:14,400 –> 00:41:18,700
\nIn other words, he cannibalizes
\nhimself through laziness the <\/p>\n
558
\n00:41:18,700 –> 00:41:23,000
\nopposite of what the other
\npeople are doing, who are <\/p>\n
559
\n00:41:23,000 –> 00:41:27,000
\nfitfully trying to push
\nthemselves. elves up and up and <\/p>\n
560
\n00:41:27,000 –> 00:41:33,600
\nup verse 6 says, You know what?
\nBetter is just a handful. <\/p>\n
561
\n00:41:34,800 –> 00:41:40,200
\nWith quietness or peace in your
\nlife, the two handfuls with <\/p>\n
562
\n00:41:40,200 –> 00:41:47,200
\nlabor and striving after wind,
\nbecause that’s what it is, it’s <\/p>\n
563
\n00:41:47,200 –> 00:41:49,400
\na striving after wind, you can’t
\ncatch the wind. <\/p>\n
564
\n00:41:49,900 –> 00:41:53,500
\nWhat he’s saying is you can’t
\ncatch, happiness, through <\/p>\n
565
\n00:41:53,500 –> 00:41:57,100
\nmaterial things.
\nAnd the accumulation of them, <\/p>\n
566
\n00:41:57,900 –> 00:42:01,700
\nyou can’t You might as well try
\nand catch the wind. <\/p>\n
567
\n00:42:03,900 –> 00:42:07,800
\nThen I returned and saw vanity
\nunder the sun. <\/p>\n
568
\n00:42:08,700 –> 00:42:12,100
\nHe talks about people being
\nalone and not having <\/p>\n
569
\n00:42:12,100 –> 00:42:15,000
\ncompanionship.
\nHe’ll then transition to talk <\/p>\n
570
\n00:42:15,000 –> 00:42:17,600
\nabout the kind of person who
\nworks and works and works. <\/p>\n
571
\n00:42:17,600 –> 00:42:19,700
\nHe says he’s just a ver
\nworkaholic in this. <\/p>\n
572
\n00:42:19,700 –> 00:42:24,400
\nNo, be to hand that result off
\ntoo if you wanted to have an <\/p>\n
573
\n00:42:24,400 –> 00:42:27,000
\nimage of, what kind of person
\nthat is think of Ebenezer <\/p>\n
574
\n00:42:27,000 –> 00:42:30,000
\nScrooge before his
\ntransformation, you know who <\/p>\n
575
\n00:42:30,000 –> 00:42:32,000
\nthat is.
\nI know, you didn’t know who Mick<\/p>\n
576
\n00:42:32,000 –> 00:42:36,300
\nJagger was, but you know,
\nThere’s a scrooge is right. <\/p>\n
577
\n00:42:36,700 –> 00:42:41,100
\nAll right, are there?
\nNo workhouses member. <\/p>\n
578
\n00:42:42,100 –> 00:42:46,500
\nRemember how happy he wasn’t his
\nlabor eating his little nasty <\/p>\n
579
\n00:42:46,500 –> 00:42:50,300
\nbowl of gruel at home because he
\nwouldn’t spend money to eat <\/p>\n
580
\n00:42:50,300 –> 00:42:53,200
\nproper food.
\nWhile there are people like <\/p>\n
581
\n00:42:53,200 –> 00:42:56,000
\nthat.
\nThey work themselves to the <\/p>\n
582
\n00:42:56,000 –> 00:42:58,900
\nBone.
\nThey have all kinds of money but<\/p>\n
583
\n00:42:58,900 –> 00:43:05,400
\nno enjoyment of it what so ever,
\nverse 13 better is a, a poor and<\/p>\n
584
\n00:43:05,400 –> 00:43:14,500
\na wise child.
\nThen and old and foolish King. <\/p>\n
585
\n00:43:15,800 –> 00:43:18,300
\nWho is this wise King writing
\nabout? <\/p>\n
586
\n00:43:20,300 –> 00:43:25,700
\nHimself.
\nI realize all the stupid things <\/p>\n
587
\n00:43:25,700 –> 00:43:27,300
\nI did, I wouldn’t listen to
\nanybody. <\/p>\n
588
\n00:43:28,700 –> 00:43:32,000
\nWhy would I was the smartest man
\non the face of the earth? <\/p>\n
589
\n00:43:32,400 –> 00:43:35,700
\nI thought.
\nSo everything I did, I thought I<\/p>\n
590
\n00:43:35,707 –> 00:43:37,800
\ncould survive it, I thought I
\ncould get through, I thought I <\/p>\n
591
\n00:43:37,800 –> 00:43:43,200
\ncould just squeeze past touching
\nthe edge of idolatry but <\/p>\n
592
\n00:43:43,200 –> 00:43:46,300
\nrealizing all those things don’t
\nexist, not realizing the impact <\/p>\n
593
\n00:43:46,900 –> 00:43:49,000
\nI had on my own family and the
\nnation. <\/p>\n
594
\n00:43:50,200 –> 00:43:54,300
\nMeasure is a wise child than an
\nold and foolish King. <\/p>\n
595
\n00:43:55,400 –> 00:43:57,900
\nAnd then he talks about a child,
\na young man who comes out of <\/p>\n
596
\n00:43:57,900 –> 00:44:02,200
\nprison who Rises out of the dirt
\nto become king of the nation and<\/p>\n
597
\n00:44:02,200 –> 00:44:06,100
\nin the end, nobody can remember
\nwhat he achieved that comes <\/p>\n
598
\n00:44:06,100 –> 00:44:10,000
\nafter him.
\nAnd so he sees the limits of <\/p>\n
599
\n00:44:10,000 –> 00:44:18,500
\npower He sees how tenuous and
\nfragile it all is, and how it <\/p>\n
600
\n00:44:18,500 –> 00:44:23,200
\njust evaporates.
\nAs we ourselves declined. <\/p>\n
601
\n00:44:24,500 –> 00:44:26,400
\nHe goes on.
\nHe says, when you are in the <\/p>\n
602
\n00:44:26,400 –> 00:44:28,800
\nmeeting, be careful how you
\nspeak. <\/p>\n
603
\n00:44:30,900 –> 00:44:35,100
\nBe careful.
\nDon’t answer anything before God<\/p>\n
604
\n00:44:35,100 –> 00:44:40,500
\nand not carry through on it.
\nAnd here this Society, perhaps <\/p>\n
605
\n00:44:40,500 –> 00:44:44,600
\nan Arts to people would talk up
\na storm about the things they’re<\/p>\n
606
\n00:44:44,600 –> 00:44:48,200
\ndoing for God, but there was
\nnothing behind it and they <\/p>\n
607
\n00:44:48,200 –> 00:44:53,400
\ndidn’t follow through.
\nHe was a boastful materialistic <\/p>\n
608
\n00:44:53,500 –> 00:44:56,500
\nSociety.
\nThis is not an age of <\/p>\n
609
\n00:44:56,500 –> 00:44:59,900
\nboastfulness.
\nIs this not an age of <\/p>\n
610
\n00:44:59,900 –> 00:45:05,300
\nboastfulness where where leaders
\nare more prone to boast about <\/p>\n
611
\n00:45:05,300 –> 00:45:08,100
\nthemselves and their prowess
\nthan they are to talk about the <\/p>\n
612
\n00:45:08,100 –> 00:45:11,500
\nneeds of the nation and how they
\nintend to look after them? <\/p>\n
613
\n00:45:13,000 –> 00:45:21,500
\nAnd So It Goes On. and he says,
\nin verse 8, if you see the <\/p>\n
614
\n00:45:21,500 –> 00:45:26,600
\noppression of the poor and
\nviolent perverting, a judgment <\/p>\n
615
\n00:45:26,600 –> 00:45:30,000
\nand Justice and a province,
\ndon’t be surprised. <\/p>\n
616
\n00:45:31,000 –> 00:45:36,600
\nDon’t be surprised.
\nFor the somebody higher than <\/p>\n
617
\n00:45:36,600 –> 00:45:38,400
\nthat person, is keeping an eye
\non him. <\/p>\n
618
\n00:45:39,000 –> 00:45:42,600
\nAnd there are people even higher
\nthan that, nice talking about, <\/p>\n
619
\n00:45:42,600 –> 00:45:47,800
\nthe way that God overseas.
\nWhat is going on in the earth? <\/p>\n
620
\n00:45:47,800 –> 00:45:52,700
\nHe has a vantage point.
\nThat’s different to anything <\/p>\n
621
\n00:45:52,900 –> 00:45:56,400
\nthat we have.
\nIt gives them a perspective that<\/p>\n
622
\n00:45:56,400 –> 00:46:02,900
\nis above what we have.
\nAnd these people may look like <\/p>\n
623
\n00:46:02,900 –> 00:46:04,500
\na, they get away.
\nMurder. <\/p>\n
624
\n00:46:05,600 –> 00:46:09,100
\nBut in the end, God will do what
\nhe does. <\/p>\n
625
\n00:46:09,700 –> 00:46:13,300
\nAnd he will hold mankind,
\naccountable. <\/p>\n
626
\n00:46:14,000 –> 00:46:16,700
\nNow, as I’m talking to you and
\njust really looking for a <\/p>\n
627
\n00:46:16,707 –> 00:46:22,700
\nparticular verse that I seem to
\nrecall somewhere in the Psalms, <\/p>\n
628
\n00:46:23,100 –> 00:46:28,000
\nI can’t find it right now.
\nI can’t find it right now but <\/p>\n
629
\n00:46:28,000 –> 00:46:30,900
\nwhat I’ll do is I’ll look for it
\nin the break and bring it back <\/p>\n
630
\n00:46:30,900 –> 00:46:34,300
\nto you tomorrow.
\nAnd what it is is it’s a <\/p>\n
631
\n00:46:34,300 –> 00:46:40,900
\nparticular Verse or couple of
\nverses that talk about God’s <\/p>\n
632
\n00:46:40,900 –> 00:46:45,400
\nperspective on things.
\nVersus our own, very limited <\/p>\n
633
\n00:46:45,500 –> 00:46:48,200
\nhuman perspective.
\nSo in the grand scheme of <\/p>\n
634
\n00:46:48,200 –> 00:46:52,100
\nthings, remember the grandma
\nholding little baby and how she <\/p>\n
635
\n00:46:52,100 –> 00:46:55,000
\ntakes care of her.
\nThe baby knows I’ve got a <\/p>\n
636
\n00:46:55,000 –> 00:46:57,500
\nproblem.
\nGot a diaper, I’ve got rash, it <\/p>\n
637
\n00:46:57,500 –> 00:47:02,000
\nhurts, it burns.
\nAnd doesn’t realize that her <\/p>\n
638
\n00:47:02,000 –> 00:47:05,600
\ngrandmother is looking after
\nthat and more for her that she <\/p>\n
639
\n00:47:05,600 –> 00:47:09,000
\nwouldn’t even understand.
\nSo God says hair through the <\/p>\n
640
\n00:47:09,000 –> 00:47:14,800
\nwriter yes there are things that
\nyou see that are unfair but I <\/p>\n
641
\n00:47:14,900 –> 00:47:19,900
\nknow what’s going on and I keep
\nand I love these things. <\/p>\n
642
\n00:47:20,200 –> 00:47:23,900
\nVerse 13, there’s a sore evil
\nwhich I have seen Under the Sun <\/p>\n
643
\n00:47:24,300 –> 00:47:28,600
\nriches kept by the owners to
\ntheir hurt to their own hurt. <\/p>\n
644
\n00:47:29,300 –> 00:47:32,800
\nBut those riches perish by evil
\nAdventure. <\/p>\n
645
\n00:47:34,300 –> 00:47:38,300
\nPeople who take their wealth and
\nthey go, and they gamble them <\/p>\n
646
\n00:47:38,300 –> 00:47:43,500
\naway, or they invest on stupid
\nthings that they think will make<\/p>\n
647
\n00:47:43,500 –> 00:47:45,500
\nthem even more profoundly
\nwealthy. <\/p>\n
648
\n00:47:46,600 –> 00:47:52,100
\nHe says I see all these things.
\nIt’s all part and parcel of the <\/p>\n
649
\n00:47:52,400 –> 00:47:57,000
\nnonsense of human life apart
\nfrom me Verse 18 behold that, <\/p>\n
650
\n00:47:57,000 –> 00:48:02,800
\nwhich I have seen to be good and
\ncalmly for one to eat and to <\/p>\n
651
\n00:48:02,800 –> 00:48:08,200
\ndrink and to enjoy good in all
\nhis labor where and he labor <\/p>\n
652
\n00:48:08,200 –> 00:48:10,900
\nwith Under the Sun and you
\nthinking, that’s a jarring. <\/p>\n
653
\n00:48:11,100 –> 00:48:12,900
\nI thought Under the Sun is
\nalways a bad thing. <\/p>\n
654
\n00:48:12,900 –> 00:48:17,100
\nWell, it isn’t in this instance
\nand look how he gives these <\/p>\n
655
\n00:48:17,500 –> 00:48:21,200
\nHammer blows to underscore that
\npoint. <\/p>\n
656
\n00:48:22,600 –> 00:48:27,800
\nAll the days of his life, which
\nGod has given him for it, is his<\/p>\n
657
\n00:48:27,800 –> 00:48:32,700
\nportion every man, also to whom
\nGod hath, given riches and <\/p>\n
658
\n00:48:32,700 –> 00:48:36,600
\nwealth and has given him power
\nto eat thereof and to take his <\/p>\n
659
\n00:48:36,600 –> 00:48:42,600
\nportion and to rejoice in his
\nlabor, this is the gift of God <\/p>\n
660
\n00:48:43,300 –> 00:48:44,400
\nfor.
\nHe shall not much. <\/p>\n
661
\n00:48:44,400 –> 00:48:50,600
\nRemember the days of his life.
\nBecause God answereth him in the<\/p>\n
662
\n00:48:50,600 –> 00:48:55,600
\njoy of his heart.
\nSo God has given you. <\/p>\n
663
\n00:48:57,600 –> 00:49:02,400
\nLife in a prosperous country
\nwhere you’ve worked hard and you<\/p>\n
664
\n00:49:02,400 –> 00:49:07,200
\nhave things that you have
\naccumulated to enjoy this life <\/p>\n
665
\n00:49:07,600 –> 00:49:14,300
\nto share with others to do good
\nwith all the days of your life. <\/p>\n
666
\n00:49:15,500 –> 00:49:17,100
\nSo enjoy what God has blessed
\nyou with? <\/p>\n
667
\n00:49:18,100 –> 00:49:22,400
\nAnd also remember that there’s
\nmuch to be done and there’s much<\/p>\n
668
\n00:49:22,400 –> 00:49:26,000
\nthat you can do to help others
\nin this life that you live right<\/p>\n
669
\n00:49:26,000 –> 00:49:26,200
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