Class 3 from this series was used in GCT Episode 197<\/p>\n
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\nOur first period teachers by the
\ndev Rams, run his General <\/p>\n
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\nsubject is the whole duty of
\nman. <\/p>\n
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\nToday’s topic is all is Vanity
\nfor the deaf. <\/p>\n
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\nSo in 32 years of travel around
\nthe world Bible schools, <\/p>\n
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\neverywhere I have never heard
\nannouncements like that in my <\/p>\n
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\nlife.
\nUnbelievable. <\/p>\n
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\nI still don’t know who Gupta
\nRam. <\/p>\n
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\nCharan is either.
\nBut I know Jean-Jacques jelly. <\/p>\n
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\nNo has told me you, we might be
\nmy grandfather or something like<\/p>\n
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\nthat.
\nAnd Montreal, that’s what he <\/p>\n
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\nwould have sounded like brothers
\nand sisters this week we’re <\/p>\n
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\ngoing to be looking at the Book
\nof Ecclesiastes. <\/p>\n
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\nIt has its dark bits.
\nIt has its moments of joy and <\/p>\n
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\nupliftment but largely what it
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\nIt is the deep thoughts and
\nsharing. <\/p>\n
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\nOf a man somewhere between birth
\nand death on the horizon. <\/p>\n
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\nWho has a full life behind him
\nand his had the chance to <\/p>\n
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\nexperience everything a person
\ncan experience. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he’s come to realize many
\nthings about life, the way it <\/p>\n
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\nis, and the way we experience
\nit. <\/p>\n
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\nNow, for all of us, we want to
\nfigure out what God is doing. <\/p>\n
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\nWe want Pat answers.
\nWe want everything to line up. <\/p>\n
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\nWell, like a spreadsheet.
\nWe wanted to be easily <\/p>\n
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\nthe things that are going on
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\nBut we know that that’s not the
\nway life is. <\/p>\n
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\nLife is full of things that
\nhappened that don’t make any <\/p>\n
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\nsense at all.
\nIt’s full of experiences, we <\/p>\n
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\nnever thought could possibly
\nhappen, but they do happen. and <\/p>\n
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\nwhen we think God is doing
\nsomething according to our <\/p>\n
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\nparticular thoughts about where
\nthings are headed we find he’s <\/p>\n
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\nactually doing something
\ncompletely different And we are <\/p>\n
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\ncontinually continually
\nsurprised by what he does and <\/p>\n
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\nthe world in which we live.
\nNow, we can start looking at the<\/p>\n
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\nBook of Ecclesiastes in Genesis
\nchapter 3, believe it or not. <\/p>\n
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\nAll the way back in verse 17.
\nverse 17 sin has taken place <\/p>\n
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\ndeath is now going to be in the
\nworld and in verse 17, And unto <\/p>\n
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\nAdam, he said, because thou Hast
\nhearkened unto the voice of thy <\/p>\n
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\nwife and Hast eaten of the tree
\nof which I commanded thee <\/p>\n
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\nsaying, Thou shalt not eat of
\nit. <\/p>\n
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\nCursed is the ground for thy
\nsake. <\/p>\n
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\nIn toil.
\nShalt thou eat of it all the <\/p>\n
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\ndays of thy life, thorns and
\nthistles, shall it? <\/p>\n
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\nBring forth to thee and thou
\nshalt eat the herb of the field <\/p>\n
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\nin the sweat of thy face.
\nShalt. <\/p>\n
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\nThou eat bread.
\nTill thou return unto the <\/p>\n
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\nground.
\nFor out of it was so taken for <\/p>\n
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\ndust Thou Art and unto dust
\nshalt thou return. <\/p>\n
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\nSo God says to Adam and Eve this
\nworld you are in is now going to<\/p>\n
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\nbe filled with challenge with
\ndifficulty. <\/p>\n
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\nBut thorns and thistles.
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\nbear and by the sweat of your
\nbrow. <\/p>\n
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\nYou’ll be able to live in this
\nworld for your sake. <\/p>\n
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\nWell, we can interpret that to
\nmean because of you or because <\/p>\n
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\nthis is what is it is necessary
\nfor you to go through? <\/p>\n
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\nTo live the life, you’re not
\ngoing to live. <\/p>\n
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\nBefore me in the Earth.
\nNow we could then go from <\/p>\n
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\nGenesis chapter 3 and we could
\nlook at Romans chapter 8, Romans<\/p>\n
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\nchapter 8.
\nAnd we could see an illusion. <\/p>\n
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\nIt doesn’t come right out,
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\nit?
\nIt is a, it is an echo back to <\/p>\n
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\nwhat is going on in Genesis.
\nIn Romans eight. <\/p>\n
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\nBeginning at verse 20, we read
\nFor the creation. <\/p>\n
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\nWas made subject to vanity not
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\nWill you authorized version says
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\nbut by reason of him, who
\nsubjected it in Hope, In Hope. <\/p>\n
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\nThat the creation itself.
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\nbondage of corruption into the
\nliberty of the glory of the <\/p>\n
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\nchildren of God for, we know
\nthat the whole creation groaneth<\/p>\n
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\nand travaileth in pain together
\nuntil now, And not only, they, <\/p>\n
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\nbut ourselves also, which have
\nthe firstfruits of the spirit, <\/p>\n
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\neven we ourselves groan within
\nourselves, waiting for the <\/p>\n
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\nadoption to wit.
\nThe Redemption of our body but <\/p>\n
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\nwe are saved by hope but hope
\nthat is seen is not hope. and <\/p>\n
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\nso, what Paul is saying, what
\nGod is saying through Paul is <\/p>\n
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\nThe difficulty of this life is
\nintentional. <\/p>\n
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\nThe trouble in this world has a
\npurpose that the trouble in in <\/p>\n
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\nyour individual life.
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\nelse to hold onto. <\/p>\n
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\nWe can’t hold onto our money,
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\ncan hang on to any of that. <\/p>\n
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\nthose crises of life as Sailors
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\nextent of what the aging process
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\nthe chronic illness is nothing
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\nwill not be as we are now.
\nAnd by the way, I know you might<\/p>\n
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\nbe thinking.
\nSo awfully young to be at this <\/p>\n
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\nI’m older than Jeff. <\/p>\n
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\nI turned 60 in January, January
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\nAnd my body is telling me that
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\nthese things are part, and
\nparcel of the life that we live,<\/p>\n
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\nthat casts as upon God, in faith
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\nanswers to all the questions
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\nWill anything ever make sense
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\nWill you ever be able to
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\nThey come when they come and the
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\ncries out to God.
\nHe struggles with his friends. <\/p>\n
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\nHe has all kinds of questions
\nfor God because according to his<\/p>\n
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\nmodel of the way things are the
\nway things ought to be the way <\/p>\n
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\nthings should be his life.
\nDoesn’t make any sense at all. <\/p>\n
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\nHow can I be going through all
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\nAll of this loss.
\nAnd be God’s child. <\/p>\n
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\nBe a believer.
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\nHe wants to align God to his
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\nIt says, all right, you want to <\/p>\n
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\ntalk to me?
\nYou want to fight with me? <\/p>\n
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\nwhen argue with me, Have a
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\nYou want to settle with me?
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\nLook at the Precision of <\/p>\n
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\ncreation, and how its it runs,
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\nLook at everything that I have
\ncreated. <\/p>\n
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\nLook at the massive power of the
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\nbaby and say, look I put a
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\nYou stay right there and behave <\/p>\n
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\nyourself and the seed listens to
\nme. now job, You want to argue <\/p>\n
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\nyou?
\nWere you with me? <\/p>\n
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\nWhen I did all these things and
\nput them together. <\/p>\n
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\nWhen I took the universe and
\nwound it up. <\/p>\n
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\nLike a watch.
\nSo that it could behave the way <\/p>\n
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\nI expected to behave.
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\nanswer.
\nHe does not answer jobs <\/p>\n
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\nHe had job at the end says I’m <\/p>\n
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\nso sorry.
\nDidn’t know what I was saying. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd you look at them, if there’s
\nsomething else that comes after <\/p>\n
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\nthat is there another Passage.
\nand it’s as if the book just <\/p>\n
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\nstops, And all the answers we
\nwanted with job. <\/p>\n
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\nAre not answered.
\nThat is the point. <\/p>\n
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\nThe point is this.
\nI am in control of everything <\/p>\n
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\nthat exists.
\nI’m in control of the way the <\/p>\n
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\nworld operates.
\nI run this Fallen World Fallen <\/p>\n
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\nbecause of sin, but a world that
\nhas a future that I I am <\/p>\n
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\ncreating I know what I’m doing.
\nIncluding what I’m doing in your<\/p>\n
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\nlife.
\nWith all of its pain. <\/p>\n
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\nWith all of its trouble.
\nWith all of its loneliness. <\/p>\n
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\nWith all of it, unbearable
\nlosses. <\/p>\n
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\nWith all its disappointments.
\nI am here with you. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I will carry you through.
\nJust hold on to me. <\/p>\n
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\nThe book of Ecclesiastes is
\nwritten by a man like Lee <\/p>\n
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\nSolomon.
\nWho is King and Jerusalem and <\/p>\n
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\nher son of David.
\nAnd over all Israel. <\/p>\n
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\nIf we interpret the opening to
\nbe talking about Israel as an <\/p>\n
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\nintegrated Nation, not a poetic
\nterm for the split Nation, but <\/p>\n
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\nan integrated Nation.
\nAnd this was a man who had <\/p>\n
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\neverything a man could have.
\nHe had all the money a person <\/p>\n
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\ncould have hit, all the all the
\ngold, all the silver, all the <\/p>\n
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\nland, all the women, all the
\npower, all the drink, all the <\/p>\n
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\nfood, everything he had
\neverything a man could have. <\/p>\n
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\nHe wasn’t happy.
\nYou wonder sometimes how these <\/p>\n
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\nsuper wealthy or super
\nsuccessful individuals in places<\/p>\n
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\nlike Hollywood.
\nCommit suicide. <\/p>\n
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\nThey got everything.
\nThey thought they wanted, they <\/p>\n
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\nhad everything they thought
\nwould make them happy and they <\/p>\n
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\nrealized there’s still a cavern
\ninside my heart that cannot be <\/p>\n
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\nfilled and I don’t know what to
\nput in it. <\/p>\n
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\nBecause there’s nothing I found.
\nIt feels it. that whole and <\/p>\n
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\nevery one of our hearts, Can
\nonly be filled with faith. <\/p>\n
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\nWith God.
\nSolomon did all this work. <\/p>\n
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\nHe built all of these things, he
\nput everything in place, he <\/p>\n
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\nstructured so much for the
\nnation and knew that he was <\/p>\n
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\ngoing to hand it off to a fool.
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\nwere after everything.
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\nWho knows if the person I’m
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\nsquander it and be a fool.
\nHe know what his son was like <\/p>\n
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\nand we see historically.
\nThat rehoboam was a fool. <\/p>\n
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\nThe nation’s split because he
\ntook bad and stupid advice. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd why did they give him that?
\nBad advice the young men in <\/p>\n
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\nSo they could be as rich as
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\nas fast as they could, because <\/p>\n
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\nhappy.
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\nThe son of David King in <\/p>\n
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\nlet the preacher in, in, in the <\/p>\n
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\nSeptuagint translation.
\nIt is the word Ecclesiastes. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s a word that’s related to
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\npeople.
\nSo this is about a man, <\/p>\n
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\nexpressing the wisdom of old
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\nyour life behind you to look
\nupon Your understanding and he’s<\/p>\n
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\nsharing with everyone who will
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\nThat I have learned.
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\nHe says.
\nVanity of vanities. <\/p>\n
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\nAll is Vanity.
\nThe word vanity, the Hebrew word<\/p>\n
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\nhad Bell means futility
\nemptiness. <\/p>\n
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\nThat is exceedingly fragile like
\na breath gone. <\/p>\n
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\nHe says, every thing, it doesn’t<\/p>\n
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\nmatter how durable it looks, it
\ndoesn’t matter how sustainable <\/p>\n
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\nit seems.
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\nNow we look at that as Believers
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\nBeliever say something like
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\nfor a moment from faith and will
\nsee almost this confusing <\/p>\n
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\ninterplay and alternation of
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\nAnd then thinking of a man of
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\naudience is a man or woman of
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\nThat’s why you here.
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\ncan still benefit and we can
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\nthe period of time that we’ve
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\nthe Earth.
\nThis kind of mentality, a <\/p>\n
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\nsailing us at certain points in
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\nDoes look everything.
\nEverything I’ve seen everything <\/p>\n
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\nI’ve seen in the end is full of
\ndisappointments. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s empty.
\nIt’s futile. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat profit what gained what
\nbenefit has a man of all his <\/p>\n
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\nhard work that he does Under the
\nSun? <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s a key phrase.
\nBecause Under the Sun means in <\/p>\n
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\nthis world, as we know it today,
\nif that’s all we focus on. <\/p>\n
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\nIf our life is about what’s in
\nthis world, then we are no <\/p>\n
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\ndifferent to the billionaire,
\nJeff Bezos. <\/p>\n
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\nWho right now is investing vast <\/p>\n
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\namounts of money into research
\nrelated to life extension. <\/p>\n
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\nI wonder why that is Because his
\nbillions and trillions will not <\/p>\n
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\nsuddenly realizes. <\/p>\n
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\nOh no, I have everything.
\nBut I have nothing at the same <\/p>\n
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\ntime.
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\nBecause a man of this world
\nrealizes, I may have built <\/p>\n
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\nAmazon but it does me no good.
\nBecause I’m dying. <\/p>\n
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\nI’m dying.
\nSo it goes on and it says one <\/p>\n
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\ngeneration passes.
\nAnd another generation comes and<\/p>\n
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\nthe Earth abides Forever.
\nThe Sun Also Rises in the sun, <\/p>\n
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\ngoes down and hasteth to his
\nplace where he arose. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd that word hasteth has the
\nthe essential meaning and Hebrew<\/p>\n
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\nof it gets there.
\nAlmost out of breath. <\/p>\n
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\nPoetic language showing that the
\nsun is doing its work and it’s <\/p>\n
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\nit gets tired out and everything
\nthat it does there’s an endless <\/p>\n
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\ncycle that goes on and on in
\nnatural things and an endless <\/p>\n
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\ncycle of generations coming and
\ngoing coming and going coming <\/p>\n
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\nand going and we’re just members
\nof one generation. <\/p>\n
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\nThat is now starting to pass off
\nthe sea. <\/p>\n
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\nHe goes on and he says, the wind
\ngoes to with the south turns, <\/p>\n
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\nplace.
\nAnd then it goes back to where <\/p>\n
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\nit came from all the rivers run
\ninto the sea yet to see is Never<\/p>\n
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\nfull.
\nThe rivers, come hither and <\/p>\n
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\nreturn again.
\nAll things are full of such hard<\/p>\n
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\nThey says you could barely <\/p>\n
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\ndescribe it a man, cannot utter
\nit. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is the eye is never
\nsatisfied with seeing nor the <\/p>\n
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\nyear filled with hearing.
\nAnd so he says, we are like we <\/p>\n
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\nare like black holes of the need
\nto see things and hear things, <\/p>\n
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\nand experience things.
\nAnd in the end with everything, <\/p>\n
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\nwe see with everything that we
\ndo, we’re not satisfied. <\/p>\n
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\nYou’re not satisfied.
\nHe says, is there anything that <\/p>\n
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\ncan be called new?
\nWell, we might think. <\/p>\n
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\nYes, technology, we went to the
\nmoon. <\/p>\n
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\nWe’ve got iPhones that people
\ndon’t know how to turn off. <\/p>\n
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\nWe, we have all kinds of things
\nthat’s new. <\/p>\n
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\nWell, no, it’s not new.
\nWhat’s new is the ability to do <\/p>\n
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\nold things.
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\nTo communicate. <\/p>\n
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\nTo be able to do certain tasks, <\/p>\n
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\nto deal with that oil that we’re
\nengaged in all the days of our <\/p>\n
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\nlives.
\nBut essentially there’s nothing <\/p>\n
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\nbrand-new.
\nThat brand new thing will come <\/p>\n
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\nAnd with the changing of those <\/p>\n
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\nwho have believed also the
\ngenerations, there’s no new <\/p>\n
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\nthing under the sun on this
\nEarth in this world. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s just something that we can
\nsay this is new. <\/p>\n
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\nHe says no it’s already been
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\nwhat’s even worse than that?
\nNobody will remember you when <\/p>\n
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\nyou’re gone.
\nJeff Bezos. <\/p>\n
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\nNot Jeff.
\nGelineau, I know we’ll remember <\/p>\n
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\nhim.
\nThose cookie ways and big heart.<\/p>\n
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\nThere is no remembrance of
\nformer things. <\/p>\n
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\nNeither shall there be any
\nremembrance of Latter things? <\/p>\n
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\nThe goes on.
\nHe says, he says it’s suddenly <\/p>\n
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\nshifts from third person to
\nfirst person. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s very personal now. he says,
\nI the preacher. <\/p>\n
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\nI was King.
\nOver Israel in Jerusalem. <\/p>\n
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\nI gave my heart to seek and
\nsearch out by wisdom concerning.<\/p>\n
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\nAll things that are done under
\nHeaven. <\/p>\n
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\nThis sore travel has God, given
\nto the sons of man to be <\/p>\n
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\nexercised their with I looked at
\nall my work, I looked at the way<\/p>\n
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\nlife is in this world.
\nAnd I had to find a way to <\/p>\n
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\nfigure it all out to work out
\nhow things. <\/p>\n
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\nWork the way they do an eye
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\nI was desperate to understand.
\nIs this all there is no. <\/p>\n
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\nRemember Solomon.
\nHad taken a bypass away from God<\/p>\n
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\nfor a period of time.
\nAnd many of us believe that this<\/p>\n
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\nthis is an indicator that he
\ncame back to God’s truth. <\/p>\n
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\nBut he came back to God truth
\nand please whatever you do. <\/p>\n
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\nDon’t be among those people who
\nsay the scary thing while Shaman<\/p>\n
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\nwill never be in the Kingdom,
\nyou know? <\/p>\n
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\nWho did all the bad stuff he
\ndid? <\/p>\n
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\nHe was a stupid wise, man.
\nAnd your wife thinking to <\/p>\n
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\nherself?
\nYes, I know one like that too. <\/p>\n
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\nThis, these are the words of a
\nman who came back who came back.<\/p>\n
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\nVerse 14, have seen all the
\nworks that are done under the <\/p>\n
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\nsun and behold all is Vanity and
\nvexation of spirit. <\/p>\n
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\nHe said that which is crooked
\ncannot be made straight and this<\/p>\n
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\nis not talking about something.
\nBeing perverse is talking about <\/p>\n
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\nsomething that’s he didn’t,
\nthat’s not clear. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd what he’s saying?
\nEffectively is, God has made it <\/p>\n
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\nso that life is hard to figure
\nout. <\/p>\n
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\nWe can’t take a model in our
\nhead and slap it on life and <\/p>\n
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\nsay, aha, this explains
\neverything. <\/p>\n
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\nWhere would there be opportunity
\nfor faith if we could do that? <\/p>\n
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\nWe’re always going to want to
\naim in the direction of figuring<\/p>\n
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\nout all aspects of everything.
\nYou raised a family of kids, you<\/p>\n
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\nraised them in the truth.
\nMaybe one comes in of the three <\/p>\n
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\nor four that you have.
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\nMaybe they come in. <\/p>\n
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\ndesperate, marriage situations <\/p>\n
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\nYour heart in pieces. <\/p>\n
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\nAs an aging father a mother you
\nwant to advise but you know, <\/p>\n
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\nyou’ve got to be careful what
\nyou say to your adult children. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd you look at all that
\nheartache and your heart, breaks<\/p>\n
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\nfor your grandkids, I’m just
\ndescribing typical situations. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is not somebody’s
\nindividual life. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is our experience as aging <\/p>\n
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\nparents. and we look at all that
\nand we want it all to make sense<\/p>\n
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\nand we asked ourselves was I
\nsuch a terrible father, was I <\/p>\n
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\nsuch a horrible mother that this
\nhas happened in my childhood <\/p>\n
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\nlife, how can they not know not
\nto do these things or be <\/p>\n
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\ninvolved and those things,
\nwhatever the case may be when we<\/p>\n
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\nread this book, when we look at
\nthe things Solomon says, our <\/p>\n
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\nhearts are deeply moved if we
\nput ourselves into the pages. <\/p>\n
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\nWe can feel a sense of
\ndisappointment of of, almost <\/p>\n
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\nbitterness towards God.
\nHow could you do this or that in<\/p>\n
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\nmy life?
\nIf your God, if you’re loving <\/p>\n
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\nGod allows things to happen.
\nSometimes God causes things to <\/p>\n
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\nhappen.
\nTo exercise our faith. <\/p>\n
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\n00:26:18,900 –> 00:26:23,300
\nThe drive us towards him. so
\nthat we can say with our arms of<\/p>\n
341
\n00:26:23,300 –> 00:26:27,100
\nlifted, Tears streaming down our
\nfaces. <\/p>\n
342
\n00:26:28,500 –> 00:26:31,900
\nNot our needs.
\nI don’t know why this is <\/p>\n
343
\n00:26:31,900 –> 00:26:35,300
\nhappening.
\nBut I believe in you. <\/p>\n
344
\n00:26:36,800 –> 00:26:41,800
\nLet make the choice again to
\ntrust you and to know that you <\/p>\n
345
\n00:26:41,800 –> 00:26:46,700
\nare in this situation somewhere.
\nYou get me through. <\/p>\n
346
\n00:26:48,700 –> 00:26:56,500
\nYou’ll get me through. and so it
\ngoes on and he says, He says I <\/p>\n
347
\n00:26:56,500 –> 00:26:59,800
\ncommuned with mine own.
\nHeart saying hello I am. <\/p>\n
348
\n00:26:59,800 –> 00:27:04,700
\nCome to Great Estate.
\nAnd have gotten more wisdom than<\/p>\n
349
\n00:27:04,700 –> 00:27:07,800
\nall.
\nThey that had been before me in <\/p>\n
350
\n00:27:07,800 –> 00:27:14,500
\nJerusalem.
\nWho all well, David Saul Oak is <\/p>\n
351
\n00:27:14,500 –> 00:27:20,300
\na deck multiple Kings who were
\nthere before him and wiser than <\/p>\n
352
\n00:27:20,300 –> 00:27:22,800
\nthe mall and I still have
\nstruggled. <\/p>\n
353
\n00:27:23,900 –> 00:27:27,100
\nI understand God.
\nAnd I gave my heart to know, <\/p>\n
354
\n00:27:27,100 –> 00:27:30,300
\nwisdom and to know Madness and
\nfolly. <\/p>\n
355
\n00:27:31,600 –> 00:27:36,700
\nMadness and Folly.
\nI perceived that this also is <\/p>\n
356
\n00:27:36,700 –> 00:27:39,900
\nvexation of spirit for in much
\nwisdom is much grief. <\/p>\n
357
\n00:27:40,900 –> 00:27:44,800
\nAnd he that increaseth
\nknowledge, increaseth sorrow. <\/p>\n
358
\n00:27:46,500 –> 00:27:49,200
\nIf you were to ask Mick, Jagger
\ntoday and don’t some of you <\/p>\n
359
\n00:27:49,200 –> 00:27:51,800
\npretend you don’t know, because
\nthe people beside you or to <\/p>\n
360
\n00:27:51,800 –> 00:27:56,500
\nGodly to know who that is.
\nIf you were to ask Mick Jagger <\/p>\n
361
\n00:27:56,500 –> 00:28:00,200
\ntoday, are you a happy, man?
\nHe would say to you. <\/p>\n
362
\n00:28:00,200 –> 00:28:08,800
\nI Can’t Get No Satisfaction.
\nNo matter what I do, I try and I<\/p>\n
363
\n00:28:08,800 –> 00:28:12,900
\ntry, I Can’t Get No
\nSatisfaction. <\/p>\n
364
\n00:28:13,700 –> 00:28:18,000
\nHe has all the money a person
\ncould have All the possessions <\/p>\n
365
\n00:28:18,700 –> 00:28:23,700
\nhouses, everywhere, palatial
\nmansions, and he’s a dying, man,<\/p>\n
366
\n00:28:24,400 –> 00:28:27,200
\nI don’t know how they even move
\naround on stage. <\/p>\n
367
\n00:28:28,600 –> 00:28:31,300
\nRumor Has It Keith, Richard
\ndied. 20 years ago. <\/p>\n
368
\n00:28:31,300 –> 00:28:34,500
\nHe’s really a remote control
\nunit on stage. <\/p>\n
369
\n00:28:37,100 –> 00:28:40,500
\nSo it goes on and it says in
\nmuch wisdom is much grief. <\/p>\n
370
\n00:28:41,100 –> 00:28:44,100
\nWisdom of what Godly wisdom?
\nNo. <\/p>\n
371
\n00:28:45,200 –> 00:28:52,800
\nThe more, you know, this life.
\nOn the earth and have access to <\/p>\n
372
\n00:28:52,800 –> 00:28:56,300
\nexploring it, the more you
\ngrieved by it. <\/p>\n
373
\n00:28:57,600 –> 00:29:01,200
\nApart from God.
\nHe goes on. <\/p>\n
374
\n00:29:01,200 –> 00:29:03,200
\nHe says, in Chapter 2, I said in
\nmy heart. <\/p>\n
375
\n00:29:03,200 –> 00:29:06,100
\nGo, you go, like he’s talking to
\na friend. <\/p>\n
376
\n00:29:06,100 –> 00:29:07,900
\nYou’re going to experience
\neverything there is to <\/p>\n
377
\n00:29:07,900 –> 00:29:11,000
\nexperience.
\nDo whatever people can do. <\/p>\n
378
\n00:29:11,600 –> 00:29:17,800
\nGo drink eat be merry live your
\nlife of pleasure but watch <\/p>\n
379
\n00:29:17,800 –> 00:29:21,500
\nyourself and try to see what
\nyou’re experiencing. <\/p>\n
380
\n00:29:23,200 –> 00:29:27,100
\nIt went through as they ran the
\ncourse of sin that he was <\/p>\n
381
\n00:29:27,100 –> 00:29:31,100
\ninvolved in Solomon.
\nIt was at the same time, <\/p>\n
382
\n00:29:31,100 –> 00:29:35,400
\nobjectively watching and
\nobserving himself. and learning <\/p>\n
383
\n00:29:36,000 –> 00:29:42,900
\nwhatever he could learn says I
\nsaid of laughter, it’s Madness. <\/p>\n
384
\n00:29:44,200 –> 00:29:46,800
\nAnd if mirth, what does it
\naccomplish what do with it? <\/p>\n
385
\n00:29:47,900 –> 00:29:52,100
\nI saw it in my heart to give
\nmyself to Wine later on. <\/p>\n
386
\n00:29:52,300 –> 00:29:57,400
\nHe says, I had great works.
\nHouses, Vineyards Gardens and <\/p>\n
387
\n00:29:57,400 –> 00:30:01,900
\nOrchards all kinds of fruit.
\nI made pools, I had menservants <\/p>\n
388
\n00:30:01,900 –> 00:30:05,800
\nand maidservants I bought people
\nand I had them as slaves and I <\/p>\n
389
\n00:30:05,808 –> 00:30:10,100
\nhad slaves, born to them in my
\nhouse, I had great possessions <\/p>\n
390
\n00:30:10,200 –> 00:30:14,500
\nof herds and flocks, silver, and
\ngold The Peculiar A treasure of <\/p>\n
391
\n00:30:14,500 –> 00:30:16,100
\nKings.
\nIn other words, the things only <\/p>\n
392
\n00:30:16,100 –> 00:30:19,500
\nKings could afford, I had
\neverything. <\/p>\n
393
\n00:30:21,300 –> 00:30:25,100
\nI had singers.
\nAnd I had the Delights of the <\/p>\n
394
\n00:30:25,100 –> 00:30:28,300
\nsons of men.
\nConcubines very many. <\/p>\n
395
\n00:30:29,500 –> 00:30:35,000
\nI reckon there was no lonelier
\nman in Israel with a thousand <\/p>\n
396
\n00:30:35,000 –> 00:30:39,300
\nwives and all his concubines and
\nSolomon. <\/p>\n
397
\n00:30:41,300 –> 00:30:47,200
\nGod made us so that we we could
\nlove and build a life. <\/p>\n
398
\n00:30:48,500 –> 00:30:51,700
\nWith one woman.
\nWith one woman. <\/p>\n
399
\n00:30:53,100 –> 00:30:58,300
\nWhile we’re both alive together.
\nWe go through all the couples go<\/p>\n
400
\n00:30:58,300 –> 00:31:03,800
\nthrough.
\nWe get closer and closer in the <\/p>\n
401
\n00:31:03,800 –> 00:31:10,000
\ntruth.
\nNow you all know Jeff and yet <\/p>\n
402
\n00:31:10,600 –> 00:31:13,000
\nyou know that Jeff will say
\nthings like as long as I’ve <\/p>\n
403
\n00:31:13,000 –> 00:31:14,900
\nknown him, Jeff will say this
\nyou want to be happy? <\/p>\n
404
\n00:31:15,700 –> 00:31:23,000
\nMary Kelly.
\nAnd what that means is he so <\/p>\n
405
\n00:31:23,000 –> 00:31:30,000
\ndeeply honors and trusts and
\ncares for Kelly. <\/p>\n
406
\n00:31:31,000 –> 00:31:34,300
\nBut the answer to so many of the
\nproblems and struggles of his <\/p>\n
407
\n00:31:34,300 –> 00:31:37,900
\nlife.
\nHas been his beloved Kelly. <\/p>\n
408
\n00:31:40,100 –> 00:31:45,200
\nBrother Max met me yesterday.
\nAnd we were talking in the first<\/p>\n
409
\n00:31:45,300 –> 00:31:50,900
\nthing.
\nHe said, Was about his wife <\/p>\n
410
\n00:31:51,000 –> 00:31:59,300
\nbeing a fantastic person.
\nHe just talked and talked about <\/p>\n
411
\n00:31:59,300 –> 00:32:03,800
\nhow fortunate he is to have her.
\nAnd to love her. <\/p>\n
412
\n00:32:06,000 –> 00:32:08,100
\nNow, that’s, that’s marriage in
\nthe truth. <\/p>\n
413
\n00:32:08,900 –> 00:32:12,700
\nI am not saying that that is
\nyours, and that means you’re not<\/p>\n
414
\n00:32:12,700 –> 00:32:16,700
\nin the truth or that you are not
\na person of faith. <\/p>\n
415
\n00:32:18,000 –> 00:32:20,500
\nBecause the experience of
\ntrouble in this life might be in<\/p>\n
416
\n00:32:20,500 –> 00:32:23,200
\nyour marriage right in your
\nmarriage. <\/p>\n
417
\n00:32:24,500 –> 00:32:27,500
\nAnd that does not mean that
\nyou’re not a God-fearing man or <\/p>\n
418
\n00:32:27,500 –> 00:32:32,700
\nwoman.
\nBut but when it is to Believers <\/p>\n
419
\n00:32:32,700 –> 00:32:39,800
\ntogether, laboring together.
\nEven as our bodies fall apart. <\/p>\n
420
\n00:32:40,900 –> 00:32:42,700
\nWe have all the struggles of the
\nflesh. <\/p>\n
421
\n00:32:42,700 –> 00:32:47,000
\nNo matter how old we are.
\nThose struggles transform and <\/p>\n
422
\n00:32:47,000 –> 00:32:51,900
\nmutate into different struggles,
\ncompared to when we were 20. <\/p>\n
423
\n00:32:53,700 –> 00:32:58,100
\nThere is a love that grows and
\ngrows that Solomon, didn’t have.<\/p>\n
424
\n00:32:59,600 –> 00:33:01,300
\nHe had everything but he didn’t
\nhave that. <\/p>\n
425
\n00:33:02,600 –> 00:33:08,100
\nHe did not have that.
\nHe goes on and he says his Rook <\/p>\n
426
\n00:33:09,100 –> 00:33:14,500
\nat all of this.
\nHe says also my wisdom remained <\/p>\n
427
\n00:33:14,500 –> 00:33:18,600
\nwith me.
\nI kept watching myself. <\/p>\n
428
\n00:33:19,800 –> 00:33:24,100
\nAs an observer, an objective
\npair of eyes on me. <\/p>\n
429
\n00:33:24,200 –> 00:33:29,200
\nEven as I subjective, Lee, went
\nthrough all of these things. <\/p>\n
430
\n00:33:30,900 –> 00:33:32,800
\nWhatsoever.
\nMine eyes desired. <\/p>\n
431
\n00:33:32,800 –> 00:33:36,500
\nVerse 10.
\nChapter 2, I kept not from them.<\/p>\n
432
\n00:33:37,000 –> 00:33:41,100
\nI withheld, not my heart from
\nany joy for my heart rejoiced, <\/p>\n
433
\n00:33:41,100 –> 00:33:45,800
\nin all my labor.
\nAnd this was my portion from all<\/p>\n
434
\n00:33:45,800 –> 00:33:50,200
\nmy labor and I looked in all the
\nworks of my hands and bras and <\/p>\n
435
\n00:33:50,200 –> 00:33:52,400
\nthe labor that I’d labored to do
\nand behold. <\/p>\n
436
\n00:33:54,000 –> 00:34:00,300
\nAll is Vanity.
\nAnd a striving after wind. <\/p>\n
437
\n00:34:02,100 –> 00:34:04,000
\nThere was no profit under the
\nsun. <\/p>\n
438
\n00:34:06,100 –> 00:34:10,000
\nBut I looked at my life, in this
\nearth, all my business, all the <\/p>\n
439
\n00:34:10,000 –> 00:34:13,699
\nwork, all the success, all the
\nmoney, all the possessions, <\/p>\n
440
\n00:34:14,000 –> 00:34:17,900
\neverything I looked at it, all I
\nthought apart from God, it isn’t<\/p>\n
441
\n00:34:17,900 –> 00:34:23,000
\nworth anything apart from God on
\nthis Earth. <\/p>\n
442
\n00:34:23,199 –> 00:34:26,500
\nUnder the sun isn’t worth a
\nthing. <\/p>\n
443
\n00:34:27,600 –> 00:34:30,900
\nOh, there’s the excitement into
\nwe’re moving up through the <\/p>\n
444
\n00:34:30,900 –> 00:34:33,600
\nGrand, dark of the
\naccomplishments of our lives. <\/p>\n
445
\n00:34:34,100 –> 00:34:36,800
\nBut in the end, when we achieve
\nThose things. <\/p>\n
446
\n00:34:38,000 –> 00:34:39,600
\nIt’s almost as if there’s a
\nfeeling of. <\/p>\n
447
\n00:34:39,600 –> 00:34:40,699
\nWell, Been There.
\nDone That. <\/p>\n
448
\n00:34:40,699 –> 00:34:43,600
\nWhat’s Next?
\nHey, something to do just keep <\/p>\n
449
\n00:34:43,600 –> 00:34:45,699
\nme engaged to keep me
\ninterested. <\/p>\n
450
\n00:34:46,900 –> 00:34:48,500
\nAnd there’s a sense of
\ndiminishing. <\/p>\n
451
\n00:34:48,500 –> 00:34:52,100
\nReturns, the more that we have,
\nthe more that we experienced <\/p>\n
452
\n00:34:52,800 –> 00:35:00,600
\nVladimir poutine right now.
\nIs after something that is <\/p>\n
453
\n00:35:00,600 –> 00:35:06,400
\nimpossible for him to achieve.
\nA feeling of enough power. <\/p>\n
454
\n00:35:07,600 –> 00:35:12,300
\nEnough wealth.
\nEnough influence enough. <\/p>\n
455
\n00:35:12,300 –> 00:35:18,000
\nRespect enough adulation enough
\nworship. <\/p>\n
456
\n00:35:19,100 –> 00:35:21,100
\nNone of which he’s ever going to
\nachieve. <\/p>\n
457
\n00:35:22,500 –> 00:35:25,200
\nNever.
\nBut that’s what he’s after. <\/p>\n
458
\n00:35:26,800 –> 00:35:31,400
\nAnd the invasion of the Ukraine
\nis just one major push in the <\/p>\n
459
\n00:35:31,400 –> 00:35:33,300
\ndirection of achieving those
\nthings. <\/p>\n
460
\n00:35:35,100 –> 00:35:39,200
\nWho Dean is just typical of many
\nmany men in this world. <\/p>\n
461
\n00:35:40,000 –> 00:35:41,600
\nThere are the heads of
\nCorporations. <\/p>\n
462
\n00:35:44,000 –> 00:35:49,700
\nThey are in finance, they are in
\ngovernment. <\/p>\n
463
\n00:35:51,000 –> 00:35:55,700
\nMunicipal state federal doesn’t
\nmatter where? <\/p>\n
464
\n00:35:56,900 –> 00:36:02,000
\nPeople aiming at Power and
\nfeeling a sense that that when <\/p>\n
465
\n00:36:02,000 –> 00:36:04,700
\nthey get it, is going to make
\nthem happy. <\/p>\n
466
\n00:36:04,700 –> 00:36:09,800
\nBut Solomon said, there’s no
\nprofit when I life is just <\/p>\n
467
\n00:36:09,800 –> 00:36:15,000
\nrooted in the things that we see
\nwith our eyes Under the Sun, <\/p>\n
468
\n00:36:16,000 –> 00:36:19,500
\nturned myself, to behold,
\nwisdom, and Madness, and Folly <\/p>\n
469
\n00:36:19,500 –> 00:36:22,000
\nfor what can the man do?
\nThe comes. <\/p>\n
470
\n00:36:22,000 –> 00:36:25,900
\nAfter The King.
\nMy son’s never going to do <\/p>\n
471
\n00:36:26,000 –> 00:36:28,000
\nanything better than I did.
\nHe’s just going to do what’s <\/p>\n
472
\n00:36:28,000 –> 00:36:33,000
\nalready been done.
\nThen I saw that wisdom is better<\/p>\n
473
\n00:36:33,000 –> 00:36:36,700
\nthan Folly as far as light
\nexcels Darkness. <\/p>\n
474
\n00:36:37,800 –> 00:36:40,500
\nBetter to be in this world Under
\nthe Sun, with some <\/p>\n
475
\n00:36:40,900 –> 00:36:46,200
\nunderstanding, and some
\npractical ability to use what we<\/p>\n
476
\n00:36:46,200 –> 00:36:50,800
\nhave learned.
\nAnd to have no wisdom, the wise <\/p>\n
477
\n00:36:50,800 –> 00:36:55,200
\nman’s eyes are in his head.
\nBut the fool walks in darkness. <\/p>\n
478
\n00:36:56,700 –> 00:37:02,000
\nI know that and yet I have seen
\nthe same thing happens to both <\/p>\n
479
\n00:37:02,000 –> 00:37:05,300
\nof them.
\nThe wise man in this world and <\/p>\n
480
\n00:37:05,300 –> 00:37:10,900
\nthe food.
\nThey both dropped dead one day. <\/p>\n
481
\n00:37:12,400 –> 00:37:14,100
\nThere’s no difference between
\nthe two of them. <\/p>\n
482
\n00:37:15,200 –> 00:37:20,000
\nAnd said my, in my heart.
\nAs it happened to the fool. <\/p>\n
483
\n00:37:20,000 –> 00:37:23,900
\nSo it happened at even to me,
\nwhy was I then more wise than <\/p>\n
484
\n00:37:23,900 –> 00:37:27,800
\nthe fool?
\nAnd I said in my heart that this<\/p>\n
485
\n00:37:27,800 –> 00:37:31,200
\nalso is Vanity.
\nBut there’s no remembrance of <\/p>\n
486
\n00:37:31,200 –> 00:37:36,800
\nthe wise man, more than the fool
\nfor ever seeing that all will <\/p>\n
487
\n00:37:36,800 –> 00:37:44,000
\nhave been already forgotten.
\nAnd how dieth the wise, man as <\/p>\n
488
\n00:37:44,000 –> 00:37:49,200
\nthe fool.
\nTherefore, I hated life because <\/p>\n
489
\n00:37:49,200 –> 00:37:52,100
\nthe work that is wrought.
\nUnder the Sun is Grievous unto <\/p>\n
490
\n00:37:52,100 –> 00:37:54,300
\nme.
\nFor all is Vanity. <\/p>\n
491
\n00:37:55,500 –> 00:38:00,700
\nThe striving after wind.
\nNow remember this is a man. <\/p>\n
492
\n00:38:02,100 –> 00:38:06,600
\nwriting as if he is someone in
\nthis world having been a person <\/p>\n
493
\n00:38:06,900 –> 00:38:10,400
\nthat was in the world who
\nstepped aside from his faith and<\/p>\n
494
\n00:38:10,400 –> 00:38:14,700
\nhe’s saying to a group of
\nbrothers and sisters I want to <\/p>\n
495
\n00:38:14,700 –> 00:38:18,200
\nshare with you what I’ve
\nrealized about this life. <\/p>\n
496
\n00:38:19,300 –> 00:38:21,200
\nNow, you might think we’ll how
\ndoes that apply to brothers and <\/p>\n
497
\n00:38:21,200 –> 00:38:23,500
\nsisters?
\nBecause we fall into the same <\/p>\n
498
\n00:38:23,500 –> 00:38:25,900
\nCycles.
\nNow at this stage of their <\/p>\n
499
\n00:38:25,900 –> 00:38:28,000
\nlives, you’re at the end of all
\nthat. <\/p>\n
500
\n00:38:29,800 –> 00:38:33,000
\nBut if you were 20 years younger
\nthan you are today or 30 or 40 <\/p>\n
501
\n00:38:33,000 –> 00:38:38,000
\nyears younger, you would see
\nyourselves in these Pursuits. <\/p>\n
502
\n00:38:38,000 –> 00:38:44,900
\nAfter means of being happy, the
\ndo not make us happy You’d have <\/p>\n
503
\n00:38:44,900 –> 00:38:48,000
\nto be reminded like I have to be
\nat my stage of life. <\/p>\n
504
\n00:38:49,600 –> 00:38:52,900
\nAll of these Pursuits in the end
\nthat are so desperate. <\/p>\n
505
\n00:38:53,900 –> 00:38:56,000
\nAnd so desperately trying to
\ngive us a feeling of <\/p>\n
506
\n00:38:56,000 –> 00:39:01,000
\nsignificance of importance of
\nwell-being of accomplishment of <\/p>\n
507
\n00:39:01,000 –> 00:39:07,100
\nachievement, and the end there
\nlike a handful of Ash or dust. <\/p>\n
508
\n00:39:08,200 –> 00:39:13,800
\nBecause they’re not durable.
\nThey amount in the end to <\/p>\n
509
\n00:39:13,800 –> 00:39:18,200
\nvanity.
\nWhen when I am bishan, things <\/p>\n
510
\n00:39:19,000 –> 00:39:24,700
\nare focused on achieving things
\non the earth in this world. <\/p>\n
511
\n00:39:26,500 –> 00:39:31,100
\nSo brothers and sisters.
\nWe are going to maintain the <\/p>\n
512
\n00:39:31,100 –> 00:39:34,500
\ntime for the morning that we may
\nhave lost a few minutes. <\/p>\n
513
\n00:39:34,500 –> 00:39:37,100
\nI can’t taste say why the
\nbeginning of the class. <\/p>\n
514
\n00:39:39,500 –> 00:39:42,200
\nSo that way you can get to the
\nbreak that you use quickly as <\/p>\n
515
\n00:39:42,200 –> 00:39:43,600
\nyou can.
\nThank you.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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