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Ecclesiastes 1:16 · BSB
1:16 I said to myself, “Behold, I have grown and increased in wisdom beyond all those before me who were over Jerusalem, and my mind has observed a wealth of wisdom and knowledge.”
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…link here in this book to us because in pointing to Jesus, it gently reminds us why we fail. Now let me try and explain this. And if you go back toEcclesiastes chapter 1and verse 14, we have these words. I have seen everything that is done under the sun and behold, all is vanity, a striving after the wind. Now…
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…were we reading there? Or maybe this is a book of the Bible where you thought, I've never actually been there before. So do whatever you can to getEcclesiastes chapter 1open in front of you. I'm going to do two things by way of introducing what we're going to be doing over the next little while. The first one is to…
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…If you look out in Edinburgh today or at Scotland or really all of modern life, you'll see that it's very much fulfilling what was described inEcclesiastes chapter 1. What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils unto the sun? A generation goes and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever. The…
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…than if we went by the face value of the word in the translation we happen to be reading at the time. I'm going to ask you to open your Bibles toEcclesiastes, chapter 1. So I'm wondering, in verse 2 of chapter 1, how many people have meaningless in their translation? Okay. Anybody else have meaningless in their…
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…to futility. Now it's easy to look around the world and see futility, isn't it? That same word futility is used in the Old Testament book ofEcclesiastes, chapter 1. Everything under the sun, the writer of Ecclesiastes observes, it never seems to go anywhere. Empires are built, empires fall. The wise man builds…
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…to the book of Ecclesiastes. After a long couple weeks of introduction, we are going to really look at the text this morning, I promise. So turn toEcclesiastes chapter 1. I'm going to read the whole chapter to us, verses 1 through 18. The words of the preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. Vanity of…
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…for the rapture. Amen. That he takes the church out. But if not, we're, hey, there's a time to be born and there's a time to die. We saw that inEcclesiastes chapter 1. So we know that death is a reality. So he's struggling as he's writing the book of Ecclesiastes. The Bible says in chapter 1, verse 16, he's the…
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