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Ecclesiastes 1:2 · BSB
1:2 “Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher, “futility of futilities! Everything is futile!”
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…just one of those nights where, you know, look at Ecclesiastes. Hold your place right there in 2 Samuel 15, and maybe even through this. Look atEcclesiastes chapter 1. And you're thinking, oh, let's just be strong and go on. Hey, hey, look at some scriptures here now. Look at these things. Look at Ecclesiastes…
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…world is under a curse. It's cursed. Say, what are you talking about? Are we like watching a pirate movie or something? No, this is a real curse.Ecclesiastes chapter 1. He said, I carefully explored this. Even though the actions of godly... Did I say chapter 1? Chapter 9, verse 1. The actions of godly and wise…
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…so I would ask that you continually keep that in your mind as we go through the whole book. Ecclesiastes but for now let me read to you our textEcclesiastes chapter 112 through 18 and it reads in this way I the preacher have been king over Israel in Jerusalem and I applied my heart to seek and to search out by…
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…wisdom is a person. Okay. And so he's seeking wisdom apart from a person. Okay. That's good. Do you notice that throughout this passage here inEcclesiastes chapter 1that he's applying his own heart to wisdom and so who is the beneficiary? Solomon is the beneficiary. Right? It's all self-serving. It's all about…
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…hands around it, it slips through our fingers. It's exactly where Ecclesiastes begins. Would you take your Bible with me and turn to the book ofEcclesiastes chapter 1. Turn to the middle of your Bible. You'll see Psalms. Keep going. You'll see Proverbs. And then you'll find Ecclesiastes. Ecclesiastes is all about…
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…wrote it so that our dissatisfaction would look beyond life under the sun for something more. So, with that introduction, let's take a dive intoEcclesiastes chapter 1. And I'm going to pray and ask for God's help, and then we'll look at it together. Please pray with me. Oh, Lord, we thank you for your word in all…
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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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…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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