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Ecclesiastes 2:11 · BSB
2:11 Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to be gained under the sun.
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…repeat their folly. And this is an example of that. Solomon also tries work. Maybe he can find his meaning in his work. And in verses 24 to 26 ofEcclesiastes chapter 2, we read these words. A person can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in their own toil. This too, I see, is from the…
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…that God has given to me. I mean, do you really own something if you have, if you just have it for a few minutes? This is what Solomon says inEcclesiastes chapter 2. Your whole life, you're gonna toil and work and accrue money, and then you're gonna die, and you're gonna give it to someone who's probably gonna…
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…my work is a waste of time because it comes from God so we've got another short section to read before we turn to prayer and it's in EcclesiastesEcclesiastes chapter 2, a lot of Ecclesiastes speaks about work, this amazing book, Ecclesiastes chapter 2 from verse 17 to verse 26, so I hated life because what is done…
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…you possibly can, and it still won't be enough. A person will still be deeply, deeply dissatisfied. He even quotes from the Old Testament book ofEcclesiastes chapter 2, which we just read out. A person can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in all of their toil, because that's it.…
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…walking in the wisdom of God, not share some examples of that as we go on brains gone. Let's look. And we just go to do troll. Go with me to theEcclesiastes chapter 2. And I'm going pretty slow right now. Forgive me. I am not the the ER is about tree is 26 and Ecclesiastes chapter 2. For God, give it to a man…
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…and expand our worries. All you need to do is really consider the life of King Solomon, the king we learn about so much in the Old Testament. InEcclesiastes chapter 2, Solomon evaluates his life with this statement. He says, I collected great sums of silver and gold. The treasures of many kings and provinces. I…
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…power profession, and position. I'm not going to say that fast because Papa please just preached this sermon. Okay. Now you'll remember, itEcclesiastes chapter 2. I'm going to walk you through the whole chapter. So if you brought your Bible, use it, here we go. I said to myself, this is Solomon. Come now. I…
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Now let's turn in our Bibles toEcclesiastes chapter 2and we're going to read from verse 12 to verse 26. And today we're going to think about how the teacher of Ecclesiastes helps us to begin to topple…
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…your future with Jesus. And hope knowing that the world that we live in is full of light and life. That we receive good gifts from God every day.Ecclesiastes chapter 2, the teacher there puts it like this. A person can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in their own toil. So as we…
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…that. I hope that's not a surprise. But we will all die. And when we do, what's the point of it all? What was it that Margo just read for us inEcclesiastes chapter 2just now? At the end of that passage said this, Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was…
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…food, and good rest day after day after day. It's almost as if that's part of the fabric that He wove into the existence of our lives. Listen toEcclesiastes, chapter 2. Even the very cynical and depressed author of Ecclesiastes wrote these words, There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and…
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…goes after his wandering people. He normally doesn't let them win the lottery so they see what riches are like and then bring them back. You haveEcclesiastes chapter 2that maps out that I'm not saying God never does that. He does do that in Ecclesiastes chapter 2. Solomon writes about it so that you will learn…
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…other words, while you're here on the earth, what's worth doing? And he said, I denied my heart no pleasure. You can read it for yourself. It's inEcclesiastes chapter 2. I denied my heart no pleasure. If I saw something and I wanted it, I got it. If I saw a woman, he had thousands of them at his disposal. He gets…
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…There was one person in the Bible who had it all, but he was not happy at all. I want to read the last passage for us this evening, again, fromEcclesiastes chapter 2. Ecclesiastes is believed to be written by King Solomon, and we can believe that it might be his own experience. Ecclesiastes chapter 2 verse 4 to…
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…in it, he is also writing from the perspective of an old man reflecting back on choices that he's made and what he's learned. And so if we look atEcclesiastes chapter 2, he says, he explains his reasoning in building this vast army of women. He says, I said in my heart, come now, I will test you with pleasure.…
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…them as we go through, because Solomon explains it pretty well because he has tried a lot. So verses one and two, I said in my heart, this isEcclesiastes chapter 2, 1 and 2, I said in my heart, come now, I will test you with pleasure, enjoy yourself, but behold, this also was vanity, vapor. This was vapor. I…
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If you're just coming back from the break, you may recall that we have been working through the book of Ecclesiastes and we found ourselves inEcclesiastes chapter 2and there was not a time warp while you were gone. We did not manage to get all the way through the 12th chapter and now into another book, but…
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All right, very good. Please take your copy of God Word out and turn to the book of Ecclesiastes. Old Testament book ofEcclesiastes chapter 2. We've had some technical challenges as of late around here, so I imagine there'll be some fluctuation in the sound of my voice. A couple of weeks…
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…becomes pointless. That is, that there's this haunting sense that our work really doesn't have much significance at all. You see that expressed inEcclesiastes chapter 2, where the writer says in verse 17, So clearly the writer here is deeply disillusioned with his life and work because in the end it just gets…
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…I want you to look at another passage in relationship to this. Turn back in your Bible if you will to Ecclesiastes. And we're going to pick up inEcclesiastes chapter 2. Ecclesiastes chapter 2 verse 22 and 23. What has a man from all the toil and striving of heart with which he toils beneath the sun? For all his…
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