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Ecclesiastes 2:17–18 · BSB
2:17 So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
2:18 I hated all for which I had toiled under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.
Berean Standard Bible · Public domain. Sermons may quote another translation.
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…to be back anyway. So this is what I encourage you to do. Go and take your Bibles and open up in the Old Testament to the book of Ecclesiastes. Um,Ecclesiastes chapter 2. Turn to Ecclesiastes 2. You got a smartphone, you can open that app to Ecclesiastes as well. Also, do this take out these Bible study outlines…
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Would you now take your Bibles and open them to Ecclesiastes.Ecclesiastes chapter 2. We're going to look at just three verses today, 24 through 26. And we are returning there after a few Sundays away from this book. So just to…
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Let us take our Bibles now and open up to the Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes.Ecclesiastes chapter 2. Today we'll look at verses 1 through 11. Just a word of introduction while you're finding that. We started Ecclesiastes just a few weeks ago and…
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…do with the farm. But not for eternity is he. Solomon centuries earlier wrestled with the same reality. Listen to these words from King Solomon inEcclesiastes chapter 2, we read in verse 18. Yeah, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun. Why? Because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after…
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…help solve the issue. Today we're going to talk about the mirage of more. Here's where we find ourselves. If you'll take your Bibles and turn toEcclesiastes chapter 2. We're going to look at verse 1. We're going to look down at verses 10, 11. We're going to bounce around through this book a little bit and find…
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…Not the ones we can't figure out. The ones we can figure out but can't fix. So, this is where the teacher, the writer of Ecclesiastes, picks up inEcclesiastes chapter 2. So, if you would take your Bibles and turn with me to Ecclesiastes chapter 2. We're going to read from verses 12 down through verse 17. These are…
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All right, good morning, church. Would you turn with me toEcclesiastes chapter 2. ! That is page 518 in the Pew Bible. Ecclesiastes chapter 2, page 518. ! So last week we saw that the book of Ecclesiastes begins with the…
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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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…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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…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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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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