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Ecclesiastes 4:6 · BSB
4:6 Better one handful with tranquility than two handfuls with toil and pursuit of the wind.
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…money is actually not there. Contentment is really the gain. Godliness with contentment rather than filling both hands. That's the tranquility ofEcclesiastes 4, verse 6. That's the win. Now, I think that is, I mean, it's massively countercultural, isn't it? I'm sure it's countercultural in the writer's day, but it…
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…Like I said, to try to impress people that we don't even like. But Solomon, who was the richest person on earth, listen to this wisdom literature,Ecclesiastes 4, verse 6says this better one handful with tranquility than two handfuls with toil and chasing after the wind. In other words, it is better to have less but…
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…us with relation to work. So if you have your Bibles, please turn to Ecclesiastes chapter 4. And we're going to be reading from verses 4 through 8.Ecclesiastes chapter 4 verses 4 through 8. Really short, so I bet you're hoping this will be a shorter sermon. >> [snorts] >> But some of you have met me, so uh >> [laughter] [clears…
Publisher transcript cited as “Ecclesiastes chapter 4 verses 4 through 8” view source ↗
…or outpacing others, people stop being companions and start being competitors. Well, this leads us to truth number one. So, let's dig intoEcclesiastes 4, verse 4 through 12. We read 4 and 5 and 6. Let's pick it up in verse 7. This is going to set the stage for our two truths that we're going to try to take away from…
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…to please God, do what's best for everybody else. Well, how do I do that? Just study the life of Jesus Himself. We can't do any better than that.Ecclesiastes 4, verse 4 through 10, basically, he makes the case If you're like a farmer and you're waiting on the wind to just be right and the temperature to be okay and the…
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