Chasing Wisdom | Pastor Brandon Beals | Venture Church

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I want to welcome you to Venture Church Memorial Day weekend.

Look at you. You know what this tells me? You

didn't go camping. I live in muckle Teo and I

saw the faery line. You made a wise decision? Is bonkers?

Go camping next week? By your heads, close your eyes.

Let's pray, Lord Jesus, thank you for this church. What

a privilege it is to minister to them. And Lord,

I do very humbly ask that in the next several

moments you would use me, that you would speak through me.

Allow these words to not be my own, but may

they be yours. And as we pray every week, Lord,

I pray that you would speak to each person's heart,

that you would change their lives. We commit this to

you in Jesus' name. Amen. I had a crazy basically

twelve days I preached a couple of weeks ago, hopped

on a red eye flight, flew to the Dominican Republic

imediately got driven straight to this remote village where we

got to see the groundbreaking of the solar electricity that

our church purchased for this church, ultimately for this village.

We hung out, played with kids, We fed the kids lunch.

Then we went around and did a bunch of visits

to homes in that community. I immediately flew from there

to Las Vegas because I had already bought in tickets

to the country music awards that were happening in Vegas.

That was a blast. If he didn't know this, I

want to be a cowboy, So I was there for that.

Flew back here, worked a couple days. Then I flew

to Sacramento for Brett Allen's memorial. Immediately after the memorial,

I flew back and here I am here. A lot

of the last ten days, I've had a lot of reflecting,

a lot of experiences that are intersecting with what I

want to talk to you about today. Even though we

have one more message in Ecclesiastes next week. I really

view Solomon's Ecclesiastes book as if Solomon is giving his

final award speech. So at the end of his life.

He looks back on his life and he says, here's

what I think, here's what you should do. And unfortunately

for Solomon, it was a lot of here's what I

wished I would have prioritized. But I'm giving you these

words so that maybe you can learn from my mistakes.

I want to show you some pictures. Who's the first picture.

It was three years ago I went with Compassion International

dian I to the Dominican Republic. We traveled to the

middle of nowhere, in this plantation field, this village called Magdalaana,

which was a very oppressed, impoverished village. We always hear

about destitute poverty in other countries. We always hear about it.

We feel bad for it when we see a quick

clip on the news or we see something on social media,

But when you're confronted face to face with it, it's

a lot. It's one of the reasons you should consider

going on the many missions opportunities that our church provides

every single year, because they do change your worldview, they

shape your perspectives, they impact you. And the amount of

poverty that dian I saw, those that three years ago

forced me to say I have to do something. Have

you ever seen injustice to the point where you couldn't

just do nothing, you had to do something. So I

met with that gal right there, that is the pastor

of the Assembly of God church, just Irony that it's

our denomination, has a church in the middle of that town.

And I said, what do you need? What can I

do to help? How can I help? And she said,

I've been here for forteen years and I prayed for

one thing and I said, what is it? Electricity? And

I said, how do you get electricity? She said, the

only way we can get it is solar power. And so,

not knowing the process, not knowing the cost, because I

had to do something, I stepped out and I said,

We're gonna get you electricity. And that was it. I

was fired up. And that was three years ago. I

got to tell you that a lot of the process,

there's a lot of approvals. You had to get the

plantation to approve, you had to get our government to approve,

you had to get their government to prove. Compassionate International

had to approve, and all these approvals. That was three

years ago, and I got lots of things that distract me.

In three years, lots of other priorities come in three years.

So when finally about six months ago, they came back

to me and said, all right, we have all the

approvals in place, and I went approvals for what, Well,

the eighty thousand dollars one hundred thousand dollars it's going

to cost to get solar electricity and Magdalana. What's Mogdalana?

I don't remember saying. I mean that's literally where I was.

And they reminded me of this experience. And number one,

I'm ashamed that what's out of sight out of mind

quickly changes. Have you noticed you can be super passionate

about something when it's right in front of you, but

as soon as you go back to your normal life,

you forget about it. I think that's one of the

reasons we have so much injustice in the world is

because of that reality. When it's in front of us,

we have to deal with it, but as soon as

we get back to the normalness of our life, it's

easy to say, oh, I get to shelve that. So on,

behalf of you. I committed us to that project, and

you have been very generous, and we purchased electricity, and

I got the privilege of going back there, and the

minute I got there, I was reminded why we did it,

and I was so moved. So when I was go

back to her again the other one, when I was

sitting down with her die and I interviewed her and

that's her husband, and we were asking about the church,

and you know, we wanted things that we could share

with you. And I asked her, why is this electricity

important and she said, well, just to remind you, I've

been praying for fourteen years that we would have electricity.

She said. People give us food, but food spoils. We

run electricity on a generator, but we haven't had any

gas because gas prices affect everybody. She said, we have

had no electricity since November, so food spoils. She says,

kids can't study because they need access to the internet.

There's no lights, and our church provides the electricity for

the entire community. So people come here, they plug in

and charge their phones, they get on our internet, and

we keep food for everyone. We can't do that, so

for fourteen years, I've prayed for electricity. And she said,

ever since I met you three years ago, she said,

I've been praying for you in your church she said,

when you said you were going to provide electricity, I've

been praying and fasting for you. And I know what

she's saying. I'm praying and fasting that when you get

back to America, in your huge church, in your nice house,

that you still remember us. And then with tears in

her eyes, she's saying, we can do so much for

this community. And she said this, She said, this electricity

is going to dramatically impact the lives of people in

this community for the next two decades. And I just thought, Wow.

After that, we did a tour of the town again

and we went to an visited this home. I want

to tell you her story. She was a Haitian refugee

to the Dominican Republic. She was told her husband was told,

moved to the Dominican Republic, you can work at the

sugar plantation. She ends up there, not knowing her family

that basically you become indentured servants. So they couldn't afford

all of their kids to come, so they left two

of their children in Haiti. Four months after living here

in the dr her husband, who is the one that

was employed, dies. He was one year old when his

dad died. She knew that she was going to be

thrown out on the streets because their housing is provided

by the plantation. Immediately marries another man because that was

her only option. She was telling us that when her

phone isn't dead, she is able to FaceTime her children

back in Haiti, who she has not seen in six years.

I asked her, I said, how does electricity help you,

and she said, Number one, I can charge my phone

and talk to my kids. He is the only one

that's sponsored by Compassion. And by the way, he's sponsored

by one of you. Someone in our church sponsors I

don't remember exactly who it is, but someone from our

church sponsors him. I got the privilege of serving them

all lunch, and it was hot dogs and Dominican Republic.

They're big into baseball, so I was playing off the

Julio Rodriguez. I like to that. I'm showing them pictures.

I have a picture with Julio Rodriguez. Kids are freaking

out because he's a hero there, and I'm tossing them

hot dogs because it's a baseball food. And I noticed

that half the kids weren't eating their hot dogs. And

I looked at the Compassion director and I was like,

did they just not like hot dogs? And she said, no,

it's just the opposite. They never get hot dogs. This

is an enormous treat. So some of them are taking

the hot dogs and sneaking them home to their parents

because their parents only get food. Their family only gets

food when they bring it from the compassion center. So

while we were visiting her, he pulls his hot dog

out of his pocket and he gives it to his mom,

and she's eating this hot dog in front of us.

And she said. The other thing that electricity will allow

to do is I can store food now. My food

won't spoil. Here's the thing that pushed Die and I

over the edge. Die asked her, how old are you? Okay,

four children moved to move from Haiti six years ago,

husband dies has to be remarried. She's twenty nine years old.

Twenty nine, that's her kid's age. I was like, that

woman has had more tragedy in her life at twenty

nine than I've had my entire life. And I just

thought afterwards, Number one, I was consumed with shame that

I had forgotten that we were doing this and that

I actually thought of trying to figure out a way

to get us out of what I'd done, admitted to

that's me being real. And then afterwards I was so

thankful that Compassion and Christian Linbeck made me follow through

on what we said we to do. I want to

tell you this that if you have not given to

this project yet, pop it up. What are you waiting for?

We need to raise three hundred thousand dollars for the future.

There's a church in our community that's trying to raise

fifty three million dollars. We're trying to raise three hundred thousand.

You want to be a part of this, so I

want to encourage you. If you have not yet, you

should be scanning that. So there it is. I go

to this memorial on Friday, my friend tragically died. He

got stung by a bee, had an allergic reaction, passed

away sixty five years old, studying Ecclesiastes, coming back from

the dr going to the Country Music Awards. Everything is reflecting.

Have you noticed that as you get older you realize

life is short. I remember when I was younger and

older people would always tell me years go by quick.

The older you get, you blink. I blinked and I

was fifty what in the world. I blinked in my

babies that I was holding in my arm. We're graduating

from college. Life is short, and when you're in these moments,

you think what makes life significant? And that was Solomon's

struggle in Ecclesiastes, when he looked back on his life,

he had all of this regret, and he said he

is trying to give the next generation advice. And he

starts off by saying this Ecclesiastes nine to eleven. By

the way you with me, he says, I have seen

something else under the sun. The race is not to

the swift, or the battle to the strong, Nor does

the food come to the wise, or wealth to the brilliant,

or favor to the learned. But time and chance happen

to them all. What is Solomon saying. He's saying I

was wrong. And and Solomon, he won everything that the

world says you want. He had. He was the richest

person that ever lived, most powerful person that ever lived,

most influential person that ever lived. And he is saying,

here's what I've learned in all of my life that

the fastest person doesn't always win the race. I've learned

that the battle doesn't always go to the strongest. That

food isn't always given to the wise, That the wealth

doesn't always go to the brilliant. That education doesn't guarantee success.

That's what I've learned. And then he makes this statement

and he says, time and chance happened to them all.

What was he saying. He was saying, there's so much

luck involved in all of this, there's so much chance involved.

That Solomon was here, now, he'd look at you and

he'd say this, I was lucky. I was born into

David's home, King David, the greatest king in Israel's history,

that was my dad. I was born into this thing.

I wasn't born into poverty on the streets of Haiti

like that woman. Chance, luck have a lot to do

with all of this. Then Solomon goes on and he said, moreover,

no one knows when their hour will come. As fish

or caught in a cruel net, birds are taken in

a snare. So people are trapped by evil times that

fall unexpectedly among them. What is he saying. He's saying,

you're a blip on the radar, You blink in your

old Your years might be further behind you than they

are in front of you. It's the craziest thing about

being fifty. I still feel like I'm twenty. I still

do the things I did when I was in my twenties.

It's the next day when I wake up and I

hurt that I'm reminded that I'm in my fifties. But

I blinked that I was here. Last summer, Brett Allen

preached to our church, ministered to our staff, spent a

lot of time with Die and I and he and

his wife Val talked to us about all the things

they wanted to do, they were looking forward to doing

when they were retired, all the new hobbies he wanted

to take on, all the things he just talked about it.

I mean, it was five days that I got to

spend with him, and I got to hear all of this,

and he's, you know, ten twelve years ahead of me.

So I knew that those days are in my future

where I get to start thinking about this. But he

didn't know that, like a fish can be caught in

a net or a bird caught in a snare, that

life can be gone like that. His life was over.

Solomon saying, you don't know how long you have make

it count today Country Music Awards. You knew it was

gonna come to that. It was so much fun. Every

single person that won an award gave the same speech.

I summed it up this way. God, Country family, gotta

love country music. Occasionally they threw in their dog, Occasionally

they threw in whiskey, but mostly God Country Family. Ella Langley,

she won everything. My daughter loves. Ella Langley. She gets

up at the end when she wins this major award

and she tells this story. She says, she said, I

got up this morning and I was just overwhelmed by today.

She said, So I was crying and I went over

and she's dropping names. Now. She goes, I went over

to Landy Wilson's room, and she says to Landy Wilson

comes out in her bathrobe, sees me crying. She's saying

this in her speech, millions of people watching. She said,

Lady Wilson wrapped her arms around me, and she just

began to pray for me. Then Louren Lena sees us

crying and praying together, and she runs over, wraps her

arms around us and starts praying too. God, Country family,

you gotta love country music. This is what Solomon is saying.

He's saying, if you're getting your reward speech the end

of your life, what do you want to say? And

he says, there are three things that I want to

tell you to do, and here they are. He said,

you need to make sure number one, you are taking

time today to invest in the future. Number two, you

need to enjoy whatever season you're in. These are the

words of Solomon. And then finally number three, Solomon says,

but in everything, always remember God. Let God be the

absolute center of your life. First, always says invest in

the future. It's chapter eleven, Verse one. Solomon says, ship

your grain across the sea, and after many days you'll

receive a return. Invest in seven ventures, Yes in eight,

because you do not know what disaster may come upon

the land. You are making decisions now that are going

to dramatically affect your life when you blink and wake

up ten years later. As I'm standing in the lobby

of that memorial service, thousands of ministers there, I had

person after person come up to me and they say,

you're Brandon Biels and I was like, yes you are,

and they were like, my son was in your youth ministry.

And then you know, you kept meeting all these people,

and you're looking back and you're thinking, I'm so glad

I was a youth pastor for twelve years because now

years later I'm seeing that the reward, the return that

has come. Solomon goes on and he says verse four,

whoever watches the wind will not plant. He's talking about,

if you're always stressing about the future, you'll never sew,

you'll never invest. There's always a reason to not do this.

He said, whoever watches the clouds, they're not going to reap.

Then he goes on verse six and he said, sow

your seed in the morning and at evening, let your

hands not be idle, for you do not know wits

will succeed, whether this or that, whether both will do equally. Well.

What is he saying. He's saying, right now you are

sowing seeds for the future. I don't care how old

you are. You are sowing seeds for tomorrow right now.

And his advice is, so lots the seed because you

don't know what's gonna work. When he talks about sow

your seed in the morning and plant and work, and

you don't know in the end at evening, he's and again,

these are all metaphors in case you didn't know. And

what he's saying is he's saying, you don't know what

is going to stick, what is gonna work. Maybe one,

maybe the other, maybe both do everything to make sure

that you have a legacy in the future, to make

sure that you have a future. Brett's wife, Valerie told

the story of Brett dying. We just knew what we'd read.

We knew had something to do with an allergic reaction

from a bee. But she was there. She said, we

got up early because Brett likes to get up early.

It was four am. They had a huge day plan.

They were going to go to a kid's sport at

one of their grandkids sporting events. They had lunch planned

with family. They had all these fun things planned. But

they knew they needed to their beekeepers. They knew they

needed to take care of their bees. So they rushed

out to their hives that they'd done every single morning

for years, and Brett got stung. He'd been stung before,

but he could tell he was having a little bit

of a reaction. So he looks at his wife and

she's telling this story. She said, these are the last

words that Brett spoke to me stay here, keep working.

And he starts walking off to the house and he

turns around. He just says, vow, stay there, keep working.

He has a heart attack and he dies. She's getting

up telling us the stories Stay there and keep working,

and I'm like that guy. His last words is one

of the greatest sermons I've ever heard. If I could

give you any advice, stay put and keep working. It's

we live in this world that says it gets hard,

quit change, move, give up, drop out. Brett's last words,

stay here, keep working. I was like Mike drop moment

his last words, invest in the future. I went to

the memorial with a friend of mine who pastors New

Life in Renting. We've kind of grown up together in ministry.

We were youth pastors together, senior pastors together, and we

were highly reflective in fourteen hours when one of our

friends passes away and Troy made this statement. He said, Brandon,

I'll never have another friend like you. And I was like,

of course, Troy, this is what he meant. He said,

I've known you for thirty years, said our lives have

intersected for thirty years. He said, I'll never have another

thirty year friend. I'm not old enough to have any

more thirty year friends. You're he said, I'll never have

another friendship like you. And then we spent a lot

of time on the airplane just kind of reflecting, and

I told him this story. I said, you know, one

of the biggest things that's happened in my life. You

are our dyd You brought your senior pastor in to

do a youth pastor's training and he talked about investing.

I was twenty three, twenty four dirt broke as a

youth pastor. You think anything like investing is on my brain.

I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to eat,

not how I'm going to invest. But his pastor was

so oh compelling. I had just come into For me,

it was like the most money I'd ever seen. I

had like four thousand dollars and he's talking about investing,

and I'm like, I got to invest this, And I thought,

how do I invest it? So this is what I

decided to do twenty three years old. I decided to

invest it in two different stocks. By the way, this

is before e trade. You had to like get on

the phone, get a hold of someone during trading hours,

have them have your money and actually buy it for you.

It was not easy, but this is what I did.

I said, I want you to take half of it

and invest it in the compact computers. Remember what Solomon said,

He said, invest in seven ventures, maybe eight, because you

don't know what trouble's gonna come, Because you might invest

in Compac. I invested in Compact because I had a

Compact compute. I said, uh, the rest of it. We

also used to have little box computers at the church,

like Apple computers, like a little box, and I said, like,

invest the rest in Apple. Some of you get really

annoyed whenever you see I bought a new car. Some

of you annoyed when I go on this trip or

that trip. I was twenty three. I bought Apple stock.

I'm fifty five. You do the math. Invest in many ventures,

seven eight. If I would have only invested in one,

it would have been Compac, and I would be telling

you avoid the stock market. But instead I did many

ventures that Now I'm like, why are you not in

the stock market? Invest in the future. So Im is

not talking just about finances, He's talking about with your life.

And I'm so thankful that in my thirties, I did

the hardest thing that there was to do in ministry,

which is planted to church, and I did it. I

didn't know it was going to be this. I didn't

know that someday I would have an office that would

be three times the size of the home a woman

in the Dominican Republic lives in with her family. I

didn't know that was going to be it. Flying back

from the Country Music Awards, I had a late night

flight because I had to get back to work. And

while I was there for the Country Music the EDM

Festival was going on. What the EDM Festival is because

you're a Christian, so it's basically a bunch of people

dress half naked, wear neon and act crazy. Basically EDM

and Christianity don't like mesh. And guess who I was

sitting by on that flight, an older gal who had

gone to the EDM Festival, and she was pumped about it.

She talked about it the entire time I wanted to

watch a movie, she wanted to talk about the EDM Festival.

So I finally just took off my headphones and just listen.

I mean, she showed me pictures that I never wanted

to see, talking to me about this and that, And

after a while, I have one prayer here it is

Dear Jesus, please let her not ask me what I

do for work. She eventually says, this is so bizarre.

What does your wife do for work? It's like I said,

my wife is a pastor at Venture Church. She paused

and she said this. She goes, Oh, that large church

on thirty fifth in Mill Creek. I just sat there

and I was like, in my thirties, dian, I decided

to start a church in Mill Creek. I didn't know

at fifty five, I'd be in a two hour discussion

about an e AM festival with a gal who knows

about our church. Is that just crazy? Invest in the future.

Why should you invest in that kid's ministry because you

don't know who's going to go through there. Twenty years

from now, you could be at a memorial service in

the minister that's performing that memorial might come up to

you and say, oh, you were at Venture Church. I

started going to VBS there. I loved how it was decorated.

As a kid, it always made me want to come back.

I gave my life to Christ there. You don't know.

That's why I saw Himon says, invest in many ventures.

Then Solomon reminds you. He goes on and he said,

whatever season you're in, enjoy that season. Chapter eleven, verse nine.

Here's what he says. He says, if you're young, be

happy while you're young, let your heart give you joy

in the days of your youth, follow the ways of

your heart, and whatever your eyes see. He said, whatever

season you're in, have fun, enjoy it, embrace life. And

then he adds in and it's number three. He says,

but no, that God sees everything and that he's gonna

bring everything into judgment. But he then says, he says,

banish anxiety from your heart, cast troubles off your body,

for youth and vigor in the end are meaningless. What

is he saying. He's saying, whatever season you're in, enjoy

that season. You blink and you're in another one. When

I look at my fifty five years of life, there's

one season that I look back and I feel like

I didn't embrace the most, and it was my twenties.

My first job in ministry was at a very legalistic church,

and if you did anything that was fun. It was sin.

So my first job in ministry, I wasn't allowed to

have fun. It was a sin if I did, so,

I didn't enjoy my twenties. When my kids got to

their twenties, that was the number one thing that my

wife and I advised them. We were like, suck the

marrow out of your twenties. Travel, have fun, go camping,

learn hobbies. You will never have this season again. And

we have so much joy seeing our kids do what

we wish we would have done in our twenties. And boy,

if they had a lot of fun in their twenties. Now,

I've had a lot of fun in my thirties, forties,

and fifties. I love every season. Your fifties is crazy

because really, your thirties and forties, you're raising kids. Everything's

about your kids. Every penny you have is about your kids.

Anything your kids do, it's about them. And then all

of a sudden they move out, and you're like, what

do I do now? I warned the Peacocks that I

was gonna make fun of them. I so love following

Laurie and Kyle Peacock on social media because they are

just entering the season that die and I have been

in for now three years, and I'm watching them wrestle

through what I wrestled through, which is everything about my

life has been my kids. And now my kids are

adults and they're beginning to experience life on their own,

and now it's just us. And they keep doing these

posts about all these things they're doing where they're enjoying

their empty nests season it's coming. Enjoy it because pretty

soon there'll be grandkids and then you're not doing anything again,

and then all of a sudden, they cost you money.

But uh, Solomon's saying, whatever season you're in, enjoy it.

Just enjoy your season. Enjoy your twenties, Enjoy your thirties,

enjoy your forties, enjoy your fifties, enjoy your season of retirement.

Whatever season you're in, enjoy it because you'll never get

it back. It's gonna come and it's gonna go quickly.

But all of that, he has a caveat which says,

but remember God, because he sees everything, and he's gonna

judge everything. So Solomon's advice is have fun to a point,

don't do things that are gonna get you in trouble.

But beyond that, enjoy life, but always remember God. And

this is how he closes, said, remember your Creator, Chapter twelve,

verse one, in the days of your youth, before the

days of trouble come and the years approach when you

will say I find no pleasure in them, he says,

remember your Creator. Then at the end of the chapter

he says this verse six, remember Him. This is all

symbolic for when your elderly and life passes before you,

he says, remember Him. Before the silver cord is severed,

the golden bowl is broken, before the picture is shattered

at the spring, and the wheel broken at the well,

and the dust returns to the ground it came from,

and the spirit returns to the God who gave it.

Solomon said, man, if I could do it all over again,

instead of just building my own kingdom, I'd have invested

in the future. I would have enjoyed every season I

was in. Instead of saying I'll do it tomorrow, I'm

gonna wait until later. There's always a reason to put

something off, but enjoy it now. And then he says,

but beyond anything, remember God. I told you a couple

of weeks ago that Solomon used the word meaningless when

he looked at life over forty times. Solomon ends Ecclesiastes

by saying life is meaningless without God being the center

of it. But if God is the center of your life,

that's what brings meaning Verse thirteen. Now all has been

heard said, you've heard everything I gotta say. To conclude

my award ceremony speech. Here's the conclusion of the matter.

Fear God and keep his commandments. This is the duty

of all mankind. Want you to buy your heads, close

your eyes. If you're here and you want to say,

I want to continue living this way, For some of you,

this is the way you live. Jesus is the center

of your life. You embrace every season and you make

investments into the future. That's the way you live. If

you're here and you want to say, I want to

continue doing that, Or if you're here and you want

to say, man, I have veered left and right, but

I want to make a commitment on this more Memorial

Day weekend, that this is really what I want to

live my life doing. I want to invest in the future,

I want to enjoy every season, and I want to

have God be the center of it all. So the

end of my life, my reward. I get to say God, country, family,

without regret. If you're in one of those two categories

and you're like me and that's you, I want you

to stand up on your feet. I did this in

the first service and Pastor Seawan was talking to me

and he was like, the only people that didn't stand

are the ones that weren't paying attention. So of those

of you that didn't stand, here's your chance. I just

want to pray for you. I'm gonna call this like

a commissioning for the rest of our life. And my

prayer is you got a lot of it left that

there's many, many, many, many many many tomorrows for you.

I will say that anything can happen. And that's what

Solomon says. He says he says even a good people,

evil happens. Crazy thing about Brett's memorial is thousands of

people at this memorial and they just talked about the

impact he had in his life. And he had his

two adult sons who are both ministers. That's the dream,

let me tell you, And they spoke at his memorial

and we were all listening to them as and Brett

was like he was a strict dad. He was hard

on them. But he was their hero. And as they

would preach and they tore it up. We're all like

I've heard Brett say that before you heard it every

We're all like I've heard Bread say that. And they

had his mannerisms, they had his voice. It was so amazing,

as I thought, Brett, only sixty five, You'll finished the race.

You kept the faith, you fought the good fight. Well done.

And that's what I want him to say about me

about you. Let me pray for you, Lord Jesus, I

thank you for these people. In the end, Lord, we

get distracted. Life steers us this way or that way,

but in the end, we want our life to be

centered around You. For those of us that are parents,

we're not perfect, but help us be great parents. Help

us instill in our children the values that ten, twenty,

thirty forty years from now, they'll stand up at our

memorials and testify about the impact we made in their life.

And Lord, for us be with us. Let us live

every day as if it has significance and is an

investment into the future. Lord, may we see life centered

in You with a perspective that is on eternity, that

leaves a legacy for the future. And also at the

same time, this life that you've given us, Lord, we

want to enjoy it. Let us just enjoy and embrace

the season that we're in now. Lord, I thank you

for all of these people, and Lord, I commission them

to live out the advice that Solomon wished he would

have lived for himself. God, may that be us. It's

not too late for us, it's too late for him.

In Jesus' name, Amen, thank you for watching today's service.

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