Ecclesiastes | Elder Rosalind Ang

You're listening to a message to go from axt church. We hope this message

will light up your day. Life just kind of throws you unexpected things.

Yeah, how many of you can agree that life is just so unpredictable?

Uh? It's it's so I don't know how to sayer, you know,

and and so and and and as I was thinking about it, and I

attended the funeral on Saturday as well, I was just led to share from

this book. I don't know whether you know this book is called Ecalicistis.

Yeah, you know how to pronounce or not tried pronouncing? Oh? Very

good you you guys like score a in your English right? Ecaliciastis. Many

people try to pronounce it, and it's not easy. But basically I want

to I want to share with you some thoughts on this book. So I'm

just gonna read to you just the first chapter and the first four verses first,

uh, and then you we will unpack it a little bit further.

Okay? Is that okay? So I'm gonna read from the n K.

JV. Virguinevia of your Bibles. Please open up the word and let's read

it together. So I'll read a lot from the book itself. Now many

of us may, okay, let me just do a sort of like a

quiz or a survey. What do you know about the Book of ecclesiast What

what have you understood so far? Or what is your understanding of the Maybe

some of you have never read it before. It's just a book in the

Bible that's very hard to pronounce. So because you're still hard to pronounce,

you won't even read it. Okay, okay, now mind, but okay,

what what do y'all know from this book? Nothing is nothing? Okay,

nixtday is nothing. It is nothing? What other? It can be

very depressing, yes, this book. Okay, So if you read this

book, this book can be like what is the meaning of life? So

that is the question that I kind of want to throw at you this morning.

What is the meaning of life? Right? And so we open up

the book and the very first words is this, okay? Taking from chapter

one, verses one to four, it says the words of the preacher or

the teacher. So the preacher, there's a preacher and a teacher here,

the son of David King in Jerusalem. Now, many people believe that the

author of this book was who Solomon right. Solomon was the wisest man in

his time because he asked God for wisdom. So so many many scholars believe

that he was the author of this book. Now he's saying this. In

verse two, Vanity of vanity, says the preacher, vanity of vanity is

all is vanity? What prophet has a man from all his labor in which

he toils under the sun. Verse four, One generation passes away and another

generation comes, but the earth abides forever. I'm gonna read. Continue reading

from verse five. The sun also rises, and the sun goes down and

hastens to the place where it arose. The wind goes towards the south and

towards the north, and the wind whirls about continually and comes again on its

circuit. All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not

full to the place from which the rivers come. There they return again.

All things are full of labor. Men cannot express it. The eye is

not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. Right, so

straight away you go like Halama, a bit depressing. Really right, all

is in vain. Everything that you do now is in vain. This is

what the bridge is saying, now, I want you to give you a

little bit of insight into the book before. You may not have noticed,

but they are actually two voices in the book. The first voice is the

voice of the author, the one who's actually writing this book, and then

the second voice is the voice of the preacher or the teacher. Right.

And you will notice that the author would write something at the beginning he sort

of like introduces the stage. Now, this is the preacher, right,

the son of David King in Jerusalem. And then he comes right back in

at the end of the book and summarizes everything that the preacher is saying.

So can you can you? Are you following me? There are two voices,

right, two persons sort of like talking, and so from verse to

all the way onwards is the voice of the preacher, right, the preacher

and the teacher. Now, the most common phrase that you will see again

and again is what is it? Vanity? Vanity? Everything is vanity.

So if you don't know this word vanity, she's not a girl's name.

My name is Benetti. No no, no. So in in the English

you might see some translations as meaningless as well. So just only say nothing

is nothing, right, It's like I don't say mandory, how to say

mandrin small the mayo champo mao okay, something like that, everything is nothing

like meaningless. But I think the English translation has not kept you fully the

meaning of what the preacher is trying to say to us. So, because

if you think about it as life is meaningless, then what are we doing

here? Right? I mean, if life is meaningless, then why are

why are we even here? So the actual word in Hebrew is this work

called heathl he wel. Right. Can you say to your neighbor hevel,

okay, even though it's h e b e l, but you pronounce it

as v right heavel. Now, the meaning of heavel is vapor like a

breath. Em I think a breath, that's a heavel, right, And

it gives us the meaning that it's a temporary thing. It's fleeting like smoke,

right, smoke. Another way, this is how the author is the

preacher is trying to describe life. Life is so temporary, it's flitting like

a wist of smoke. Another way to think about life is it's very mysterious.

It's a paradox, it's an enigma, and some of you don't know

this word enigma. I still don't know. I have to go and look

up the dictionary what is enigma? But the word is mysterious, very mysterious.

Right when you read the whole of Eccleiasses, you will see it is

like it's something like a smoke. You know. You you try and grasp

of it and it goes Have you tried grabbing before? Yes? Noah,

Okay, next time that's open burning. Are you going nearby? Malaysia got

a lot one? Okay, open burning? You go nearby and you try

and grasp at it, and then can you catch anything around? No,

it just goes away like that. And so the preacher or the teacher is

saying, live is like that. You know, the moment you try to

catch something, it goes away. It's like you're you're having a great time,

You're enjoying something. You're enjoying lives so nice, huh. And then

the next morning pull her base gone. You know, you're embarking on this

new career war best place in town, right, you want to go around

to this job, and then when you enter after the first one puff,

all your dreams, all your expectations is different. It's gone. You're like,

huh, what is it? What am I grasping at? So this

is what the person is saying. It's not that it's meaningless, is that

it's he well, it's temporary, it's fleeting like smoke. Life is like

that. And so we have this big dilemma in life, right. The

biggest question I think everyone of us here would have is this, especially when

tragedy strikes. Why does bad thing happen to good people? You have that

question, God, not all of us do, especially, And you know,

and I was thinking about it when part of what's the Gloria and Sonya's

you know, sharing this they say that, but we were praying for mom,

Yeah, all of you pray as she went for the surgery. We

were praying for her. And she's such a good person, good good person.

I mean, she is an angel, she's pastoring one of the churches,

she loves the congregation, she serves the people, she loves her family.

She's such a good person. Why now it's difficult. Why why do

good people have to suffer and the life, And the worst thing is why

all the bad people still around? Why? Why are all the horrible people

right having such a long life and living so prosperously. Right, there's always

the big question that we have, And so the author is trying, the

preacher is trying to kind of like stop you meet right now, it's ready

to December. Hello, welcome to December, by the way. Right,

every time they're commune to us, start of the man right is like,

hey, what happened to twenty twenty three? Are yo? Yeah? Man?

Someone us like what happened? It looks like we just celebrate the new

year. Now we're sudding Christmas. We're gonna enter into new year twenty twenty

four? So how has life been for you? Or has it been just

like hello? Was it meaningless? Was it like temper? Was it unsatisfactory?

What is your response to it? Right? And and sometimes we one

thing we know for sure? Okay, we know that for sure life is

unpredictable. Yes, we know life is unstable, that is for sure.

Uh. And it's like chasing after the win. So the question that I

asked Ali, what is the meaning of your life? Then? Right,

and especially when you're confronted with death, then life becomes a big question mark.

Right. And so if you go on reading Ecclesiastics, and I encourage

you to read it, because some of them has found that this to be

the most comforting book in the world of God. Right, read it and

you will see what I mean. So so on this journey, right,

so, we we try to make meaning out of our life. Correct,

What are some of the ways that you think people try to give significance or

meaning to their life? Well? What are some of the things giving?

Charity? Yeah? Okay, good, very good? Good answer? What

else? Family? Right, trying to do good works? Family? What

else? What else? Hobbies? Yes, hobby is excellent, good one?

What else? Young? Working it out? Sorry, current, climbing,

the career, leather rite? What else? Purpose? Looking for purpose

in what? So? There is some in family, some in hobbies,

some in the career, some in wealth. And as you read on Ecclesiasts,

you will see that in pleasure as well. Many people are looking towards

pleasure, and that's why they live a hedonistic lifestyle, right, meaning I

just from one pleasure one maybe hobby. Okay, I'm not saying hobbies are

better. I'm not. That's not all I'm saying. Don't give up your

hobbies. It's like it's never enough, Like you know, for some people's

relationship, this relationship you know, you try, you try, then poof

gone. Then let's try the next one. Like you go into a relationship,

you try to try to try that boof is gone. Then you move

on to the next one, trying to find something that fills you up.

Right, for some people, his career, right, you are trying to

climb the corporate leather so that I can be a Who's Who under thirty right

in the magazine whatever you're You're trying to reach a status of wealth. Things

that that matters to us right now, right in this world, it keeps

on coming at us. Uh and and so so this the preacher himself,

So he's talking about his own life. So many people believe that it was

Solomon, who was maybe in his in his mid forties, fifties, like

that midlife like mid life I don't know exactly what age, but mid life

crisis. Okay, you're not yet, you're very young ready, yeah,

still very young. But he's like hitting his mid life crisis. Can you

imagine he was the wisest man of the whole land, and he was the

richest man. You know, God said, right, because you ask for

wisdom, I'm going to add all these things to you. Your wealth,

your possessions, you know, everything that you never ask for but you desire,

you can get it. And so you read in chapter two he says,

I search in my heart how to gratify my flesh for a bit A

bit selfish, right, a bit too much, right, But it's true.

So this is the king himself. He's saying, I search in my

heart how to gratify my flesh. I don't care anything that I see.

I like, I think, And he could afford it, right, he

had as many wives or he got so many wives. You don't how many

wives? He henra three hundred wives. No, seven hundred wives are three

hundred concubines yr whe No, not one can knock out him? Right?

How to handle seven thousand, one thousand mother in lass? Okay, let's

not go there. Crazy right, not not very wise like in essense?

You know, he said, I made myself gardens, I planted all kinds

of tree, I whatever possessions, I had, herds, flocks, cattle,

whatever I wanted. I just tried it. I also tried, he

said, I also tried. Folly fully means foolishness, like living like crazy

like that, like I want to try this. I just do like just

okay. And then he said that it's all hell, what is it that

he's searching for pleasure? Also after a world empty career, also he had

he toil and labored, he worked hard for it. After that, he

tried pleasure, all kinds of wine, all kinds of women. He tried

wisdom. Do you know, he even tried wisdom, and he said that

everything is he Well, so then how hey, then what was our meaning

of our life? Now? Right? So? So can you imagine this

is what he's going through? And I want to bring to you verse two,

chapter two, verse fourteen. Let's read that. And so he said,

I considered all these things, right, I considered pleasure, I considered

work, I considered possessions. And you know, in verse eleven, it's

quite thisheartening. He says there was no profit under the sun. Everything that

you can see under the sun elect okay, nothing, nothing, And then

he says in verse fourteen, sorry, let me see in two verse fourteen,

yeah, he says, oh no, no, no, that's that's

not the worst. I want what was the verse next? Ah? Okay,

So he says that in nothing, he says, right, oh no,

this is okay. In verse twenty four, not fourteener. In verse

twenty four, he says nothing is better for a man than that he should

eat and drink, and that his soul should enjoy good in his labor.

This also, I saw, was from the hand of God. Amen.

So after he tried all these things, right, he says, yeah,

I think my conclusion in life is this, eat, drink, jolly,

jolly, be happy, and that's it. That's all there is in life.

Okay. Now, the danger with this view is that you can live

life on a purely hedonistic view, meaning you just enjoy everything, not like

young people like to say yolo, right, yolo means you only live once.

Yeah, I don't care anything about what people think about me. I'm

just gonna do what I like, how I feel I like, I just

do it right. So, so the motto for these people in life is

just do it like the Nike sign, anything that I feel I like,

I will just buy, I will spend or consume. Right, because otherwise

what was the meaning of life? Ma right? My sort enjoyler myes so

enjoy life. Okay. But so the thing about this is there's two themes

that we want to be just very mindful of As we read the book of

Eclsis this w this is so hard to pronounce, right ecss this five syllable

Okay. Now the first theme is time, Yes, time, Okay.

Now let's go to chapter three. I want to read to you chapter three,

and this is a verse that many of you may be familiar with,

and it says this to everything, there is a season, a time for

every purpose under heaven. A time to be born and a time to die.

A time to plant and a time to pluck what is planted. A

time to kill and a time to heal. A time to break down and

a time to build up. A time to weep and a time to laugh.

A time to mourn and a time to dance. A time to cast

away stones and a time to gather stones. A time to embrace and a

time to refrain from embracing. A time to gain and a time to lose,

a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to

tear and a time to sow, a time to keep silence and a time

to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time

of war and the time of peace. I'm going to read on all the

way to verse seventeen. Verse nine sayss what profit has the worker from that

in which he labors. I've seen the God given tasks with which the sons

of men are to be occupied. He has made everything beautiful in its time,

except that no one, and He has also put eternity in their hearts.

Amen, except that no one can find out the work that God does

from beginning to end. I know that nothing is better for them than to

rejoice and to do good in their lives. Amen, rejoice and to do

good in your life. And that also every man should eat and drink.

Wow, this guy is a really good on eating and drinking. Right,

So I hope you enjoy eating because you are Malaysians. Right, we love

eating and drinking and enjoy the good of all his labor. It is the

gift of God. Amen. The very fact that you can eat and drink

is a gift from God. Verse fourteen. I know that whatever God does,

it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it and nothing taken

from it. God does it that men should fear before him that which has

already been, and what is to be has already been. And God requires

an account of what is past. Moreover, I saw under the sun.

In the place of judgment, wickedness was there, and in the place of

righteousness, iniquity was there. I say it in my heart. God shall

judge the righteous and the wicked, for there is a time there for every

purpose and for every work. Amen. Amen. I don't know what God

is speaking to you, but I think what's important for us to recognize that,

Deuce, see that even though we say life sometimes is so out of

control, life is unpredictable, but in God, everything is plan. God

is in control. Amen. Even when you don't understand God is in control.

He has never left the control line, you know, the liver.

He's like, I don't know what's happening in your life. He's like,

oh, I don't know what's going on. He has always been in control.

It's just whether we can trust in God or not that He is in

control even when we don't understand it. So the thing is right. Maybe

it's also a good checkpoint for all of us right now, just to do

a hard check whatever that you are stressing about right now? What are you

stressing about now? God? Right, I'm sure Godden end he thinks sales

are good. I don't know how the rent is gonna come for next month?

We're all stressing after something, how to pay the bills? Everything is

so expensive now, right, chasing after climbing the corporate leather, one thing

to go to the next job? Right, looking for a live partner?

Okay, these are all things that stresses us out. But at the end

of it is this what life is. Right. We are coming today year

end now, so I think it's a good time to just reflect the past

eleven months of your life. What has it been? What have you been

chasing? Have you been chasing after something that's he hell, that will vapor

up and just be gone with the wind. It's gone. And so we

spend so much of our time, our energy, our resources, our talents

on chasing after things that don't last. Right because he says this, you

know as you read or he says, no matter what you do, and

men has done great things? Right, correct? Can we agree that man

has developed? We have progress? You know, we say we are a

progressive country. You know, we want to be a first world nation.

You can see hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years, you know, now

everyone in the click of a button, you can find so many things on

your handphone technological advancements has just gone straight up the roof. Now that's ai.

It's quite scary, right, I mean, it's like everything is just

going super fast. You know, it used to grow like that, exponding,

but now it's exponential in terms of knowledge and all that. But guess

what. The mountains are still there, the sun still rises and still sets,

the river stills goes up, and the oceans come back. Nothing changes

really because you know what, what is the great equalizer? No matter how

great you are, no matter how much money you know, Jeff Bezos and

all that, right, the richest man on earth, one of them.

It says in this book that after you pass away, no one will remember

you anymore. That's it gone, gone with the win. Because the great

equalizer for all human being is death. Correct. So that's the second theme

that the preacher is talking about, and he talks a lot about death.

He says, what is the point of having all this? I am King

Solomon? All right, okay, assuming it's King Solomon. I am the

richest person on earth. I have everything I want. I can do anything

I want. I can go fly to you know, I go to London

for tea and I go to Melbourne for some coffee, and I come back

for dinner and bauda, right, I can do it all in one day.

I have my private jet. I can do all of these things,

he says, But for what At the end of it. Death still awaits

me. So death it becomes the great equalizer for all human beings, whether

you're rich or poor, whether you are you know, whether you're well known

in the world or you're an unknown person, Death awaits us all. And

so this is something that is sobbering, right, It's very sobbering for me

in fact, and I am thinking about, you know again, a lot

of my reflections come from just even attending the funeral service, and I'm hearing

about how they speak of Pasta Chitra, which is past glorious mom. You

know. They say she was a great woman. She served, she was

gentle, she was patient, you know, and she she fought her fight,

and she ran her race and she ran to the end. She never

gave up her faith, and that's what people remember her by. I asked

myself, Wow, how would people remember Rosa? You know, what would

I like to be remembered by? When when her daughters speak about her,

they say things like, you know, she never forgets our birthdays, and

she always writes us a birthday cut every I'm like, ala, I never

read any but they cut my daughters as so, by the way, I

got two daughters, are okay? I need to do that this next year.

She calls them every day, asking them like when are you coming back?

Are you coming home for tea? So tea time is a very big

thing in the family, you know, if it's passed a certain time.

You know, every thirty minute, she will text a daughter, are you

okay? I'm like, my gosh, And she will ask them, you

know, like in the evenings, you know, let's go for walks,

let's have conversations. They confided in a mom and both of them say,

Mom's their best friend. I'm like, oh, my daughter say that of

me and my their best friend. You know, things, things that matter,

things that matter in life. Not not how much you earn, not

how you know how famous you are or how popular you are, or what

kind of what kind of positions you have in life. But it's what matters

most is what people around you say about you. What is your legacy,

What is the legacy that you want to leave behind? You can enjoy life.

You know. I think a lot of people's like meaning and purpose in

life is I want to retire at thirty years old. I want to be

financially free. Right. That means at you know, at thirty years old,

I have enough money in my buying account. Every day I can just

like sit down in a cafe, you drink coffee, you know, and

just serve the net. Or I don't do something for right, I don't

know. Is that an aspiration that you have? Right? And some people

say my aspiration in life is to never work again. But do you know

that work is also a gift from God? Yes, if you don't know

it yet, I'm telling you work is a gift from God. We are

men to work because if we are not working, we are idle. Then

we're going to do all this stuff correct, we will do meaningless stuff with

our life. We are men to work, and we are meant to work

with our hands. Do you know that when God put Adam and Eve into

the garden, he didn't say, sit down there and let me do all

the work. He says, you tend to the garden. You tend to

the garden. You have to pick up pluck up the fruits to eat.

It's all right. That is in a way labor, but it's not as

hard labor as we know it now because sin came into the picture. Right,

So what was meant to be pleasure? Sugarbull as well? Huh?

Do you find pleasure in your work? Do you find meaning in your work?

If you do, that is a gift from God. I encourage you

to find that joy, that pleasure. Why am I being there? Why

am I if you're a student. I'm not sure if there any students here.

There are some students here, Okay, I see you. Then find

joy in studying, in being a student, because that is God's gift to

you in this season of your life. Remember, there's a time for everything.

There's a time for everything in whatever season you're in right now. The

words of wisdom is to make the best out of it, because you know

why, you don't have tomorrow. None of us have tomorrow. I cannot

guarantee that tomorrow I will be a life. I cannot guarantee what we have

today is right now and our own response to whatever that's happening around us.

That's the only thing we can control. You know, everything else in the

world that's happening you cannot control. But what you can control is my current

response to what's happening in the world. And and you know, when I

think about I'm like I want to be like her. I want to be

remembered as someone who did good. Who's some someone who were there for people,

someone who made a difference in someone's life. I think that's a legacy

that I want to live back, right, So think about your life chair

much reflection, pulla you know in this season of like, you know,

you whatever is past is past, right, you cannot change that, but

what you do have is today and what you choose to do moving forward.

Right, So he says all these things, everything is vanity, everything is

hea hell, hell, hell. And the preacher did acknowledge that living by

wisdom, you know, so before that he wrote Proverbs, right, do

you know the Book of Proverbs. There's a lot of words and nuggets of

wisdom. And he's saying, yeah, it's good. You know, I

can live life by wisdom, So gain wisdom. Yes. By the way,

can I tell you something, If you are looking for knowledge, you

won't find it in the Bible. If you're looking for intellectual you know,

stimulation or whatnot. You can go outside and find all your degrees and all

that. But if you read the Bible, you will gain wisdom. You

will not get smarter, but you will be wise. Do you know the

difference? You know smart? Right? It's like, okay, I can

answer, I have all the intellectual knowledge about some things. But wisdom comes

from the Lord in man. And what is the source of all wisdom fear

of the Lord, which is the team that we are going to go into.

So there's the two themes that he's talking about, right. One is

time time for everything. There is time to born, there's the time to

die. There's the time and season for everything. And then there is also

the other thing, which is death. Death is certain for all of us,

right, And it depends on how you view both of it. It

will determine how you live your life, how you choose your career, how

you choose your relationships. It will depend on how you view these two things.

But I think what's the most important thing in time and in death and

in finding meaning and purpose? Is this one? The next light would say,

you know, there's wealth. We talked about that, right, Are

you chasing wealth? Don't be so stressed out loud. Okay, it says

right in wisdom. It's like, wow, the man who's chasing a wealth,

he will he'll be stressed out. It really works, you know,

Why are you stressing out all chasing wealth? You cannot sleep well at night?

Right, if you're chasing career? Your social status? I don't know,

is it your TikTok? Now? How many likes you get on your

Facebook posts? Oh? No, no, sorry, Facebook is so old

school. Instagram no, no, that's even more old school. Why what

is the current? Is it TikTok? I don't know, TikTok generation right,

yeah, it's tik tok? Right? What are you chasing after?

Do you know? I read somewhere I don't know why. It's Malaysia.

But every person spends about like four hours on social media. That's a lot

of time, a lot of time just scrolling through what other people are doing

with their lives. Ooh, instead of making something with your life that God

has given us, amen, pleasure, even wisdom in itself. The author

that the preachers says everything is heavell. You can study, you know,

some people like to study, go into an intellectual death, like, oh,

I want to know the meaning of life, you know, existential issues

like, oh, what's the meaning of life? Study? Study? Study?

He say, all right, like PhD like, but when I hate

dimassion and I think, no, no, no, no, I'm not

saying don't study. Okay, you can study, you can study, but

don't study until you go crazy. Okay, everything, if you go to

the next light, right, go to the next light and one more time.

Oh, don't never. It's supposed to technically vaporizel. Okay, everything

that you try to make meaning of it will be gone eventually because why,

death awaits all of us. So how how are we going to live?

Now? How do we live? Moving forward? Right? God says that

he has made everything beautiful in its time, and he has put eternity in

their hearts. Amen, So Heaven rules over time as well our time on

earth. Do you believe that God rules over every single moment, every single

day of your life, and He has put something in our hearts that all

these material things in this world cannot satisfy because it is the eternity that God

put in us, that God shape whole in our heart that only God can

feel. You want to find satisfaction, You want to find meaning? You

have to find God. You have to find God, and in God you

can find meaning. You know, many times the teacher talks about the gift

of God and it's the simple things in life. Right. I think we

learned this in MCO. All you need is your family with you. You

have food on your table, you have clothes on your back, you have

good health. That's all you need to live day by day. Anything else

is extra bondus. Right, and when we can begin to adopt this posture,

it's a posture that we adopt right, that I can because everything is

out of my control. Everything in life is out of my control. But

I can put my total trust in a God who is in control and who

never changes. That's how we can live life in men and God. God

sets us free. God wants us to be free to enjoy the things in

life. Actually, you know, God, it's not like ah, now

you just pray all the time thirty fourth ever, okay, Jeline, just

fast and pray fast and pray. No. God wants us to enjoy life.

He says, enjoy the simple things like good food, a good conversation

with a friend, walks with your family members, simple things, time to

cuddle with your dog, your puppy. I don't know, simple things in

life. Enjoy it and give praise to God as you're doing that, give

thanks to God, you know. And I think the most exciting part for

me is that not only does God rule over time, but he rules over

death. Amen, Heaven rules over death. Now, this is in the

Old Testament, right. King Solomon did not know Jesus yet, so when

he was writing all these things, he only had that perspective of Alama,

I'm going to die anyways. But now and because of that right, everything

in life seems like a vapor. Heavell he hell, he hell. But

can I share with you that, as New Testament believers, the smoke has

been cleared away. I pray that you will see clearly now that our very

very clear hope and our future is Jesus Christ. Amen. He has conquered

death. And I love the song that I was chosen this morning is like

just reminded us that Jesus on the cross, he's not hanging. There's still

a man. The tomb is empty. The tomb is empty, guys,

Jesus is alive. He has overcome death. And therefore we who have hope

in Jesus, we will have life eternal. And that's why when we have

a funeral, a Christian funeral, it's really not it's sad. It is

sad, it's painful, but do you know that there is a greater expectation.

We know that it's not heavel because we know that Pasta Gloria's mom's soul

is with Jesus. Her spirit has been lifted from that body and she's gonna

be given a new body, a much much better body, one that will

not taste death, pain, or sorrow or tears. That is the hope

that we have. Believe us a man asturras, we there's so much to

look forward to because nothing is heaven in God. And I love this quote

that was given. I was reading this, you know, you know,

before you know, I go to that quote. I want us to remember.

And that's the conclusion, right, I want to jump to the conclusion

of Now the author so right, the preacher was the one who was saying

everything is hell, everything is hea hell. Right now the author concludes it

like this in verse thirteen, chapter twelve, verse that in this is so

key for us. Now let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter.

Right, we spoke about what is the meaning of life. The whole conclusion

of this Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is man's awe.

For God will bring every work into judgment, including every secret thing, whether

good or evil. Amen. So I pray that in this season that we

will continue to remember our creator every day, Remember Him every day word ship

Him. When you're eating and you're drinking, rejoice, give thanks. When

you're having a good time, rejoice, do good, Okay, don't forget

to continue doing good and live joyfully. Amen. Fear God. Do we

have the fear of God in our lives. Fear God and keep his commandments.

Amen, And remember that God will judge all deeds, whether good or

bad. Fear God. Fear God and keep his commandments. Amen. If

you know nothing else, just remember one thing. I just need to learn

how to fear God, have the fear of God in my life, and

keep His commandments. And then I want to end with this quote. It

says life under the sun has nothing to offer, but life under the sun,

the son of God, Jesus Christ, has everything to offer. Amen.

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