11.10.21 Searching for Pleasure Last time, we considered Solomon’s search for meaning in life via wisdom. He now turns to the pleasures of life to see if they will satisfy. Listen to his words from Ecclesiastes 2. I said in my heart, “Go to now, I will prove you with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, […]
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11.03.21 Searching for Wisdom There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God. (Ecclesiastes 2:24) Many people have wondered what life would be like if they
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10.27.21 History Expresses Vanity Last week we saw that Solomon found many examples of the vanity of life, its endless cycle, in nature. The wind, the water cycle and the rising sun all speak of endless repetition. Things change but they also stay the same. Solomon also found examples of the emptiness of life in
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10.20.21 Vanity Found in Nature All things are full of labor; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. (Ecclesiastes 1:8) Solomon set out to solve a puzzle that he saw in life. Wherever he looked, life seemed to be a series of circles. He saw
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