1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,100 This morning, I want to go through a study. 2 00:00:03,100 --> 00:00:06,700 We're going to jump all over it. Crazy ass, these back and forth. 3 00:00:07,900 --> 00:00:10,300 But hopefully at the end, we kind of bring the book of 4 00:00:10,300 --> 00:00:14,600 Ecclesiastes into focus and I believe it's a very interesting 5 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:16,500 book, it's really kind of fun to read. 6 00:00:16,500 --> 00:00:21,500 It's it's we've just kind of gone through that with our daily 7 00:00:21,500 --> 00:00:28,300 reading thought, too awful long ago and and I thought I'd pull a 8 00:00:28,300 --> 00:00:34,400 lesson from the archives and and teach on Ecclesiastes, basically 9 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:39,700 life Under the Sun is what we're going to Notice this morning, 10 00:00:40,300 --> 00:00:44,300 the Book of Ecclesiastes is kind of considered maybe one of the 11 00:00:44,300 --> 00:00:47,700 saddest books because it doesn't, if you just carded kind 12 00:00:47,700 --> 00:00:50,400 of start reading and you focus on the negative things that kind 13 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:54,000 of brings a lot of sadness to to a person's hard. 14 00:00:54,000 --> 00:01:00,300 But I believe it's easily understood and, and helps us in 15 00:01:00,300 --> 00:01:04,900 our daily Christian Living. The writer seems to speak of 16 00:01:04,900 --> 00:01:07,300 people who teach that materialism. 17 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:12,800 Is a good thing in life and that man is mortal and will not 18 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:15,800 exist. Course, after this Earthly life 19 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:22,800 is over and and to that the motive in life is to gratify 20 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:26,500 ourselves and and get everything we can out of life. 21 00:01:26,500 --> 00:01:29,400 Because when life is over, were just it's done. 22 00:01:29,900 --> 00:01:35,200 That's all there is to it, it'll end in death but Ecclesiastes 23 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:37,900 certainly is not a book that we should ignore. 24 00:01:38,900 --> 00:01:41,500 In the materialistic society that we live. 25 00:01:42,900 --> 00:01:48,100 I think it's a good thing to understand the meaning of what 26 00:01:48,100 --> 00:01:54,900 is written in this book and And and the message of course that 27 00:01:55,100 --> 00:01:59,800 the preacher has to say here also with our youth oriented 28 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:06,300 society that we live in because now in a person's youth, they 29 00:02:06,300 --> 00:02:10,500 are told to just enjoy life and live it up and live for the 30 00:02:10,500 --> 00:02:14,100 moment and feels good, do it and all those kinds of things. 31 00:02:14,100 --> 00:02:17,600 And I believe that it also talks about a person that's older in 32 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:20,300 life, as well as those that are younger in life and how to focus 33 00:02:20,300 --> 00:02:28,700 on certain things. so, In our introduction to Ecclesiastes in 34 00:02:28,700 --> 00:02:31,300 the Hebrew Bible. The Burke book is called 35 00:02:31,300 --> 00:02:35,900 Coca-Cola. Which means the words of the 36 00:02:35,900 --> 00:02:39,900 preacher. The term suggests one who 37 00:02:39,900 --> 00:02:43,300 gathers people to gather and speaks to an assembly, an 38 00:02:43,300 --> 00:02:48,000 ecclesiastic or a preacher. The translators of the 39 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:52,000 Septuagint version. Call it Ecclesiastes with AK 40 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:57,400 instead of a sea Which also means preacher and is derived 41 00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:03,500 from the word, Ecclesia. The author, many believed to be 42 00:03:03,500 --> 00:03:07,900 Solomon when the rider speaks and talks about all the things 43 00:03:07,900 --> 00:03:09,800 that he's done and all the wealth that he's had in the 44 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:13,100 wisdom and everything like that. It's picture of what we read 45 00:03:13,100 --> 00:03:15,500 about Solomon. What he did there are some that 46 00:03:15,500 --> 00:03:18,900 say, no, it can't be solemn. It's one of David's descendants 47 00:03:18,900 --> 00:03:23,400 and things like that, but for the present time, we will stick 48 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:26,100 with Solomon or just basically calling the writer if you want 49 00:03:26,100 --> 00:03:28,500 to say. But he's talking about the words 50 00:03:28,500 --> 00:03:31,800 of the preacher. So the author now, ABS the 51 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:36,700 searches for the meaning in life, and Ecclesiastes, 1 and 52 00:03:36,700 --> 00:03:40,900 13. And I set my heart to seek and 53 00:03:40,900 --> 00:03:44,900 search out by wisdom, concerning all that is done under Heaven. 54 00:03:45,900 --> 00:03:50,500 This burdensome task God has given to the sons of men by 55 00:03:50,500 --> 00:03:55,400 which they may be exercised. So now the author talks about 56 00:03:55,500 --> 00:04:01,900 this search, And using, and is seeking for, for what there is 57 00:04:01,900 --> 00:04:03,900 in life. And the meaning of life, if you 58 00:04:03,908 --> 00:04:07,800 want to say, the purpose of the book is to make the reader stop 59 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:12,400 and think about their responsibility to God and living 60 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:17,300 a higher and Holier life while here in this life on Earth 61 00:04:17,300 --> 00:04:20,500 getting ready for the life beyond the grave. 62 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:24,200 In other words to the Christian, we understand that there's more 63 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:29,300 than just this life And the writer is talking about and and, 64 00:04:29,500 --> 00:04:33,800 and, and reflecting on the life that he's lived and trying to 65 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:38,200 reason out will, if all this is for nothing, then what is their 66 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:41,800 life? If that's the question. 67 00:04:44,100 --> 00:04:49,100 So Solomon search pertains to life Under the Sun living in 68 00:04:49,100 --> 00:04:52,500 this world. In other words, this phrase life 69 00:04:52,500 --> 00:04:56,600 under the sun Excuse me. Get ahead of myself here. 70 00:04:57,900 --> 00:05:03,700 This phrase life Under the Sun is use 29 times in 27 verses. 71 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:08,500 So Solomon is looking for, looking at life, from Mostly a 72 00:05:08,508 --> 00:05:11,700 worldly point of view and he says here in first, the first 73 00:05:11,700 --> 00:05:17,500 chapter verse 3, what prophet has a man from all his labor in 74 00:05:17,500 --> 00:05:22,300 which he toils under the sun, So, we work. 75 00:05:23,300 --> 00:05:26,800 We go to work every day. We do everything. 76 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:30,000 We're supposed to do, and we provide for our families and we 77 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:36,600 work ourselves crazy and What profit is it for all this toil 78 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:39,600 and all this hard work under the sun? 79 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:47,000 So in verse 2, he says, vanity of vanities says the preacher 80 00:05:47,300 --> 00:05:50,800 vanities of vanities all is Vanity. 81 00:05:51,700 --> 00:05:57,100 Now, I'd we just watched the introduction to Ecclesiastes and 82 00:05:57,100 --> 00:06:00,100 I got this last little bit here from that video. 83 00:06:00,100 --> 00:06:04,700 That was posted on the church's Facebook page, and it comes from 84 00:06:04,700 --> 00:06:09,800 the Hebrew word heavily, heavily all is heavily. 85 00:06:13,700 --> 00:06:18,400 No, most English Bibles translate heavily as 86 00:06:18,700 --> 00:06:22,400 meaningless. And is used 38 times in 87 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:25,700 Ecclesiastes, but it has a deeper meaning that in the 88 00:06:25,700 --> 00:06:30,800 Hebrew, it is translated as Vapor or smoke, and is referring 89 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:35,000 to something that is temporary and fleeting like a wisp of 90 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:39,300 smoke. Also, how life is an enigma or a 91 00:06:39,308 --> 00:06:43,700 paradox, like smoke it appears solid, sometimes we can't even 92 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:47,200 see through it. It's very thick, but if you 93 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:49,400 grasp at it, there's nothing there. 94 00:06:49,500 --> 00:06:53,800 You can't grab a Of smoke. You can't grab ahold of wind 95 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:56,500 because there's nothing there. Even though we can see it. 96 00:06:56,500 --> 00:07:00,600 Even though it's something that looks solid, we can grasp at it 97 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:04,900 and nothing is there. It's futile, it's useless, 98 00:07:05,100 --> 00:07:08,500 meaningless emptiness, figuratively, something 99 00:07:08,500 --> 00:07:13,200 transitory and unsatisfactory unsatisfying since the things of 100 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:15,600 this world are going to pass away with it. 101 00:07:16,100 --> 00:07:21,700 They are temporary. Of course, this vanity is 102 00:07:21,700 --> 00:07:26,000 referring to life Under the Sun. Notice the 14th. 103 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:30,100 Verse of chapter one, I have seen all the works that are done 104 00:07:30,100 --> 00:07:33,900 under the sun. And indeed, all is Vanity and 105 00:07:33,900 --> 00:07:40,800 grasping for the wind All the effort one makes in life as far 106 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:45,500 as this Earthly life is concerned as like a grasping of 107 00:07:45,500 --> 00:07:50,400 the wind or a vexation of spirit of Praise which occurs seven 108 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:55,200 times and maybe otherwise translated feeding on wind. 109 00:07:56,100 --> 00:07:59,100 Modern Hebrew grammar, grammar translates the word rendered to 110 00:07:59,100 --> 00:08:04,000 fixation a constant, but unsatisfied seeking after 111 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:07,200 something. The urge for man, always wanting 112 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:11,700 to go further after knowledge and Earthly things we've seen 113 00:08:11,700 --> 00:08:15,000 people that are driven that are driven after just the things of 114 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:18,700 this world and they just won't let anything stop them and 115 00:08:18,700 --> 00:08:21,700 that's what he's talking about because they're never satisfied, 116 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:25,000 the things of this Earth do not satisfy us. 117 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:29,500 For what we really strive for in life and that is the things that 118 00:08:29,500 --> 00:08:34,100 are higher and Holier in life instead of the things of 119 00:08:34,500 --> 00:08:38,500 temporary. Use on this Earth. 120 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:47,400 Striving after wind or windy effort chasing the wind, the 121 00:08:47,408 --> 00:08:50,300 preachers message seems to be very negative about life. 122 00:08:50,300 --> 00:08:55,400 The major theme is the vanity of Life vanities use 35 times in 123 00:08:55,400 --> 00:09:01,600 twenty nine verses So keeping all this in mind a chasing after 124 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:05,900 the wind and the meaninglessness things that we do in life. 125 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:09,400 Keep that all in mind as we go through this study of 126 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:14,500 Ecclesiastes. So in verse 3 he says what 127 00:09:14,500 --> 00:09:19,300 prophet hath man of all his labor Strong's says, a defines 128 00:09:19,300 --> 00:09:22,900 that as preeminence or gain, or, in other words, what gain is 129 00:09:22,900 --> 00:09:25,000 there from all of our life here on Earth? 130 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:27,800 Now, this doesn't mean and all of our hard work here on Earth. 131 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:30,400 doesn't mean that we all just go out and quit our job because 132 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:34,400 it's meaningless, That isn't what it means. 133 00:09:35,300 --> 00:09:38,200 But in other words, if we're working after worldly things, 134 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:43,300 and that's our Focus. And it's vanity. 135 00:09:44,100 --> 00:09:45,500 Then what's the purpose of doing? 136 00:09:45,500 --> 00:09:49,900 All that, what's the purpose of putting importance on those 137 00:09:49,900 --> 00:09:54,800 things? What's the game? 138 00:09:55,400 --> 00:09:58,500 The things of this Earth will come to an end when the earth is 139 00:09:58,500 --> 00:10:01,700 destroyed According to second Peter 2 and verse 10. 140 00:10:02,100 --> 00:10:04,600 Nothing a man Labor's for will be left afterwards. 141 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:08,200 So no man can get anything more out of life and what he puts 142 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:11,600 into it. This means that if a man lives 143 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:16,400 for fleshly things, temporal things only he will have nothing 144 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:20,200 left at the end because all that will be destroyed. 145 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:28,100 But the preacher uses such words as joy and rejoice and enjoyment 146 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:33,800 and joyfully. In his description of things 147 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:37,300 throughout Ecclesiastes. So there's got to be something 148 00:10:37,300 --> 00:10:40,000 that's good. In fact, the Book of 149 00:10:40,008 --> 00:10:43,500 Ecclesiastes provides us Counsel on how to get the most out of 150 00:10:43,500 --> 00:10:47,700 life to find joy in a life that is filled with vanity or 151 00:10:47,700 --> 00:10:52,000 meaninglessness. If all this is meaningless on 152 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:55,000 this Earth than where can we find joy? 153 00:10:55,100 --> 00:10:58,900 If its of no value then why are we doing all this? 154 00:10:59,900 --> 00:11:05,000 Notice the second chapter verses 22 through 24 for what has a man 155 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:08,800 for all his labor and for the striving of his heart with which 156 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:13,600 he has toiled Under the Sun, for all his days are sorrowful, and 157 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:16,100 his work burdensome even in the night. 158 00:11:16,100 --> 00:11:20,600 His heart takes no rest. This also is Vanity. 159 00:11:21,300 --> 00:11:25,100 Nothing is better for a man that he should eat and drink. 160 00:11:25,100 --> 00:11:30,200 And that his soul should Rejoice should enjoy good in his labor. 161 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:33,600 This also, I saw was from the hand of God. 162 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:37,400 So there's something that is joyful in life. 163 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:40,300 And we're going to notice more about that to find joy. 164 00:11:40,300 --> 00:11:44,700 We must first face the reality of the vanity of life though. 165 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:48,900 There's vanity and pleasure Ecclesiastes, 2 and 10. 166 00:11:48,900 --> 00:11:52,800 I said in my heart, come now, I will test you with mirth. 167 00:11:53,100 --> 00:11:58,400 Therefore, enjoy pleasure, but surely this also is Vanity. 168 00:11:59,500 --> 00:12:02,900 There's vanity an Earthly labor Ecclesiastes to an 11, then I 169 00:12:02,900 --> 00:12:05,700 looked on all the work that my hands had done and on the labor, 170 00:12:05,700 --> 00:12:08,500 in which I had toiled. And indeed, all was vanity. 171 00:12:08,500 --> 00:12:12,400 And grasping for the win, there was no profit Under the Sun, 172 00:12:13,100 --> 00:12:15,100 notice for chapter 4 and verse 4. 173 00:12:15,100 --> 00:12:18,700 Again, I saw that for all toil and every skillful work of man 174 00:12:18,700 --> 00:12:23,200 and envied by his neighbor. This also is Vanity and grasping 175 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:27,800 for the wind their vanity and human wisdom, Ecclesiastes, 2 176 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:31,800 and verse 15. I said in my heart as it happens 177 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:35,500 to the fool, it also happens to me. 178 00:12:36,500 --> 00:12:40,900 And why was I then more wise than I said in my heart. 179 00:12:40,900 --> 00:12:46,000 This also is Vanity. There's vanity and all life 180 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:47,800 please. Yes, he's 2 and 17. 181 00:12:48,100 --> 00:12:51,700 Therefore I hated life because the work that was done under the 182 00:12:51,700 --> 00:12:56,300 sun was distressing to me for all is Vanity and grasping for 183 00:12:56,300 --> 00:12:59,800 the wind. Vanity is. 184 00:13:01,100 --> 00:13:06,200 Leaving leaving an inheritance that second chapter verses 18 185 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:09,200 through 21. Then I hated all my labor in 186 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:13,100 which I had toiled under the sun because I must leave it to the 187 00:13:13,100 --> 00:13:17,200 man who will come after me and who knows, whether he will be 188 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:22,700 wise or a fool yet, he will rule over all my labor and which I 189 00:13:22,700 --> 00:13:26,300 have toiled and in which I have have shown myself. 190 00:13:26,300 --> 00:13:30,000 Why is Under the Sun? This also is Vanity. 191 00:13:30,900 --> 00:13:34,800 I turned my heart and despaired of all the labor wouldn't which 192 00:13:34,800 --> 00:13:38,500 I had toiled Under the Sun. For there is a man whose labor 193 00:13:38,700 --> 00:13:42,900 is with wisdom knowledge and skill that he must leave his 194 00:13:42,900 --> 00:13:46,300 Heritage to a man who has not labored for it. 195 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:50,100 This also is Vanity and a great evil. 196 00:13:50,500 --> 00:13:54,400 We work hard. And when we die, all of our 197 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:59,500 labor and all of our assets go on to someone else. 198 00:14:00,300 --> 00:14:05,800 So he says it's meaningless and he talks about the preachers 199 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:09,500 observations of life that he has lived. 200 00:14:09,700 --> 00:14:14,800 He says, In chapter 3 verses 19 through 21 for what happens to 201 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:18,900 the sons of men. Also happens to animals one 202 00:14:18,900 --> 00:14:21,100 thing before all's them as one dies. 203 00:14:21,100 --> 00:14:25,600 So dies, the other surely they all have one breath, man. 204 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:27,700 All has no advantage over animals. 205 00:14:27,700 --> 00:14:33,700 For all is Vanity, all go to one place, all are from the dust and 206 00:14:33,700 --> 00:14:36,200 all return to dust. Who knows? 207 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:39,900 The spirit of the sons of men, which goes upward in the spirit 208 00:14:39,900 --> 00:14:44,600 of the animal, which goes down. To the Earth, he talks about his 209 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:48,600 observations of the vanity of crier, acquiring riches over 210 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:51,900 family. And Chapter 4, verses 7 through 211 00:14:51,900 --> 00:14:55,600 8, then I returned. And I saw vanity Under the Sun, 212 00:14:56,600 --> 00:15:01,000 there is one alone without companion, he has neither Sun 213 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:04,300 nor brother. Yet there is no end to all his 214 00:15:04,300 --> 00:15:08,600 Labor's nor is his. I satisfied with riches but he 215 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:11,400 never asked for whom. Do I Toil and deprive myself? 216 00:15:11,500 --> 00:15:15,200 Of good. This also is Vanity and a grave 217 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:19,500 misfortune. The vanity of loving, abundance, 218 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:23,600 fifth chapter and verse 10. He who loves silver will not be 219 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:27,600 satisfied with silver. Nor he who loves abundance with 220 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:30,100 increase. This also is Vanity. 221 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:35,800 The vanity of wealth. Ecclesiastes, 6 and 2. 222 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:42,300 A man to whom God has given riches and wealth and honor so 223 00:15:42,300 --> 00:15:44,600 that he lacks nothing for himself of all. 224 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:49,800 He desires yet, God does not give him power to eat of it for 225 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:53,700 a foreigner consumes it as his vanity and is an evil 226 00:15:53,700 --> 00:15:59,300 Affliction, the vanity of foolish laughter 7:6 for like 227 00:15:59,300 --> 00:16:01,900 the crackling of thorns under a pot. 228 00:16:02,100 --> 00:16:05,500 So is the laughter of the fool. This also is Vanity. 229 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:12,700 The vanity of Injustice in this life, life is not fair. 230 00:16:13,300 --> 00:16:18,900 Notice 18:14. There is a vanity, which occurs 231 00:16:18,900 --> 00:16:23,100 on Earth that there are just men to whom it happens. 232 00:16:23,100 --> 00:16:26,600 According to the work of the wicked again, there are wicked 233 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:29,500 men to whom it happens. According to the work of the 234 00:16:29,500 --> 00:16:33,600 righteous, I said that this also is Vanity. 235 00:16:34,500 --> 00:16:38,500 Chapter 9, verses 1 through 3 4. I considered all that is in my 236 00:16:38,500 --> 00:16:42,600 heart so that I could not so that I could declare it all that 237 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:45,900 the righteous and the wise and their works are in the hand of 238 00:16:45,900 --> 00:16:48,300 God. People know neither love nor 239 00:16:48,300 --> 00:16:50,700 hatred by anything they see before them. 240 00:16:52,100 --> 00:16:56,600 All things come alike to all one event happens to the righteous, 241 00:16:56,900 --> 00:17:02,700 and the wicked to the good, to the clean, and the unclean to 242 00:17:02,700 --> 00:17:06,800 him, who sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice. 243 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:11,599 As is the good. So is the sinner. 244 00:17:17,300 --> 00:17:22,800 There, he who takes an oath as he who fears an oath. 245 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:26,000 This is an evil in all that is done under the sun. 246 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:31,000 That one thing happens to all truly, the hearts of the sons of 247 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:35,000 men are full of evil Madness, is in their hearts while they live. 248 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:37,800 And after that, that they go to the Dead. 249 00:17:39,100 --> 00:17:41,800 See, life is not fair, think good things happen to good 250 00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:44,200 people and they happen to bad people. 251 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:47,500 Bad things happen to good people and they happen to bad. 252 00:17:47,500 --> 00:17:52,200 People talks about the vanity of childhood and youth, therefore 253 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:54,800 removed sorrow from your heart and put away evil from your 254 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:58,400 flesh for childhood and youth are vanity. 255 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:02,800 In other words, there's a time to grow up. 256 00:18:04,900 --> 00:18:08,400 And there's a time to be a child, and some people have a 257 00:18:08,408 --> 00:18:13,400 problem with growing up. But it's in vanity. 258 00:18:14,100 --> 00:18:17,000 So he says he talks about this conclusion, the preachers 259 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:20,900 conclusion and that stated in verse 1 of chapter 1 and verse 260 00:18:20,900 --> 00:18:23,900 2. Vanity of vanities, says the 261 00:18:23,900 --> 00:18:27,100 preacher vanity of vanities. All is Vanity, that's what the 262 00:18:27,100 --> 00:18:31,300 start was. Now he goes to verse 14, I have 263 00:18:31,300 --> 00:18:34,800 seen all the works that are done under the sun and behold all is 264 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:38,700 Vanity and vexation of spirit or grasping for the wind. 265 00:18:43,300 --> 00:18:48,600 Many have come to the same conclusion and followed maybe 266 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:52,800 into depression, or worried about all the things that go on 267 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:56,200 in this world, worry about and worry and worry and worry about 268 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:58,500 everything that goes on in this world. 269 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:05,800 But the preacher wanted us to learn and know how to find joy 270 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:08,900 in this life. And you can have joy in your 271 00:19:08,900 --> 00:19:12,400 life in this life. Even with all the things that 272 00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:14,600 are going on around us, we can find joy. 273 00:19:15,700 --> 00:19:19,600 Even though. This world may be so depressing 274 00:19:19,900 --> 00:19:24,100 and meaningless. So, let's notice a little bit 275 00:19:24,100 --> 00:19:31,200 about the joy in life. I get ahead of myself yet. 276 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:37,600 The preachers experience of Joy. He talks here, he says whatever 277 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:41,000 my eyes desired. I did not keep from them. 278 00:19:41,700 --> 00:19:46,200 I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure for my heart 279 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:51,500 rejoiced in all my labor and this was my reward for all my 280 00:19:51,500 --> 00:19:54,500 labor. Nothing wrong with that. 281 00:19:56,000 --> 00:20:00,100 Nah, nothing wrong with being satisfied and having joy in your 282 00:20:00,100 --> 00:20:03,900 hard work. Reward of his labor, was a joy 283 00:20:03,900 --> 00:20:08,900 in doing it. I know that that many of us 284 00:20:08,900 --> 00:20:14,300 don't find joy and in hard work and and getting sore and getting 285 00:20:14,300 --> 00:20:18,400 hot and getting sweaty and and having blisters on your hands 286 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:22,800 or, or whatever it may be, Sometimes, you know, when we 287 00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:25,700 were kids and our parents told us to go mow the lawn, or to 288 00:20:25,700 --> 00:20:28,600 stack the wood or bring in the wood or chop, the wood or roof 289 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:32,500 the house, or paint the house or whatever it was, you know, we 290 00:20:32,500 --> 00:20:34,900 had to get several beatings in the meantime to be able to get 291 00:20:34,900 --> 00:20:40,000 those things accomplished. We didn't have fun doing that 292 00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:44,300 but you know as we grow up and we go on and we get a, we get a 293 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:51,100 job and we get a vocation We can stand back and we can look at 294 00:20:51,100 --> 00:20:56,600 our work and we can find joy in that we can find satisfaction in 295 00:20:56,600 --> 00:21:00,100 that. So he says, in this was my 296 00:21:00,100 --> 00:21:06,500 reward from all my labor. The preachers observations. 297 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:12,600 About joy and other words he says nothing is better than 298 00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:21,600 enjoying simple things. And what we do The ability to 299 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:25,800 enjoy what you have and what you do comes from God. 300 00:21:26,300 --> 00:21:30,700 Nothing is better for a man than that, he should eat and drink 301 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:35,700 and his soul should enjoy good in his labor. 302 00:21:35,900 --> 00:21:42,400 This also I saw was from the hand of God. for who can eat or 303 00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:47,900 who can have enjoyment more than I God, gives wisdom and 304 00:21:47,900 --> 00:21:52,500 knowledge and Joy says for God. And in the second chapter verse 305 00:21:52,500 --> 00:21:56,500 26, for God, gives wisdom and knowledge and joy to a man who 306 00:21:56,500 --> 00:21:59,300 is good in his sight. But to The Sinner, he gives the 307 00:21:59,300 --> 00:22:03,000 work of gathering and collecting that he may give to him who is 308 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:07,100 good before God, this also is Vanity and grasping for the wind 309 00:22:07,700 --> 00:22:11,300 man should rejoice and do good. All soaked, lazy ass 23 and 310 00:22:11,300 --> 00:22:13,100 verse 12. I know that nothing is better 311 00:22:13,100 --> 00:22:16,400 than for them than to rejoice and due to do. 312 00:22:16,500 --> 00:22:20,000 Good in their lives. We can find joy in doing good 313 00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:23,700 for others. And for God as well, every man 314 00:22:23,700 --> 00:22:26,200 should enjoy the good of their labor because it is the gift of 315 00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:30,900 God, chapter 3 and verse 13. And also that every man should 316 00:22:30,900 --> 00:22:33,500 eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor. 317 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:38,100 It is the gift of God. The gift of God. 318 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:42,300 This is the enjoyment of the simple. 319 00:22:42,900 --> 00:22:47,800 Good things in life. Like friendships. 320 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:54,200 Like a good meal. Like family. 321 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:56,300 Like a good day. Fishing. 322 00:22:56,600 --> 00:23:01,200 A good day hunting. Good day, playing golf or just 323 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:05,800 enjoying the scenery and the sunny day and life out maybe in 324 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:09,100 nature camping, or whatever it may be. 325 00:23:11,100 --> 00:23:15,200 The simple things of life, it doesn't take money to enjoy 326 00:23:15,500 --> 00:23:18,400 God's creation and what God has provided for us. 327 00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:32,200 This is a gift from God. So he goes on to talk in chapter 328 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:35,900 3 and verse 22. So I perceive that nothing is 329 00:23:35,900 --> 00:23:38,900 better than that. A man should in rejoice in his 330 00:23:38,900 --> 00:23:42,800 own words. For that is his Heritage for who 331 00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:46,700 can bring him to see what will happen after him. 332 00:23:47,700 --> 00:23:51,400 Again, this is one's Heritage and it's the gift of God. 333 00:23:51,700 --> 00:23:54,000 Notice chapter 5 verses 18 through 20. 334 00:23:54,500 --> 00:23:58,300 Here's what I've seen, it is good and fitting for one to eat 335 00:23:58,300 --> 00:24:00,600 and drink and do. Joy, the good of all his labor 336 00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:05,600 in which he toils under the sun. All the days of his life which 337 00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:09,500 God gives him for. It is his Heritage, as for every 338 00:24:09,500 --> 00:24:13,300 man to whom God has given riches and wealth and given him power 339 00:24:13,300 --> 00:24:16,500 to eat of it to receive his Heritage and rejoice in his 340 00:24:16,500 --> 00:24:19,500 labor. This is the gift of God for he 341 00:24:19,500 --> 00:24:24,100 will not dwell. Unduly in the days of his life 342 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:27,400 because God keeps him busy with the joy of his heart. 343 00:24:28,900 --> 00:24:32,700 For he shall, he shall not much remember the days of his life, 344 00:24:32,700 --> 00:24:37,200 because God, answereth him and the joy of his heart. even 345 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:41,300 though, we go through struggles and hard times, we seem to not 346 00:24:41,300 --> 00:24:46,500 remember all those hard times and sadness and difficulties 347 00:24:46,500 --> 00:24:51,200 because of the joy, what we give from sitting back and just 348 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:56,300 enjoying the simple things of life and rejoicing in the work 349 00:24:56,300 --> 00:25:02,700 of our labor. so, in the day of prosperity, Rejoice. 350 00:25:02,700 --> 00:25:05,700 And in the day of adversity, we stopped. 351 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:11,800 And we think on God, Notice 7:14 in the day of prosperity would 352 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:15,400 be joyful but the day of adversity, consider. 353 00:25:16,500 --> 00:25:20,600 Surely God has appointed one, the one, as well as the other so 354 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:24,600 that man can find out nothing that will come after him. 355 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:30,300 We take the good and the bad. We should stop and think about 356 00:25:30,300 --> 00:25:33,600 the cause and learn from problems that we've had in 357 00:25:33,608 --> 00:25:36,200 mistakes that we made. Certainly we consider those. 358 00:25:36,300 --> 00:25:39,700 And some of those we created by ourselves for ourselves. 359 00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:44,100 We've made bad choices in life and we pay the cost and we pay 360 00:25:44,100 --> 00:25:47,200 the price for those things and they are joyful. 361 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:51,900 So we stopped and we think about those things and we pray to God 362 00:25:51,900 --> 00:25:58,200 and we think about Godly things. The one thing is though that we 363 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:01,000 will not get to keep our possessions after this life. 364 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:09,600 So he recommends enjoyment of the fruit of one's labor. 8:15. 365 00:26:10,100 --> 00:26:15,000 So I commend enjoyment because a man has nothing better Under the 366 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:18,500 Sun than to eat drink and be merry for this will remain with 367 00:26:18,500 --> 00:26:21,800 him in his labor, all the days of his life which God gives him 368 00:26:22,100 --> 00:26:26,500 under the sun. Now, that doesn't mean that we 369 00:26:26,500 --> 00:26:32,800 just quit our jobs and we go out and we sit on a Mountaintop and 370 00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:35,400 we just sit there and we don't do anything about that because 371 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:37,700 we're enjoying God's creation and we don't have any 372 00:26:37,700 --> 00:26:40,300 responsibilities. No, that is not what he's 373 00:26:40,300 --> 00:26:44,200 saying. He's saying, enjoy the fruit of 374 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:49,400 your labor, enjoy life. It is, as it is given to you, 375 00:26:49,700 --> 00:26:54,400 don't spend all your time and all of your talent and 376 00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:59,900 Everything on gaining things in this world. 377 00:27:01,700 --> 00:27:08,400 So, the preachers conclusion. First, accept that life is not 378 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:12,300 always fair and we are not in control. 379 00:27:13,300 --> 00:27:15,900 Good things happen to good people, as well as bad people 380 00:27:15,900 --> 00:27:18,500 and bad things. Happen to good people, as well 381 00:27:18,500 --> 00:27:23,800 as bad people, when we actually put our trust in God, we will 382 00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:25,700 learn to accept life the way it is. 383 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:29,100 And not the way that we think it ought to be. 384 00:27:31,500 --> 00:27:36,000 We all see how other people live their lives and we think that's 385 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:40,000 the way my life needs to be. That's the way my life ought to 386 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:44,100 be. No, accept it for what it is, 387 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:51,700 and go on worry worrying about things that are meaningless and 388 00:27:51,700 --> 00:27:56,100 putting so much importance on them, is a waste of our time and 389 00:27:56,100 --> 00:27:59,500 our energy. Doesn't God doesn't care whether 390 00:27:59,500 --> 00:28:03,400 we're rich or poor, he doesn't care about our status in life. 391 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:07,700 That doesn't concern him what he concerns, what concerns him and 392 00:28:07,700 --> 00:28:10,700 he's cares about is our service to him. 393 00:28:10,700 --> 00:28:15,800 So he says eat drink and be merry. 394 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:19,100 He says express your joy and how you live. 395 00:28:19,300 --> 00:28:22,200 He says live joyfully with your wife whom you love. 396 00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:24,900 Enjoy your youth. But remember, you will be 397 00:28:24,900 --> 00:28:28,700 accountable. In Ecclesiastes. 11 verses 9 to 398 00:28:29,100 --> 00:28:33,000 9 through 10 Rejoice, O man in your Youth and let your heart 399 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:36,500 cheer you in the days of your youth, walk in the ways of your 400 00:28:36,500 --> 00:28:39,400 heart and in the sight of your eyes. 401 00:28:39,500 --> 00:28:43,100 But know, that, for all these, God will bring you into 402 00:28:43,100 --> 00:28:46,400 judgment. Therefore, remove sorrow from 403 00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:50,100 your heart and put away evil from your flesh for childhood 404 00:28:50,100 --> 00:28:59,300 and youth or vanity. It goes on to say, remember your 405 00:28:59,300 --> 00:29:01,300 creator in the days of your youth. 406 00:29:02,700 --> 00:29:06,900 Before the difficult days come and the years draw near when you 407 00:29:06,900 --> 00:29:14,200 say, I have no pleasure in them. so, when you're young, We have 408 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:17,000 high hopes of everything that we want to accomplish in that we 409 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:20,900 will be in life. But the life without God is a 410 00:29:20,908 --> 00:29:24,400 life that is void of satisfaction. 411 00:29:27,100 --> 00:29:29,200 There's no pleasure in that life. 412 00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:31,500 True. Pleasure in that life. 413 00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:38,000 There's no satisfaction to the soul, so don't be deceived by 414 00:29:38,300 --> 00:29:42,900 the meaningless things and don't focus on those things that are 415 00:29:42,900 --> 00:29:48,100 of no value. Remember your creator while 416 00:29:48,100 --> 00:29:51,800 you're young? The person that doesn't remember 417 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:55,100 their creator will make it to the end of the latter part of 418 00:29:55,100 --> 00:29:56,900 their life. They look back on the younger 419 00:29:56,900 --> 00:30:00,400 years. And they look at their life and 420 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:04,600 they say I had no pleasure, no true pleasure because I didn't 421 00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:09,500 remember my Creator in the days of my youth. as their life's are 422 00:30:09,500 --> 00:30:13,500 coming to an end, if not living a life for God, when that time 423 00:30:13,500 --> 00:30:21,300 comes, The things of life will be of less interest. 424 00:30:22,700 --> 00:30:26,800 You know, when I see older folks, they they have pleasure 425 00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:29,500 in their life because they're looking for something that is 426 00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:33,400 much better than this life. And that's where we get our joy. 427 00:30:35,700 --> 00:30:37,700 They'll have joy in their declining years. 428 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:41,100 But now this is the conclusion to everything. 429 00:30:41,100 --> 00:30:43,000 The preacher has mentioned in this book. 430 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:47,400 He says in the 12th chapter and verses 13 through 14. 431 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:53,800 Let us hear the conclusion to the whole matter, fear God, and 432 00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:59,400 keep his Commandments. For this is man's all or in the 433 00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:03,600 King James version says, this is the duty of man, the whole duty 434 00:31:03,900 --> 00:31:09,500 of, man, A life of living for God will not be meaningless or 435 00:31:09,500 --> 00:31:14,400 like chasing after the wind. This is your whole meaning in 436 00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:16,500 life. This is the conclusion to 437 00:31:16,500 --> 00:31:19,900 everything that the preacher has analyzed and he's looked at his 438 00:31:19,900 --> 00:31:23,100 life and all the labor and all this, but he's done through life 439 00:31:23,100 --> 00:31:26,800 and where had they find Joy? He found joy in God's creation. 440 00:31:27,100 --> 00:31:31,100 He found joy in his hard work and he found joy in the fact of 441 00:31:31,100 --> 00:31:34,300 serving God and keeping him first and obeying his 442 00:31:34,300 --> 00:31:35,800 Commandments. That's where he found. 443 00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:39,900 True Joy. The things of this life, bring 444 00:31:39,900 --> 00:31:45,400 temporary Joy temporary but the things of God bring lasting Joy. 445 00:31:46,700 --> 00:31:55,800 That will last forever. So this is all that counts. 446 00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:58,600 This is all that has any value. This is it. 447 00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:04,400 To serve God, fear God and keep his Commandments. 448 00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:08,400 Then he goes on to say, in verse 14, for God will bring every 449 00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:11,400 work into judgment including every secret secret thing, 450 00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:15,800 whether good or evil. So even though life isn't fair, 451 00:32:17,100 --> 00:32:21,100 even though we think we may got a bad deal even though things 452 00:32:21,100 --> 00:32:26,100 didn't work out for us, the way that we wanted them to Even 453 00:32:26,100 --> 00:32:29,700 though we come up against all kinds of problems in life and 454 00:32:29,700 --> 00:32:32,800 all kinds of hurdles and all kinds of obstructions and people 455 00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:35,200 don't treat us, right? And people don't treat us Fair. 456 00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:42,100 Sometimes we seem like there's no reward for our hard work here 457 00:32:42,100 --> 00:32:45,000 on this Earth and everything that we've done that all of it's 458 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:49,800 just been for nothing. God will bring every work into 459 00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:53,400 judgment. Do make it fair one of these 460 00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:56,000 days. Absolutely. 461 00:32:57,100 --> 00:33:01,000 For our your life of Living and obeying his Commandments, he 462 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:03,900 will make it fair for those that decide. 463 00:33:03,900 --> 00:33:08,600 They don't want to live a life of serving God, he will make it 464 00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:13,200 fair, he will bring every work into judgment. 465 00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:18,600 Whether good or evil. So life Under the Sun is Vanity. 466 00:33:20,100 --> 00:33:24,800 There's no meaning to strive for only Earthly things without God. 467 00:33:24,900 --> 00:33:28,200 There is no real meaning in life without God you will not be able 468 00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:30,500 to truly enjoy your time on Earth because you all you're 469 00:33:30,500 --> 00:33:34,700 striving for is Eve Earthly things that have no value life. 470 00:33:34,700 --> 00:33:36,700 Under the Sun, can be filled with joy, though. 471 00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:40,700 Experiencing the joyful, memories of Life, the memories 472 00:33:40,700 --> 00:33:42,500 of family, the memories of loved ones. 473 00:33:42,500 --> 00:33:45,600 The good times, the things that you've enjoyed in life. 474 00:33:46,500 --> 00:33:50,900 With God, guide us in keeping our priorities, in life straight 475 00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:55,400 and with God, to bless us with wisdom, and the ability to enjoy 476 00:33:55,400 --> 00:34:00,000 what good there is in life, to find joy, in the vanity of life. 477 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:06,000 He says, remember your creator fear God, and keep his 478 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:09,800 Commandments. Today, that especially means for 479 00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:13,600 us to obey Christ Our Savior and obey the gospel Plan of 480 00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:18,500 Salvation and Obey God's Commandments, Mark 8 verses 34 481 00:34:18,500 --> 00:34:23,000 through 37, when he had called the people to himself and his 482 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:26,800 disciples also he said to them whosoever desires to come after 483 00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:31,900 me let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me for 484 00:34:31,900 --> 00:34:35,199 whosoever desires to save his life, will lose it, but 485 00:34:35,199 --> 00:34:37,500 whosoever loses his life for my sake. 486 00:34:37,900 --> 00:34:40,900 And the gospels will save it for. 487 00:34:40,900 --> 00:34:44,000 What will it profit? A man, if he gains the whole 488 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:51,500 world and loses his own soul, Or what will a man give in exchange 489 00:34:51,900 --> 00:34:56,800 for his soul? So if this world and all the 490 00:34:56,800 --> 00:35:00,300 striving for things of this world is of no value as 491 00:35:00,300 --> 00:35:07,200 meaningless as like grasping for the wind, And let's place our 492 00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:10,600 importance on things that are meaningful in life. 493 00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:18,800 And following Jesus. Ran across this quick poem that 494 00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:23,000 might Chris will put out it somewhat kind of says a little 495 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:25,400 bit about it. How our priorities in life are 496 00:35:27,700 --> 00:35:34,000 talk about the Working Farmer. He wasn't ready, Sunday morn, 497 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:36,500 the cows were lowing needed corn. 498 00:35:37,100 --> 00:35:41,600 A lot of hanging night before done took its toil and made him 499 00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:44,100 sore. So as he lay there in his bed 500 00:35:44,100 --> 00:35:48,200 and random thought ran through his head, if he could miss a 501 00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:51,100 little church, he'd be no longer in the Lurch. 502 00:35:51,300 --> 00:35:54,300 There'd be more time for him to do the daily chores that made 503 00:35:54,300 --> 00:35:56,800 him stew. And so with pillow under her 504 00:35:56,808 --> 00:36:00,700 head he closed his eyes and hugged his bed with blanket, 505 00:36:00,700 --> 00:36:02,500 soft and covers. I'm the church. 506 00:36:02,500 --> 00:36:07,100 Could wait, no one would mourn. No need for him to rush to 507 00:36:07,100 --> 00:36:11,900 prayer show up next week. No one will care hid toss a bit 508 00:36:11,900 --> 00:36:15,200 more in the plate, an extra five would expedite. 509 00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:18,200 Expiate his conscience, pure would praise. 510 00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:21,700 The more today was his to snooze and snore. 511 00:36:21,700 --> 00:36:25,100 And so it was down on the farm, the Lord's Day passed, without 512 00:36:25,100 --> 00:36:29,300 alarm more weeks rolled around, like, pretty please and bent his 513 00:36:29,300 --> 00:36:34,900 back, but not his knees. The day once his now his became 514 00:36:35,300 --> 00:36:39,300 and dodging Church became his game but soon he felt the toils 515 00:36:39,300 --> 00:36:42,100 of Life. His heart was fraught with awful 516 00:36:42,100 --> 00:36:45,000 Strife to one dark night with great alarm. 517 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:47,000 He set things, straight down on the farm. 518 00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:50,200 He went to bed ahead of time and woke up before the morning 519 00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:53,900 chime, he milked the cows and slop the Hogs, he gathered eggs 520 00:36:53,900 --> 00:36:58,600 and fed the dogs, he even found the time to pray a custom new to 521 00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:03,300 start the day. Then by and by as And a pass, he 522 00:37:03,300 --> 00:37:07,100 knew his faith was back at last and as he mused, it finally 523 00:37:07,100 --> 00:37:11,200 came. So to the wind and reap life 524 00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:19,800 Spain. so, the life of doing things, for our pleasure, doing 525 00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:24,400 things that are comfortable doing things that please us Four 526 00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:26,900 things here on this Earth. Have no value. 527 00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:35,300 Serving God has value. Has joy and pleasure. 528 00:37:35,900 --> 00:37:40,300 We enjoy the things God has left to us and the work of our hands 529 00:37:40,500 --> 00:37:43,300 and our hard labor. We enjoy those things here on 530 00:37:43,300 --> 00:37:47,600 Earth but that's all temporary and goes away, but serving God 531 00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:50,800 is forever. And will bring true Joy. 532 00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:54,900 We thank you for listening to our podcast, put on by the 533 00:37:54,900 --> 00:38:00,600 Church of Christ at 22:15 plans. Road in Bakersfield, if you 534 00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:03,700 would like any additional information, or you would like 535 00:38:03,700 --> 00:38:06,900 to receive a free Bible correspondence, course by mail. 536 00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:11,400 Please email us at info at her Church of Christ 537 00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:15,300 Bakersfield.com. Our service times are on Sundays 538 00:38:15,300 --> 00:38:20,900 at 10:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. and Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. 539 00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:25,100 Please make plans to join us. We would love for you to be our 540 00:38:25,100 --> 00:38:26,000 honored guest.