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- Welcome to the Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. The book of Ecclesiastes, now the word
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- Ecclesiastes means preacher. This is the idea of the preacher or teacher. This is written by Solomon and what is very interesting about this book is it seems almost like an autobiographical type of work where Solomon, who was at the time the wisest man who had ever lived, he was known for his great wisdom, but he was also known for giving over to his flesh with his many wives, his much money, and he had everything that anyone could ever ask for.
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- And yet he writes a book that as you read through the book, everything is vanity. Everything's meaningless.
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- Whether it be wisdom or work or righteousness or wealth, prestige, pleasure, youth or vigor, whether it be even your future after death, he argues that everything is meaningless except for the wisdom of God.
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- And so what you end up seeing throughout this book is this is saying that everything, everything is a meaningless thing compared to God.
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- And what we see here is a book that is extremely valuable for us today, though many don't study it, because this is a book where so many in America especially are trying to live, to have all these great pleasures and comfort, have all this money and everything else so that they can live the comfortable
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- Christian life, and what do we see in Ecclesiastes? That without God it's all meaningless.
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- This podcast is part of the Striving for Eternity ministry. For more content or to request a speaker or seminar to your church, go to strivingforeternity .org.
