77. The Book of Ecclesiastes, Part 3 (Ecclesiastes 1:12-18) – Pr. Will Weedon, 3/18/25

The Word of the Lord Endures Forever

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Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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“Lord, Keep Us Steadfast in Thy Word” by Kirk Meyer

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0:00.0	Join me for a hymn sing at the 2025 issues, etc., making the case conference.
0:06.1	Friday, July 18th and Saturday, July 19th, at Concordia University, Chicago.
0:11.3	This year's theme, The Word of God.
0:14.5	Learn more and register at issuesetc.org.
0:19.2	The Word of the Lord Endures Forever is brought to you in part by the Lutheran Heritage Foundation.
0:25.4	LHF is a recognized service organization of the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod, dedicated to
0:31.2	translating and publishing the books of our Lutheran faith into more than 100 languages for
0:36.7	our Christian brothers and sisters around the world.
0:39.9	Learn how you can take part in their work at LHFMissions.org.
0:48.4	Welcome to the Word of the Lord Enduresres forever with Pastor Will Whedon.
0:54.9	If the dry pursuit of accumulating knowledge and fact ended up being finally pointless,
1:01.5	so is the chasing after the ecstatic or mad experience. Look, if the encyclopedia can't save
1:07.9	you, neither can the magic mushrooms. The Word of the Lord endures forever is a daily verse-by-verse Bible study with the church,
1:15.6	past and present.
1:17.6	Pastor Whedon is leading us in a study of the book of Ecclesiastes.
1:21.6	The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.
1:28.3	Greetings, people, love by God. In our previous study, we heard the King express his frustration with the weariness of the world, the cycles of life, the pointlessness of seeing and hearing and yet never being satisfied.
1:42.3	We saw that this is exactly where human wisdom and reason land you apart from Christ.
1:48.4	The world seems colorless and drab and, well, just a big old boar.
1:53.2	Life is a yawn, who cares?
1:55.7	Solomon is looking for something new, something exciting, something that would break through the old and
2:02.5	apparently endless cycles. But everywhere he looks in creation, it's just the same old, same old.
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