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Continuing our study in Ecclesiasties, Meaningless Life Part 7.

Today we're going to take a crash. these meaningless life part 7.

Today we're going to take a crash course in people

from Ecclesiasties chapter 4

versus 4 through 16.

I don't know if you notice this, there's a lot of people on the earth lots of them

question becomes well who do you pick as a friend who do you do life with who do you live in

community with who do you entrust yourself to who do you live in community with, who do you entrust yourself to, who do you take advice from?

And this issue really increases as life changes.

Let's say you move from one city to another. You graduate from high school and now you're off in the big world or you're starting college or you've finished college and now you're entering into the workplace or perhaps you've

transitioned jobs or maybe you've been through a divorce and a life transition and your social

circle has now changed or you've transitioned from one church community to another

and now all of a sudden there are a bunch of people many or most of whom you don't know or you don't know very well.

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