up on the screen.

Ephesians 212 says that without Christ, it talked about that we have no hope and are without God

in the world.

Without Christ is without hope in this world.

Without Christ is without God.

There's no other way to God except by Him, the Scripture tells us.

And the wisest man who had lived on the earth, natural man, Solomon, wrote the book of Ecclesiastes.

And his conclusion was that everything in this life, just naturally speaking, was vain and meaningless.

Now, you might think, well, that's depressing.

I don't want to read that.

But no, it's something that you need to understand because without Christ, that's the way it is.

And put up on the screen, if you would, for us, Ecclesiastes 1 and 2.

Now, this is a man whom God gave, the Bible said, wisdom and understanding like the breadth of the seashore.

I mean, Solomon was extraordinarily, amazingly wise.

Well, wisdom means you see the outcome.

You see what everything is leading to and how it's going to wind up, how it's going to end.

Wisdom gives you this perspective and insight.

And after living for years, and if you read in Ecclesiastes and also the other passage of

scripture, all the things that he did, he did amazing things.

He was, his investments, his endeavors produced wealth.

I don't know if it had been seen before until that time.

The projects he did is he talked about his orchards and his forests and his farming and his flocks and his herds.

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