Climb the Ladder: Ecclesiastes 6:1-12

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🗓️ 5 October 2015

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In Western culture, the adults have invented a new game that I like to call “Climb the Ladder.” In Climb the Ladder you look at those people who are above you on the rungs of success. You spend so much time looking at life on their rung - such as the car they drive, house they live in, clothes they wear, food they eat, and social events they enjoy – that when you look down at your rung beneath them you find yourself unhappy.

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0:32.8	Alright, Pastor Mark Driscoll here continuing our study of Ecclesiastes.
0:38.3	I think this week we're in part 10.
0:41.9	Ecclesiastes chapter 6 verses 1 through 12 in our meaningless life study as we seek to
0:48.8	pour some meaning into our meaningless life.
0:51.4	And today's sermon title is Climb the Ladder.
0:56.8	Did you grow up in a game playing home?
0:59.4	Our family was like play sports, kids outside all day on bikes playing with a ball and football
1:05.4	and running all over the neighborhood and then come home at night eat dinner and watch
1:09.2	some television.
1:11.2	Conversely my wife Grace the family that she grew up and it was largely a game playing
1:15.0	home.
1:16.0	So they didn't watch a lot of television.
1:18.0	They had three girls.
1:19.7	We had three boys and two girls, a lot of activity at our place.
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