Hey guys, my name is Johnny Artivannis, and this is Dialin. I wanted to thank you guys for listening to

the series. It's so cool to see how the Lord is using his word across the globe. This study in

Ecclesiastes is currently being streamed in over 90 countries, which evidence is just a hunger

for people to know the truth. And so I'm thankful for that.

In this episode, we're going to be in chapter four, and we're going to be looking at

Solomon evaluating life under the sun and saying that there's only one way to truly

experience joy in life.

And we'll look at that through the lens of deep relationships and meaningful community.

Let's dial in.

All right, let's recap. King Solomon is the most powerful, wealthy, wise man in the world and he's

searching for meaning and satisfaction

in a broken world. And while he embarks on this tour with unlimited resources and unlimited

power, he is going to operate as our tour guide. And this tour that he leads us on is not being

conducted in the sphere of hypothetical laboratories,

but rather on the streets of the University of Life.

In chapter four, we are going to see him say in verses one, four, and seven.

He says, I have looked again, I have seen in verse four,

and then I looked again in verse seven,

meaning that Solomon is making observations personally, and then I looked again in verse 7, meaning that Solomon is making observations personally,

and then providing those observations for us here.

He's not discussing his search or theoreticals of life at a roundtable with philosophers,

but the realities of life are being discussed at coffee shops with everyday people

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