Ecclesiastes Part 2 - The Gift

Exploring My Strange Bible

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🗓️ 28 August 2017

⏱️ 45 minutes

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This is the second in a series of three episodes on the Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes, a really unique book of the Bible. It contains some of most skeptical wisdom in all of the Scriptures, sometimes scandalous and always fascinating. In this book the teachers shows how most of our daily time and energy is spent on things that are totally meaningless, which should motivate humility, integrity, and enjoyment of the simple things in life.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, I'm Tim McEy and this is my podcast Exploring My Strange Bible.
0:13.9	I am a card carrying Bible history and language nerd who thinks that Jesus of Nazareth is
0:20.0	utterly amazing and worth following with everything that you have.
0:23.7	On this podcast I'm putting together the last ten years worth of lectures and sermons
0:28.2	where I've been exploring the strange and wonderful story of the Bible and how it invites
0:33.3	us into the mission of Jesus and the journey of faith.
0:36.3	And I hope this can be helpful for you too.
0:38.6	I also help start this thing called the Bible Project.
0:41.0	We make animated videos and podcasts about all kinds of topics in Bible and theology.
0:46.0	You can find those resources at thebibelproject.com.
0:49.8	With all that said, let's dive into the episode for this week.
0:58.2	Alright, this is part two of a three part teaching series on the book of Ecclesiastes.
1:07.6	We're unpacking the main themes in the Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes.
1:13.0	And in this teaching we build off of the first one which was exploring the core metaphor,
1:20.2	the teacher, the skeptic in this book, has about all of life that all of life is heaven.
1:26.3	That is unpredictable, enigma, absurd, ungraspable.
1:32.1	And so in the light of that fact the teacher takes a pretty dim view of you being able
1:37.4	to get really a lot of leverage on controlling your life or even understanding its meaning,
1:44.3	which is not something you expect to hear from the Bible, but there it is.
1:48.4	So how do you respond to this really sobering truth?
1:51.6	And that's what we explore in this teaching.
1:54.4	There's a handful of passages in the book of Ecclesiastes where the teaching voice says
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