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🗓️ 30 July 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Do you go to church to be served or to serve? Do you have cat theology or dog theology? Should the church cater to your needs or God's? In today's episode, Keith looks at Ecclesiastes 5, reminding us of what it means that God is in heaven and we are on earth. Read the Bible with us in 2024! This year, we’re tackling a group of Old Testament books traditionally known as “The Writings”— Psalms, Chronicles, Proverbs, Daniel, Ruth and more! Download your reading plan now. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it so that others can find it, too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: Ecclesiastes 5

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life.
0:09.0	In the time it takes to get to work, I'm Keith Simon.
0:14.0	Gravestones are to get to work. I'm Keith Simon. Gravesstones always tell us when a person died,
0:17.0	but sometimes they tell us how a person lived.
0:20.0	Sometimes they tell us what they believed.
0:23.0	Mel Blank was famous for being the voice behind many of the well-known cartoon characters.
0:29.0	For example, he was the voice of Porky Pig but so many more.
0:33.2	He would end all the Looney Tunes cartoons
0:36.4	by saying, that's all folks.
0:38.8	But that wasn't just a saying to end a cartoon,
0:42.0	that was his perspective on life. that phrase that's all folks that ended up on his tombstone
0:48.1	There's an unknown woman's grave that I came across her name name was Margaret. She died before she was 50 and all her
0:55.8	tombstone said was waiting. Well those are two different ways to live. That's all folks
1:01.8	versus waiting. Those are two different approaches to life.
1:06.0	One thinks that you have to go for it now because your life is contained here in this world.
1:13.5	And the other approach says that there is more to your life than what happens in this world.
1:19.7	There is another world, a future world, a world with God. Margaret, whoever she was, didn't think her life
1:27.0	here was everything. No, her years here were like the first chapter of a book.
1:33.4	Well, maybe not even the first chapter, like maybe the first paragraph of the first chapter
1:39.0	of a much longer story, but maybe it's not even the first paragraph.
1:42.3	Maybe it's like the first sentence. She knew her life here in this world was like the first sentence of the first paragraph of the first chapter of a much longer story. Here's what we do know. We all know that we have a finite amount of time on this earth.
1:58.8	Are we going to live our life for the here and now? Or are we going to live our life with eternal
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