History’s Wisest Fool Tells Truth about Everything: Ecclesiastes 1:1-11

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Mark Driscoll

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 3 August 2015

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

According to Ecclesiastes, the evolutionary chart in school fooled us into believing that history is a straight line going up and we are more advanced than those primitive people who came before us. The truth is that history is really a circle, a cul-de-sac to be more exact. One generation after another drives around that cul-de-sac worshiping their idol and trying to outdo their neighbor with more sex, more stuff, more power, more information, and more fame. As fools often do, we mistake movement for progress. With brutal honesty about this fact, Ecclesiastes feels more like a punch in the gut than a kiss on the lips.

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0:35.4	At Pastor Mark Driscoll here, we are starting an 18 week series on Ecclesiastes called
0:43.4	Meaningless Life.
0:45.2	The world's wisest fool tells it like it is working from home today and the kids are
0:49.8	a little sick.
0:50.8	So if you hear a little one drop in, you know what's going on.
0:55.0	We go ahead and pray and we'll jump into what is one of my favorite books of all time.
0:59.8	Father God, thank you for an opportunity to open the scriptures and to examine an ancient
1:05.9	book that in every way absolutely applies to contemporary, current, modern day, everyday
1:12.9	trials and troubles and tribulations.
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1:20.1	deeper affection and appetite for Jesus and whose name we pray.
1:24.4	As we jump into Ecclesiastes, I was thinking about it and when I was a kid, I watched a lot
1:30.4	of Sesame Street.
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