All right, well, good evening and welcome. We want to welcome those of you that are joining us online,

or if you're watching this at a later time. On Thursday nights, we're going through the Bible,

and tonight we are in the book of Ecclesiastes, chapter three. We're going through the Bible,

book by book, and chapter by chapter and verse by

verse. We started, I don't even want to tell you how many years ago in the book of Genesis.

Then we made our way through Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, judges, Ruth,

1st and 2nd Samuel, 1st and 2nd Kings, 1st and 2nd Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Job.

What a book.

What a trial.

Psalms and then Proverbs and then now we are in the book of Ecclesiastes.

And so chapter 3 tonight, been really looking forward to

what the Lord has for us. This is a very well-known chapter in passage of scripture. And it is

related to everything having to do with there being a time and a season for everything.

And as we're going to see here shortly, Solomon is going to make this profound connection between time in the realm of the finite and eternity

in the realm of the infinite.

And I really want to point this out because in so doing, he comes to this conclusion that God has made everything

beautiful and meaningful and he has set everything right. And that's actually when we get to that verse, what that word carries

with it the idea of. It's not just that he makes everything beautiful in his time. He makes

everything right. He sets it right. And he does so because he's not created us for time. He's created us for eternity.

But here's this struggle because we live in time, but we live for eternity. And this is the struggle and the conflict that Solomon is having. Because remember

now, he has set out to find purpose and meaning in life and all add death as well. We'll see a

little bit of that tonight. And he's set out to do this apart from God.

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