How am I doing? Good evening and welcome to our midweek Bible study.

On Thursday nights, we're going through the Bible, book by book, and chapter by chapter,

and verse by verse, and tonight we are in the book of Ecclesiastes last week. We finished

chapter one. We're going to pick it up tonight

and Lord willing make it through chapter two. So I'll invite you to turn there in your

Bibles for those of you that are online. And for those of you here, you're probably already

there. So again, really looking forward to what the Lord has for us

tonight. As we make our way through chapter 2, it's going to become abundantly clear that Solomon

is learning the hard way.

I don't know if you, this is going to date me for you younger people, this you have no idea.

I think it was back in the 70s. I don't know if you remember the Fram oil commercial,

oil filter commercial, where the guy would get on TV and he would hold up this Fram oil

filter and he would say you can pay me now or you can pay me later. Oh, you do remember

that. That has stuck with me all these years because the whole point was you can pay me now for

this filter way more better, more better, or you can pay me later when it's going to be way

more expensive because you're going to be paying for a new engine.

So there's the easy way and there's the hard way.

And I don't know what it is, and I'll speak for myself, but I have to learn the hard way

and I have the scars to prove it.

Oh, I wish that maybe you're different. If you are,

praise the Lord, you're saving yourself a lot of heartache, a lot of misery, a lot of problems,

a lot of trouble, but there are just some of us that have to learn the hard way.

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