Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Misery: Ecclesiastes 2:1-11

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Mark Driscoll

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 17 August 2015

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Solomon tried to find meaning by enjoying anything and everything apart from God but found it to be a meaningless waste of time. This just goes to prove that you can have a full fridge, full house, full closet, full bank account, full social life, full mind, full stomach, full liquor cabinet, full résumé, full bedroom, yet an empty soul. Everything minus God is nothing. Nothing plus God is everything.

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0:31.8	Thank you.
0:34.6	Pastor Mark Driscoll here.
0:37.2	We are in our meaningless life Bible study looking at Ecclesiastes today.
0:44.7	It's life, liberty, and pursuit of misery in Ecclesiastes 2 verses 1 through 11.
0:53.7	One of my favorite books of the Bible is Ecclesiastes, in part because it is so altogether
1:02.0	different in tone than the rest of the Bible.
1:06.0	I think I know why.
1:10.0	I'll start with the story.
1:12.0	In school, I was really bad at math.
1:16.8	Horrible, awful, terrible at math.
1:20.0	I don't know what subjects you were good at.
1:22.3	Math was definitely not one for me.
1:25.2	On the rare occasion that I would get the right answer, and yes, you could add that to
1:31.2	Jesus' list of miracles, on the rare occasion that I actually got the right answer to some
1:36.2	math equation, invariably, my grade would be marked down because even if I somehow got
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