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Baudy, Pastor Mark Driscoll here.

We are in our meaningless life Bible study, looking at Ecclesiasties today. It's life liberty and the pursuit of misery in Ecclesiasties chapter 2 verses 1 through 11 One of my if not my favorite books of the Bible is

Ecclesiasties in part because it is so altogether different in tone than the rest of the Bible and I think I know why.

I'll start with the story in school I was really bad at math horrible awful terrible

at math I don't know what subjects you were good at math was definitely not one for me.

On the rare occasion that I would get the right answer and yes you could add that to

Jesus list of miracles.

On the rare occasion that I actually got the right answer to some math equation,

invariably my grade would be marked down because even if I somehow got the right answer, I didn't show my math well.

My math was convoluted or I did it in my head and I didn't know how to get it down on paper and the teachers would mark me down because they don't want you to just get the right answers but they also want to see that you

understand how you got that answer and why that answer is right. Well I don't

know if my math teachers ever read the Bible, but if they did, I think they would have really enjoyed

ecclesiasties. Here's why. It's a book that shows us the math for the rest of the Bible.

If you read the Bible it gives you

conclusions, answers such as life apart from God is not the best possible life that you could enjoy that that life with God is more satisfying

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