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What is up, everybody? This is the Daily Drive, and I'm Mike Bro. Together, we are looking at

five easy ways to wreck your life.

We're diving into a journal written by a powerful, wealthy king named Solomon,

is called the Book of Ecclesiastes.

It is contained in the Old Testament of the Bible.

And we gave some context and background yesterday,

so if you missed some of that, you might want to go back and catch it.

But today we're going to look at Solomon's first insight on how to wreck your life. He says, so you want to wreck your life,

here's how you do it. Let pleasure drive you. Let pleasure drive you. Ecclesiastes chapter two,

he says, I said to myself, come on, let's try pleasure. Let's just look for the quote-unquote good things in life. He says, I said to myself, come on, let's try pleasure. Let's just look for the quote-unquote

good things in life. He says, I'm just going to let the pursuit of pleasure drive my life.

I'm going to let my impulses, my self-centered desires, I'm going to let my appetites

just guide my every step. I may have given you these insights about appetites that I got from

Andy Stanley years ago, but here are a few truths about our appetites. Number one is this. Appetites

were created by God and distorted by sin. Appetites were created by God, but distorted by sin.

We were all made in the image of God, and he wired us up with healthy desires.

The desire to be loved is a good thing. The desire to achieve is a good thing. Sexual desire. It's a good thing.

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