Thank you, Josiah.

Was anybody here alive in 1950?

Okay, that's when I came on the scene.

I saw the porch, I saw a watermark when it was just a gleam in the eye of a bunch of guys.

So this is a special delight from the prayers that went up for you before you were ever

here.

I want to show you something because we're about to start Ecclesiastes, is that right, Josiah?

Says you to me, we're going to start Ecclesiastes, could you teach something on this?

I said, man, I wrote a book on this.

It sold dozens of copies over these years.

Take a look in your Bible at the book of Ecclesiastes or your computer machine or your phone or whatever

you have there.

And so in Ecclesiastes, chapter 1, in your Old Testament, you've got the history from

Genesis to Nehemiah.

And then after that, you've got the prophets from Isaiah to Melika.

That's the beginning and end of your Old Testament.

And right in the middle, you have what are called, the wisdom books, Psalms, Proverbs,

Song of Solomon, Ecclesiastes, I forgot one.

Job, all of those books are kind of the philosophy books.

They're called the poetry books because they deal with the heart issues of life.

What got them in trouble in the history books, what got them prophesied about in the prophets,

that of man and sin in this world.

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