Running To Your Funeral: Ecclesiastes 2:12-26

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Mark Driscoll

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🗓️ 24 August 2015

⏱️ 52 minutes

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If you stop to think about your work, what it’s accomplishing, and why you should keep working, you will likely end up very discouraged, start wearing black, and listening to bands fronted by people whose dad did not hug them enough. But, this kind of reflection on "why we do what we do" is rare because we are so stressed out by our work that we lay awake at night, so overwhelmed by what we have to do that we don’t even have the time or energy to ask if we should be doing it.

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0:31.6	Thank you. Howdy, Pastor Mark Triscoll here. Part four in Ecclesiasties, running to your funeral.
0:41.5	What a bummer of a book. Ecclesiasties too. Today we're in verses 12 through 26 going through the entire book.
0:48.8	Verse by verse, one of my favorite books of the whole Bible, been studying it since God first saved me in the
0:56.2	see it would be late 80s early 90s I reckon it would be been a long time.
1:02.8	Let me pray and we'll get right to work, Father.
1:04.2	Thank you for the Book of Ecclesiasties.
1:06.3	Thank you for Solomon's brutal, painful honesty. Thank you that he was really painfully honest with us
1:19.8	about the experiences of his life and the experiences of his life
1:23.0	and the failures of his life
1:25.6	and the choices of his life
1:27.8	so that we might vicariously learn from him.
1:31.4	Hopefully that we might avoid some of the same mistakes that he made and sins
1:36.7	that he savored and folly that he favored.
1:40.1	And so, Lord God, help us through the power of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of wisdom,
1:45.2	to receive wisdom from your word today that we might walk in your wisdom.
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