Running To Your Funeral: Ecclesiastes 2:12-26

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Mark Driscoll

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 24 August 2015

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

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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0:33.8	Howdy Pastor Mark Driscoll here.
0:36.1	Part four in Ecclesiastes, running to your funeral.
0:41.6	What a bummer of a book.
0:42.6	Ecclesiastes 2, today we're in verses 12 through 26, going through the entire book, verse
0:49.0	by verse one of my favorite books of the whole Bible, been studying it since God first
0:54.3	saved me in the, see it would be late, 80s, early 90s, I reckon it would be, been a long
1:01.9	time.
1:02.9	Let me pray and we'll get right to work, Father.
1:04.4	Thank you for the book of Ecclesiastes.
1:06.5	Thank you for Solomon's brutal, painful honesty.
1:13.0	Thank you that he was really painfully honest with us about the experiences of his life
1:22.9	and the failures of his life and the choices of his life so that we might vicariously learn
1:30.0	from him.
1:31.4	Hopefully that we might avoid some of the same mistakes that he made and sins that he
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