S3:037 Ecclesiastes 9
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Watermark Community Church, Dallas, TX
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🗓️ 20 February 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Emma Dotter is back with Ben Krejci talking Ecclesiastes 9. No matter the good or bad, God has allowed both in the world. But Ecclesiastes 9 highlights that we even have life at all! Ben tells us to look at this passage in light of the rest of Scripture, because God loves us and cares about us in the good and the bad. Ecclesiastes paired with the rest of the Bible gives comfort to the Christian, there is hope and purpose in life and in death.
Additional Scriptures used in this passage
Ephesians 2:10, “But we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works.”
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| 0:00.0 | All right, all right, join the Journey family, friends, and guests. |
| 0:04.5 | You're listening to Join the Journey podcast with your host, Emma Daughter. |
| 0:10.4 | Thanks for joining today. |
| 0:12.3 | We are reading Ecclesiastes 9, but if you are listening to this episode on the day it comes out, |
| 0:17.3 | we are at day 20 of our 21 days of prayer and fasting campaign, which means |
| 0:22.6 | tomorrow night you are invited to join us at a worship gathering here at Watermark |
| 0:28.1 | Dallas, and we'd love to see you as we will be celebrating all God is done throughout the last |
| 0:33.3 | 21 days. But all of that said, today I am back in the podcast studio with the one and only |
| 0:39.3 | Ben Krati. How's it going, Emma? I'm so excited to be back. Ben, I'm glad to have you back. |
| 0:44.4 | We have a little bit of a doozy of a topic. Oh, yeah. So maybe, I mean, we could do some fun, |
| 0:50.1 | but I think maybe we should just get into it. Let's get into it. It's been fun for the past few chapters of seeing kind of how it builds on each other of Ecclesiastes. |
| 0:59.3 | It sets up a lot of things, and I think chapter nine really pulls a lot of it together. |
| 1:05.3 | Ecclesiastes like we talked about when we said Ecclesiastes too. |
| 1:08.8 | It's a lot of, okay, this is tough, but we kind of get a little |
| 1:12.3 | bit of a breath of air here. And I hope by the end of this, we can share some things that are |
| 1:16.6 | kind of hopeful. Sure. It's funny you start that way, Ben, because I think somebody, they've been |
| 1:21.9 | reading Ecclesiastes, they're following along, and they're catching on to the theme. Everything's |
| 1:26.9 | meaningless. It's all meaningless. |
| 1:28.5 | Yes. |
| 1:29.0 | And we could almost be left asking the question, if everybody's going to die, what's the point? |
| 1:35.6 | Oh, absolutely. I mean, we just in the last chapter talked about, okay, whether your life goes |
| 1:40.6 | really well, where your life goes really poorly, and then chapter nine sets that up again, says, okay, well, we're all going to die. |
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