God forbid, a politician let you down.

When they do, if you choose to turn to the church thinking they're not going to let me down,

Solomon is saying right here in verse 16, the church is definitely going to let you let you down.

So how do you have hope in a world like that?

Amen.

Welcome, welcome, welcome.

Welcome to House Church.

My name is Alex.

And here at House Church, we believe that the gospel changes everything.

We're going to be in Ecclesiastes, Chapter 3, 16 through 17.

If you want to learn more about House Church and what we do here, Amenpodcast.com, amenpodcast.com. But we're going to be talking about

trusting God in troubling times. Trusting God in troubling times. Say that for me. Beautiful.

Put it in the chat. Everyone out there. Trusting God and troubling time. So I want to tell you the story of

Daniel first. Daniel loves God so much. He spends hours in moment after moment going to God exclusively in prayer,

like stopping what he's doing, going to his bedroom, closing the door multiple times a day,

and praying out to God.

He is so consistent with this, it becomes the only weak spot for his enemies to shoot at.

So the king that Daniel's serving under at the time loves Daniel. Now, the king is a wicked king.

He's pagan into a lot of weird stuff, doesn't know the God of the

Bible, but he loves Daniel because Daniels has integrity, he's righteous. It's the thing about

Christians, if you really love God and people can see your love for God, they may not be

able to pinpoint what it is, but there's something about you that nonbelievers will like,

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