Tug of War: Ecclesiastes 8:2-17

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🗓️ 26 October 2015

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Until the final judgment, we are encouraged to have fun, eat something good, drink something tasty, and make some memories by enjoying life. Life is filled with injustice, frustration, and work to be done. We should work for justice, but, we also need to not become so obsessed, driven, and serious that we lose sight of the goodness of God and greatness of His coming kingdom. Some people are so dour that they accomplish a lot but live very little.

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0:31.8	Thank you.
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0:35.8	Pastor Mark Driscoll here.
0:37.2	We continue our Bible study in Ecclesiastes.
0:41.5	This week we look at the cultural tug of war as our meaningless life trip through Ecclesiastes.
0:49.1	Lands in chapter 8 verses 2 through 17.
0:55.0	More of the question, did you have played tug of war as a kid some months ago at the end
1:01.0	of the last school year?
1:02.0	I went to my kids school and they had their field day activities.
1:06.7	I don't know if you recall those.
1:09.3	And one of the big events was the tug of war.
1:12.4	And we played it when I was a kid as well.
1:15.2	And usually the way it works, there's a big, long rope.
1:18.2	There are some kids on the left, some kids on the right.
1:21.7	And in the middle is a red bandana.
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