Wisdom and foolishness are not tied to academic accomplishment or achievement.

School provides knowledge, but it won't necessarily teach you to use it the way God intended.

That takes wisdom.

Wisdom is the ability to make spiritually informed decisions.

This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings from the archives of Dr. Tony Evans.

Many people are smart, but not so many are wise. Dr. Evans says the difference between the two is dramatic

and can make more of an impact on your life than property and possessions combined.

Today, he talks about the path to godly wisdom as he looks at the book of Ecclesiastes.

Let's join him.

Solomon has observed life under the sun where men live, work, clay, raise families.

And he is giving his observations. He's letting you see what he saw

as men live life under the sun here on earth, not above the sun with the Lord under the sun,

where men live. And he's letting you know the good, the bad, and the ugly. He's letting you know,

you know, he's, as we would say, keeping it real.

He's keeping it real because he wants you to understand life under the sun.

And in explaining this life under the sun, the things he observes and seen in his own struggles,

in his own failures, in his own failures, in his own successes.

He punctuates it all throughout the book with, if you really want to have life as God

meant it to be lived, even with all the realities, good, bad and ugly, that are under the sun

where men live, then God's presence,

God's intervention, God's purposes must be integrated into your life under the sun. So he is saying

you are not to have a pie in the sky religion.

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