Your Stuff, Your Savior, Your Satisfaction: Ecclesiastes 5:8-20

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🗓️ 28 September 2015

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Class conflict between the rich and poor is seemingly constant, and only increased during an election season. It is common for each side to villainize the other...This conflict is so deep in the roots of western cultures that even Christians get into the mudslinging and name calling. The truth is, you can cherry pick Bible verses to support both sides quite easily, which is what left leaning poverty theology and right leaning prosperity theology tend to do.

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0:33.8	Alright, Pastor Mark here, continuing our meaningless life study in Ecclesiastes today.
0:40.7	We're talking about your stuff, your savior and your satisfaction in Ecclesiastes, chapter
0:46.6	five verses eight through twenty.
0:52.2	Selection season, I don't know if you've noticed, but class conflict.
0:56.2	Back on the front burner, yes, the debate between the rich and the poor, which is constant,
1:03.6	really increases during an election cycle and season.
1:09.0	And it is common for each side to villainize the other side.
1:11.8	So those who lean politically left will paint a caricature of the rich as greedy, unscrupulous,
1:19.6	godless people who rob the poor, rig the system, oppress the needy, without any regard for
1:25.8	the well-being of others.
1:27.7	Think, think, scrooge.
1:31.1	Those who lean politically right have the opposite view and tend to paint the poor as lazy,
1:38.4	unmotivated, takers, and free loaders who elect politicians who will fleece the hardworking,
1:47.4	rich through taxes and give their hard earned money away who to those who did not earn it
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