Dr. Tony Evans

Tony Evans - Changing Vanity Into Victory

August 31, 2025 | 28:40

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Dr. Tony Evans | Tony Evans - Changing Vanity Into Victory | August 31, 2025

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Tony evans: you are living in the land of the dying
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On your way to the land of the living.
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So, if you think this is it,
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You're gonna live like this is it.
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If you know this is not it,
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Then you will live as though it's not it,
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And you will find life in that approach.
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And so to make that eternal connection
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Is god's answer to the question of purpose, meaning.
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Tony: the man's name is solomon.
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The book god gave him the right was ecclesiastes.
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If anyone is qualified to tell you about life,
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It's solomon.
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I mean, here is a man who was born
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With a silver spoon in his mouth.
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He was the son of a king.
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In ecclesiastes, chapter 1, the first three verses says,
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"the words of the preacher, the son of david,
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King in jerusalem.
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Vanity of vanity, says the preacher.
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Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
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What advantage does man have in all his work
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Which he does under the sun?"
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Solomon opens up his book, and he tells you,
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When he opens the book,
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"i don't have anything to talk about."
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The word "vanity" means emptiness, worthlessness,
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That which is without purpose.
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He opens up his book talking about his emptiness.
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If any man shouldn't have been empty,
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It should have been solomon.
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He had everything you and i dream for, long for,
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And go after.
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And yet his first words is
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"vanity of vanity, saith the preacher.
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All of life is vanity."
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Emptiness, purposelessness.
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And that's why we spend so much time to give us
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A sense of worth, significance, and well-being.
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But wouldn't you know it?
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As soon as you look like you found it, you lose it.
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It's like when you score a touchdown in life,
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Something crosses the goal line and you feel like, "yeah!"
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Looks like as soon as that happens,
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Somebody blows a whistle and calls the play back.
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Or like the fourth of july
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When the firecracker goes up in the air
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And you get this explosion of lights
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And you're excited for a minute,
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But then after a moment, things get dark again.
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Because we long for that thing that will give us
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A sense of substance, significance, and worth--
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Something that will give you value.
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For so many people, life is like poking your finger
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Into a glass of water, lifting it up,
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And watching the hole you don't leave behind.
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'cause as soon as you impact it, boom, it's gone.
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The hole is filled up.
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So, purposelessness is what solomon
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Wants to talk to you and me about.
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You know, people spend so much time
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Trying to fake it to make it
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In order to at least give the impression
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"i know who i am and what i'm doing."
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It's like the man who had a "beware of dog" sign
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When there was no dog.
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We put on clothes to give the sign "i am somebody."
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We drive cars to give the sign "i am significant."
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We hang out with folk who will give others
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The impression, "i am somebody because i hang out with them"--
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Anything that will give us the sense of non-vanity,
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The sense of lack of meaning and purpose,
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The sense of emptiness that engulfs us.
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Solomon's message is very simple.
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If you forget everything i say in the next few moments,
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Remember this-- because if you remember this,
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You will have remembered everything:
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Solomon's point is that
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When life gets disconnected from god and eternity,
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It inevitably becomes meaningless.
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Let me say it another way.
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Life becomes meaningless and without purpose
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When it gets disconnected from god and eternity.
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The whole 12 chapters of the book of ecclesiastes
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Is about life under the sun.
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"under the sun" means on earth-- in time and space--
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Where men live, work, play, raise families.
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That's life under the sun-- where humanity operates.
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He says, when your life under the sun gets disconnected
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From life above the sun--
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When your life, my life, our lives
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Gets disconnected from god and an eternal perspective--
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You can expect to be able to say as he says,
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"vanity of vanity, saith the preacher.
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All is vanity."
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He takes us on a tour of his life.
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He gives us a sampling of how he tried to fill
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The hole that he was feeling deep down in his soul--
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A hole so big you could drive a mack truck through it.
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And yet he wanted to get it filled.
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And so in chapter 2, he says,
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"i said to myself, 'come now, i will test you with pleasure.'"
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He said, "i'mma party. i'mma party.
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I'mma party hardy. i'm gonna have a good time."
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He said, "i said to myself, 'let me test you, life.
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Let me find out what life is all about with a party.'"
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I mean, everybody likes a party. everybody likes a jam.
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Everybody likes to be able to have a good time.
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He said, "let me just have a good time.
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And so if i can have a good time,
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Then i can feel alive."
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What did you do to have a good time?
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'cause he says in verse 1,
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"so, go ahead and enjoy yourself."
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He says in verse 3, "i explored with my mind
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How to stimulate my body."
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I wanted my body to feel something.
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I wanted to feel something.
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And so he says, "i drank wine
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Till i couldn't handle it anymore.
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I tested pleasure that would turn my body on
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So that i would feel this sense of life and purpose."
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He said, "i tried it. i tried to have a good time.
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It was fun, but it wasn't filling.
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It tastes great, but it was less filling."
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Yeah, some of y'all know what that's talking about.
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[congregation laughing]
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He says, "i sought pleasure." notice his words.
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He says in verse 4, "i enlarged works
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And i built houses for myself.
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I planted vineyards for myself."
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Verse 5, "i made gardens and parks for myself."
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Verse 6, "i made ponds of water for myself."
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Verse 8, "i collected for myself silver and gold
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And treasures of kings and provinces.
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I provided for myself male and female singers
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And the pleasures of men and many concubines."
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He said, "and i did all this for myself
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'cause i wanted to feel it.
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And so i spared no expense."
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Here was a man who didn't have to go to a party.
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He was the party-- 'cause he could afford it.
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So, he brought in the band.
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He brought in the male singers and the female singers.
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He brought in the men. he brought in the women.
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He brought in the liquor. he brought in the drugs.
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He could buy it 'cause he's the king,
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And nobody could deny him.
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How did the pleasure work out for you, solomon?
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How did the party work? how did the good times roll?
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He said, verse 11, "i considered my activities
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Which my hands had done
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And the labor which i had exerted,
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And behold, all was vanity and striving
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After the wind, and there was no profit
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Underneath the sun."
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He said, "after the party... emptiness set in again.
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After the folk left, dryness set in again."
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He says, "if you wanna know what i'm talking about,"
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He says--every one of you can test it
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When you leave service today, because it says,
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"it's like striving after the wind."
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So, when you leave church today, go out into the parking lot
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And wait for the first breeze that comes your way.
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And the first breeze that comes your way--grab it.
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Grab a handful of blowing air. hold on to it.
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Don't let it go. don't let it escape you.
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He says you will discover, when you strive after the wind,
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As soon as you...grab it, you just lost it.
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He says, "it was vexing to me, and it was vanity,
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Not because it wasn't fun--
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It just had no meaning attached to it,
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No purpose attached to it."
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He's talking about the emptiness of life
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Underneath the sun-- that is, disconnected from god.
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So, he tried something else.
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He said, "i know what i'll do: i'll get me an edumacation."
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Verse 12, "so, i turned to consider wisdom and madness
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And folly.
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For what will the man do who will come after the king,
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Except what has already been done?
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And i saw that wisdom exceeds folly, as light excels darkness.
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The wise man's eyes are in his head,
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But the fool walks in darkness.
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And yet i know one fate will befall them both."
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Then i said to myself, 'as is the fate of the fool,
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It will also befall me.
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Why was i then more wise?'"
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This also is vanity.
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All right, so let's look at what solomon's saying.
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Solomon's saying-- he's the wisest man
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Who ever lived, the bible says.
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Nobody was more brilliant in knowledge, understanding,
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And wisdom than solomon.
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So, we're just likening that to education
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'cause he knew stuff...
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Education is big.
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If you live in the west-- education--
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I hope you are challenging your children
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To get as much legitimate education
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As they can, to go as far as they--
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Given their time, talent, skills, and interests--
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Can take them.
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Because he says, "the wise man is better than the fool."
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It's better to go to school than not go to school.
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It's better to know than to not know.
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It's better to be wise than to be a fool.
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He says, "that's better."
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But then he says, "one day i was looking out the window."
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And i'm looking out the window, and i watched the fool walk by.
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This is the kindergarten dropout.
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The kindergarten dropout walked by, the fool,
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The guy who didn't know,
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The guy who had no understanding,
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The guy who didn't make anything of himself.
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I watched the fool walk by.
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And he said, "when i watched the fool walk by,
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The uneducated guy," he says,
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"i could see i was better off 'cause i had some information.
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I had some knowledge. and i had some will.
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I was better than the fool. but then i got depressed."
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"well, what depressed you, solomon?"
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He says, "one fate shall befall us all."
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My education won't keep me from the grave.
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My degrees won't keep me from the grave.
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In fact, the fact of the matter is the kindergarten dropout
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May live longer than me with the degree.
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He says, death is the great equalizer
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Between the fool and the wise man.
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As educated as you are--and i'm sure virtually everybody here
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Has graduated from high school,
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Most have graduated from college.
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Then there's this group that has a master's degree.
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And then there's this other group
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That may have a doctorate degree.
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And i got bad news for all of you--same news:
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That your education, knowledge, understanding,
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And informational base
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Will not keep you from the grave,
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'cause you're under the sun.
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And everybody under the sun, he says, shares the same fate.
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So, he could not find meaning in education,
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'cause it wasn't gonna keep him alive any longer.
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And so as beneficial as his wisdom and knowledge was,
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He was reminded that one fate befalls them all.
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And, therefore, he could not find meaning.
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He says, "this also is vanity."
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There--it's without purpose.
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It's beneficial-- better to be smart
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Than to be dumb--but it does not give you purpose.
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So, young people who are going to college--
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Yes, it'll increase your employability.
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It'll increase your capacity to know things,
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To interact with things.
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It does have benefit, he says, but it doesn't give meaning.
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And that's why so many college students
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Wind up living for the party while at school.
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He said, "let me try something else.
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Let me try something else. the party didn't do it.
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The education didn't do it.
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Oh, but
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♪ money, money, money, money, money ♪♪
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He said--solomon said, "the oj's got it.
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The oj's got the answer."
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He says, verse 18, "then i hated all the fruit of my labor
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For which i had labored under the sun,
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For i must leave it to the man who will come after me.
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And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool?
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Yet he will have control over the fruit of my labor."
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Mm, "the fruit of my labor"--
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That's your money and stuff money can buy, okay?
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That's the stuff you can accumulate with money--
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Fruit of your labor, the productivity of your life.
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He said, "i looked at all i accomplished."
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He's a mega-billionaire.
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He says, "and i'm going to leave it
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To the one who should come after me.
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And who knows whether the one who comes after me
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Is gonna value it like i valued it?"
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Some of us are scared to put our own kids in the will.
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Y'all heard that, didn't you?
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[congregation laughing]
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'cause he says, "i worked like a dog
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To build up this nation,
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And then i gotta leave it after i birthed it
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And developed it?
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And suppose somebody comes after me
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Who messes over what it took me a lifetime to construct."
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He says, "when i thought about that,
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All i could say is 'this too is vanity, emptiness.'"
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And so if all you've got is life under the sun,
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You are going to be sorely disappointed
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Because there is no purpose in it.
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Prosperity under the sun, disconnected from god--
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It's reality under the sun.
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And if you live your life only underneath the sun--
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For time and space and the five senses--
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If that becomes the sum total definition of your life,
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You will have vanity and vexation of spirit.
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And so many--even christians-- because solomon is saved--
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Even christians climb the ladder to success,
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Only to find out at the end
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It was leaning against the wrong wall.
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They climbed the ladder, they got there, and they say,
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"vanity of vanity, saith the preacher."
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That leads us to probably the most famous chapter
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In the book of ecclesiastes: chapter 3.
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"there's a time for this, and there's a time for that,
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And there's a time for this, and there's a time for that,
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A time to live, a time to die,
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A time to plant, a time to pluck,
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A time to laugh, a time to cry."
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He goes through this in the first half of chapter 3.
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"there's a time, a time, a time, a time, a time, a time."
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What is he saying?
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He's saying, "i got bad news for you.
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You live, i live, we live in a closed universe."
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'cause as soon as you find out
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There's something to laugh about,
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Something else is gonna happen to make you cry.
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As soon as you find some peace,
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Something else is gonna break up to turn it into war.
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You are locked in to a closed universe,
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And there is no escape.
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That's why people are looking for ways to escape:
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Because they're trying to break out...
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Of this closed universe
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Because they feel stuck and stymied
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In things they cannot control,
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That makes life hold them hostage
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In a way that they do not want to be jailed.
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God, why you doing this? why you doing this?
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Verse 9 of chapter 3:
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"what profit is there to the worker
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From that in which he toils?
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I have seen the task which god has given the sons of men
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With which to occupy themselves."
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Wait a minute. god, you did this on purpose?
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"i've seen the task." 'cause living is work.
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He says, "i've seen the job description
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That god has given men under the sun
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With which to occupy."
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"god, why do you have me trapped in this thing called life,
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When all i've got to look forward to is death?"
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Oh, he helps us in verse 11: "he has made everything appropriate
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In its time.
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He has also set eternity in their heart,
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Yet so that men will not find out
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The work which god has done
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From the beginning even to the end.
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I know that there is nothing better for them
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To rejoice and do good in one's lifetime.
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Moreover, that every man who eats and drinks
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Sees good in all of his labor.
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It is the gift of god.
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I know that everything god does will remain forever,
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That there is nothing to add to it
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And there is nothing to take from it,
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For god has so worked that men should fear him," ah.
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God has boxed you and me in to time and space
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And made it so we can't break out of it
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To force us to him.
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He has set eternity in your heart.
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Now, you may not know it,
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But that longing for fulfillment, god said,
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Is a longing for him.
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That longing for purpose is a longing for him.
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So, he has set within time and space
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An empty spot that we try to fill
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With cheap substitutes in order to find meaning
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That can only be discovered in him--
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And he did it on purpose.
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He set eternity in your heart
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So that deep down where you live with you,
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Unless you cover it over with fake stuff,
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There is this hole that only he can fill.
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So, he wants life underneath the sun
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To get connected with life above the sun.
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He wants your human life to be connected with god
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And eternity.
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And to the degree that you connect eternity to time
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Is to the degree you change vanity into victory.
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But as long as you're disconnected,
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You're trapped in something you cannot change.
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You see, you are not living in the land of the living
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On your way to the land of the dying.
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You are living in the land of the dying
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On your way to the land of the living.
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So, if you think this is it,
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You're gonna live like this is it.
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If you know this is not it,
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Then you will live as though it's not it
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And you will find life in that approach.
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You're living-- from the time you were born,
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From the time your baby was born,
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They started to march to the grave.
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This is not the land of the living
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On the way to the land of the dying.
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It's the land of the dying
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On the way to the land of the living.
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And so to make that eternal connection
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With that eternal perspective
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Is god's answer to the question of purpose, meaning.
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He said, "it is good for a man or woman to enjoy themselves"--
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Okay?--"to enjoy life."
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God doesn't mind you having fun,
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As long as it doesn't exclude him.
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He doesn't mind you, he says, to enjoy life.
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It is a gift of god. don't misread that.
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He says life is a gift of god.
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Let me tell you what it doesn't say:
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Life is god.
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Life is a gift from god. it's never to become god.
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So, the moment you make life a god
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Instead of a gift from god,
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You make your life an idol that competes with god.
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So many people live their lives as though your life is god,
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And god will never respect idolatry
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Even if the idol is yourself,
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Myself.
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Life without god is like a needle without a thread
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And a pen without ink.
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He says, "enjoy life.
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Just don't disconnect it from me."
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All that's legitimate to enjoy--
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1 timothy 6 says, "god has given you all things to enjoy."
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If god has given it and god's not excluded for it,
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God says, "enjoy it, maximize it.
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Don't disconnect it."
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And so he closes with the last chapter of the book:
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Chapter 12.
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And for those of you under 40,
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I want you to pay close attention to this,
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You teenagers here under 40,
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Because 40 was the generational switch
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In the bible.
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Once you hit 40, you were now in the next generation,
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Which means a bunch of y'all are going downhill, okay?
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If you over 40, you're heading south, okay?
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He says in chapter 12, the book of ecclesiastes, verse 1,
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"remember your creator in the days of your youth
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Before the evil days come and the years draw near
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When you will say, 'i have no delight in them.'"
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A lot of people wanna give themselves to god
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When there's nothing left to give.
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They wanna read the bible when they can't see.
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They wanna to hear a sermon when they can't hear.
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They wanna serve god when they can't get out of bed.
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Because he spends the chapter talking about body parts
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Wearing out.
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He talks about eyes going dim and ears that can't hear
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And legs that can't walk and arms that can't grab.
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Now you old and you wanna give yourself to god.
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He says, "remember your creator
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When you still have eyes and ears and legs and tongue
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And mind and strength.
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Remember your creator in the days of your youth.
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Parents, remind your children and your grandchildren
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To remember their creator
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When they have the capacity to do something
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That matters for eternity," why?
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Because of the last two verses, the conclusion, verse 13,
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"when all has been heard is to fear god,
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Keep his commandments,
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Because this applies in--to every person."
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The hebrew means "this applies to all of you."
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"for god will bring every act to judgment,
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Everything which is hidden, whether it is good or evil,"
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Because you gonna have to meet god one day.
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You know, you're gonna-- whether you want to or not,
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It ain't over when it's over.
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You're going to have to meet god.
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I'm going to have to meet god.
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So, since we got to meet him and we don't have a choice
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And he offers us purpose, if we meet him now
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And not just wait to meet him then
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And enjoy the good things that he's given us
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Along the way, he says,
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"you can have victory and not vanity."
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Tony Evans - Changing Vanity Into Victory

August 31, 2025 | 28:40

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