Ed Young - When Life Is Unpredictable

November 2, 2025 | 29:0

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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - When Life Is Unpredictable | November 2, 2025

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Dr. ed young: sir winston churchill
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Was a master of the english language.
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If you've not read his history of the ii world war,
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I encourage you to do so.
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It'll help us to understand, you and i,
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Western civilization in a way that you will
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Never have through any other vehicle, in my opinion.
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He was a master of the written word.
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He was a magnificent orator.
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He understood so many cultures, so many nations,
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But he never could understand russia.
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He really couldn't.
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He understood nazi germany.
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He understood mussolini and italy.
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He understood the united states;
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Remember his mother was an american.
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And he could look at all around the world
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And have great insight as to what was going on,
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The thinking of the people,
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But he said, "i don't get the russians."
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He said the russians and what they do,
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As far as winston churchill was concerned,
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Was a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
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That's pretty complex, isn't it?
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Now, we could have helped churchill understand russia,
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Because russia was a thorough-going atheistic nation;
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And therefore so many times we do not understand
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What people do and how they think,
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Or how they vote, or how they live.
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We have to understand if they are looking at life
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Simply under the sun from a humanistic viewpoint,
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They can't think rationally.
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They can't think logically.
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They are blinded;
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And, therefore, churchill somehow
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Missed this fact about the ussr.
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And he kept saying, "you know, they're a riddle
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"wrapped up in a mystery, encased in an enigma."
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And as we have studied ecclesiastes,
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We could say, you know, as i read the book,
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That's sort of where i come down,
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Because there's a lot of mysteries in our study,
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And there's a lot of mystery all around us.
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Look up.
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Look all the way into the starry heavens.
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I picked up one of hugh ross' books this week,
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And i'll tell you, you don't have to go far
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Until you realize this brilliant astrophysicist
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Is taking us into areas where we need a dictionary close by
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And somebody to help us understand what he's saying
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About the solar system, about the cosmos.
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Above us, there is mystery.
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They measure distances by the speed of light.
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Think about that,
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And they measure it in thousands of years.
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So above us there's a mystery of size and distance,
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And what about when we look, not only through a telescope,
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We see that, but look at a microscope?
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Look at all these little things that are everywhere.
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My hand under a microscope you say look at all of that.
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My goodness have you washed your hands in a month?
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(audience laughing)
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You see, there's a mystery close to us that's small.
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We would say teenitsy when we were children.
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That's very, very small, and very close;
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Whereas, the mystery here is very large and far apart.
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There are mysteries everywhere.
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Look up, look down, look within.
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Mystery, mystery, mystery.
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Riddles, enigmas, all a part of life.
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A lot of deep things, the bible is full of mysteries.
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And certainly, as we've studied the book of ecclesiastes,
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I've said in all probability,
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It's the autobiography of solomon;
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But as i have studied it, i'm almost changing that.
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I think, it's almost like his memoirs.
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It's almost like his daily quiet-time book,
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Because here's a brilliant philosopher, theologian
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Who's sharing a wide view of life,
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And he sees all the mysteries that are there.
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And he causes us to confront things
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And to ask questions about things
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That we perhaps would never do
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In any other book of the bible.
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Remember it's the first book we should read
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Because it asks the big questions
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That the rest of god's word answers.
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And so, we come all the way here
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To the middle of the eight chapter,
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And once again we are encountering
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A riddle wrapped up in a mystery,
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Put inside an enigma.
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He starts off, and his thesis is very simple.
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Life is crammed full of mystery.
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Does anybody want to debate that?
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And then he just recites the mysteries here.
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He says, "so then i have seen."
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This is eight verse 10.
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So then i have seen the wicked buried,
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Those who use to go in and out from the holy place,
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And they soon are forgotten,
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And the city where they did this that too is futility.
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That too is silly.
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That too is a mystery what's he saying?
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There's the mystery of hypocrisy.
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By the way, somebody a few months ago says,
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"you know, i don't go to church.
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"well, there's so many hypocrites up there."
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I said, "well, come on and join us.
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"you'll fit right in." (audience laughing)
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There's the mystery of hypocrisy that we see here.
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What's he saying?
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Here's somebody who's very wicked,
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Who goes in and out of the holy place,
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And they may have an extravagant burial,
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And they've gone in and out of the holy place,
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But they are godless in their life.
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I thought about john gotti.
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Remember him the dapper don, the mafioso,
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The vicious head of the mafia there in new york city.
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They had an extravagant funeral with hundreds
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And hundreds of people there honoring him,
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All the christian symbolism you could buy at that time,
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And he was buried in queens in a cemetery
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That's called god's holy acre.
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Do you see this verse?
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The mystery of hypocrisy.
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Hypocrisy is everywhere solomon is saying.
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And then he talks about the next mystery in this,
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A whole list of them that he gives us here.
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He says.
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He says, "but it is not.
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"it will not be well for evil man,
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"for he will not lengthen his days like a shadow
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"because he does not fear god."
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And he says, "there is a futility which is done on earth;
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"that is there are righteous men to whom it happens,
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"according to the deeds of the wicked.
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"on the other hand, there are evil men
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"to whom it happens according to the deeds of the righteous.
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"i say this too, is a mystery, it's futility."
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He's talking about here the mystery of injustice.
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The mystery we've got plenty of hypocrisy.
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We've got plenty of injustice.
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There's a mystery about it.
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You were born, let us say, in the 4th ward.
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Your mother
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Had several sexually transmitted diseases.
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She was addicted to crack cocaine.
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She was a third-generation recipient of welfare.
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Never held a job in her life.
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Had no idea really who your father happened to be.
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She dropped out of the 4th grade.
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Could sign her name.
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Could really not read.
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She had several other siblings,
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And you're born into that family.
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You get to be 21 years old.
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You look back on your life.
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Do you think there's any injustice there, hmm?
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Do you find any injustice?
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That's what solomon is talking about.
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Here's someone who is wicked,
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And they're rewarded as if they're good.
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Here's somebody who's good.
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They're rewarded as if they're wicked.
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Here is somebody who is innocent as a child,
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And they're brought up in a situation
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That is virtually impossible to come out of.
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Do you see any injustice there?
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Here's a fine christian family.
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They're in an suv,
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And they're going on a family outing.
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They're on the interstate,
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Mother, father, four children, having a big time.
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But a drunk who lives in tanglewood,
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Has a lot of money, but he's drunk,
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And he crosses over the line,
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And he meets this family head-on, and they're all killed,
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The children and the mother except the father,
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And he is permanently disabled.
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Do you see any injustice there?
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There is the mystery of hypocrisy.
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There is the mystery of injustice, solomon says.
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And also, he goes on.
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He says there's a mystery of pleasure.
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You see, he doesn't leave anything out.
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Isn't he pretty a thorough-going thinker?
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I mean, solomon just keeps sweeping us up
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In all these mysteries and all these enigmas,
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And all of these deep, deep questions
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That we don't like to face.
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And here's the mystery of pleasure.
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He says, look at verse 15: so i commended pleasure.
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For there is nothing good for a man to do under the sun
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Except to eat, and to drink, and be merry.
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This will stand by him in the toils
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Throughout the days of his life,
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Which god has given under the sun.
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In other words, he says, "hey, go and have a good time."
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But there's a problem with pleasure,
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Because you're engaged in pleasure, pleasure, pleasure.
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Suddenly, you become jaded,
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And pleasure no longer is pleasure.
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A permanent vacation leads to a life
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That really does not have meaning,
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Purpose, or significance,
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And so there is the mystery of pleasure.
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It doesn't satisfy.
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Then he talked about the mystery of theology.
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Theology is everywhere, verse 16.
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He said, "when i gave my heart to know wisdom
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"and to see the task which has been done on the earth,
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"even though one that should never sleep day or night,
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"and i saw every work of god.
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"i concluded that men and women cannot discover
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"the work which has been done under the sun.
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"even though mankind should seriously consider it,
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"he will not discover, and though the wise man should say,
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"i know he cannot discover it."
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You know what he's saying?
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He's saying through natural revelation,
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Just what you get under the sun in nature,
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You're not gonna discover god.
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That's like the ole' boy who says,
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"you know, when i play golf every sunday morning,
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"i'm closer to the lord than when i go to church."
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Well, the problem with that,
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In nature makes no requirements.
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You can live like hell, live your own life,
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And so he says, "i have sought everything about theology."
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You can't find out much about god from natural revelation.
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You see that god is capricious.
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You see that might makes right.
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You see the survival of the fittest.
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That's what you get in natural revelation,
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And he is saying, "i have looked theologically
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"for god in all of this," and he said,
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"some people say they've found him."
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But he's saying, "he's not there.
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"you can't really find his true nature and character."
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So, there's the mystery of theology.
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And then he talks about the mystery of death.
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He keeps bringing up death, doesn't he?
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I wish he'd leave that behind,
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But there is a mystery in it.
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And look what he says.
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Verse two of chapter nine: it is all the same.
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There is one fate for the righteous and for the wicked,
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For the good, for the clean,
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For the unclean, the man who offered sacrifice,
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And the one who does not sacrifice.
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As the good man is, so is the sinner,
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So is the swearer, so is the one who is afraid to swear.
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He's saying we're all gonna die,
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And it's all gonna be the same.
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There's a mystery about that.
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There's a total mystery in death.
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And so, he's gone through all these mysteries.
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There's a mystery in hypocrisy.
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There's plenty of that.
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There's a mystery in death. boy, there's a 100%
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Recommendation, a 100% chance of that.
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He said there's a mystery in looking for god under the sun.
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He said there's a mystery, mystery, mystery, mystery.
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He's talking about a riddle.
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He's talking about an enigma,
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And, finally, he comes to the conclusion.
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And he says, "look, in light of all these mysteries
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"that are inscrutable, you can't unwrap them.
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"you can't find any meaning for life, any significance."
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He said, "you know what out of all the choices,
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"let the good times roll."
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Let's party, party, party.
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Let's just let it all hang out.
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And then that's the next verses.
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He said, "cram your life full of pleasure."
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Verse seven he says, "go then eat your bread in happiness.
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"drink your wine with a cheerful heart.
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"for god already approves your works.
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"let your clothes be white all the time."
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Dress up as fancy as you can.
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"let not oil be like on your head,"
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Man, makeup all you can.
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Look as good as you can.
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"enjoy life with the woman
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"whom you love all the days of your fleeting life..."
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Didn't he mention this a chapter or two before?
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Here's a man with a thousand women.
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He says just pick out one.
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Spend your life with that one.
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Man, it's kinda weird, isn't it?
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Remember solomon talks about life and love and marriage.
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You better listen to him.
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He's had a lot of experience there.
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Life is crammed full of mysteries.
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He lists some of them.
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Therefore, in the light of meaninglessness of life,
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Futility of life, all the question marks
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About life we can't understand, he said,
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"well, just cram your life full of pleasure,"
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And then he presents in one verse
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The deepest mystery of all.
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Listen to this in verse eleven chapter nine of ecclesiastes.
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Again, i saw under the sun.
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Now remember,
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He is reasoning and figuring out things
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Only in a secular, humanistic, agnostic,
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Atheistic way you got that?
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You have to understand that's how he is
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Using all these rationalizations here.
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So, he's accurate, by the way,
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If you look at things from an atheistic viewpoint.
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He's accurate, he really is.
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But then he comes to this one little verse.
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It's the deepest of all.
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He said, "and i again saw under the sun."
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Verse 11 chapter nine: that the race is not to the swift.
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Solomon, have you lost it?
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I've seen a lot of races,
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And races are won usually by the fastest person, right?
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To say the race is not to the swift,
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That doesn't make any sense.
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Well, once in a while,
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But usually the fastest runner wins.
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What are you saying, solomon?
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And then look at the next thing he says.
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He says, "the battle is not to the warriors."
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I've not experienced that.
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You wanna have a little cage fight.
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You jump in there with one of those cage fighters.
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If you're not a warrior, i can tell you you're gonna lose.
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The battle is to those who are prepared,
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Those who are fit, those who are warriors.
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He says, "the battle is not won by warriors."
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Solomon, have you lost it?
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What in the world are you saying?
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This is a mystery.
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He says, "neither is bread to the wise."
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Now that's really.
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Have you ever known anybody who was wise,
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Who was hungry for bread?
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I've never known of that.
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Solomon, solomon, this is deep.
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This is crazy.
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And then he says nor wealth to the discerning.
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Now that is crazy.
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If you have discernment,
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I mean, you have discern you're going to have means.
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You're not gonna be hungry.
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You're gonna have means.
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He said wealth doesn't go to the discerning person.
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That is absolutely wild, ridiculous.
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I'd debate with him on that all day long.
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What are you talking about?
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And then he compounds it.
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He says the discerning and favor to men of ability.
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Men who have ability and talent,
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Men and women who are gifted,
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They have the favor of god, the favor of mankind.
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I mean, solomon, this is all backwards.
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It's, a riddle wrapped up in a mystery
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That's put inside an enigma.
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This particular verse it's the deepest,
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Most confusing thing of all,
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Until you read the last of it.
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Look what he says.
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For time and chance overtake them all.
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What is he saying?
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He's saying the fast lose the race.
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The wealthy are hungry.
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The discerning don't make it.
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He goes down all these things that are contrary
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To anything we know, any kind of rational thinking.
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He said the decisive thing is time and chance.
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Right place.
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Right time.
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Bang.
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I drove home last night from church,
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And on the way home, i had my radio tuned,
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And somebody who was talking about the stock market,
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Which i know zip about this guy said,
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"you can make a lot of money on the stock market
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"if your timing is right."
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Well, you should write that down.
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How smart is that? (congregation laughing)
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This guy is a wonderful stock analysis, hello.
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Time and chance consume everything else, does it not?
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You can be the fastest and lose
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If the timing and the chance is there.
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You can be wise and not make it.
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You can have discerning and you can fail.
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It's time and chance, time and chance.
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What's solomon saying?
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Somebody would say he's playing craps.
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Come on, come here.
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It's just all luck, time and chance.
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But he says this overtakes them all.
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And then i looked at this verse,
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And i said, "who is in control of chance?
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"who runs time?"
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I said i wonder if solomon,
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Somewhere in his secular, humanistic,
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Godless understanding of life,
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Did he have a little light peep in once again
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From him who is above the sun, even god?
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Has he given us any insight?
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And i saw two little slivers of light right in this section
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That just clear this up so beautifully for us all.
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Look at verse 12 of chapter eight.
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Solomon says, "i know that it will be well
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"for those who fear god and fear him openly."
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He says time and chance will work out for you
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If you fear god, worship god,
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And you worship god openly.
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What's he saying?
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Go to church.
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(chuckling) that's what he's saying.
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Worship privately, worship corporately.
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What you do is go to church.
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In the light of all the mysteries of life,
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The confusions of life, the questions of life,
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He says go to church.
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A man was going to speak in a church
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In upper state new york.
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He was late,
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And he was walking up the steps,
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And they were already singing inside.
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And as he was going up the steps,
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Three little boys on the street looked up at him and said,
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"mister, what's going on in there?"
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That's a good question, isn't it?
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Go to church.
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What's going on in there?
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What's going on in here?
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I'll tell you what's going on.
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We are coming to an understanding
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Of the true and living god.
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This is where so many times he,
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In biblical terminology, tabernacles among us.
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This is when he deals with us.
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But when you go to church,
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You have to go to church prepared.
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How many of us came to church today, and we prayed,
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Lord, as i go to church, i want you to speak to me,
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To visit with me, to deal with me, to touch my life
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In whatever area i need to be touched.
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Did you come prepared?
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We need to come prepared, expectancy.
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We talked about that.
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Come to church on your tiptoe,
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Ready for god to breakthrough
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In a beautiful way in your life.
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Preparation for church.
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Then there's participation.
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Participate in church.
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I look out there and we sing a song like,
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Deep in the heart of texas.
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Some of you men just belt it out.
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We sing blessed assurance, and
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(congregation laughing)
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I'll tell you something, guys you'd better learn how
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To sing blessed assurance with more resoundingness
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Than you do deep in the heart of texas.
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You see, in church we have to participate.
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You have to move your lips at least,
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If you can't make a joyful noise, or you don't have tune,
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And you're just flat in your singing like keith.
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(congregation laughing)
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So just say words.
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You have to be prepared for god to meet you in church.
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You have to participate in prayer and worship and music,
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And all that happens that points us to the almighty,
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So he can deal with us.
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You see, and then when you walk out of church,
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(congregation applauding)
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You have to practice.
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We don't just get biblical stuff.
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Boy, i learned today that, no, no, no.
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We say, lord, is that speaking to me in my heart,
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In my need, in my expectation?
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Are you doing something?
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You see, we have to practice it.
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And then, that's what happens in church.
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We meet the living god,
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And in church we come out with a purpose.
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Now, the next question is what is the result of this?
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And we find that also.
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Here is chance, here is probability.
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Look at chapter nine of ecclesiastes.
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Solomon says for i have taken all of this to my heart
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And explain it with righteous men and wise women,
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And their deeds are in the hand of god.
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What is he saying?
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All this mystery, everything that's going on in life,
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When we become worshipers, private and corporately,
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Then all of our life, we end up where?
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In the hand of god, isn't that tremendous?
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To be in the hand of god.
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The word hand and arm is mentioned 200
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Times in the bible,
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And he is saying look when we learn
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How to worship privately and worship corporately,
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We get a purpose in life, and all of a sudden.
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He who is above the sun comes down
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And meets with us who are under the sun.
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And then we realize that all of our deeds
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And all of our life,
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We're in the hand of our heavenly father.
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Ed: the storms of life are unavoidable.
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It is these times that we can take comfort
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In knowing that we are in god's hands.
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Rejoice in the confidence that whatever happens
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To you or to me he's got us right in the palm
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Of his loving and capable hand.
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He knows what he's doing.
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Question: do you have a relationship with god
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Through his son, jesus christ?
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Ed Young - When Life Is Unpredictable

November 2, 2025 | 29:0

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