Day 335: Ecclesiastes 10-12 | Read The Bible In A Year | Bible Study Commentary by Dr. Manny Arango — Transcript

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1. 0:00Hey Bible nerds, this is Dr. Manny
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8. 0:24Family, welcome to day 335 here on the
9. 0:27Bible department. We are super excited
10. 0:29to wrap up the book of Ecclesiastes
11. 0:32today. We got Ecclesiastes chapters 10,
12. 0:3511, and 12. So sad to see you go,
13. 0:38Ecclesiastes.
14. 0:39Actually, no, we're not we're not sad to
15. 0:41see you go. We're pretty happy. Uh it's
16. 0:43been a it's been a little sad book. It's
17. 0:45been a little sad, somber book, but it's
18. 0:48been good. It's been good. It's made our
19. 0:50faces bright. If you're here yesterday,
20. 0:52you know. Uh if you know, you know. All
21. 0:54right. So, if you have not done the
22. 0:56reading for the day, how about you stop
23. 0:57the video, pause the audio, go get the
24. 1:00reading done. For everyone who has
25. 1:01gotten the reading done, uh, honestly,
26. 1:04today is going to feel like a wrap-up. I
27. 1:06don't have any context clues for you
28. 1:08today because we've covered as much
29. 1:10context as I think is necessary to
30. 1:12understand the book of Ecclesiastes. I'm
31. 1:14going to kind of give you my favorite
32. 1:17verse uh for today's reading and then
33. 1:20we're just going to kind of look at the
34. 1:22overall theme of the book of
35. 1:23Ecclesiastes as we close out this book
36. 1:27and get ready for our next book of the
37. 1:29Bible. All right. So, what's my favorite
38. 1:32verse? The verse that I think kind of uh
39. 1:34helps us. Obviously, Ecclesiastes is
40. 1:37making a lot of claims about life.
41. 1:40Number one, good things happen to wicked
42. 1:42people. Bad things happen to great
43. 1:44people. Life is random. Life is full of
44. 1:46chance. There are there's wicked people
45. 1:48that exploit religion. There are all
46. 1:51kinds of unfair and unjust things that
47. 1:54happen here in this toilome life of hell
48. 1:58under the sun. Okay? So, you know,
49. 2:01Ecclesiastes is punching this proverbial
50. 2:06perspective right in the face that if
51. 2:08you act wisely, good things will happen
52. 2:10and if you act wickedly, bad things will
53. 2:12happen. Yeah, right. Ecclesiastes is
54. 2:14straight up saying like, "Yeah, I just I
55. 2:17I just know that's not true." Okay. When
56. 2:20you get down to the fact that life is
57. 2:22random, life is full of chance. things
58. 2:25may not go the way that I thought they
59. 2:27would go. Life throws curveballs on and
60. 2:30on and on and on and on. That could
61. 2:32cause a lot of people to like. So then
62. 2:34what's the point? You know what I mean?
63. 2:35There's no place. There's no way to win
64. 2:38at life. And of course, the author comes
65. 2:40in at chapter 11 and he's like, "Ship
66. 2:42your grain across the seas." Like in in
67. 2:46case you thought that I was going to
68. 2:48say, "Yeah, just, you know, stick it in
69. 2:50cruise control and just like whatever
70. 2:52happens happens." Nah. Hey homie, ship
71. 2:54your grain across the sea. After many
72. 2:57days, you may receive a return. May. I
73. 3:01love that word may. Since life is full
74. 3:04of chances, go ahead, take a chance.
75. 3:07Okay. Invest in seven ventures. Yeah. In
76. 3:10eight. You do not know what disaster may
77. 3:13come upon the land. say, "Hey, in the
78. 3:17because we now know there's a world of
79. 3:19chance and randomness,
80. 3:22go into business. Be an entrepreneur.
81. 3:25Take your chances at winning since we
82. 3:29live in a world of chance." Okay? If
83. 3:32clouds are full of water, they pour rain
84. 3:34on the earth. Whether a tree falls to
85. 3:36the south or to the north, in the place
86. 3:38where it falls, there it will lie. Okay.
87. 3:42Uh, verse three is really confusing, but
88. 3:43verse four, love verse four. Whoever
89. 3:46watches the wind will not plant. Whoever
90. 3:48looks at the clouds will not reap. It's
91. 3:51like, you know, these people who are
92. 3:53like, nah, it's not a good time. No, not
93. 3:55the right time yet. No, not the right
94. 3:57time. Okay, look, man. If you if you
95. 4:00watch the wind, you'll never plant. And
96. 4:02if you look at the clouds, you'll never
97. 4:04reap. You know, it's like at some point
98. 4:07I just knew like I can't keep waiting
99. 4:09for the perfect time to plant a church.
100. 4:11There is no perfect time. You know, I
101. 4:13know churches that were planted during
102. 4:15COVID and guess what? They're amazing.
103. 4:18They're growing. They're thriving. So,
104. 4:20I'm not My job is not to be a
105. 4:22weatherman. My job is not to predict
106. 4:24whether or not it's going to rain or
107. 4:25not. I I can't. So, I just got to take
108. 4:28the best shot that I can whenever I can
109. 4:31take it. Okay. Seize the day. The best
110. 4:34time is now. You could think that a book
111. 4:36that's been so negative is actually
112. 4:38gonna lead to some climax of all right
113. 4:43so be a doomsday prepper. Nah. The
114. 4:46author is like man ship your grain
115. 4:48across the sea. Invest in seven ventures
116. 4:52actually in eight instead of 67. 78. 78.
117. 4:57That's what the authors pretty much say.
118. 4:5878. You know, my four-year-old has
119. 5:01started saying 67, by the way, which is
120. 5:03just fascinating to me. Verse five, as
121. 5:06you do not know the path of the wind or
122. 5:09how the body is formed in a in a
123. 5:11mother's womb. Okay, so you're you're
124. 5:13you're not omnicient. You don't know
125. 5:15those things. So, you cannot understand
126. 5:17the work of God, the maker of all
127. 5:20things. Embrace the mystery, homie.
128. 5:24Embrace the mystery. actually not only
129. 5:27embrace the mystery, enjoy the mystery
130. 5:30and a bunch of things you don't
131. 5:31understand. Sew your seed in the morning
132. 5:33and at evening let your hands not be
133. 5:35idle. For you do not know which will
134. 5:38succeed, whether this or that or whether
135. 5:41both will do equally well. You have no
136. 5:44idea. Seven ventures, why not eight?
137. 5:47Hey, don't put your eggs in one basket.
138. 5:49So, so knowing that life is full of
139. 5:52chance and super random doesn't mean
140. 5:56that you just start to give up. You
141. 5:59should hear that news and then go, "All
142. 6:02right, time to invest. Let's go. Let's
143. 6:05roll the dice." You know, like, "Let's
144. 6:08let's let's go." Like, there's this
145. 6:10openness to life that I'm not trying to
146. 6:13grasp life because I understand it's
147. 6:16hevil. It's he vapor. I'm just gonna let
148. 6:19the vapor do what the vapor does. I'm
149. 6:21not I'm not out here trying to control
150. 6:23outcomes. I'm not taking life so
151. 6:25seriously that I'm gonna stress myself
152. 6:28out. I've met people who it's like I'm
153. 6:30interacting with them and I'm like, "You
154. 6:32look like you're about to have an
155. 6:33aneurysm, bro. Like, you're just
156. 6:34thinking about life so hard. Like, dude,
157. 6:38just relax. Just chill, please." And
158. 6:44then there are people who I'm like, "You
159. 6:45chill too much." So, like for the person
160. 6:48who's like lazy and they chill too much,
161. 6:51I'd send them to Proverbs. For the
162. 6:53person who's just wound up so tight,
163. 6:55they have no chill, I'mma send them to
164. 6:57Ecclesiastes,
165. 6:58which really is the nature of wisdom,
166. 7:00right? That wisdom is not one
167. 7:02sizefits-all. There are some people,
168. 7:04they don't need Ecclesiastes, and there
169. 7:06are some people they don't need
170. 7:07Proverbs. And ain't it crazy how we
171. 7:10always gravitate to the book, not that
172. 7:12we actually need, but the one that we
173. 7:14like. So, everyone is going to find all
174. 7:17the lazy people are going to find all
175. 7:20the excuse in the world to continue to
176. 7:21be lazy by reading Ecclesiastes. And
177. 7:24then all of the workaholics are going to
178. 7:26find a reason to continue to be
179. 7:27workaholics by reading Proverbs. And
180. 7:29that's the reason that we're on a
181. 7:30journey, a 365day journey to encounter
182. 7:34the full council of God. Because when
183. 7:36you don't read the whole Bible, you just
184. 7:38get the privilege of picking the
185. 7:40passages that you really like or that
186. 7:42cater to your preferences. But when you
187. 7:44read the entire Bible, a book that you
188. 7:47would have skipped because really you're
189. 7:49bound up, you're wound up way too tight,
190. 7:52now you can't skip. Now the full council
191. 7:56of God is available to you. And you have
192. 7:58to make you have to ask yourself a
193. 7:59question. Am I going to accept the
194. 8:02message of Ecclesiastes even though what
195. 8:04I really want is the message of
196. 8:05Proverbs? So there's some people who are
197. 8:08lazy and they need to hear a little
198. 8:10rest, a little a little sleep, a little
199. 8:12slumber, a little folding of the hands
200. 8:14to rest and poverty will come on you
201. 8:15like a bandit, right? Like an armed man.
202. 8:18Some people need to hear that. But some
203. 8:20people need to hear, "Dude, sometimes
204. 8:22you just get unlucky. There's chance to
205. 8:24life. There's randomness to life. It's
206. 8:27it's not as easy. Life is not as
207. 8:31predictable and as mathematical as as
208. 8:34you would think it is." And sometimes
209. 8:36you can do all the right things and
210. 8:39still not be winning or you know winning
211. 8:42the way that you think you should be
212. 8:44winning. And guess what? If that's life
213. 8:47for you, there are multiple passages of
214. 8:49scripture that going to help you from
215. 8:50Ecclesiastes. Actually 1 2 3 4 5 6
216. 8:54seven.
217. 8:57There's Is that seven? Yeah, that's
218. 8:59seven. Seven passages of scripture that
219. 9:01are honestly going to say the same
220. 9:03thing. And we're just going to read them
221. 9:04in order. Okay. And that's going to be
222. 9:06the way that we wrap up Ecclesiastes
223. 9:08because repetition shows us what's
224. 9:10important to the author. So we're going
225. 9:12to see there's going to be repetition.
226. 9:14This idea is going to get repeated seven
227. 9:15times that I can count. So we're going
228. 9:17to start in chapter 2 24. I'll read it
229. 9:20from the NIV. A person can do nothing
230. 9:23better than to eat and drink and find
231. 9:26satisfaction in their own toil. Eat and
232. 9:28drink and find satisfaction.
233. 9:31Eat and drink and find satisfaction in
234. 9:34your own toil. This too I see is from
235. 9:36the hand of God. For without him who can
236. 9:39eat or find enjoyment. Okay. Can I ask
237. 9:42you a question? Are you enjoying life?
238. 9:44Life doesn't have to be enjoyable for
239. 9:45you to enjoy it. You don't have to be on
240. 9:47a island or like living the way that you
241. 9:50want to live in order to enjoy life.
242. 9:52Paul says this, I found the secret of
243. 9:55being content whether I'm wellfed or
244. 9:57hungry. Same mood, same mindset. Hey,
245. 10:00whether whether I'm in the palace or
246. 10:02whether I'm in the hood, same mindset.
247. 10:04Whether I'm in the prison, whether I'm
248. 10:06in prison, or whether I'm free, same
249. 10:08mood, same mood, same mindset. I'm going
250. 10:11to be happy. I'm going to be a happy
251. 10:14person. You better believe I'm going to
252. 10:16be positive. I'm going to be happy.
253. 10:18Negativity is like bad breath. The more
254. 10:21you're like, "Oh, my life. My life
255. 10:23sucks. My life's hard. Oh god, people
256. 10:25just going to be backing up." And you're
257. 10:27going to be wondering why people backing
258. 10:28up. BECAUSE YOUR BREATH STANK there's
259. 10:30negativity. NEGATIVITY. AIN'T NOBODY
260. 10:32WANT TO HEAR NO NEGATIVITY. OKAY. You
261. 10:35gotta be positive, man. Life's
262. 10:37fantastic. You sure, bro? I THOUGHT YOU
263. 10:40JUST GOT CANCER. YEAH, MAN. LIFE'S
264. 10:41GREAT. LIFE'S GREAT. I've learned how to
265. 10:44I've learned how to enjoy life
266. 10:46regardless of what's happening. My gosh,
267. 10:48man. You You It doesn't look like
268. 10:51there's much to enjoy. Well,
269. 10:54I found the secret to life, and it's
270. 10:56enjoying it. But I don't have
271. 10:58unrealistic expectations about life.
272. 11:00Therefore, I can enjoy it. Here we go.
273. 11:02Chapter 2, verse 24. A person can do
274. 11:05nothing better than eat and drink and
275. 11:07find satisfaction in their own toil.
276. 11:10This too I see is from the hand of God.
277. 11:12For without him, who can eat or find
278. 11:16enjoyment? To the person who pleases
279. 11:18him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and
280. 11:20happiness. But to the sinner, he gives
281. 11:22the task of gathering and storing up
282. 11:24wealth to hand it over to one who
283. 11:26pleases God. This too is he chasing
284. 11:29after the wind. Okay. Chapter 2 vers 24.
285. 11:31Then we're going to get to chapter 32.
286. 11:35Chapter 3:12. I know that there is
287. 11:38nothing better for people than to be
288. 11:41happy and to do good while they live. Be
289. 11:44happy and do good. You want to know what
290. 11:46life's all about? Be happy and do good.
291. 11:48But I want to own like my own business
292. 11:51and I want to be be happy and do good.
293. 11:53But I want to be happy and do good. Just
294. 11:56be happy. Be happy and do good. But what
295. 11:58if that leads me, bro? Be happy. Can you
296. 12:00just be happy and do good? Do you just
297. 12:02obey the Bible? Just be happy. Be happy.
298. 12:05Do good. Verse 13. That each of them may
299. 12:08eat and drink and find satisfaction in
300. 12:10all their toil. This is the gift of God.
301. 12:13What's the gift of God? To find
302. 12:15satisfaction. I told myself years ago,
303. 12:18I'm not going to be happy once the
304. 12:21garden is a mega church. I'll be happy
305. 12:23with 20 people on a launch team. I'll be
306. 12:26happy with 15 people. I'll be happy with
307. 12:28I God, if you send me people, I'll be
308. 12:30happy. Do I have godly ambition and
309. 12:33aspiration to build an amazing thing for
310. 12:37the Lord? Yeah. Do I want to lead a
311. 12:39movement? Yeah. Do I want to lead an
312. 12:41army of men who know how to pray? Yeah.
313. 12:45Those are all good things, but I can't
314. 12:47control whether or not that happens. I
315. 12:49can influence whether or not that
316. 12:51happens, but I can't control it. Can't
317. 12:52control it. I can't control it. And I'm
318. 12:55not does like I don't God doesn't owe me
319. 12:58that. You know what I mean? But what am
320. 13:00I going to do? You better believe I'm
321. 13:01going to find satisfaction in all my
322. 13:04toil. Cuz my goal I'm not going to find
323. 13:08satisfaction in the end result. I'm
324. 13:10going to find satisfaction in the work
325. 13:13that it takes to get to the end result.
326. 13:15I I enjoy the work more than I enjoy the
327. 13:18result. Okay? I don't know if you ever
328. 13:20watched the show Home Improvement.
329. 13:22They're always working on this hot rod
330. 13:24and they ain't never drove it. There's
331. 13:26not an episode where they driving it.
332. 13:27They always working on it. Man, I I want
333. 13:29to be I want to I want to be like the
334. 13:32guys in home improvement working on the
335. 13:33hot rod. I don't care if I ever drive
336. 13:35it. Just let me work on it because the
337. 13:37satisfaction is in the work. And that's
338. 13:39what it really means to not be lazy.
339. 13:40That you find satisfaction in the work,
340. 13:42not in the paycheck. In the work, I find
341. 13:45satisfaction in the work because why?
342. 13:48The work is just an excuse to work on
343. 13:50me. Every episode I get better. Every
344. 13:54episode of this podcast, we've done 335
345. 13:56episodes. I don't even look at the
346. 13:58views. The the team can I don't know the
347. 14:01view. I don't know how many subscribers.
348. 14:03I don't know the views. Why? Cuz I
349. 14:05didn't do this podcast to get to a
350. 14:07certain result. I did this podcast
351. 14:09because I love the work. I enjoy the
352. 14:11work. I found satisfaction in the work.
353. 14:14If no one watched it, I'd still do it.
354. 14:16Why? Because I I I find satisfaction in
355. 14:19the work because the work isn't just for
356. 14:23work's sake. It's working on me. I'm
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382. 15:28episode. Okay, next. Chapter 3, 22.
383. 15:32We're doing a fly over for the whole
384. 15:34book. So, we've covered chapter 2 verse
385. 15:3724. Then we covered chapter 3 verse 12
386. 15:40and 13. Now we're at chapter 3 22. What
387. 15:44does it say? So I saw that there is
388. 15:47nothing better for a person than to
389. 15:50enjoy their work. Ecclesiastes like do
390. 15:52you understand? Do you understand? Do
391. 15:54you understand? Do you understand? Do
392. 15:56you understand? This is going to beat
393. 15:59this horse till it's dead and it's going
394. 16:01to keep on beating it. Here we go.
395. 16:02Better for a person than to enjoy their
396. 16:04work because that is their lot for who
397. 16:08can bring them to see what will happen
398. 16:11after them. Nothing better for a person
399. 16:13than to enjoy their work. Not enjoy the
400. 16:16result of their work, but to enjoy the
401. 16:18work. Enjoy the work. Enjoy their work.
402. 16:21Enjoy their work. Enjoy their work. If
403. 16:23you work at Five Guys, you better enjoy
404. 16:25your work. If you work as a lawyer,
405. 16:27enjoy your work. If you work as a
406. 16:29overnight uh nurse, you know, you you do
407. 16:32the graveyard enjoy your work.
408. 16:34Enjoy your work. Enjoy your work.
409. 16:36Whatever you do, enjoy your work. You
410. 16:38edit videos, enjoy your work. Find joy
411. 16:40in it. Enjoy the work. Next, we got
412. 16:43chapter 5:18. This is what I have
413. 16:46observed to be good, that it is
414. 16:48appropriate for a person to eat, to
415. 16:51drink, and to find satisfaction in their
416. 16:53tolesome labor. If you ain't got it, you
417. 16:55going to get it today, man. under the
418. 16:57sun during the few days of life God has
419. 16:59given them. For this is their lot.
420. 17:02Moreover, when God gives someone wealth
421. 17:04and possessions and the ability to enjoy
422. 17:05them, to accept their lot and be happy
423. 17:09in their toil, this the gift of God,
424. 17:12they seldom reflect on the days of their
425. 17:14life because God keeps them occupied
426. 17:16with gladness of heart. Man, the words
427. 17:19satisfaction
428. 17:20in their toilsome labor. Find
429. 17:23satisfaction in your toilsome labor.
430. 17:26Okay, self-explanatory at this point.
431. 17:29What else? We've done chapter 2 verse
432. 17:3224. We've done chapter 3:12. We've done
433. 17:34chapter 3 22. That was chapter 5:18.
434. 17:38Now we've got chapter 8 verse1 15. Okay,
435. 17:41chapter 8:15. You could probably already
436. 17:44guess what it's going to say. So I
437. 17:46commend the enjoyment of life because
438. 17:49there is nothing better for a person
439. 17:51under the sun than to eat and drink and
440. 17:54be glad. Then joy will accompany them in
441. 17:57their toil all the days of the life God
442. 17:59has given them under the sun. I hope
443. 18:02you're getting it, guys. I hope you're
444. 18:03getting it. I commend the enjoyment of
445. 18:06life. There's nothing better for a
446. 18:08person under the sun. Eat, drink, be
447. 18:12glad, man. Go go go go go go eat go eat
448. 18:16go eat a burger go drink some Coke zero
449. 18:19go enjoy life man God gave you taste
450. 18:22buds be satisfied chapter 9 verse 9
451. 18:25enjoy life with your wife whom you love
452. 18:28all the days of this meaningless life
453. 18:30that God has given you under the sun all
454. 18:32your meaningless days for this is your
455. 18:34lot in life and your tolesome labor
456. 18:36under the sun verse 10 whatever your
457. 18:39hand finds to do it with your might for
458. 18:42in the realm of the dead. Where you are
459. 18:44going, there is neither working nor
460. 18:47planning nor knowledge nor wisdom. Hey,
461. 18:50enjoy life with your wife. I know some
462. 18:53guys, they're so miserable, they've made
463. 18:55their wives lives miserable. They're so
464. 18:57miserable, they're so angry, they're so
465. 19:00sad, they're so depressed about what
466. 19:02they don't have, they're now ruining
467. 19:06what they do have. Their wives look sad.
468. 19:09Their wives look depressed because now
469. 19:13their wife has become the bearer the the
470. 19:17the
471. 19:19recipient of all the bad news. This
472. 19:21isn't working and that's not working and
473. 19:23this doesn't work. And it's like, oh my
474. 19:25gosh, man.
475. 19:27I had to finally get to a place in my
476. 19:29life where I realized I didn't marry a
477. 19:31gold digger. So there's certain things
478. 19:32that used to bother me like man I wish
479. 19:34my wife would put more pressure on me to
480. 19:36like you know succeed more but it's like
481. 19:40my wife was happy in the 800 foot
482. 19:42apartment we had she was happy I was the
483. 19:44one that was unhappy I was like why are
484. 19:46you so happy we don't own a home yet and
485. 19:48I wish I could go back to my like
486. 19:5028-year-old self and be like you idiot
487. 19:54why are you robbing this woman of joy
488. 19:57she's happy and you want to know why
489. 20:00she's happy cuz she's got you, dude. And
490. 20:02you want her to find joy in stuff, but
491. 20:06she finds joy in you. And can I say to
492. 20:09all the men out there, you don't want a
493. 20:11woman to find value in the things you
494. 20:15provide for her. You want a woman to
495. 20:18find value in just you. And there are
496. 20:20lots of men, you're turning your wife
497. 20:23into a gold digger. But you you somehow
498. 20:27successfully avoided gold diggers while
499. 20:29you were dating. And now you have a wife
500. 20:31who's like so happy to just be with you.
501. 20:35And you have turned her life into you.
502. 20:39She's your punching bag. Not physically,
503. 20:41but verbally. You just keep telling her
504. 20:44about how much life sucks and how you're
505. 20:45not happy and how depressed you are and
506. 20:48how miserable you are. And it's bringing
507. 20:50her down. It's weighing her down. My
508. 20:54gosh, man. Listen, this is wisdom. N
509. 20:57Ecclesiastes 9:9. Enjoy life with your
510. 21:00wife. Go on a walk. Hold hands. If
511. 21:04everything else in life sucks, at least
512. 21:05you got a wife. At least you have a
513. 21:07wife. Ain't that dope? Praise God. You
514. 21:10found a wife. That's like the best thing
515. 21:12you could get in life. They are awesome.
516. 21:15Wives are fantastic. Unless you're
517. 21:17married to Job's wife, then then that
518. 21:19sucks. But like enjoy enjoy. Here we go.
519. 21:24And then last one. This is the seventh
520. 21:27one. 11:8 However many years anyone may
521. 21:30live, let them enjoy them all. Enjoy
522. 21:34them all. However many years anyone may
523. 21:37live, let them enjoy them all. But let
524. 21:38them remember the days of darkness, for
525. 21:40there will be many. Everything to come
526. 21:43is hell. That doesn't mean that all the
527. 21:46days are good. The days don't have to be
528. 21:48good for you to enjoy them. I need to
529. 21:50say that again. The days don't have to
530. 21:52be good in order for you to enjoy them.
531. 21:54It could be the worst day of your life.
532. 21:55Still enjoy it. Enjoy it. What's my
533. 21:58timeless truth? To do all the stuff that
534. 22:00I'm saying. Here's what I got written
535. 22:02out of my notes. Be positive. Choose
536. 22:05faith. Live for eternity. Have
537. 22:07unwavering joy. Disappointment exists in
538. 22:10the gap between our expectations and our
539. 22:12experiences. So begin to close that gap.
540. 22:15And you can either close that gap with
541. 22:17your experiences or with your
542. 22:18expectations. But stop living
543. 22:20disappointed. This life of hell is too
544. 22:23short for you to walk around
545. 22:24disappointed. Because disappointment
546. 22:26leads to dissatisfaction.
547. 22:28Dissatisfaction leads to discontentment.
548. 22:30And discontentment leads to fear. And
549. 22:32fear leads to anger. And if your life is
550. 22:34full of dissatisfaction, discontentment,
551. 22:37disappointment, fear, and anger, then
552. 22:40you're going to be a miserable person to
553. 22:41be around. These five elements are never
554. 22:44going to be the recipe to make life
555. 22:46better. But guess what will make life
556. 22:48better? joy, positivity, faith, living
557. 22:51for etern eternity, and having a sense
558. 22:54of your life that's full of satisfaction
559. 22:56no matter what's happening. THAT'S MY
560. 22:58TIMELESS TRUTH. TOMORROW, WE GOT A BRAND
561. 23:00NEW BOOK OF THE BIBLE, Y'ALL. WE GOT
562. 23:02QUEEN ESTHER in the house. Tomorrow, we
563. 23:05got a we're going to dive into Esther
564. 23:07Esther chapters 1, 2, and three for day
565. 23:09336 of the Bible department podcast.
566. 23:12I'll be right here. I'll see you
567. 23:14tomorrow. Love you. Peace.
568. 23:17Thanks so much for joining us on the
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