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Author Archives: Jefferson Vann
your reward in life
ENGAGE, BUT REMEMBER Ecclesiastes 9:7-10 7 Go on, eat your bread with gladness, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart; because God has already shown approval of your works. 8 Let your clothes stay white all the time, and … Continue reading
dogs and lions
NO HOPE WITHOUT CHRIST Ecclesiastes 9:4-6 4 Because whoever is connected with all the living has hope, because a living dog is better than a dead lion. 5 Because the living ones are aware of the fact that they will … Continue reading
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the same event
DEATH, then WHAT? Ecclesiastes 9:1 1 Because all this I gave to my heart, trying to figure it all out, how the righteous and the wise and their deeds are in the hand of God. Whether God responds with love … Continue reading
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mystery and joy
LET GOD SORT IT OUT Ecclesiastes 8:14-17 14 Here’s another example of impermanence reigning in the land: that there are righteous people who get what the wicked deserve, and there are wicked people who get what the righteous deserve. I … Continue reading
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look longer
ARE YOU SEEING THE WHOLE PICTURE? Ecclesiastes 8:10-13 10 Then I noticed what happens when the wicked are buried. They used to go in and out of the holy place and had been praised in the city where they had … Continue reading
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those whose time is up
DO NOT FLIRT WITH DEATH Ecclesiastes 8:7-9 7 Because he does not know what is yet to come, who can tell him how it will be? 8 No one rules over his own breath, nor rules over the day of … Continue reading
the price of doing it our way
WHO DO YOU IDOLIZE? Ecclesiastes 8:4-6 4 Since the word of the king rules, and who is going to ask him, “What are you doing?” 5 Whoever keeps a command will not know the suffering that disobedience causes, and the … Continue reading
the badge
OBEY THE KING’S COMMAND Ecclesiastes 8:1-3 1 There is nothing like the wise person — someone who knows the interpretation of a thing. A man’s wisdom can make his face shine, and change the hardness in his face. 2 I … Continue reading
made straight
GET IT STRAIGHT, WE ARE CROOKED Ecclesiastes 7:27-29 27 Take notice, this is what I found, says the Collector, while adding one thing to another to find how things work- 28 something my soul has searched for consistently, but I … Continue reading
snares and nets
ESCAPE THE NET Ecclesiastes 7:23-26 23 All this I have tested by wisdom. I said, “I will act wisely,” but it was far from me. 24 That which has been is far off, and deep, very deep; who can discover … Continue reading
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