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Ecclesiastes 1:12-14 (NKJV)

1.) Life is Tough


Grasp:  To take or seize firmly.  To control.  To enclose and hold with the fingers or arms.


  • 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 (NKJV)

  • Ecclesiastes 1:15 (NKJV)

  • Ecclesiastes 1:16-18 (NKJV)

a.) Solomon had a Mind

  • We only have 1/3 of the Proverbs he wrote (1,000)

b.) Solomon had Means

  • 80,000 Stone Cutters

  • 70,000 Day Laborers

  • 3,600 Middle Managers

c.) Solomon had Money

  • Wycliffe Bible Encyclopedia:  14 year span (building), spent $7 Billion, $150 million annual income, $25 million to ross land (country)

T.S. Eliot: "All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance."


Unknown: "A wise man is never happy."


Peter Kreeft:  "Diversion is the first and most effective way to hide the elephant (Big questions/issues of life).  An elephant can be hidden by mice, if there are enough of them.  So our world is full of thousands of little things, which keep us diverted from the one big thing.  We are kept so busy that we have no time to think."


Commentator:  "Our tendency toward busyness often masks a deep spiritual malady."


Allan Boom (Political Philosopher): "In frenzied work and frenzied play so as to not face the fact, not to look into the abyss."


1st Carrot: Entertainment


  • Ecclesiastes 2:1-2 (NKJV)

  • Proverbs 17:22 (NKJV)

  • 1 Timothy 6:17 (NKJV)

  • Proverbs 14:13 (NKJV)

  • Ecclesiastes 2:3 (NKJV)

2nd Carrot: Liquor

  • 1 Kings 4:22-23 (NKJV)

  • Proverbs 31:1-7 (NKJV)

  • Proverbs 23:29-35 (NKJV)

  • Ecclesiastes 2:4-8 (NKJV)

3rd Carrot: Labor & Success

  • 2 Chronicles 8:4-6 (NKJV)

  • 1 Kings 5:13-18 (NKJV)

  • 1 Kings 12:4 (NKJV)



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october 5, 2025

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