Episode 40

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27th Apr 2026

40 | The Sound Mind Series: Ecclesiastes Chpt. 6 - AUDIO ONLY

The enemy will not get to us! From our site not uploading on time, to the noise and interruptions of my neighborhood - we finally did it! Let's unravel Ecclesiastes, chapter 6. Thank you for watching and/or listening. God bless you!

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Hi everyone.

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Welcome back to another

episode of I Can't He Can.

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I'm Sarai and I am your host.

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Today we are going to be discussing

and continuing through the Sound Mind

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series in the book of Ecclesiastes.

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Specifically chapter six.

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Before we get into the reading of that,

which is a very, very short chapter,

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um, I did want to go ahead and remind

you guys to please, please, please

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always have your Bibles with you.

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Please do not take anything that I

say as for fact, a loving and kind

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reminder that everything that I talk

about in this podcast as a whole

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is simply my interpretation, my ex.

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Experiences, what I have come

across, um, in my life and the ins

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and outs of things that I deal with.

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And of course, I am reading directly

from my new King James version.

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like always, you guys need to

read the word for yourself.

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Not only is it going to also speak

to you in a different way, but.

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You're definitely gonna get a better

understanding and you're gonna build

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your relationship with Christ even more,

which that is the point of this podcast.

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The point of this podcast is not

to just hear me talk and ramble

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and go into all these like crazy.

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Loopholes of what my brain deciphers these

scriptures that I'm reading to be about.

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No, this is because I want you

guys to grow a deeper and more

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meaningful relationship with God,

with Christ and the Holy Spirit, and

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I really, really pray that

whoever, um, let's just say reads

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this, but whoever reads the Bible

and whoever hears this podcast.

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Um, truly is moved by the content

of it, and not because of the person

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talking directly at you or that you

are listening to, but because at the

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end of the day, what I am reading and

what I am sharing is the power of God,

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and is love, and is truth, and is all

things that are good because we may look

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at our trials and our tribulations as

bad things, but at the end of the day.

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We have to be grateful

for those things too.

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We have to be grateful that they are

showing us something, that they're making

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us wiser, that they're making us stronger,

and that these things are shaping us

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to also perhaps be the words of wisdom

that someone needs to hear one day.

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And then when that day

comes, we'll be like, ah.

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And that's why I went

through that tough time.

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I was being prepared to be here

for my child, or I was being

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prepared for being here for my

neighbor who is not my best friend.

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You just never know.

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So again, because again, you

see, I just started rambling.

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Um, you guys please read for

yourself and if you don't know

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where to start, I think where it's.

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easiest for people to start is

probably in Psalms and in Proverbs.

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Um, but definitely just open the

Bible, open the Bible, and it will

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speak to you at the right time.

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It will pull you in closer

to God, and at the end of the

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day, that is all that we need.

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So without further ado, I'm going to start

the reading of Ecclesiastes chapter six.

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All right you guys.

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So I took a brief pause before

I actually started reading.

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I'm telling you, I think every time

that I'm going to record, either it

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gets really hot or the neighbor's dog

just starts barking incessantly and

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like a bark here and there, whatever.

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You know, I live in an apartment

complex where there's dogs

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like in every other house.

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but then.

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They started cutting the grass

and it's just, just made me

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really hot and really anxious.

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And you know what?

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The enemy knows what we're

doing and I rebuke you, Satan.

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I rebuke any form of negativity,

in the name of Jesus Christ.

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You have no authority in this house.

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You have no authority

over me or over this.

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Podcast, and I am just praying to you,

Jesus, that you continue to cover me.

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You continue to cover all of the people

that are listening, that are tuning in.

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I rebuke any sort of negativity

around this and around your word

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God, because your word needs to make

it to every person that needs it.

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Everyone has to hear your word, Lord.

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And your word says that every person is

going to hear that is when you come back.

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It's because everyone has heard.

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And Lord, I thank you.

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I thank you for your constant covering.

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I thank you for patience and

everything that I need so that I can

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be well equipped to continue to read

your word and interpret in my own

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personal way, but for those people

that need it and that need you, God.

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So thank you, Lord.

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I love you and I praise you, and it's in

the mighty name of Jesus Christ I pray.

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Amen.

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And again, guys, I'm sorry

if you hear any sounds.

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I'm doing my best to clean it up,

but we're just gonna roll with the

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punches after my little sip of coffee.

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We're going to start again.

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Ecclesiastes chapter six.

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For those of you that are listening, audio

version, I just took a sip of my coffee.

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Nothing like drinking a nice cup

of coffee and reading the word.

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Alright, Ecclesiastes, chapter six.

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Okay.

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There is an evil, which I have seen

under the sun, and it is common among

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men, a man to whom God has given riches

and wealth and honor so that he lacks

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nothing for himself of all he desires.

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Yet God does not give him power to eat

of it, but a foreigner consumes it.

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That is vanity and it

is an evil affliction.

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Verse three.

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If a man begets a hundred children

and lives many years so that the days

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of his years are many, but his soul

is not satisfied with goodness, or

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indeed he has no burial, I say that

a stillborn child is better than he.

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Verse four, for it comes in vanity

and departs in darkness, and its

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name is covered with darkness.

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Verse five, though it has not

seen the sun or known anything.

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This has more rest than that man.

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Verse six.

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Even if he lives a thousand years

twice, but has not seen goodness,

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do not all go to one place.

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Verse seven, all the labor of

a man is for his mouth, and

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yet the soul is not satisfied.

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Verse eight.

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For what more has the

wise man than the fool?

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What does the poor man have?

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Who knows how to walk before the living?

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Verse nine.

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Better is the sight of the eyes

than the wandering of desire.

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This is also vanity and

grasping for the wind.

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Verse 10,

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whatever one is he has been named already.

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Hmm.

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For it is known that he is man

and he cannot contend with him.

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H meaning God.

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And he cannot contend with

him who is mightier than he.

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Verse 11.

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Since there are many things that

increase vanity, how is man better?

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Verse 12.

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For who knows what is good for

man in life, all the days of his

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vain life, which he passes like

a shadow, who can tell a man what

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will happen after him under the sun?

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This was a very short

chapter, very short chapter.

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However, there are still as

always, a lot of important

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things that we can take from it.

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So to recap some of the notes that I

have on here, and you guys always know

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that my Bible is full of little notes.

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These are all my little

notes for chapter six.

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But going back to the very start

of it, I have underlined here.

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On the end of verse two.

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Verse two says, A man to whom God

has given riches and wealth and

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honor so that he lacks nothing

for himself of all he desires.

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So God gives riches and wealth.

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God provides.

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God is our provider.

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Everything that we have.

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Is from God.

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And here again it says that God provides

the w, the riches, wealth, and honor

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so that we do not lack anything.

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But then this is what I have here

after at the end of verse two

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yet, and I have that circled yet.

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God does not give him power to eat

of it, but a foreigner consumes it.

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So I'm understanding that in this verse.

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It's saying that God gives.

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Wealth and honor, meaning like he makes

a person rich, but the poor are the

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ones that actually get to enjoy it.

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Now, if you remember in previous, chapters

that we read, Solomon is talking about

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how he has all of the riches, or, you

know, a man has all of the riches, and

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the poor work for that rich man yet.

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The rich man never actually gets

rest, never sleeps well, but the

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humble person, the poor person,

actually enjoy their labor.

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So I guess in a nutshell, this is kind of

recapping that in a more simple, Phrase.

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So let's read that again

so that that can log in.

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Verse two, A man to whom God

has given riches and wealth and

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honor so that he lacks nothing

for himself of all he desires.

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Yet God does not give him power to eat

of it, but a foreigner consumes it.

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So that's my interpretation.

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I hope that makes sense.

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If it doesn't, you guys

know how to reach out to me.

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and I'm happy to have a conversation

about all these interpretations

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and what Solomon is talking about.

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But moving on, lemme see what

my little note here says.

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Work and don't enjoy.

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Yeah, I put a little note here that says,

work and don't enjoy the fruit of labor.

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That's very true.

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Sometimes it's just work, work, work.

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And then we don't even get to.

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Sit and take a deep breath and enjoy

everything that we are working for.

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Very true.

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Then I have, verse three was a

little, seemed a little like a

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downer to me, a little morbid.

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but it says, if a man begets a hundred

children and lives many years, so

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that the days of his years are many,

but as always, yours always like a.

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how was Cuban?

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So, but his soul is not

satisfied with that.

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Excuse me.

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His soul is not satisfied with

goodness, or indeed he has no burial.

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I say that a stillborn

child is better than he.

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So there's a lot there.

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honestly, so it's saying if a

man can have a hundred children

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and live many, many years.

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So that the days of his years are many.

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So obviously the days

of his years are many.

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He's gonna live a lot of things

throughout those years, says, but his

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soul is not satisfied with goodness.

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So if your heart is not right, if you are

not satisfied with what you have with your

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children, with your family, with whatever

labor it is that you do, it's better that.

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You have a, a stillborn child is

better than he or better than, you

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know, having all those children

because children are goodness.

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labor, having a job is a blessing.

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So you just kinda have to

like shift your perspective.

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sometimes I think, in my opinion,

of course, all this is my opinion.

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I feel like sometimes you have to shift

your perspective when you're reading

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some things, because of course this

was written in a very different time.

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so there's a lot of goodness that

we have in our life that we take for

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granted, but in these times, having

many, many children was, was a thing,

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especially if they were, you know,

young men or would become young men.

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but if you're not satisfied with the

goodness of beginning hundreds of

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children or having many children,

then you may as well have a

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stillborn and not have children.

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So if you look at it that way, it's like,

why are you going to work and do all

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this work and then not sit and enjoy it?

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Or why are you even gonna have one child

nowadays and not take the time to get to

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know them, to love them, to teach them?

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You may as well just focus on yourself

and not have children, which children are

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a blessing, as crazy as they drive us.

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But it is very true.

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You know, you can't,

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you can't.

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You reap what you sow, right?

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You kind of reap what you sow.

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You have children, you

have to be a parent.

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You can't just have children to

have them and say you have them.

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Anyway, I digress because this is just,

we're, we're getting outta line here.

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Getting outta line here.

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The rambling is.

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Is rambling.

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My little side note here, I put a

stillborn is better than a parent who

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cannot find goodness in parenting.

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Yeah, basically I should have

just read my note Anyway, so

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skipping over to verse nine.

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I put better and I circled better because

I feel like that's kind of like a way that

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Solomon says, okay, we're stopping here.

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So a comparison.

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It's either this or that.

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So then it says, better is the sight of

the eyes than the wandering of desire.

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And my note here says to see, rather

than sin or desire, I don't know why

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I wrote that note, 'cause now I'm

interpreting it a little bit different.

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again, it just maybe spoke to me

in a different way at the time.

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but it's like, why are we

going to continue seeking more?

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That's what I feel like I'm

understanding right now.

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Why always moving on to the next thing.

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Why moving?

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Why do we have to have a wandering eye

and continuing to seek that desire?

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We need to be content.

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We need to be content with what we

have because if we're not content

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with what we have, then we can't

steward these things properly.

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Yeah.

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So for example, if God gives

us a, the opportunity to

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purchase our first house, right?

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You know, which God willing I will have,

you know, my own home one day, right?

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But if we don't take care of that house,

we don't put love into that house.

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How is it that he is going

to prepare us to maybe have

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a bigger house in the future?

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And it's the same thing with a job.

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Like how are you going to want to ask

for all of these perks in your job and

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then you're not gonna do a good job.

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So anyway, so you can't have

that like tunnel vision.

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You need to focus on what you have

now, really, work on your craft and

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like perfect whatever it is that

you're doing, so that then you can be

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prepared and move on to the next thing.

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So work on that wandering

eye and those desires.

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'cause sometimes.

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It's okay to be content and

have what you have right now.

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moving on to verse 10, whatever

one is he has been named already

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for it is known that he is man

and cannot contend with him.

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So I put here we are who we

are and God named us already.

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Those are facts, like sometimes

we try to change people.

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Only God can change a person.

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We need to stop trying to change people.

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We can't change ourselves.

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We need the help of God to work

in us so that we can actually

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change and be transformed.

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and then it says, and he cannot contend

with him who is mightier than he.

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And I put, we can't challenge the

Lord and we can't, like, why are

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we going to go against the grain

and say, I'm, I wanna do this.

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I'm gonna go here.

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When you keep having roadblocks, analyze.

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Right now in your life,

you keep having roadblocks.

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You keep having these things that

are clear as day saying don't do it.

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And you wanna contend with him.

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You want to go against him.

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You want to again, go against the

green and and fight what it is that

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is clear as day a no, and a sign

from God that you should not proceed.

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So we need to stop contending

with him because at the end

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of the day, he knows best.

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He created us.

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He knows our story.

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He knows the beginning, he knows

the middle, and he knows the end.

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And the last thing, my little side

note here on verse 12 says, only

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God with an exclamation point.

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And that says, for who knows

what is good for man in life.

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And literally just that only God,

only God knows what's good for us.

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We are not born wise.

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We are made wiser.

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as we continue to struggle and

to learn hard lessons, so we need

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to stop thinking that we know

it all because we clearly don't.

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Only the Lord knows and he knows

again how we are going to end up.

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And the more that we are still,

the more that we listen, the more

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that we take a step back and we

analyze our surroundings, what we're

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doing, what he's trying to tell us.

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I feel that that really is going

to get us in a better direction.

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So I know this was a very short

chapter, but I hope and I pray that

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you guys got some good nuggets from it

and some good information as always.

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Please open up your

Bibles, read for yourself.

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I truly pray that you guys are

enjoying this book because it's

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as difficult as it was for me to

understand the first go around.

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it actually is very, very, it's

kind of like a handbook of how to

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do life and like what not to do.

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'cause I already been there, done that.

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But anyway, my friends, thank you again.

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I love you guys so much.

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I'll see you again next Monday for

another series of I Can't He Can.

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I love you.

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God bless you and take care.

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To whoever reads this:
I'm glad you're here and I hope you stay a while. There is something I need to give back to the world - and to you.

That 'something' is my story, my life and my words that were once marked by pain, but are now marked by love and a new found faith in Christ. But hold it right there! Do not be quick to judge. While the root of all my talks are founded in the Bible - do not mistake what I have to say for 'unremarkable' or 'not relatable'.

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