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can i believe you when you say i'm good

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i didn't need to when i wished you would A sermon on the 7th chapter of Ecclesiastes : Ecclesiastes, the book today’s passage comes from, is a hard -nosed pursuit of wisdom distilled down to its very essence . And after a few weeks with the Quester, we’ve got to hand it to the guy, he’s up to the task. Isn’t he?Ecclesiastes isn’t afraid of an unpleasant observation. It doesn’t blanch in the face of a disagreeable facts. And it’s not about shrink from making a difficult verdict, either. This book is willing to follow an argument all the way to its bitter end. But , in the end , here in today’s passage, what does the Quester discover for all his trouble? Does he come to one grand unifying theory of everything? Does he learn the great secret of it all ? Or, does he, at least , come to one single certainty he can hang his hat on? …No, he doesn’t ! Does he?!? On the contrary , at the end , the Quester doesn’t learn anything! Well, that’s not right, exactly. The Quester does lear...