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the Test Driving the Freeways of Life Ecclesiastes 2:1 I thought in my heart, Come now, I will test you with pleasure to find out what is good. 1. The Worlds Popular Freeways 1. The Worlds Popular Freeways 1. The Worlds Popular

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Ecclesiastes 2:1 I thought in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure to find out what is good.”

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1 Kings 4:22–23 Solomon’s daily provisions were thirty cors of fine flour and sixty cors of meal, ten head of stall-fed cattle, twenty

  • f pasture-fed cattle and a hundred sheep and goats, as

well as deer, gazelles, roebucks and choice fowl.

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1 Kings 10:4–5 When the queen of Sheba saw all the wisdom of Solomon and the palace he had built, the food on his table, the seating of his officials, the attending servants in their robes, his cupbearers, and the burnt offerings he made at the temple of the LORD, she was overwhelmed.

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Ecclesiastes 2:11 Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun.

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Ecclesiastes 2:11 Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun.

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Ecclesiastes 2:12 Then I turned my thoughts to consider wisdom, and also madness and folly. What more can the king’s successor do than what has already been done?

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Ecclesiastes 2:15 Then I thought in my heart, “The fate of the fool will

  • vertake me also. What then do I gain by being wise?”

I said in my heart, “This too is meaningless.”

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Ecclesiastes 2:18–19 I hated all the things I had toiled for under the sun, because I must leave them to the one who comes after

  • me. And who knows whether he will be a wise man or

a fool? Yet he will have control over all the work into which I have poured my effort and skill under the

  • sun. This too is meaningless.
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Ecclesiastes 2:23 All his days his work is pain and grief; even at night his mind does not rest. This too is meaningless.

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1 Corinthians 10:31 So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.

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Matthew 6:33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

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  • v. 26 To the man who pleases God…
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Hebrews 11:6 And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.