Ready? OK. All right, we're going to get started in a few moments. And we hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving.
And don't forget to please pick up your lesson outline over here on the table. Also, 2nd and 5th grade Sunday school class is meeting currently right, right now. And a couple of things for adults out there, if you, I know Pastor Mike's been doing this for the past couple of weeks, giving out some prizes, but if you could tell me at the end of our lesson, which means I got to do a good job, with my lesson. Can give me in one sentence, what the theme of chapter 3 is, what the theme of cha chapter 3 is, so that puts a lot of pressure on me, right, to make sure I present the lesson to you correctly.
And also for children. If you can tell me what word is mentioned or presented at least 28 times. There's one word in this chapter that is mentioned over and over again 28 times, OK? So, as, we are looking at chapter 3 of the book called Living Life Backward by David Gibson and we'll be looking at Ecclesiastes chapter 3 verses 1 to 22 and let me start by, by reading this.
From Doctor William Barrick, who says, who is a former professor of Old Testament at the Masters Seminary. He said this, he says, in our Christian faith, we often focus on heaven, the sweet by and by, and what we have in Christ prepares us for that future. However, our faith also equips us for living in what someone called the nasty now and now. Life provides opportunities for living out our faith and our service for God....
