there's only profit under the sun, okay?
So he's giving you this understanding
that anything you do is only gonna profit you
if you're still alive.
And anything you do, you need to make sure you do it now.
You need to do it today, you need to do it in your lifetime
while you still exist under the sun, okay?
You know, he's referring to your lifespan
when he says under the sun, here on God's green earth.
And what he's saying is this, is that once you're dead,
there's no more profiting from your labor.
Today you can work overtime, today you can work hours
and make money and succeed and exercise these principles
and be diligent and labor, but you gotta understand
that you can only do it while you're under the sun
while you are alive.
And so he's not saying like, hey, don't labor,
because that would obviously contradict what he's teaching
in the book of Proverbs.
In fact, in Ecclesiastes chapter nine, verse 10,
he says, whatsoever thy hand findeth to do,
do it with thy might, for there is no work,
nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom in the grave
whither thou goest.
So he's like, hey, I'm not saying don't labor,
I'm just saying, as you're laboring,
since you have this time to labor under the sun,
you need to do it with all your might,
because you're not gonna be able to labor in the grave,
which is exactly where you're going.
We're all going to the grave one day.
We're all gonna die, okay?
Our bodies will be buried in the grave.
And so when he says under the sun,
he's referring to our life span.
And this is why we gotta, you know,
it's good to think upon death.
It's good to think upon the fact that we are still
under the sun, because one day, especially us
that are saved, we're gonna be above the sun, right?
We're gonna be in heaven with the Lord,
but at that point, there's no more laboring.
You know, you can't labor anymore,
you can't profit from your labor anymore.