From Covetousness to Faith

Introduction

I invite you to turn with me in your Bibles to Luke chapter 12, we’ll be reading verses 13-34.

As you turn there, I want to take a moment to look at the context of our passage.

Jesus is on his way to Jerusalem and has pronounced judgment on the lawyers and Pharisees because of their arrogance and self-righteousness.

In being externally righteous with no internal change they are just whitewashed tombs, full of dead people’s bones.

You don’t need to turn there, but in Matthew 23:5-7, Jesus tells us what the motivation of the Pharisees is:

“They do all their deeds to be seen by others. For they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long, and they love the place of honor at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces and being called rabbi by others.”

They coveted the praise of man and the earthly benefits that came from it.

The Pharisees’ hypocrisy was rooted in their covetousness. Being workers of external righteousness, there was always more glory to be gained for themselves.

So with that in mind, would you stand in reverence for the reading of God’s Word, Hear now the word of the Lord, the words of life.

Read Passage…..

Please be seated*

Well as we look at our passage tonight, I'd like to look at it under 3 headings:

1. the problem of covetousness.

2. the solution to covetousness.

3. The application.