sermon aug 3 2025
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Luke 12:13-21
Luke 12:13-21
Upside Down: Living the Kingdom Way
Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”
Jesus replied, “Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you?” Then he said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.”
And he told them this parable: “The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest. He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.’
“Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain. And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.” ’
“But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’
“This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God.”
—> Luke 12:13
Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”
—> not about what’s fair
—> it’s about what’s mine
(common practice to have rabbi’s do this kind of thing)
—> Luke 12:16-19
And he told them this parable: “The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest. He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.’
“Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain. And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.” ’
—> Lots of I’s and my’s
—> Very similar to the tone of the question asked by the man
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“But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’
“This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God.”
—> why is the man a fool?
—> are all rich people fools?
—> are all men fools? (don’t answer that)
—> what’s the problem here?
—> the man’s focus
—> In all of this has the man talked to God?
—> has the man thanked God?
—> rich toward God — in faith, in love, and in good works
