Sermon Tone Analysis

13 Someone out of the crowd said, “Teacher, order my brother to give me a fair share of the family inheritance.”

14 He replied, “Mister, what makes you think it’s any of my business to be a judge or mediator for you?”

15 Speaking to the people, he went on, “Take care!

Protect yourself against the least bit of greed.

Life is not defined by what you have, even when you have a lot.”

16-19 Then he told them this story: “The farm of a certain rich man produced a terrific crop.

He talked to himself: ‘What can I do?

My barn isn’t big enough for this harvest.’

Then he said, ‘Here’s what I’ll do: I’ll tear down my barns and build bigger ones.

Then I’ll gather in all my grain and goods, and I’ll say to myself, Self, you’ve done well!

You’ve got it made and can now retire.

Take it easy and have the time of your life!’

20 “Just then God showed up and said, ‘Fool!

Tonight you die.

And your barnful of goods—who gets it?’

21 “That’s what happens when you fill your barn with Self and not with God.”

ME: ORIENTATION: FIND COMMON GROUND WITH THE AUDIENCE

ME: ORIENTATION: FIND COMMON GROUND WITH THE AUDIENCE

Mister Magoo’s Christmas Carol

WE: IDENTIFICATION (MAKE IT CLEAR THAT YOU STRUGGLE)

overt greed in the video.

What is your relationship with money.

Both Jesus and Paul warned us about this concern.

We live in a world where we have some rich folks are so wealth the have enough money to run a country.

We have some folks in this country that want to redistribute wealth 3% of 15 billion is 450 million.

There is just not enough wealthy to make the difference .

Lincoln said of slaver what was wrong is you make the bread and someone else eats it.

Society is teaching a credit system today some of our young people feel we don‘t even need money.

Society is teaching a credit system today some of our young people feel we don‘t even need money.

‘t even need money.

we have greed in our society today ....

GOD: ILLUMINATION (THE GOAL IS TO RESOLVE THE TENSION

13 Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.” 14 But he said to him, “Man, who made me a judge or arbitrator over you?” 15 And he said to them, “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”

16 And he told them a parable, saying, “The land of a rich man produced plentifully, 17 and he thought to himself, ‘What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’

18 And he said, ‘I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.19

And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.”’

20 But God said to him, ‘Fool!

This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’

21 So is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.”

I. STEP ONE: A REALIZATION THAT WEALTH IS NOT HAPPINESS.

A. tell my brother to share the inheritance

B. Take Care and be on your guard against all covetousness

15

take care

to be alert or on guard, pay attention, see to it that foll.

by μή and the aor.

subj.

(Diod S 27, 17, 3 ὁρᾶτε μήποτε ποιήσωμεν; Epict., Ench.

19, 2; Lucian, Dial.

Deor.

8, 2; BGU 37, 5 [50 a.d.];

POxy 532, 15 ὅρα μὴ ἄλλως πράξῃς; 531, 9 ὅρα μηδενὶ ἀνθρώπων προσκρούσῃς.—B-D-F

§364, 3) ; ; ; ; Cl 21:1; D 6:1.—W.

μή and impv.

(B-D-F §461, 1; Rob.

996) ; .—Elliptically

(B-D-F §480, 5; Rob.

949) ὅρα μή (sc.

ποιήσῃς) watch out! don’t do that!

; .—Used

w. ἀπό τινος look out for someth.

(B-D-F §149; Rob.

472) ὁρᾶτε καὶ προσέχετε ἀπὸ τῆς ζύμης τῶν Φαρισαίων look out (for) and be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees .

ὁράτε, βλέπετε ἀπὸ τῆς ζύμης τῶν Φαρ. .

ὁράτε καὶ φυλάσσεσθε ἀπὸ πάσης πλεονεξίας Lk 12:15.1

be on guard

φυλάσσω (phylassō).

vb. to guard, watch, keep.

Primarily denotes guarding, but can also indicate keeping commandments.

This is the usual Septuagint translation of שָׁמַר‎ (šāmar, “to keep”).

Phylassō has a substantial overlap in meaning with τηρέω (tēreō, “to keep”), but leans more in the direction of “to guard [a prison]” or “to watch [at night].”

This primary sense can be seen at several points in the nt, such as the shepherds keeping watch (phylassō; ) or the sentries guarding (phylassō; ) Peter.

A similar sense is to “be on guard against” (; ; ).

In some cases, phylassō does mean “to keep,” as in “to obey.”

It is used to indicate keeping ot commandments

covet

πλεονεξία, ας, ἡ (πλεονέκτης) the state of desiring to have more than one’s due, greediness, insatiableness, avarice, covetousness (so Hdt., Thu.+; Aristoxenus, Fgm.

50 p.

23, 36ff [πλ.

as the vice pure and simple]; Diod S 21, 1, 4 [πλ.

as the μητρόπολις τῶν ἀδικημάτων]; Musonius 72, 9; 90, 10 H.; Dio Chrys., Or. 67 [17] περί πλεονεξίας: 6 μέγιστον κακῶν αἴτιον; 7 μέγιστον κακόν; Ael.

Aristid.

39 p. 733 D.: πλ. is among the three most disgraceful things; Herm.

Wr. 13, 7; pap, LXX; Test12Patr; GrBar 13:3; ApcMos 11; EpArist 277; Philo, Spec.

Leg. 1, 173, Praem.

15 al.; Jos., Bell.

7, 256, Ant. 3, 67; 7, 37 al.; Just., D. 14, 2; Tat. 19, 2; Ath., R. 21 p. 74, 9; Theoph.

Ant. 1, 14 [p.

92, 7]) B 10:4; w. other vices (as Diod S 13, 30, 4 in catalogues of vices.

On these s.

AVögtle, Die Tugend-u.

Lasterkataloge im NT ’36) ; Cl 35:5; B 20:1; D 5:1; Pol 2:2; Hm 6, 2, 5; 8:5.

Used w. ἀκαθαρσία ; .

Characterized as εἰδωλολατρία (s.

εἰδωλολατρία, πλεονέκτης and cp.

TestJud 19:1.

Chaeremon the Stoic, Nero’s teacher, in Porphyr., Abst.

4, 6 [=Chaeremon, Fgm. 10, p. 16 Horst] contrasts πλεονεξία with θεία γνῶσις).

Of false teachers , (s. γυμνάζω end).

πρόφασις πλεονεξίας (subj.

gen.) pretext for avarice (cp.

Philostrat.