1 00:00:01,020 --> 00:00:05,700 Well, ifan you got a Bible, turn to Luke chapter 12. 2 00:00:06,160 --> 00:00:07,080 That's where we're going to be. 3 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:11,900 Still a whole lot of shaking going on in the world. 4 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:15,080 Hoping everybody's paying attention. 5 00:00:16,219 --> 00:00:17,720 Hope you're getting up and you're watching. 6 00:00:19,899 --> 00:00:28,720 And kind of watching Israel, watching Iran, Venezuela, Ukraine, 7 00:00:29,740 --> 00:00:39,540 China. I mean, it's all over the world. Cuba, they say, is kind of in a pickle. They may not last much 8 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:49,780 longer. You know, the Bible says that everything that can be shaken will be shaken. And I don't know 9 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:58,400 what it would take for people to turn to the Lord, but I would hope that it wouldn't take much more 10 00:00:58,460 --> 00:01:03,620 than what we see going on in the world, realizing that we, I don't know about you, but a lot of times 11 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:09,340 when you see how overwhelming it is the things going on in the world, how small it makes you feel. 12 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:15,620 And it can strike fear in people's hearts, and yet the Lord has encouraged us. 13 00:01:16,700 --> 00:01:23,200 When you see these things, don't get all upset, right? Be faithful. Stay close to the Lord. 14 00:01:23,820 --> 00:01:27,400 Be faithful unto death, and he'll give us a crown of life. 15 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:36,740 and well that's easier said than done sometimes but anyway we're going to get in God's word this 16 00:01:36,860 --> 00:01:43,060 morning and hopefully we'll be encouraged by the things that we read a lot of times Jesus doesn't 17 00:01:43,180 --> 00:01:50,600 pull any punches and the truth is is very painful at times and so there might be some truth 18 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:56,120 that we see today that might check us simply because we're Americans 19 00:01:57,440 --> 00:01:59,140 anybody proud to be an American? 20 00:01:59,940 --> 00:02:00,180 Amen. 21 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:04,060 I'm so thankful that I live in this country, 22 00:02:04,860 --> 00:02:09,899 and yet I think it can be a blessing and a curse all at the same time. 23 00:02:11,039 --> 00:02:16,560 But we looked last time at the Holy Spirit, 24 00:02:17,300 --> 00:02:22,700 and we want to, I don't know about you, 25 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:25,780 but I want to be walking in this spirit, 26 00:02:25,880 --> 00:02:27,720 and not fulfilling the lust of the flesh, 27 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:30,780 and trying to stay away from hypocrisy. 28 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:33,600 That's how Jesus started this chapter. 29 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:38,860 Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. 30 00:02:39,820 --> 00:02:43,680 And so in this passage, we get another beware from Jesus. 31 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:48,820 When Jesus says, beware, we probably should beware. 32 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:50,560 Right? 33 00:02:52,140 --> 00:02:55,800 It's very elementary, I realize, but we should take. 34 00:02:55,820 --> 00:03:05,340 it to heart when the Lord says beware. And we finish up in chapter 12, verse 12, where it says, 35 00:03:05,340 --> 00:03:11,260 for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say. The God's Spirit 36 00:03:11,700 --> 00:03:20,380 desires to dwell in us and to give us wisdom, to give us His word, and that we might be 37 00:03:20,460 --> 00:03:25,780 able to give an answer for the hope that lies within us. And the Holy Spirit says, 38 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:32,640 the best way to go there, and he will meet you in that moment when you need him the most. 39 00:03:33,340 --> 00:03:37,720 And so we're going to read, we're just going to read through seven or eight verses here. 40 00:03:37,860 --> 00:03:40,540 I think it's from verse 13 to verse 21. 41 00:03:40,860 --> 00:03:41,940 So read along with me. 42 00:03:42,420 --> 00:03:48,560 It says, then one of the crowd said to him, teacher, tell my brother to defied the inheritance 43 00:03:49,420 --> 00:03:49,540 with me. 44 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:55,720 But he said to him, man, who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you? 45 00:03:56,460 --> 00:04:07,680 And he said to them, take heed and beware of covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses. 46 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:14,240 Then he spoke a parable to them saying, the ground of a certain rich man yielded plentiful. 47 00:04:14,660 --> 00:04:21,380 And he thought within himself, saying, what shall I do since I have no room to store my crops? 48 00:04:21,840 --> 00:04:23,320 And so he said, I will do this. 49 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:26,320 I will pull down my barns and build greater. 50 00:04:26,820 --> 00:04:29,900 And there I will store all my crops and my goods. 51 00:04:30,300 --> 00:04:31,900 And I will say to my soul, 52 00:04:32,280 --> 00:04:35,880 soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. 53 00:04:36,180 --> 00:04:39,160 Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry. 54 00:04:39,840 --> 00:04:41,700 But God said to him, fool. 55 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:45,300 This night your soul will be required of you. 56 00:04:45,740 --> 00:04:51,080 Then whose will those things be which you have provided? 57 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:58,020 And so is he who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich towards God. 58 00:04:58,480 --> 00:04:58,840 Let's pray. 59 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:00,340 Lord, thank you. 60 00:05:01,420 --> 00:05:09,500 Thank you for the truth of these verses, Lord, that Lord encourages us to be careful what we put our trust in. 61 00:05:10,230 --> 00:05:13,640 And so, Lord, may we find ourselves today putting our trust in you. 62 00:05:14,420 --> 00:05:21,680 Lord, that the truth of your word would cut deep into our hearts and just the reality of what and who we are. 63 00:05:21,700 --> 00:05:28,680 are, especially what and who we are apart from you. So Lord, would you teach us this day? Lord, 64 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:35,580 may we take these things to heart. May we truly realize, Lord, and pursue becoming rich 65 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:45,220 with our God and that our treasures would truly be in heaven, in Jesus' name. Amen. So we have another 66 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:51,420 beware here from Jesus in this passage. And so it is beware of covetousness. 67 00:05:52,280 --> 00:06:00,960 and so Jesus seemingly right off the back gets pulled into an inheritance dispute. 68 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:02,720 You ever seen those? 69 00:06:06,460 --> 00:06:07,420 It's the most brutal. 70 00:06:08,500 --> 00:06:14,320 I think it's second only to murder, which I think it's caused murder in some cases. 71 00:06:15,580 --> 00:06:21,440 And he seemingly gets pulled into this where the then a, then one thing, 72 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:26,200 from the crowd said to him, teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me. 73 00:06:28,819 --> 00:06:35,120 Now, this would be probably uncomfortable to get involved. 74 00:06:35,580 --> 00:06:39,220 You know, the scripture says not to get involved with other people's affairs. 75 00:06:39,420 --> 00:06:43,520 I think it's in the proverbs, well, it says if you start getting involved and sticking your 76 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:47,520 nose into other people's business, it's like taking a dog by the ears. 77 00:06:48,380 --> 00:06:50,860 You're going to get bit, right? 78 00:06:51,460 --> 00:06:52,380 So don't do that. 79 00:06:56,220 --> 00:07:00,900 But when it comes to inheritance, people get pretty uppity. 80 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:05,160 And what do I want to say? 81 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:12,300 Just all they can think about is what you're going to give me. 82 00:07:14,060 --> 00:07:14,320 You know? 83 00:07:15,100 --> 00:07:20,640 And my dad was actually talking to me about this the other day, about my inheritance. 84 00:07:22,820 --> 00:07:27,420 And I'm thinking, I wonder what the others would say about this. 85 00:07:29,540 --> 00:07:29,700 Right? 86 00:07:29,700 --> 00:07:30,940 Would they agree with him? 87 00:07:31,900 --> 00:07:33,240 Would they not agree with him? 88 00:07:34,100 --> 00:07:38,800 And it's like, just let the people who are leaving the inheritance, make a decision, 89 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:41,680 live with the decision, and go on about your business. 90 00:07:41,820 --> 00:07:42,880 But people don't do that. 91 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:45,000 No, they get all watered up. 92 00:07:48,660 --> 00:07:50,280 We got invited, my wife and I. 93 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:52,920 to some extended family. 94 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:56,360 The gal in her 90s was getting ready to pass, 95 00:07:56,460 --> 00:07:59,100 and they said, we're divvying up all this stuff at the house. 96 00:07:59,200 --> 00:07:59,640 Come over. 97 00:08:00,260 --> 00:08:01,060 Take what you want. 98 00:08:03,320 --> 00:08:06,500 So we get over there, and her adult children are in their 70s. 99 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:11,340 And I'm watching, I'm going, this feels kind of weird, 100 00:08:11,540 --> 00:08:12,620 going through somebody's stuff. 101 00:08:12,760 --> 00:08:13,820 And they're not even gone yet. 102 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:16,120 I mean, she's not even cold. 103 00:08:18,940 --> 00:08:21,300 And we're going through the stuff. 104 00:08:21,620 --> 00:08:24,280 And I remember I overheard the oldest boy said, 105 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:26,720 this is the end of life. 106 00:08:28,620 --> 00:08:29,400 This is what it is. 107 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:34,580 You accumulate all this fodder, all this stuff. 108 00:08:36,159 --> 00:08:37,880 And then people divvy it up. 109 00:08:38,860 --> 00:08:41,500 And praise the Lord, they weren't fighting over it, right? 110 00:08:42,460 --> 00:08:44,580 But I'm just going, wow. 111 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:48,760 And so Jesus kind of, he's going, 112 00:08:48,980 --> 00:08:49,520 Now, wait a minute. 113 00:08:49,860 --> 00:08:53,340 You want me involved in this whole inheritance thing? 114 00:08:53,790 --> 00:08:56,840 I don't think the Lord is that interested in our stuff. 115 00:08:58,300 --> 00:08:58,460 Right? 116 00:08:59,560 --> 00:09:01,120 He don't care about our stuff. 117 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:04,560 Stuff don't do nothing for us. 118 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:07,500 But make our garages cluttered. 119 00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:09,520 That's what stuff does. 120 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:12,860 Jesus is concerned with our soul. 121 00:09:14,560 --> 00:09:15,720 He's concerned with your soul. 122 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:17,420 He could care less about your stuff. 123 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:18,780 You should care less about. 124 00:09:18,900 --> 00:09:34,200 your stuff because it's just stuff and it's going away so he says he says but he said to him man who made me a judge 125 00:09:34,500 --> 00:09:43,040 or an arbitrator over you or your stuff now it is interesting they considered jesus a rabbi right 126 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:48,140 and in the Jewish society disputes were often brought to the rabbis to settle. 127 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:52,120 But it's like Jesus going, I'm not going to do this. 128 00:09:53,460 --> 00:09:55,240 I'm not going to get in here. 129 00:09:55,420 --> 00:10:01,160 Okay, you can have the oak chair and you get the disposable chair, right? 130 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:02,880 Kind of divvying the stuff up. 131 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:10,280 And in that culture, the firstborn, so he says, tell my brother. 132 00:10:10,560 --> 00:10:13,060 Because the firstborn, the firstborn, when, 133 00:10:13,100 --> 00:10:19,980 When it came to the inheritance, the firstborn got two-thirds of everything that the family or the father left. 134 00:10:20,940 --> 00:10:25,340 And then the other siblings that were behind him got to divvy up the third that was left. 135 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:26,940 Right? 136 00:10:27,520 --> 00:10:31,980 So if you're firstborn, you kind of had it made in the shade, so to speak. 137 00:10:33,260 --> 00:10:33,440 Right? 138 00:10:35,180 --> 00:10:43,040 So maybe this kid thought he was getting robbed or whatever, and he wanted Jesus to intervene. 139 00:10:48,640 --> 00:10:51,360 but Jesus goes, I'm not the partitioner. 140 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:55,780 I'm not going to partition up your stuff or divide it. 141 00:10:57,400 --> 00:11:01,140 Because obviously he's not concerned with this stuff. 142 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:05,900 And in verse 15, he says, and he said to them, take heed. 143 00:11:06,380 --> 00:11:12,020 So he takes this situation and he uses it as a teaching moment for those who were around him. 144 00:11:12,060 --> 00:11:19,680 And it says, and it says he says to them, the people who are around, take heed and beware of covetousness. 145 00:11:21,370 --> 00:11:22,600 I probably don't say that right. 146 00:11:23,100 --> 00:11:28,640 But for one's life does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses. 147 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:41,500 These, these possessions of ours, isn't it funny that sometimes you think that if I just had that, 148 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:43,960 it would be so much easier. 149 00:11:45,920 --> 00:11:50,580 I remember years ago talking to a rancher friend of mine that I worked for. 150 00:11:51,140 --> 00:11:56,440 He was in his late 70s, and he was telling me that his wife always told him, 151 00:11:56,940 --> 00:11:59,020 their whole married life, his wife always told me, 152 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:01,940 if I just had another $100 a month, 153 00:12:03,300 --> 00:12:04,900 he said, so I'd give her $100 a month. 154 00:12:05,700 --> 00:12:10,500 And about a year or two later, if I just had another $100 a month, 155 00:12:14,180 --> 00:12:24,720 is that covetousness i i think it is right it's uh the the the word for it here is is obviously the 156 00:12:25,100 --> 00:12:29,020 the thou shall not covet is the tenth commandment you remember that right remember the ten commandments 157 00:12:29,160 --> 00:12:36,440 that that one's always easy to remember and um but in the greek the word covenous is it's 158 00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:38,280 play onyxia. 159 00:12:39,300 --> 00:12:40,480 Pleonicia is the 160 00:12:41,420 --> 00:12:42,800 pronunciation of this word, 161 00:12:43,140 --> 00:12:43,820 and it means 162 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:46,420 lusting for a greater number 163 00:12:47,060 --> 00:12:48,500 of temporal things 164 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:50,480 that go beyond what God 165 00:12:50,580 --> 00:12:52,660 determines is eternally best. 166 00:12:53,640 --> 00:12:54,840 I like that. That's a great 167 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:56,620 definition of covetousness. 168 00:12:57,460 --> 00:12:58,320 I'll say it again. 169 00:12:58,500 --> 00:13:00,660 Lusting for a greater number 170 00:13:01,520 --> 00:13:02,740 of temporal things 171 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:04,500 that go beyond what God 172 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:06,420 determines is eternally 173 00:13:06,460 --> 00:13:16,760 best. Granniness. Right? You just, you want more. Years ago, I heard a preacher talking about a bunch of 174 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:22,320 billionaires that they asked the question. You guys got billions, right? So how much is enough? 175 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:34,579 Just a little bit more. Just a little more. They're never satisfied. And then when they get all 176 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:39,220 that, they're kind of like, they become these little hoarders. You know, I used to hear stories about 177 00:13:39,480 --> 00:13:45,320 Howard Hughes and, man, they get all wotted up about, you know, about little penny things. 178 00:13:47,360 --> 00:13:52,820 Just, no, that's only cost a few cents. I worked for a guy like that one time. I wrote some 179 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:59,380 horses for him. He was a doctor in the Magic Valley. And him and my friend went to the store one day. 180 00:13:59,380 --> 00:14:04,420 And his friend, my friend was, our mutual friend was telling me, he said, that guy is so tight. 181 00:14:04,560 --> 00:14:05,000 I said, really? 182 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:06,440 He said, yeah. 183 00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:10,100 And he had money coming out of his ears. 184 00:14:11,480 --> 00:14:12,420 And he said, we went. 185 00:14:12,840 --> 00:14:16,260 I was helping him fix some stuff at his house because he was too cheap, right? 186 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:17,260 He wouldn't hire it done. 187 00:14:17,340 --> 00:14:19,280 So he'd asked me to come do it for free. 188 00:14:21,020 --> 00:14:23,320 And he says, hey, we need a handful of those screws. 189 00:14:24,900 --> 00:14:26,900 And he says, grab a handful of them screws. 190 00:14:27,100 --> 00:14:31,260 And the guy goes, and this guy with money running out his ears, he goes, at three cents a piece? 191 00:14:33,900 --> 00:14:39,520 He looked at him like, really, you're that wotted up about three cents apiece on those screws. 192 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:43,420 But that's, it's just, it makes you weird. 193 00:14:44,380 --> 00:14:47,860 When you live in this place of thinking, I just got to have more. 194 00:14:49,460 --> 00:14:58,480 I think every person, especially every follower of Christ, you need to determine in your heart very soon in your Christian life, how much is enough? 195 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:00,900 How much is enough? 196 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:04,460 I've always had enough my whole life. 197 00:15:04,820 --> 00:15:09,100 There were times when we were kids, we didn't know what we were going to eat, but we always had enough. 198 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:16,680 I mean, I mean people showing up on our step, giving us, and leaving bags of groceries and knocking and running. 199 00:15:18,140 --> 00:15:19,260 We always had enough. 200 00:15:20,140 --> 00:15:21,100 God saw to it. 201 00:15:21,740 --> 00:15:29,860 You know, the Psalmist says that I've never seen the righteous or the offspring of people who love God begging for bread. 202 00:15:30,660 --> 00:15:32,020 We never had to beg for bread. 203 00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:37,140 Now, we didn't have the best clothes or any, but we always had enough. 204 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:46,760 And everyone needs to determine in their own heart, how much is enough, especially us here in the West, that we're so fat and so blessed. 205 00:15:47,320 --> 00:15:48,700 We take so much for granted. 206 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:52,660 And we still think we have to have a little bit more. 207 00:15:53,240 --> 00:15:54,020 Are you serious? 208 00:15:57,440 --> 00:16:00,880 It was very convicting for me going through this. 209 00:16:00,980 --> 00:16:08,400 And so the last part of verse 15, 210 00:16:09,920 --> 00:16:14,200 for one's life does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses. 211 00:16:14,700 --> 00:16:16,460 And so often we think it does. 212 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:21,960 We think that if I just have a little bit more, my life would be better. 213 00:16:22,740 --> 00:16:25,960 So you're putting trust in these things to give you life. 214 00:16:27,260 --> 00:16:30,900 When the only one who can give you life is the author. 215 00:16:30,940 --> 00:16:38,580 of life. That's the only one who can give you life. Things can't give you life. Money can't give you life. 216 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:49,240 They won't, these things won't hold your life together, if anything, that probably tear your 217 00:16:49,440 --> 00:17:00,640 life apart. And I think Jesus is pointing us to, in a direction that many people struggle. 218 00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:01,460 going to. 219 00:17:04,439 --> 00:17:05,900 But he's the one who gives us life. 220 00:17:08,100 --> 00:17:08,819 Not things. 221 00:17:09,380 --> 00:17:10,300 John 1028. 222 00:17:10,760 --> 00:17:14,579 And I give them eternal life and they shall never perish. 223 00:17:14,959 --> 00:17:17,900 Neither shall anyone snatch them out of my hand. 224 00:17:19,839 --> 00:17:21,300 Is that an incredible promise or what? 225 00:17:24,339 --> 00:17:26,660 You find that life in him? 226 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:29,160 Because it's there. 227 00:17:30,060 --> 00:17:33,280 And he told us in another place, the words that I speak to you, 228 00:17:33,380 --> 00:17:34,880 they're spirit and their life. 229 00:17:35,140 --> 00:17:38,420 Have you noticed that if you'll consistently read God's word, 230 00:17:38,940 --> 00:17:42,140 there is a, there's life that comes to you? 231 00:17:44,899 --> 00:17:45,340 Encouragement? 232 00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:47,480 Just reading through the book of Job. 233 00:17:48,280 --> 00:17:53,560 I'm just thinking, man, I'm so glad I'm not Job yet. 234 00:17:54,740 --> 00:17:54,940 Right? 235 00:17:56,200 --> 00:17:57,900 I ain't out of the woods yet. 236 00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:05,940 But notice what the 10th commandant entails here. 237 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:08,960 It's not just stuff. 238 00:18:10,190 --> 00:18:11,360 It's other things too. 239 00:18:12,820 --> 00:18:14,880 Exodus chapter 20, verse 17, it says, 240 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:18,680 You shall not covet your neighbor's house. 241 00:18:19,770 --> 00:18:22,160 You shall not covet your neighbor's wife. 242 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:26,920 Oh, there's a lusty one. 243 00:18:27,540 --> 00:18:31,920 nor his male servants, nor his female servants, nor his ox, 244 00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:37,080 nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbors. 245 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:45,600 And how often I see and I've been guilty of it myself, 246 00:18:45,900 --> 00:18:48,320 oh, I want one of those, right? 247 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:51,640 It's never crossed your mind, but as soon as your neighbor gets it, 248 00:18:52,050 --> 00:18:53,100 I want one of those. 249 00:18:55,860 --> 00:18:57,060 And it can be anything, right? 250 00:18:59,340 --> 00:19:03,320 it could be a wife or a car or a house 251 00:19:10,159 --> 00:19:12,240 and I'm going to go ahead and just 252 00:19:12,700 --> 00:19:17,740 read through 16 through the 21 again and he spoke a parable to them 253 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:21,940 so Jesus goes okay you guys need to get this 254 00:19:22,460 --> 00:19:24,399 so he speaks this parable to them saying 255 00:19:24,940 --> 00:19:29,900 the ground of a certain man yielded plentiful, and he thought within himself saying, 256 00:19:30,100 --> 00:19:33,900 what shall I do since I have no room to store my crops? 257 00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:36,260 I'm at a loss. 258 00:19:37,080 --> 00:19:38,320 I've been so blessed. 259 00:19:38,440 --> 00:19:40,820 I have no place to put everything that I have. 260 00:19:42,060 --> 00:19:43,380 But he doesn't say that, does he? 261 00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:53,400 He doesn't recognize that the fruit of the ground that yielded plentiful would come from somebody else. 262 00:19:54,060 --> 00:19:55,560 So he said, I will do this. 263 00:19:55,660 --> 00:19:57,600 I will pull down my barns and build greater. 264 00:19:58,120 --> 00:20:00,400 And there I will store my crops and my goods. 265 00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:05,960 And I will say to my soul, soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. 266 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:07,020 Take your ease. 267 00:20:07,180 --> 00:20:08,280 Eat, drink and be merry. 268 00:20:08,420 --> 00:20:12,960 But God said to him, fool this night, your soul will be required of you. 269 00:20:14,460 --> 00:20:19,420 Then who will those things be which you have provided? 270 00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:23,400 And so is he who lays up treasure for himself and is not. 271 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:30,480 not rich towards God. It's like, that's all you get. It's all you get. I mean, that bumper sticker 272 00:20:30,660 --> 00:20:36,220 that people try to convince themselves is true that says, he who dies with the most toys wins, 273 00:20:38,120 --> 00:20:48,520 right? No, he who dies with the most toys wins, nothing. That's how it should read. He wins. He wins. 274 00:20:50,500 --> 00:20:53,480 So three things about this guy before we leave today. 275 00:20:54,140 --> 00:20:55,700 First of all, he's greedy. 276 00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:57,380 This guy's greedy. 277 00:20:58,240 --> 00:20:59,320 Just give me, give me, give me. 278 00:20:59,460 --> 00:21:00,380 Got to have more. 279 00:21:02,340 --> 00:21:08,360 And greed has no allowance to recognize God's goodness or blessing in God's grace. 280 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:09,580 Right? 281 00:21:10,100 --> 00:21:11,540 It doesn't allow that to happen. 282 00:21:12,240 --> 00:21:12,620 It's just no. 283 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:14,120 Look what I've got. 284 00:21:14,220 --> 00:21:15,040 Look what I've done. 285 00:21:15,540 --> 00:21:16,460 You remember Mabikinezer. 286 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:18,060 That was his ploy. 287 00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:20,580 when he's standing over there over his kingdom. 288 00:21:21,100 --> 00:21:24,740 This is after Daniel interprets his dream about the statue, 289 00:21:25,380 --> 00:21:29,840 and he's going, look at this great, great empire I've built. 290 00:21:30,700 --> 00:21:32,700 Kaboom, that very day. 291 00:21:33,500 --> 00:21:34,640 Finito, it's over. 292 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:35,740 You're going to be like an ox. 293 00:21:36,900 --> 00:21:37,380 Burr. 294 00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:42,940 And he ate grass like a cow for the next seven years. 295 00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:46,080 God put him in the pasture, put him out to pasture. 296 00:21:47,120 --> 00:21:47,580 Because why? 297 00:21:47,660 --> 00:21:48,860 He didn't recognize God. 298 00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:50,260 He didn't humble himself. 299 00:21:51,460 --> 00:21:53,060 He didn't realize what God had given him. 300 00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:55,460 That's what greed does. 301 00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:58,740 Makes you totally blind to how blessed you are. 302 00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:00,500 Totally blind. 303 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:05,100 And this guy, he's blinded by his greed. 304 00:22:06,860 --> 00:22:08,140 I've got it made in the shade. 305 00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:09,800 I will never be in want. 306 00:22:10,020 --> 00:22:10,440 Oh, really? 307 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:12,040 Really. 308 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:14,380 See, you know what's going to happen tomorrow. 309 00:22:15,540 --> 00:22:16,740 You know what's going to happen tomorrow? 310 00:22:17,700 --> 00:22:18,820 I don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. 311 00:22:19,360 --> 00:22:21,220 I'm probably going to take my last breath tomorrow. 312 00:22:21,540 --> 00:22:23,200 Good chance of that, right? 313 00:22:23,980 --> 00:22:25,200 Because I am a terrible driver. 314 00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:34,940 Paul talks in 1st Timothy about this. 315 00:22:35,660 --> 00:22:36,140 He says, 316 00:22:38,140 --> 00:22:42,540 Godliness, it says, now godliness with contentment is great gain. 317 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:44,820 But those who are full of greed, 318 00:22:45,020 --> 00:22:45,960 they have no content. 319 00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:46,760 They're not content. 320 00:22:47,420 --> 00:22:51,340 for we brought nothing into this world and it is certain we carry nothing out. 321 00:22:51,940 --> 00:22:55,560 And having food and clothing with these we shall be content. 322 00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:02,860 But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare and into many foolish and harmful lusts 323 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:05,860 which drown men in destruction and perdition. 324 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:08,820 For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil, 325 00:23:09,380 --> 00:23:16,300 for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness and pierce themselves through with many sorrows. 326 00:23:18,660 --> 00:23:19,920 Godliness with contentment. 327 00:23:20,860 --> 00:23:21,500 Loving God. 328 00:23:23,980 --> 00:23:24,460 Contentment. 329 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:26,300 That means you might live in a tent, 330 00:23:26,700 --> 00:23:28,860 but you can be content living in a tent. 331 00:23:30,100 --> 00:23:32,140 If you have God in your life, 332 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:40,120 no, nope, got to have more. 333 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:41,460 It's got to be bigger. 334 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:46,120 The writer of Hebrews encourages us in Hebrews 13-5, 335 00:23:46,180 --> 00:23:49,240 it says, let your conduct be without covetishnessness. 336 00:23:54,300 --> 00:23:56,460 Be content with such things as you have, 337 00:23:56,760 --> 00:24:00,360 for he himself has said, I will never leave you or forsake you. 338 00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:01,460 Isn't that good enough? 339 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:03,980 Is that good enough? 340 00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:06,120 No, I got to have Jesus and. 341 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:14,000 I got to have Jesus and a 5,000 square foot home and a Lamborghini. 342 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:17,360 No, you don't. 343 00:24:20,220 --> 00:24:22,820 There's such a big difference between needs and wants. 344 00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:25,260 What you want? 345 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:28,720 I used to love that song. It's called More of You. 346 00:24:29,620 --> 00:24:31,380 That's what I need. I need more of him. 347 00:24:32,900 --> 00:24:33,980 And less of me. 348 00:24:36,100 --> 00:24:39,520 For Jesus tells us in Matthew chapter 16, verse 26, 349 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:43,540 for what prophet is it to a man? 350 00:24:44,120 --> 00:24:46,680 if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul 351 00:24:47,300 --> 00:24:49,460 and what will a man give an exchange for his soul? 352 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:50,680 You thought about that? 353 00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:53,340 What are you going to give? 354 00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:56,720 An exchange for your soul? 355 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:01,500 Nothing. 356 00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:05,500 So the guy is greedy. 357 00:25:05,780 --> 00:25:07,740 Secondly, the guy is selfish. 358 00:25:09,780 --> 00:25:11,140 In verses 17 and 19, 359 00:25:11,380 --> 00:25:12,760 and he thought within himself, 360 00:25:12,940 --> 00:25:20,680 Watch this. And he thought within himself, what shall I do since I have no room to store my crops? 361 00:25:20,860 --> 00:25:27,240 And he said, I will go down. I will do this. I will pull down my barns and build greater. 362 00:25:27,660 --> 00:25:36,320 And I will store my crops and my goods. And I, I, I, I, I. He's got an eye disease. 363 00:25:37,140 --> 00:25:42,900 In these three verses, 11 times he mentioned himself, my, and I. 364 00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:58,060 eye. That's all they can see. All he can see is himself. He's become so selfish. He's actually 365 00:25:58,260 --> 00:26:02,440 talking to himself because he has no one else to talk to. He's so selfish. 366 00:26:09,300 --> 00:26:12,880 It reminds me, it reminds me of the story in Luke chapter. 367 00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:15,920 chapter 16 when Abraham is talking to the rich man who had died. 368 00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:24,240 You guys? Yeah, the rich man, he's, he's alive. He's in this place of torment. 369 00:26:24,780 --> 00:26:29,700 And he and Abraham are having this conversation. And he says, hey, tell that beggar dude, that 370 00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:35,020 Lazarus, tell him to dip his finger in some water and come and wet my tongue. Man, I am torment. It's hot in here. 371 00:26:39,660 --> 00:26:42,380 And Abraham says, he says, remember, 372 00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:44,100 remember in your lifetime. 373 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:46,200 You had good things. 374 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:49,000 And you didn't give 375 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:51,260 not even a drop of water 376 00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:53,720 to Lazarus, who was outside your gate, 377 00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:54,900 a poor beggar. 378 00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:56,960 You didn't give nothing to him. 379 00:26:59,460 --> 00:26:59,820 And now, 380 00:27:00,820 --> 00:27:02,740 he's comforted and you're tormented. 381 00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:06,460 If that doesn't strike fear in your heart, 382 00:27:07,900 --> 00:27:08,400 it should. 383 00:27:11,660 --> 00:27:12,380 Paul tells us, 384 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:16,000 In 2 Timothy, chapter 3, 1 through 4, it says, 385 00:27:16,420 --> 00:27:22,040 But know this, that in the last days, perilous times will come for men will be lovers of themselves, 386 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:29,440 lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 387 00:27:32,830 --> 00:27:37,000 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, 388 00:27:37,460 --> 00:27:41,900 headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God. 389 00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:55,120 that's selfishness right there in a nutshell but the Lord calls us to be selfless 390 00:27:56,340 --> 00:28:04,940 not self-ish but self-less in fact it was a prerequisite to be a disciple 391 00:28:06,540 --> 00:28:15,700 Jesus said, he who would come after me, let him deny himself, pick up his cross, his instrument of death, and follow me. 392 00:28:23,620 --> 00:28:32,000 I don't, we don't understand this stuff, right? It was in our staff meeting the other day. 393 00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:43,140 One of the guys said, well, I'm in the top, right, I'm in the top 93% of the richest people in the world. 394 00:28:45,860 --> 00:28:50,180 And I said, I was thinking, well, maybe you should be building our church. 395 00:28:55,020 --> 00:28:57,220 But he was basically saying, no, I'm an American. 396 00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:02,360 And Americans, Americans, in comparison to the. 397 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:09,380 the world population are the richest in the world. 398 00:29:11,060 --> 00:29:13,360 We are the richest people in the world. 399 00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:14,240 All Americans. 400 00:29:17,220 --> 00:29:25,300 Not just, you know, they said if you have two televisions in one car, you're in the top 401 00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:27,860 5% of the richest people in the world. 402 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:31,360 Seriously. 403 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:35,040 It's all relative, right, to how you grew up. 404 00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:37,080 Like I said, we never wanted. 405 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:42,240 I would never say that my family was wealthy. 406 00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:50,960 You know, we were fractured and scattered and divorce and all these things, ex-convicts and, you know, 407 00:29:54,020 --> 00:29:57,440 drugs and alcohol and all the poverty that that brings. 408 00:29:59,260 --> 00:30:01,340 But we were still up there in the type of. 409 00:30:01,620 --> 00:30:06,960 top 5% of the richest people in the world, even in our struggles. 410 00:30:16,279 --> 00:30:18,300 So Paul talks about it again. 411 00:30:19,610 --> 00:30:23,200 I think the Bible talks about money more than any single subject. 412 00:30:25,620 --> 00:30:29,440 Jesus definitely talked about it more than any one single subject. 413 00:30:29,460 --> 00:30:30,380 he talked about money. 414 00:30:31,580 --> 00:30:32,760 I hate talking about money. 415 00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:38,600 Except for maybe to bring some conviction. 416 00:30:41,940 --> 00:30:42,720 But First Timothy, 417 00:30:44,820 --> 00:30:48,980 Paul tells Timothy in chapter 6, verse 17 and 19, 418 00:30:49,500 --> 00:30:52,200 command those who are rich in this present age 419 00:30:52,540 --> 00:30:56,140 not to be haughty, not to be haughty, 420 00:30:56,740 --> 00:30:58,360 nor to trust in uncertain riches, 421 00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:03,160 but the living God who gives us richly all things to enjoy. 422 00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:07,040 Everything you have, you've been given. 423 00:31:07,660 --> 00:31:09,160 What do you have that you didn't receive? 424 00:31:10,900 --> 00:31:16,540 Well, I worked tired for my retirement investment portfolio. 425 00:31:18,420 --> 00:31:18,600 Right? 426 00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:20,960 I deserve that pension I'm going to get. 427 00:31:21,260 --> 00:31:21,680 Do you really? 428 00:31:23,010 --> 00:31:24,620 Who gave you the ability to work? 429 00:31:25,910 --> 00:31:27,860 To be strong, to be wise. 430 00:31:28,020 --> 00:31:35,620 who gave you all that? What do you have that you did not receive? And see, greedy and selfish people, 431 00:31:35,980 --> 00:31:43,360 they don't see it that way. They see, oh, that's me. I gave myself that. No, you didn't. 432 00:31:46,100 --> 00:31:52,340 You can't even create one breath of your own. It's a gift from God. One beat of your heart. 433 00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:57,940 That's the God of heaven who gives you life. Paul says, 434 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:01,680 we move and live and have our being in him. 435 00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:04,820 Without him, none of us would survive. 436 00:32:05,700 --> 00:32:10,160 This would be a room full of corpses in a second if God removed himself. 437 00:32:16,500 --> 00:32:17,440 I lost my place. 438 00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:20,580 Verse 18, let them do good. 439 00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:27,640 They be rich in good works, ready to give, willing to share, 440 00:32:27,820 --> 00:32:34,540 storing up for themselves a good foundation for the time to come that they may lay hold on eternal 441 00:32:34,820 --> 00:32:41,380 life. Get outside of yourself, right? That wasn't in the scriptures. That was a Scotty add-on, right? 442 00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:48,140 But get outside of yourself. Find somebody to go help. What do you do with the life that God's 443 00:32:48,180 --> 00:32:57,640 given you? Just go help somebody. There's all kinds of needs out there. You can show up at the church and sweep 444 00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:07,580 floor over at the new building you could you could bake some cookies and take it to your neighbor some 445 00:33:09,900 --> 00:33:15,620 some of us are so worried about ourselves and our future we forget about the needs that are 446 00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:23,020 around us go to a rest home and bless the people by reading a book or singing a song i used to take 447 00:33:23,100 --> 00:33:27,620 the kids to the rest home at the school and we would sing and and and 448 00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:28,580 Pray with them. 449 00:33:33,420 --> 00:33:34,780 Go see someone in the hospital. 450 00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:36,900 We hear people all the time in the hospital. 451 00:33:37,220 --> 00:33:38,100 You don't have to know them. 452 00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:45,340 If you know of them, go and say, hey, I love showing up at the hospital. 453 00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:48,740 And you walk through the door and people are looking at you like, 454 00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:50,520 I don't think I know you. 455 00:33:51,460 --> 00:33:52,980 Well, I'm just, I heard you were in here. 456 00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:55,000 So I just, I was going to come pray for you. 457 00:33:55,540 --> 00:33:56,080 Can I do that? 458 00:33:57,420 --> 00:33:58,940 Usually people are pretty agreeable. 459 00:34:01,180 --> 00:34:03,880 I've had a few people tell me, go bother somebody else, would you? 460 00:34:07,060 --> 00:34:09,000 I wonder if they've seen the studies on prayer. 461 00:34:09,399 --> 00:34:10,139 Prayer works. 462 00:34:11,700 --> 00:34:11,860 Right? 463 00:34:12,460 --> 00:34:17,220 They've done hospital studies about people being prayed for in the hospital, 464 00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:19,540 not knowing that they would pray for, 465 00:34:19,820 --> 00:34:24,020 the study shows that they recover quicker than people who are not being prayed for. 466 00:34:30,500 --> 00:34:34,940 because doing these things, you guys, that are outside of maybe even our comfort zone, 467 00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:36,440 that's where you find life. 468 00:34:37,139 --> 00:34:39,080 That's why Jesus said, right? 469 00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:44,679 He would come in after me, let him lay down his life, pick up his cross, and follow me. 470 00:34:45,240 --> 00:34:50,280 By laying down your life and your selfishness, right, you find life. 471 00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:53,379 That's just how God works. 472 00:34:57,060 --> 00:35:03,360 lastly first of all this man was he was greedy then he was foolish and lastly or excuse me then he was 473 00:35:03,850 --> 00:35:06,420 he was selfish and then lastly he was foolish 474 00:35:11,020 --> 00:35:14,080 he's foolish because he says i will say to my soul 475 00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:22,480 the only one talking to this guy's soul is himself i don't know about you but i need the lord to speak to 476 00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:22,960 my soul. 477 00:35:24,700 --> 00:35:26,120 Because I don't have very good advice. 478 00:35:33,500 --> 00:35:38,180 I will say to my soul, soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. 479 00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:41,380 Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry. 480 00:35:42,980 --> 00:35:44,680 But God said to him, fool. 481 00:35:46,460 --> 00:35:47,080 You fool. 482 00:35:49,620 --> 00:35:51,860 You've lost sight of the end of your life. 483 00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:55,160 you haven't taken that into consideration. 484 00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:58,260 I'm convinced as a believer, you guys, 485 00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:01,580 we need to take that into consideration every day. 486 00:36:03,380 --> 00:36:06,720 You haven't taken this into consideration that, 487 00:36:08,620 --> 00:36:09,180 what's he say? 488 00:36:09,820 --> 00:36:12,500 This night, your soul will be required of you. 489 00:36:12,900 --> 00:36:15,600 Then whose will these things be what you have provided? 490 00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:20,560 He was foolish. 491 00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:25,620 His mindset was eat, drink, and be merry. 492 00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:31,920 Eat drink and be merry? 493 00:36:32,180 --> 00:36:34,460 That's the, that's called hedonism. 494 00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:39,920 Not heathenism, which it runs a close second, right? 495 00:36:40,020 --> 00:36:47,440 But hedonism, H-E-D-O-N-I-S-M, hedon-I-S-M. 496 00:36:47,660 --> 00:36:48,540 And this is hedonism. 497 00:36:49,740 --> 00:36:51,660 Heedonism says that the, 498 00:36:51,680 --> 00:37:00,400 good is found in the avoidance of pain and the attainment of pleasure. That's hedonism. 499 00:37:06,240 --> 00:37:13,160 The Sereniac's seed, or excuse me, creed was get as much pleasure as you possibly can, 500 00:37:14,660 --> 00:37:21,520 get drunk to excess, right, get intoxicated, eat to the point of gluttony, enjoy. And, 501 00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:23,940 join sex until you're satisfied by it. 502 00:37:24,240 --> 00:37:25,740 That is the good life. 503 00:37:26,100 --> 00:37:28,720 It is found in eating and drinking and being married. 504 00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:29,920 Let's have a party. 505 00:37:30,060 --> 00:37:30,920 Let's be happy. 506 00:37:31,500 --> 00:37:32,340 Let's eat and drink. 507 00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:37,780 Now, I like to eat as much as the next guy. 508 00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:43,560 But not to the point of abuse. 509 00:37:43,820 --> 00:37:45,300 It's like self-abuse. 510 00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:51,540 Then the Epicureans, they come along, and their philosophy was not, 511 00:37:51,580 --> 00:37:58,900 not that, you know, not that crass, hedonism, but was because that could always end in frustration. 512 00:37:59,460 --> 00:38:05,200 So you're either bored or frustrated when you're into hedonism, one or the other. 513 00:38:05,420 --> 00:38:10,460 If you get too much pleasure, you're bored, not enough pleasure, then you're frustrated. 514 00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:13,940 The Epicureans thought, we must refine this. 515 00:38:14,660 --> 00:38:20,440 We want just enough to drink and just the finest cuisine. 516 00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:31,060 We want just enough to fund that we will be epicureans with fine taste and keep the level of pleasure at the optimum place. 517 00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:32,860 That sounds like Americans to me. 518 00:38:34,340 --> 00:38:34,500 Right? 519 00:38:35,420 --> 00:38:36,400 That sounds like us. 520 00:38:36,660 --> 00:38:37,480 That's what we want. 521 00:38:44,060 --> 00:38:45,780 R.C. Sproles says this. 522 00:38:45,780 --> 00:38:46,260 He says, 523 00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:51,120 The creed of American culture is not the Apostles' creed. 524 00:38:51,140 --> 00:38:52,940 I would say amen to that. 525 00:38:54,100 --> 00:38:55,780 It is the hedonist creed. 526 00:38:57,040 --> 00:38:59,380 Let's get it now while we can. 527 00:38:59,820 --> 00:39:01,280 You only go around once. 528 00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:02,640 Let's have a party. 529 00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:04,120 Eat, drink, and be merry. 530 00:39:04,580 --> 00:39:07,240 Is the creed of the fool. 531 00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:10,240 The stupidest thing you could do with your life 532 00:39:10,740 --> 00:39:13,840 is to spend it seeking pleasure and avoiding pain. 533 00:39:17,340 --> 00:39:19,200 And that's exactly what we want to do. 534 00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:26,760 So it is interesting. 535 00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:30,620 This phrase, eat, drink, and be merry, it's an old one. 536 00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:32,380 It's really old. 537 00:39:33,220 --> 00:39:34,360 Thousands of years old. 538 00:39:35,340 --> 00:39:36,780 But he forgets part of it. 539 00:39:37,980 --> 00:39:38,120 Right? 540 00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:42,340 Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die. 541 00:39:43,300 --> 00:39:45,100 Oh, that's the part he doesn't want to talk about. 542 00:39:46,180 --> 00:39:46,360 Right? 543 00:39:46,740 --> 00:39:48,880 That's the part most people don't want to talk about. 544 00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:53,100 They like the pleasure part, right, and the fun part, 545 00:39:54,260 --> 00:39:57,500 and the going, you know, great guns in that direction. 546 00:39:58,900 --> 00:39:59,840 But what about dying? 547 00:40:05,660 --> 00:40:06,820 And that's where the problem lies. 548 00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:12,820 And that's why God says, you fool. 549 00:40:14,700 --> 00:40:15,340 You fool. 550 00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:18,880 You don't realize. 551 00:40:18,900 --> 00:40:25,580 that tonight, today, your life will, your soul will be required of you. 552 00:40:28,240 --> 00:40:31,800 That's what so many people are blind to when they live their life just in a selfish manner, 553 00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:34,160 just focused on self. 554 00:40:34,770 --> 00:40:35,680 They become fools. 555 00:40:38,530 --> 00:40:45,300 It says that about the educated in Romans, professing to be wise, they become fools. 556 00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:53,640 Proverbs 11 4 says 557 00:40:53,900 --> 00:40:56,420 Riches do not profit in the day of wrath 558 00:40:56,840 --> 00:40:58,780 but righteousness delivers from death. 559 00:40:59,460 --> 00:41:02,560 I like what the good news version says it this way. 560 00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:07,080 Riches will do you no good on the day you face death, 561 00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:09,360 but honesty can save your life. 562 00:41:10,540 --> 00:41:10,640 Right? 563 00:41:10,700 --> 00:41:11,320 Just be honest. 564 00:41:11,660 --> 00:41:14,400 Be honest with yourself and be honest with God. 565 00:41:15,620 --> 00:41:18,520 I was just talking to a brother and sister for service started. 566 00:41:19,260 --> 00:41:21,620 She says she works with people who say, well, I'm good. 567 00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:23,580 She goes, no one's good. 568 00:41:24,700 --> 00:41:25,300 God says that. 569 00:41:26,580 --> 00:41:26,700 Right? 570 00:41:26,740 --> 00:41:29,220 That's a lie right there that people believe, oh, I'm a good person. 571 00:41:30,540 --> 00:41:31,480 There's no such thing. 572 00:41:33,060 --> 00:41:33,760 You need Jesus. 573 00:41:35,260 --> 00:41:37,080 If you were a good person, you wouldn't need Jesus. 574 00:41:37,130 --> 00:41:39,060 You could just be good and God would accept you. 575 00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:42,800 But the Bible says whoever doesn't have the son is condemned already. 576 00:41:47,620 --> 00:41:49,600 I love this last verse and I'm going to close with this. 577 00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:57,220 But it says, oh, excuse me, it's the last part of verse 20 that really gets me. 578 00:41:57,400 --> 00:42:00,220 It says, this night your soul will be required of you. 579 00:42:00,420 --> 00:42:04,000 Then, whose will those things be which you have provided? 580 00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:05,080 Right. 581 00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:05,800 Here we are. 582 00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:09,680 Back rummaging through the people's stuff at the end of their life. 583 00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:11,680 This is it. 584 00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:12,920 This is it. 585 00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:16,940 Solomon talks about this in Ecclesiastes chapter two. 586 00:42:17,100 --> 00:42:17,520 Check it out. 587 00:42:18,140 --> 00:42:21,500 In Ecclesiastes chapter two, if you have a Bible, you can turn there. 588 00:42:22,020 --> 00:42:22,620 Verse 18. 589 00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:29,080 And it says, then I hated all my labor in which I had toiled under the sun, 590 00:42:29,640 --> 00:42:33,040 because I must leave it to the men who will come after me. 591 00:42:34,900 --> 00:42:37,780 And who knows whether he will be wise or a fool. 592 00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:42,260 Yet he will rule over all my labor in which I took. 593 00:42:42,300 --> 00:42:46,880 toiled in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. 594 00:42:47,160 --> 00:42:48,300 This also is vanity. 595 00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:49,460 Verse 20. 596 00:42:49,860 --> 00:42:59,560 Therefore, I turned my heart and despaired of all the labor in which I had toiled under the sun to a man who is not labored for it. 597 00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:04,760 This also is vanity and a great evil. 598 00:43:06,680 --> 00:43:07,280 Think about it. 599 00:43:07,450 --> 00:43:08,560 You work your whole life. 600 00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:12,220 You can build up, you know, your stuff pile. 601 00:43:12,260 --> 00:43:13,180 in your garage, 602 00:43:14,480 --> 00:43:15,400 and then you leave, 603 00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:17,000 and you leave it to these people 604 00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:18,700 who haven't worked a day for it. 605 00:43:19,180 --> 00:43:20,560 Not, if it's nice stuff, 606 00:43:20,860 --> 00:43:22,380 there might be a good fight over it. 607 00:43:26,460 --> 00:43:27,940 But listen, they don't appreciate that. 608 00:43:30,380 --> 00:43:31,280 You just take it for granted. 609 00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:38,940 If my dad passes and leaves me something, 610 00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:41,580 which it probably was not going to be much, 611 00:43:42,620 --> 00:43:43,680 I won't appreciate it. 612 00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:48,180 That's how hard my heart is. 613 00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:55,140 I won't appreciate it as much as if I would have worked for it. 614 00:43:56,380 --> 00:43:57,040 That's for sure. 615 00:44:04,060 --> 00:44:09,000 We live in an entitlement age that is, it's putrid. 616 00:44:10,740 --> 00:44:11,560 It's nauseating. 617 00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:19,060 and it's selfish. 618 00:44:23,060 --> 00:44:25,500 I'm wondering if we could be that brother or sister 619 00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:28,260 that when it comes to something, 620 00:44:28,740 --> 00:44:29,960 getting something or not, 621 00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:31,940 we're willing to yield and said, 622 00:44:32,020 --> 00:44:32,800 no, you just take it. 623 00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:35,700 I want to be able to have Thanksgiving dinner with you. 624 00:44:37,340 --> 00:44:38,520 Not going to fight you over it. 625 00:44:42,020 --> 00:44:43,880 that's the character of Christ Jesus 626 00:44:45,460 --> 00:44:47,880 and that's the character that few of us have 627 00:44:49,140 --> 00:44:50,560 as sad as it is to say 628 00:44:57,839 --> 00:44:59,900 Psalm 107 verse 9 it says 629 00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:04,600 for he satisfies he satisfies the longing soul 630 00:45:06,020 --> 00:45:07,520 you want your soul to be in a good place 631 00:45:08,820 --> 00:45:13,200 have the Lord satisfied and fills the hungry soul with goodness. 632 00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:17,280 Again, the good news translation says, 633 00:45:17,580 --> 00:45:20,260 I wait patiently for God to save me. 634 00:45:20,660 --> 00:45:22,260 I depend on him alone. 635 00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:25,040 He alone protects and saves me. 636 00:45:25,700 --> 00:45:28,740 He is my defender and I shall never be defeated. 637 00:45:35,940 --> 00:45:37,460 He who lays up treasure. 638 00:45:37,560 --> 00:45:46,740 for himself and is not rich towards God is like this rich fool, greedy, selfish, and foolish. 639 00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:58,420 I pray that the Lord would grant that no one in this room will ever be called greedy, selfish, and foolish by God. 640 00:45:59,580 --> 00:46:05,040 Take heed, Jesus said, lest you succumb to covetousness. 641 00:46:08,940 --> 00:46:09,840 Let's all stand, shall we? 642 00:46:12,500 --> 00:46:13,040 Father, we 643 00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:16,780 We praise you 644 00:46:19,460 --> 00:46:21,220 that you truly can satisfy 645 00:46:22,380 --> 00:46:23,860 every longing in our soul. 646 00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:29,340 Lord, I pray that you would teach us a simple truth. 647 00:46:30,420 --> 00:46:33,700 Lord, just the simple truth between wants and needs 648 00:46:35,820 --> 00:46:41,180 and Lord, that we know we would know that our greatest need is to be close to you, 649 00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:47,340 is to have experienced the saving grace of the Lord Jesus Christ. 650 00:46:48,580 --> 00:46:50,980 Lord, that you have washed us. 651 00:46:51,700 --> 00:46:55,540 You have made us new, Lord, as we put our faith and trust in you. 652 00:46:56,360 --> 00:47:00,320 And your great sacrifice on the cross that wasn't just for my sin, 653 00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:02,700 but it was for the sin of the whole world. 654 00:47:04,460 --> 00:47:11,380 Lord, and that you offer to us a life that is abundant apart from the stuff. 655 00:47:12,820 --> 00:47:18,340 So Lord Jesus, I just pray that by your goodness, you would put that goodness in us. 656 00:47:19,100 --> 00:47:20,700 Lord, that we would share it with one another. 657 00:47:22,300 --> 00:47:28,200 And Lord, that the whole world would see that we are your disciples for our love for one another, 658 00:47:28,700 --> 00:47:30,960 our willingness to yield to each other. 659 00:47:32,320 --> 00:47:36,880 and to be Christ-like in all of our ways, Lord, our thoughts, our words, and our deeds. 660 00:47:37,520 --> 00:47:40,920 Help us to do that, we pray in Jesus' name. Amen. 661 00:47:41,900 --> 00:47:49,480 Hey, if you need prayer, if you're one that you're kind of given to some of this, 662 00:47:50,240 --> 00:47:53,980 I'm probably going to join you over here too, but the prayer team's going to be over here 663 00:47:54,060 --> 00:47:56,900 while these guys do this last song. Please feel free to come down. 664 00:47:57,380 --> 00:47:59,980 Be prayed for. Maybe you just need to stand in from somebody. 665 00:48:00,380 --> 00:48:01,300 Maybe you need a healing. 666 00:48:03,099 --> 00:48:05,300 come and be prayed for. 667 00:48:05,780 --> 00:48:06,240 God bless. 668 00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:07,580 Has a great week in Jesus.