Greed (4 of 7)
Series: Seven Fatal Attractions
Collin Wimberly
Luke 12:13-21
INTRODUCTION:
ILLUS: Moving, all the stuff we acquire is amazing isn't it! Almost everyone bemoans how easily we accumulate stuff. But that tendency nearly killed Patrice Moore, a 43-year-old man living in the Bronx, New York. Moore lived a reclusive life in a 10-by-10 foot room where he compulsively saved newspapers, magazines, books, catalogs, and junk mail.
On December 27, 2003, it all came crashing down on him-literally. An avalanche of Moore's stuff trapped him, standing up, in his room for two days before neighbors heard him moaning and called the fire department. Neighbors and firefighters hauled out 50 garbage bags of paper for an hour just to reach him.
Greed is an insatiable desire to have more. Left unchecked Greed can become an all consuming sin.
Our fifth fatal attraction is the sin of Greed. Perhaps nothing is as American as the Greed Need. It's almost like Apple Pie and Ice Cream. We want stuff and more stuff and just can't get enough stuff!
Jesus has a lot to say about that. Let's read our passage for this morning.
Luke 12:13-21
We are going to meet a couple of men this morning; men who I think will help us get a handle on Greed.
FIRST, A MAN WHO WANTED SOMETHING - VS. 13-15
Inheritance - apparently the father had died.
Divide it with me - Normally the older son received 2/3 and the younger son 1/3. This may have been a younger son either trying to get what was rightfully his, or may have wanted his older brother to give him ½ rather than a 1/3.
He wanted something, specifically he wanted something that his brother had, he a felt a greedy need for money.
JESUS USES THIS INCIDENT TO SHOW US THE DANGER OF GREED - Greed is a danger we have to be constantly on the look out for.
Watch out, beware means to see, to look, to be on guard. The idea of a sentry or a guard watching out for the enemy. In American culture Greed is out t ...
Series: Seven Fatal Attractions
Collin Wimberly
Luke 12:13-21
INTRODUCTION:
ILLUS: Moving, all the stuff we acquire is amazing isn't it! Almost everyone bemoans how easily we accumulate stuff. But that tendency nearly killed Patrice Moore, a 43-year-old man living in the Bronx, New York. Moore lived a reclusive life in a 10-by-10 foot room where he compulsively saved newspapers, magazines, books, catalogs, and junk mail.
On December 27, 2003, it all came crashing down on him-literally. An avalanche of Moore's stuff trapped him, standing up, in his room for two days before neighbors heard him moaning and called the fire department. Neighbors and firefighters hauled out 50 garbage bags of paper for an hour just to reach him.
Greed is an insatiable desire to have more. Left unchecked Greed can become an all consuming sin.
Our fifth fatal attraction is the sin of Greed. Perhaps nothing is as American as the Greed Need. It's almost like Apple Pie and Ice Cream. We want stuff and more stuff and just can't get enough stuff!
Jesus has a lot to say about that. Let's read our passage for this morning.
Luke 12:13-21
We are going to meet a couple of men this morning; men who I think will help us get a handle on Greed.
FIRST, A MAN WHO WANTED SOMETHING - VS. 13-15
Inheritance - apparently the father had died.
Divide it with me - Normally the older son received 2/3 and the younger son 1/3. This may have been a younger son either trying to get what was rightfully his, or may have wanted his older brother to give him ½ rather than a 1/3.
He wanted something, specifically he wanted something that his brother had, he a felt a greedy need for money.
JESUS USES THIS INCIDENT TO SHOW US THE DANGER OF GREED - Greed is a danger we have to be constantly on the look out for.
Watch out, beware means to see, to look, to be on guard. The idea of a sentry or a guard watching out for the enemy. In American culture Greed is out t ...
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