Title: The Rich Fool (7)
Series: The Parables
Author: Josh Malone
Text: Luke 12:13-21
ILLUS. - Stuff and Happiness - When is the first time you can remember thinking if I just had _____, I'd be happy. - Maybe it was a particular toy as a kid, a car as a teenager, a house as an adult. - We can have a tendency to associate happiness with things. Stuff with meaning. Possessions with peace.
- Money and stuff ... certainly isn't unimportant. In fact, there are some things we need. No one doubts that having a roof over your head, clothes on your back, food on your table ... is important.
- However, we have a tendency to ELEVATE money and things to a supreme level. - We can become greedy or covetous. We can lie to ourselves about money, about possessions. We can deceive ourselves. We can even ruin ourselves.
- A common, yet destructive sin like all the rest ... is GREED or COVETOUSNESS.
- It can be tricky, because we can be sure we are spotting it in others, and fail to see it in ourselves. - Some become ensnared in it and lose their very souls in the process. - Believers in Christ ... must war against it. - It's a sin of the heart that impacts how live.
- Sin has lies it tells you about life and happiness. - "If you commit this sin your life will be better, you'll be happier." - We don't sin to not be happy. We sin in hopes of being happy. We don't sin hoping to ruin ourselves typically but to save ourselves. - Sin is idolatry. We look to something else to save us, to better us, to fulfill us instead of God.
- Covetousness and greed are idolatry. And they will lie to us, or we lie to ourselves about them. - To fight them ... we must hold to the truth.
- In Luke 12 Jesus is going to confront greed/covetousness head on. He's going to share a story about a rich man filled with greed and his plight. - Let's take a look at it so we can learn to avoid greed/covetousness ... to be delivered from it ... to fight it ... to kill it ... so we can ...
Series: The Parables
Author: Josh Malone
Text: Luke 12:13-21
ILLUS. - Stuff and Happiness - When is the first time you can remember thinking if I just had _____, I'd be happy. - Maybe it was a particular toy as a kid, a car as a teenager, a house as an adult. - We can have a tendency to associate happiness with things. Stuff with meaning. Possessions with peace.
- Money and stuff ... certainly isn't unimportant. In fact, there are some things we need. No one doubts that having a roof over your head, clothes on your back, food on your table ... is important.
- However, we have a tendency to ELEVATE money and things to a supreme level. - We can become greedy or covetous. We can lie to ourselves about money, about possessions. We can deceive ourselves. We can even ruin ourselves.
- A common, yet destructive sin like all the rest ... is GREED or COVETOUSNESS.
- It can be tricky, because we can be sure we are spotting it in others, and fail to see it in ourselves. - Some become ensnared in it and lose their very souls in the process. - Believers in Christ ... must war against it. - It's a sin of the heart that impacts how live.
- Sin has lies it tells you about life and happiness. - "If you commit this sin your life will be better, you'll be happier." - We don't sin to not be happy. We sin in hopes of being happy. We don't sin hoping to ruin ourselves typically but to save ourselves. - Sin is idolatry. We look to something else to save us, to better us, to fulfill us instead of God.
- Covetousness and greed are idolatry. And they will lie to us, or we lie to ourselves about them. - To fight them ... we must hold to the truth.
- In Luke 12 Jesus is going to confront greed/covetousness head on. He's going to share a story about a rich man filled with greed and his plight. - Let's take a look at it so we can learn to avoid greed/covetousness ... to be delivered from it ... to fight it ... to kill it ... so we can ...
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