Are Bigger Barns the Answer?
Series: Stand Alone Sermons
December 31, 2017
Frank Foreman
As we prepare for the new year, we pause to consider the goals we make for ourselves and balance those goals with selfless generosity that we are called to a believers and imitators of Christ.
Episode Notes
We are blessed with staggering PROSPERITY … Keep your prosperity in proper PERSPECTIVE
Luke 12:13-21 ... Someone in the crowd said to Him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.” But He said to him, “Man, who made Me a judge or arbitrator over you?” 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.” And He told them a parable, saying, “The land of a rich man produced plentifully, and he thought to himself, ‘What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops? ’ 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. And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.”’ But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be? ’ So is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.”
1. The admonition: Do we guard ourselves against GREED?
Ecclesiastes 5:10 ... He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity.
2. The Anecdote: How do we handle SUCCESS?
James 4:13-14 ... Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
3. The Application: What are we going to DO about it?
1st Timothy 6:9-10 ... But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.
CHALLENGE: Hold everything with an OPEN HAND
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