11/05/2024
BREAD OF LIFE
Someone from the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.” “Friend,” he said to him, “who appointed me a judge or arbitrator over you?” He then told them, “Watch out and be on guard against all greed, because one’s life is not in the abundance of his possessions.” Then he told them a parable: “A rich man’s land was very productive. He thought to himself, ‘What should I do, since I don’t have anywhere to store my crops? I will do this,’ he said. ‘I’ll tear down my barns and build bigger ones and store all my grain and my goods there. Then I’ll say to myself, “You have many goods stored up for many years. Take it easy; eat, drink, and enjoy yourself.”’ “But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is demanded of you. And the things you have prepared — whose will they be?’ “That’s how it is with the one who stores up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.”
Luke 12:13-21 CSB
In this text,
Let us deal with 5 issues.
1.Inheritance
2.greed
3.To whom will your riches remain.
4.what will happen when you are poor in Christ.
5.Life is not in the abundance of things we have.
1-2-These two brothers were fighting on temporary things that both will loose.
The best inheritance should be Christ Jesus in our hearts.
-Secondly we should accept Jesus and His way's, but, not to use Him for our selfish interests.Greed, means love and lust for world thing's, and any other thing other than GOD, this shall never satisfy any human, Remember, He told the woman at the well ,only the water He gives can quench thirst forever.
There is a way that seems right to a person, but its end is the way to death.
Proverbs 14:12 CSB
There is a way that seems right to a person, but its end is the way to death.
Proverbs 16:25 CSB
We should bow, down, bend and surrender to Jesus Christ way in all matters.
3-Whatever , we give to Christ, we give to ourselves, it's our own, what is remaining on earth in not ours.
[“Don’t store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves don’t break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Matthew 6:19-21 CSB].
4- when poor in Christ,it shall be everlasting shame, pain,sorrow,missery and finally,hell.
-if rich in Christ, everlasting joy, glorification,peace,rest, paradise and finally new universe.
5.Life is in Christ Jesus alone.
since you gave him authority over all people, so that he may give eternal life to everyone you have given him. This is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and the one you have sent — Jesus Christ.
John 17:2-3 CSB
A thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come so that they may have life and have it in abundance.
John 10:10 CSB