Part 2 | Mind Over Money
From Luke 12
📖 Luke 12:13-15 ESV Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.” 14 But he said to him, “Man, who made me a judge or arbitrator over you?” 15 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.”
People want Jesus to their , Jesus wants to their .
📖 Luke 12:16–17 ESV And he told them a parable, saying, “The land of a rich man produced plentifully, 17 and he thought to himself, ‘What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’”
can your , whether you’re or .
📖 Luke 12:18–19 ESV 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. 19 And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.”’
1. We are by when we think it’s .
📖 Exodus 23:19 ESV The best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the LORD your God.
📖 Proverbs 3:9–10 ESV Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce; 10 then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will be bursting with wine.
📖 Romans 11:36 ESV For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.
Three areas this man did not God:
1. His . (The land produced plentifully.)
2. His . (What shall I do?)
3. His . (I will… build bigger barns… and relax.)
2. We are by when it becomes the of our .
📖 Luke 12:19–21 ESV And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.” 20 But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’ 21 “So is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.”
Money does not who you are, it who you are.
📖 Luke 16:10 ESV “One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.”
3. We are by when it causes us to the care of our .
📖 Luke 12:22–24 ESV And he said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on. 23 For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. 24 Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds!”
📖 Luke 12:27–28 ESV Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 28 But if God so clothes the grass, which is alive in the field today, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith!
The Father for the , , and things.
Sermon in a Mini-Sermon:
A mind set from will:
1. Put God financially.
2. freely.
3. glory.
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