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Luke 12: 13-21 - 'Fool! This very night your soul will be demanded of you.'
Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:
- 549 (in 'The Signs of the Kingdom of God') - By freeing some individuals from the earthly evils of hunger, injustice, illness and death, Jesus performed messianic signs. Nevertheless he did not come to abolish all evils here below, but to free men from the gravest slavery, sin, which thwarts them in their vocation as God's sons and causes all forms of human bondage.
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(00:10):
Hi everyone. Welcome back to logical Bible
study and the podcast where we really dive into the scriptures.
The Gospel reading of the day, remember, you can always send in
your Bible questions to logical Bible study at gmail.com or if
you hear something in the podcast.
So you disagree, with if you don't think the way I've
interpreted a particular That iscorrect.
(00:31):
Then let's have a discussion about it.
I'd always love to do that with you and that's how we learn more
about the Bible to really look at different views and to
analyze whether they best fit the literal sense of the text.
So if you are new to the podcast, that's what we're on
about here. We're looking at an exegesis of
the literal sense of the Gospel.Texts, today, we're looking at
(00:52):
Luke chapter 12 verses 13 to 21.A man in the crowd said to Jesus
Master, tell my brother to give me a share of our inheritance,
my friend, he replied who appointed me your judge or the
arbitrator of your claims, then he said to them watch and be on
(01:14):
your guard against avarice of any kind for a man's life, is
not made secure by what he owns.Even when he has more than he
needs. Then he told them a parable.
There was once a rich man who having a good harvest from his
land thought to himself. What am I to do?
I have not enough room to store my crops then he said, this is
(01:39):
what I will do. I will pull down my Barns and
build bigger, ones and store, all my grain and my goods in
them. And I will say to my soul, my
soul, you have plenty of good things laid by for many years to
come. Take Easy eat drink and have a
good time. But God said to him full this
(02:01):
very night, the demand will be made for your soul and this
horde of yours. Whose will it be then?
So it is when a man stores up treasure for himself in place of
making himself rich in the sightof God.
So an interesting text today from Luke chapter 12, let's
start by thinking about the context, so Jesus is moving From
(02:24):
Galilee to Judea. It's the Final Phase of his
ministry or he's getting close to the Final Phase and as he
moves along the road up to Jerusalem, he's doing Ministry
along the way early. In chapter 12, he has started a
long sermon to his disciples andto the crowd.
And now he turns his attention to the crowd.
In particular. This incident that we're going
to see and the parable that comes with it, it's only found
(02:47):
in Luke. Possible.
So you won't hear it all that often?
So looking at verse 13, a man inthe crowd said to Jesus.
So this is just some random person in the crowd who yells
out. This man recognizes Jesus, as a
genuine teacher of God who has genuine Authority.
Otherwise he wouldn't say what he does.
And what he says to Jesus here is this master.
(03:10):
Tell my brother to give me a share of our inheritance or a
better translation. There might be bid.
My brother to divide the inheritance with me.
It's interesting, isn't it? This is very reminiscent of what
Martha said to marry early and Luke remember Martha says to
Mary or she says, to Jesus aboutMary tell her.
Use this to help me. Well, here the man says about
(03:32):
his brother. Jesus.
Tell my brother to give me a share of The Inheritance so
they're both sort of telling Jesus to sort their siblings out
for them. So what's he complaining about
here? Tell my brother to give me a
share of our inheritance so it'snot 100% clear but it sounds
like his brother. Possibly his older brother has
taken his share of The Inheritance without giving any
(03:55):
to this man, whereas when you get the inheritance of should be
some Should be given to each of the brothers.
It looks like, this brother that's come to Jesus has gone
without. So he has been effectively
robbed by his brother so he doeshave a right to complain.
So he says, to Jesus, sort this out, please tell my brother to
do the right thing and give me the inheritance.
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But this is verse Jesus respondsin verse 14.
Now, our translation he is says Jesus calls him.
My friend. Actually all it says there.
If you look at the Bible most Bible translations, he just says
man and then he addresses him. So this man is probably not a
True Believer. It would seem and he says to him
man, who appointed me your judgeor the arbitrator of your
(04:38):
claims. Most translations would just say
who made me a judge over you or something similar to that.
It seems a bit harsh from Jesus,doesn't it?
But Jesus is basically saying this I have not come to settle
Earthly legal matters. I'm here to teach God's will you
could look at this as Jesus saying, I haven't got time to do
that as well. Not that Jesus doesn't care
(04:59):
about Injustice, but he's got a different Mission.
He's not there to do, you know, day-to-day legal proceedings?
Some Scholars think there might also be a reference here, to
Exodus. 2:14 there, the Israelites say about Moses who
has appointed you judge and ruler over us.
Now, Stephen later in the book of Acts in Acts chapter 7, he
(05:21):
uses that same text from Exodus and the point he makes is that,
although the Israelites rejectedMoses, he is their appointed
leader. So, maybe with Jesus, using
these same words here, perhaps, he's making the same point where
he's kind of the appointed leader, although that's doesn't
really he seemed to be there in the text to some people do
(05:42):
notice that Stephen courts from that same passage in Exodus, Now
Jesus goes further here he's notjust going to say no I'm not
your ruler. I'm not your legal ruler and
leave it at that he perceives that this man's desires are
disordered and they need to be corrected.
So he's going to use this as a teaching opportunity as he often
(06:02):
does. So verse 15, he says to the
crowd watch or take heed. So this carries this idea of pay
close attention to yourself, be on your guard against a virus of
any kind. We don't Use the word Everest
much anymore, although, it does come up in some sort of
teachings, in Catholic moral theology, a lot of translations
(06:23):
would translate this as covetousness be on your guard
against covetousness of any kind.
So the teaching here from Jesus is that we must not covered
Goods. We need to be on the lookout for
that. The fact that Jesus says be on
the lookout for it. Take heed, it suggests that it's
a trap. That's very easy to fall into,
it's part of human nature. So we need to be constantly on
(06:44):
our guard against it. It Jesus is now going to explain
why covetousness is a particularly bad Sin.
He says be on your guard againstavarice of any kind for a man's
life, is not made secure by whathe owns even when he has more
than he needs. Now, it's an interesting
translation here that the lectionary has given.
(07:06):
If you compare this verse so verse 15 with any other Bible
translation, it will probably just say something like this.
A man's life. Does not consist in the
abundance. Of positions, but the
lectionary, I'll read it again. The lectionary version is a
man's life, is not made secure by what he owns even when he has
more than he needs. It's an interesting sort of way
(07:28):
of rendering it. I suppose the idea is they've
taken abundance of his possessions and taken that to
mean, even when he has more thanhe needs, it's probably not the
best translation. So if we stick with what most
Bible say here, a man's life does not consist in the
abundance of his possessions. The teaching here is that a
man's true life is not measured by the amount of his
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possessions. Rather Jesus says a man's life
is measured by the state of his soul.
Now, we live in a world and in fact, even in Jesus Culture, the
world can make it seem like a man's life.
And worth is determined by how much possessions he has.
This is a universal human temptation, but Jesus says that
is false. A man's life is not consisting,
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consist of the abundance of his possessions.
Now, Jesus is going to go on here in verse 16.
He's going to tell a parable. The parable of the rich for this
is unique to Luke now, Jesus does a lot of parables in his
ministry and particularly early on, he does some very cryptic
Parables which can be quite hardto understand.
And in fact, he seems to deliberately do Parables that
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are hard for some people to understand at least early on.
But as you get towards the end of his life, as we're getting to
hear most of the Parables, he gives a reasonably
straightforward. They're very Art of clear
imagery. Most people would have
understood. He was talking about.
That seems to be the case here, with the parable of the rich
fool. Jesus is using this Parable to
make his point clearer, not to make it more obscure.
(08:58):
And the point of this Parable, the parable of the rich fool is
to teach the crowd about the dangers of covetousness.
I think this Parable more than any other that Jesus tells
speaks to our culture today because of our Western obsession
with possessions. So I think this is one that You
would do well to meditate on in the 21st century.
So in the parable in verse 16, there's a rich man who owns land
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which of course, rich man probably would have.
In Jesus day. He has very productive harvests
and he gets in fact so much Harvest so much grain that he
can't keep all his crops in one Barn.
So in verse 18 He is the solution.
He comes up with this fictional man in the parable, this is what
I will do. I will pull down my Barns and
build bigger, ones and store allMy grain and my goods in them.
(09:47):
Notice the focus on. I all the way through, I will do
this. I will build a bigger Barn.
I'm store all my grain and my goods in them.
So he's just thinking of himselfand his own possession.
So, he's dominated by selfishness and greed verse 19,
I will say to my soul. My soul, you have plenty of good
things laid by for many years tocome, take things, easy, eat
(10:11):
drink and have a good time. So the man decides the attitude
he's going to have. He says to himself.
I have plenty of Earthly possessions and he's right.
He does. So he decides he's just going to
eat drink and be merry and it's quite graphic, almost kind of
humorous. The way he talks to himself.
He he says my soul. I have all these good things but
(10:32):
that is the word that's used there, in Greek, its psyche,
which can be translated Soul. So he's literally saying this to
the innermost part of himself where he makes his decisions and
he says, He himself eat drink and be merry.
This is a common Old Testament phrase so you'll find it in
Tobit, 7 verse 9, Ecclesiastes, 8, verse 15, Isaiah 22, verse
(10:53):
13. They all have this phrase of eat
drink and be merry. Now typically that's used in a
negative context that it talks about people who indulge in
Earthly pleasures and Comforts and forget about God typically.
So that's what he says his plan is verse 20, but now God enters
the picture so in the parable God speaks to the man God Says
to him fool. So from this, we learn that God
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is watching all people while they are on earth and seeing if
they live a Godly life or not, God knows what's going on with
people, and he can see whether they're living good lives and he
calls him a fool. It's a pretty harsh.
Rebuke in the Old Testament, youwould call someone a fool if
they're not concerned with God or his law.
So Psalm 14 verse 1 and Proverbs1.
Verse 7, talk about the fool is the man who turns away from God
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and Jesus has used it earlier. Iran. 11:44, the Pharisees.
So in the parable God says, to the man, this very night, the
demand will be made for your soul or you can translate that
as your soul will be required ofyou, pretty scary language,
isn't it? So the soul which the man had
invested so much worldliness in does not really belong to him.
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It belongs to God. And God says to the man tonight,
you're going to die and you're going to meet your maker and you
will have to give an account of your actions.
There's a lot of lessons. For us today.
One day the same things going tohappen to us.
We're going to have to give an account of our life before God
interestingly, that were demanded.
The demand will be made for yoursoul.
It's usually used in reference to financial debt.
(12:25):
So the idea here is that our lives are on loan from God.
And one day were going to need to give an account to God for
how we use their life. And God says to the man.
This horde of yours. Whose will it be then?
Or you can translate that as thethings you have prepared?
Whose will they be? So, all those material things,
the man had got for himself in his life.
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The bigger barns, the more crop the more money after he dies.
They're all useless. So death is going to expose his
folly by stripping him of all heowns.
Jesus. He gives a pretty sober reminder
to focus on the things that lastEternal things, not Earthly
things. If people live with eternity in
mind, then they can take what they gained into the next life.
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But if they live only with this world in mind, they can't take
anything into the next life. Verse 21.
So that's the end of the parableand now Jesus summarizes it by
saying this, so it is when a manstores up treasure for himself
in place of making himself rich in the sight of God.
Now, our lectionary says, they're in place of making
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himself rich in the sight of God.
What it actually says that in the original is.
So it is when a man stores up treasure for himself and is not
rich toward God. So the parable is not teaching
that a person can't be rich, that's not what it's teaching
but Teaching that if a person isRich, he also has to be generous
to God in his life. In other words, everyone has to
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live a life, pleasing to God, and those who are rich need to
be particularly careful that they don't get caught up in the
riches and forget to please God.Now, Joseph in the Old
Testament, in the Book of Genesis, he's a good example of
this, he's someone who was quitewealthy, he had a lot of grain
and wealth in Egypt, but he usedit with the purpose of giving to
others. You can see that in Genesis 41
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verse 49, it says Joseph had abundance, but he used it to
give to others. So it's possible to be rich and
to be rich to God at the same time, notice what Jesus says
here. So it is when a man.
So that's the point of the parable.
Jesus says that anyone who livesa life amassing worldly wealth,
without pleasing, God will be ina similar position as that
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fictional man in the parable, one day that rich person will
die and come before God and all his worldly wealth will be
meaningless. A warning to rich people,
basically, and perhaps specifically to the man in the
crowd, whose overly concerned with his wealth, notice the echo
is here with things. Jesus said, just before this in
chapter 12, remember early on, he said, don't be tempted to
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fall away from the faith. If you're persecuted focus on
Heaven, well, it's the same thing here.
Don't be tempered while by worldly.
Temptations, focus on heaven. Now, what Jesus has said there
is going to lead straight into the next few verses so verses 22
to 34 Jesus is going to say, do not be anxious about your life.
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But seek first, the kingdom of God, we all know that phrase and
then he also says in this next little part where your treasure
is there, your heart will be also.
So famous quotes from Jesus, which build on what has just
started to teach you about covetousness.
Now, that section verse 22 to 34, it's not read in the
lectionary. Ever, you'll never hear that at
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Mass interestingly. So if you want to hear an
exegesis of those verses, the part about seek first, the
kingdom and also where your treasure is there, your heart
will be. Also we will cover that as a
bonus episode of the podcast andyou can get access to that
through the patreon page and thelink for the patreon page is in
the show notes. So in our next, Luke episode
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will start at verse 35 of chapter 12, If we turn to the
catechism, we see one quite interesting reference here.
So paragraph 549, which is aboutthe signs of the kingdom of God.
It says by freeing some individuals from the Earthly
evils of hunger, Injustice illness and death, Jesus
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performed Messianic signs. Nevertheless, he did not come to
abolish. All evils here below but to free
men from the greatest slavery sin, which thwarts them in their
vocation as God's Sons. And causes all forms of human
bondage. So where's the link here to Luke
chapter 12? Well, the catechism references,
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the middle part there, so that line in the middle of the
paragraph where it says Jesus did not come to abolish, all
evils here below but to free menfrom the greatest slavery sin,
there's a link here to the rich man.
Jesus has not come to abolish riches and the persuasion of
riches. But he wants people to be freed
from sin because that stops people from coming to God.
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So this is one of these verses, the talks about how - cancer can
cause sin and stop people from coming to God.
So, we will leave it there for today.
And I hope you've learned something new and you
appreciated. This in-depth verse by verse
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continue in the coming days.
Hi everyone. Welcome back to logical Bible
study and the podcast where we really dive into the scriptures.
The Gospel reading of the day, remember, you can always send in
your Bible questions to logical Bible study at gmail.com or if
you hear something in the podcast.
So you disagree, with if you don't think the way I've
interpreted a particular That iscorrect.
(00:31):
Then let's have a discussion about it.
I'd always love to do that with you and that's how we learn more
about the Bible to really look at different views and to
analyze whether they best fit the literal sense of the text.
So if you are new to the podcast, that's what we're on
about here. We're looking at an exegesis of
the literal sense of the Gospel.Texts, today, we're looking at
(00:52):
Luke chapter 12 verses 13 to 21.A man in the crowd said to Jesus
Master, tell my brother to give me a share of our inheritance,
my friend, he replied who appointed me your judge or the
arbitrator of your claims, then he said to them watch and be on
(01:14):
your guard against avarice of any kind for a man's life, is
not made secure by what he owns.Even when he has more than he
needs. Then he told them a parable.
There was once a rich man who having a good harvest from his
land thought to himself. What am I to do?
I have not enough room to store my crops then he said, this is
(01:39):
what I will do. I will pull down my Barns and
build bigger, ones and store, all my grain and my goods in
them. And I will say to my soul, my
soul, you have plenty of good things laid by for many years to
come. Take Easy eat drink and have a
good time. But God said to him full this
(02:01):
very night, the demand will be made for your soul and this
horde of yours. Whose will it be then?
So it is when a man stores up treasure for himself in place of
making himself rich in the sightof God.
So an interesting text today from Luke chapter 12, let's
start by thinking about the context, so Jesus is moving From
(02:24):
Galilee to Judea. It's the Final Phase of his
ministry or he's getting close to the Final Phase and as he
moves along the road up to Jerusalem, he's doing Ministry
along the way early. In chapter 12, he has started a
long sermon to his disciples andto the crowd.
And now he turns his attention to the crowd.
In particular. This incident that we're going
to see and the parable that comes with it, it's only found
(02:47):
in Luke. Possible.
So you won't hear it all that often?
So looking at verse 13, a man inthe crowd said to Jesus.
So this is just some random person in the crowd who yells
out. This man recognizes Jesus, as a
genuine teacher of God who has genuine Authority.
Otherwise he wouldn't say what he does.
And what he says to Jesus here is this master.
(03:10):
Tell my brother to give me a share of our inheritance or a
better translation. There might be bid.
My brother to divide the inheritance with me.
It's interesting, isn't it? This is very reminiscent of what
Martha said to marry early and Luke remember Martha says to
Mary or she says, to Jesus aboutMary tell her.
Use this to help me. Well, here the man says about
(03:32):
his brother. Jesus.
Tell my brother to give me a share of The Inheritance so
they're both sort of telling Jesus to sort their siblings out
for them. So what's he complaining about
here? Tell my brother to give me a
share of our inheritance so it'snot 100% clear but it sounds
like his brother. Possibly his older brother has
taken his share of The Inheritance without giving any
(03:55):
to this man, whereas when you get the inheritance of should be
some Should be given to each of the brothers.
It looks like, this brother that's come to Jesus has gone
without. So he has been effectively
robbed by his brother so he doeshave a right to complain.
So he says, to Jesus, sort this out, please tell my brother to
do the right thing and give me the inheritance.
(04:15):
But this is verse Jesus respondsin verse 14.
Now, our translation he is says Jesus calls him.
My friend. Actually all it says there.
If you look at the Bible most Bible translations, he just says
man and then he addresses him. So this man is probably not a
True Believer. It would seem and he says to him
man, who appointed me your judgeor the arbitrator of your
(04:38):
claims. Most translations would just say
who made me a judge over you or something similar to that.
It seems a bit harsh from Jesus,doesn't it?
But Jesus is basically saying this I have not come to settle
Earthly legal matters. I'm here to teach God's will you
could look at this as Jesus saying, I haven't got time to do
that as well. Not that Jesus doesn't care
(04:59):
about Injustice, but he's got a different Mission.
He's not there to do, you know, day-to-day legal proceedings?
Some Scholars think there might also be a reference here, to
Exodus. 2:14 there, the Israelites say about Moses who
has appointed you judge and ruler over us.
Now, Stephen later in the book of Acts in Acts chapter 7, he
(05:21):
uses that same text from Exodus and the point he makes is that,
although the Israelites rejectedMoses, he is their appointed
leader. So, maybe with Jesus, using
these same words here, perhaps, he's making the same point where
he's kind of the appointed leader, although that's doesn't
really he seemed to be there in the text to some people do
(05:42):
notice that Stephen courts from that same passage in Exodus, Now
Jesus goes further here he's notjust going to say no I'm not
your ruler. I'm not your legal ruler and
leave it at that he perceives that this man's desires are
disordered and they need to be corrected.
So he's going to use this as a teaching opportunity as he often
(06:02):
does. So verse 15, he says to the
crowd watch or take heed. So this carries this idea of pay
close attention to yourself, be on your guard against a virus of
any kind. We don't Use the word Everest
much anymore, although, it does come up in some sort of
teachings, in Catholic moral theology, a lot of translations
(06:23):
would translate this as covetousness be on your guard
against covetousness of any kind.
So the teaching here from Jesus is that we must not covered
Goods. We need to be on the lookout for
that. The fact that Jesus says be on
the lookout for it. Take heed, it suggests that it's
a trap. That's very easy to fall into,
it's part of human nature. So we need to be constantly on
(06:44):
our guard against it. It Jesus is now going to explain
why covetousness is a particularly bad Sin.
He says be on your guard againstavarice of any kind for a man's
life, is not made secure by whathe owns even when he has more
than he needs. Now, it's an interesting
translation here that the lectionary has given.
(07:06):
If you compare this verse so verse 15 with any other Bible
translation, it will probably just say something like this.
A man's life. Does not consist in the
abundance. Of positions, but the
lectionary, I'll read it again. The lectionary version is a
man's life, is not made secure by what he owns even when he has
more than he needs. It's an interesting sort of way
(07:28):
of rendering it. I suppose the idea is they've
taken abundance of his possessions and taken that to
mean, even when he has more thanhe needs, it's probably not the
best translation. So if we stick with what most
Bible say here, a man's life does not consist in the
abundance of his possessions. The teaching here is that a
man's true life is not measured by the amount of his
(07:50):
possessions. Rather Jesus says a man's life
is measured by the state of his soul.
Now, we live in a world and in fact, even in Jesus Culture, the
world can make it seem like a man's life.
And worth is determined by how much possessions he has.
This is a universal human temptation, but Jesus says that
is false. A man's life is not consisting,
(08:12):
consist of the abundance of his possessions.
Now, Jesus is going to go on here in verse 16.
He's going to tell a parable. The parable of the rich for this
is unique to Luke now, Jesus does a lot of parables in his
ministry and particularly early on, he does some very cryptic
Parables which can be quite hardto understand.
And in fact, he seems to deliberately do Parables that
(08:34):
are hard for some people to understand at least early on.
But as you get towards the end of his life, as we're getting to
hear most of the Parables, he gives a reasonably
straightforward. They're very Art of clear
imagery. Most people would have
understood. He was talking about.
That seems to be the case here, with the parable of the rich
fool. Jesus is using this Parable to
make his point clearer, not to make it more obscure.
(08:58):
And the point of this Parable, the parable of the rich fool is
to teach the crowd about the dangers of covetousness.
I think this Parable more than any other that Jesus tells
speaks to our culture today because of our Western obsession
with possessions. So I think this is one that You
would do well to meditate on in the 21st century.
So in the parable in verse 16, there's a rich man who owns land
(09:23):
which of course, rich man probably would have.
In Jesus day. He has very productive harvests
and he gets in fact so much Harvest so much grain that he
can't keep all his crops in one Barn.
So in verse 18 He is the solution.
He comes up with this fictional man in the parable, this is what
I will do. I will pull down my Barns and
build bigger, ones and store allMy grain and my goods in them.
(09:47):
Notice the focus on. I all the way through, I will do
this. I will build a bigger Barn.
I'm store all my grain and my goods in them.
So he's just thinking of himselfand his own possession.
So, he's dominated by selfishness and greed verse 19,
I will say to my soul. My soul, you have plenty of good
things laid by for many years tocome, take things, easy, eat
(10:11):
drink and have a good time. So the man decides the attitude
he's going to have. He says to himself.
I have plenty of Earthly possessions and he's right.
He does. So he decides he's just going to
eat drink and be merry and it's quite graphic, almost kind of
humorous. The way he talks to himself.
He he says my soul. I have all these good things but
(10:32):
that is the word that's used there, in Greek, its psyche,
which can be translated Soul. So he's literally saying this to
the innermost part of himself where he makes his decisions and
he says, He himself eat drink and be merry.
This is a common Old Testament phrase so you'll find it in
Tobit, 7 verse 9, Ecclesiastes, 8, verse 15, Isaiah 22, verse
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13. They all have this phrase of eat
drink and be merry. Now typically that's used in a
negative context that it talks about people who indulge in
Earthly pleasures and Comforts and forget about God typically.
So that's what he says his plan is verse 20, but now God enters
the picture so in the parable God speaks to the man God Says
to him fool. So from this, we learn that God
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is watching all people while they are on earth and seeing if
they live a Godly life or not, God knows what's going on with
people, and he can see whether they're living good lives and he
calls him a fool. It's a pretty harsh.
Rebuke in the Old Testament, youwould call someone a fool if
they're not concerned with God or his law.
So Psalm 14 verse 1 and Proverbs1.
Verse 7, talk about the fool is the man who turns away from God
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and Jesus has used it earlier. Iran. 11:44, the Pharisees.
So in the parable God says, to the man, this very night, the
demand will be made for your soul or you can translate that
as your soul will be required ofyou, pretty scary language,
isn't it? So the soul which the man had
invested so much worldliness in does not really belong to him.
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It belongs to God. And God says to the man tonight,
you're going to die and you're going to meet your maker and you
will have to give an account of your actions.
There's a lot of lessons. For us today.
One day the same things going tohappen to us.
We're going to have to give an account of our life before God
interestingly, that were demanded.
The demand will be made for yoursoul.
It's usually used in reference to financial debt.
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So the idea here is that our lives are on loan from God.
And one day were going to need to give an account to God for
how we use their life. And God says to the man.
This horde of yours. Whose will it be then?
Or you can translate that as thethings you have prepared?
Whose will they be? So, all those material things,
the man had got for himself in his life.
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The bigger barns, the more crop the more money after he dies.
They're all useless. So death is going to expose his
folly by stripping him of all heowns.
Jesus. He gives a pretty sober reminder
to focus on the things that lastEternal things, not Earthly
things. If people live with eternity in
mind, then they can take what they gained into the next life.
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But if they live only with this world in mind, they can't take
anything into the next life. Verse 21.
So that's the end of the parableand now Jesus summarizes it by
saying this, so it is when a manstores up treasure for himself
in place of making himself rich in the sight of God.
Now, our lectionary says, they're in place of making
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himself rich in the sight of God.
What it actually says that in the original is.
So it is when a man stores up treasure for himself and is not
rich toward God. So the parable is not teaching
that a person can't be rich, that's not what it's teaching
but Teaching that if a person isRich, he also has to be generous
to God in his life. In other words, everyone has to
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live a life, pleasing to God, and those who are rich need to
be particularly careful that they don't get caught up in the
riches and forget to please God.Now, Joseph in the Old
Testament, in the Book of Genesis, he's a good example of
this, he's someone who was quitewealthy, he had a lot of grain
and wealth in Egypt, but he usedit with the purpose of giving to
others. You can see that in Genesis 41
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verse 49, it says Joseph had abundance, but he used it to
give to others. So it's possible to be rich and
to be rich to God at the same time, notice what Jesus says
here. So it is when a man.
So that's the point of the parable.
Jesus says that anyone who livesa life amassing worldly wealth,
without pleasing, God will be ina similar position as that
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fictional man in the parable, one day that rich person will
die and come before God and all his worldly wealth will be
meaningless. A warning to rich people,
basically, and perhaps specifically to the man in the
crowd, whose overly concerned with his wealth, notice the echo
is here with things. Jesus said, just before this in
chapter 12, remember early on, he said, don't be tempted to
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fall away from the faith. If you're persecuted focus on
Heaven, well, it's the same thing here.
Don't be tempered while by worldly.
Temptations, focus on heaven. Now, what Jesus has said there
is going to lead straight into the next few verses so verses 22
to 34 Jesus is going to say, do not be anxious about your life.
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But seek first, the kingdom of God, we all know that phrase and
then he also says in this next little part where your treasure
is there, your heart will be also.
So famous quotes from Jesus, which build on what has just
started to teach you about covetousness.
Now, that section verse 22 to 34, it's not read in the
lectionary. Ever, you'll never hear that at
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Mass interestingly. So if you want to hear an
exegesis of those verses, the part about seek first, the
kingdom and also where your treasure is there, your heart
will be. Also we will cover that as a
bonus episode of the podcast andyou can get access to that
through the patreon page and thelink for the patreon page is in
the show notes. So in our next, Luke episode
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will start at verse 35 of chapter 12, If we turn to the
catechism, we see one quite interesting reference here.
So paragraph 549, which is aboutthe signs of the kingdom of God.
It says by freeing some individuals from the Earthly
evils of hunger, Injustice illness and death, Jesus
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performed Messianic signs. Nevertheless, he did not come to
abolish. All evils here below but to free
men from the greatest slavery sin, which thwarts them in their
vocation as God's Sons. And causes all forms of human
bondage. So where's the link here to Luke
chapter 12? Well, the catechism references,
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the middle part there, so that line in the middle of the
paragraph where it says Jesus did not come to abolish, all
evils here below but to free menfrom the greatest slavery sin,
there's a link here to the rich man.
Jesus has not come to abolish riches and the persuasion of
riches. But he wants people to be freed
from sin because that stops people from coming to God.
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So this is one of these verses, the talks about how - cancer can
cause sin and stop people from coming to God.
So, we will leave it there for today.
And I hope you've learned something new and you
appreciated. This in-depth verse by verse
exegesis. If you have, please tell other
people about it. Leave a review on, iTunes,
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continue in the coming days.
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