Luke 12 Goods, Life and Responsibility Review

Read what the barns cannot secure.

Fifteen minutes for one reading or family decisionFree · Two-page fillable PDF

Companion to Read the Rich Fool Before Treating More Storage as More Life.

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Hypothetical example: An adult separates a useful purchase from an unsupported promise that it will settle every household difficulty.

01Begin where the request begins

Record the inheritance request and the warning Jesus actually gives.

Request that opens the passage

Jesus’ warning about life

Legal detail the passage leaves unreported

02Listen to the farmer’s confident future

Compare the farmer’s future speech with God’s response and the closing statement.

Farmer’s stated plan

Future he assumes

Judgment and final contrast

03Do not turn the parable into a careless money rule

Examine one present claim about what a possession will secure.

Possession in our hypothetical or actual example

Useful job it can perform

Promise it cannot support

04Name a responsibility abundance has not removed

Name a real responsibility and keep the theological question in view.

Responsibility still owed

Adult who will carry it

Question about being rich toward God